get hurt. we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trump s lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wall defense or is it throw ketchup at the wall? trump made this outrageous claim about his magical powers to declassify documents. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision, so when you send it, it s decla
tell-all, one part how-to, and one part parenting guide. and in this day and age, it s not often you get a book that is all of those things written by such a compelling and wonderful person. well, thank you. there is also a lot of things of mistakes i have made in my career, things that scared me that iha took the leap on. you have experienced many of those before as edwell. we have talked about them. i experience them daily, jen. me, too. i hope the book can come in pocket size so i can carry it with me throughout the day. you ll get the first copy, i promise. ico love you. thank you. good luck. have a great show. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us. the great rachel maddow is obviously not here now. she s healing up after a round of covid, and we hope she will be back here at her usual time next monday because we all need you, rachel. feel better. now, tonight, we start in gaza. where the israeli military is deep into what it is calling the secon
duck side. and here s the other thing. it s not even clear that the senate version of this bill would fix it. because it would mark allys has raised concerns it would codify the idea that the governor would be the final arbiter of whose state of electors gets counted. what if the governor is kari lake? what it s doug mastriano? that didn t help. right, no one knows election law better than mark elias, and nobody can interpret the what could happen with these laws. i think the intention in the senate is positive. so we should applaud those ten republican senators. we should applaud the nine republican house members no matter how small the number is, but that tells you that almost every house republican and at least 80% or close to that of senate republicans and i would argue most governors around the country, most elected officials, they do not want to protect the