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And we're all wondering when we have a special council. The answer is probably never, but you know we should. Of course you do. Welcome to the show, glad you're here. 855-839-1210 on Twitter at Rich Ziole. It is our Wednesday hump day edition. So glad you're here. I got a couple days left with you before I go on my extended leave.

For my surgery. And in the meantime, we're going to get to the bottom of a lot of different things. You know, I was thinking about if I'm Donald Trump at this moment right now, in time. I'm Donald Trump. How do I approach all these things? You know, they got this, um, this, this audio recording of me saying, look at this. I got this, this paper here. This, or this is the really secret high, high classified confidential stuff. The attack plans for Iran.

Let me ask you a question. How would anybody outside of the special forces of the military know what the hell that was? If I showed you a map, really, I'm honestly like if I showed you a classified map showing you how we were going to attack unless I had the word Iran across it, which you never would have. How would anyone know what that was?

Do you know what Trump is saying right now? It's very smart. He's saying this was bravado. And what this was, this was the golf course plans for Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster. I actually think it's really smart. Why not? Why not? That's probably exactly what it was. How do you really believe that this would be the exact plans to invade Iran? A country?

And that somehow by showing that to a journalist above an author. Remember, Trump hates the fake news. He hates the media. He hates authors. He hates these writers of these books. They've screwed them. They burned them. He's going to show them the actual plans.

Bob Woodward, he sat down with Bob Woodward several times. He'd book about him. A great conversation. Bob Woodward totally turned around and shaved him in the back. Why would Trump ever actually trust a single writer? Would you?

I would not. I wouldn't trust any of these people. So Trump turns around and says this was bravado. That's what I was doing. I was exaggerating. These were golf course plans for Trump National Golf Club. How would the reporter know any different?

Unless they are an expert in Iran who had actual foreign policy military experience. How would they know the difference? The answer is they wouldn't.

This is Donald Trump responding to the conversation about this audio obtained by CNN cut number seven.

You're not concerned them with your own voice on those recordings. My voice was fine. What did I say wrong in those recordings? I didn't even see the recording. All I know is I did nothing wrong. We had a lot of papers, a lot of papers stacked up. In fact, you could hear the rustle of the paper. And nobody said I did anything wrong other than the fake news, which of course is Fox two.

Are there any other recordings that we should be concerned of? I don't know of any recordings that you should be concerned with because I don't do things wrong. I do things right. I'm a legitimate person.

I'm a legitimate person. That's it. I'm a legitimate person. And I was just showing them these plans for the golf course. It makes perfect sense. It really does.

Here's Trump's spokesperson talking about the Iran document, which is not part of the indictment. And remember what I told you last week, week before maybe both weeks that we have no idea this document even exists in this entire federal government indictment.

The smoking gun. We don't know if the document exists. We don't know if it's real. We don't know if it's actually about Iran. I said you last week, it could be about the Trump National Golf Club catering menu.

Turns out it's about the golf course and expansion plans for the golf course, but it might as well have been the catering menu. Why not? How would anyone know the difference?

Look at this. This is my classified document. And again, I will submit to you what I said to you yesterday, what I've said to you for the last several days.

In terms of what is the greatest threat to America to the United States of America, what do you think is a bigger threat? The idea somebody is showing, even if Trump had a classified document,

showing a classified document is somebody and then taking it away from them. So they can't do anything whether they can't publicize it, they can't put a Internet, can't write about it.

Or a United States Department of Justice that is prosecuting the president's chief political rival and covering up for the president.

What do you think is a greater threat to the security of America going forward? Now, if Trump had been somebody who was like, hey, listen, Supreme Leader of Iran, look what I got.

I got these documents. Check this out. That will be a different story. If Trump was selling these things at eBay, different story.

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