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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 ...

's legal team to respond to the department of justice filing and we are letting you know what it is and what it says. and -- what it says is a little bit of a sideshow at this point. 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 the classified documents that phone trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of illegal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it came in the form of this 36 page court filing. now that court filing is a response to trump's request...

Intercepting a drone? >> well, for intercepting a drone, the race track pattern picture that was showed, that drone was probably flying, clecl collecting intelligence either on russian ships or merchant ships coming out of odesa with grain as part of the embargo at this period of time. certainly the russians don't like that. they don't like people to know where their ships are. they don't like people to know what's going oin their area of operation. so this is not a killer drone. this is a drone that collects intelligence and communications. so they want it out of the area even though it's in ...

Time. certainly the russians don't like that. they don't want people to know where their ships are they don't like people to know what's going on in their area of operation. this is not a killer drone, this is a drone that collects intelligence and communications. so they want it out of the area, even though it's in international waters and doing the things that it has every right to be doing. it's an intelligence collection platform, anderson, either on russian military operations or an merchant operations to make sure that embargo goes as it's supposed to go. >> but an intercept like that wh...

Course, about sensitive intelligence. the basic capabilities of the reaper, it flies at 50,000 feet. almost as high as that balloon that we shot down off the coast of south carolina. what it does is it's an intelligence collection platform. it can be an armed platform. in this particular case, i'm certain it was intelligence collection platform. supports strike missions but mainly done for surveillance. one big thing about this is it has a range of about 1150 miles. it can stay up for about 24 hours. it has a big wing span of 66 feet. it's wider than a lot of aircraft. it can do a lot of colle...