up for discussion as well. but that same official played down the idea that a broad range of deliverables would come from this trip. the two days that secretary blinken is spending in high stakes talks marks the highest level american to visit china since president biden took office. keep in mind, the visit was already delayed once. that was after the chinese spy craft was detected roaming over the u.s. president biden this weekend called that air space intrusion silly. i don t think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on. i think it was more embarrassing than it was intentioned. so i m hoping that over the next several months i ll be meeting with xi again and talking about legitimate differences we have but also how those areas we can get along. reporter: the taiwan strait is likely not one of those areas at present. the white house recently acknowledged that china secured a spy base in cuba, back in 2019. president biden has
man. today after being called a gutless paid, bill barr went on cbs with a damning assessment of his former boss. saying trump s look at a fight nine-year-old. that trump is all but a victim. that the indictment against him is not government overreach. do you believe he lied to the justice department? and personally, do i believe. it yes. the legal theory by which he gets to have battle plans, and sensitive national security information as his personal papers is absurd. it s just as wacky as the legal doctrine that came up with for having the vice president unilaterally determine who won the election. obviously, these documents are really private. it s obvious. it s obvious. and yet, whatever obviously maybe it will put our court system to the test in the months to come. for numerous reasons. it s classified documents case highlights the danger of partisan judicial appointments. a judge, trump appointed, helped him delay the doj s investigation now oversees this trial.
of trump s bedminster golf club with more. good morning. good morning former president trump faces 37 felony charges for handling classified documents after leaving the white house. we learned yesterday, he is accused of being personally involved with moving those documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. take a look at the pictures that were released yesterday. prosecutors said classified documents were found in the storage room at mar-a-lago as well as a ballroom, bedroom and bathroom. president trump is a q showing people without security clearances and attack plan prepared for by the defense department and also on another occasion a map related to military operation. trump calls the charges the box hoax in the continuation of the witch-hunt against him. he told fox news digital that he believes the time it is meant to distract from reporting the president joe biden received $5 million from ukrainian gas company executive. take a look at this. here s a breakdown of t
trump on tape acknowledging he kept a classified document after leaving the white house. what it could mean for the ongoing doj investigation. one of the most powerful bank ceos in the world deposed for hours in a lawsuit over jeffrey epstein s sex trafficking crimes. what lawyers want to know about jpmorgan s long time relationship with epstein. amazon will shell out more than $30 million after being accused of violating user privacy for years. this is cnn news central. we begin with a story you saw first on cnn. federal prosecutors now have a tape of former president trump acknowledging that he held on to a classified pentagon document and suggesting that he wanted to share it but had a limited ability to declassify records after leaving office. the tape is from a meeting at his new jersey golf club in the summer of 2021 with the team working on mark meadows autobiography. while cnn has not obtained the recording, multiple sources have described it saying the tape
aliens invading our country it s only common sense that when i m reelected we will begin, and we will have no choice, the largest deportation operation in america. they come from prisons, they come from mental institutions and insane asylum. many are terrorists. joining us from the rally in nevada, what can you tell us about what trump has been talking about tonight? reporter: donald trump is currently speaking behind me as i m sure you can see. he is leaning heavily into his hard-line immigration rhetoric, but also policies that he s previewing for a potential second administration. we know from our own reporting as well as what other outlets have reported that donald trump wants to massively expand some of his immigration policies from his first term including rounding up undocumented immigrants in the u.s., placing them in deportation camps and sending them on to be deported after that. we know that he also wants to divert more resources to immigration enforcement in t