things legal from the many investigations involving former president trump, to the fight for reproductive freedom and all 50 states. the controversy surrounding the supreme court, we re gonna have some fun too. getting your questions answered, a lot of questions, let s begin with with donald trump and the efforts to hold the former president accountable. for his efforts to support the will of murders in 2020. specifically, fulton county, georgia, district attorney fani willis getting the biggest sign yet that charges are imminent. d a willis has asked her local courthouse not to schedule any hearings or trials for a seventh. to the 14th, you might put those daytona calendars too. after putting law enforcement on, alert saying she plans to announce indictments in the trump investigation by september 1st. this as a new witness comes forward, alleging trump s dream discuss stealing the election as early as 2019. she says she worked for rudy giuliani, had access to thousands of h
years for seditious conspiracy. the guy with his feet on the speaker s desk gets four years. but the guy who sent them to the capitol is still scot-free. then, the special counsel is closing in we get new reporting on team trump moving classified documents. plus, the disastrous rollout of the desantis campaign. rob desanctimonious and his members are dropping like a rock. is he a fool that has no idea what he s doing? and a showdown in texas as house republicans call for the attorney general to be impeached after he says the house speaker was drunk on the job. the objection to the [inaudible] when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. it was a traumatic scene inside a washington court house today as a federal judge handed down the longest sentence yet for the january six insurrectionists. elmer stewart rhodes the third, founder of the far-right group the oath keepers, was convicted of the rare crime of seditious conspiracy late las
manhattan d.a. alvin bragg turns the screws on trump s former cfo. and later, our conversation with abortion providers here in new york as they prepare for the possible and of mifepristone, and another southern state passes a strict ban on most procedures. plus, the dreamers take on desantis in florida state capital, we will speak with two of them, they went to tallahassee to confront lawmakers face to face and more. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a fight over the nation s debt limit as the deadline to reach a deal is now less than two weeks away. it is a show down the world is closely watching. as house republicans threaten to use our economy as a pawn to force spending cuts. nbc news has learned a, quote, candid discussion on the desk that limit between the white house and house republicans stretched late into the night friday. however, house speaker kevin mccarthy now says that negotiations won t resume until president biden returns to the u.s.. bac
with republicans like hannity finally realizing that the party s toxic, regressive, authoritarian policies have sparked a voter backlash. also tonight, new reporting that donald trump almost certainly knew that a president cannot declassify documents just by stuffing them in a box and hauling them to the old golf resort, as repeatedly has claimed. plus, elon musk s off the rails interview. the man who runs one of the biggest social media sites raises alarms with toxic comments about george sorros and the texas mall shooter among other things. but we begin tonight with the republican s toxic brand. remember the 2022 midterms the red wave felt more like an orange trickle? that keeps happening. last night was another really bad night for the republican party, several key races in florida, colorado underscoring how the right wing grip on our politics is slipping. in florida, democrat donna deegan won the mayor s race in jacksonville. which had been the largest city in the u
republicans expelled to blac to democrats for protesting gu deaths as the texas governor promises to pardon the man o killing a black live protester. plus, a member of the centra part exonerated on crimina defendant donald trump and a closer look at the gop - providing three of trips t supreme court justice clarence thomas and his nazi artifact collection if you ve been watching this show since we launched over tw years ago, you know the core enterprise of this program has been to sound the alarm on the threats to american democracy. and to underscore had the gran old republican party constitutes the greatest threa of all this week, we ve got fou stories illustrate exactly that, indeed, we are sadly spoiled for choice let s start in tennessee where it man accused of molestin multiple young girls was ouste from the state legislature wait, no he wasn t back in 2019, after thos allegations came to light, the republican s the point to lead the education subcommittee this week, th