good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye search of the ex presidents florida residents this last week. i ve been watching this as donald trump and his allies have desperately attempted to spin this story. the headline normally is like, fbi sear
georgia state representative tanya miller, thank you very much for joining us. barbara mcquade, stand by as i know you re joining us later this hour. still ahead here on ana cabrera reports, from america s mayor to indicted co-defendant, rouge rudy giuliani facing legal heat in georgia. clash of candidates, the gop contenders come out swinging in the first primary debate. what did republican voters think? maybe there is a lot of hope in the moderate side of the republican party. if you re a trump voter at this point, you ve already dedicated. and putin s revenge, what we re learning about the highly suspicious plane crash that appears to have killed wagner mercenary chief yevgeny prigozhin. vgeny prigozhin. it s not your best plan. but you know what is? myplan from verizon. (vo) for a limited time get nfl sunday ticket from youtubetv on us. a $449 value.
do you make of where tucker carlson took the conversation? it s tucker trying to drag trump even deeper into the qanon conspiracy world. unfortunately, trump barely resisted that temptation, and it tells us a lot about where tucker and the far right are going. the question is whether the entire gop is going to follow him or not. last night they made both of those men look kind of small. brian stelter, really appreciate your insights, your analysis, thank you so much for being here. thanks. up next on ana cabrera reports, from defenders of the law to indicted co-defendants, the legal trouble eight of donald trump s top legal allies including rudy giuliani are facing in georgia. and could a judge treat those lawyers more harshly when they head to trial? to trial?
good. so when rudy giuliani says i m being charged for practicing law, that s absolute nonsense. he s being charged because he s alleged to have lied in public forums, to have pressured people to change the outcome of an election by illegal means. those are the crimes with which he s charged. he s not charged simply for representing someone who lost an election. barbara, i wanted to take a walk down memory lane and play some sound from another trump lawyer, his former fixer, michael cohen. listen. he doesn t give you questions, he doesn t give you orders. he speaks in a code. and i understand the code because i have been around him for a decade. so, as a lawyer, what is expected of you when you have a client who seems to thrive in legal gray areas or who acts like trump and seems to speak in code? yeah, a lawyer has a responsibility to be clear about what they are communicating and what they are going to do. and so it may be that that is the way the mob boss works and
things, i think those are fair game. what s really difficult is enforcing that. while rudy giuliani is calling donald trump to wish him well, is he also talking about the case. all the other defendants are hearing those words as well. i think this is going to be quite a tight rope for the judge and the prosecutor to walk to figure out what s on the right line of this bond order and what crosses it. representative miller, you have experience in both the courts and the political sphere. you know fani willis, what s on the line for her here and for your state? well, obviously, you know, what s on the line for madam d.a. is the public eye watching her in what will be one of the most high profile prosecutions in our nation s history. certainly she s got to get it right. no prosecution is ever perfect. we describe it as a knife fight,