behind a coup, alive and kicking in state houses across america. the authority for directing the manner of choosing electors belongs to the legislature. tonight, the massive supreme court decision that stopped a slow motion insurrection. van, the evolving alibi of an indicted ex president. you re not concerned, then, with your voice on those recordings. my voice was fine. i didn t even see the recording. just how bout of the new tapes in the trump document case is the other jack smith investigation ramps up. i did everything right, and they invited me. and why republican leaders finally acknowledging that donald trump is a loser is actually a big deal. the question is, is he the strongest to win the election? i don t know that answer. when all in starts, right now. we good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it is not often the case these days but today the supreme court issued a long anticipated monumental ruling that actually bolsters america s democ
bissell with already for directing the manner of choosing electors begin belongs to the legislature. tonight, the massive supreme court decision that stopped a slow motion insurrection. van, the evolving alibi of an indicted ex president. you re not concerned, then, with your voice on those recordings. my voice was fine. i didn t even see the recording. just how bout of the new tapes in the trump document case is the other jack smith investigation ramps up. i did everything right, and they invited me. and why republican leaders finally acknowledging that donald trump is a loser is actually a big deal. the question is, is he the strongest to win the election? i don t know that answer. when all in starts, right now. we good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it is not often the case these days but today the supreme court issued a long anticipated monumental ruling that actually bolsters america s democratic strengths. the case before the court today con
a bedrock principle of the department of justice and our nation s commitment to the rule of law sets a an example for the world. we have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone. applying those laws, collecting facts, that s what determines the outcome of an investigation. nothing more, nothing less. the words of rachel math maddow, stunningly simple words in both the indictment and from behind the podium. it was the first time we as an american public have ever heard from the special counsel notably he praised the fbi and the prosecutors on his team. rachel pointed out they have already come under vicious attack by the indicted ex-president. he encouraged all of us to read the indictment itself, an endeavor we re taking seriously. it s known as a speaking indictment, meaning it is straight forward and, frankly, gripping and dramatic. it lays out the alleged crimes trump faces. 31 counts have to do with the espionage act. we re going to unpack all of them.
hansen territory. i think they don t have, beyond a reasonable doubt, prove that the people who were there could say i saw it, i absorbed it. but in a way doesn t matter. they showcased it even though they didn t charge it, knowing they will play this audiotape, knowing it would make him look like the craven guy he. is there is a mystery at the heart of the documents there which is, what were they actually, does he still have, them in the distal government get them back? there was a specific subpoena specifically force for them. i think this figures into bedminster question. today, now we play you that sort of incredible rhetorical tour de force from trump and which he s giving his arguments, which is wildly persuasive, today he goes with another one. tying the shelby tower at salem semafor. this is his second cut. this is what he tells shelby at semafor. do we have that? when he s asked about what it is? he s basically is like, he says, it was bravado, that he wasn t
of turn going on right now in terms of what jack smith is up to. the way that this looks to some people, all watching from the outside, is that smith is needing to fill in certain gaps in his investigations, calling back in witnesses who have already been interviewed, interviewing witnesses who have already produced materials that were subpoenaed, following up on outreach is that his team first made many months ago. in the lead up to the mar-a-lago documents investigation, there were a lot of folks in the witness lawyer community who started getting a bit of a spidey sense about an indictment coming, a bit of prickling. i have yet to speak to people about people who have that specific sense of imminent indictment that jack smith threat is pulling, but there s no question he s pulling it hard, and there s no question that just because the criminal