the imminent indictment watch on the mar-a-lago documents. i don t think about it, all i know is this, everything i did was right. tonight have got thoughts on trump s real motive for taking all that classified info. then, the winning strategy for candidate desantis. being the most anti vax person on the ballot? we can never allow warp speed to trump informed consent in this country ever again. plus, president biden s oval office address. passing this budget agreement was critical. the states cannot have been higher. and the crazy story of why republicans in iowa have stripped the power from the state auditor? all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. president joe biden just wrapped up a primetime address to the nation from the oval office touting the debt ceiling deal that he brokered with speaker kevin mccarthy this week. a lot of attention has been focused on the swift passage of that bill in the house on wednesday, the senate la
It s possible. but again, i mean, this might be the reason but when you take a step back it is a lot of time and effort and legal bills for will amount to a bunch of souvenirs. which brings us to why the new reporting the pentagon document trump talked about is to sow revealing. almost kind of a light bulb moment in understanding this. as the new york times mentioned in their reporting in the summer of 2021, there were several news stories about how general mark milley was working to prevent donald trump from attacking iran in the last month of his presidency this one from the new yorker explain that as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, really had been engaged in an alarmed effort to ensure that trump did not embark on a military conflict with iran on part of his quixotic panic campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 reelection, election and remain in power they fear that trump would insist on launching
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the vaccines protect you, give activated. that team trump attacking desantis for being trot pro trump vaccine. because ron desantis clearly thinks, now, that running as the unfettered anti-vaccine candidate is the way to go. but again, it seems like a truly disastrous position to hold him a general. democratic strategist tim miller i should note, tim, you wrote about this. i should note that it isn t just, you can do the vaccine mandates that the sort of soft version of this but the other day someone was yelling at trump with anti vax tackling at an event and the desantis people tweeted about how he didn t talk about how old people the vaccine has her. much more than the mandates, the actual vaccine. you wrote this, as expected to sanders hits trump from the anti vax right. but to the best things trump did, operation warp speed, they re the first tax out the
Week. a lot of attention has been focused on the swift passage of that bill in the house on wednesday, the senate late last night. large bipartisan majorities. all that s been happening, special counsel jack smith has been barreling ahead with his investigation of the ex president, now the leading contender for the republican nomination in 2024. earlier this week we learned that smith had obtained a key new piece of evidence in the case of donald trump s handling of classified documents. he s now in possession of an audio recording in which trump acknowledges he held on to classified pentagon documents about a potential attack on iran. on that recording from july 2021 meeting at his bedminster, new jersey golf club. trump began railing about his handpicked chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley who was described in media counts at the time is having guarded against trump s strike in iran in the final days of his presidency newtown s reports the ex president began ref