and the war effectively goes on is devastating. a decade later. but sometimes they keep turning forward. thank you, chris, as always. thank you to you at home for joining us. we have a lot to get to. today right-wing conspiracy monger alex jones was ordered to pay a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary, vicious lies he spread about the sandy hook massacre. we ll be joined by the lawyer that won the case for the sandy hook families. we ll be talking with the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her race is super close. one of handful of contests that can determine senate control. democrats understand that. they re making a huge last minute investment in her candidacy. sherry beasley will join us later on in the show. first, we have breaking news tonight. donald trump s mar-a-lago document scandal. in august, when the fbi executed a search warrant at trump s beach club, they found over 100 classified documents and 11,000 other documents stashe
absent-minded hoarder, he just took stuff. now weju have this accounting tt he directed specific boxes to be taken out of this closet storage and movedof into his private residence. do you think the justice department is asking himself or knowsng potentially why those documents in particular were the ones trump wanted? t alex, how much time do you have? remember, iyo served as counsel for the first impeachment too. and donald trump is a recidivist. he commits crimes because he believes he s above the claw. whether he ises obstructing a russia investigation, peaceful transition of power or keeps documents, he doesn t think the law applies to him. and donald trump has been known to be a proponent of many falsehoods including about the election. you don t need to prove a motive. in this case, can you see donald trump said, they re my documents.th i want them.do
will inevitably leak trump s tax information, a felony in and of itself. if the irs hands over the documents.th so officials will say because democrats cannot be trusted to keep the documents private, they shouldn t get them in the first place. that s the argument and that argument cogrg apply not just t the taxpp returns, to loads of documents. right, you can make that argument in the context of any of the politics including all the investigations of hillary clinton and the obama administration. that is not a legald basis to deny it. executive privilege in my opinion will faileg because the were two lower court decisions both in the bush administration and in the obama administration where there was a lengthy fight over executiveth privilege with the subpoena power that congress clearly has a right as far as oversight is concerned and they lost those arguments in the courts. now, it may take years to litigate. ultimately, stephanie, what they did was they cape to a compromise which