espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. no one has been charged with a crime that we know of as of now. this just in, the democratic chairs of the intelligence committee and the oversight committee and the house have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment, and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, and of course trump and his allies are of course spending and peddling wild conspiracy theories about the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the theories range from ridiculous and laughable to down right dangerous. cnn s daniel dale joins me now to talk about this. trump is saying all the fbi and the department of justice has to do is ask for these documents back, and there would have been no problem at all. all they had to do was ask, and that post on his truth site. does that align with what we know? it does not at all align with what we know, jim. we know there was
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administration, maybe even before that, to begin to change the paradigm. is cy vance about to nail donald trump? joins me live. and high profile new york democrats join the calls for andrew cuomo s resignation, rebecca traifter reporting from inside the office. all in starts now. hello, i m chris hayes. it s still sinking in the biden administration was able to pass this towering achievement that looked improbable even in december. think back. race called for biden. clear he was winner but sitting president was doing everything in his power attempting to overturn the election through legal and extralegal means and balance of the senate was up for grabs. came down to georgia and democrats had to win two seats and had not won a senate chair in georgia in decades. but here we are. oldest man elected president, been in public life for 50 years, ran as centrist. narrow majority came together to deliver most processive comprehensive rescue package in many generations. we demo
Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Federal prosecutors in new york have accused the president of criminal violation of the federal Campaign Laws. They say trump directed thats the word Michael Cohen to cover up a Campaign Contribution in the form of payments with two women with whom he had sexual relations. This comes from the Southern District of new york, not Robert Mueller, not the socalled 17 democrats the president says are working against him, not the deep state, not from a witch hunt. Its from one of the two Sentencing Memos filed in the case of trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, today, which are shedding new light on the president s potential legal exposure. As trumps longtime fixer, cohen pleaded guilty in august to Campaign Finance violations and making hush payments to two women on trumps behalf. And now, tonights Sentencing Memo makes clear that with respect to both payments, cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual
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Involved. and now today s story that just came out about the representation by the trump lawyer confirms that that part of this is there was a complete lack of trust between the trump people and the justice department, because the trump people apparently misled, lied to the justice department or the national archives about whether all the classified information had been transferred back to the archives. and it s remarkable to me, george, that we re talking about potential illegality on trump s part outside of the january 6th investigation. i mean, we re putting a lot of that to the side, just to have the conversation about the documents recovered at mar-a-lago, and you know, so many times people have said, okay, this is the thing that is going to nail trump. you think of john oliver running his withe got him gag, the clic the walls are closing in. you ve heard that once or twice this week. what is the likelihood in your gut that this is going to lead to some sort of prosecution, do