i have nothing to hide. i have a constitution to uphold the former vice president agrees to talk after his bos surrendered for arrest in ne york president trump, when you come speak to us president trump? tonight, 24 hours of lega disaster for donald trump. 24 hours of political disaster for the party he leads and why there is no sign of an of it letting up who would like to watch m sleigh a zombie? and it is the latest lega setback for fox news i dare dominion to sue me because then it would go faster explaining your pandering t a pillow salesman from the stand. when all in starts right now good evening from new york, am chris hayes i have to say, okay, even by the standards of our time, o this day and age, right, a avalanche of news an spectacle. this sort of dizzying cloyin for your attention the last 24 hours have reall been something else. so i want to begin tonight b just taking a second here to try to collectively just wra our heads around the mea
avalanche of news an spectacle. this sort of dizzying cloyin for your attention the last 24 hours have reall been something else. so i want to begin tonight b just taking a second here to try to collectively just wra our heads around the meaning and significance of what w have seen in the last 24 hours so of course, we have to begin with the biggest story former president of the united states pleading not guilty t 34 felony charges. stemming from hush money payments he made to adult film star but in addition to the materia effects we saw yesterday, ther was, of course, as i am sure you noted, also the shee spectacle of it all. the trumpian circus if you will a live 24-hour coverage of his drive to the airport his plane landing. his drive from the airport t trump tower. all of which, i, think has a deep and profound reaction in lot of folks because of what happened in 2016 there are lots of people who watch politics closely who hav got a lot of anxiety stemmin from that 2016 e
booking one specific guest mike lindell, the pillow guy is a major advertiser on fox news, especially tucker s show which has hemorrhaged more respectable advertisers due to the hosts habit of promoting white nationalists talking points we counted one night alone las week, lindell ran three ad during tucker s one hour program. it was always kind of clea lindell was keeping tucker s show afloat? now, we have proof you see, in addition to bein at the pillow guy, lindell i also a mega conspiracy enthusiast who regularly promotes the mos outlandish and possibl defamatory version of trump big lie the stolen election. that creates a problematic incentive structure for a show that needs his advertising books, thanks to dominion, their lawsuit, which i currently suing fox fo defamation in part to th claims that lindell himsel made, we know exactly ho tucker s producers handled tha thorny question behind the scenes and the afternoon of january
bucks, thanks to dominion, their lawsuit, which i currently suing fox fo defamation in part to th claims that lindell himsel made, we know exactly ho tucker s producers handled tha thorny question behind the scenes and the afternoon of january 26th 2021, well after th insurrection, after biden inauguration, tucker s sho decided to have lindell on they were hoping to frame th segment around his recen twitter ban. a booking producer message t the team, quote, good mornin all. mike lindell was pitched las night, four stores havin pulled his product and tucke approved it. i see the news this mornin that his twitter s bee suspended. i just want to flag all of this, because he is he someone w want to have on? about 30 seconds later sh sent a parenthetical follow-up quote, lindell seems to have really gone off the deep and about a minute later, anothe produce responded, quote, he s definitely crazy, but this wil be a big story today they re trying to completely shut the guy down. yeah, why