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Infamous transcript weve been looking at for a few days, they will bring every person who was in that room and to testify at trial, that is not all laid out in the indictment that they have the opportunity to bring each one of those, reporters and staffers, whoever was in, to relate exactly what they saw and how the president reacted while he was saying what we saw on the transcript, holding something in his hand, showing it to someone else, we will get much more detail at the trial potentially ...

Kaitlan, theres been so much conversation today about the political realm and the legal realm, but i really do have to take a step back right now and just -- this was an extraordinary day and an extraordinary document. i think it bears repeating what weve heard from our legal experts, which is that the documents that are at hand in this case are probably not even the most sensitive and the most highly classified that were found. >> yeah, that strikes me too because it is a question of how did th...

They have to change the subject of things that other people did because on the plain reality of what is unearthed in this indictment, it looks really bad. >> lets get right to persecution via prosecution. there are so many more investigations to go. the georgia case is still percolating about his activities in georgia and the allegations there about trying to overturn the election. whats going on in new york. that will land, more or less, this fall, maybe december. death by a though cuts. it fee...

Involved american nuclear programs and weapons capabilities, and the capabilities of other countries. so you have the seriousness of the documents issue, you have this obviousness with which the former president handled, and as you described, theyre the documents filling, stored in a private club where thousands of people were going through. then more importantly than all that, you have the dissemination, what you described there, the transcript of the tape recording that you read was an active ...

>> with me now, national security attorney, mark zaid, and matt dowd, -- chief strategist for the bush -- its good to see you both, mark, im gonna start with you. the indictment includes a transcript of a conversation. we have trump claiming hes holding a classified document, and is going to three other people who did not have security clearances. trump said, quote, see as president, i could have declassified it. now i cant, talk to us, mark about the legitimate concerns regarding national intel...

I think the value of that transcript is damning though. because what it does is undermine any argument that trump has, that he didnt understand how the declassification process worked. and that he recognized that he wasnt supposed to have classified information, or to show it to any unauthorized third parties. there is another instance that is also described in the complaint, of a description where he might have showed a classified map to a pack official. a political operative. again, not charge...

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That he knowingly, willing lee, intentionally kept it and appears according to this full transcript to be trying to show it to other people. we know from our reporting no one else in that room had a secret clearance. >> secret, secret, look at this, he says. its right there in the transcript. and those words could have profound implications. paula reid, we will come back to you in a while. thank you so much for laying the groundwork what really moves the ball forward in all of this reporting tod...

Comment on anything like this. i want to drill down a bit on trumps defenses. hes been impeding, and cnn is reporting this, they have this transcript of this meeting in bedminster of july 2021. nbc news has not independently confirmed it but i want to juxtapose that with what trump told john hannity last year. at that time he said, quote, when youre the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying, its declassified. even by thinking about it. in other words, when i left the ...

Very significant development thats going to come under a lot of scrutiny. >> they are reporting that they now have the transcript of the meeting where donald trump reportedly admits he retained secret documents with military information on them and that he had not declassified them. i should note nbc news has not independently confirmed this. we have not received this transcript, but what would it mean? >> a couple reasons its significant. it shows, one, that he has in his possession a document ...