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Well, last week with the powerhouse team of kaitlan collins, katelyn polantz, sara murray we broke the news of the existence of this audio reporting, something that the former presidents attorneys found out a few months ago where the former president claims to be in possession of classified materials and also acknowledges the limits of his ability to declassify once he was out of office. now we have the full transcript this have audio recording where the former president acknowledges that he has...

Reporting that they have the transcript of a meeting where donald trump reportedly admits he had retained secret military information that he had not declassified. we should note nbc news does not have that transcript, but we have another jam packed hour ahead. lets get right to it. >> and with us now to start off our coverage this hour nbc news correspondent garrett haake in bedminster, new jersey. lisa ruben who is in miami and jacquelyn alemany. lisa, abc news is reporting that judge canon wh...

>> joining us now for more on all of this is cnns senior legal analyst elie honig and dan horowitz. great to have you guys here. lets start with the new reporting coming from paula reid and the whole team about the transcript from this conversation 2021 from donald trump. lets take it apart in pieces. first, lets talk, elie, when you see this statement in the transcript, as president i could have declassified, but now i cant. as a prosecutor, unclear what charge, if the charges are related to an...

Whether donald trump committed these offenses, these are legal questions that have to be resolved. you need experts, not people that are buddies, to try the case. so think its important they get a good team on board. >> we will not have a full conversation until kwhe see the indictment. what have they charged, how much do they say? we dont know the absentee to that dwe. but your reporting has brought into cnns position a critical wilding block. did he know what he had. he was not supposed to hav...

Transcript. whether he now faces more heat that changes his mind weve seen before, thats how far in he is, the person you see on your screen, not well-known but long loyal military aide and personal aide to donald trump in the post-presidency. i want to read some more from this. we have so much new material with regard to katys point that donald trump has long avoided texts and emails, but he hasnt stopped everyone else from using them on his behalf. here you have january 13th, 2022, the doj rea...

Transcript, i just have to read it. as president i could have declassified it. staffer, yeah, ha ha. trump, now, i cant. but this is still a secret. now we have a problem. trump, isnt that interesting. yes, you do have a problem because you just acknowledged this is a classified document that you have shown to a staffer and a reporter in the room. yeah, we have a problem. yeah, suspect this interesting. >> i think andrew can tell us when juries hear people committing crimes on wiretaps, and laug...

Weapons to belarus my next month, are quote, going according to plan. this is according to a kremlin transcript with the belarusian president alexander lukashenko. it comes as putin is claiming the ukrainian counteroffensive is p underway but has, quote, failed. near zaporizhzhia and donetsk are not yet known, but the evidence of destruction is clear. we have new images into cnn showing what remains of a hospital in the zaporizhzhia region, which was hit by a guided aerial bomb. now look at it. ...

Flail in the coffin. that is the end for donald trump. but if he was immunized, or if you dont know exactly what he was going to say, and hes put on the grand jury, then that is something where we really have to wait and see just how much mark meadows is going to say what i did and what everyone else was doing was wrong. and we knew it at the time, which will, of course, end any sort of future that mark meadows has in politics. he will be anathema to any sort of right thinking, democrat or repub...

Case lying into the fbi into the case that we believe he could be indicted in washington, d.c. they might want it as a standalone perjury case, so to speak. the possibilities are endless. it could be this is a matter of witness convenience. a witness may not be able to travel to d.c. to appear before that grand jury, and what we would do is present that kind of a bit to the local grand jury, and we will present the transcript to the grand jury in washington, d.c. i dont think we could read too m...

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