tonight, congressman adam schiff and claire mccaskill on the merrick garland interview a new reporting that the dark department of justice is investigating donald trump. plus as pence for president essentially kicks off, can you really agree to disagree after a violent coup attempt? i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. and new reporting on the fake electoral campaign to up end democracy in the republican running for governor who s in the middle of it all. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. in the past hour we just got a huge bit of breaking news. the department of justice is investigating donald trump. washington post is reporting that the doj is investigating the ex president s actions as part of its criminal probe on january 6th. sources telling the post of federal prosecutors were questioning witnesses before the grand jury announced hours of detailed questions about troubleshoot in dec
broke that story and expert guidance on what that means. first, let s remember how we got here. today in washington for only the second time a federal judge sentenced a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. at 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see why. in screen shots taken from officer body cams on january 6th, this guy is seen swinging t pole at a police officer so hard it snaps in two on the officer s riot shield. so then the guy goes and finds another pole and starts swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first pole the one he hit so hard, the pole snapped in two, that was capitol police sergeant, ganel. he gave emotional testimony about the horror of that day to the januarye 6th investigation last year. and today he testified at that rioter s sentencing hearing saying he suffered physical and mental injuries from the attack that forced him to leave t
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