it is so important to control the senate is so important. we re gonna have senator maggie hassan on. she is running against a very strange republican repugnant in new hampshire. katie hobbs will join us. the candidate for governor in arizona, where it s possible, if she doesn t win, arizona might never again have a fair election. the republican candidate for governor, for secretary of state, for attorney general, all say donald trump won the last presidential election. i think it s important to underscore that these in many cases women are the last frontier between the country and a precipice of election denialism. these are not just republican candidates. don bold, i carry lake, these people are a new strain of conservative, and it gives conservativism a bad name, but this is really, they are the gatekeepers between democracy and chaos in a lot of respects, so paying attention to these candidates and listening to what the democrats have to say about the races is critical,
those who are impacted by that hurricane as we get through this. and on that note, i wish all of you a very good and safe tonight. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow we have a lot to get to. today, right thing alex jones was ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars in damages for the extraordinary vicious lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre. in just a few minutes, we will be joined by the lawyer who won that case for the sandy hook families. we will also be talking to the democratic nominee for u.s. senate from north carolina. her races super close, and it s one of a handful of contests that could determine senate control. national democrats understand that, and are making a huge last-minute investment in their candidacy. she will join us live a little bit later on in the show. first, we have breaking news tonight of donald trump s mar-a-lago document sca
candidates. don bolduc, kari lake, these people are a new strain of conservative, and it gives conservativism a bad name, but this is really, they are the gatekeepers between democracy and chaos in a lot of respects, so paying attention to these candidates and listening to what the democrats have to say about the races is critical, with just 27 days to go. we really have to have as many candidates on as we can. can t wait to see it. thanks alex. i want to begin tonight with a pledge to you, the audience of this program, this is a serious pledge, that i will fully present and analyze any evidence that emerges to indicate that donald j trump might not be guilty of obstruction of justice and violating the espionage act. but so far, no such evidence has emerged in any way. donald trump s lawyers have offered no hint of a defense to the potential criminal charges of violating the espionage act. and in the breaking news of the night, the evidence has taken a turn that could b
they ve uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations. i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan law school, donelle works as a senior policy researcher at the rand corporation, katie benner is the justice department reporter for the new york times. donel, you ve been watching this unfold. could simple incompetence explain what happened here. at worst it s a conspiracy, at best incompetence. this is unconscionable to find that some of the evidence of a crime, and this wasn t a small crime, a large crime that happened at the capitol. any evidence should have been secured. the secret servi
Classified documents created by members of the intelligence and military presented to the president of the United States during his term in office were purely private. And that trump himself didnt even raise this defense until more than a year after he left the white house. Decide now and give us enough time to appeal. Smiths team is pleading. After all, the president ial records act isnt even what prosecutors have charged him with violating. Its the Espionage Act. Judge Aileen Cannon has yet to respond, but as we wait, what might jack smiths team really be getting at. Former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, charles coleman, and legal correspondent, lisa rubin. This was a biting moment from jack smiths team, and it went further than any other legal filing that weve seen from anymore in regards directly to judge Aileen Cannons own decisions. And the frustration almost leaps off the page. I want to give you and our viewers context, we are dealing with a judge who has left undecided a