middle of a blizzard. the elements are all break whatever i need to. i don t even know what negative 15 is. tonight, the defendant in the over hurled election trial takes a break from the courtroom to head to the iowa caucuses. then, every day, mike johnson gets closer and closer to this deal, brings me closer and closer to vacating the chair. brand-new house speaker already on the outs of the maga caucus, as democrats demand an accounting of the trump presidency. you don t care about the principle that our governmental leaders should not be on the tape from foreign governments. that s outrageous. congressman jamie raskin joins me tonight, plus i was hoping that this film could spark conversation, the part of a conversation that we should be having in this country, this year, right now. director ava duvernay, on her brand-new film, origin. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. it is here, well, almost here, on monda
issue republicans have to think. of donald trump is going to lose that appeal, he s going to end up going to trial in front of a stacked left-wing, d.c. jury, of all democrats, but are the odds that he s going to get through that? that s not even talking about the validity of the charges. i don t think he gets through that. so are we going to do? the democrats in the media would love to run with that. all right, put aside the gross and racist, frankly, aspersions cast on the jury pool of the washington d.c., that was the first time that i ve seen one of donald trump s competitors for the republican nomination, who is not in this explicitly anti trump camp of chris christie or hr hutchinson, just raise the obviously clear possibility that trump is going to face criminal trial and likely a conviction in an election year, which could hurt him politically. of course, the ex president is doing everything you can to