attorney could be a very big deal. now i m gonna give you the best legal advice you re ever gonna get in your life. get a great effing defence lawyer, you re gonna need it. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye s
good evening from new york. i am chris hayes, and it is great to be back after two weeks of vacation with my family which was amazing. i want to send a huge thanks to charles braun, many house, and alyssa mudd and is for following him while i was away. it s august, first two weeks, you think would be slow. it turned out to be ludicrous sly eventful two weeks, and that is not slow down today. we have lots going on. we have more developments in the criminal investigations plural in donald trump and his associates including his former lawyer rudy giuliani who is now a target of the criminal probe into the alleged infection election interference in georgia. we will have more on that later in this hour. but i have to begin tonight of course with the aftershocks of the of the eye search of the ex presidents florida residents this last week. i ve been watching this as donald trump and his allies have desperately attempted to spin this story. the headline normally is like, fbi sear
removed from trump and. self he is scheduled to give testimony which he had fought in court as lindsey graham had as well, but he was gonna go on wednesday. the thinking now is that he will not given his criminal exposure. do we have any updates on a? i have heard from his legal team officially anna, i haven t heard. just seems that when you are a target relationship changes. his lawyers said they were just as surprised to learn this given that the da s office had called him immaterial witness up until this point. there is a big debate, because he had a medical procedure so he couldn t fly to georgia. they talked about busing down and there s a big fight about how to get him down to testify before the grand jury, but now maybe off the table. this seems in some ways the most acute present criminal threat to trump s inner circle that we have seen so far. obviously, mar-a-lago was
he was doing in georgia, if he was doing crimes as appears to be about the county da s office now thinks, he was doing them on donald trump s behalf right? right, and this was his role in this was multifaceted. he was spreading lies about what was happening in georgia, including the egregious worker lie that georgia election workers were hiding ballots. but he helped to assemble these false electors who themself receive target letters, but really giuliani did that in multiple states. he advised donald trump on january six itself, and he touches every aspect of the scheme and that wanted to be removed from trump and. self he is scheduled to give testimony which he had fought in court as lindsey graham had as well, but he was gonna go on wednesday. the thinking now is that he will not given his criminal exposure. do we have any updates on a? i have heard from his legal team officially anna, i haven t heard. just seems that when you are a target relationship changes.