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with republicans like hannity finally realizing that the party's toxic, regressive, authoritarian policies have sparked a voter backlash. also tonight, new reporting that donald trump almost certainly knew that a president cannot declassify documents just by stuffing them in a box and hauling them to the old golf resort, as repeatedly has claimed. plus, elon musk's off the rails interview. the man who runs one of the biggest social media sites raises alarms with toxic comments about george sorros and the texas mall shooter among other things. but we begin tonight with the repub...

caution it's. ron klain having work to the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that he's their underway fulfilling every vacancy in the federal courts. they might get to a point this year where they're sitting there with no vacancies. >> wow! >> that's just an astonishing accomplishment. >> at a time when it is abundantly clear how very important the judiciary is to be functioning democracy. >> exactly. we are joined tonight by harvard law officer profe...

among other things, mike pence's novel -- to put it kindly -- novel notion about why he should not have to testify before a grand jury. >> novel is one way of putting it, lawrence. i can't wait to see. it >> thanks, alex. >> thank you. >> well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump's lawyers to testify before a grand jury without being able to refuse to answer questions because of the attorney client privilege. the crime fraud exception can overrule the attorney client...

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Claim that he had a standing order to declassify documents. 18 former top trump administration officials have told cnn that they never heard any such order issued during the time working for trump and that they believe the claim to be pat tented false. several officials laughed at this idea. if there was a magical declassification system that doesn't exist, donald trump never said to anyone at the time contemporaneously that he was declassifying things. that seems to me to also be a problem. >> i think it is a problem. and it just -- again, this is not how declassification works. one suspects ...