than 35,000 after two earthquakes devastated the region, and yet miracles bring glimmers of hope one week later. back here at home in kansas city, fireworks and celebrations after the chief s star quarterback patrick mahomes led the team to victory over the philadelphia eagles during sunday night s super bowl thriller. and we begin this hour with the mystery surrounding those objects in the sky. this weekend the u.s. shot down three flying objects over north american air space bringing the total to four in just over a week. on sunday, president biden directed a shootdown of an unidentified object flying over lake huron. the day before a u.s. jet was authorized to shoot down an unidentified obvious flying through canadian air space. on friday the u.s. shot down an object over northern alaska. this all comes after u.s. officials shot down a chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina last weekend. this morning the white house is denying a new claim from chine
takes control. and as brazil endorses a maga style rioter of their own, it s just coming for donald trump in fulton county. if you are donald trump right now, you have to be really concerned about what s going to happen in georgia. tonight, what the end of a criminal investigation in georgia means for the disgraced ex president? then, the secret document organizing the maga takeover of the house, with congressman jim mcgovern. plus, former congresswoman elaine luria, on the republican plans to investigate the january 6th committee. and yet another bizarre turn in that saga of congressman george santos. a little personal space [inaudible] congressman, you seem to be dodging questions. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. at this hour, the 118th house of representatives is holding its first votes under the newly elected speaker kevin mccarthy. in fact, they just passed the rules package, that is the governing rules for
a newly unsealed document shows the agency is looking into several crimes which include the, quote, willful retention of national defense information. that revelation does a couple of things, one, it intensifies the focus on former president trump as the possible or a possible subject of the investigation. trump has claimed a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house, but in a cnn exclusive, 18 former top trump administration officials tell us they never heard of any such order issued while trump was in office. it also may be key that that law, willful retention of national defense information, it may not matter if the information was classified. we will dig into that more deeply. as the spotlight brightens on trump the doj continues its fight for some secrecy. the department expressed serious concerns that releasing the affidavit behind the search warrant could impede its investigation, also might endanger witnesses. still the judge appears to be
upstairs. friday, friday. have a good show, alex. the very bad news for donald trump is that rudy giuliani has finally, today, learned to talk like a lawyer again. today, for the first time in years, rudy giuliani did not sound like a hallucinating mad man when he walked into the fulton county courthouse in georgia to testify to a grand jury. he did not sound like someone willing to tell any lie for donald trump. he didn t sound like someone ready to take any legal risks for donald trump. not anymore. not now that he has been formally declared a target of the grand jury s criminal investigation of exactly what rudy giuliani did for donald trump in georgia. the rudy giuliani you are about to see is truly shocking now. but it is the way rudy giuliani often handled press questions when he was a federal prosecutor in manhattan in the 19 80s. today, with rudy giuliani clinging to the wreckage of his legal career with his law license suspended, pending possible permanent disb
donald trump. he didn t sound like someone ready to take any legal risks for donald trump. not anymore. not now that he has been formally declared a target of the grand jury s criminal investigation of exactly what rudy giuliani did for donald trump in georgia. the rudy giuliani you are about to see is truly shocking now. but it is the way rudy giuliani often handled press questions when he was a federal prosecutor in manhattan in the 1980s. today, with rudy giuliani clinging to the wreckage of his legal career with his law license suspended, pending possible permanent disbarment, rudy giuliani found his lawyerly voice once again. [inaudible] we ll not talk about this, until the grand jury, and the grand jury s [inaudible] secret. do you believe president trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? i m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation. [inaudible] no more about it. they asked the questions [inaudible] will you be cooperative? you ar