government. so it s critically important stuff. there are all sorts of additional elements of top secret programs, sci is one of them. sap programs we were talking about earlier in the week, special assess programs are another and they all have requirements to be restricted so that people who don t have a need to know, who don t have the correct classification cannot see them. i don t see in the warrant any reference to s.a.p. or any reference to nuclear just in terms of addressing things that got a lot of press attention earlier in the week. you know, general, not lost on me is someone in your position had to undergo vetting just to get access to the type of documents that we re speaking of. and yet to get elected president of the united states, it s presumed that you re entitled to that level of access. yeah. your listeners probably don t know this, michael. when ever you go for a security clearance, no matter what level
been committed by the possession of classified materials, at mar-a-lago, to be blind to the fact that the home at which the classified documents may be put away in a safe, is an ex-president s home. we may just be learning the very first things that we will know from now forward, as your first words tonight made clear, we ve never done this before, but we may be learning the very first things there are to know about how merrick garland and lisa monaco view potential crimes committed by an ex-american president. what do you think will happen on the right in response to this news? we ve seen the statement from former president trump today, helpfully confirming that the fbi raid had occurred which made life easier for a lot of news organizations trying to confirm the initial reporting at that time and lashing out and using all of his specific and typical
0 2022 and they are going to google at the thought of what your life must be like. they will goggle at the thought of what it must be like to see something like this happening in your lifetime in realtime for the first time ever in american history, having no idea how it would how it would play out. nothing like this has ever happened before. and we don t know how it ends. tonight s news, that the fbi has raided the home of the immediate past-president of the united states, it feels both astonishing and sort of inevitable in equal measure. before republican president donald trump, we never before had a president impeached twice in a single term. we ve never had so many members of a president s own party vote not only to impeach him but to convict him and remove him from office and bar him from ever serving in office again. we have never before had a president reject the results of the election that did remove him from office, we never before had a president summon his followers into a
with every crime imaginable asha rangappa and chuck rosenberg on the consciousness of guilt jumping off the screen at these hearings and what the department of justice is doing about it. and how donald trump and his mob dusted off a pre-existing american script to try to pull off their insurrection when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. it did not seem like there could possibly be any secrets left, that there could be possibly be new have literally shocking details about the ex ex-president s plot to end american democracy. and yet, oh my, there is. yesterday s historic testimony from cassidy hutchison, and advisor, to chief of staff mark meadows, forced everyone to update their basic understanding of what it was we saw in the period leading up to and during the insurrection on january 6th, both for donald trump and the people who supported his attempts to end the peaceful transfer of power.
for a while, not knowing his career, would basically sooner rather die than be the person to prosecute the ex president of the united states, the first person to do that. been operating under the assumption that it is not going to happen. that s until last, week when we learned that federal investigators searched the home of jeffrey clark, a man who was essential to the plot to use the doj to overturn the election. law enforcement officials raided his house just before seven in the morning, according to one of his colleagues they put him in the streets in his pajamas and took his electronic vices. there are different ways that you can execute search warrants, but executing a search that includes putting a doj in player on the street in their p.j. s, again it happens every day in america, not isolated those types of folks. feels like the department of justice is playing hardball. former special agent in the fbi counterintelligence agent. editor of the national security