This totally wins my case, you know.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Except it is highly confidential.
>> Yeah, [LAUGH] >> This is secret information.
>> Yeah.
>> See as president I could have declassified it.
>> Yeah. >> Now I can't.
>> After CNN decided to publish the leaked audio where Trump incriminated
himself in the classified documents case, Trump raged about it.
In fact, he raged about it on Truth Social and
even talked about it when he was asked to comment on the leaked audio.
And he claims, no, totally fine.
I'm a legitimate person who has been exonerated by this leak.
Let's hear what he had to say.
>> You're not concerned then with your own voice on those recordings?
>> My voice was fine.
What did I say wrong on those recordings?
I didn't even see the recording.
All I know is I did nothing wrong.
We had a lot of papers, a lot of paper stacked up.
In fact, you could hear the rustle of the paper, and nobody said I did anything
wrong other than the fake news, which, of course, is Fox too.
>> Are there any other recordings that we should be concerned of?
>> I don't know of any recordings that you should be concerned with,
because I don't do things wrong, I do things right.
I'm a legitimate person.
>> You heard it here first, folks.
He is a legitimate person.
I should also note, though, that the investigation,
the 49 page indictment indicates that there are two different recordings.
The one that CNN published is from July of 2021.
The second one, which we haven't heard yet, it has not been published yet,
is allegedly from August or September of 2021.
So, there's that.
But in a post on Truth Social,
he also alleged to have been exonerated by the leak of this audio.
He says, the deranged special prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction
with the DOJ and FBI, illegally leaked and spun a tape and transcript of me,
which is actually an exoneration rather than what they would have you believe.
And he calls it a witch hunt of course, typical Trump fashion.
Cenk, thoughts.
>> Yeah, so first of all, I'm a legitimate person goes right up there with,
I'm a very stable genius.
>> Totally, totally.
>> If you have to say it, are you sure you are?
Okay, but here was my favorite part of that little tape.
I haven't seen the tape, I don't know what's in it.
But you hear the rustling of the papers, wait.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay,
so did you hear it or didn't you hear it?
Okay, he's not like, guys, he's just not mentally competent to put on a defense,
and he's not mentally competent enough to shut his mouth.
The number one witness against Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
>> Now, Trump, of course, is gonna try to defend himself.
And while there are far less conservative voices who are going out of
their way to provide cover for Trump's bad behavior and potential criminality,
Sean Hannity is not one of those people who's decided to remain quiet.
In fact, he twisted himself into a pretzel in an effort to defend Donald Trump or
at least provide plausible deniability for Trump.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's what I mean.
>> While he did say this is stuff that he got from the military that would be highly
confidential and secret and says at another point, as president, I could
have declassified it, now I couldn't, but now it would still be a secret.
That does not confirm for me whether or
not specifically this document was declassified or not.
Was that actually the real document, or was it a story that he was telling?
And my understanding is that that particular document was never found by
the special counsel or by, you know, the raid at Mar a Lago.
But I might be mistaken on that, I don't think I am.
>> So even while Trump says in the audio recording that he has highly
confidential classified documents which he can no longer
declassify because he's no longer in office,
Sean Hannity is pretending like he didn't hear what we all heard in that audio.
And Brian Kilmead seems to agree with him as well.
Let's listen.
>> Kind of surprised and was kind of effective when he told Bret Baer, hey,
Bret, these were newspaper articles, there were no top secret documents.
So he has a pushback on that.
>> And I just wanna provide the reference for you,
the portion of the Bret Baer interview where Trump lies about how he was not in
possession of any classified documents as that audio was being recorded.
Let's watch.
>> That wasn't a document, Bret, there was no document.
That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and
other things, and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document.
I didn't have a document, per se.
There was nothing to declassify.
These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.
>> I'm just- >> I don't know,
maybe Trump is telling the truth.
Maybe we need to listen to that leaked audio one more time to decide for
ourselves whether Trump is telling the truth or lying.
>> Look at this.
Your attack, and- >> Hillary would print that out all
the time, you know.
>> She send it- >> Her private emails.
>> No, she'd send it to Anthony Weiner.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah.
>> The pervert.
>> Please print.
>> By the way, isn't that incredible?
>> Yeah.
>> I was just thinking, because we were talking about it.
And you know, he said, he wanted to attack Iran, and what, these are the papers.
