his mountain of legal troubles. new reporting from the new york times revealed the ex president has spent a staggering $50 million of donor money on his legal bills and he has a lot of legal bills to pay. he faces 91 felony counts in four cases. a lawsuit that threatens to take down his family business. not to mention the millions he owes e. jean carroll after losing two lawsuits. from that new york times reporting, quote, mr. trump has used funds in his political action committee known as save america to underwrite his legal bills. the account was originally flooded with donations that were collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election. he was making widespread and false claim of voter fraud. with save america s coffers nearly drained last year, mr. trump sought to refill them through a highly unusual transaction. he asked for a refund of $60 million that he had initially transferred to a different group. a pro trump superpac to support his 2024 campaig
a criminal investigation? then, a surprise republican senate seat suddenly in trouble. mike please independent shawn who joins me live. plus, senator bernie sanders on why he says control of congress will come down to an economic message. and rebecca traced her on the campaign trail recovery of john fetterman, and a tv doctorate attacking him for his health. after having that stroke, i really understand, you know, much more of the challenges that americans have day in a day out. all in starts now. good evening from washington, d. c. i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. whatever you think of the ex president and his brazen lies and his ludicrous lawyers and his alleged crimes, donald trump s strategy is kind of working. look, it s undeniably the case that he improperly took extremely classified documents it s that them at his florida home / resort. those documents reportedly even included nuclear secrets. some of the most closely guarded information the u.s. government
were panicked and knew multiple prosecutions would come down. that s why they stole the secrets. that s why they have this thing called gray mail where they try to prosecutors with we re going to expose these state secrets so you don t come after me. they actually had to pass a law which is what this skiff stuff and everything they re going back and forth with judge cannon about how to go over this classified information and share it appropriately because they want to avoid people like donald trump threatening prosecutors. let s move onto what else is happening this week in iowa because kim scott went after ron desantis for this new curriculum for african american history. this is basically this in florida, there is this new rtion of african american hiory that says in the curriculumnstruction includes how slavesevoped skills, which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. many people find that offensive. tim scott is one of them.
anything. at least he didn t at the time that he started so you don t think that donald trump is running just to avoid some sort of i think he knew he was going to run the day he realized he wasn t going to be able to overturn the election. now, has it lit a fire under him that he knows the way to state out of prison might be to get elected? sure. but i don t think that s the raison d etre of his campaign. i don t know about that. first of all, given the amount of evidence against him, it is possible the only way he avoids prison is by winning the presidency. i do think everyone in his orbit was panicked this entire time about him being prosecuted and knew that multiple prosecutions were going to come down. that s part of why they did all this. that s why they stole these secrets. you know, i think they have this thing called gray mail where, you know, they try to threaten prosecutors with, we re going to expose these state secrets so you don t come after me. they actually ha
charming bumbler, what s interesting is that the series is premised on a real and relatively obscure at least publicly phenomenon, gray mail. gray mail is the term for the letters sent by former intelligence assets threatening to go public with state secrets unless the u.s. government helps them out. who are you? i m owen hendrickson, the general counsel s office at the cia. we got took you long enough. it ises a by place. you know that making threats against the agency is a crime, right. i know many things. more than you. that is for sure. so how long has it been, huh, a few weeks. you used the copy machine yet. we re not here to talk about me. what happened to your hand. i closed it in a car door. liar. i pulled out enough fingernails to know what it looks like