Trump on audio obtained by CNN: “I did nothing wrong”

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

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Former President Trump insisted he did “nothing wrong” when asked about the audio recording CNN exclusively obtained of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify. Trump claimed what he said was “absolutely fine and very perfectly.” Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper whether he thinks Jack Smith has a strong case against the former President. Plus, CNN National Correspondent Kristen Holmes joins AC360 from New Hampshire where Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis traded jabs on the campaign trail.

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0:00.0	Good evening tonight on 360 former President Trump turns up the gas light, claiming the
0:06.0	damning tape of him showing off classified material at his golf club is perfectly normal.
0:11.2	Also tonight exclusive CNN reporting Rudy Giuliani talking to federal investigators, and
0:16.4	later Russia strikes again this time a crowded restaurant in Ukraine.
0:20.3	We'll take you there.
0:21.6	We begin tonight, keep it honest, with the former president running a play from a playbook
0:25.4	that he has used time and time again.
0:28.1	The former president trying to do damage control today after we played an audio tape last night
0:32.7	that CNN exclusively obtained in which he's boasting about the seemingly showing off
0:38.2	a classified war plan he was not allowed to have to people not allowed to see it.
0:42.8	The audio was recorded with his knowledge at his Bedminster Golf Club in July of 2021
0:47.8	and is expected to be evidence at his upcoming trial.
0:50.3	I want to replay a portion of it for you now before showing you his remarks today about
0:55.0	it so there's no doubt whatsoever about what he's now trying to gas light away.
1:25.0	The former president acknowledging its classified information, secret, highly confidential,
1:42.5	he says, and acknowledging he did not declassify it and cannot.
1:46.6	According to the special counsel's indictment, he's speaking with a writer working in Mark
1:49.8	Meadows memoir, the publisher and two of his own staffers.
1:53.5	And speaking to Fox today, New Hampshire, the former president seems to suggest that
1:57.2	what you just heard was not what you just heard.
2:02.2	What did I say wrong in those recordings?
2:03.8	I didn't even see the recording.
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