possible indictment. we are in uncharted waters, people, and a shifting hazard. if you don t have to be outside, then don t be outside. that s the mayor of washington, d.c. dangerous thick smoke from canadian wildfires is moving south. major cities in the u.s. are elevating their alert as air quality is getting worse. plus, new russian aggression on the battlefield. the significant losses for ukraine as ukrainian forces try to breach enemy lines. welcome to the load. i m jake tapper, and we ll start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump is gathering with his top aides reaching out to allies on capitol hill ahead of possible criminal charges, criminal charges, being filed against him. sources say the justice department recently told trump s legal team that the former president is a target in the federal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents after he left office and, of course, possible obstruction of justice charges related to
whistleblower, or the informant is now missing? congressman jamie raskin on how hunter biden called james comer s bluff, and what we are learning about negotiations for an extension of the truce as 16 more hostages are released by hamas. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we re under 50 days from now iowa caucus, republican primary voters, their first shot to choose a presidential nominee. last time most of the country went to the polls, after the big national election, the 2022 midterm elections, a little over a year ago, and if you might remember, republicans delivered a pretty shocking underperformance in those elections. it was an empty performance those particularly pronounced among the trump aligned candidates. we saw this early in that election night and it just kept going. the kari lake in arizona e and the herschel walker and the tv doctor mehmet oz in pennsylvania. in short, modulus to begin 2022. as a result at the time th
my first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? they think it s russia. i have president putin, he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. i will tell you that president putin waswi extremely strong an powerful inro his denial today. president of the united states of america, donald trump, standing alongside russian president vladimir putin, aligning himself with russian claims over u.s. intelligence. and denying what everyone at that point knew to be true. russia interfered in the 2016 election. throughout his time in office, trump denied and down-played and excused russian interference in america s elections. he called the investigation into thatd interference a hoax and witch hunt over and over and over again. and now mr. trump is set to be on trial for his own efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his baseless claims that the election was stolen. in trump s new defense in that case appears to be the court should b
weeks trump had been telling people around him, asking them really do they think he s going to get indicted? that shifted in the last several days. now he s saying he believes he s likely to be indicted, not just him. his team believes that as well. they are bracing themselves for this. they actually believe he ll be indicted likely in this case as well as the georgia probe. however, they are not just signature around waiting for it to happen. now they are actually trying to do as we re talking about, get republicans out there to defend them. they are calling the allies on the hill and calling the staunch protests on the airwaves talking about how this is a political persecution, how this is election interfeerps, and donald trump himself is actually making some of these calls. he s taking so some of these representatives on the hill telling them how he feels and about this indictment. they feel they are red for this, but they also don t have any sort of plan in place once it happens. i