hi, nicole, thanks a lot. special counsel jack smith is calling mike pence s bluff, in their view, and trying to force him under oath in a grand jury. more on that later. plus, the top investigator for the january 6th committee is speaking out on that big new york times story that was making waves. you might have seen it. he s here. he make his beat debut later in the hour. top story now is how republicans are using their power in the house. we saw kevin mccarthy clash with those hardliners, and during those clashes when he had to get all the votes on the house floor, he promised all kinds of concessions, including promoting what was then his most ardent foe to a committee to look into fbi investigations and attacking the fbi and doj. and that itself is a shift in washington s power dynamics. this is a story i m about to tell you. for decades, members in both parties lobbied to get on committees like appropriations, controlling money. some sought prestigious assignmen
tonight on the reidout i was asked by the u.s. attorney s office in the southern district to stand down on our investigation, which had commenced involving the trump organization and i was somewhat surprised after mr. cohen pleaded guilty that the federal government did not proceed on the areas in which it asked me to stand down. former manhattan d.a. cy vance revealed why it has taken so long to get to this point just hours from the fingerprinting of the first criminally indicted former president. and as we have been seeing all day, trump s strategy is to turn this humiliating event in his life into a media spectacle. omarosa, who knows a thing or two about trump and spectacle, joins me tonight to discuss. and that is where we begin tonight, on the eve of a legal reckoning for donald trump in new york city. trump made an ignominious return to his former hometown today ahead of his history making day in court tomorrow. as the first american president ever charged
right now. my opponent is the most extreme nominee for the u.s. senate in modern history. i could ask how are you going to fix the economy? the exact opposite of joe biden and maggie hassan. by january i ll be even better. but dr. oz will be a fraud. we have 40-year high inflation. he s recklessly spending our children s money. fetterman thought that was important. my opponent says he wants to punish the doctors. i think that mark kelly is the very worst united states senator. i ve had an opponent that is driving around in a bus that says deport them all. dreamers should be here. she had the opportunity to stand with nevada, to tell joe biden that she wasn t going to spend more money. she cast that vote. i have faith in the people of georgia. whether it s tonight or a few nights from now, you mark my word, the people of georgia are going to get this right. you listen to our president. he said the biggest threat to democracy is voting for republicans. no. t
right, now president joe biden is in el paso, texas visiting our southern border for the first time as president. amid a record-breaking surge in migration that has strained several american cities and giving republicans a line of criticism at this hour. migrant services center which is funded by fema s emergency food and shelter program, he s meeting with local officials, faith leaders, and non governmental authorizations who have been critical to supporting migrants, economic collapse in their home countries, we will check in on the presidents border tour throughout the hour. plus, with the drama of last week s protracted battle over the speakership behind us, the house is slated to take up a rules package impacted by the unprecedented concessions kevin mccarthy made to far-right members of his caucus to become speaker. of course, the question that emerges from that is how those concessions and the enduring chaos of the speakership battle will impact how this 118t
pele was 82 years old. and that s tonight s read out. all in with chris hayes starts right now. l in with chris hayes starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. one week after its release, we are still digesting the final report from the january six committee. in almost 900 pages before appendix. later this week, we examined one particularly pernicious aspect of donald trump s attempt to stay in power as outlined in chapter five of the report, titled, search of the legal theory. that chapter details the lengths to which donald trump, as the lawyer of john eastman, knowingly pushed and illegal scheme to have done vice president, mike pence, unilaterally throw out joe biden s victory and hand the presidency to trump. yesterday, we spoke to committee member, jimmy raskin, of maryland about the criminal referrals the committee made against trump, some of his closest allies, and why he thinks trump is likely to go to prison for his attempted coup. and while