Importantly, tonight we have Speaker Nancy Pelosi joining us, and im not sure where this story would be if she had not appointed that january Six Committee. So true. This begins with that very difficult and somewhat controversial decision to move forward without the candidates that Kevin Mccarthy wanted on that committee, and the work that they did, maybe the foundation of where we are today. Im really eager to hear how she did it and how she made it work so well. Gonna be a great show. Thanks, alex. Well, yesterday, as i began reading the newest indictment of donald trump, i wondered if this indictment would exist without nancy pelosi. The roadmap for the conspiracies described in this indictment was provided to the Justice Department by nancy pelosi through the work of the january Six Committee that she created. On the darkest day of the history of american president ial transitions of power, january six, 2021, america was lucky. But nancy pelosi was Speaker Of The House. As long tru
You know, tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me, my illness won today. Look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me. All my love, tommy. So he didnt have anything in there about take some time off. And why usa usa . Usa why is america such an extraordinary country . We are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity or one ideology or one religion. We are unified by one constitution and one rule of law and in the values under our constitution. [applause] it is an aspiration, its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt be some kind of fetish document. It should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in the service of the common good. That is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. That is the constitution that we have been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. [crowd chanting] trump trump trump [applause] please raise your right hand and repeat after me, i donald j
weekend, i am chris hayes. let s get to the weekend s top stories. 83 point $3 million, that is a lot of money. that s how much donald trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeating defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump did, and witnessing his ongoing contempt towards but the proceedings in front of them, and e. jean carroll with their own eyes. carols attorneys had asked the jurors to reach a verdict that would stop them from further defaming the woman that he has been defaming and harassing for the last five years. today, after deliberating for less than three hours, the jury came through. they awarded carroll $73 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputational damages, and a whopping $65 million in punitive damages, which is there essentially to stop him from what he has been doing. such a shocking and divisive verdict against the ex president. even fox news cover th
welcome to prime time weekend. i m chris hayes. let s get right to the week s top stories. 83 point $3 million. that s a lot of money. that s how much donald trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump to. and witnessing his ongoing contempt towards both the proceedings in front of them and towards e. jean carroll with their own eyes. carol s attorney had asked the jurors to reach a jury verdict that would stop him from further defaming the woman that he has been defaming and harassing for the past five years. today, after deliberating for less than three hours, the jury came through. they awarded carroll seven point $3 million in emotional damages, $11 million in reputational damages, and a whopping $65 million in punitive damages, which is there, essentially, to stop him from doing what he s been doing. it was such a shocking
good evening, sounds like it s time to check the latest rules on right in ballots for the new hampshire primary. bring a pan, if you are a democrat. back in 68, when the new hampshire primary became a giant event because jean mccarthy went up there and challenged the sitting president, lyndon johnson, the sensation was, mccarthy won. he got more than 40% of the vote. but lyndon johnson won, and his name was not on the ballot. it needed to be written in. so who knows. who knows. lisa murkowski will tell you, are right in ballot is fine by her. so, alex, before you go, i m a little concerned. i have governor gretchen whitmer booked for the show tonight, but that was done before i read jennifer palmieri s vanity fair profile of her. have you read this? i saw it, i got an alert about it, i m a big fan of jennifer. great. but when you get, i don t know, 50 words in it says, and this is jennifer palmieri s reporting, so it s real, it s true, she says, whitmer does not