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the tape from donald trump discussing a very sensitive military document could be a game-over moment for the ex-president in the classified documents investigation. it s a recording that not only significantly increases trump s legal exposure. but it also blows a gaping hole through many of the defenses that team trump has been peddling in public in the case. the ex-president s lawyer jim trusty went on cnn last night, playing defense in the wake of the bombshell news first reported by cnn of the tape s existence. and repeated a line that will be familiar to anyone who s been following this case. will trump display documents at will or as trump puts it even by just thinking about it. what i will tell you is there is no doubt as commander in chief when the president left washington, d.c. for mar-a-lago, he was actually still president, when he left with boxes that he brought he was the command in chief. there s no doubt he had the authority as commander in chief to be ....
Answer jim, if this was declassified, then why are we told that he s on this tape, basically, telling the people in the room that he can t share it with them? you are told by the doj or fbi or whoever filtered that to you, anything they can think of to justify no, but the prosecution. there s new reporting today that reveals how the tape actually figures into the jack smith investigation and presentation of evidence. nbc news can report this, recording was played to the investigation to the garage that s in charge of trump s handling of documents, washington post prints two people familiar with the recorded conversation said prosecutors have asked witnesses about trudge s a awareness of the document discussing at bedminster was sensitive that he could not share or declassify after leaving office. a potential smoking gun in the form of a tape of donald trump ....
Kims in the declassified investigation is where we begin. the new york times reporter katy bender is here. also joining us, former dispute assistant u.s. attorney harry litman is back at the table. and msnbc rick stengel. katy, this story broke while we were on the air yesterday. as soon as we saw it from our friends over at cnn. we talked about it for a good part of the broadcast. but there s incredible reporting including in the new york times filling out how we understand this tape to be deployed by jack smith, listen. yeah. so what he wants to do, he wants to explain to jurors that donald trump s defense he had a few defenses, but the top defense again is he just declassified everything the minute he was leaving office so everything would have been declassified. so the idea he s hesitating to share something because it could be too sensitive, does sort of ....