i would rather lose by telling the truth than lie in order to win. chris christie drops out with no endorsement. anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be president of the united states is unfit themselves to be president of the united states. as the rest of the field panders to maga. don t just build the wall. bill both walls. anthony, you are fired. tonight, what christie s departure means to the race in our party led by an indicted front runner. sits here with a smug look on his face and runs away when it s my turn to talk. how the tent collapsed on the margaret circus, with congresswoman jasmine crockett, and george conway on how trump attorneys walk into a trap at a d.c. courtroom. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a major development tonight in the race for the republican nomination. chris christie, the only candidate telling the truth about trump from the republican side and his attempted coup was
seal team six through the capitol and then what he did. you just have to sometimes accept the fact that your position is out there because it s the only one you can. take it s a loser to be sure, but you do not make a weak argument stronger by blending it with any other week or one. that s appellate efficacy one-on-one, in addition to, answer the questions. that s such an interesting and important point. i want to stay with it for a second, because i think it is gaining. the opening before trump s lawyers is that he is absolutely immune for official acts at the outer perimeter of his official duties. that means anything from sending seal team six, as a jack smith s office smartly raised, to selling pardons, these are clearly, what we would say, criminal enterprises. but they intermix with official acts. what you are saying is, what they realized is that was too extreme, and they needed to fall back. so they have concocted this sort of, folk octa
folk octa is a good word. construction, which is a weird impeachment thing, and you re saying, by constructing the fall back so you are not making the extreme argument, you are also undercutting the clarity of the argument itself. that s exactly right, and it goes beyond the fact that it s an impeachment judgment clause is inconsistent with absolute presidential criminal immunity. the rationales that he was presenting were inconsistent. his rationale that he kept pleading to the panel, trump s lawyer, he kept saying there isn t what we have to have absolute criminal immunity is because the specter that some other president, his client actually, might go and start prosecuting and engaging in portable prosecutions. that punishes his enemies.