russia wouldn t have the success that it s had if not for prigozhin and the wagner group. they re mercenaries, they re deadly, but they are actually effective. and now he s turned and gone back into the russia, he claims he s going to fix the situation because he claims that the russian military attacked his men. this has been a long simmering food between the russian defense minister and prigozhin, but prigozhin says he s doing something about it. we are unable to convert any of this, we have heard reports from ukrainians that they ve crossed into russia. that wagner group has crushed into russia. burgos russia is on high alert. moscow has tanks in the streets, they re calling it a coup attempt. he denies that s the case, it is all very confusing. but this guy is both volatile and dangerous. i will say on the american side, there is a concern. russia is a nuclear armed country, and having a whole bunch of people fighting about who s in charge of it is actually more serio
joining us this evening. remember back in august last year, when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president has knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and publicly about that. he also fund-raise off it and took every opportunity to put out what a victim he was of a deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, first real justification for why he kept all of the documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order that documents remained from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all these documents, whatever a sta
i have not not done my job since i got here. i can to and walk at the same time. senator sharon brown and potential democratic workaround for democratic hostage taking. leaders have all agreed we will not default. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we have new polling just out. this one shows joe biden maintaining a lead, a significant, one over his potential republican challenger for the presidency next year. registered voters give biden a six-point advantage over donald trump, 44 to 38%, and the reason i m beginning tonight s show with this polling, and we re a long way from the election, is because it comes after, two weeks after chakras alton another poll that showed those numbers flipped 44% for trump, 38% for biden, and there s a lot written about those polls. now what i would like to tell you is you can watch those polls bounce up and down and worry about what they mean. the reality is the election is 18 months away. t
perhaps the most shocking of all, they re implying this woman, in particular, huma abedin, may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood and they re questioning how she got a security clearance. after our report last night, we really thought this story might be over. we thought it might be over yesterday. miss bachmann received at extraordinary public scolding from john mccain on the senate floor. she was also condemned by other members of her own party. even her former campaign manager said she ought to be ashamed. it turns out congresswoman bachmann is not backing down. instead, it seems today, she s actually doubling down. what she isn t doing, neither she, nor her four colleagues, is coming on this program to back up her allegation. now, remember, when last we saw the congresswoman, she was refusing to answer our questions yesterday. moving as fast as possible away from our reporter dana bash. hey, congresswoman, how are you? i just need to ask you about se