hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
they got him. and got more including the deadline from the review well past. today having gotten what they wanted they were called onto do something they ve notably not done in any court filing or proceedings so far, namely back up what their clients and allies are suggesting saying these documents were declassified. for the government s part today they signaled their willingness to take this all the way to the supreme court. jessica schneider starts us off and joins us now. let s talk about what the trump legal team told the special master. yeah, well what s interesting is their response to that ultimatum from the special master where he said he might have no choice but to accept the government s claims that 100 of those documents are classified, if trump s team doesn t step windup the proof that the former president declassified them. and that s really something that trump s legal team has resisted repeatedly asserting both in person in court and in legal filings. so, you
response to that ultimatum from the special master. when he said he might have no choice but to accept the government s claims that 100 of those documents are classified, if trump s team doesn t step up with the proof that the former president declassified them. and that s really something that trump s legal team has resisted repeatedly asserting both in person and in court and in legal filings. so we saw a filing last night and they said that they might have to save any evidence of declassification to use it as a defense if trump is indicted, and then today in court, trump s attorney jim trusty, he said that the legal team, they haven t seen the documents yet so they can t fully address the declassification issue. so really, they are dodging this question at every turn and really anderson, they have gotten themselves into someone of thorny situation here. the special master is saying he needs proof or else he will believe of the government. in a separate related but in it
the letter from free speech for people continues quote, less media and public attention have been focused on the fact that the testimony also includes references to a parallel plan for non-governmental individuals and entities to access voting systems. the stated goal of this effort to gain access to software and electronic data was to help construct narratives that would support overturning the election the plan did proceed, and after a few failed attempts was executed to successfully obtain copies of voting system software in michigan and in georgia all of this boils down to what the new york times describes this way in reporting over the weekend. quote, allies of trump ultimately succeeded in copying the election software in those two states and the breach of voting data in georgia is being examined by prosecutors as part of a broader criminal investigation into whether trump and his allies interfered in the presidential election there the ex-president s participation in the georg
anderson. the voting system software, the ballots, how these machines worked. what they were planning to do with it, we don t know. what they were looking for we sort of know. they were looking for any evidence that in this small, rural, mostly republican county they were looking for any discrepancy in the vote so they could challenge the entire state of georgia s votes. they obviously didn t find it. the woman who let them in probably sympathetic was that kathy lathem. she s the republican county chair person down there or was let them through the door. despite even today s report her attorney is adamant she did nothing wrong, in fact sending us a statement saying ms. lathem has not acted improperly or illegally. anderson, we re going to find out. there s plenty of investigations here in georgia and other swing states where these breach teams did this very same activity. drew griffin, appreciate it. thank you. i want to get perspective now from christopher krebs, who