get out there and vote, by the storm. absolutely. it is a critical race to b watching congressman, congresswoman gwe moore and michelle goldber thank you. and that is tonight reidout. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in - if the president wa reluctant, would you put him o the stand? it s a bad idea for trump because he lacks self control. the former presiden descends the golden air stairs landing in new york for hi surrendered justice, as ne evidence and the documents cas keeps on coming. i can t imagine you ever say, bring these boxes that w brought back from the whit house, i d like to look at them did you ever do that i don t have the right to d that there s nothing wrong with it. tonight, congressman adam schiff on the eve of trump s first court appearance plus, the timeline for finding out what s actually in the charges, and why the publicity seeking ex president is arguin against cameras and court. and why jack smith subpoenas for
surrendered justice, as ne evidence and the documents cas keeps on coming. i can t imagine you ever say, bring these boxes that w brought back from the whit house, i d like to look at them did you ever do that i don t have the right to d that there s nothing wrong with it. tonight, congressman adam schiff on the eve of trump s first court appearance plus, the timeline for finding out what s actually in the charges, and why the publicity seeking ex president is arguin against cameras and court. and why jack smith subpoenas for the secret service could b the clearest sign yet that mor charges are coming when all in starts righ now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes right now, donald trump is bac in new york city, just a few blocks from here, in fact. he is spending the night a trump tower ahead of his arraignment on criminal charge tomorrow afternoon this afternoon in a surrea spectacle, vaguely reminiscent of the infamous og simpson bronco case, we g
Trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nations elections. The president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. That kind of Paper Statement is a contrast to trumps actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own Intelligence Agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u. S. Election. That was the Press Conference where putin brought back an idea these two leaders had apparently talked about, a joint u. S. russian Cyber Security group to investigate Russian Election meddling. Sort of like having el chapo join up with the dea to fight drug trafficking. Now this quite absurd plan to team up with the only country whose own agents have been charged for 2016 interference first came up you may remember all the way last summer when trump wrote that he and putin discussed
reputedly who have told donald trump that his claims of widespread voterfraud trump that his claims of widespread voter fraud were false. how important do you think that will be, that there will be these republican calls that we know in the past, saying that this narrative was false, how important do you think that will be improving intent? in proving intent? t intent? in proving intent? i think as long as those public statements are not making it into the courtroom, that s not going to be much ammunition at all, although obviously a big part of trump s defence strategy is trying to argue that he lacked the right state of mind, that he actually believed he won. we have spent a lot of time analysing that and the circumstantial evidence of it, but the critical prosecution strategy has to be. they don t need to prove what he really believed. what they need to prove it is he had they need to prove it is he had the intent to do the illegal act, the specific actions named
the key witness to me in all of this will also be evan corcoran who of course was the attorney for donald trump who had his attorney/client privilege pierced. that was highly unprecedented. we want our clients and our attorneys to have candid conversations because we want them to be able to have a defense. we want them to have a fair trial. we want them to have a fair opportunity to get legal counsel. so the second that was pierced and we knew there was copious notes taken by evan corcoran about whatever direction may have been given and allowed before before a grand jury this was really perhaps a foregone conclusion that this might happen. let me ask you because as i understand it intent is key here, proving intent is key to getting beyond the indictment getting conviction on these charges. explain why and how one would go about proving intent here. in order to make the bulk of these claims you have to have knowing or willful conduct. it can t just be inadvertent, it can t be i ha