news on special counsel jack smith s criminal investigation into donald trump s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office. you think of that investigation i want to bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you ll likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago and of the 100-plus classified documents the fbi found on the premises that day. tonight s news centers on a time about two months before that, june 2nd and why the events of that day may be key to john smith s case. tonight the washington post describes the events that took place on that day as being of importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we ve previously known may 11th of last year trump s attorneys received a subpoena. then we know june 3rd an attorney from the department of justice and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents from trump s team. now, we also already knew a
years for seditious conspiracy. the guy with his feet on the speaker s desk gets four years. but the guy who sent them to the capitol is still scot-free. then, the special counsel is closing in we get new reporting on team trump moving classified documents. plus, the disastrous rollout of the desantis campaign. rob desanctimonious and his members are dropping like a rock. is he a fool that has no idea what he s doing? and a showdown in texas as house republicans call for the attorney general to be impeached after he says the house speaker was drunk on the job. the objection to the [inaudible] when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it was a traumatic scene inside a washington court house today as a federal judge handed down the longest sentence yet for the january six insurrectionists. elmer stewart rhodes the third, founder of the far-right group the oath keepers, was convicted of the rare crime of seditious conspiracy late las
ballot, is going to be voter later to this care. because you have folks who clearly need ethics reform, holding all of these officers from attorney general to the state supreme court to lawmakers. that s incredibly concerning. one of those fights happening in ohio, we spotlighted yesterday, in which they ve no inserted a ballot amendment in august to raise the threshold to 60%, to stop a majority of ohioans, who they suspect, will vote for abortion rights, from being able to do that, there s gonna be a pre vote in august, just one of the many fights on this front. alexis mcgill johnson, thank you very much for time today. thanks, chris. that is all in on this thursday night, alex wagner tonight starts right now, with fights o this. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wag nar tonight begins right now with alicia menendez in for alex. and tonight we ve got major