room one day before a doj official came for the classified documents. the worker was reportedly helping trump val l.a. matt nauda move the boxes but didn t know what was inside of them. nbc has yet to confirm that account. it comes on the heels of a similar the washington post report which says workers allegedly carried out a, quote, dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers his office received a may 2022 subpoena. and more shocking details from that report reveal trump showed those classified documents to other people. quote, prosecutors have gathered evidence that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others. trump has insisted he s done no wrong. i have every right to under the presidential records act. you have the presidential records act. i was there and i took what i took and it gets declassified. i took the documents i m allowed to. but reports indicate special counsel jack smith
guys, we re going to win this thing. i promise you we re going to win it because we haven t done anything wrong. oh, eric. you re not paying attention. you have already lost, remember? in september, when the judge ruled that you and your brother and your daddy lied for years on your company s financial statements. this trial, it s really just about penalties. also tonight, president biden visits grieving families in lewiston, maine, as we learn more about missed warning signs before the gunman killed 18 people. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with another volatile day in the $250 million civil fraud trial against the trump crime family and their company. today, a new york judge ruled that a limited gag order on donald trump should also apply to his attorneys after he said they made inappropriate remarks about his principal law clerk. judge arthur engoron s order said the lawyers for the former president and his adult sons are, quote, prohibited from
who is. but it does seem that there is a real question to be asked and answered here about whether or not they are essentially rewarding and encouraging the kind of behavior that you just demonstrated in that video. it appears janell is freezing up for us. we ll go to fernand. fernand, one of the things that, leak, we have seen ron desantis. he s playing this game. he wants to attack woke people or whatever he can t define woke as being one way or another. but he also seems focused on lying about the impact of his actual laws. he passes laws that say you can t talk about queer people, and he s like, but it s not a book ban. he passes laws to say you can t talk about divisive subjects but he doesn t explain what divisive subjects are. i know a lot of people who don t live in florida don t understand this. how can you pass laws like this in a state that is one of the most ethnically diverse in the
backlash volatile. joining me is janell, a correspondent on race and identity for time magazine, and democratic strategist and pollster fernand armandy. janell, i m going to start with this, not just because i was at target today, but i m a regular american citizen. frankly, i wish someone would try something like that when i was trying to shop and get through the rest of my day. but from your perspective, and covering these kinds of issues, is target really acting out of a concern for employees? because all you have to do is call the cops, or is it capitulating to the far right? to me, i don t see a video like that and think, okay, we need to pull down our pride displayed. i see a video like that and think we need to call the cops and have these people dragged out by their thumb nails. it s a really interesting question. of course, i m not responsible for the safety of any employees so what i guess glean from this might be different from someone