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days worth of speculation and partisan conspiracy theories and warnings of violence. lets go to our reporter, cnns pamela brown and kaitlan collins. kaitlan, what more are you learning about the type of documents that were recovered in the search and what they may have related to? sorry, couldnt get kaitlan yet. pamela, youve been reporting on what triggered this search, namely concerns about what the former president and had not already turned over to the federal government, the quest...

learning about the type of documents that were recovered in the search and what they may have related to? sorry, cant get kaitlin yet. pamela, youve been reporting on what triggered this search, mainly concerns about what the former president had and had not already turned over to the federal government. questions about the truthfulness of his representatives. what else do you have? >> remember, this investigation had been going on for more than a year. in june, the fbi met with some o...

emerging as republican congressional leaders cry foul about the target and the timing. >> i know doing this 90 days before an election reeks of politics. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy tweeting the department of justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization, warning about investigations if republicans take the house in november, writing attorney general garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar. >> merrick garland, chris wray, come to the house judic...

stop themselves from going fishing through trumps files when they have been proven time and time again to be so biased against him all trump is asking for independent arbiter to come in and sift through what the fbi took from him. are they covered by executive or attorney-client privilege? someone needs to make those decisions do you trust the people who actually buried hunter bidens laptop to fairly make those calls. now the trump team has until tonight to counter the dojs filing befo...

Totally normal, non deranged thing to say. and yet this week, even that defense fell apart when cnn first reported the existence of an audio recording of july 2021 meeting at trumps bedminster golf club in new jersey in which the former president, discussed a pentagon planning document he had taken from his time in the white house. as nbc news has since confirmed, the planning document trump kept was related to iran and the former president acknowledged on the tape that it was classified. in fac...

>> yes, he declassified them with his mind. just by thinking. totally normal, non deranged thing to say. and yet this week, even that defense fell apart when cnn first reported the existence of an audio recording of july 2021 meeting at trumps bedminster golf club in new jersey in which the former president, discussed a pentagon planning document he had taken from his time in the white house. as nbc news has since confirmed, the planning document trump kept was related to iran and the former pre...

Leaving the white house. crucially for prosecutors, in that recording, trump reportedly suggested that he would like to share the information but was aware of limitations on his ability post presidency to declassify records. the former president admitting that on tape would undercut trumps longtime argument that he had already declassified all the materials he took with them when he left the white house. this recording is a big deal. and it remains unclear tonight just how the special counsel ob...

Limitations on his ability post presidency to declassify records. the former president admitting that on tape would undercut trumps longtime argument that he had already declassified all the materials he took with him when he left the white house. this recording is a big deal. and it remains unclear tonight just how the special counsel obtained this very essential recording. we know it was made during a meeting trump held in 2021 at his golf club in new jersey with two people who are working on ...

Attention to this one. we are tracking key developments in special counsel jack smiths investigation into donald trump. cnn reports that according to multiple sources, federal prosecutors have an audio recording, audio recording of a 2021 meeting where trump acknowledged he held on to a classified documents about a potential attack on iran. the report says quote, " the recording indicates tom understood he retain caused by metro after leaving the white house, on the recording trumps comment sugg...

Play out. ryan goodman brought that up. he talked about how he could or did, he says, declassify documents. >> it doesnt have to be a process, as i understand it. you know, different people say different things. as i understand, it doesnt have to be. if youre the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying its declassified even thinking about it. i dont have anything. i have no classified documents. and by the way, they have become automatically declassified when i took the...