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
this former oan host really the best a former president of the united states could do. meanwhile the republicans can t break with trump though we re seeing cracks in the blind loyalty. we begin the the reidout are a food note. in an overnight filing about stunning revelations about trump s happened lipping of highly classified material, the doj wrote this investigation is not simple police about efforts to recover improperly retained presidential records. moreover, 18 uscc 2071 criminalizes the concealment or removal of government records, including presidential records. in short, this is an investigation about lies, about deceit and potential obstruction of justice. that s all spelled out in the doj s 36-page response to trump s request for a legal for a special master in what is nothing short of a damning report about the lengths to which trump and his legal team went to withhold subpoenaed information. just remember, it took eight months for trump to turn over the fi
and actual pistol, barrel hot to the touch, at the scene of a crime with a dead body on the floor. before we get to the rest of this remarkable document, which shows that donald trump is by far the most acute immediate legal peril of his life, let s be clear with contacts here. ever since the ex president revealed the search of mar-a-lago to the world, remember it wasn t that said they are such a my house, the department of justice essentially had its hands tied behind its back in the terms of the court opinion. the right and proper way for the doj to go conduct such an investigation, especially one like this, both extremely sensitive, entirely unprecedented in that regard, and includes the investigation into highly classified materials. given all that, the right proper way to go is to keep mom. that is the procedure. as attorney general, merrick garland himself described it last month. the central tenant of the way in which the justice department investigates, the
mar-a-lago. these are just some, to be clear, some of the documents that the fbi found when they executed the search warrant earlier this month, after donald trump claimed he had already turned everything over, after his lawyers worked at. you can see the brightly colored cover sheets, hard to miss, right? pretty hard to miss, look at those documents. level different levels of classification, secret, top secret and sci, which stands for sensitive compartmentalize information. according to the doj filing, some of the documents are so sensitive, that even if the fbi intelligence personnel and doj attorneys connecting the review can required the tunnel clearances before they were permitted to review them. it s not like pedestrian but not level classified, like super up near the top of the mountain. this photo, it s hard to think of an analog or precedent here. it s as close to a smoking gun as it gets, short of funding
jurors and all, night stands and everything, looking for the documents and in your case, five days before the subpoena came out from the department of justice for the confidential markets. so now, did new york lawyer has made herself a witness, which makes it impossible for her, frankly, to represent trump in new york. here, in this case, we have two lawyers that have a big problem. christina, whoever wrote it, and turned in and said that there are no more documents, that was a lie. there were plenty of documents. there were over 100 documents. so she s got a problem. either she knew what she was saying was a lie, and which point, she is a codefendant. and if she did not know, she is a witness. either way, she should not be representing trump. the same thing goes with kirkland. even though he did not sign the note, he confirmed to the department justice lawyers, who presumably he confirmed to the department of justice lawyers that there were no further documents that they had done a