the dear colleague letter from speaker johnson. tell us what you know about this agreement. we ve got a lot of numbers here. yes, symone. a lot of numbers. a little bit of a discrepancy and what we re hearing from republican leader, speaker johnson and democratic leaders. you mentioned we have that dear colleague letter that gives us the first sense of these top line members. you know, one point 59 trillion for fiscal year 2024, which republicans say allots 886 billion dollars in defense and 704 billion in non-defense. now, democrats are saying that they ve secured more than 772 billion in non defense spending. so, this is getting a little in the weeds here. but the difference is a side card dam deal that is a 69 billion dollars, that was negotiated as part of that speaker mccarthy, biden deal. and so, that is actually sticking around, explaining that discrepancy. what this does is it allows democrats to show that they ve got more money and it allows speaker johnson to kind
we will stay on the story as it develops. that s tonight s reidout. all in with chris hayes starts now. good evening from los angeles. i m jason johnson, in for chris hayes. we are officially an election year and 2024 brings with it another number of legal and political or hurdles. for the quadruple indicted, disgraced ex president. less than two weeks away from the first in the nation io caucus. while trump is still every favorite to win in the hawkeye state, the future is far more uncertain from there. we are about three weeks out from the new hampshire primary. and while he s lead there is still substantial, former south carolina governor nikki haley has developed some late momentum. and of course donald trump s electoral fortunesare linked to his legal jeopardy. as of now, he has already been cked off the primary ballot into super tuesday states. maine and colorado, under the 14th amendment. and on january 16th, the first of hisany trials scheduled for this year is se
lawrence, i m gobsmacked by some of these numbers. i m just gonna leave it to you while i scratch my head. aly you , know that thing happens once in awhile where one of our great guests guests really is getting warmed up right when we have to go to commercial break because that s life on commercial television. that happened last week with yale professor david blight, who is an expert on the 14th amendment. he knows everything about how it came to be, the congressional debate about it. we are bringing back tonight finishes thoughts about that. that is worth watching because the most important amendment nobody ever thought about six months ago, and this is worth staying and listening to. certainly not in this context. and he will follow harvard law professor laurence tribe, also an expert on constitutional law and the 14th amendment, who will give us his view of how the 14th amendment, how it has the power to keep donald trump off the ballot in some states. i look forw
a special holiday edition of the last word. 2024 will be another year of defendant trump and another election here in which democracy itself is once again at stake. the republicansha only a three state majority in the house of representatives. the democrats have only a one seat majority in the united states senate with democratic senators facing difficult campaigns in ohio, montana, pennsylvania, michigan, and nevada. democrats will be running on a 3.7% unemployment rate. unemployment has not been has been below 4% for 22 months, the longest stretch since 1969. president biden was at a temperature of ain t at the cop with this international training center in battleground state of nevada. on the final jobs report floor 2023 was released. folks, all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure week. [laughter] four years of infrastructure week, but it failed. he failed. on mount watch, the state of infrastructure week ameri
happy new year. i am kat timpf. greg is off today so he asked me to check in and see how your new year s is going so far. not bad? good enough. all take it. we had a great year of shows with some awesome guests. we can t wait to bring you more in 2024. until then let s look back at some of our favorite segments from the past few months. and joy. there is a new marvel movie out. apparently it sucks. i haven t seen it yet because i have better things to do. [ yelling ] the new flick is courtesy of disney who owns the marvel cinematic universe. the real marvel is how each movie they put out is getting worse and worse. the next superhero should be the incredible shrinking box office. the latest offering, the marvels, was the worst opening for a marvel movie ever. even worse than ironman versus little women. they got destroyed in that. in this universe women are as physically strong as men. i m talking actual women, not the ones with 5:00 shadows who can p in the snow. today e