myrlie evers williams an that s it for the read out all in with chris hayes starts no tonight, on all in all the information that is needed in order to create the indictment, to get a prosecution, conviction, is in the hands of the distric attorney indictment watch in the stormy daniels case and ne trouble for trump in the special counsel investigation. he wasn t former trump fixer michael cohen joins me liv tonight. then - the greatest threat t western civilization today i not russia, it s probably, mor than anything else, ourselves. trump goes after the enem within as the internationa criminal court issues an arres warrant for vladimir putin plus, the massive oil projec approved in alaska, despit biden s campaign promise and by the way, no more drilling on federal lands, period, period, period when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we are standing on the precipice of potentially seein the first ever criminal charge agains
temperatures were hovering around 18 degrees. it was this, night we all abou welcoming the stranger, when the republican governor of texas decided to deposit migrant asylum seekers, some o them children, on a freezing cold sidewalk north to go. three buses filled with more than 100 migrants arrived in d c., late saturday night, where they were unceremoniousl dropped off outside the vice presidents official residence. they were sent there by th republican governor sent texas greg abbott, to make a political point of what happening at the souther border the buses were filled with families, with children, man of them wearing nothing warmer than a tee shirt we have it did not tell anyone ahead of time that he was gonn do this is the relief agency me the migrants from the vice president s home when they arrived. welcome them with food, warm clothing, and blankets they had been tipped off b another ngo working along th border, who made sure th migrants did not arrive in the freezi
was set to begin a three-yea prison sentence, all of whic embarrassed and angered th president. the bar spent weeks week prosecuting the questioning and at one point eve instructed justice officials i washington to draft a memo outlining legal arguments that could ve raised questions abou cohen s conviction and undercu similar prosecutions in th future the person on the receiving en of all that pressure, bearin the brunt of, it was that ma you see there on the right jeffrey berman, who was then the u.s. attorney for th southern district of new york. had been appointed by donald trump, and whose office wa prosecuted in the case against cohen. berman would later confirm, in his memoir, that barr tried to kill the investigation suggesting cohen s convictio on campaign finance charges be reversed and by mid 2020, barr an donald trump, fired berman so, essentially, barr and trum made sure that the potential case never materialized agains
courts an fbi, et cetera, to try to coordinate how you ar actually going to surrende somebody who is guided by th secret service 24/7 so yes, he will be notified, if for n other reason that they have to pick a good date and time fo him to go to court, be tol what the charges are, and as him to enter a plea of guilt or not guilty, which, of course, he ll say not guilty but it s a formal process wher he ll need to be photographed. a full thing walk into th courtroom yes, the whol thing. we should note that they ar preparing for this they seem to think it s happen going to happen as well. they ve been putting together, adding staff members particularly focused on trum pushing out their message from the new york times reporting o a strategy attacks o prosecutors, of course in addition the campaign has been putting together database, members of congress, community figures who have - the allies said none of that really matters inside th
key witness in that case wil of course be the guy who transferred the payments, right? his former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. cohen himself will be joinin me in just a moment. remember, he has already don time for that very crime in october of 2016, just day before the presidentia election, cohen made the 130,000 dollar payment t stormy daniels to prevent he from going public with the story of her affair with trump a decade earlier she alleges that she met trump at a golf tournament in 2006 four months after melania trum gave birth to their son baron. later michael cohen pleade guilty to eight criminal charges including campaign finance violations and bag fraud. he told the court, as he tol congress later, who was really behind it all. i pled guilty in federa court to felonies for th benefit of, at the direction of, and in coordination with individual number one.