endangering our democracy. plus, crickets from the republican field who should want to defeat donald trump. and fox news fires up the outrage machine over a human crisis invented by trump republicans. you can t survive with the money one makes even to have food. one day, one day we will be able to see each other again. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. last night, let s talk about last night. last night at this time, the man that led the insurrection against our democracy was spewing vile nonsense on another network. of course, i was here hosting this very television show, hopefully with many of you watching. i did not see the whole thing play out live. but i ve seen enough. i ve seen enough to have to have the same visceral reaction as many others. that it was disgraceful, despicable, gross. if you had that reaction as well, i will just say i think that is the correct response. i don t think you really need to second gues
the insurrection is broadcast live on national television. january 6th was just a dress rehearsal. this is a profoundly dangerous moment. tonight, blow back against the disgraced ex president and the people who thought putting him on tv was a good idea. to platform him is to participate, i think, in endangering our democracy. plus, crickets from the republican field who should want to defeat donald trump. and fox news fires up the outrage machine over a human crisis invented by trump republicans. you can t survive with the money one makes even to have food. one day, one day we will be able to see each other again. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. last night, let s talk about last night. last night at this time, the man that led the insurrection against our democracy was spewing viable nonsense on another network. of course, i was here hosting this very television show, hopefully with many of you watching. i did not
last, night we did a lot of news, america was served very well by what we did last night. the state the obvious fact, that wasn t journalism. it s hard to imagine america was well served by hosting nationally televised insurrection rally. the thing is, there are ways to cover donald trump, in fact, there are ways to interview him. i certainly wouldn t object to it. they don t involve a life platform with hundreds of his whooping, cheering super fans ritualistically xi maleate-ing your host and network. michelle goldberg is an op-ed columnist for the new york times and she joins me now. what did you think? it was appalling. i think everybody thought it was going to be bad and it was so much worse. it s what you zeroed in on, the thing that made it particularly appalling was that you have this pro trump crowd. there was no need to do that. i think that, look, for better or worse, not just for better or worse, for worse, donald trump is the front runner for
watched this event. that s a lot of people, but that s not a crazy number. it is nothing like trump would draw in 2016. tucker carlson used to get that on a typical tuesday night before he got fired. what s galling about the decision to do this trump town hall, to me, is the disingenuousness about the decision to do it. today, cnn chairman that was journalism they did last, night we did a lot of news, america was served very well by what we did last night. the state the obvious fact, that wasn t journalism. it s hard to imagine america was well served by hosting nationally televised insurrection rally. the thing is, there are ways to cover donald trump, in fact, there are ways to interview him. i certainly wouldn t object to it. they don t involve a live platform with hundreds of his whooping, cheering super fans