special counsel jack smith is looking for in the classified documents probe. as with the $5 million defamation and sexual abuse judgment against donald trump, his own words are once again being used against him in a court of law. this time we re of course talking about that stunning february 2021 audio recording. donald trump bragging about a secret document with plans to attack iran at bedminster. to a writer working on a book, the discovery of that recording according to report from the wall street journal we discussed on this program last week, we know was a watershed moment that helped spur doj into pursuing a criminal case against the ex-president. days after his indictment on 37 felony counts, the ex-president claimed this. there was no document. that was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about iran and other things, and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn t have a document per se. there was nothing to declas
combination of anti-trans and anti-abortion laws. women will die. children are dying. it is your fault. it is your fault! and you are allowing it to happen. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. well, we appear to be just days away from the potential collapse of the global economy. strange way to start the show, but that s where we are headed, at least as of now. again, i don t think we are gonna get there, but that is the way that we are going. and it s amidst that and the threat explicitly republicans are threatening that president biden held another round of negotiations with republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy, over a deal to raise these so-called debt ceiling. that is the amount of money that the u.s. is allowed to borrow. there is still no deal, there that line could come as soon as june 1st, although mccarthy called today s meeting productive. they re gonna come back together, work through the night, and
then i think this obstruction case is a tight case. and yes, i do think he ll go to jail on it. the classified document investigation expands into trump s business dealings, as e. jean carroll says she plans to seek more damages from the ex president. i love to have robbie kaplan just shut him up. and the latest chilling example of america in reverse, as nebraska s governor signs a combination of anti-trans and anti-abortion laws. women will die. children are dying. it is your fault. it is your fault! and you are allowing it to happen. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. well, we appear to be just days away from the potential collapse of the global economy. strange way to start the show, but that s where we are headed, at least as of now. again, i don t think we are gonna get there, but that is the way that we are going. and it s amidst that and the threat explicitly republicans are threatening that president bid
do you still have any classified documents in your possession? no, i don t. i don t have anything. i have no classified documents. and by the way, they become automatically declassified when i took them. a source close to trump s legal team says the former president may go to court to prevent the presidential records from being handed over, . he whether only have about a week before the national archives says they re giving if records to the special counsel. paula reed joins us right now. what does this letter mean, this letter from the national archives mean for the criminal investigation into trump s handling of classified documents? we know the special counsel is looking at several potential crimes, including the pos mishandling of classified records. this will answer the question whether the former president knowingly removed classified documents without authorization. because according to this letter obtained by our colleague, the archives says that these 16 reco
did someone tamper with the tapes? plus, senator manchin on the debt ceiling, biden s re-election. that interview is coming up. who was behind the drones the kremlin say were sent to kill putin? let s go outfront. good evening. i m pamela brown in for erin burnett. breaking news, tapes at mar-a-lago. special counsel jack smith is now asking questions about the handling of surveillance tapes from trump s home in florida. whether the tapes could have been tampered with. smith of course is leading the criminal investigation into trump s handling of classified documents. they want to hear from one or two executives. they re said to know a lot about mar-a-lago s inner workings. trump went on fox news to boasts about the tapes he handed over to prosecutors. they raided mar-a-lago. vicious ly raided mar-a-lago. i have tape, i gave them tapes. i gave it to them. i could have held that back. i gave them tape. but you know the tape they don t want me to reveal, if possible,