joining us this evening. remember back in august last year, when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president has knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and publicly about that. he also fund-raise off it and took every opportunity to put out what a victim he was of a deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, first real justification for why he kept all of the documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order that documents remained from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all these documents, whatever a sta
i have not not done my job since i got here. i can to and walk at the same time. senator sharon brown and potential democratic workaround for democratic hostage taking. leaders have all agreed we will not default. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we have new polling just out. this one shows joe biden maintaining a lead, a significant, one over his potential republican challenger for the presidency next year. registered voters give biden a six-point advantage over donald trump, 44 to 38%, and the reason i m beginning tonight s show with this polling, and we re a long way from the election, is because it comes after, two weeks after chakras alton another poll that showed those numbers flipped 44% for trump, 38% for biden, and there s a lot written about those polls. now what i would like to tell you is you can watch those polls bounce up and down and worry about what they mean. the reality is the election is 18 months away. t
yes, this is their obsession. exactly, so it just, i don t know what else to say about it. i can t agree with you more, does it make sense of. look back at the history of primaries, john mccain, barack obama, george bush, nobody becomes the nominee without fighting for it. jennifer horn, thank you very much. that is all in on this wednesday evening. alex wagner tonight starts now. good evening, alex. i am reminded that the old adage but interfered with enemies like this. that s great, that s good. if you re trump, you re like yeah, come on and run. i mean, you know, they re real tough on like the sociologist teaching like intro to sociology to race florida universities. stand back, new college. all right. all right, thank you, as always, my friend. ll right, than thank you at hr