former president donald trump on tape saying, look at this. this, the this is a classified document that he says on tape he did not declassify. and his body man, who is also facing charges, is about to walk

into court. vladimir putin claims his army just stopped a civil war. a speech filled with pomp and pageantry. an effort, it seems, to project strength, but this morning, the mystery deepens. where is the man who launched the revolt. the stages are set for a major 2024 rivalry test. desantis and trump holding dueling events in new hampshire today. those stories and many more all coming in on cnn news central. donald trump in his own words and on tape. a tape that we know prosecutors leaned on in making their indictment. a tape that undercuts donald trump's publicly stated defense. but will it be allowed in court? cnn has exclusively obtained an audio recording of the 2021 meeting at the former president's golf club in new jersey. on it, you can hear papers

rustling as donald trump talks about having highly secret documents. and also talking about how he knows he did not declassify them. >> i just -- isn't that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know. except it is like highly confidential, secret. this is secret information. as president, i could have declassified it. now i can't. >> still secret. trump's response to this tape being released, lashing out overnight, accusing the special prosecutor of illegally leaking the recording. he also tries to argue that the audio is, quote, actually an exoneration. today, we will see donald trump in new hampshire on the trail. and in a courthouse very soon in miami, we could see walt nauta, he is the aide that is charged alongside donald trump in the documents case. walt nauta is about to face arraignment and enter a plea. let's get started on all this

with cnn's sara murray. tell us more about what we hear now on this tape. >> reporter: look, this is damning evidence for trump, and it's great evidence as far as prosecutors are concerned because it's donald trump on tape in a meeting with biographers and two staffers, none of who have security clearances talking about this document related to a plan of attack against iran. i want to play another portion of the tape where donald trump is acknowledging this is not a declassified document and since he's no longer the president, he can't declassify i take a listen. >> this was done by the military. given to me. i think we can probably -- >> we'll have to see. i'll have tory to -- >> declassify it. >> yeah. >> as president, i could have declassified it. now i can't. this is classified. >> now we have a problem. >> isn't thainteresting? it's so cool. and you probably almost didn't believe me, but now you believe

me. >> i believed you. >> incredible, right? bring some cokes in please. >> and it's striking there, when you listen to sort of how cavalierly they're talking about this document. you know, you hear a staffer say now we have a problem, and everyone starts laughing. and of course, donald trump has dismissed this. he said in an interview with fox news, there was no document. these are magazine and newspaper articles but he says at other points in the tape when you hear the papers rustling, i'll show you an example. these are the papers, kate. >> were investigators able to recover the documents we're talking about here? >> this is an open question, because we know that investigators subpoenaed the trump team for this document. the trump team was not able to produce it. we don't know if investigators were able to get it in the documents trump returned to the archives, if they were maybe able to find it as part of their search of mar-a-lago, but we know prosecutors have been looking for a lot of

corroborating evidence. they interviewed mark milley, at least one of the staffers in the meeting, and soon if not already, trump's team is going to get the transcripts of the interviews prosecutors have done as part of discovery in the case. pretty soon, the trump team is going to know if there were witnesses in this room who said, yeah, i remember seeing the document or were able to describe the document, kate. >> great point. thank you so much, sara, for kicking this off. >> this hour, donald trump's right hand man will be arraigned in miami federal court in the classified documents case. trump's valet, wall nota, was charge on the same document as donald trump. he is charged with six things. the justice department says it has surveillance video of him moving boxes of the documents around the property. cnn's senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is outside the court. we understand nauta is on his

way to court right now. what can you tell us about what will happen today? >> reporter: later this hour, walt nauta is set to plead not guilty. that's what donald trump did two weeks ago. walt nauta was still lining up his attorney team. he's going to be back in court to do that. then it is the start for him formally of the journey toward trial and a point in time where he's going to have to make his own decisions as a criminal defendant with his lawyer, whether his interest will align with donald trump or not. now, up to this point, let's remember who he is, not just donald trump's valet, his bodyman, his co-defendant. he's also a person who travels with trump very consistently. he's on the political team. he even left with trump for a political stop after their arraignment two weeks ago. so there is this situation where he's being charged not just because of who he is and what he did, but what he did at donald trump's direction, allegedly

