new details on the company that the governor hired to transport unsuspecting migrants across the country, and its links to other top republicans. plus, how pleading the fifth and his fraud case could doom the disgraced ex president. the astonishing scenes of protests in iran. all in, starting right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. republicans unveiled their agenda, if you can call it that, if they retake the house this november. before we get to that, the most revealing preview on what it comes to look like, came earlier this week. that is what the overwhelming majority of the house republican conference voted against a law, that would clarify the language of the electoral count act. that is a somewhat obscure piece of legislation for the 19th century, governing how presidents are elected, and how members of congress can object to electors. this would just fix part of it to, explicitly, state what was obvious. that a sitting president, and his supporters i
being here with us tonight. the remember when donald trump and his allies were very, very concerned about the mishandling of classified information? it was the thing they cared about almost more than anything else. much of trump s presidential campaign was premised on the idea that his opponent could not be trusted, because she mishandled classified information. in fact, trump s campaign was so concerned about the proper handling of government documents, they believed hillary clinton should go to jail. if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. it s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because he would be in jail. should hillary clinton be in jail? yes or no, mayor giuliani? you know her. you are a prosecutor. if i did what she did, i would be in jail. if i did a tent a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today.
any more red lines when they talk about how the field candidates. anything goes when you talk about these republicans. nonetheless, jarred majeski doesn t have access to i m sure democrats in ohio celebrating. we ll see how that turns. out alex, it s good to see my. friend thank you so. much we re gonna talk about democracy tonight because the r of history is long, but it bends towards justice, and it s good to remember that quote tonight because there have been many days in recent memory that it has not felt like we are bending towards justice. joe biden wins an election, donald trump and republicans just can t claim he didn t. trump incites an insurrection at the capitol, five weeks later, he s acquitted by republican senators. in may, it is reported that the wife of the longest serving supreme court justice is encouraging republicans to overthrow the election. and nothing happens. next month, clarence thomas votes to take away constitutional right, the right-wing pro
look into your situation. it s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because he would be in jail. should hillary clinton be in jail? yes or no, mayor giuliani? you know her. you are a prosecutor. if i did what she did, i would be in jail. if i did a tent a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. remember the crowds at the republican national convention just thundering over and over again, lock her up? what they were actually saying was lock her up for mishandling classified information. once donald trump did become president, he set about trying to actually do it, to put hillary clinton in jail because of her supposed mishandling of classified documents. on multiple occasions, he told top justice department officials to prosecute clinton. he ordered his white house counsel, don mcgahn, to get the justice department to prosecute her. according to the new book from journalist pete
from texas. uvalde. where a new report is showing the kind of missteps that may have led to horror at one school. how one had a chance to shoot at the shooter, but instead, waited for permission to open fire. and i ll bring you exclusive information with the fulton county attorney. as her investigation pushes to overturn the election results in georgia continues. plus, overseas brits, asking, will he or won t he? boris johnson facing very direct, very intense calls for him to step down. so far, he says he s not going anywhere. i ll hallie jackson. glad you re shere with us this afternoon. we are starting with the latest out ofhighland park, illinois. investigative hecorrespondent t winter is here, too. a fair amount coming out at the court hearing. at the news conference we ve seen today. after the suspect was hit with seven murder charges. that s exactly right, hallie. we have a more complete picture of and the detail was actually captured and identified by wa police.