conversation. i will be sharing it with you with little bits all this weekend. michigan is a state that has been a key battleground for several election cycles now. this year is no different. even though it s not a presidential election year, and neither of the states two u.s. senators are up for election, there are outcomes of several races here that will have huge implications in the years to come, especially for the 2024 presidential election. for one thing, democrats hold a very slim majority in congress. the senate, as you know, evenly split. 50/50. in the house of representatives, democrats only have an eight seat advantage over republicans going into election day. right now, michigan has an even number of democratic and republican representatives in the house. seven representatives each, but due to redistricting, michigan has lost one district, which means one party is certain to lose at least one of its seats in congress. on top of that, four of the most competitive h
candidate quality are rearing their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s bad air. so when china gets our good air, their bad air gotta move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump has finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly, the attempt here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special master. that s one who goes through and looks at the documents and sees if any are covered by executive privilege. that in itself does make a ton of sense. nevertheless, lots of legal observers say this all may be too little, too late. the case will be heard by judge aileen cannon who was appointed by trump, supported by far-right florida senator rick scott, before being confirmed in the lame du
do it for us tonight. now, it is time for the last word, with a great lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening to you, rachel. you have set the stage for this week s hearing, the january 6th hearing, which surely are the most important hearings since watergate. and i know you have mentioned your experience with the watergate hearings, and i m not sure how much you actually remember of those [laughs] of those hearings, or exactly you know, which diaper you were wearing at the time. i was six weeks old. maybe, i remember. i don t know. [laughs] so, i remember of it i was a student at the time. and watching it from that distance of a student, where i thought, i know everything. it never felt, it was no horse race component to it. i do not remember any discussion of what s gonna happen, because of these hearings. all i remember was the excitement of what are we going to learn tomorrow. what are we gonna learn, if you watch this thing today? what s gonna
of justice kavanaugh. on capitol hill this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi reacting to the senate vote. senate republicans lined up in lockstep behind mitch mcconnell and donald trump to vote to rip away the constitutional right to health freedom for american women across the country. this hour, i will speak with president obama s former attorney general eric holder about the supreme court, voting rights and the attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trump defense secretary mark esper joining me to talk about the astounding revelations about the former commander in chief. with covid cases rising, president biden mourning the loss of 1 million lives to the virus. 1 million covid deaths. 1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table. around the world, many more millions have died. millions of children have been orphaned. we must honor those we have lost by doing everything we can to prevent as many deaths as possible. we start with the fight for abortion ri
Spectrum, liz cheney on the right, joe biden, are warning on a near daily basis an increasingly dire terms that our very democracy is in trouble right now. I dont understand why one partys careen threatens to derail the entire american experiment, the entire republic. Can actually just look no further than what happened last night. Nikki haleys dorsment of donald trump is part of what has become a time honored tradition of Todays Republican Party in the trump era. Prominent republicans whose closely held private views about the expresident may not actually be that different from mine or that of any trump critic or any democrat. And taking all sorts of very public abuse and scorn from donald trump, including attacks on their spouses. Despite all that, despite everything he said about their families and everything they have said about him in return, they turn around and offer him their endorse the. Ted cruzs capitulation before the 2016 election after trump attacked his wife. Cruz said t