New audio appears to reveal former President Donald Trump discussing classified documents after he left the White House …
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00:00Except it is like highly confidential, secret, this is secret information.
00:06Look at this, I think we can probably, right?
00:09I don't know, we'll have to see.
00:11Yeah, we'll have to try to figure out.
00:13Declassify it.
00:14Yeah.
00:15See, as president I could have declassified it, now I can't.
00:17Isn't that interesting?
00:18Yeah.
00:19It's so cool.
00:20That was former President Donald Trump speaking about classified documents
00:23in a 2021 audio recording obtained by CNN.
00:27It's been reported that Trump, who officially left office in January 2021,
00:31was still knowingly in possession of classified documents
00:34at the time of this recording six months later.
00:36According to CNN, the recording is a piece of evidence
00:39that prosecutors will use to prove Trump mishandled classified information.
00:43The audio recording was reportedly taken during an interview between Trump,
00:46two of his aides, and a writer and publisher for Mark Meadows' memoir.
00:50The five seemingly discussed the Pentagon's planned attack on Iran
00:54and joked about Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:56In an interview with Fox News, Trump said the audio was taken
00:59while he showed the group newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles,
01:03not classified information.
01:05Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 37 counts of the mishandling
01:08of classified documents he possessed at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.