moving those boxes. he's not charged with the retention of the 31 documents that donald trump is accused of having knowingly after his presidency, but he is accused of obstruction and false statements trying to conceal those records from the justice department. those are hefty charges on their own, even decoupled from the retention counts. so this man will be coming into court today. we expect it to be a bit of a shorter proceeding in court so that he can enter that not guilty plea, but this is his own defendant, he is going to have to be in court today with donald trump not at his side. >> right. and with the person who is being paid by the trump organization, his attorney. cai katelyn polantz, you have done such great reporting. with us now, cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe, and senior analyst, elie honig. just so we get another flavor of

it, i want to play more of this tape obtained first by cnn, last night, you were there when the story broke. i want everyone to listen to this a little more. >> these are bad, sick people. >> that was your coup, you know, against you. >> it started right at the beginning. >> when milley is talking about you were going to try to do a coup. they were trying to do that before you sworn in, trying to overthrow your election. >> with milley, let me see that. i'll show you an example. he said i wanted to attack iran. isn't it amazing how a big pile of papers just came up. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record, but they presented me this. this was him. this was the defense department and him. >> wow. >> we looked at some. this was him. this wasn't done by me. this was him. all sorts of stuff.

pages long. let's see here. isn't that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is highly confidential. >> all sorts of stuff, he says. this, this. look at this. pages long. you hear the crinkling there, elie. just big picture, what kind of evidence is this in a courtroom? >> this is a prosecutor's dream. tapes are the best kind of evidence you can have. and these tames are even more powerful than normal. first of all, you can hear it quite clearly. a lot of types you're struggling. this is crystal clear. it's visceral. it will put the juror in the room. dote you feel like you're right in there? you can understand exactly what's going on. they were made by donald trump's team so there can't be accusation of foul play or any motion to suppress the evidence as we would say legally. and finally, these tapes go to

the heart of donald trump's intent and knowledge. he knew he had the documents. he knew they were about sensitive military plans and he's freely sharing them with others, and he did not classify them. it's as good as evidence gets. >> elie brought up the fact of the audio quality. there were some comparison to the nixon tapes. with watergate, you could barely make out what they were saying. you could hear every syllable and the breathing and the pages there, and also the clarity in what he's discussing and the fact there's other people there, ie, witnesses. why is that important? >> that's absolutely right, john. let's remember that in addition to listening to this pristine audio recording which i think fbi technical folks should listen to this as a goal to what recordings should sound like. but in addition to that, you're going to have likely several witnesses who will take the stand and be asked questions like, is this what you heard in the room? they'll hear the tape. they'll agree.

then they'll say, what was he holding in his hand? did you see what he was referring to when you hear the noise the paper makes. did you see any markings on that? so the witnesses are really going to add levels of detail and depth and personal observation to this incident. and it's just going to leave an indelible impression on the minds of the jurors. really hard to imagine how they get out from under this. >> why is it different than just the transcript? >> because it brings the whole thing to light. there's nothing more persuasive to a jury than a recording of the defendant literally committing the crime that you have accused him with. that's essentially what you have here. right? he has knowledge, he has possession of what is described by him as likely national defense information. he knows he has possession of it. here he goes one step further to essentially share it with everyone in the room, at least

by description and possibly visually as he says things like look, look at this, look here. he may have been pointing to sections of the documents. it's absolutely devastating. >> elie, it does not seem this, the document or whatever donald trump is referring to, is part of the evidence that the federal government has. how important is that and how could trump defend himself here? >> all things being equal, you would want to have that document. you would want to be able to show it to the jury and say this is what he was talking about, and yes, it was classified. you don't have to have it for a couple reasons. you can reconstruct it the best you can using the context of the taip, it sounds at times as if he's reading off it. he says confidential, marked secret. those are security classifications. the other thing is, you can reconstruct it through the witnesses, as andy said. what did you see? and the key thing is even if there's no document, you argue it goes to what he knew, his state of mind, can it shows you what his plan was. why is he keeping these

documents? he's not selling them to foreign entities but he's keeping them, using them, and disseminating them to protect his own political narrative, his own standing for his own wildly improper use. you want the document, but it's still valuable evidence. >> any dfls he could mount? >> it could be he's just bluffing, just shuffling papers and puffing. we'll have see what the witnesses say about that and i guess there's a chance the defense could argue it's inadmissible. the problem as i said before is trump's own team made this recording and it's clearly relevant, so they'll try that, i'm sure. you kind of have to as a defense lawyer, but i don't think they're going to keep this out. >> in terms of the actual crimes donald trump is charged with here, what does this speak to quite literally? how does this get to that as evidence? >> well, as elie just noted, we don't know specifically that the

