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00:00 It's likely to be key evidence in the criminal case against Donald Trump.
00:05 First obtained by CNN, a newly released audio recording dating back to 2021 appears to reveal
00:11 the former U.S. president showing off a highly classified document to visitors at his golf
00:17 club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
00:18 This was done by the military, given to me.
00:19 I think we can probably -- right?
00:20 We'll have to see.
00:21 Yeah, we'll have to try to --
00:22 Declassify it.
00:28 See, as president, I could have declassified it.
00:32 Now I can't, you know, but this is --
00:34 Yeah, now we have a problem.
00:36 Isn't that interesting?
00:37 Yeah.
00:38 It's so cool.
00:39 I do.
00:40 Trump is under federal indictment for illegally keeping 31 classified national security documents
00:46 and conspiring with an aide to obstruct government efforts to retrieve them.
00:51 Among them, the document referred to in the recording, believed to be a plan for a preemptive
00:56 U.S. attack on Iran prepared by America's top military official.
01:01 The newly released audio appears to contradict what the former president told Fox News in
01:06 an interview last week, that all documents in his possession upon leaving office had
01:11 been declassified by him and that he had been referring to newspaper and magazine clippings
01:17 at Bedminster.
01:19 The U.S. Justice Department has requested Trump's trial in the case be postponed from
01:24 August to December.