facing that mathematical reality, kevin mccarthy can step aside and let somebody else do the job, acknowledging in the process that he s not the only person in congress capable of being speaker, or he can try and win over the people who oppose him, as you traditionally do in elections. you ve got reservations about kevin mccarthy? you don t want to be ruled by a man who wears the arabian flag lapel pin? no problem. we get it. they re using threats and fear to force people to support the candidate. anyone who opposes kevin mccarthy, one his surrogates explained today, is, quote, an enemy, a, quote, terrorist. that s their mechanical. in a moment we ll tell you how that message has worked out. first tonight in the summer of 2016, the government transparency organization wikileaks released thousands of emails from the servers of the democratic national committee. those documents showed conclusively that hillary clinton partisans had worked to rig the democratic primary against h
of a criminal invest big asian tonight, asha rangappa and chuck rosenberg what it means to move from subject to target. jay johnson on the secret service scandal and why he says the case against the ex president is already indict-able. plus i debunking of a trump ally from trump tv and a new proposal that gives me genuine hope in these difficult times, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes all of a sudden there s a lot happening in the department of justice investigation into the january 6th insurrection. in just the last few days there s been a bunch of domestic developments some of which were gonna get into in a moment. but before he, do it s worth stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. because the significance here is well, large. for seven years now we ve been covering donald trump and he s basically always been enmeshed in controversy and scandal. he s always been surrounded by investigations and allegations of criminal
tobacco products and take nicotine out of cigarets all while your government is legalizing weed and in other pl drugs that make any other sense. government makes a fortune on taxing tobacco over 12 billion dollars a year. tonight they want to give that up anyway. we begin tonight , though,bide with biden s war and your ability to live your lifeno without going bankrupt between inflation, spiking gas prices,, record prices, a looming recession. americans are sufferingbout and it s about to get a whole lot worse, according to one washington post columnist and on msnbc, you all need to stop complaining and be j grateful that joe biden isoe your president. okay, it s going to say this and if i campaign for it, i don t care. there there s g a great deal ofw americanshe where it is uncomfortable that they re spending more but they rey not going to go under. you know, y you ve got to stopin complaining when there s so many people who literally the inflation rate things they only had
washington tonight , cutting losses. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now it s natural that we as humans often have a hard time letting go , admitting to ourselves that the path we re on is a dead end, that the goal we set is unattainable or that the cost of achieving are just too high. instinctively we feel like ending something prematurely. maybe it s a sign of weakness that quitting for losers but especially in politics the opposite is often true with joe biden as president, there are sadly many areas where america needs to cut her losses first we need to cut our losses in ukraine. if you hadn t noticed, the ukrainians are not winning as our own nation is hurting. we ve allocated more than fifty three billion dollars and counting in humanitarian military aid to help them beat back the russians. but now well, here s a headline from bloomberg. putin may win in ukraine, but the real war is just starting and more americans now say russia rather than ukraine is winning th
capitol hill custodians waste no time erasing any memory of george santos. that s tonight on newsnight. good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. today, an era has come to an end. the locks have been changed, and his name has been removed from the halls of congress. george santos goes back to wherever he came from. more on his exit and his lies in a few minutes. first, the constitution versus donald trump. two separate legal lawsuits say that the former president does not have immunity. breaking tonight, a federal judge tossed a motion to make election subversion charges against donald trump disappear. judge tonya chutkan ruling with precision, quote, the court cannot conclude the constitution cloaks former presidents with absolute immunity for any federal crimes they committed while in office. also today, a ruling on the former president and the january 6th violence that he unleashed. it s a decision that may set off a chain reaction for our democracy. today a federa