threatens the fbi in court documents and his supporters work up new excuses. every former president has access to other documents that s how they write the war memoirs. plus new reporting on the most powerful man in american politics the never heard of. as planned to spend 1.6 billion dollars from single conservative donor, and 78 days into the midterms, what mitch mcconnell s concerns about candidate quality a reading their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s batter. so when china gets our good air, their batter got to move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump is finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly the, attempts here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special ma
candidate quality are rearing their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s bad air. so when china gets our good air, their bad air gotta move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump has finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly, the attempt here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special master. that s one who goes through and looks at the documents and sees if any are covered by executive privilege. that in itself does make a ton of sense. nevertheless, lots of legal observers say this all may be too little, too late. the case will be heard by judge aileen cannon who was appointed by trump, supported by far-right florida senator rick scott, before being confirmed in the lame du
clarence thomas, john roberts, samuel alito, brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett and neil gorsuch. in 1990 leo began his career as a clerk for a judge in u.s. court of appeals in washington, d. c. where he met and became close friends with clarence thomas. the following year leo was hired as one of the first paid employees of the federal society, although he delayed his start there to help thomas through his supreme court nomination. the washington post puts it in a 2018 piece. quote at the federalist society, leo took a leading role in the conservative legal movement, part of bridging effort to counter the influence of the 1960s and liberals and education, law and politics. that effort ramped up when george w. bush was elected. leo became an outside adviser to the bush white house on judicial nominations. he organized the campaigns around john roberts and samuel alito s nominations to the court both of which of course were successful. during the bush years leonard leo also developed
society, leo took a leading role in the conservative legal movement, part of bridging effort to counter the influence of the 1960s and liberals and education, law and politics. that effort wrapped up when george w. bush was elected. legal became an outside adviser to the bush white house on judicial nominations. he organized the campaigns around john roberts and samuel alito s nominations to the court both of which of course were successful. during the bush years leonard leal also developed a reputation, a well earned one as a conservative money man as the post reports. he expanded that role even after president obama took office, especially in the wake of the 2010s citizens united ruling which opened the door for unlimited corporate spending. course, the irony being that leonard leo helped bring about that awful ruling by putting several conservatives who voted for on the court itself. he was then in a position to reap the rewards by doing a lot of fund raising through these new chann
precedents, on judicial nominations, they themselves set, democrats now want to set another one. now i have no doubt that if they do, they will come to regret that one as well. jon: mitch mcconnell there talking about democratic proposal to change the rules of the senate to make it easier for, whichever party holds the majority, no matter how slim that majority is, to pass law, or to pass bills through the senate. i have all the respect in the world for mitch mcconnell and he is great leader this is what liberals do. their message is simple and it is concise and it is not a party of division. liberals are great communicators. we as republicans get caught up in the weeds of policy. what we need to do is go out there and break it down in layman s terms to the common man. i really believe, jon, that the gop has a grand opportunity to bring the youth vote together, women, blacks and latinos because these were folks that supported democratic agenda.