but at least they have, like, i don t know it s nicer there generally. what a day. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. tonight we have new reporting which confirms something that up to this point we d only suspected. former president donald trump is officially a target of the criminal investigation of alleged mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. that news reported first today by the guardian. multiple outlets are now reporting federal prosecutors notified trump in a letter that he is the target. now, nbc news has not independently verified those reports, but donald trump is the person who allegedly took those classified documents from the white house and then refused to comply with the justice department s order to return them. so if anyone in this case is going to be targeted for potential criminal charges, it is probably donald trump. for his part trump today posted a caps lock-heavy statement arguing being the target of an invest
right now. tonight on all in. we are prepared to take this fight into the court, and if need be taken to the supreme court of united states. pence fights to keep quiet as especial council moves to compel testimony from trump lawyers. tonight andrew weizmann on the big pieces in the trump investigation as we await new details from fulton county. then it is a legal pot legal ponzi scheme. republicans keep attacking social security as the president gets a new ally in the fight to preserve it. plus, as nikki haley makes it official, mitt romney s urgent warning about trump s cap on the nomination, and congressman jamie raskin wants answers about jared kushner s massive payday from the southeast saudis. he s here to talk about it when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. tonight we ve got a lot of news surrounding the various legal cases in smearing donald trump. first, context. it often feels like the investigation into the january six
late breaking, news special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed former president donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith and vesta geisha and into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. now i should say this as according to a single source, and it s being reported by cnn, and we see has not independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for documents and testimony sometime in january. this comes just one week after we learned the special counsel smith subpoenaed trump s former vice president mike pence. clearly, things are heating up. beyond the fact that subpoena of the former presidents chief of staff is a huge deal on its own, mark meadows in particular is quite a potential witness. meadows was involved in the infamous phone call between trump and georgia secretary of state brian rat in which he pressured raffensperger to find 11,780 votes. meadows was in the over office with trump for a
but i think probably one of the things special counsel counsel is thinking right now the presidential campaign is getting further and further along. the department wants to act as far along as possible so as not to interfere in the election. i think he probably feels and should feel a sense of urgency. he seems to be moving with great speed. can i get your reaction to the fact that mark meadows we have reporting mark meadows has testified to a grand jury on both the mar-a-lago investigation and the january 6th probe. you know, he is one of those key witnesses that has relevant evidence i m sure on both of those investigations. we in the january 6th committee had serious questions we never really got answered about classified documents that were brought to the white house that he was knowing of. we don t know exactly what happened to some of those documents, so he s a potential key witness in both
investigations. meadows has been all over the map at times willing to cooperate, at times trying to thwart cooperation. who knows sort of what his attitude was when he was brought before the grand jury, but but i would hope that special counsel given the more powerful tools they have to get answers, got answers from mark meadows. do you thinkhy might be a cooperating witness at this point given the fact he has been as you point out all over the map on this and largely quiet and not on trump s radar the last several weeks? it s certainly possible. you know, like so many of these people, they don t have any core convictions. there s no ethical compass. there s no fixed ideology. they don t really stand for anything, and so this is why trump has found it so difficult to get loyalty from these people. first of all, trump shows no loyalty to the people who serve him. he chews them up and spits them out. but people like meadows, you