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 is a little bit of a sideshow at this point, because 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 classified documents that donald trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of a legal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it came in the form of this 36 page court filing. no, th
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 for an independent special master, someone who would come from mar-a-lago, looking for privileged documents separating them up. the doj did not really have to respond at such length and they said we have already gone through the review. they said they have already gone through the details. they chose to even file for extra room to get the page limit from 20 to 40 pages and file this big 36-page
they re worried there will be regulation that hasn t been there before on these big platforms. and candidly, if you look at what tiktok is doing, it is a collection platform for chinese intelligence services, no doubt in my mind. it goes back to beijing and run it through their all go rhythms for doing profiles. google is doing that activity engaged in for a long time. they call it advertising. that s what the tiktok advertising was trying to say. no, it s not spying, but for advertising purposes. china does not. we know google does. it does it is you have crept into people s lives all across america every time you get on or google something. so of course they will go to washington, d.c. of course they want to make sure that they are not going to get regulated. again, could be absolutely innocent. some of these platforms actually
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 international waters and has every right to be there doing the things that it s doing. so it s an intelligence collection platform, anderson. either on russian military operations or merchant operations to make sure that embargo goes as it s supposed to go. but a normal an intercept like that where there s not
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 where there is not physical contact, that doesn t drive the drone off its mission, does it? no, certainly not. but you have to remember as well anderson, this isn t an aircraft that can avoid other aircraft coming into their way. it doesn t have a pilot that can turn his head both ways or quickly maneuver a slow-moving turbo engine plane out of the