>> You did.
>> This was done by the military and given to me I think we can probably, right?
>> I don't know, we'll have to see.
Yeah, we'll have to try to- >> Declassify it.
>> Figure out a, yeah.
>> See as president I could have declassified it.
>> Yeah. >> Now I can't, you know, but
this is still a secret.
>> Yeah, [LAUGH], now we have a problem.
>> Is that interesting?
>> Yeah. >> It's so cool, I mean, it's so, look,
her and I, and you probably almost didn't believe me, but now you believe me.
>> No, I believed you.
>> It's incredible, right?
>> No, they never met a war they didn't want.
>> Hey, bring some, bring some Cokes in please.
>> So I just want to reiterate what he says there, Cenk.
He even says, this is his exact statement
that the document was done by the military and given to me.
So is the military writing newspaper articles and then giving them to you?
That makes absolutely no sense.
Just going back to what he claimed on Bret Bear show.
>> So, guys, I said this on the Damage Report this morning too and
you should check that out, Damage Report is a great show on our network.
This is the one where he's in actual trouble.
So, MSNBC is the boy who cried wolf.
They've said it 2,000 times and it's never come true, so no one believes it anymore.
But now he's in actual, actual trouble.
They've got him debt to rights legally.
And you could tell it from the desperation of the right wing pundits.
So that Hannity clip, now by the way, I'll fair show in America.
It's not technically impossible what Hannity is saying.
>> Right. >> But
understand the implication of what Hannity is saying.
Hannity is saying,
he's taking a bunch of papers that are not actually classified documents and
he's telling the people that he's talking to, the biographer, et cetera.
I got these documents that millie made of our invasion plans of Iran.
Okay, here they are, here they are, but they're not actually those documents.
In other words, Hannity is saying, well, Trump's a well known liar, so he could
have just been lying about what was in the documents that he was waving around.
Interesting, then today a Newsmax anchor doubles down and goes,
you know how Trump is and what did he say, here, I'll give you the exact quote.
He said just because Trump said it, quote, doesn't make it true.
>> I like how Trump being a liar is what's cited as a possible cover, right?
>> Yeah. >> Or defense for Trump, it's amazing.
[CROSSTALK] We all know he's a liar and in this case that's a really good thing.
>> Yeah, no, no, this is their last stand.
This is Custard's last stand, right?
They're like, okay, we're out of all excuses, what can we do?
Because Trump said it with his own mouth, the freaking idiot, what are we gonna do?
I know, everybody knows Trump's a liar, we'll use the Trump's a liar defense.
But he's not lying now when he's in legal trouble,
he was lying earlier to brag or whatever.
But it ain't gonna work guys, that kind of stuff does not work in a court of law.
So, world of trouble, he's definitely guilty.
If he was a normal person, for sure going away for maybe decades, right?
So under this situation, as I said earlier in today's show,
either a juror or a judge or a politician has to let him off the hook,
otherwise he might literally go to prison.
>> I wouldn't hold my breath in regard to Trump ever going to prison.
I think it's important to keep our expectations tethered to reality.
>> 100%, yeah. >> And I'm not saying that because I think
people who tend to be powerful, who tend to be well connected shouldn't face
the similar consequences that anyone else would face.
I actually think that the two tier justice system we're dealing with here
is pretty gross.
But the reality is people who were former politicians,
former presidents usually get away with their crimes.
>> Yeah, so look, the establishment, whether they're Democrats, Republicans,
media, donors, et cetera, they want Trump out of politics.
Let's keep it real.
Both things can be true at the same time.
They want him out of politics and he's a liar and a criminal, right?
And they're using the fact that he's a liar and
a criminal to get him out of politics.
But do they want him to actually go to jail?
No, they don't want anybody powerful to actually go to jail because they can set
a bad precedent, because they're powerful, right?
So those are the conflicting interests.
That's why we're all skeptical that Donald Trump is ever gonna spend a day in jail.
But if the jury convicts them, what are they gonna do?
Just be like, no, the law doesn't apply?
No, if it jury convicts you, you got to go to jail.
>> Community service, restorative justice.
>> It's possible, it's possible the judge could do anything.
There's appeals, there's a lot of things, and
that's why we're all skeptical that he's gonna go to prison.
But this is as guilty as I have ever seen anyone,
because even the right wing is this close to admitting he definitely did it.