plus, incredible new reporting on just how easy it is to infiltrate the resort home where donald trump stored an actual security secrets. and after an incredibly successful week, the biden administration warning republicans ahead of the midterms. they are about to find out! when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. we have the affidavit, filed by the fbi, in support of its search warrant of the ex presidents retirement home. now, there are a lot of really fascinating nuggets and revelations throughout, despite its quite heavy redactions. but one stands starkly out, as it did during the initial reveal of the search warrant itself. just the plain confirmation, black and white, quote, probable cause exists to believe that evidence contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed will be found at mar-a-lago. that is really the not of it, right there, isn t it? that s all with this has been about, the back and forth wi
declassified all these documents. could he have just declassified them all? well, he classified everything in the world. i am president, i can do anything. come on! i m not gonna comment. i don t know the details. i only want to know. that s the justice department taking care of that. this president joe biden s response to the questions about the classified documents stashed away at mar-a-lago, retrieved by the fbi earlier this month, after an affidavit from the justice department. former president also responded and released parts of that affidavit today, claiming quote, the affidavit is heavily rejected. nothing mentioned on nuclear. pure reference at the washington post reporting, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents were looking for in trump s florida home. the problem of course is that we do not know if there is nothing been mentioned on nuclear, because the affidavit heavily we d acted, xxx exclamation point. there s still a lot we
affidavit. now, taken all together, it s very obvious that things don t look good for donald trump. in fact, even, fox news pundits agree. it should be, frankly, in all due respect to the former president, one, one request. you took documents that under the presidential records act of 1978 should not have been taken from the white house. please give them all back. now, they obviously has been a number of times, and he gave 15 boxes back. why did he continue to hold on to almost a dozen more boxes is beyond me. yeah, carl wolf. he is a weird dude. there is still much to learn, but the main point here is unwavering. i mean, again, the government had probable cause that someone at mar-a-lago, almost certainly donald trump, committed a crime. not just any crime, according to the affidavit, a violation of the espionage act among others, specifically part e of the act of documents or information quote relating to
to me like the dynamic here is, the federal government, and national archives, the fbi, doj, did not wanted to get to this point. but now that it s at this point, what do you do, right? it just feels like everyone has kind of walked to the point where you kind of got a jump. yeah, it is a great question, chris. first of all, you don t have to prove a mauve motive as a federal prosecutor, it s not necessarily. whatever the motive is, if you committed a crime, you committed a crime. let s put that aside. so what do you do now? there is a couple of possibilities. one possibility is that they just wanted their stuff back, because their stuff was highly classified, and losing control of it can do grave damage to the national security of the united states. so, possibility one s mission accomplished. possibility number two, as andrew weizmann suggested, is that mr. trump, and as i added, others perhaps could get indicted. i think if you are merrick garland, though, you have to