government has this document that's being displayed or used on the tape. however, if you look back at the indictment of the 31 counts related to the documents, at least 20 of those by my informal analysis could potentially describe in very vague ways this document or a document very much like it. it's also possible that the government has the document or one that at least fits this description from the results of the search warrant or the documents that were already turned over by the trump team. now, it is true they served a subpoena on the team for this specific document and the trump lawyers apparently responded that they don't have it. but that may have been an effort just to get the document in a form that the trump team voluntarily turned over. so it is possible they have it. it's possible it comes within the description already included in the indictment. we'll have to wait and see. >> all right, andrew mccabe, elie honig, thank you very much. >> this morning, vladimir putin addressing his military and

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new this morning, what appears to be a deliberate attempt to show unity and control. you can see the russian president vladimir putin surrounding himself with military units there. and he issued public praise for the response to the wagner revolt. he also acknowledged there were russian military casualties

during the events. this as russia made official what has been reported for days, that they will drop charges against the mercenaries who participated in the rebellion and their leader. most critically, as of this morning, we still do not know where prigozhin is. he hasn't been seen since saturday. matthew chance joins us from moscow this morning where we continue to see more developments, matthew. >> reporter: that's right. but don't ask me to tell you where prigozhin is because we don't know. there have been reports of a plane that's linked to him landing in belarus, next door to russia, but it's not been confirmed that he was on that plane, although we're watching it very closely. those images of vladimir putin, though, addressing this morning members of the russian military, basically congratulating them for basically not taking the side of the wagner rebels over the weekend. but instead, defending the

presidency, defending the russian mother land, he says, and the constitution. of course, preventing, and this is an astonishing admission, preventing a civil war. take a listen to what vladimir putin had to say to them. >> translator: real defenders of the motherland who took part in fighting as comrades against this chaos, result of which inevitably would have been chaos. you saved our people, our homeland. virtually, you stopped a civil war. in actual fact, you stopped a civil war. >> reporter: i mean, this is incredible because this is an example of vladimir putin trying to claw back some of the authority he lost during the weekend of mayhem and when there was a wagner military rebellion against him. of course, the problem is that

it's not entirely true that everybody stood up for the presidency, nobody supported the rebels, because we have all seen those scenes in the russian city in the south with people cheering wagner fighters and taking selfies with them. that's really exposed a real kind of crack in russian society, which must be absolutely terrifying for the kremlin. >> yeah, and i'm just struck by the attempt to project power with the images that we just saw there. it seems to be something he wants to convey to the russian people, whether or not it's bought or not is another matter. matthew chance, great to have you. kate. and as you were discussing, although we have now heard from vladimir putin today, and although we have also heard from evgeni prugoshen himself, we still do not know where exactly he is. here is what we know about this larger than life figure, though, who created and led the wag nur group for years. prugoshen was once a close ally of vladimir putin. they're both from st.

petersburg, russia, and have known each other since the 1990s when prigozhin ran a big catering business. big contracts from the kremlin earned him the nickname of putin's chef, leading him to join the ranks of the country's wealthy oligarchs. he then went on to find the w wagner group, known for its brutal tactics. operating outside russia's military structure, yet fully in support of russia's interests around the world. cnn has tracked wagner mercenaries in so many places. the central african republic in sudan, in libya, in mozambique, in syria definitely, and also now, of course, in ukraine. that critical relationship saw a big shift, though, in just the last few months, when prigozhin began openly criticizing russia's military leaders on their war effort in ukraine. those critiques turned into a

full blown rebellion we saw on display this weekend as prigozhin led what is now the greatest challenge to putin's grip on power in 23 years. >> joining us now to discuss, cnn national security analyst and former cia chief of russia operations, steve hall, and cnn national security analyst david sanger. i have so many questions. i'm going to start with you, steve. putin has just spoken and used the word civil war, saying that his troops helped avoid a civil war. what do you make of his latest statements? we have never heard him say that. >> he's definitely in a position that he hasn't been in in pretty much forever. i think we're seeing a lot of looseness, slackness in terms of what do we do now. you remember on sunday, it was all the wagner guys will be pardoned. then on the next day, maybe they are going to be. it goes back and forth, back and forth. the other indicator is where is

