this week the house select committee investigating january 6th wrapped up its summer series of hearings with the season finale of sorts. in a primetime event, they presented devastating evidence detailing the hours donald trump spent refusing to act as a angry mob tried to stop the certification of the 2020 election by force. even when it was clear the insurrection would not achieve its aims, did the commander-in-chief collin s meg army to step down? no. even a dalia later, never before seen outtakes show the president was unwilling to admit that the election was over. the bombshell hearings left me with plenty of questions. will the former president or anyone else in a position of authority ever be held accountable? will congress have the courage to strengthen the election system that trump and his allies sought to undermine. and we ll be hearing sway voters as they head to the polls in the midterm elections? we ve got a great lineup to talk about it, including minnesota s s
on the threat to democracy. plus, while trump s attempt to slow down investigation made be too late. plus or more coming for the theft of ashley biden s diary? and allegations at a texas podcast or could be on a something when it comes to student debt relief. it could drive up turnout, particularly among young people. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes,. on this last week of august, this monday i think it s now safe to say at this point that just three weeks after the fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago home, his defenders have run out of arguments. in the initial days after the search, republicans, right-wing media rushed to fill the vacuum of media what we had that would ve led the fbi to take this in italy extraordinary reaction with just about every bogus excuse in the book. they just don t get a flying flip about how they look which is terrifying. or the rule of law? yeah i feels that way. trump s a more mental guy. you v
oh, well, uh, i ll take the first class. class has always played a role in the history of sitcoms. bon voyage laney. class is fascinating to us as a culture. i never check my baggage. i can t stand that wait, baggage area. it s good to laugh at it, to get it all out on the table you re going to have to go back to your seat. you know, our goal should be a society without classes! if we didn t laugh about social class in the united states, we would engage in class warfare. do you realize the people up here are getting cookies?! mmm! that is not a show about nothing. oh, come inside. so, to the left we have the bar, to the right we have the bathroom. oh, we have bathrooms upstairs, downstairs, many, many bathrooms. i do still believe that for all the things going on in our current society in america, you can come from anywhere and end up any place you want. immigration? revenue. [ screams ] i ve been gutted! it s crazy, people are just, like,
stop emailing me. he just emailed me again, just about an hour and a half ago. this one really urgent. the email says breaking like breaking news. and it s from it says the only official emails from official donald j trump. this email right here on my phone. it says, breaking, the democrats broke into the home of president donald j trump. there it is we can put it up on the screen this email that i just got. to me, it s very personal. it says lawrence, the radical left is corrupt. this is your chance to stand with president trump. please rush a donation immediately to publicly stand with president trump against this never ending witchhunt. this is to one of my many email addresses. it s actually the least email address used which somehow the trump email managers have found and they are suggesting once again the same contribution they suggested last night. they are suggesting $45. they figure that s where i m good for. on the steele it s $45. but there is that problem deadline
house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. they re also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. they ve, you ve been talking to local law enforcement about this. i m wondering what you re learning down there in florida. you know laura, first, off we in the state attorney s office did not know about this search in advance. neither did local law enforcement. but you can understand why we are dealing with something so sensitive, so unprecedented, you can understand why the feds want to keep this close to the best. and when i was told is that the secret service met them there and walk the plain clothes fbi agents throughout th