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So, again, i think theres a little bit of pr play here in that indictment, but obviously, a lot of serious charges are there and need to be rebutted and i think probably can be rebutted at the end of the day at trial. jacqui: to your point. jack smith, this indictment was unusual and indictments are usually pretty bland. this had a lot of evidence in it from their point of view, which was really looks like an effort to message to the american people, rather than to the defendant, but to your poi...

Difference here between why theyre pursuing charges against trump and not against pence. >> and we have the documents that were taken by vice-president and senator joe biden. remember, president trump is in a unique possession because he was actually the president and made him the commander-in-chief that had certain constitutional authorities that neither mike pence nor joe biden when he was president had and yet again, they dont seem to be the ones that they were targeting, donald trump first a...

>> because the justice department is not unsealed this dooumt, were relying on good reporting to understand whats at play here. so in it this audio recording, which we reported on last week, the former president is in a meeting at his golf club. in attendance are two aids and two people working on an auto biography for mark meadows. when he says the things im about to read, he know hes being recorded. hes very frustrated at this time with an article that came out about mark milley. and he says i...

Because even though he doesnt have to go through a process, he does have to decide that its been done. did he tell anyone? >> yes, yeah. >> and can you prove it? >> yeah. >> did he declassify this document that were referring to? >> were not going to try the case leak by leak. what i can tell you is the leaks that come out, some of them are abjectly false. >> be thank you is very significant. >> it sure is. >> if you are saying he declassified the documents you should be able to say whether this...

Clear. if you have the authority to declassify, you are not acquitted to any bureaucratic process. >> could you tell by the way? >> it exactly like the -- >> hoodie? tell >> me finish the thought so your viewers understand where im going. if you have a pardon, it might be something where you go through the pardon attorney or the attorney general makes a recommendation. the bureaucratic process. that is not the constitutional part of it. you have the authority as president to do it. so if somebod...

>> did you know this tape existed? >> i am not going to try a case based on the government leaks. we need to recognize the significance of the moment which is doj and fbi or some combination of them are engaging in a leak campaign. im not going to dignify the doj leak. he left for mar-a-lago with boxes of documents that other people brought to him that he brought. he was the commander in chief. there is no doubt he has the ability to declassify. it doesnt have to go through some sort of bureaucr...

Good evening. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. in just the past few minutes, the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. this is a huge relief for president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy and you can argue, the global financial system. a vote could happen in the senate as soon as tomorrow. well take you live to capitol hill. plus, first on cnn, the justice department has an audio tape of donald trump at a meeting in the summer of 2021 acknowledging that he kept a classified pentagon d...

Weve learned from our sources that on it he is talking about a classified document, discussing a possible attack on iran. our sources describe on the tape you can hear some laughter and paper rustling as if hes waving something, though its unclear if its the document hes referencing or something else. but most significantly for prosecutors, jim, he suggests that he would like to share this document but that there are limits on his ability to declassify. >> so that presumes that he had knowledge ...

Trump team has -- that trump has put forward. he says, i automatically declassified them. is that a potential cover all defense for any possible charges that he could face related to taking the documents, when he shouldnt have had them? >> its not. one of the things that jack smith and his team have been doing is interviewing people within government to prove that you dont do it that way. even if the president has the power to declassify, which he does, theres still procedures you have to go thr...

Lots of people within the government to prove that you dont do it that way. even if the president has the power to declassify, which he does, there are still procedures that you have to go through. so not only are theyre going to put on -- goes to trial, witnesses who say thats not how it does, done, this is how its done, but witnesses who say he didnt do those things. so they actually were not declassified, so thats the case. >> the special -- jack smith would have to establish that as part of ...