prigozhin. and then you have all the stuff we have seen before, putin standing in front of the guys with the big hats. this is not something he typically has to do. this sort of press repair work. pr work. this is not something that dictators normally do. they can normally just repress. the fact he feels he has to do this stuff is an indicator he himself is concerned about his situation. >> a real sign just what he has done, and the way he did it, coming out into the public, trying to show his strength that he isn't scared. i want to go to you, david, now. biden has said publicly that he had nothing to do with this, that the united states had nothing to do with this infighting in russia. but is there something that the biden administration should be doing or could be doing, because clearly, there is an issue here with infighting, and putin's been in office for 23 years now. >> that's right. and this is risky territory that you saw president biden try to

navigate carefully yesterday in what was his first and fairly sparse comments about the chaos that we have seen unfold. his first message was, we had nothing to do with it. but that's different from saying we didn't know it was coming, and our reporting and the times and cnn's reporting have indicated that in fact they did have at least a few days notice that this was likely to unfold. the administration made a decision not to go intervene on either side. and frankly, i don't see they had any other choice. prigozhin is a sanctioned bruton killer. in fact, they had to delay more sanctions on him in recent days. putin obviously is not only sanctioned but is running a war that the united states and the nato allies are trying to go undo at the other end by supporting the ukrainians. so there was no percentage in biden getting involved in this.

however, i'm sure they're going to try to exploit it. you have already seen tony blinken, the secretary of state, go on the air saying look, this was entirely putin's own doing. had he not invaded ukraine, he wouldn't be in this situation. and in fact, he's right. i mean, this is the first challenge, as steve said, that we have seen in 23 years. and it would not be occurring had president putin not entered into a war that his own troops couldn't execute on. >> he brought it on himself, putin, because he went into ukraine unprovoked. steve, i want to ask about prigozhin. he's claimed, look, this was not a rebellion, this was a march of justice, but he took out two helicopters and a plane, russian military equipment. and now, you're hearing that they're not going to charge him. is that even close to a possibility? they might kill him instead?

>> yeah, we have to be careful not to look through a western lens on this. there's no rule of law in russia. putin is going to do whatever putin wants to do. the interesting fact is we still don't know where prigozhin is. there is a theory that it might actually benefit putin to have some uncertainty about that. is he alive, is he dead. is he both alive and dead? nobody knows. it depends on what the inner workings of that. putin's inner circle, who knows where he is. he may be trying to use it to his tactical advantage inside the kremlin abecause that's what he's got to do to stay in the job. >> for someone to be in a dictatorial role, you need the people around you to feel safe. do they feel safe now? >> no, but in the rush context, there's a different spin because the russians are so used to -- you and i sit in a staff member, we're trying to collaborate, trying to figure things out. staff meetings in russia is who is saying what about who and how

can i leverage that? >> it's so interesting. we have not seen this in my lifetime. steve and david, thank you. i appreciate you coming in and giving your analysis. coming up for us, more help for ukraine. the united states set to announce a big new aid package. the details on that next. ll nig. ...or blasting the air conditioning. because the tempmpur-breeze feels up to 10° cooler, all nighght long. for a limited time, save $500 onon all-new tempur-breeze mattresses.

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switch today. . our top story this morning, we're hearing for the first time some of the significant evidence special counsel jack smith has against former president donald trump. cnn has obtained an audio

recording of the 2021 meeting where trump indicates that he's holding on to and displaying secret documents to people without any clearances. trump also saying clearly on the recording that he knows the material was not declassified. the former president is now facing 37 criminal charges related to his handling of classified documents, after leaving the white house. he has pleaded not guilty. now to the war in ukraine and the reaction to extraordinary events that unfolded in russia. ukraine's leaders say they were watching events unfold with great interest and some concern. cnn's erin burnett spoke with ukraine's foreign minister and asked him specifically about the nuclear risks that remain in russia. >> one big question out there remains the nuclear question, and obviously, the ukrainian intelligence chief says putin has drafted and approved, those are his words, plans to attack the zaporizhzhia power plant, which is the largest in europe.

