unmasked. the new york times reporter who revealed his identity joins me live. plus, connecting the dots between the election in brazil, brexit, and donald trump. and meet the new attorney representing brett favre and his volleyball welfare scandal. i got a great effing criminal defense lawyer. you re gonna need it. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. well, today, we got an extended look at just how narrowly we avoided the january 6th insurrection becoming much, much worse. because this morning, the seditious conspiracy trial of five members of the oath keepers started. and of course, the far-right militia group who prosecutors say, blotted to use violence, weapons, if necessary, to block the peaceful transfer of power. now, even before today s opening arguments began, lawyers from one of the defendants argued to suppress evidence of to hand when it s found in an rv. apparently, brought to d. c. by one of the alleged coconspi
results of a free election. they re working right now, as i speak, in state after state to give power to the elections in americas. they are empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. the president did somewhat soft in that message on friday. take a listen. [inaudible] he did repeat that election deniers and those who fought for the denial are a threat to democracy. it is going every day. join me now is the host of a daily digital show, hashtag rolling martin. this is the cofounder of the black voters matter fund. very excited to have this panel breakdown president biden s speech. i want to kick it off with you, what do you think, the joe biden capture the soul of america on thursday night? i think he did three things. one of, not it was one of his strongest speeches. i think he was able to capture the idea of hope. the last two years have been very difficult for people. having a sense of hope, that and itself he s a really good job. the second thing i t
tonight on all in i m now very close. we could bring some of these hostages home. a potential deal for hostages. it s not going to be done until it s done. tonight, the delicate negotiation going on in israel, it will take some time to get some of the hamas hostages home. then, the latest on the gag order against the ex president as authoritarianism keeps spreading beyond trump. i will rain hell on washington, dc. plus, the reason why the polls are so tight and why inflation just ain t what it used to be. we went to go buy a turkey today. it was $90 for a turkey! when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we are having some big news tonight. it has been 45 days since the october 7th hamas attack on israel, which precipitated the nearly constant bombardment of gaza by the israeli army and a nearly full scale ground invasion. and today at this hour there is a glimmer of hope that some of the over 200 hostages c
and reforms that christopher wray made, even though you heard him say he was gonna fire christopher wray. you look at the charges or the lack of serious charges against hunter biden. this is a very popular view among republican voters. and i guess that that is where they feel all these republican presidential candidates with the three exceptions will hurt chris christie and ages hutchinson. you likely have to be. their voters are now skeptical of all charges of donald trump. apparently, cannot be convinced, even if there is evidence, even individuals like former bill barr, mark esper, saying that they think these are serious charges. i, mean fair criticism, is always fair. as you point out, the idea of talking, point to suggest that somehow overarching, lee it s simply bad for the country to prosecute somebody who s accused of a crime. it s really one that s distinct in the political realm over anything else.
press him on this at a town hall. let s listen to what she had to say. why did you take those documents with you when you left the white house? i had every right to under the presidential records act. you have the presidential records act. i was there and i took what i took and i get the classified. do you have any classified documents in your possession? are you ready? do you? no! i don t have anything. i have no classified documents, and by the way they become automatically declassified when i took them. so this is very messy. now i also did talk to some people close to trump s legal team and they were saying that they are gonna try to fight this inquiry or they may try to challenge it in court. it s unclear. but one issue they have had throughout this entire cases is that anytime they thought about mounting a legal challenge about these types of documents, they end up in the hands of the special counsel already. so they are worried that this could happen this time but