siphon votes away from the democrat and help elect a republican. and help potentially elect donald trump. if you go on their website, they suggest that they can get 37% of the popular vote. and 282 electoral votes. now, if you think that sounds a bit outlandish, they think they can win texas, florida, montana and illinois. that is delusional. the likelihood that that is going to happen is zero. they are spending millions and millions of dollars and all they are going to do is siphon votes, anti trump votes away from democrats. all, right, well nick is telling me we have to. go you have we ve got to the top of the. our i appreciate you both. all of you, in just a few, minutes we re going to unpack these two headlines, with the journalist who cowrote them. the first is about the former presidents attachment to his boxes. the other is what one person close to trump called an unforced error. trump rejected lawyers efforts to avoid indictment. here we, are a minute, late but
developments just coming in in the last 90 minutes or so, including the huge shake-up involving trump s defense team. about 90 minutes ago we learned two of his attorneys resigned. they were part of the team that met with jack smith on monday and trusty has been defending the former president on tv nearly every day since, including this morning. he will be represented by todd blanche. we learned trump is not the only one being charged. he has learned that his former valet is facing charges. he was a military valet in the white house. appearing to confirm a report in the wall street journal and remembered that he had come under scrutiny under shifting accounts of whether or not he had moved boxes of documents at the former president s urging. in the last hour, nbc news has confirmed that judge aileen cannon will be overseeing the case. it caused months of delay for prosecutors after the mar-a-lago search. decisions that were ultimately overturned in a scathing ruling by
is seeking to compel a lawyer for the former president to testify before the grand jury. according to a source familiar with the matter. prosecutors alleged in a sealed filing that they have evidence that some of trump s conversations with the attorney were in furtherance of a crime. the special counsel is reportedly asking a judge to invoke the crime fraud exception. and force an attorney to testify under oath about conversations between him and his client which in this case, would be evan corcoran and one donald trump. the new york times which was first to report the news at the special counsel is zeroing in on this quote, whether trump or his associates obstructed justice in failing to comply with demands to return a trove of government material he took with him from the white house upon leaving office, including hundreds of documents with classified markings. one potentially very important piece of evidence determining whether the ex-president or his attorneys obstructe
texas for a special edition of the readout, among my guests, the democratic nominee for texas governor, o rourke himself. he will be right here in texas with me. thank you all for tuning in tonight, chris a starts now. u all for tuning i tonight, chris a starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we start the show with my big, booming tonight all invoice. but tonight, i want to start by showing you some images from a voter drop box. it is a location in arizona, two people, to thugs addressed in tactical gear intimidating voters dropping off their early ballots. now, if you re trying to pull up these images, if you find these images, these individuals dressed in basically masks and bulletproof vests looking like they are out for a hunt or out to commit some crimes. if you finals him it is chilling or outrageous, or obviously an attempt at voter intimidation, then you are correct on all fronts. there is a significant contingent of people in this country whose br
voter drop box. it is a location in arizona, two people, to thugs addressed in tactical gear intimidating voters dropping off their early ballots. now, if you re trying to pull up these images, if you find these images, these individuals dressed in basically masks and bulletproof vests looking like they are out for a hunt or out to commit some crimes. if you finals him it is chilling or outrageous, or obviously an attempt at voter intimidation, then you are correct on all fronts. there is a significant contingent of people in this country whose brains have been poisoned by donald trump s big lie of a stolen election. that has become trump and his allies, they have pushed the completely invented idea that ballot boxes, particularly dropbox is where people go to bring their mail in ballots or their signed ballots, that they are inherently fraudulent tools used to steal the election away from donald trump and from the right and proper owners of this nation, which are of course t