Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Weve got a lot to get to tonight. First, breaking news and i am a bit flummoxed about the content of the news. Less than 30 minutes ago the director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, former republican congressman, hes very controversial. He ascended to the position recently after dinged once and not able to get the job. So John Ratcliffe and fbi director chris wray announced that iran and russia have, in ratcliffes words, taken specific actions to influence Public Opinion relating to our elections. They have also, he said, obtained Voter Registration information. We have confirmed that some Voter Registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia. This data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, sow chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy. Just to be clear here, Voter Registration information, which i
Interesting. Did you know that washington, d. C. , just declared tomorrow to be Anthony Fauci day . Tomorrow is not only christmas eve. It is dr. Faucis 80th birthday. The city of washington, d. C. , where he lives declared tomorrow Anthony Fauci day in his honor and thanks for his service to the nation over these decades and through this pandemic. Great story, right . I got a lot more on that. I got a ton of other stories like that. Ask me another. I will tell you in a parallel universe. But in this universe, alas, we live here now, and we live in the trump era still. And tonight in the trump era, its night two of everybody check under their seats for a pardon because if you helped the president in his efforts to benefit from and then downplay and then obstruct the investigation into russia, helping him get elected in 2016, tonights another night of pardons for all yall. Also tonight, the first night of trump family pardons, the first of what we assume will be more because, honestly,
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All right. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. I am happy to have you here. When we meet in a parallel universe someday, you and i, where none of this has actually happened and in the years after the obama presidency, turns out we had a normal president who did normal things on normal timelines in the bounds of until politics. When we meet in that parallel universe, you had going to love the tv show that i had planned and written in its entirety for december 23rd, 2020. It was a great show, super interesting. Did you know that washington, d. C. Just declared tomorrow to be Anthony Fauci day . Tomorrow is not only christmas eve. It is dr. Faucis 80th birthday. The city of washington, d. C. Where he lives declared tomorrow Anthony Fauci day in his honor and thanks for his service to the nation over these decades and through this pandemic. Great story, right . I got a lot more on that. I got a ton of other stories like that. Ask me another. I will tell you in a parallel univer
Of new orleans folks in the house. This is kind of old home week because Linda Villarosa been a friend to us for at this point. We have celebrate lindas work across many genres and we are really, really, really honored to get to celebrate this book. Tonights event is cosponsor by the feminist Womens Health center and just in a moment, i will introduce m. K. Anderson, who is the director of Development Communications at the feminist Womens Health center. To tell you a little bit about their work, first, i want to introduce van newkirk. Were having a little bit of tech issues with vans internet, so were going to keep working on that. But when our newkirk the second is a Senior Editor at the atlantic and the host and of the Peabody Award Winning flood lyons, a narrative podcast about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. For years, newkirk has covered voting rights, democracy and justice with a focus on how race and class shape the in the worlds fundamental structures. Then is a 2022 Andre