down tonight? yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadline on monday. that s good news. and frankly, i have to tell you, that we have seen a lot of these late nights in the senate, having votes that are done within nine or ten or even 11 minutes is real fast by senate standards. so it does give you a sense that even though they did 11 of these amendment votes they were looking to do them as quickly as possible, just trying to get this off their plate here in the senate, and move it on. i also think it was fascinating to watch just how this vote ultimat
tonight on all in. i have the right to take stuff, i have the right to look at stuff. the ex president caught on tape bragging about classified documents. tonight, the increasingly strong case against trump and the timeline of the investigation. then, as his lawyers lineup to defend him. if you have the authority to declassify you are not there is new trouble on team trump. plus, how joe manchin s pet pipeline project just got expedited from the debt bill. the president s former chief of staff on that deal in the latest mcgovern from republicans trying to investigate joe biden. let s put it this way that there, there s accusations. it s not for me to make a judgment about one of these accusations if they are accurate or not. all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. the evidence is piling up in the special counsel s investigation into trump s mishandling of classified documents and the subsequent attempt to obstruct every inquiry
that overwhelming support ellis spoke about can be seen in glaad s a report, showing supermajorities supporting acceptance, freedom and equal rights for the community. and i ve got a sinking thinking that the lgbtq community will not let a small hateful group of people ruin their pride this month, or any other month, for that matter. and i want that community to know, from the 11th hour, we see you, we love you, we need you, and we support you. happy pride, everyone. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. in july of 2021, joe biden had been president for more than half a year. but the last days of the trump administration were still very much being reported on. the ways in which trump had tried to overturn the 2020 election in this series of escalating maneuvers, which ultimately resulted, of course, in the attack on the u.s. capi
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it s 4:00 in washington d.c. a hail mary move by the disgraced ex-president that serves as an indication that special counsel jack smith may well be close to making a decision on whether or not to indict donald trump. we re at donald trump s dear attorney general, the special counsel is being mean to me phase. make no mistake we have been here before. late yesterday lawyers for the ex-president asked for a meeting with merrick garland. the letter itself was brief, filled with the usual trump rhetoric about being persecuted despite the fact that the ex-president is the one who has resisted handing over some of the nation s most sensitive intelligence secrets. documents he kept just one lock, one door away from hundreds of people at his pay for membership club to the government who rightfully owned the documents and asked for them back. the new york times says the letter asserts that trump is treated unfairly in the investigations led by jack smith. the washington post is r