a criminal investigation? then, a surprise republican senate seat suddenly in trouble. mike please independent shawn who joins me live. plus, senator bernie sanders on why he says control of congress will come down to an economic message. and rebecca traced her on the campaign trail recovery of john fetterman, and a tv doctorate attacking him for his health. after having that stroke, i really understand, you know, much more of the challenges that americans have day in a day out. all in starts now. good evening from washington, d. c. i am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. whatever you think of the ex president and his brazen lies and his ludicrous lawyers and his alleged crimes, donald trump s strategy is kind of working. look, it s undeniably the case that he improperly took extremely classified documents it s that them at his florida home / resort. those documents reportedly even included nuclear secrets. some of the most closely guarded information the u.s. government
recuse himself for cases involving the ex president and january the 6th. and this latest appeal is no exception. earlier this month, thomas all the department of justice it had to file a formal response to trump s appeal. and the doj did so just a few hours ago. and that response the department of justice made it clear just how ridiculous it finds this entire process. quote, because trump has no plausible claim on ownership, of or privilege in the documents bearing classification markings. he will suffer no harm at all from the temporary stay of the special master s review of those materials, while the government appeal, or the government appeal proceeds. but as we have seen before, the merits of the doj s arguments may end up having very little impact on the justice thomas s ruling. because in this case, the law means whatever he says it means. let s be clear, the only reasons trump hasn t been indicted by now, is because he s the former presidents, and because he has handpicked adj
authoritarian threat for donald trump. he called on trump to leave the race after the access hollywood tape. he encouraged me in private discussions to run against president trump, and then of course, as you mention on election, day he voted for me. but since, then of course, he decided it was more advantageous to cater to the extremes and to get on board with the rise of extremism but i believe threatened and still believed threatened the country. and by the time 2020 rolled around, senator lee was willing to even sacrifice our constitution in his oath to it in order for him and his allies, donald trump and his other political allies to hold on to power, despite the will of the people. and he was trying to recruit people electors and overturn democracy. and that s one of the many reasons he needs to be replaced. in doing so, would you go as far as saying he violated his oath of office? he violate the constitution? he violated the law? i think he violated his oath, certainly. and i
that he improperly took extremely classified documents it s that them at his florida home / resort. those documents reportedly even included nuclear secrets. some of the most closely guarded information the u.s. government halt. and then trump lawyers apparently misled the government about the nature and number of those documents. none of that is really in question, but the thing, is this is an august and we are not talking and more about the classified documents scandal itself. instead, we re talking about the legal process by which the documents will be reviewed, which is what trump wants. today, the department of justice had to release a formal response to trump s own desperate appeal to the supreme court over those pilfered documents. we will get to that response in a moment. but, first i think it s worth taking a look at all the steps trump is taking to distract the public and the media and the democrats leading up to this latest development. after trump work shopped a number of o
prosecutor joins vance echoes on his the show last night. you are former prosecutor, if donald trump was not donald trump, if he was just an ordinary person, or former president, not trump, there would be no special master, no supreme court involvements, he would already be indicted by now, wouldn t? i think that s correct. in a new article for the atlantic. franklin for. that spent months attorney general merrick garland, comes to the conclusion that garland ultimately will indict donald trump. quote, that is what garland tried to emphatically explain over the past month. every time he s asked about the former president, he responds no one is above the law. he clearly gets frustrated that his answer fails to satisfy his doubters. i believe that his indictment of trump will prove that he means it. but if he doesn t indict trump? a lot of americans will be asking whether the rule of law still exists in this country. whether everyone is equal before the law. or whether some people