good evening from washington. i m michael steele in for chris hayes and there s a lot to get to tonight. including some really big developments in the many criminal investigations into donald trump, but i need to start with a question for today s republican party. what the hell is wrong with you? today s house maga republicans took an official party leadership sanctions field trip to visit the january six insurrectionists who they call political prisoners. this is just one step and exposing what s going on, making sure that we have the right information and really listening to our constituents. we hear about the jails regularly when we go back home and the american people are very concerned about some of the folks who are here. so we re listening to them and hear on their behalf. congresswoman, i hate to break it to you, but you don t have the right information. if you think the american people want you to waste your energy on the violent insurrectionists mob. in fact,
in the room. in the room with donald trump, in so many conversations. we knew that from the public hearings we ve heard from witnesses from the january six committee. but what prosecutors typically do, they move up the food chain of evidence, and that food chain is usually the food chain of people who are hired, hire you are in position, the more likely you are to be towards the end of the investigation, not the beginning. and there s nothing surprising about the fact that he was required to do this. because that executive privilege claim was so ridiculous. cynthia, talking about moving up the chain here, you ve got trump s lawyer, ever corcoran, appearing in court today under an order from a judge, and after that judge said he had to answer questions about trump under the crime called exception, help us understand the context here, how it relates to the classified document case?