plus what we know from the doj filing about who asked me have legal exposure. they don t have anything. there is just nothing there. and the legal, political and moral implications of a potential decision to indict the 45th president. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it is a pm eastern, and we just hit the deadline for donald trump s legal team to respond to the department of justice filing that just passed. it looked like it just came in. we will monitor it, that you know, what it is and what it says. honestly, what it says is a little bit of a sideshow at this point, because the one thing we know for sure is that the department of justice is not messing around. they are not messing around with their investigation into classified documents that donald trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of a legal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it came in the form of this 36 page court filing. no, th
peltola. incredible, have a good night. thank you all for joining us this hour. do you remember this issue of time magazine? it says it is from march of 2009. it has donald trump on the cover, underneath the caption, trump is hitting on all fronts. even tv. there is another capture below the headline. the apprentice is a television smersh. that magazine cover reportedly hung on the wall and at least five of donald trump s golf clubs at the beginning of his presidency. there is just one problem. it was not real. as washington reporter uncovered in june of 2017, donald was not on the cover of time magazine in march of 2009, but he had been hanging fake magazine covers and golf clubs to make it look like he was. just to be clear here, trump wanted so badly to be on the cover of time magazine, that he invented a fake time cover all about himself and hung it up in public in multiple places, all over the country. that forgotten little detail from trump s presidency became relevant
but he had been hanging fake magazine covers and golf clubs to make it look like he was. just to be clear here, trump wanted so badly to be on the cover of time magazine, that he invented a fake time cover all about himself and hung it up in public in multiple places, all over the country. that forgotten little detail from trump s presidency became relevant again today, after the department of justice issued its latest court filing in the ongoing court battle over ongoing access to the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the filing included this shocking picture showing top secret and classified documents that the fbi found during that search, documents clearly labeled, top secret and sci for sensitive compartment and permission. as experts noted, none of the documents spare markings to indicate that they have been declassified. it is a typical part of the declassification process. but those documents are also sitting alongside what appears to be, drumroll please, a box with the framed
s legal team to respond to the department of justice filing and we are letting you know what it is and what it says. and what it says is a little bit of a sideshow at this point. the one thing we know for sure is that the department of justice is not messing around. they are not messing around with their investigation into the classified documents that phone trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of illegal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it came in the form of this 36 page court filing. now that court filing is a response to trump s request for an independent special master, someone who would come from mar-a-lago, looking for privileged documents separating them up. the doj did not really have to respond at such length and they said we have already gone through the review. they said they have already gone through the details. they chose to even file for extra room to get the page limit from 20 to 40 pages and file this big 36-page
not on the cover of time magazine in march of 2009 but he had been hanging fake magazine covers in his golf clubs to make it look likeve he was. just to be clear here, trump wanted so badly to be on the cover of time magazine that he invented a fake time cover all about himself and hung it up in public, in multiple places all over the country. that forgotten little detail from trump s presidency became relevant again today after the department of justice issued its latestrt court filing in the ongoing courtil battle over accs to the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the filing included this shocking picture, showing some of theow top secret and classifd documents the fbi found during thatdo search. documents clearly labeled top secret, and sci, or sensitive compartmented information and none bear markings that they are declassified which is a t typic part of the declassification process. those documents are also sitting alongside what appears to be drum roll, please, a box with the f