How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
Alex is live with the latest. President biden spoke with french president macron about deescalation tactic s. President macron will be in talks with President Putin today. Germany will visit the u. S. Today. If russia were to launch an attack on ukraine, the capital, kiev could fall in less than three days. Here is sullivan on fox news sunday. Russia could take Military Action against ukraine or choose to take the diplomatic path instead. The key is, the United States needs to be and is prepared for any contingencies in lockstep with our allys and partners. Russia has 70 of what is needed. What that could mean for our allies. Had is the single greatest threat europe has phased, this is a dangerous point in Human History once again. It has dangerous consequence says if and when that happens. General milley estimated 50,000 lives could be lost if russia moves forward. Troops landed in poland yesterday and u. S. Trooped prays at fort bragg as they deploy. United states has promised sancti
Alex is live with the latest. President biden spoke with french president macron about deescalation tactic s. President macron will be in talks with President Putin today. Germany will visit the u. S. Today. If russia were to launch an attack on ukraine, the capital, kiev could fall in less than three days. Here is sullivan on fox news sunday. Russia could take Military Action against ukraine or choose to take the diplomatic path instead. The key is, the United States needs to be and is prepared for any contingencies in lockstep with our allys and partners. Russia has 70 of what is needed. What that could mean for our allies. Had is the single greatest threat europe has phased, this is a dangerous point in Human History once again. It has dangerous consequence says if and when that happens. General milley estimated 50,000 lives could be lost if russia moves forward. Troops landed in poland yesterday and u. S. Trooped prays at fort bragg as they deploy. United states has promised sancti
Alex is live with the latest. President biden spoke with french president macron about deescalation tactic s. President macron will be in talks with President Putin today. Germany will visit the u. S. Today. If russia were to launch an attack on ukraine, the capital, kiev could fall in less than three days. Here is sullivan on fox news sunday. Russia could take Military Action against ukraine or choose to take the diplomatic path instead. The key is, the United States needs to be and is prepared for any contingencies in lockstep with our allys and partners. Russia has 70 of what is needed. What that could mean for our allies. Had is the single greatest threat europe has phased, this is a dangerous point in Human History once again. It has dangerous consequence says if and when that happens. General milley estimated 50,000 lives could be lost if russia moves forward. Troops landed in poland yesterday and u. S. Trooped prays at fort bragg as they deploy. United states has promised sancti