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
joins us now, elena, this is good news for mitch mcconnell. what more do we know about his health? it is great news, so we just received this statement at the top of the hour from mitch mcconnell himself, which i should note is noteworthy. so far, all the statements we ve received from o connor rolled since he fell earlier this month have been from his communications director. but this was from him himself, and he said that he is out of he s in good health. he s feeling good. he s out of the inpatient rehab facility. and he, um is looking forward to getting back to the senate as soon as he can. now i spoke with one of his advisers this evening after the statement, and they told me that they do not expect him to return to the senate immediately. he s still going to be working from home, but that they hope he can come back soon. he s not expected to come back before the senate breaks for their two week recess later this week, and now here s the statement it reads. um the semen from mitch
question today, southern florida district judge, aileen cannon, comes in. she s got an unremarkable resume for a conservative judge. she is a lifelong member of the conservative fellow society a few years that a private law firm she has not been on the bench for very long. she was approved, this is interesting, by the mcconnell that republican senate, get this, in the lame duck period after the 2020 election. this is one joe biden was president elect but donald trump was still actively trying to foment a coup. judge cannon is the architect of a trump judge, known for our conservative jurisprudence. this is why, another interesting detail here when trump filed this complete nonsense lawsuit against clinton in others earlier this year, which i frankly forgot about until the story because it was so ludicrous over allegations that his campaign colluded with russia and the 2016 election, yada yada yada, trump went shopping for a judge. he tried to get a case in front
use videotapes and tape recordings that i have. griff: defending his ukraine call. trying to find out about a whistleblower. we have a whistleblower that reports things that were incorrect. as you know, and you probably now have figured it out, the statement i had made to the president of ukraine, a good man, a nice man, knew was perfect. it was perfect. griff: and we re learning that secretary of state mike pompeo may have been in on the ukraine call. remember, pompeo has already been subpoenaed by those house committees. walk this out just a little bit, guys. there are questions whether the senate would take up impeachment if the house voted in fair of any articles. he mcconnell said he would have no choice to do so based on the senate s rules. steve: if rudy does not produce this evidence that they are asking for by october 15th, and he just said he doesn t know whether or not he is going to comply, don t be surprised