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
candidate quality are rearing their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s bad air. so when china gets our good air, their bad air gotta 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 has finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly, the attempt 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 master. that s one who goes through and looks at the documents and sees if any are covered by executive privilege. that in itself does make a ton of sense. nevertheless, lots of legal observers say this all may be too little, too late. the case will be heard by judge aileen cannon who was appointed by trump, supported by far-right florida senator rick scott, before being confirmed in the lame du
again thanks to basically the jurors prudence that came from out of citizen united and subsequent holdings by this court, to do whatever you want in any kind of political campaign or, essentially entirely unregulated fashion? yeah, i mean, there are some rules that say that these nonprofit groups have to be engaged primarily in social welfare activities. but what that means, what s social welfare activities means and what primarily means are very much open to interpretation and inspire political lawyers, including those are paid by this group, leonard leo works closely with them, they have found ways to spend a lot of money on, you know things that look, you know from the lab perspective, like they are just political advertising or political advocacy. and it is all we should say tax subsidized, right? there is an enormous tax saving here. but these are essentially subsidized by the federal government which does not tax
that it received 100 percent of the shares of a company, it didn t identify with the company was. that it reaped 1. 6 billion dollars from selling the shares of the company. so through our reporting, we were able to determine with that company was and who the owner was, when a little bit more about leonard leo s relationship with this donor, the owner of the company. and just to be clear, again, now this money is sitting there, presumably, and can be used again thanks to basically the jurisprudence that came from out of citizen united and subsequent holdings by this court, to do whatever you want in any kind of political campaign or, essentially entirely unregulated fashion? yeah, i mean, there are some rules that say that these nonprofit groups have to be engaged primarily in social welfare activities. but what that means, what s social welfare activities means and what primarily means are very much open to