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
fox news shows begin, with a fox news alert. we are reporting tonight on a missing person paid 79-year-old caucasian male identifies as who and huh, occasionally calls others jack. last seen in delaware. maybe the basement. wearing khakis, button-down, dark aviators, a mask dangling off his ear. carrying the nuclear football. he answers to the name of the comeback kid and the big guy, a.k.a. your president joe biden. also goes by scranton joe or brandon. if you really wanted his attention, you can say, hey, who want some ice cream come he ll come wandering around to your door. the media is searching for him high and low, mostly low. strange, considering just last week they told us that after a string of big wins, the president was on a roll, his stretch of bad luck was behind him, his poll numbers had hit rock bottom. like a line of parmesan cheese under hunter s nose, there was nowhere to go but up. [applause] via inflation reduction i was going to turn his presidency right
on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. john fetterman, his first tv interview since having a stroke. an update on his health, and how his campaign against trump back doctor oz is going. but we start this evening s broadcast with breaking news in the vesta geisha at mar-a-lago. the next phase of the battle between the justice department and donald trump will take place in a florida courtroom tomorrow. both sides will appear before a trump appointed judge ian mckinnon. she will be the one to decide whether to grant the former presidents plea for a special master to go through those documents that were seized in his florida home. just a few hours ago, his legal team filed its response to the department of justice s objections to having a third party review those documents, citing the need for, quote, independent attorney client privilege assessments and executive privilege determinations. in a court filing revealed at this very hour last night,
accused the fbi of planting evidence? well now trump admits the documents were stored in cartons. remember when trump s lawyer told the justice department that classified material had been returned? well, investigators found more. lots more. remember when trump s team insisted the documents were safely secured? well, his lawyer now admits the former president frequently had guests in an office where highly classified papers were found in his desk. and once again, he does not deny having them. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 1st. can you believe it? no, no i can t believe it. just like nobody can believe any of the excuses that have all been thrown around. i love yesterday, willie, his only argument is, not saying why he had the documents, not saying why he didn t return the documents, not saying why he lied to the fbi when they were asking for the documents, and they were moving them, and instead, he goes oh, oh, it s all a setup, they
every other american citizen in this situation. that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, we re going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursday s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump during the attack on the capitol. plus, a defendant without a defense? opening arguments in steve bannon s contempt trial get under way in a few hours, despite the judge dismissing almost all of bannon s legal options. meanwhile, senator lindsey graham is fighting a subpoena in georgia, but the court documents only refer to him as mr. graham. we ll explain why that s significant. dozens of deva