disclosing those names would put the former president in direct violation of a protective order filed last week by a magistrate judge, bruce reinhart. another important thing that we learned from jack smith s order yesterday is that the evidence shared with trump s legal team contains interviews, plural, that trump did with non government entities, including the one that he had with a publisher and a writer back in july of 2021 at his golf clip in bedminster, new jersey. this is the one where he reportedly showed a classified pentagon documents detailing a plan to attack iran. this spicy nugget is getting a bunch of attention today because we had no official confirmation that more than one recording exist. cnn is reporting that trump s legal team itself turned over those reportings to the special counsel but they don t believe the, quote these additional recordings are as incriminating as the recording referenced in the indictment of the unsealed this month. and quote. there is a lot h
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thank you. the prosecution of former president donald trump will be the first such trial in the history of america s criminal justice system. cbs s catherine herridge explains how this unprecedented case will be a test for both the prosecution and the defense. reporter: this historic prosecution of a former president presents unique legal arguments and challenges. while special counsel jack smith has a recording where trump allegedly admits keeping a classified pentagon memo on iran, trump legal team insists he had broad powers to declassify and keep sensitive records like that one. remember, president trump was the president. he could declassify documents under the presidential records act. reporter: but the national archives disputes that, saying all records must be returned at the end of it administration. alina habba, a trump lawyer and spokesperson, told cbs news, the legal team may move quickly to ecutl miscondu.eting alleged
week. a lot of attention has been focused on the swift passage of that bill in the house on wednesday, the senate late last night. large bipartisan majorities. all that s been happening, special counsel jack smith has been barreling ahead with his investigation of the ex president, now the leading contender for the republican nomination in 2024. earlier this week we learned that smith had obtained a key new piece of evidence in the case of donald trump s handling of classified documents. he s now in possession of an audio recording in which trump acknowledges he held on to classified pentagon documents about a potential attack on iran. on that recording from july 2021 meeting at his bedminster, new jersey golf club. trump began railing about his handpicked chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley who was described in media counts at the time is having guarded against trump s strike in iran in the final days of his presidency newtown s reports the ex president began ref
governor doug bergham. maybe glenn youngkin from virginia as well. trump claims he s baffled as to why he has so many opponents but seems to relish them all, cutting into desantis second place. i don t know why people are doing it. they re at 1%, some are at zero. i think the one who is second is going down so much and so rapidly, i don t think he s going to be second that much longer. i think he s going to be third or fourth. trump s analysis assumes that everything remains static but that s highly unlikely. this week in the classified documents investigation came the news that federal prosecutors have an audio recording of trump acknowledging that he held onto a classified pentagon document after leaving office and the document in question still seems to be mia. sources tell cnn that in mid-march trump attorneys turned over material connected to a classified military document, an iranian attack plan. it s unclear if the document