to be a centerpiece of the government s case against donald trump. the actual audio recording of the former president talking as if he is showing a highly cost five document on plans against iran, with people not clear to even know it exists, let alone what is in it. in a moment, only on cnn, you will hear what yours will here in one day, the recording was made two summers ago in july 2020, one the former presidents club in bedminster new jersey. we will clearly hear the former president says he is speaking to several people, according to the special counsel indictment they clear a writer working on meadows memoir, the publisher, and to trump staff members. the president was aware he was being recorded. it is the first time it is being played publicly. these are bad sick people. but that was your crew, you know, that against you while it started right millie is talking about, oh they were trying to do that even before trying to overthrow your well, mainly,
maddow and joy and myself. the whole gang will be back at 8:00 for special coverage, our whole primetime lineup of colleagues much more tonight starting at 8:00, but right now it s time to sit down with another bucket of popcorn or whatever you re having because it s time for the beat. hi, nicolle will see you at 8:00 p.m right now we re reporting on arraignment of former president donald trump stepped into court, took his seat to make his first appearance as a defendant in a criminal case. this is what that moment looked like this is here the photo right before the arraignment officially began and the news photographers then left the room a standard practice that trump s lawye lawyers asked to maintain today. meaning these are the photos donald trump did not want to world to see trump appeared at times somewhat sullen flanked by his expanded legal team he went on to plead not guilty today. he was watched over, as you can see here, by court officers, who are there not to p
some coke. it is very conversational. that is one of the things that sticks out, to me i think it is important for people to really hear exactly what this sounds like. there is a lot of laughter in that recording as well, one of the other things that stands out to me, is the fact that he and the people around him in that room or choking that former secretary of state hillary clinton s use of a private email server, that is something we previously did not know, about because it was not included in the indictment. now, from a legal standpoint, it makes sense prosecutors would not include that. it is not incriminating, it is not relevant to the case, but in the court of public opinion, the fact he is making jokes about hillary clinton, other people in the, room making jokes about anthony weiner as, well that i think really comes off as humorous. we have the benefit of hindsight, here right, now this is being used as a key piece of evidence in a federal prosecution. and, caitlin, there is
and others violated election laws that s meaning of donald trump s many known efforts to cheat and steal elections from the ukraine plot that got him impeached to the 2020 plots to investigation in d.c. and georgia, to those other efforts also in 2016 of all of them, here we are. it s the oldest one, the one with a conviction on record for michael cohen that s led to trump for the first time ever being indicted himself now, if you think about what i just said, i m quoting and reporting on what s in these charges. when you see it laid out the way the d.a. does, it has a logic, it makes sense prosecutors allege trump orchestrated this scheme with others to influence the 2016 election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to basically suppress it and benefit, try help trump win. that s how it begins and it ends with a reference to the convicted federal crime. the indictment argues this was