That female independent suburban voter who feels that way to win her back. First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot, okay? Let's get that straight. I won in 2020. You know that this... And if you look at all of the tapes, if you look at everything that you want to look at, you take a look at truth to vote where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tapes or let's go to recent let's go to recent

let's go to recent fbi i twitter let's go to recent the 51 agents all corrupt stuff brad

understand about the under the election but that's cheating on the election but that's cheating on the

election you lost the 2020 election Donald Trump simply can't let go of the big lie. That's just part of a wide

raging and sometimes contentious interview with Fox News last night in which the former president

offered a new reason for why he had boxes of classified materials stashed away at his Palm Beach

Country Club. We'll dig into all of that in just a moment.

Also ahead, we're learning more about Anthony Blinkin's meeting yesterday with Chinese President

Xi Jinping, including what the Secretary of State says China is not ready to do. And plus,

a race against time in the Atlantic Ocean as rescuer searched

for a missing submersible that was set to explore the wreckage of the Titanic.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Tuesday, June 20th. I'm Jonathan Lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Former President Donald Trump is doubling down,

defending himself in the classified documents case in a contentious new

TV interview. The former president appeared last night on Fox News for the first part of a two-part

interview on that network. In one of his claims, Trump cited a New York Times article insisting

the only way the National Archives and Records Administration could get

the documents back from him would have been to essentially beg for them. Now, it's unclear

which specific article he was referring to. I have every right to have those boxes.

This is purely a Presidential Records Act.

This is not a criminal thing.

In fact, the New York Times of all had a story just the other day

that the only way NARA could ever get this stuff, this back,

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