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
said that majeski appeared to lie about the nature of his military service, calling himself a combat veteran, claiming to have served in afghanistan when, in reality, at least according to the ap, he was deployed to qatar, hundreds of miles away, where he loaded, and unloaded planes for the air force. house republicans, essentially, dropping majeski, cutting off advice on his behalf, meaning, democrats may hold that seat, or, at least, have a better shot, despite republican gerrymandering. there are a lot of bad republican candidates running the cycle. meaning, all hope may not be lost for voters, who do not want to see a market takeover of congress. congressman david cicilline, democrat of rhode island, served in congress for over a decade isn t, impeachment manager in the second trial of donald trump, and joins me right now. congressman, how do you think about a future in which kevin mccarthy wields the gavel as speaker of the house, and your republican colleagues control the body th