Joining us tonight. Cnn prime time with abby philip. Starts right now. These days it seems like the epicenter of american secrets isnt the cia, the pentagon or even the white house. Its maralago, where donald trump apparently likes to keep and tell those secrets. Good evening, i am abby philip, and tonight, abc and the New York Times both reporting that, after lady leaving the white house, trump told a club member at maralago Sensitive Information about u. S. Nuclear submarines. That number is not only a for national, but hes also an australian billionaire who allegedly spread that information to more than a dozen foreign officials. Among the allegations that trump shared the number of nuclear warheads, those submarines carried. And how close they can get to russian submarines without being detected. Now, trump is, of course, already under investigation for his handling of government secrets, and for keeping classified documents at maralago. And they certainly fits into that pattern. B
These days it seems like the epicenter of americas secrets isnt the cia, the pentagon or even the white house. Its maralago, where donald trump apparently likes to keep and tell secrets. Tonight, abc and the New York Times both reporting that after leaving the White House Trump told a club member at maralago Sensitive Information about u. S. Nuclear submarines. That member is not only a foreign national, but also an australian billionaire who allegedly spread that information to more than a dozen foreign officials. Among the allegations that trump shared the number of Nuclear Warheads those submarines carry and how close they can get to russian submarines without being detected. Donald trump, of course, is already under investigation for his handling of government secrets and for keeping classified documents at maralago. This certainly fits into that pattern, but in the early stages of his presidency, trump reportedly did other things, including using an Unsecured Phone in 2017 at mara
These events. By obligation, you mean your legal obligation or did you mean something bigger . Both my legal obligation and my moral obligation. Your moral obligation. I actually want to present an alternative theory. Your family came here escaping the holocaust via uruguay. Your parents moved, lucy and later you, here. Youve done that american Success Story through dint of hard work and innovation, good idea, a knack for hiring the right people and some look, youve built up considerable, successful business, one that i know for a fact would make your parents proud. They came here because they knew that it was here that they could
have freedom that they had not enjoyed, security that they had not enjoyed, and opportunity that they had not enjoyed. No doubt on some level, youre grateful and its created a sense of patriotism in you. Is that fair to say . Very fair. Why, sir, with your courage to come before us, does that same standard not apply to mr. Mulvaney, mr. Duffy, mr. Pompeo, mr.
biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general, that would be great. biden went about breaking that he stopped the prosecution so if you could look into it, it sounds horrible to me. what is in the president s mind when he has placed this otherwise inextricable hold on the aid when he refuses to take the meeting? what s on his mind? biden. he makes that abundantly clear. i understand, ambassador, he said you didn t make the connection between burisma and biden. i will have the american people judge the credibility of the answer but there s no mistaking what donald trump s interest was. there s no mistaking about what donald trump meant when he had that call with you on an unsecured phone as you were sitting there on an outdoor terrace in ukraine with the president said investigation, he meant biden. he made it abundantly clear to the president of ukraine the day
had a lot of really difficult meetings with his attorneys for several different reasons concerning his testimony and phone calls and things that maybe he thought were significant. maybe he thought were not. and building on mimi s point, she s absolutely right in that prosecuting perjury, there is some wiggle room for defendants with galactic memory loss. and that s the kind of thing that can make a perjury prosecution even more difficult. the easiest way to figure out this phone call situation, mimi, would be simply subpoenaing his phone records. but this isn t a normal investigation. i don t think congress can get their hands on the phone records of state department employees. well, it depends what kind of phone was used. i mean, it sounds like it was an unsecured phone. i mean, it could have been personal phones that were used. we really don t know. well, there s that issue too. he may have violated some sort of classified but that s a separate situation i would assume. but