indictment watch underway in manhattan s new details emerge in georgia when the right hands or comes out, you ll be praised tonight, what the grand jur heard in fulton county and multiple calls between trump election officials and we know that the aggressive behavior and we also know it was unprofessional and unsafe. the moment russian war jets attacked a russian drone, ne concerns about the socia skills of ron desantis and a fresh reminder of th days when a scandal like storm daniels would and politica careers. i spent time with a woman i shouldn t have and i paid her with a check. i wish i hadn t done that. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we are officially on indictmen watch as multipl investigations into donald trump reached their fina chapters there has never been a indictment of a former president in american history, and we may be able to find out what it s like when they re. its first manhattan district attorn
heard in fulton county and multiple calls between trump election officials and we know that the aggressive behavior and we also know it was unprofessional and unsafe. the moment russian war jets attacked a russian drone, ne concerns about the socia skills of ron desantis and a fresh reminder of th days when a scandal like storm daniels would and politica careers. i spent time with a woman i shouldn t have and i paid her with a check. i wish i hadn t done that. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we are officially on indictmen watch as multipl investigations into donald trump reached their fina chapters there has never been a indictment of a former president in american history, and we may be able to find out what it s like when they re. its first manhattan district attorney s investigation int trump including the hush money payment to stormy daniels. she received 130,000 dolla payment back in 2016, which sh says was to cover
thing, according to cohen sworn testimony. he directed michael cohen to make the payment of hundre $3,000 to bury that news t keep his chances of winning th election alive no of course there is a long list of sex scandals i american politics, going all the way back to when alexander hamilton didn t know how to sa no to maria reynolds and there have been plenty more recent memory in the 70s there wa congressman wayne hayes of ohio, washington post reported the time for nearly two years th powerful chairman of the house of the administration kept a woman on a staff who said sh is paid $14,000 a year i public money to serve as his mistress currently she is closeted in a luxurious leah pointed house office behind a blind door suppose the, she says, i m o the oversight committee but call it the out of sight committee. [laughter] time magazine elizabeth rachel is to tell her story after he decided to marry his secon wife and did not invite her. quote, i was good enough to be his mistress f
the affair money, more than million dollars came from some of th top donors to his 2008 presidential campaign includin 100-year-old heiress named bunny mail-in. edwards was not was acquitte on one s charge of campaig finance fraud, but others were dismissed. in other words he was no guilty of the crime brough against him. but he was utterly and completely shamed. like, just completely flushe out of public life never to be heard from again not just his presidential hopes, his whole entire political career, all of it, don but of course everything changed with donald trump an to be fair, it started changin with bill clinton, who had a kind of gary heart like scandal, survived the allegation that h had an affair with jennife flowers during his campaign in 1982 but it completely changed with trump. so much so now that it all seems quaint to think that the stormy daniels affair woul matter one way or the other or
to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of iraq. i mean of, ukraine iraq, anyway [laughter] as you saw on that clip, which i always love. matt he is one of the most supremely talented publi communicators we have an incredible debater t boot and, fact he s written a boo about how you can be as well called, when every argument th art of debating, persuading, and public speaking. and manny hassan, the host o the mehdi hassan show joins me now mattie, i love your. book which is both a delight t read and shares some of your specific skills. which i think you have a uniqu aptitude and talent for that aren t necessarily transferable why do you think that it s important that people learn th basics, or thinking a sort o rigorous way about the project of persuasion, and publi communication? first of, all chris, than