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on the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending so the nation averts a default next week. president biden and speaker mccarthy are defending the agreement as some of their parties are also railing against it. well bring you the results of that vote as soon as it happens. but first, to a cnn exclusive tonight. reporting the federal prosecutors have donald trump on tape in his own words acknowledging that he took a sensitive national security document with him when he...

but now theres news of this damning tape thats put more focus on a different jurisdiction on that federal probe in washington where trump was caught on tape admitting key parts of a crime, including stealing documents after leaving office. the tape is from after he was in the white house, 2021, and thats bad for him based on what he appears to admit, because prosecutors are already using it while gathering their grand jury testimony, and its showing jurors how trump acknowledges and ad...

to the effect of, you know, if i can show you this if you undermine these arguments. but making clear that he doesnt believe he can show it to them. and i think that is a key part of the story. >> its very much is. the other part is that this really gives us one of the first indications of what else might be here. it is not just letters from kim jong-un, what do we know based on your reporting about the military significance of the documents that we are talking about. >> right, that ha...

>> we are not trying our case leak by leak. >> let me ask you, that you signed a letter to congress saying that this was all just the result of a rush to pack job. essentially. you said when president trump left office there was little time to prepare, the white house staffers, gsa, administration employees, they quickly packed everything up in boxes and shipped them to florida. but it seems that this tape indicates that at least trump knew specifically that he had this specific document? >> wha...

You the authority as the president to do it. so if somebody walks in and says pardon jack johnson, he was treated horribly by racists, you can pardon him without the application process. same thing goes with declassification. you dont have to go through a process. >> im not disputing that. but like with the pardon process you would need to tell someone in the bureaucracy that youve done it. >> right. >> so who did he tell? >> we are not trying our case leak by leak. >> so let me ask you this. yo...