harry litman on what this means for the criminal case against trump. senator sheldon whitehouse on what it means for the rule of law. then, how do you stop gun violence from killing kids in schools? it s a horrible, horrible situation. and we re not going to fix it, criminals are going to be criminals. tonight, the maddening reality of a political party that has given up the awful truth of the cult of the ar-15. and an author describing what he calls america s slow civil war. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. donald trump cannot stop losing the courts. today yet another federal judge ruling against the ex-president, and now the man trump s angry mob wanted to hang is ordered to share what he knows under oath. this afternoon a judge with the u.s. district court for d.c. ruled that mike pence must cooperate with the subpoena from special counsel jack smith as part of smith s investigation into donald trump s attempt to overturn the 20
lord, when babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers. remind our lawmakers of the words of the british statesman, edmund burke. all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. senate chaplain barry black appealing to lawmakers to do something about gun violence. but one of the party has made it clear where they stand. and it is not with american children who just want to grow up. a republican congressman admitting today we re not going to fix it. also tonight, trump s goons wanted to murder him. so why is it taking a court order to force mike pence to testify about his life and death ordeal on january 6th? and gone are the days of a functioning house of representatives. kevin mccarthy has handed the keys to the insurrection caucus which has no agenda except punishing their political opponents and doing the dirty work for donald trump. former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, widely considering on
saying no laws existing or proposed could have ) what happened yesterday in nashville. such a deeply offensive thing to say. it really is. if this had been a muslim shooter, we would have seen a thousand bills proposed for more things for homeland security to do. willie, the idea that every time a horrific tragedy like this happens, if you even talk about trying to do something to make our school safer for our children, people say, oh, there s nothing you can do. they say you can do something for everything else but this. that s why you find ourselves in a position where our children are afraid to go to school. this is the leading cause of death. it is the leading cause of death among children. you know, it wasn t always that way. i was explaining to some people a bit younger than me yesterday, that when colubine happened, it was a shock to the system. that was really something that massive had happened, and we thought it was a one off. then a movie theater in aurora,
my daddy fought in the second world war and he told me, he said, buddy, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn t mind losing their life, there s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it. we homeschool our children. but frankly some people don t have that option. well, bad things happen, nothing you can do about it. it s become a sort of perverse default on the right of the uncomprehensible gun violence tragedies in america. the more than 20,000 deaths last year, and that excludes suicides. we had nearly 650 mass shootings, the second highest number on record after 2021. we are, and this has been said a million times on this program,
the tube but being in person watching sports. if all you have is the tv, go for it. it ll make you happier, according to the survey. pollsters clearly didn t talk to too many red sox fans when putting together those optimistic numbers. margaret talev, thank you very much. we appreciate it. thanks. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. three precious little kids lost their lives, and i believe three adults. and the shooter, of course, lost their life, too. it s a horrible, horrible situation. we re not going to fix it. criminals are going to be criminals. my daddy fought in the second world war, fought in the pacific, fought the japanese. he said, buddy, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn t mind losing your life, there s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it. that is republican congressman tim burchett of tennessee reacting to the deadly school shooting in his state,