attorney could be a very big deal. now i m gonna give you the best legal advice you re ever gonna get in your life. get a great effing defence lawyer, you re gonna need it. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye s
good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye search of the ex presidents florida residents this last week. i ve been watching this as donald trump and his allies have desperately attempted to spin this story. the headline normally is like, fbi sear
rogue regime executing a while reckless search for political retribution. even though the people overseeing this investigation or someone i would like to call the world s most cautious man, attorney general merrick garland and trump fbi director christopher wray, the guy that trump appointed after he fired james comey. trump detractors even went to so far as to suggest that the fbi planted documents at mar-a-lago. last wednesday with fake tweets, he tweeted that the fbi and others would not let anyone including my lord be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged. they wanted to be left alone without went to see what they were doing republicans and fox news also fired up the propaganda machine repeating that bogus conspiracy theory over and over. do i know that the boxes of material that they took from mar-a-lago, that they won t put things in those boxes to entrap and? i don t i know that we are he s gonna be honest to see what was in the boxes, how do we know is in the box befor
spin this story. the headline normally is like, fbi searches politician that s bad for the politician right? not good for the person in public life. but they have just been frantically looking for excuses to try to turn it on its head. try to come up with some expects explanation why trump had 11 sets of classified documents, it s including some of the very highest classification at his home in mar-a-lago. they have abandoned each excuse almost as soon as they put it out because they have all been so implausible. the first time they tried was as you might remember, attacking the department of justice in the fbi accusing them of being at agents of a rogue regime executing a while reckless search for political retribution. even though the people overseeing this investigation or someone i would like to call the world s most cautious man, attorney general merrick garland and trump fbi director christopher wray, the guy that trump appointed after he fired