alleged nazi sympathizer who became an alleged marga murder for january six. plus, one of trump s fake electors caught on tape as she escorts data breaches into a county office in georgia. and how invalidating 2020 became a litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president knew the everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. bush
nuclear secrets at his winter home and alex, let s remember, it is winter home. he hasn t been there since like maybe april or something? may, as soon as it got a little too hot. so he has left them alone in the house that he abandons for the season, until the fall s. you know most people who have that second home page, when they close up, and they move to the other home for the season, they tend to take the nuclear secrets with them. they pack up the perishable, the home, the pets, the kids if they have them, and then nuclear secrets. yeah. and also lawrence, may i just add to that, of course on a troubled when treating inexorably, or truth social-ing incessantly that there have been no nuclear, at, all whatsoever, total hoax, for the last several weeks. and now as it turns out, indeed there was nuclear. but with donald trump ups and downs down is up, nuclear service up along in the scif stay in your closet. we look forward to his defense about the luscious talk ab
people, re-directed to fund speeches by a former football star. those speeches never even happened. plus, an emotional day in uvalde, texas, as students return to school for the first time since the massacre, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin with major breaking news in the justice departments investigation into those documents seized at former presidents florida club. the washington post reports, they included highly classified information about a foreign government s nuclear program. quote, a document described a foreign governments military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was fined by fbi agents who searched the former presidents private club last month. according to people familiar with the matter. they detailed top secret we operation, so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. earlier, one of the officials who broke the story
from nbc news on how some republican senate candidates are looking to turn the page in a fall starting with a major ad blitz. that comes as for the first time ever voters seem lukewarm, the ones who are lukewarm on sitting president joe biden, still plan to vote for his party in november. and we ve been saying this for some time between the president s approval ratings and the generic ballot tests, joe biden is now in the mid-40s according to gallop and other polls. we ll talk about that. and longtime trump ally steve bannon expects to be charged in a state criminal case again? stemming into an investigation into his role in a charity that was supposed to have used private funds to build the wall of the u.s./mexico border. but didn t do it and isn t that really what donald trump did lying about the stop the steal money, where he got hundreds of millions of dollars and lied about the money being used for that again, here s another example, here s another parall
for a rematch. and we begin this hour with tropical storm ian, and that s churning in the caribbean and getting stronger as it heads north towards cuba. now, ian, is expected to reach hurricane status monday before hitting western cuba. officials say they re expecting strong winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surges. now, ian then expected to turn into a major hurricane tuesday and forecast to hit the florida coast some time later this week. now, people in florida as you can imagine already preparing for ian. florida s governor has activated 2,500 national guard troops. tampa residents, meantime, are filling sandbags you see them there to try and prevent that flooding. and emergency management officials preparing for storm surges. we are loading and by the day we would have loaded 360 trailers and more than 2 million meals and more than 1 million gallons of water ready to be sent into impacted areas. you need to be prepared for sheltering in place. you may lose po