the white house and justice is delayed? i could. i don t want to, but i could. i mean, it s a crazy world that donald trump has dragged this country into, but he could be wearing an ankle bracelet while accepting the nomination at the republican convention. former fbi director jim comey describing a very real scenario as trump lawyers meet with the doj. and with the grand jury in the classified documents case set to meet this week. also, if trump is indicted, what are the national security ramifications when trump inevitably asks his maga faithful to avenge him? also tonight, aj owens was a loving mother of four. friday night, she was shot dead in ocala, florida. the sheriff calls it a neighborhood feud. but the family says it was a completely unjustified shooting, and they are demanding justice. members of the owens family join me tonight for their first interview. we begin the reidout tonight with what could prove to be a consequential week in the special counsel s i
new activity in the florida grand jury. there are no multiple witnesses expected to be heard by this grand jury. amid reports that the former president was told he is a target of the investigation. there s just more and more signs that the case is coming to fruition. then, first christy, now pence. well attacking the front runner have ever any effect on a republican electorate? anyone who asks someone else to put them over the constitution should never be president of the united states again. plus, new evidence of the ongoing threat to democracy from an old trump world figure. all we have to do, claudia, is find 11,000 plus votes. and halted flights, cancel the games, and tens of millions breathing toxic air. david wallace wells on the unmistakable consequences of not doing enough to combat man made climate change. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we have had an absolute whirlwind of new developments today in the federa
4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump left a
times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts rights now. hi, ari. thanks so much. i m ari melber, and yes, this is another busy news night. we have one of the special reports we have been working on this is brand new, and i m going to share with you tonight. it is about how donald trump as a client has been likened to a mob boss by his own lawyers. how the lawyers who have gotten in trouble have been the biggest assistants, factual, evidentiary and otherwise to the prosecutors pursuing trump, and how there s a lawyer we ve heardless about but i m going to get into details tonight, who can be a key, a lynch pin in any federal indictment. as we come on the air as well as the news we brought you tonight. we brought you a reporter who broke it last night, and now it s everywhere, not being disputed that the doj formally targeted donald trump for indictment. i ll walk you through what that means. number one, it s the clearest signal that charges at this time are p
all of these signs, reports and indications that donald trump s team is at least concerned about a possible indictment in the doj classified documents case. that doesn t mean they ve given up. that doesn t mean it s inevitable and we are not reporting on a future possibility. we are reporting on a current set of concerns and let me walk you through it. if indicted donald trump will be the first-ever person who served in the white house to be indicted for a federal crime. here s what s brand new and we ve never reported this before, our cameras caught trump s legal team going into doj in washington today and we got footage of them leaving. they spent roughly two hours inside and wait until you hear who they met with. i will not make you wait longer than this. this wasn t some routine catch-up. we have reporting that they sat down face to face in a very rare showdown with the man who has been leading this high-profile rest gagz of donald trump. they sat down with special counse