tonight on all in. i have the right to take stuff, i have the right to look at stuff. the ex president caught on tape bragging about classified documents. tonight, the increasingly strong case against trump and the timeline of the investigation. then, as his lawyers lineup to defend him. if you have the authority to declassify you are not there is new trouble on team trump. plus, how joe manchin s pet pipeline project just got expedited from the debt bill. the president s former chief of staff on that deal in the latest mcgovern from republicans trying to investigate joe biden. let s put it this way that there, there s accusations. it s not for me to make a judgment about one of these accusations if they are accurate or not. all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. the evidence is piling up in the special counsel s investigation into trump s mishandling of classified documents and the subsequent attempt to obstruct every inquiry
by president biden. not the headline there going for. but republicans of soldiered on trying to find any evidence of anything. and now they are threatening to hold fbi director in contempt of congress for not blindly handing over confidential document that includes unsubstantiated claims from so-called informant about biden and his family. republicans can t even find these documents. they re saying the informant himself, the person who made the accusations, is missing. instead they want the fbi to publicly release whatever unsubstantiated claims are in that document. people have actually read the document, like senator chuck grassley and they readily admit that republicans really just don t care if these wild claims are true or not. we aren t interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president biden or accurate or not. senator, how damning is this document to the sitting u.s.
essentially admitting that he had classified documents and that, crucially, he knew they were still classified. and that evidence, apparently nadia recording, is just one of many, frankly damning facts the ex president has had to face over the last two years. when you look at exactly how this case unfolded in it s totality it s easy to get lost in the weeds. it is almost, i don t know, comical. just how many times the national archives and the department of justice tried to get documents from donald trump. and how many times does donald trump attend attempted to obstruct our efforts to do so. because i sent this case may be reaching a crescendo i m going to take you through that timeline because it really does illustrate the point step-by-step. we look at the big picture, trumps criminality becomes pretty obvious. so donald trump leaves office in late january 2021, he moves permanently into his retirement
what he was talking about. you can choose. but this is what the fbi said to you. f t 10:23 form is used by fbi agents to record unverified reporting by confidential source. documenting the information does not validate it, establish its credibility, or weighed against other information verified with the fbi. between that statement and the way chuck grassley responded i m not getting the vibe from anyone involved in this document that they are giving it much credibility. it s just a useful narrative device from the investigation. exactly. these are the exact headlines that james comer once, especially as he simultaneously struggles to actually present any substantive evidence that directly ties joe biden to some of the evidence that they have, will be able to scrounge up. it least raise questions about the biden family s business dealings. but christopher wray did offer
investigation. then, as his lawyers lineup to defend him. if you have the authority to declassify you are not there is new trouble on team trump. plus, how joe manchin s pet pipeline project just got expedited from the debt bill. the president s former chief of staff on that deal in the latest mcgovern from republicans trying to investigate joe biden. let s put it this way that there, there s accusations. it s not for me to make a judgment about one of these accusations if they are accurate or not. all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. the evidence is piling up in the special counsel s investigation into trump s mishandling of classified documents and the subsequent attempt to obstruct every inquiry. today, nbc news confirming that special counsel s office has acquired audio of trump