How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
Say, what would my father say . What would he think of all of this . Obviously i cannot call him up well i guess i could whatever it hasnt worked so far. [laughter] we tend to get into a flurry of texts or emails with me my siblings and we come up with their own point of view of will, that is what doug would say. Or that is what that would say. But most often he would be rolling over in his grave. I think it has been a long time since you this kind of tension between the media and the administration. But coming back here today it actually makes me reflect on a time when i was here and what was the upper school. At that point the tension was between the media and the Vice President. And none of you remember that. And, for me at that age, i was 12, maybe . It had very distinct impression. I knew that there was a black list and my fathers name was on it. And you know, there was a lot of pressure on cbs with the pentagon and it seems, i do know i can be wrong jeff, i would love to hear you
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