now that the shelby county commission done their job. i m so glad we get to get back to doing our job and what is our job? to elevate the voices of the six kids the six people in nashville. three children who were just 9 years old. now both lawmakers expelled by republicans in the tennessee legislature have been reinstated, proving just how pointless that exercise was. state representative justin j. pearson joins me in just a moment and the two pillars of the republican party, trump and fox, are all friendly again and there are big new developments in both of their perilous legal situations. and late today, a new threatening letter is received by manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s office containing a suspicious white powder but we begin tonight with the triumphant return of the tennessee three. earlier today, the shelby county commission voted to reappoint justin j. pearson to his duly elected position, to represent the good citizens of district 86 not a single republic
dna. they accuse him of dismembering his wife and disposing of her body. saying that surveillance video shows a man, fitting walsh s description, visiting various dumpsters. they also detailed more than a dozen disturbing internet searches that say walsh made after his wife disappearance, including ten ways to dispose of a dead body, if you really need to. i want to go right now to cnn national correspondent, bring jim grass, who s outside the courthouse in quincy, massachusetts. brynn, what is the latest on this case against brian walshe? yeah, laura, you bring up those internet searches, and if you look at the timeline, there was a frantic search that prosecutors laid out brian walshe had in the hours, minutes after they say he dismembered and killed his wife. now, i want to go and show you some of those searches. january 1st, in the early morning hours, that s when they began, according to prosecutors, he googled how long before a body starts to smell? and it was a long
republican candidate in new mexico visited homes of democratic officials before targeting those homes with gun fire. this morning, still no word on how lisa marie presley died. the coroner deferred a ruling asking for more time to investigate. a busy wednesday but first the tragedy on the outskirts of ukraine s capital. 16 people are dead after a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and residential buildings east of kyiv. three children are among the dead with 15 more being treated in the hospital. the mayor of kyiv now reacting. this is a tragedy. i m not ready to give we inves investigate what happens. let s get straight to clarissa ward live at the scene in ukraine for us. good morning, what s going on? what s the latest there? reporter: don, you can probably see behind me the smoldering wreckage of that kindergarten where the helicopter hit this morning, tragically killing 16 people, all nine people on board the helicopter were killed, including the interior
in wilmington, delaware. despite the white house saying the search was complete last thursday. rapid developments here is what we are looking at so far. november 2nd, just days before the midterm election, six days, the president s aides find classified documents and a closet at the penn-biden center, a think tank in washington, d.c. but that discovery was not made public. on november 14th, attorney general merrick garland appoints a u.s. attorney to go over the case. fast-forward to december 20th, the president s attorneys find another batch of documents. these pages that were stored in his garage at his home coming in oh, next to the corvette like he told us. the story finally broke wide open on january 9th. an additional document was then found three days later. that same day the attorney general appointed a special counsel. two days after that more documents surfaced in wilmington. some democrats are staying silent on all of this while others are publicly speaking out inc
much. and that is, indeed, tonight s reidout. all in with chris hayes starts right now. reidout. all good evening from new york. i am ali velshi, in for chris hayes. happy new year to you. we re just hours away from republicans taking control of the house of representatives, and tonight, kevin mccarthy might just be the most nervous man in washington. is mccarthy, he really wants to be speaker of the house. it has been his singular focus in washington for years. and that drive is the reason behind his deal with the devil that he made with donald trump. mccarthy has spent years placating trump, and enabling his worst behavior in exchange for trump s support. and the support of his hard-line allies in congress for his eventual speakership. it s why mccarthy went from saying this, in the days after january 6th the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfo