i ll give you that. like i said, cnn obtaining this audio tonight that appears to be the audio from 2021 referenced in the indictment brought against trump in federal criminal court in florida. this describes this is where donald trump appears to show classified material to a writer at his golf club in bedminster, new jersey. now i should note we have reached out to trump s legal team and campaign for comment but so far have heard nothing back. trump has been charged with improperly taking material like this when he left the white house and illegally storing it at his home in mar-a-lago. special counsel had described this conversation in detail in his indictment he brought against trump earlier this mont but now if this is what it purports to be we are now able to hear it in full. joining us now is barbara mcquaid former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan and professor at the universityi of michigan school of law. thank you very much for being with us tonight.ry
he is the calm hand. he is the man the world is apparently entrusting with stopping a civil war in the largest country on the planet. that guy. whether or not you were able to pay close attention to the into us this weekend as this all unfolded at lightning speed, we all kind of now know the basics of what happened, right? the crisis centers on this guy yevgeny prigozhin, an ex-convict who did years in prison for robbery. after he got out of prison he became a businessman in st. petersburg. prigozhin came into vladimir putin s orbit very early on after putin became president of russia. and prigozhin became one of putin s favorites, kind of a mr. fix it for putin. he took on odd jobs, which is why there is this striking fbi wanted poster for yevgeny prigozhin. he was indicted by u.s. federal prosecutors after robert mueller s special counsel
before he became editor of the new yorker magazine david remnick was moscow correspondent for the washington post. that experience helped form the basis of his pulitzer prize-winning book about the collapse of the soviet union. it doesn t look like we are now facing another russian collapse but i think this weekend we just went through the closest thing to it since the fall of the soviet union. joining us live now is david remnick. really good to see you. thanks for making time to be with us tonight. great to see you rachel. that was quite the wind up and the questions are all the right ones. good. i am first of all, i do not expect you will associate yourself with my term dufus dictator and i am sort of sorry i said that about mr. lukashenko. let that not be put on you or your reputation. just a dufus. yeah. i mean yes.
badly, badly wounded. and for a dictator, for a dictator that is everything and now that s in question. david remnick, editor of the new yorker and guy i most wanted to speak to with these unfolding events this weekend. david, thank you for making time to be here. i appreciate it. great to speak to you rachel. all right. we ve got much more ahead tonight. do stay with us.
as brutal as he is weak and ridiculous. but i mean, what do you think happened this weekend? i get the sense that a lot of us were wondering if it was a coup and then it started to look more like it was a mutiny, which is something that happens within military forces. now i m not quite sure how to think of this. i think in foreign policy terms they call this a grave miscalculation. that is the euphemism for it. what you had was a protegee of putin, somebody that grew up in the, if putin s st. petersburg, they are contempories. this guy spent nine years in jail for breaking into apartments. that is yevgeny prigozhin. when he got out of jail he started selling hot dogs in the park and then opened up some restaurants and was lucky enough