appreciate you and that is tonight s read out all in with chris hayes starts now. tonight on all in, the trump appointed judge in texas, no deciding abortion access for the entire country we will have the latest from today s hearing in amarillo. then, congresswoman maxine waters on the failure of silicon valley bank and ne fears of a global bankin crisis plus - at the end of the day, complied with everything, an now it is in the hands of ou district attorney, alvin bragg and his competency a possible indictment o donald trump in the stormy daniels investigation. and the arrest of chines billionaire, who bankrolle steve bannon so great. thank you. thank you love you. thank you. when all in starts righ now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today, the fate of millions of americans women s reproductive health is once again in th hands of a far-right judge this morning, federal judg matthew of the northern district o texas, provided over a hearing in th
preach pro-life and do nothing again, that is his sister, who shares his views then president donald trump first nominated the judge to the federal bench in 2017. democrats, understandably, oppose just confirmation and managed to hold it off for nearly two years they argue that he was unfit for the role, based on his anti-lgbtq and anti-abortion beliefs. not only are his views on discrimination based on i am also very alarmed by hi record as a fervent crusader against women s reproductive rights and for the far-right position that someone else s ideology is more important tha a woman s ability to make he own personal medical decisions if his arguments had won the day in court, a woman trying t get contraceptive care could face barriers thrown up at her by her employer or even by her pharmacy, all because someon else thinks that their beliefs
legislative initiatives, conversations within the party that would happen that won t happen with him not in the race? i don t know. i mean, i think in many ways his record was not totally dissimilar from secretary clinton s. he may be stronger on certainly other issues, but we cannot know what we will not know. so we will see. there were not things you were gaming out saying this issue, this issue will sently be front and center of the campaign if he gets in the race? no, what we were doing is reviewing hi record to know where he stood and where we stood differently. when were you first elected to be mayor of burlington? 1981. so 34 years ago. joe biden has been in public life for 40 years. he s been an elected person. how hard is it to walk away? how hard is it to say i m not there s going to be a time when no one will have elected me.
actually a lot of them do. that s interesting. i don t know how much they will all stand out but he gets the neighbor discount okay? everybody in iowa knows him. he has a great record in wisconsin. he actually he is not too popular right now with that in wisconsin. he is running on hi record of accomplishments in wisconsin. has a lot of fans in iowa for what he has done there. it is clear that jeb busch will not win iowa. scott walker might. but that could change. looks like there is room for others to grow. not good news for marco rubio or jeb bush that rand paul and ben carson come right behind scott walker and then you know bush is down with huckabee at 9. there is funny factors in that poll. but i think that rick is right, there is no front-runner every time we see any kind of break out we will get excited because it will be notable. because so far everyone is mired at 9 and 10% in national polls and no one is pulling away. rick said four years a ago,
deadly string of assassinations. and the first lady of the united states reacting to a controversial new book about the obama white house, saying she s not the stereotype of, quote, some angry black woman. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. with back-to-back wins in iowa and new hampshire, mitt romney has now done what no other republican incumbent candidate has ever done, once again no republican candidate except, i should say, for a sitting president. romney, of course, wants to be sitting in the white house next year, but that road leads through south carolina. that s the next primary state in ten days. his opponents are digging trenches and putting up barricades there in an all-out effort to halt his momentum. south carolina has a representation for rough and tumble primary and for picking winners. jim accost ha has the latest. jim? reporter: if only the south carolina primary could be tomorrow for mitt romney, it s going to be potentially a brutal te