standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see
good evening, the first time since might easily have been a deadly attack on her husband paul house speaker nancy pelosi is talking about the ordeal. she was not at their san francisco home the early-morning hours of october 28th when is when paul was awakened by an intruder asking to talk with his wife. according to federal prosecutors the suspect told he intended to hold nancy pelosi captive, interrogate her and possibly break her kneecap if her answers did not satisfy him. paul pelosi managed to call 911. police arrived just in time to see a suspect hit him with a hammer fracturing his skull. tonight mr. pelosi is out of the hospital. speaker pelosi is telling her story. ised. i m so sorry for all that has happened. how is your husband doing and what does his recovery look like? well, thank you. it s a long haul but he knows he has to pace himself. he s just as gentleman that he s not complaining about he s also knowing that it s a long haul. he s so concerned about th
day. i want to say that those on the far-right attacking her on social media apps i won t name, you don t understand how sister s move. so watch this space. we will be here, her sisters will be here to support anything tiffany ever does. no. that believe that. that s tonight s read out. all in with chris hayes starts now. all in with chris hayes star ts now. tonight on all in, it s the dirty little secret you won t hear in any other ads. i will very, very, very, very probably run again. very, very tonight, the return of chaos in american government that s on the ballot in four days. then, cornell belcher on reading the wild variations in last night s election polls. plus, the republican candidate who wants a community level review process to decide whether rape victims can get abortion. there are certainly legal mechanisms you can put in place, legislatively, that would create basis for abuse. direct from the campaign trail with the rock obama, the one and only john
american people about the lousy state of the economy and kitchen table issues. let s take a look at the facts. when i took office, this economy was in ruins. the economy is out. price inflation is down. real incomes are up. gas prices are down and the need to come down further. exports are also up which means a simple thing, we are making a lot of money in america because of that. judge jeanine: you think that s crazy? biden s friends in the media are taking things to the next level by claiming republicans made up the term inflation to help them win. the only people i ever hear use the word inflation are journalists and economists. right? that s not part of the normal lexicon of the way people talk. it s interesting the republicans are doing something they don t normally do, right, not use the common tongue. not using common english in their campaigns. what they ve done is they have taught people the word inflation. most people would ve never use that word ever in their
much. and that is, indeed, tonight s reidout. all in with chris hayes starts right now. reidout. all good evening from new york. i am ali velshi, in for chris hayes. happy new year to you. we re just hours away from republicans taking control of the house of representatives, and tonight, kevin mccarthy might just be the most nervous man in washington. is mccarthy, he really wants to be speaker of the house. it has been his singular focus in washington for years. and that drive is the reason behind his deal with the devil that he made with donald trump. mccarthy has spent years placating trump, and enabling his worst behavior in exchange for trump s support. and the support of his hard-line allies in congress for his eventual speakership. it s why mccarthy went from saying this, in the days after january 6th the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfo