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
the general across the river at the pentagon belong to him. they were my generals. these documents, they were my documents. the presidency, it is mine, i get to keep it. if i don t get to keep it, someone is doing it for me. this is a deranged, defective personality that is self destructed to the core, and we are watching himself to strike in realtime. yeah, and to that point, we just have him in the last hour essentially confessing, after all the running around, planting the documents and declassifying, he s posting that, well, they did not actually find all the stuff on the floor, they took them out of currents and spread them around the curb and making a big deal. in my office! here in the office, you just submitted it. george conway, thank you very much for your time tonight, appreciate it. he is guilty. yeah, it s hard not to think he is. up next, the justice department