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alleged nazi sympathizer who became an alleged marga murder for january six. plus, one of trump s fake electors caught on tape as she escorts data breaches into a county office in georgia. and how invalidating 2020 became a litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president knew the everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. ....
Would have gotten away with a tent coup. as of now, this ruling stands. what comes next, nobody knows. i am joined now by someone who may have an educated guess, andrew weissmann, spent years working with the department of justice, who spent years working with the lead prosecutor in robert mueller s special counsel investigation. he wrote a piece in the atlantic about the special master case titled, a ruling untethered to the law. he joins me now. tell me how you really feel. i guess, let s start at this. i try to tech check my own bias here. obviously, i have them, i have my own principles and politics. i read the ruling, and, again, i am not a lawyer. give me your distillation for non lewis and what makes this such a strange ruling. i think there are two things. one is that as you mentioned at the very outset, when january six happened, we all saw in the district courts that the courts ....