witnesses expected to be heard by this grand jury. amid reports that the former president was told he is a target of the investigation. there s just more and more signs that the case is coming to fruition. then, first christy, now pence. well attacking the front runner have ever any effect on a republican electorate? anyone who asks someone else to put them over the constitution should never be president of the united states again. plus, new evidence of the ongoing threat to democracy from an old trump world figure. all we have to do, claudia, is find 11,000 plus votes. and halted flights, cancel the games, and tens of millions breathing toxic air. david wallace wells on the unmistakable consequences of not doing enough to combat man made climate change. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we have had an absolute whirlwind of new developments today in the federal criminal special counsel investigation into donald trump s misha
new activity in the florida grand jury. there are no multiple witnesses expected to be heard by this grand jury. amid reports that the former president was told he is a target of the investigation. there s just more and more signs that the case is coming to fruition. then, first christy, now pence. well attacking the front runner have ever any effect on a republican electorate? anyone who asks someone else to put them over the constitution should never be president of the united states again. plus, new evidence of the ongoing threat to democracy from an old trump world figure. all we have to do, claudia, is find 11,000 plus votes. and halted flights, cancel the games, and tens of millions breathing toxic air. david wallace wells on the unmistakable consequences of not doing enough to combat man made climate change. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we have had an absolute whirlwind of new developments today in the federa
legal theory became a threat to democracy. andrew morant staff writer at the new yorker, joins me now. phenomenal piece of work. everyone should read the article. we talked about this a little bit. north carolina, let s just start with north carolina. there s a bunch of states that are kind of, the real laboratories of this stuff. wisconsin, north carolina, a bit ohio now. what s going on in north carolina now? their laboratories, the phrase used to be laboratories of democracy, you can try things in the states that would make things more democratic, they re now laboratories against democracy in north carolina is one of the. it s a purple state, 50/50. there s a super majority in the state legislature, and noticing that fact there are lawyers who have crafted a theory that goes back decades, but has really picked up steam recently, that says there are these little clauses in the constitution which says that legislators have these powers. and so, let s see how far we can push that, in n
cleaner, is find 11,000 plus votes. klete of being too subtle there for donald trump. he also recently talk to republican donors in tennessee, about the need to limit voting on college campuses. what is this young people effort that what they do, they basically to the state, dormant there s a roll it, about vote, and go back to bed. oh no. it s easy to vote for young people. mitchell also put forward a once fringe election theory in the weeks after the 2020 election. that fringe theory, the independent state legislator theory, is now the subject of a supreme court case that could be decided any day. andrew morantz writes about this in a new article in the new yorker titled, how a fringe legal theory became a threat to democracy. andrew morant staff writer at the new yorker, joins me now. phenomenal piece of work. everyone should read the article. we talked about this a little