Trump ignores CNN questions about recording where he discusses classified documents
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Former President Trump didn’t respond to questions from CNN about how classified documents ended up at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club. CNN learned from multiple sources that federal prosecutors have an audio recording from a 2021 meeting where Trump acknowledged he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, which undercuts his argument that he declassified everything. CNN Chief Correspondent Kaitlan Collins joins AC360 to discuss Trump’s decision to not answer questions.
Plus, the White House says President Biden is “fine” after tripping on a sandbag and falling on stage at the Air Force Academy commencement. CNN Chief White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly tells Anderson Cooper what Biden had to say about his fall when he returned to the White House.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening tonight on 360 the former president stays silent a day after |
| 0:06.1 | exclusive CNN reporting that he's on tape admitting he kept a classified |
| 0:09.9 | document about a potential strike on Iran. Also tonight how President Biden is |
| 0:14.2 | doing after a tumble on stage while visiting the Air Force Academy new details |
| 0:18.1 | on what caused it. Later a conversation with the Sherpa Guide who saved a |
| 0:22.2 | climber barely clinging to life in the so-called death zone on Mount Everest. |
| 0:27.6 | Good evening we begin with a surprising new turn in the story. CNN was first to |
| 0:31.5 | have about the former president caught on tape admitting to people without the |
| 0:35.3 | proper security clearance that he kept a classified document and might have |
| 0:39.0 | even been waving it around as waving it around as he spoke. We're going to talk |
| 0:44.4 | right now with Caitlin Collins and CNN's Elizabeth Faragriffin who joined me |
| 0:49.0 | now. Earlier today former president Trump was shouted questions about about |
| 0:55.9 | CNN's exclusive reporting did not answer those questions. What does it say to |
| 0:59.8 | you? I mean this is the former president who speaks out about just about |
| 1:02.8 | everything that he's remained silent so far. Yeah and he's commented on the |
| 1:06.4 | documents as he did multiple times at our town hall and I remember after that |
| 1:10.7 | when I'd asked if he had ever shown the documents to anyone and he said not |
| 1:13.8 | really we obviously followed up with members of his legal team asking about that |
| 1:17.6 | comment and so we do know at this point that they were aware during that town |
| 1:22.4 | hall of this audio recording where Trump was talking about what we believe is |
| 1:26.4 | classified information with other people and making clear he couldn't show it |
| 1:29.7 | to them. So they have been aware behind the scenes that this is something that |
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