attorney general supervision of the trump case. and the case of potential criminal prosecution drawing closer. then, connecting the dots between new anti gay laws in florida to a right-wing mobs attempt to storm a drag show. and elie mystal puts this radical turn from the supreme court into perspective, win all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, welcome to this holiday weekend, i hope you are kicking back right now, enjoying. there s a question i have been wrestling with all week, which is why did cassidy hutchinson former trump administration official, the star witness of tuesday s january 6th earring, why did she decide to come forward and testify publicly? hutchinson was a trump ally, one might even say loyalist. and she already testified in three committee depositions there was a recorded, behind closed doors. then something happened and she agreed to come out and testify publicly. and the committee felt confident enough in her testimo
and that s true against across lines of culture, in places you around the world. and that is true in america, and america has all sorts of traditions of wild conspiracy theories, i mean from back to the salem witch trials. what is this now? what is this producing what is producing this very violently fantasizing form of reactionary fantasy in this moment? it s it s an old metaphor. the metaphor spiritual war concretized, made real. so that i mean, literally, the beginning of the story, i went to a rally for ashley babbitt, the woman killed on january 6th. justice right for ashley. and there was a crowd of proud boys there, and they were ready to fight, they were wearing study gloves, they wear masks, and they fought. they fought with protesters who
wear their to celebrate breonna taylor s birthday. and they brawled. but that s their idea. they said, what we are doing is sacred. what we understand our calling as is fundamentally a religious one, it s no longer politics for them. and we should note that this isn t this is not super far removed from mainstream electoral politics. one of the people you just saw and that montage is a guy named brian kelly who is one of the candidates for governor, who was arrested for his role in january 6th. post that arrest, he had seen a surge among republican primary voters, at the kelly surge, which has early echoes of doug mastriano s recent primary victory pennsylvania, suggest the gop could soon nominate another election denier to lead major battleground state. how do people you talk to understand january 6th? there s a range, they like to say that. they like to say, look, we are not lockstep. some believe
attorney general supervision of the trump case. and the case of potential criminal prosecution drawing closer. then, connecting the dots between new anti gay laws in florida to a right-wing mobs attempt to storm a drag show. and elie mystal puts this radical turn from the supreme court into perspective, win all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, welcome to this holiday weekend, i hope you are kicking back right now, enjoying. there s a question i have been wrestling with all week, which is why did cassidy hutchinson former trump administration official, the star witness of tuesday s january 6th earring, why did she decide to come forward and testify publicly? hutchinson was a trump ally, one might even say loyalist. and she already testified in three committee depositions there was a recorded, behind closed doors. then something happened and she agreed to come out and testify publicly. and the committee felt confident enough in her testimony to make
described. ornato himself has not said a word yet. yes. that s interesting. and i think the fact is that the committee is not going to take that pushback particularly seriously, unless it s under oath, now that cassidy hutchinson has set that standard. it s a great point. and we also got some additional reporting today that would seem to suggest that at least the story of this happening in the motorcade was a known story in many circles around the secret service. whether it happened precisely that way or not kyle cheney and annie karni, you both on great reporting on this. thank you both, have a great holiday weekend. thank you. still to come, a lot of news tonight in the justice department investigation. brandi reporting on the prosecutor who it is leading the criminal probe in the january 6th testimony that reportedly blindsided doj. all that, up next. all that, up next.