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Thats a shame that i cant." hes not talking about newspaper articles. he was bouncing back and forth. >> later, he said it is, maybe it isnt, it is. >> golf clothing, pants, shoes, really? >> bret baier, to his credit, goes, "iran war plans?" >> yeah. >> trump goes, i had golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes. bret interrupts and goes, "iran war plans?" ? >> it was a good interview, bret baier. to put that into perperspective trump bounced between defenses there, sometimes saying the documents had...

Boxes. i take out personal things. >> reporter: trump conceding on fox news he did not hand over the documents when asked. >> why not just hand them over then? >> because i had boxes, i want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out. i dont want to hand that over. and i was very busy, as youve sort of seen. >> but according to the indictment, you tell the aide to move this to other locations after saying you had fully complied with the subpoena when you havent. >> these boxes we...

July 21st, 2021, after you were no longer president and you were recorded saying that you had a document detailing a plan attack on another country prepared for the u.s. military for you when you were president, the iran attack plan? do you remember that? >> ready? it wasnt a document. i had lots of paper. i had copies of newspaper articles. i had copies of magazines. >> bret: i know this is specifically a quote. you are quoted on the recording saying the document was secret adding that he. now ...

That was a massive amount of papers and everything else, talking about iran and other things. and it may have been held up or may not. that was not a document. i didnt have any document per se. there was nothing to declassify, these were newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles. >> bret: im just saying what the indictment says the recording and the people in the room who testified? >> these people are very dishonest people, they are thugs. if you look at what they have done to other peo...

They might not be able to show the content of it to a jury. but i think the reason that that information is included in the indictment is because it shows his willful intent. he says in those conversations, i should have declassified this while i was president, but i didnt and i cant declassify it now. that is very important. it shows his willful violation of the law. not every mishandling of classified documents is a criminal violation. thats why when we had cases involving joe biden or hillary...

Things about this indictment is it included photos to illustrate just how vulnerable these secrets were. that one photo where you see in a storage room, they was documents strewn across the floor. were talking about secrets in those documents that were only meant for a handful of very close allies. this indictment also lays out two incidents where trump allegedly shared classified information in person with people who didnt have clearances. the first incident that prosecutors cite is the one you...

What is his defense going to be? i mean, that matched with these extraordinary pictures, you wouldnt have documents of this level of importance on a stage in a ballroom in your home or even in the bathroom at the shower. what can his defense be? what is it going to have to be? >> you know, his defense has got to be something like, look, im the president of the united states, i can take these documents with me if i want to. theyre declassified the moment i walk out the door. >> hes tried that. >>...

>> "i dream of jeanne." >> remember, he was on sean hannitys show, and sean hannity said, "hey, youd never do this stuff theyre saying." he said, "sure i would. i could do it. i have the power to do it." hannity pushed him more, and his response was, "if i did i declassified a document, the document becomes declassified." of course, he lied at the cnn town hall meeting, saying he could do whatever he wanted to do. he could show it to whoever he wanted to show it to because it was declassified. h...

Hypocrite. they thought he was being the funniest guy in the world. when sean hannitys show had trump and he said, i can declassify things by thinking about it, suckers are born every they, and republicans repeat the talking points. he lies and says at the cnn town hall, i can do whatever i wanted to do with it. i declassify it if i want to. we find out with this audio recording, just like the audio recording in georgia, that donald trump is in legal hot water. even trump knows in these recordin...

Recording but described sources saying what was on the tape. nbc hasnt confirmed, and trump denied any wrongdoing. joining us is "the guardians" hugo lowell, who matched cnns reporting. not having listened to the tape, but hearing accounts from people who have, what did the former president say, and what does it tell us about what he knew about the documents in his possession? >> our reporting suggests he went a little further. on the tape, he made a suggestion that he should have declassified m...