president zelenskyy has also warned of some an attack recently. how real is this risk, do you think? >> as long as zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant remains in the hands of russia, the risk is real. the question i think russia is struggling with, is the problem of retribution, because of course, they don't want to be blamed for causing another nuclear disaster. so i think they're struggling to find a way to perform it as a false flag operation or something else that would not be directly attributable to them. >> you can watch more of erin burnett's conversation tonight on "outfront" at 7:00 p.m. eastern. later today, the u.s. is expected to announce a new $500 million aid package for ukraine. it's expected to include more

bradley and striker fighter vehicles. ukraine lost several armored vehicles in the early days of their counteroffensive. natasha bertrand live at the pentagon now. i'm sure this package will be a welcomed delivery in ukraine, natasha. >> reporter: absolutely, john. so this new presidential drawdown package will make the total in aid to ukraine, u.s. military aid to ukraine come to over $22 billion since the war began. it is expected to include new bradley and striker fighting vehicles which are really important for ukraine to continue to prosecute this counteroffensive especially because they actually lost some of those vehicles in the early days of the counteroffensive. the u.s. obviously trying to replace some of those now. they're also expected to fete more munitions for their patriot air defense systems as well as additional ammunition, which is something the ukrainians are always wanting for. it remains to be seen just how this rebellion by wagner group

inside russia will affect russia's operation inside ukraine, because the wagner group had played a really instrumental role in ukraine, including in the speak of bakhmut and was among the more competent force that russia actually had there as opposed to russia's regular military force there. it remains to be seen how this rebellion and wagner's kind of disintegration will impact the war because russia had actually been putting up quite a substantial fight in the counteroffensive and had been difficult for the ukrainians to break through their defensive lines, but the u.s. obviously committed to maintaining their support for ukraine, and this new $500 million package that we're expecting them to announce today is further evidence of that. >> what are you picking up in the pentagon among u.s. officials, what they're looking for now on the ground in ukraine in terms of how it will impact the russian troops there, this revolt? >> reporter: yeah, john.

i think what they're exampining now is whether any wagner forces remain in ukraine, what role they're going to play here, or whether they'll all be absorbed into the russian ministry of defense because right now, what we're hearing from the russians is that the wagner troops are going to be contracted into the russian military and the russians are now saying that wagner has begun to hand over all of their equipment and weapons to the russian troops. obviously, this could have a major impact on the ground there in ukraine. >> natasha, great to see you. thank you so much. sara. there is drama on the republican presidential campaign trail. why one voters group is up in arms over dueling campaign events for the front-runners. also, a new senate report accusing the fbi and department of homeland security of failing to sound the alarm about the january 6th insurrection despite receiving multiple warnings and tips. just ahead, the message from one tipster who pleaded with the fbi to be taken seriously.

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. this just in to cnn. trump aide walt nauta not arriving in court. let's get over to katelyn polantz outside the courthouse in miami for the latest. we're expecting this arraignment. what's going on? >> reporter: well, kate, we are. we have been expecting this arraignment. walt nauta, the co-confident of donald trump, expected all week for the past few weeks to be appearing in court in miami. but just a few minutes ago with his attorney arrived he was alone. this attorney representing walt nauta came into the courthouse

without his client, walt nauta. in recent days we know nauta has been in new jersey. he doesn't appear to have walked inside the courthouse. the judge is going to be on the bench momentarily. now it's a question of what is going to happen today. is this arraignment going to happen? can it if walt nauta isn't here, and how does the judge respond to this? we'll be listening to what stanley woodward tells the judge. nauta was in new jersey and there were a lot of flight delays up and down the east coast, so it's really unclear what will happen and if there will be more delayed. we already had this delayed two weeks because nauta didn't have a florida attorney to get on his legal team and to get him arraigned two weeks ago when he was here in donald trump. now a question of what is going to happen this morning. kate. >> i was going to ask about that because this seems like it would be a delay on top of a delay.

