could be. that seems a little difficult to believe, though, because according to a new report in the daily beast, and that woman who says walker paid for her abortion is also the mother of one of his children. again, nbc news has also not verified this most recent report. in a statement, walker said there was no truth to it or any other daily peace report. to be clear, there s absolutely nothing wrong with a woman chosing to terminate a pregnancy, nothing wrong with that person s partner offering to pay for the procedure. the problem comes when the partner in question, herschel walker, is running on one of the most extreme, anti-abortion platforms in the country months after the supreme court got rid of roe. walker said he supports a national abortion ban without any exceptions, including for rape and incest. he has compared abortion to murder. it is that crushing hypocrisy with real world consequences that inspired the mother of one of his children to come forward with this
decided to postpone tomorrow s proceedings. we re praying for all those in the path. we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economical and historical trends that should favor republicans, this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected, thanks in part to republican extremism to states across the country. from roe v. wade to state abortion bans to election denial to political stunts to silence asylum seekers, the republicans are executing on april radical agenda. red state governors like texas greg abbott and florida s ron desantis. men pushing the extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to raise trump s mantles as leaders for presidential hopefuls. on the other side of that fight are a handful of democratic governors, the people leading the charge against ready cal republican policies. chief among them is california gov
unmasked. the new york times reporter who revealed his identity joins me live. plus, connecting the dots between the election in brazil, brexit, and donald trump. and meet the new attorney representing brett favre and his volleyball welfare scandal. i got a great effing criminal defense lawyer. you re gonna need it. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. well, today, we got an extended look at just how narrowly we avoided the january 6th insurrection becoming much, much worse. because this morning, the seditious conspiracy trial of five members of the oath keepers started. and of course, the far-right militia group who prosecutors say, blotted to use violence, weapons, if necessary, to block the peaceful transfer of power. now, even before today s opening arguments began, lawyers from one of the defendants argued to suppress evidence of to hand when it s found in an rv. apparently, brought to d. c. by one of the alleged coconspi
what you heard, and what s going to the public. what i heard is awesome. thank you very much. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. so once upon a time, not all that long ago in the grand scheme of things, but once upon a time the biggest celebrities in america were pilots. you know how time magazine has person of the year, used to be man of the year? time magazine actually invented that whole idea because of a pilot. they figured they needed to do something because in 1927 the pilot charles lindbergh became the first person to fly nonstop solo across the atlantic ocean. he became the biggest celebrity in the world for doing that. there were parades held for him and international prizes and all kinds of honors. he instantly became the most famous man in the world when he did that in 1927. and so that is where time got the whole man of the year thing in the first place. they invented it specifically for him. amelia earhart was th
moment. plus president joe biden is ready to make more stops on the campaign trail. but some democratic candidates aren t exactly eager to join him on stage. also ahead, the latest from ukraine. as its forces launch a major counter-offensive to re-take a russian-occupied area in that country s south. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 30th, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that some of the documents recovered during the fbi search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort potentially contain attorney-client privileged information. according to a court filing yesterday, the team used by the justice department has finished its examination of the possibly privileged documents, sorting through them and reviewing any material that could be part of congressional investigators and it would undermine trump s efforts to have a special master over the files. over the weekend a federal judge i