appreciate you and that is tonight s read out all in with chris hayes starts now. tonight on all in, the trump appointed judge in texas, no deciding abortion access for the entire country we will have the latest from today s hearing in amarillo. then, congresswoman maxine waters on the failure of silicon valley bank and ne fears of a global bankin crisis plus - at the end of the day, complied with everything, an now it is in the hands of ou district attorney, alvin bragg and his competency a possible indictment o donald trump in the stormy daniels investigation. and the arrest of chines billionaire, who bankrolle steve bannon so great. thank you. thank you love you. thank you. when all in starts righ now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today, the fate of millions of americans women s reproductive health is once again in th hands of a far-right judge this morning, federal judg matthew of the northern district o texas, provided over a hearing in th
we have seen trump s lawyer making the rounds. and one of them was on - show yesterday what do we know? are they there at thes proceedings? are they hanging around th district attorney s office what is their role in all of this or are they just watching this happen they are not there. i think they re watching i happen, you know, they re doin the cable news rounds. that is where trump likes to see his lawyers, on tv from what i understand, trum was not pleased with the recen appearances because he wasn sure if it made them look so roy cohn like as you might imagine. but they are keeping track o this and i think part of the calculus they are trying t figure out is, what is the argument that we are going t deploy if trump gets charged and they have had this discussion and they did go before the manhattan da couple of weeks ago to make th case, you should not indict ou client and one of the arguments tha we have since learned that the made, was, well, if the paymen to stormy daniels w
irrespective of the campaign that it s not a crime. but i think there s a real uphill struggle here, right? there s so much evidence t suggest that is not the case so, we know that they mad that argument to the da office that basically, it s now thi is a crime depends on if the would ve done it even if i wasn t a campaign election day five weeks away or whatever it was. irrespective, they ar saying this was just a nuisanc payment. trump is a famous guy. he did want to embarrass melania. the problem with that argument is, even as a mixed motive, he is still liable. one thing that s interestin to me about that now get and i think they have made similar arguments, they did on ari s show, is that for all th bravado, trump says, if yo indict me, it will only make m stronger and as ridiculous - they do not want to be indicted it s very clear that they ar working very hard to try t wait the da office and to avoi an indictment. yes 100% they are freaked out about the