Trump lawyers haven’t found classified document he referred to on tape following subpoena

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

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Two sources tell CNN that attorneys for former President Trump haven’t found the classified document he referred to on a 2021 tape. Prosecutors issued a subpoena after asking a Trump aide in front of a grand jury about the audio recording at the former President’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. On the tape, Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran. Conservative attorney George Conway tells Anderson Cooper this new revelation is “just another smoking gun in a smoking arsenal.”

Plus, CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Senior Adviser to Pres. Obama David Axelrod joins AC360 to discuss President Biden’s remarks from the Oval Office after averting “an economic crisis and an economic collapse.”

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0:00.0	Good evening tonight on 360.
0:03.3	Where is the document?
0:04.7	Exclusive new CNN reporting that the former presidents' attorneys were unable to find
0:08.2	or produce the classified document.
0:10.4	He's reportedly on tape telling people he had.
0:12.8	We also have new reporting about what sparked investigators to go after it in the first
0:16.4	place.
0:17.6	Also tonight, President Biden speaking to the nation, spreading the credit for the budget
0:20.8	deal, praising both Republicans and Democrats for coming together to get things done.
0:25.9	And later we take you inside Ukraine's effort to build and acquire 200,000 drones.
0:30.5	This year, what kind of impact they may have on the fight against Russia.
0:34.6	We begin tonight with new CNN exclusives reporting on the classified document the former
0:38.4	president claimed to have.
0:40.3	Prosecutors issued a subpoena related to it, but his lawyer has told authorities they
0:43.6	were unable to find the actual document.
0:45.8	CNN's M.P.R.S. joins us now with the latest.
0:48.4	So what's going on here?
0:50.7	They literally cannot find this thing?
0:52.8	They literally cannot find this thing Anderson.
0:55.2	And the question is, does the president have the document somewhere?
0:59.3	Did he lose it?
1:00.6	Did he even have it during that July 2021 meeting that CNN reported earlier this week, where
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