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
we also have a hunch they doctored evidence to get the warrant. i know for a fact that president obama has classified access at one of his homes, those such documents exist there. he had a standing order, the word i have been looking forward, that documents removed from the oval office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. if he says a document is declassified or a set of them, that is it, there is no written material required. all of that was pure nonsense, all that has been knocked down. some of it knocked down in the filing, in fact. again, it did not stop donald trump from continuing the fact that this department with a frivolous court filing, asking for the special master. again, they wanted to make things more public, they asked for a special master, they were sort of waving the red flag at the bull. the red cape so, he has finally managed to go at the doj and to charging and metaphorically speaking, gore him, as they do i