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
it s an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration. but thanks to this, again, sort of odd series of things happening all at once in the early 70s, the vice president, spiro agnew, maybe going to prison, the president, richard nixon, making being removed from office against his will by impeachment. thanks to those things coming together all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people, in our infinite wisdom, thought it would be a good idea to elect guys that crimy to the white house, twice, thanks to that mess around nixon and agnew, the justice department in the early 70s h 70s 70s, that it was the policy not to bring criminal charges against a sitting president of the united states. that sni like an important landmark moment foran the nixon years. it s never a good sign when your presidency is so crimey, it forces eve
and done. but it is really a strange spectacle. i have to say. charles blow, thank you as always for joining us. appreciate it. absolutely. that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening, rachel. good evening, chris. thank you my oo evenin. muchg, rachel. appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to havein you here. through an odd series of events surrounding the profoundly, profoundly criminal presidency of richard nixon and the really, really, really criminal vice presidency of nixon s vice president, spiro agnew, through an odd confluence of events, in the early 1970s, the u.s. justice department kind of bumbled its way into stating for itself, putting into writing, a new rule. this is a rule that wasn t in the constitution in any way.