but at least they have, like, i don t know it s nicer there generally. what a day. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. tonight we have new reporting which confirms something that up to this point we d only suspected. former president donald trump is officially a target of the criminal investigation of alleged mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. that news reported first today by the guardian. multiple outlets are now reporting federal prosecutors notified trump in a letter that he is the target. now, nbc news has not independently verified those reports, but donald trump is the person who allegedly took those classified documents from the white house and then refused to comply with the justice department s order to return them. so if anyone in this case is going to be targeted for potential criminal charges, it is probably donald trump. for his part trump today posted a caps lock-heavy statement arguing being the target of an invest
irrigating power to, who are taking power from. plain as day. also this gaslighting effect. to me, the most important historical precedent for this, every american history is to understand, the reason the 14th amendment is the way it is, the reason the voting rights act is this was the way that jim crow happened. they said, we just want voters to be literate, so we re giving literacy tests. what are you talking about? obviously it s not about race. they say that because the 14th minute was in the constitution. pretextual legal-ism, used as a means of essentially just right democracy, is as old as the aftermath of the civil war. andrew morantz, who s piece in the new yorker is absolutely must read. thanks so much. thank you. that is all in on this wednesday night, alex wagner tonight starts right now, good of the country might be like you guys are really obsessed with this and fair. but it really feels bad out there today. and also gives context with what california and the no