he is now running against his former boss for the republican nomination. i have to say, mike pence has always struck me as a somewhat ridiculous figure. he always sounds like he is doing a bad impersonation of a politician. but his biggest obstacle in the republican primary is that voters do not seem to like him very much. despite his real advantage on name recognition, just 7% of republican primary voters say they would vote for pence if the primary election were held today. and this is even more damning. 37% have a negative opinion of the former vice president compared with 33% of primary voters who view him positively according to that same nbc news poll. that s what we call in, in the business, underwater on favor abilities. it s very clear reason for that. donald trump is still quite popular front runner for the republican nomination, blames mike pence. on january 6th and over and over and over again in the two and a half years since then, trump has told his followers th
people for your vote. if we would not have joe biden in the white house. tonight, the effort to persuade rank and file republicans the former arizona house speaker rusty bowers on his conversations with the special counsel. then, as the ex president s body man is finally arraigned, how walt nada chose to be a defendant instead of a witness. plus, how two democratic governors used a favor republican mnuchin maneuver to turn their agendas into law and how the wildly successful rollout of the threads social media platform kicked off a billionaire battle for the ages. but offered me money. offer me power. i don t care. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. mike pence is in the very first presidential contest state of iowa tonight in the midst of the three-day campaign spectacle. although there s nothing more predictable than a former vice president iran for the white house, mike pence is in a unique position. not only was he number
that. donald trump is still quite popular front runner for the republican nomination, blames mike pence. on january 6th and over and over and over again in the two and a half years since then, trump has told his followers that it was mike pence s fault the trump wasn t able to pull off his coup. the morning of the insurrection, in front of an angry crowd that gathered the stop to stop the steal rally, trump made one last appeal to pence the sounded more like a threat. mike pence, i hope you re going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country. and if you re not, i m going to be very disappointed in neo-. i will tell you right now. the violent mob how then march to the capital. they broke, in they ransacked, building rubbing the halls chanting hang mike pence, hang mike pence. someone even erected a gallows with a noose outside of the building. as the danger became apparent
proximity to donald trump in the same way that many other of trump s aides had to sort of confront during their time working for trump. were they going to be loyal to trump? we are going to be loyal to themselves? where they re going to be loyal to the rule of law? in the answer, prosecutors questions. so walt nauta finding himself in the spot that many other before him did, but if you were he cooperated with the mueller investigation, he didn t provide false information to investigators and you weren t indicted. this is the key from the indictment. their surveillance footage that according to the indictment shows him moving boxes, and do you have any any information that could help us understand? where were they were kept? where they secured? were they locked? something that makes the intelligence community feel
thought experiment. 340 million of me would be a lot of people talking a lot. maybe it wouldn t make the country better. we [laughter] rusty bowers thank you so much for your time tonight. you bet, thank you. coming up, he s the man charged alongside donald trump in the classified document prosecution. so who is walt nato? and who did he fall into the same trap as so many before him? and i so far trump has been indicted two times this year. how republican voters responding?