Hi there everyone, we made it. It's Friday and it's 4 o'clock in New York, a conversation

one spring evening at a Ritsey Private Club in South Florida between an Australian businessman

and a former president is now the subject of Blockbuster brand new investigative reporting.

It is an episode that fits into a year's long damning fact pattern for one Donald J. Trump

that is his incredibly reckless and cavalier handling of the country's most sensitive

national security secrets. ABC News was the very first to report this, quote, former President

Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines

with a member of his Mar-Lago club. It was an Australian billionaire who then allegedly

shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials.

Several of his own employees and a handful of journalists that is according to sources

familiar with the matter. The billionaire is named Anthony Pratt. You can see him right here

in this 2018 photo from the Sydney Morning Herald. He's at Mar-Lago in the photo. He reportedly

spoke to prosecutors and FBI agents about his conversation with the ex-president. Here's

what he told them according to ABC News, quote, Pratt described how, looking to make conversation

with Trump. During a meeting at Mar-Lago in April of 2021, he brought up the American submarine

fleet, which the two had discussed before. Pratt told Trump he believed Australia should

start buying its submarines from the U.S., to which an excited Trump leaning toward

Pratt as if to be discreet, then told Pratt to pieces of information about U.S. submarines.

The supposed exact number of nuclear warheads they routinely carry, and exactly how close

they supposedly can get to a Russian submarine without being detected.

Pratt reportedly described Trump's remarks to at least 45 other people, including six

journalists, 11 of his employees, and 10 Australian officials. Well, it is unclear if

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