threatens the fbi in court documents and his supporters work up new excuses. every former president has access to other documents that s how they write the war memoirs. plus new reporting on the most powerful man in american politics the never heard of. as planned to spend 1.6 billion dollars from single conservative donor, and 78 days into the midterms, what mitch mcconnell s concerns about candidate quality a reading their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s batter. so when china gets our good air, their batter got to move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump is finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly the, attempts here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special ma
candidate quality are rearing their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s bad air. so when china gets our good air, their bad air gotta move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump has finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly, the attempt here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special master. that s one who goes through and looks at the documents and sees if any are covered by executive privilege. that in itself does make a ton of sense. nevertheless, lots of legal observers say this all may be too little, too late. the case will be heard by judge aileen cannon who was appointed by trump, supported by far-right florida senator rick scott, before being confirmed in the lame du
opposite auspices many of the people who started the federalist society. has many hats, he doesn t really tell all that he does but i know enough to know the man is a force of nature. it s great to have you here today. well thank you. you know leonard, since you re the number three most pro powerful person in the world [laughs] right, god help us. god help us. now in context, that s a tongue-in-cheek joke but only half joke. now get this, the same guy leonard leo who is one of the most powerful people in the world, who operates largely out of the spotlight, he has now been handed 1.6 billion dollars in one of the largest single political donations and look to further his right-wing agenda. the details of the story are shocking. we ll talk to one of the reporters who dug it up.
person in the circles as leonard leo. they re happy for event. he s a vice president of the federal society whose mission he once described as creating a kind of conservative pipeline to take over the ports. leo has referred to himself as quote a leader of the conservative legal movement and he s not wrong. he has played a key role in putting all six of the current conservative justices on the supreme court. clarence thomas semi leader brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett and one other. in 1990 leo game his career as a clerk for a judge in u.s. court of appeals in washington, d.c. where he met and became close friends with an apology and clarence thomas. the following year leo was hired as one of the first paid employees of the federal society, although he delayed his start there to help thomas through his supreme court nomination. the washington post puts it in a 2018 piece, at the federalist
again thanks to basically the jurors prudence that came from out of citizen united and subsequent holdings by this court, to do whatever you want in any kind of political campaign or, essentially entirely unregulated fashion? yeah, i mean, there are some rules that say that these nonprofit groups have to be engaged primarily in social welfare activities. but what that means, what s social welfare activities means and what primarily means are very much open to interpretation and inspire political lawyers, including those are paid by this group, leonard leo works closely with them, they have found ways to spend a lot of money on, you know things that look, you know from the lab perspective, like they are just political advertising or political advocacy. and it is all we should say tax subsidized, right? there is an enormous tax saving here. but these are essentially subsidized by the federal government which does not tax