jury investigating fundraising fraud. and breaking reports that stephen miller has been subpoenaed. then, new signals that donald trump s favorite judge maybe backing down to the justice department. plus, a victory for democracy and reproductive rights as the states supreme court smacks down michigan republicans. and as king charles greets his subjects for the first time, melissa murray on coming to terms with the imperial past of the british empire. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the department of justice s investigation into january 6th, attempted coup, is once again expanding its scope. quite a bit, in fact. the doj sent out a raft of new subpoenas this week for just learning about. subpoenas of former trump white house and campaign officials. reportedly relation to trump save america pack, as well as the fake elector scheme. top trump policy advisor in speech writer stephen miller, and trump s white house political director brian jac
describing how president trump used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars from the american people. these fundraising schemes were also part of the effort to disseminate the false claims of election fraud. without objection i am the senior investigative counsel at the house select committee to investigate the general six attack on the united states capitol. between election day and january six, the trump campaign sent millions up fundraising emails to trump supporters, sometimes as many as 25 a day. the emails claimed, quote, the left wing mob was undermining the election. it urged supporters to step up, to protect the integrity of the election, and encourage them to, quote, fight back. as the select committee has demonstrated, the trump campaign knew that these voter fraud claims were false. yet, they continue to borrow small dollar donors with emails, encouraging them to donate to something called, the official election defense fund. the selectivity discovered
january 6th rally on the ellipse. america get 1 million dollars to mark meadows foundation, that s a big donation. the kind of think that might even plausibly change an individual s mind about whether they want to come operate with congressional subpoenas. he was definitely purchasing a lot of goodwill from people who were perspective witnesses against him in subsequent criminal or civilian civil prosecutions or congressional investigation. that does demonstrate the slipperiness of our campaign finance laws. but donald trump as someone who pushes everything to the max. they turn this into a moneymaking enterprise. he of course is now the king of the hill in the republican party, he s got all the money and all of the members of congress are terrified of him that he would endure somebody against them or spend their money against them. they are completely beholden to
election defense fund. the selectivity discovered that no such fun existed. i don t believe that there is actually a phone call that. the election defense fund was another marketing tactic. tell us about these funds marketing tactic. it was where money could potentially the claims that the election was stolen were so successful that president trump and his allies raised $250 million, nearly 100 million dollars in the first week after the election. on november 9th 2020, president trump created a separate entity called the same american pack. most of the money raised one to this newly-created pack, not to election related litigation. the select committee discovered that the safe american pack made millions of dollars in contributions to pro trump organizations, including $1 million to trump chief of staff, mark meadows foundation, $1