middle of a blizzard. the elements are all break whatever i need to. i don t even know what negative 15 is. tonight, the defendant in the over hurled election trial takes a break from the courtroom to head to the iowa caucuses. then, every day, mike johnson gets closer and closer to this deal, brings me closer and closer to vacating the chair. brand-new house speaker already on the outs of the maga caucus, as democrats demand an accounting of the trump presidency. you don t care about the principle that our governmental leaders should not be on the tape from foreign governments. that s outrageous. congressman jamie raskin joins me tonight, plus i was hoping that this film could spark conversation, the part of a conversation that we should be having in this country, this year, right now. director ava duvernay, on her brand-new film, origin. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. it is here, well, almost here, on monda
republican party, inside professional conservative politics, the harassment and threat of violence is much more intimate. there were members who told me that they were afraid for their own security, afraid, in some instances, for their lives. our colleagues were not traveling with armed escorts out of the fear for their safety. many of us are altering our routines, working to get body armor. our expectation is that somebody may try to kill us. the threats are constant. they ve increased. i ve even heard a voice mail just this morning that we got last night, threatening execution. that kind of seems to be the normal thing nowadays, just threat and execution. that all happened. not a long time ago. it s regrettably easy to forget now that republicans who voted to impeach or convict trump were they thought, at least, and i think credibly, kind of putting their lives at risk. at least their family safety, and themselves. certainly, their peace of mind was put at risk. to member?
party politics, whose constituents are conservatives, and neighbors, who are trump devotees. this extremism, this acceptance of coercion, of political violence, or the threat thereof, of terror, of just insane harassment as a tactic, it s really powerful. i think it s fair to say, i really believe this, that it is completely subverted the ability of the republican party themselves to genuinely run a free and fair election within their own party, to choose their own nominee. because not only is there this ever-present threat, everyone in the upper echelons of the party also understands that donald trump will never accept defeat. you re having a contest with a guy who, is he going to accept defeat? they understand it, because of january 6th, but they understand it before that. they understand it because of 2016, when trump lost the iowa caucuses, and he reportedly pressured state republicans to invalidate the results. does that sound familiar?