more on this development let s bring in wall street journal columnist henninger and dan and based on evidence that s swirling around in the public how strong is this case? that s an easy question to answer paul. because maybe a thousand or more people have already answered it. unanimously, it is not a strong case. it just isn t which raises the mystery of why it s being brought. what trump is being accused of which is related to the possibility of paying hush money to adult film ac tres years ago is a misdemeanor under new york state law. prosecutor bragg is thinking about elevating it to a felonny under federal law which most specialist say they ve never seen something like that happen before especially with the former president. so the question becomes what is going on exactly with prosecutor bragg? he was under a lot of pressure from his staff before this to do it two prosecutors resign one where a book about it. i think there s the possibility paul that he s facing
yes. trump s former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, joins me live onset. it cannot be different rules for different people in this country or in this state. former presidents are no different. senator elizabeth warren on the depth of the fraud, and former u.s. attorney harry lippman on the possible charges facing the trump family in their business. plus, breaking news about trump stash of classified documents. all in starts right now. the good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today new york attorney general letitia james filed a lawsuit alleging what was already obvious to anyone who was ever paid attention. donald trump is a crook. in more than a 200-page filing, james accuses the ex president and his oldest children, don junior, eric, and ivanka, his company, and some of its top executives, of a long-standing scheme to commit fraud. inflating the value of his properties in order to get more favorable deals from banks. here s how new york agent james put it t
pitch their closing messages to voters. we ll have a slew of new polling numbers to see what, if anything, is getting through. also ahead, this week s jobless claims are in. what the new numbers on of the of another interest rate hike tell us about the state of our economy. professor eddie glaude jr. and jonathan lemire are with us. and joining us, nbc news national political reporter marc caputo and republican strategist and nbc news political analyst susan del percio. it s good to have you with us this hor hour. we have new polling out this morning. a hotly contested senate race in pennsylvania, the latest emerson college the hill survey finds mehmet oz with a two-point lead over john fetterman, within the poll s 3% margin of error. 4% remain undecided. let s keep it in pennsylvania. another new poll shows last week s debate between fetterman and oz appears to have had very little impact in minds of voters. 48% of voters telling monmouth university they will definitely
insurrection, the january 6th committee plans to focus on donald trump s repeated pressure on former vice president mike pence to block the certification of the 2020 election results. remember what trump told the crowd just hours before the attack on the capitol. mike pence, i will tell you right now, i m not hearing good stories. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he s a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. hmm. the committee s going to make the case trump s pressure campaign directly contributed to that day s deadly violence. new photos obtained by abc news show pence and his family in hiding after the former vice president was rushed off the senate floor by secret service during the insurrection. let s begin our coverage with cnn s ma nu raju live on capito hill. walk us through exactly what we ll watch later today. reporter: the committee will try to lay out the time line
he came out for tighter gun laws after buffalo and uvalde and is now going to be out of a job. i ll speak exclusively to republican congressman chris jacobs and i ll sit down with mass shooting survivor and activist gabby giffords. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is hopeful. we have breaking news this morning. a bipartisan group of senators is on track to announce the outlines of an agreement to address gun violence as soon as today, according to sources familiar with the talks. the sources tell me and manu raju that it is an agreement in principle only at this point and that legislation is not yet written. and because getting any changes to gun law is so dicey, sources say that negotiators are working to get ten republican senators to sign onto an agreement before it s announced to show they can get a filibuster proof 60 votes. here s what sources involved tell us the plan includes. funding to incentivize states to implement, quote, red flag