we are very grateful. i will be back with you tomorrow. the beat with katy faang in for ari melber starts right now. hello. what a fantastic show. good to see you. thanks so much for everything. and welcome to the rest of you to the the beat. i m katy faang in for ari melber. breaking news on donald trump s coup charges and the united states supreme court. late today donald trump s lawyers urging the united states supreme court to delay hearing arguments on a monumental question, whether he has absuit immunity criminal prosecution from actions trying to overturn the 2020 election. the filing coming in response to special counsel jack smith who is urging the high court to fast track this case. today trump s lawyers telling the court it should wait until a lower court has ruled while questioning why smith wants to move so quickly. arguing that smith s proposal would lead to a, quote, radically compressed timetable, and that, quote, the special counsel identifies no dpelg re
To go back and, i mean, i dont know. A refresher on jim jordans Insurrection Ties as he seeks the house gavel, and why its a blinking red light for the american experiment. If you want to know what it looks like when democracy is in trouble, this is what it looks like. Plus, why the trump request to dismiss his coup charges may be destined for the Supreme Court. And the chilling echoes of authoritarians passed, as a republican front runner warns of immigrants poisoning american blood, when all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The last time that donald trump wanted to go to the capitol it was to lead a violent coup against the duly elected american government. You remember this is when he supposedly had a tantrum in the president ial limousine. He wanted to go so badly that he got into a physical altercation with the Secret Service over it, according to testimony before the january Six Committee. The Secret Service understood that sending the president t
The best thing we can do right now is have President Trump on an interim basis. United ex president likes the plan. Were gonna walk down to the capital. Tonight, Donald Trumps reported return to the scene of the crime. Then i just dont know, id have to go back and, i mean, i dont know. A refresher on jim jordans Insurrection Ties as he seeks the house gavel, and why its a blinking red light for the american experiment. If you want to know what it looks like when democracy is in trouble, this is what it looks like. Plus, why the trump request to dismiss his coup charges may be destined for the Supreme Court. And the chilling echoes of authoritarians passed, as a republican front runner warns of immigrants poisoning american blood, when all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The last time that donald trump wanted to go to the capital it was to lead a violent coup against the duly elected american government. You remember this is when he supposedly had a tan
here s what we know right now as i m with you as the week begins. smith s washington, d.c. grand jury is expected to meet tomorrow. that s in the open criminal case where smith formally targeted trump for indictment. and that means we do know the d.o.j. s intent to charge, but not the d.o.j. s plans, it s details or anything like a time frame. no one can define when the next steps will be taken. that includes the subject and target donald trump who was vaguely speculating today that his indictment on these coup charges could come any day now but he doesn t know that. he only knows what we ve already reported, that smith told him that he is a target of the probe. then there are new developments in the case where smith has already indicted trump, piling on more charges last week over the alleged efforts to cover up the espionage violations that d.o.j. initially charged. that news hit as many people
trump and has targeted donald trump for a second indictment. eyeing possible coup charges. we don t know what that could entail or what will happen next. we do know that the january 6th committee did make a criminal referral around these issues including the coup and related attempts to overthrow the election. it was a former process. you may remember it. for some people they said is that it, all the committee has done? as i mentioned it may be this committee did a public service, i m not talking about partisanship, how you feel about any politician. i m talking about using their lawful powers and subpoena authorities to gather evidence and give that over to the appropriate nonpartisan entity that considers evidence, the justice department. indeed, it was jamie raskin who went through based on the evidence what charges they thought should be referred and charged. we believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today