i did everything right and they indicted me. and what it means to set and then immediately break the record for hottest day ever recorded on planet earth. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. hope you had a good july 4th weekend. we are rapidly approaching the real actual serious for now start of the 24 republican primary. the first rnc debate is next month in milwaukee where the republicans will also hold their 2024 convention. while it s still too early for any real predictions about who voters will choose or how this will play out, right now, speaking as of today, it does look like donald trump is way ahead of everyone else. and that is in large part because florida governor ron desantis, who was initially hyped up is the candidate who could take on trump, has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis line should commit with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 p
media organizations that sued to get this affidavit unredacted. now, it is out. it is not totally unredacted. it is way, way less redacted than the original version, so we have been comparing and contrasting the two, as fast as we can. again, this thing just came out two hours ago. the thing that jumped out at us immediately? was this. the newly unredacted sections of the affidavit, gave us a much better understanding of what the government could see on the surveillance footage they ve got from mar-a-lago. there s details we didn t have before, like how the cameras were motion activated. really, it s where the cameras could not see that sticks out. on july 6th of last, year the trump organization provided the fbi with a hard drive, containing the footage of four cameras. all four of those cameras were in the basement hallway, leading to the storage room, where trump had been keeping this classified documents. that s a pivotal part of how the justice department knew documents