the january 6th investigation later this hour. but we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economic and historical trends that could she should favor public, and this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected. thanks in large part to republican extremism and states across the country. from the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade and subsequent state abortion bans, to election denialism, to a cruel political stunt using s a silent seekers, to book bans and censorship in the classrooms, republicans are executing on a radical agenda. those efforts are being led by red state governors. governors like texas greg abbott in florida is ron desantis. men who are pushing this extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to inherit trump s mantles as leaders in the next generation of republican presidential hopefuls. on the
donald j trump versus united states of america issued a new order in the case because what a special master raymond dearie thought the trump lawyers could do in a day, last week, they still have not done. judge dearie s order says, in light of delays in retaining a vendor to digitize the seized materials, plaintive trump deadline for submitting a declaration affidavit in response to the governments revised inventory is extended to october 7th, 2022. that appears to me that the trump lawyers in confidence and trying to hire a company that would digitize and organize the 11,000 documents seized by the fbi has brought them, bought them in effect, one week extension or so, of the deadline when the trump lawyers will then have to respond to the justice department filing and updated inventory of what was seized. but it is actually worse than that. worse than just a lawyer incompetence. what judge dearie s order did not review about the delay in hiring evander, was revealed tonight
but we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economic and historical trends that could she should favor public, and this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected. thanks in large part to republican extremism and states across the country. from the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade and subsequent state abortion bans, to election denialism, to a cruel political stunt using s a asylulm seekers, to book bans and censorship in the classrooms, republicans are executing on a radical agenda. those efforts are being led by red state governors. governors like texas greg abbott and florida s ron desantis. men who are pushing this extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to inherit trump s mantles as leaders in the next generation of republican presidential hopefuls. on the other side of that fight our handful of democ
special master raymond dearie thought the trump lawyers could do in a day, last week, they still have not done. judge dearie s order says, in light of delays in retaining a vendor to digitize the seized materials, plaintive trump deadline for submitting a declaration affidavit in response to the governments revised inventory is extended to october 7th, 2022. that appears to mean that the trump lawyers incompetence in trying to hire a company that would digitize and organize the 11,000 documents seized by the fbi has brought them, bought them in effect, one week extension or so, of the deadline when the trump lawyers will then have to respond to the justice department s filing and updated inventory of what was seized. but it is actually worse than that. worse than just lawyer incompetence. what judge dearie s order did not review about the delay in hiring evander, was revealed tonight in a late filing in the case by the justice department, which says, quote, plaintive trump in
but this is the big question that november s gonna turn, on right, whether those two things are enough to offset republican advantages in other areas. michelle goldberg, great column. thank you so much telling us about it. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts the night. good evening, alex. t starts evening, chris. i love seeing michelle goldberg on this. that i could not look at her what she was doing that segment. but we are thrilled that she s here in the same room as us. have a great night. you. two thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have a lot to get to tonight. including a major category three hurricane currently barreling towards the state of florida. as we prepare to see what type of toll that might take on floridians, the january six committee has postponed its next hearing which was set to take place tomorrow. the committee tweeted earlier today that in light of hurricane ian bearing down on parts of florida, we have decided t