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Donald Trump was just about 6,000 votes shy of winning the Iowa caucuses when he first ran in 2016. One key demographic -- evangelicals -- helped Texas Sen. Ted Cruz claim victory. Amanda Rooker, chief political reporter for CBS affiliate station KCCI in Des Moines, joins to discuss the former president's campaign stops in the state Thursday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off his first visit to New Hampshire as a declared presidential candidate on Thursday by turning his focus to his chief rival in the GOP primary, former President Donald Trump. (June 1) (AP video: Rodrique Ngowi)

Federal investigators have a recording of former President Donald Trump acknowledging that he held onto a sensitive military document after leaving office, sources told ABC News.

Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in Iowa Thursday where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made multiple stops Wednesday. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe has more on how DeSantis and other GOP presidential candidates are looking to close the gap with Trump.

Former President Donald Trump is on the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday. Trump's top GOP rival in the 2024 race, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, met voters in the Hawkeye State Wednesday and more Republican candidates are headed there over the next few days. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe has more.

Former President Trump was recorded talking about a classified document that he kept after leaving the White House, sources say. Dozens of papers marked classified were seized from his Florida home last year. CNN first reported this development and it was later confirmed by CBS News. CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge has more.

Sources say federal investigators have a recording that could be a key piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into former President Trump’s handling of classified documents.

On it, the former president appears to acknowledge having classified documents after leaving office. ABC News’ Andrew Dymburt has the details.

Jack Smith, the Justice Department's special counsel investigating whether former President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office, has obtained audio from 2021 in which Trump seemingly acknowledged he held onto a classified Pentagon document after leaving the White House, sources told CBS News. Catherine Herridge has more.

ABC News’ Alex Presha has more on the Republican presidential candidates.

STORY: Newly declared presidential candidate Ron DeSantis kicked off his first campaign tour beginning in Iowa Tuesday and stepped up his attacks on Donald Trump. In remarks to the press after the main event, the Florida governor showed less restraint than he has before on the former president, who is his main opponent within the Republican party, suggesting Trump had become less conservative on issues like immigration, COVID policy and federal spending. He said, “Unfortunately, he's decided to move left on some of these issues," calling Trump’s recent attacks on him “detached from reality...” and that “I think he's doing it in a way that the voters are going to side with me”. Tuesday’s event was at a packed church in western Des Moines, earlier, the candidate had said the nation was on the wrong track. [Ron DeSantis, Republican presidential candidate] "We can see it and we can feel it. Our southern border has collapsed. The Mexican drug cartels have more control over what goes on at the border than our own United States government." "Look at the economy. The Biden administration is doing all it can to make it harder for the average family to make ends meet and to attain and maintain a middle class lifestyle." After a glitch-plagued debut on Twitter Spaces last week, DeSantis’ choosing Iowa to start an old school tour is a strategic move. The Iowa caucuses host the country’s first nominating contests in election season – as they will next February. More importantly, the state’s sizeable white, evangelical population have sometimes been at odds with Trump, and DeSantis may be able to seize on that. Trump lost the state in 2016 to Ted Cruz, who mopped up most of the Christian vote. DeSantis will hold four campaign events across the state on Wednesday, before heading to New Hampshire and South Carolina.

CBS News has learned former President Trump's staff moved boxes at his Mar-a-Lago estate just one day before the FBI and a federal prosecutor paid a visit last June. CBS News homeland security and justice reporter Nicole Sganga has more.

FiveThirtyEight's Galen Druke crunches the numbers as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is thought to be the biggest challenger to former President Donald Trump to be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024.

Some Ukrainians tell CBS News they're becoming increasingly worried by the rhetoric used by Republican presidential front-runners Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.