behind a coup, alive and kicking in state houses across america. the authority for directing the manner of choosing electors belongs to the legislature. tonight, the massive supreme court decision that stopped a slow motion insurrection. van, the evolving alibi of an indicted ex president. you re not concerned, then, with your voice on those recordings. my voice was fine. i didn t even see the recording. just how bout of the new tapes in the trump document case is the other jack smith investigation ramps up. i did everything right, and they invited me. and why republican leaders finally acknowledging that donald trump is a loser is actually a big deal. the question is, is he the strongest to win the election? i don t know that answer. when all in starts, right now. we good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it is not often the case these days but today the supreme court issued a long anticipated monumental ruling that actually bolsters america s democ
deadly, but they are actually effective. and now he s turned and gone back into the russia, he claims he s going to fix the situation because he claims that the russian military attacked his men. this has been a long simmering food between the russian defense minister and prigozhin, but prigozhin says he s doing something about it. we are unable to convert any of this, we have heard reports from ukrainians that they ve crossed into russia. that wagner group has crushed into russia. burgos russia is on high alert. moscow has tanks in the streets, they re calling it a coup attempt. he denies that s the case, it is all very confusing. but this guy is both volatile and dangerous. i will say on the american side, there is a concern. russia is a nuclear armed country, and having a whole bunch of people fighting about who s in charge of it is actually more serious than not. so, everybody tonight is on high alert about what s going on in russia. something is happening, we do not ha
it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. time for the last word. my friend jonathan capehart, in for lawrence tonight. good evening, john. good evening, ali. thank you very much have a good evening. thank you. last night on this program, a large breaking news that special counsel jack smith and his team had handed over the first batch of evidence in the classified documents case. today, we, along with donald trump and his legal team are getting a better idea of what that evidence actually is. according to the filing of special counsel smith and his prosecutors, that evidence includes quote, interviews of defendant trump conducted by non government entities recorded with his consent and obtained by the special counsel s office during the investigation of this case, including the july 21st, 2021 reported interview defending trump providing to a publisher and writer quoted in part in the indictment. now, we cannot say for sure whether that line refers to more priv
tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. time for the last word. my friend jonathan capehart, in for lawrence tonight. good evening, john. good evening, ali. thank you very much have a good evening. thank you. last night on this program, a large breaking news that special counsel jack smith and his team had handed over the first batch of evidence in the classified documents case. today, we, along with donald trump and his legal team are getting a better idea of what that evidence actually is. according to the filing of special counsel smith and his prosecutors, that evidence includes quote, interviews of defendant trump conducted by non government entities recorded with his consent and obtained by the special counsel s office during the investigation of this case, including the july 21st, 2021 reported interview defending trump providing to a publisher and writer quoted in part in the indictment. now, we cannot say for sure whether that line refers to more privately recor
russia wouldn t have the success that it s had if not for prigozhin and the wagner group. they re mercenaries, they re deadly, but they are actually effective. and now he s turned and gone back into the russia, he claims he s going to fix the situation because he claims that the russian military attacked his men. this has been a long simmering food between the russian defense minister and prigozhin, but prigozhin says he s doing something about it. we are unable to convert any of this, we have heard reports from ukrainians that they ve crossed into russia. that wagner group has crushed into russia. burgos russia is on high alert. moscow has tanks in the streets, they re calling it a coup attempt. he denies that s the case, it is all very confusing. but this guy is both volatile and dangerous. i will say on the american side, there is a concern. russia is a nuclear armed country, and having a whole bunch of people fighting about who s in charge of it is actually more serio