The tale of two tapes

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Investigators interview the Georgia Secretary of State Trump famously called in January of 2021 pressing him to “find votes” to win the state. All caught on tape. Special counsel Jack Smith has already indicted Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, with key audio evidence of the former president discussing classified information also obtained. Our panel discusses where the special counsel's investigation is headed. Also tonight: Biden says Putin has "Absolutely" been weakened after the revolt in Russia, pieces of the Titan sub wreckage are retrieved from the ocean floor, Madonna is out of the ICU and recovering from a “serious bacterial infection”, and will Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg actually fight?

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0:00.0	Good evening, everyone. I'm Abby Philip and this is CNN Tonight. It is the tale of two
0:10.7	tapes, special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into alleged interference in the 2020 election
0:16.4	heating up today. Investigators interviewing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger,
0:21.7	former President Donald Trump famously called him in January of 2021, pressing him to
0:27.1	find votes that Trump needed to win the state of Georgia, a state that Joe Biden won by
0:32.1	nearly 12,000 votes. So, look, all I want to do is this, I just want to find 11,780 votes,
0:46.4	which is one more that we have because we won the state.
0:52.2	So where is the special counsel's January 6th investigation headed? We'll discuss that.
0:57.6	And he's already indicted, President Trump, in the Mar-Lago case, while Trump and his allies
1:02.5	keep changing their explanations about that audio recording that CNN exclusively obtained,
1:08.7	where Trump is on there discussing what seems and seems to wave around classified documents.
1:14.4	So this is what he said about it before CNN got the exclusive tape.
1:20.6	There was no document. That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking
1:25.2	about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or made up, but that was not
1:30.4	a document. I didn't have a document per se. There was nothing to declass way. These were
1:34.5	newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles.
1:39.2	And then on Monday, CNN actually obtained the audio itself. Here's what he said.
1:45.3	Well with Milley, let me see that. I'll show you an example. He said that I wanted to
1:52.4	attack Iran. Isn't it amazing to have a big pile of papers? This thing just came up.
1:59.6	Look, this was him. They presented me this. This is off the record. They presented me
2:06.0	this. This was him. This was the defense department in him. We looked at him. This was him.
2:13.2	This wasn't done by me. This was him. All sorts of stuff. Pages wrong. Let's see.
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