thanks for being with u tonight. it is very, very good to hav you here so, it was labor day weekend 1936 it was hot it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned ou to see him he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front o the crowd that the crowd was about 80, 000, but the polic actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people and, again, this was in 1936 so, if you want to adjust that for inflation, like it was $ amount, if you want to adjus that to account for how big th whole population of the countr was at the time compared to now, 100,000 people then compared t the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of, like, 250, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the perso that they were all there to se was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t william lemke was a candidate for president, a third party candidate i
menendez as we begin a new hour, should not democracy. republicans flock to the nra convention in the wake o another mass shooting. how the party is using its political power against th will of the people plus the impact of the classified documents what we can learn about th national guardsmen charged i the case also, trial for truth, fox new and dominion city have their day in court changing the narrative, ou conversation with broadway s first native america playwright about the thanksgiving play and how it fits into this political moment this is american voices. we begin with the disconnect between american voters and th policies back by republican-le legislatures there s no bigger issue that have lets the stark contrast between most americans and republican politics then gun violence this weekend, the national rifle association is ramping u its annual meeting i indianapolis as always, it is a must attend event for anyone thinking abou running for president as a repub
stories. take a look. as i ve heard today to make the opening i never got to give, i was reminded of the hail tha the employees went through and continue to go through to this day. money is accountability. we got that today from fox we re not done yet we ve got some other people wh have accountability coming towards them dominion settled it defamation lawsuit against fox news with a last-minute deal yesterday afternoon. the network agreed to pay. it s a voting machine compan more than $787 million more moments before opening statements were set to get underway fox s lawyers did not talk t reporters yesterday, but the network put out a statement, running in part, and i hope can get through this, we acknowledge the courts rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to th [inaudible we are hopeful - my professor, professor pearson, would always talk about the straight face test don t ever make an argument.
every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous many that in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates thatst okay for us to get briefed is not going to stand. maria: coming up, texas senator ted cruz on his calls for a hearing on what exactly is in those documents amid new questions about the so-called biden records, that s 1,850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware can. why is the university withholding the so-called gift agreement of the mystery funder of maintaining those documents? and did the money come from china after the ccp sent $50 million plus to the university of pennsylvania and was able to get penn to lobby for the china initiative investigation to get shut down as oversight committee chairman james comer told me recently. we i now learn that the university of penn successfully lobbied the fbi to drop their china initiative which was an inves
all in with chris hayes starts now. tonight on all in - you can t expel hope. let s get back to work! expelled on thursday, returned on wednesday. tonight, the lates extraordinary turn in th tennessee state house with representative gloria johnson. then, was donald trump showing off a map containing sensitive intelligence information to visitors at mar-a-lago the latest reporting on th special counsel investigation. and as the face of the network lowers himself to interview man he, quote, hates passionately - - left their dogs, by the way. - dog the lawyers for fox new caught deceiving the court before fox news goes on tria for knowingly deceiving it audience - when all in starts right now good evening from new york, i chris hayes. today we saw yet another victory for democracy in the state of tennessee, afte representatives justin pearson was reinstated to a seat in th state house. justin pearson, of course, one of the so-called tennessee three, who led the