documentary filmmaker alex holder on what he saw before january 6th, and the threats he faces for cooperating with the committee. all that and stacey abrams on the fight to preserve abortion rights in georgia and beyond, win all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. as we learn more about how bad january 6th was, i am stopped by the persistent suspicion that the party leadership, with some notable exceptions, would you do it all again. they would all support donald trump, all his anti-democratic intentions, his aspirations to be, basically, a fascist authoritarian. and even if he had gotten worse i mean, we got really lucky on january 6th. it could have been a lot worse. even with the mob chanting hang mike pence had made it to mike pence, they would do it again, even if that happened. i think that very strongly. and that s because they made a trade early on. it was a transaction between them and trump. the trade was, they would blindly suppor
rights in georgia and beyond, win all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. as we learn more about how bad january 6th was, i am stopped by the persistent suspicion that the party leadership, with some notable exceptions, would you do it all again. they would all support donald trump, all his anti-democratic intentions, his aspirations to be, basically, a fascist authoritarian. and even if he had gotten worse i mean, we got really lucky on january 6th. it could have been a lot worse. even with the mob chanting hang mike pence had made it to mike pence, they would do it again, even if that happened. i think that very strongly. and that s because they made a trade early on. it was a transaction between them and trump. the trade was, they would blindly support donald trump with all of the dangerous an obvious flaws and all the danger that he would put people in, which he did, of course, in order to have a shot at the super majority on the supreme
we should get to the bottom of that. people defending democracy from the inside. i was ready to fight. i saw a lot of bleep. i was not going to die bleep on the floor of the house of representatives. a key member of the committee investigating the coup. the hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house. and the republican congressman who wore a bulletproof vest on january 6th joins me live. he always brings up we ve got to rescind the election, you ve got to take a biden out and put me in. now he still says that? yes. a special two hour edition of all in, the an american coup, starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. in 24 hours, the first public hearings on the january 6th insurrection will finally begin. and while the story has been fairly front and center for a year and a half, the true horror of that day, the terrifying threat, the violence directed at members of congress and the police at the capitol, the vice p
tonight on a special addition of all in. one year, five months and three days ago, was a protest that spun out of control, with the violent culmination of an attempt to steal the presidency. this week, for the first time, the nation will hear the evidence live in primetime. tonight, we will talk to the people on the frontlines against the mob. it was an attack carried out on january 6th. and a hitman sent them. we should get to the bottom of that. people defending democracy from the inside. i was ready to fight. i saw a lot of back in my day i was not going to die bleep on the floor of the house of representatives. a key member of the committee investigating the coup. the hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house. and the republican congressman who wore a bulletproof vest on january 6th joins me live. he always brings up, we ve got to rescind the election, you ve got to take biden out and put me in. now he still says that? yes
insurrections against democracy, we re in the fight ike of our lives, we have to play hardball to defend our institutions. we are not going to go aside the law to play their games. we are not going to get involved in violence and coups and so on. but, we understand where they are up to, and we are going to play hardball to defend the institutions that centuries of patriots have built in this country. that brings us to you were a constitutional scholar before your member of congress, i know that you thought deeply about the separation of powers, and the the work you are doing both in the second impeachment and on the committee is in defensive that. and when you look at this court, and just the truly head snapping rapidity with which they have essentially cast aside any pretext, basically said, on matters large and small, ranging over laws we have holder those we strike down we want to piece of this and that just sort of marauding their way through the end of