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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It's Thursday, June 1st.

Big breaking news out of Trump World last night from both CNN and New York Times, a lot of other folks confirming it.

Essentially, federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording from summer 2021 in which the former president

acknowledged he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, which,

if you remember correctly, his argument about why he was able to take all of these classified

documents from Mar-a-Lago was that he had declassified everything.

So this undercuts his argument there. According to CNN, the recording indicates Trump

understood he retained a classified material after leaving the White House. On the recording,

his comments suggest he would like to share the information, but he's aware of limitations

on his ability post-presidency to declassified

records to sources, told CNN. CNN hasn't heard the recording. It doesn't appear that other

reporters have heard it, but it's been described by multiple sources to these folks. So this is

something that you should definitely keep your eyes on because as Donald Trump continues to

be the frontrunner for the Republican

nomination, all of these legal wolves have continued to dog him and don't seem to be going

anywhere at all. The special counsel, Jack Smith, who is leading the Justice Department's

investigation, has focused apparently on this meeting as part of his criminal investigation

of Trump's handling of national security secrets.

And the other big news in Washington, D.C. is after all that drama, after all the months of

fighting, it kind of went out with a whimper. It took 149 Republicans and 165 Democrats in the

House to pass a bill that will keep us from economic calamity. The bill passed

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