plus what we know from the doj filing about who asked me have legal exposure. they don t have anything. there is just nothing there. and the legal, political and moral implications of a potential decision to indict the 45th president. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it is a pm eastern, and we just hit the deadline for donald trump s legal team to respond to the department of justice filing that just passed. it looked like it just came in. we will monitor it, that you know, what it is and what it says. honestly, what it says is a little bit of a sideshow at this point, because the one thing we know for sure is that the department of justice is not messing around. they are not messing around with their investigation into classified documents that donald trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of a legal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it came in the form of this 36 page court filing. no, th
s legal team to respond to the department of justice filing and we are letting you know what it is and what it says. and what it says is a little bit of a sideshow at this point. the one thing we know for sure is that the department of justice is not messing around. they are not messing around with their investigation into the classified documents that phone trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of illegal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it came in the form of this 36 page court filing. now that court filing is a response to trump s request for an independent special master, someone who would come from mar-a-lago, looking for privileged documents separating them up. the doj did not really have to respond at such length and they said we have already gone through the review. they said they have already gone through the details. they chose to even file for extra room to get the page limit from 20 to 40 pages and file this big 36-page
classification confidential, secret and top secret, top secret being the highest, where information, if disclosed, improperly, can result in exceptionally grave damage to u.s. national security. those are the only three levels a classification. there are compartments and controls that reflect additional sensitivity surrounding sources and methods used to collect the intelligence information of the documents affixed to these cover sheets and some of these documents found have other markings, like a c i, which is compartmentalize information, or hcs, signifying human information collected by human assets of intelligence agency, most likely the cia. let s hit that one right there, which we highlighted, secret sci, special compartmented information, hcs which is some kind of human intelligence. what is the p.s. i t k. those are other compartments. honestly, i don t remember what p is.
markings, like a c i, which is compartmentalize information, or hcs, signifying human information collected by human assets of intelligence agency, most likely the cia. let s hit that one right there, which we highlighted, secrecy eye, which is special compartmentalize information, hcs which is some kind of human intelligence. what is the pbs idk? those are other compartments. honestly, i don t remember what p is. as i typically spends four signal intelligence. another department, decades ago, when i was at the agency, referred to imagery collection platform. suffice to say, it is a collection platform, the parts of which have no reason to be in the private home of a former government employee. the top secure sci, which is the other one, the highs, we also saw that. there are those in the background. there is that top tier as the