alleged nazi sympathizer who became an alleged marga murder for january six. plus, one of trump s fake electors caught on tape as she escorts data breaches into a county office in georgia. and how invalidating 2020 became a litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president knew the everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. bush
and how invalidating 2020 became a rhino litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president nearly everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. bush official cause the ruling, quote, a generally unprecedented decision by a judge. andrew weissmann, formerly prosecutor and law investigation, who i speak to at this table in a moment, w
really important here is that the injunction, she says it applies just to criminal investigation. in fact, it would really hurt the dni, the declassification national security investigation, because they too are inseparable. for her to say, go for what they think that is important, but by the way, you cannot use agents, you can t use the grand jury, you can t interview witnesses, which you do as part of the criminal process, is to me unrealistic. through that and, she does say, yes, you can keep do your damage assessment of what this is done. the washington post reporter just before we came on air, if we have that headline, but i will read it off screen, material on foreign nation nuclear capabilities sees that trump s mar-a-lago goes on to describe the information as so closely hot, special access program compartmentalize, that basically only the president or cabinet level officials have the authority to read people into this.
because the two are inseparable. for her to say, go for what they think that is important, but by the way, you cannot use agents, you can t use the grand jury, you can t interview witnesses, which you do as part of the criminal process, is to me unrealistic. through that and, she does say, yes, you can keep do your damage assessment of what this has done. the washington post reporter just before we came on air, if we have that headline, but i will read it off screen, material on foreign nation nuclear capabilities seized at trump s mar-a-lago goes on to describe the information as so closely held, special access program compartmentalize, that basically only the president or cabinet level officials have the authority to read people into this. this is like the details of a foreign nation s nuclear capabilities, were in the documents taken in the raid, according to the washington post, highlights the sensitivity of what we are talking about here. i have seen those things