get out there and vote, by the storm. absolutely. it is a critical race to b watching congressman, congresswoman gwe moore and michelle goldber thank you. and that is tonight reidout. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in - if the president wa reluctant, would you put him o the stand? it s a bad idea for trump because he lacks self control. the former presiden descends the golden air stairs landing in new york for hi surrendered justice, as ne evidence and the documents cas keeps on coming. i can t imagine you ever say, bring these boxes that w brought back from the whit house, i d like to look at them did you ever do that i don t have the right to d that there s nothing wrong with it. tonight, congressman adam schiff on the eve of trump s first court appearance plus, the timeline for finding out what s actually in the charges, and why the publicity seeking ex president is arguin against cameras and court. and why jack smith subpoenas for
surrendered justice, as ne evidence and the documents cas keeps on coming. i can t imagine you ever say, bring these boxes that w brought back from the whit house, i d like to look at them did you ever do that i don t have the right to d that there s nothing wrong with it. tonight, congressman adam schiff on the eve of trump s first court appearance plus, the timeline for finding out what s actually in the charges, and why the publicity seeking ex president is arguin against cameras and court. and why jack smith subpoenas for the secret service could b the clearest sign yet that mor charges are coming when all in starts righ now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes right now, donald trump is bac in new york city, just a few blocks from here, in fact. he is spending the night a trump tower ahead of his arraignment on criminal charge tomorrow afternoon this afternoon in a surrea spectacle, vaguely reminiscent of the infamous og simpson bronco case, we g
fitton is part equal watch we do not know which grand jury tom fitton who s a close trump ally appeared in today that s because tom fitton has interests with both specia tom fitton drafted a statement for president trump declaring how he won the election though he hadn t won the election yet. the draft statement which was sent on october 31st declares we had an election today and i won. and the fitton memo specifically indicates a plan that only the votes counted by the election dayhe deadline and there is no election day deadline would matter. an election day just after 5:00 p.m. mr. fitton indicated he spoke with the president about the statement. tom fitton actually suggested trump could claim victory by saying he won all the votes counted by a made up election day deadline and ignore all the other ballots, which is on the mar-a-lago front cnn reported it was tom fitton in trump s ear saying you can keep all the documents, they re yours, you own them. which turns out
that they ve been restricted from using, in their ongoing criminal probe into these classified documents, that were seized from mar-a-lago last month. the appeals court is saying here, they are really agreeing with the justice department, saying that yes, in fact, national security could be harmed if the justice department can t continue its probe here. they set the doj has argued that the criminal investigation, and then national security investment is inextricably linked. the appeals court saying, yes, in fact, if we don t let the doj continue to use these classified documents, there will be real and significant harm on the united states and the public. notably, in this opinion as well, anderson, the 11th circuit is really faulting trump s lawyers, for not better explaining what seems to be their argument, the trump may be declassified [inaudible] his lawyers, his allies, but they ve not offered any proof in court filings or in-person. so the 11 circuit tonight criticizin
wanted to order the doj to prosecute his enemies. hillary clinton and james comey. that of course failed fantastically what his white house counsel refused the request. so, once out of office trump took matters in his own hand. in march, trump sued hillary clinton, the democratic national committee, james comey and a whole host of other characters. accusing them of being part of a conspiracy against him. in what he refers to as the trump russia conspiracy. this is all circa 2016. all of these people, according to, trump made up evidence against him in an attempt to deny him to russia hillary clinton and her, quo cohorts, orchestrated in unthinkable plot. trump sought $24 million in damages. that s not an insignificant amount of money. and he chose to file that lawsuit roughly 70 miles from his palm beach home, because the judge presiding in that jurisdiction just so happen to be his appointee. that judge whom we all come to know very well over the past few weeks, of course,