back to school. plus electric jeep day at the white house. with the new biden push to phase out gas-powered vehicles means for you and the sudden death of an american labor giant. remembering afl-cio president, richard trumka when all in starts right now. he wasn t just a great labor leader, he was a friend. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. when i was here in this chair last night, i started the show by saying that donald trump s failed coup was worse than we thought. 24 hours later, i am here to say once again that the failed coup was worse than we thought last night. because we ve got another damning new bit of information since we reported last night on the role that this man, former assistant attorney general jeffrey clark, played in attempting to overturn american democracy. last night we told the story of the letter that clark had drafted to be sent to georgia state officials, and he wanted the acting attorney general at the time, jeffrey rosen, to s
detail. we re all on the same page, both tracks, the bipartisan track and the budget reconciliation track are proceeding apace and we hope to have voted on both of them in the senate and house in july. and i m completely fascinated by this, rachel, because nothing like this has ever been done before. i don t know how they re going to do the two bills because if you re the republicans and you re negotiating with the democrats on infrastructure bill, normally you would be saying to them, so this is the bill, right? there s not extra, like, thing your not talking about. yeah, there s this other giant reconciliation bill with taxes and all the other stuff, environmental stuff that you guys don t like, we re going to do that on a separate track. and republicans are supposed to walk out of the room and say forget it. ed markey is here. he s going to be able to explain to me how the senate is going to do something that it s never done before because i have no idea how this works.
that we hope to have voted on both of them in the senate and house in july. i m completely fascinated by this, rachel, because nothing like this have ever been done before. i don t know how they are going to do the two bills, because if you are the republicans and your negotiating with the democrats on an infrastructure bill, normally you would be saying to them, so this is the bill, right? there s no extra thing. you are not talking about it. yeah, there s this other reconciliation bill with taxes and other stuff that you don t like, we re gonna do that on a separate tracked. and republicans are supposed to just walk out of the room and say forget it. ed markey is here he s going to be able to explain to me how the senate is going to do something that it has never done before. i have no idea how this works. i trust senator mark key to know how this can work, but i share your slack jawed skepticism that it is going to perceive in a two track way in any path that results in
government. new reporting on a scandal for donald trump s money man. plus labor secretary marty walsh says what the climate nightmare and where one oil company is a chilling the ground so they can suck more oil out of it. all in starts now. i m chris hayes no one should be surprised by what is going to happen in the u.s. senate tonight. everyone should be outraged. republicans are planning to block the procedural vote, filibuster, the attempts to create an independent commission to investigate the january 6th attack on the capitol. this is a black and white issue. it is not morally complex. there is no justification for the vast majority of the republican caucus to take this step, of filibustering a completely bipartisan commission to investigate the worse frontal assaults in this country s history. at least since the civil war. remember, for months, it is may right now, for this reason, for months democrats negotiated with house republicans in good faith. many of them
and he served as assistant deputy attorney general in the clinton administration. what s your take? people hear criminal investigation and they think criminal chs, but let s be honest. i feel like we ve been talking about this for a very long time. why is this different? we have been talking about it, and the different developments, and when you hear criminal investigation, you do think criminal charges. the new york ag covers a panoply of criminal fraud. two, it s the interrelationship between the a.g. and the d.a. which itself has a serious kr imcriminal investigation going. she has certain evidence and that makes this sensible though it s very unusual. so it is serious as a heart attack. the question may be of timing and she obviously contemplates the real prospect of criminal charges, otherwise she ll be found with real egg on her face. peter alexander at the white house, how big of a deal is this? this is a significant deal and sort of a dramatic escalation in this