thank you for joining us live at a town hall in new york city for this very, very special addition of why is this happening. he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very, very smart, and admit it, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. [applause] well, thank you! hey! oh, stop! stop it! [applause] how are you? good! making. thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you, sit down, sit down. thank you. that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. [laughter] that was a really, really hard to 20 seconds for me. so thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got some family here. so, tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. and that we re in, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last, you know, for five years than i had in all of my time as a journalist before that, i would say. like, even that is a topic seems a littl
trump alibi from trump tv. and the new project that gives me genuine hope in these insane times, when all in starts right now. w. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. all of the sudden there is a lot happening in the department of justice investigation into the january 6th insurrection. in just the last few days, there have been a bunch of developments, some of which we are going to get to in a moment. but before we do, it s worth stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, because i think the significance here is, a large. for seven years now, we have been covering donald trump and he has basically been always enmeshed in controversy and scandal. he has always been surrounded by investigations and also allegations of criminality. serious ones. that is how he has lived his entire life. right on the edge of the law, both before entering politics and after. and there has always been this perpetual sense that trump manages to wriggle his way out of every jam. partl
and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down from defending democracy. attorney general merrick garland facing a republican party hell bent on doing everything it can to push conspiracy theories and attack the rule of law in the wake of donald trump s felony conviction in new york. plus, president biden making bold and controversial moves today on immigration and on his rhetoric towards israel. but we begin tonight with the rule of law. in our democrat, system it is the principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are supposed to be accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated. in a perfect world, the idea is to protect the rights of all people in our society. it hasn t always worked out perfectly, to say the least, in this country s long and difficult history, but that is the idea. donald trump and his maga
Before christmas. Today is commonly known as super saturday. You better get out. Shoppers still looking around for those last minute bargains, the gifts that sell well in the final hours before monday but you need to know what to wear. And a lot of hand lotion. Its really dry. Another chilly start out there. Not as bad as yesterday morning. No advisories for the frost and freeze we felt with widespread 20s and 30s come friday morning but were in the 30s and 40s, but brr but not as bad. Giving you a view at partly cloudy skies. Visibility is okay if youre jumping on to the roadways this morning maybe to do some shopping. Livermore reporting visibility about four miles. We had a little bit of fog develop over santa rosa. Heres a look at the temperatures. Santa rosa, 35 degrees. Still another bonechilling start. Livermore, 36. Livermore yesterday dipped into the 20s. Definitely seeings a difference there. 46 San Francisco, 44 to start your day in oakland. Well take a tour around the area.
And spoke at the center for strategic and International Studies conference about defense cooperation between the United States and south korea. This is about an hour. Good morning, thank you all for coming to your event, u. S. South koreas defense acquisition and security cooperation. A a pleasure for s pleasure for csis to host of this. I would like to thank our partners, the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and trade in Aerospace Industries for cohosting. Im lisa, i have the honor of introducing are for speakers introducing our first speakers today. Before i do that, i would like to mention a word about safety. We have a very secure building and do not expect emergencies to arise. If something does occur, please exit the building using the staircases and emergency exits. Please walk toward the National Geographic building on m street behind csis. I will give you further instructions, if necessary. Now, i would like to introduce , dr. Johnspeaker hamre, who will give opening r