from jordan perry, brooks, and mccarthy. we have information from other sources that lead us to believe that each one of these individuals are colleagues have information within the committee and needs to tell the full story. plus, on the court victory to block florida s racially gerrymander congressional map. and what i learn from my battle with coronavirus that could end the helping you. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. today the bipartisan committee investigating january six took the seismic step of subpoenaing the most powerful republican in the house. minority leader kevin mccarthy of california. and of course, that is the guy who is poised to become speaker of the house, should republicans win the house in the midterm elections. they also issued subpoenas for four of his colleagues, and in fact, their colleagues. jim jordan of ohio, mel brooks of alabama, andy biggs of arizona, and scott perry of pennsylvania. the latter fo
and for months and months, house democrats have been trying everything to avoid getting too precise at this point. which is why it is worth looking back at just how we got here. in the days after the insurrection, it really seemed like kevin mccarthy understood the gravity of the situation. it is apparent in the since leaked phone calls with his fellow republicans from the days following the attack that mccarthy privately told allies he was thinking of asking trump to resign. and you asked if, you know, what happens if he gets there after he s gone? is there any chance? are you hearing that he might resign? is there any reason to think that might happen? i ve had if you discussions. my gut tells me no. i m seriously thinking of having that conversation with him tonight. i haven t talked to him in a couple days. mccarthy appeared to take the attack so seriously that he actually deputize his own ally, member of the republican house leadership, congressman john taco of new
Leaving from washington, i am washington steel in for my friend jen psaki. Shes wrapping up a well deserved vacation and will be with you next week. We have a lot to cover tonight, so settle in. I do want to begin with a headline. Trump employs images of violence as political fuel for reelection fight. You might be thinking, yeah, i saw this over the weekend. After all, donald trump posted a video on his social media site depicting President Biden with his hands and feet tied up in the back of a pickup truck. At the same time on that same site, trump not only lashed out at the judge presiding over his new york criminal trial, but also at the judges daughter. So, yeah. I would say he is employing images of violence in his re election fight right now. Folks, that headline is not from over the weekend. Its from September Of 2020 almost four full years ago. And the fact that it very well could have been published today should serve as a stark reminder that donald trump has always been this
Decade doing trumps dirty work. Credibility issues are why the prosecution used the 20 witnesses who proceeded cohen to basically corroborate his story before they even put him on the stand. It is also why trumps defense team has singlemindedly sought to state their case on discrediting him. Even in cases that might not be read crucial to rebutting the prosecution. For that reason the defense may think they racked up a victory for themselves today because during the crossexamination this morning, cohen admitted that he stole from the trump organization. In addition to the reimbursement for the hush money for stormie daniels, cohen was also given 50,000. That money was supposed to be a repayment for what cohen spent to hire a tech from to rig an online poll on trumps behalf. We dont have time to get into that detail. But as cohen said on the stand, he only paid trump 20,000 and kept the rest for himself. Asked point blank today whether he stole from the trump organization, cohen said, y
And lets just say that a lot happened today in lower manhattan. Lucky for us, we have the perfect person to talk about it with. Diane perry has been serving as counsel for Michael Cohen during the trial and has given an interview about the testimony. We will talk to her in a moment. Her client, Michael Cohen, of course is the star witness in the case and he returned to the stand today for a third day of crossexamination. From the beginning, we have known that putting Michael Cohen on the Witness Stand was a high risk and high reward proposition for the prosecution. On one hand, he is the central player. After all, he paid Stormy Daniels out of his own pocket pick he said he did it at Donald Trumps direction and said donald trump was fully aware of the plan to cover it up. Those are the key details. At the same time, cohen is a convicted felon who pled guilty to lying to congress and making false statements to a bank. Not to mention he spent over a decade doing trumps dirty work. And th