alleged nazi sympathizer who became an alleged marga murder for january six. plus, one of trump s fake electors caught on tape as she escorts data breaches into a county office in georgia. and how invalidating 2020 became a litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president knew the everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. bush
and how invalidating 2020 became a rhino litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president nearly everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. bush official cause the ruling, quote, a generally unprecedented decision by a judge. andrew weissmann, formerly prosecutor and law investigation, who i speak to at this table in a moment, w
this, this sounds like a very valuable information for all kinds of people that may or may not be floating in at mar-a-lago, i don t know. the judge in the federal district in florida is allowing this damage assessment to proceed. this indicates that there might be real significant consequences in case that was not already clear. i think you had to think of that assessment as that there are two steps here, right? one is a risk assessment, which is what type of material was this? what kind of damage could happen if it were to fall into the wrong hands? that s number one. that s what s currently underway. and then i think as a part of that but the stink is that you have to try to understand as best you can, whether that actually did fall into the wrong hands? who might have in fact read a document or looked at a
lo and behold, she had a sense of permission, did not actually end up serving jail time, even though the doj won for two weeks and 14 days on that case. there is not a lot of people to point to that are still locked up today that is being held. it is been examined so closely, and everyone is being held, and is a danger to the public on fort. yes, i think if you are trying to gain sympathy, the guy with the obvious hitler mustache, who all of his coworkers, many of his coworkers said he had fascist, nazi sympathizing views, made antisemitic marks, used antisemitic remarks and text messages to his on, he s not the person you want to promote a rally attended by members of, that mastriano and donald trump. ryan riley, thank you so much. it s a mentioned at the top of the show, recognition to washington post about what was in one of the documents found at mar-a-lago by the 60 about the nuclear capabilities of a foreign nation, one of the
evidence that he used anti jewish slurs and text messages with a woman who is speaking about the plight of a porn affiliate that rally? that is right, yes. when does messages came out in the court documents, and there are a lot of frustrations even among the january six committee, as they referred to themselves, about this guy being the poster boy. there is a lot of controversy. npr has great reporting about how this money is actually being allocated and used. there is a lot of controversy within that community. i was speaking with someone in that community today, who is very upset that this is essentially the poster boy for this. it is out for him to be the person to point to to say there is overreach here. it is a poorly chosen poster board for this. you expect them to go with somebody who is much more run of the male, maybe a grandmother or something. in reality, they don t have those cases to look at because there was a grandmother today, who had blowback on the right about that