alleged nazi sympathizer who became an alleged marga murder for january six. plus, one of trump s fake electors caught on tape as she escorts data breaches into a county office in georgia. and how invalidating 2020 became a litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president knew the everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. bush
and how invalidating 2020 became a rhino litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president nearly everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. bush official cause the ruling, quote, a generally unprecedented decision by a judge. andrew weissmann, formerly prosecutor and law investigation, who i speak to at this table in a moment, w
really important here is that the injunction, she says it applies just to criminal investigation. in fact, it would really hurt the dni, the declassification national security investigation, because they too are inseparable. for her to say, go for what they think that is important, but by the way, you cannot use agents, you can t use the grand jury, you can t interview witnesses, which you do as part of the criminal process, is to me unrealistic. through that and, she does say, yes, you can keep do your damage assessment of what this is done. the washington post reporter just before we came on air, if we have that headline, but i will read it off screen, material on foreign nation nuclear capabilities sees that trump s mar-a-lago goes on to describe the information as so closely hot, special access program compartmentalize, that basically only the president or cabinet level officials have the authority to read people into this.
crimes entitled 16, the regular criminal code, but there might be charges under the election code. obviously, by january 7th, the election was long over, but this notion that computers should not be breached or should not be used in a way that access personal information or copied without authority, those are basic principles that you see in many states, particularly georgia. so, it will become a question as to what evidence the fulton da can find as it relates to what has been reported publicly, and then she will make a decision as to whether she wants to wrap that into whatever case at the chi or the special grand jury will bring to the four with her report when they finished the investigation. we should also note that these kinds of breaches happen in other places around the country including in michigan for the firm cyber ninjas, which visited election building
where facts law, logical reasoning and precedent took place, have a pompous. here you have a decision that is just not tethered to the law. it s really intellectually dishonest. even in a representation of the facts, a good sign if the judge will play it straight, just ignore so many of the facts and skews everything in favor of donald trump. it s really hard to read this and say, this is an intellectually honest piece. obviously, there are trump -appointed judges that have done the right thing and made good decisions. this is disputing as a lawyer. the other part is this idea that trump is going to get on unequal justice. we saw that during the entire bar. we saw with michael flynn, with roger stone, this is another example of creating a rule that comes out and says it, which is that he is getting something that every single person, who is under investigation in the