burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. with us, the host away too early. white house chief at political jonathan lemire, you asked special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. former white house director of communications to obama jen palmieri. and the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. so get this, a memoir from donald trump s own former white house chief of staff appears to undercut the former presidents latest and many defenses for his willful handling of classified documents. earlier this week you remember this leaked audio from a 2023 meeting seemingly capturing former president trump showing off what he admitted was a classified document. this is at his club in bedminster. about a potential plan to attack iran while he was president. well, with milley, i ll show you example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i ve a
see, as present i could have declassified it. it s not interesting? you gotta love the staff going i think we have a problem. that recorded conversation took place during a meeting with ghost writers who were interviewing trump for a memoir being published by his former chief of staff mark meadows. in the days since that audio leaked, the former president has claimed all sorts of things like he was not showing up for military plans, no, of course not, not on that tape. what you heard was him waving around plans for new buildings and golf courses, newspaper clippings, but according to a message. passage from meadows met more, trump did discuss iran attack plans while being interviewed for the book. in it meadows wrote quote, the president recalls a four-page report picked up by mark milley himself.