but there is definitely no question weather in the northeast had completely brought travels to a standstill yesterday. don't know if at all that's a factor in any of this, but again, this is all about to get under way, right? we could be -- the judge could be sitting down any minute. >> reporter: yeah, any minute. 9:45 is the start of this hearing. this court seems to operate like clockwork, so we are watching inside the courtroom as well. i have colleagues in there who are going to see and listen to exactly what the special counsel's office says as well as walt nauta's attorney, stanley woodward, who did make it inside to talk to the judge. >> all right, so updates clearly to come. katelyn polantz out is for us. thanks so much. john. this morning, what is being billed as controversy on the campaign trail. dueling events in new hampshire, one for donald trump, one for ron desantis, at the same time. and that has ticked off the sponsors of the trump event, the new hampshire federation of republican women.

they issued a release criticizing desantis for not waiting. jessica dean is with us now. yes caw, they take this kind of stuff very seriously in new hampshire. >> reporter: they sure do, john. you know that from being there during previous election seasons. look, new hampshire is its own beast. they expect a lot of retail politics there. there's a very specific way to camp pain in new hampshire. let's start first with ron desantis because this event will be first this morning. he'll get started in about ten minutes. he's going to take questions from voters. that's key in new hampshire. they want that interaction, that back and forth with the candidate. that's something desantis has continued to do more of, take questions from voters. we're also seeing him trying to go up against this idea he's not good at retail politics, that he can't interact with people. really trying to combat that by talking more and more with voters. then we'll hear from former president donald trump who will

be speaking to this women's group a little later this morning. he will be talking with them, and they did release, the ep vents director did release that statement saying this is a distraction. it's not clear how much this is the trump campaign trying to gin this up, but new hampshire is a strong state historically for the former president. in 2016, he had an overwhelming victory there. they tend to respond to him in the state of new hampshire. interestingly, though, their paths will not cross today. it is a small state. but they will not cross paths. >> you know, it seems as if particularly the trump team is willing and eager to needle desantis any chance they get. >> reporter: there is no question about that. both the former president and his team go directly after desantis over and over and over again. we have seen that even before desantis got into the race. that seems to be their strategy. go right at him. desantis has a little bit of a

different strategy that we have begun to see develop on the trail. that is that when asked about the former president, he will attack him. he will criticize him. but he doesn't bring it up naturally, say, in his stump speech. so the question is, will that be enough to convince voters who think is desantis strong enough to take on the former president? that's really his challenge, is to win over people who likely voted for him maybe twice in the last couple cycles, but are looking for a fresh face without insulting the former president. so they're really trying to kind of toe that line, and what will be interesting to see today is if he gets any questions about that, we'll be watching. >> look, i'll be interested if either gets any questions or brings up the tapes first reported on by cnn of the trump meeting at bedminster. that would be fascinating. always great to have you. it's been two months since ralph yarl was shot after simply ringing the wrong doorbell.

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a missouri teenager shot in the head after ringing the wrong doorbell is speaking to the media for first time. ralph yarl was on on the way to pick up his brother when he went to the wrong home of andrew lester, and he fired a gun and shooting yarl in the head, but he survived. adrienne broaddus joins us now with this survival story. >> yes, it is, sara. this teen does not look like a teen who has been through what he has been. he shared with robin roberts

what it is like. and he says he remembers what the shooter said, "don't ever come here again." this is how his life has changed in his own words. >> there were a lot of things that are going on inside of my head that are not normal. i have been having headaches, and trouble with sleep. sometimes, my mind is just foggy, and like i can't concentrate on the things that would be easy for me to do. >> basically, he looks fine, but there is a lot that has been taken from him. >> his mother is also saying that we are look agent a child who took the a.c.t. in the eighth grade and talked about how the brain has slowed. i remember when we all learned that the teen was released from the hospital, and we all said that it is so remarkable, but it is important to underscore that

he went home to a family of health care providers, including his mother and aunt who have been able to help care for him and help in the recovery process, sara. >> yes, a remarkable young man not only because of who he is, but also the family who make him who he is. thank you, adrienne broaddus. >> and now, documents that are seemingly in donald trump's hands. and how is this going to impact his case. and major rulings from the supreme court due to come down at any moment. we are standing by at the court. using the finest materials, like indulgent memory foam,

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cnn has the tape. former president trump gloating about classified documents that he took from the white house and saying clearly that he could have declassified the information, and he did not. trump in his own words, and an update on his aide also charged in the case. >> so it is a curious statement just in moments ago, the man who led the revolt in russia just arriving moments ago, but a handful of rulings just handed down by the supreme court. we are following all of the cases right here on cnn "news central." this just into cnn, trump's aide