our hearts leslie. thank you for the laughs and for the light, for the love, and your incredible warmth. you will truly be missed. and on that beautiful and very sad note, i wish you all the best. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow so, here s how it worked in 2020. two years ago, almost exactly in october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic gigantic radio stations and the united states, that the michigan behemoth that is wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, on october, 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj, named sandra mcneill. sandra mcneill had gotten a tip fr
picked special master. this is really a put up or shut up moment for team trump. judge raymond dearie ordering the trump team to back up his out of court claims that the fbi somehow planted evidence during their search of mar-a-lago. back it up or put up or shut up as they say. the search that turned up more than 100 classified documents. the judge wants it to give him a sworn declaration with a list of specific items they claim were planted. that s the thing. this is about facts. it s about evidence. you can t just make wild accusations in court without a shred of evidence even if that is your main m.o. out in the court of maga opinion. the judge also considering testimony from, quote, witnesses with knowledge of the relevant facts and let s not forget the former president would have you believe he could declassify documents just by thinking about it, which is not a thing. senate republicans not buying that either. up here we take it very seriously. people can get hurt. pe
of can a special master get in there, we re gonna take a look at those talking, those were gonna have our legal team go over it. i love it, and i can t wait to see, it have a great show lawrence. thank you alex. well, a federal judge who in moscow joined the federalist society, an organization created to deliver right-wing judges to the federal judiciary. and, who is appointed as a federal judge in the final months of donald trump s presidency, today heard arguments in the case of donald j trump versus the united states of america. yes, that is never the case. donald j trump versus the united states of america. and that is the truth of the case. the federalist society, trump appointed shrub inch, we re in a two-hour meeting repeatedly asked justice department prosecutors what harm could there be in agreeing with donald trump s lawyers request to appoint a so-called special master, in the case, to examine some or all of the documents and records seized by the fbi with a se
and, who was appointed as a federal judge in the final months of donald trump s presidency, today heard arguments in the case of donald j trump versus the united states of america. yes, that is never the case. donald j trump versus the united states of america. and that is the truth of the case. the federalist society, trump appointed judge in a two hour hearing, asked in a two-hour meeting repeatedly asked justice department prosecutors what harm could there be in agreeing with donald trump s lawyers request to appoint a so-called special master, in the case, to examine some or all of the documents and records seized by the fbi with a search warrant of donald trump s home on august 8th. last week before the judge had heard a word of opposition from the justice department is, she but that s inclined, inclined to go along with what donald trump wants in this case. this is a judge who then knew absolutely nothing about the law governing presidential records. a judge who knew ab
justice department s opposition to a judge appointing a so-called special master to examine some of the government records seized by the fbi at donald trump s florida home. neal katyal, andrew weissmann, and matt miller will give us the expert analysis. the most important thing to keep in mind, the single most important thing to know about the trump lawyers filing tonight is that it does not say one word about something included in the justice department s filing last night. it could get some of the trump lawyers indicted for obstruction of justice. one of the very important pieces of evidence in the justice department s filing last night is a copy of an under oath affidavit written by one of the trump s lawyers, inside and signed by one of the other trump lawyers, swearing under oath on that day that at that moment they were handing over to the fbi and a federal prosecutor a trump s home, all of the government documents that were at donald trump s home at that time, everyt