add to that the court knocking down joe biden s student debt relief and saying a web designer can t be forced to design a same-sex wedding sight, and site, and you have many infuriated democrats. congressman ted lou says he wants to expand the high court because of its radical, extreme supermajority. keep in mind that court pack turned into a fiasco for fdr are. affirmative action has always had a contradiction at its heart, hurting some people like asian-americans who are also a minority, or helping others such as blacks and hispanics. and it s brought out plenty of ugliness. the atlantic s jemele hill, who is black, saying you gladly carried the water for white supremacy and stabbed the folks in the back whose people fought diligently for asian-american rights, white supremacy? it s perfectly fine for pundits to attack coe discuss i rulings they don t like scotus rulings they don t like, but is it going too far to try to undermine the institution? i m howard kurtz9 and
good evening from new york. welcome back to all in. i m chris hayes. in four days the republican majority will be sworn in, and that includes george santos, the freshman congressman-elect from new york, a man who flipped a democratic seat in a biden plus eight district and has subsequently been caught fabricating much of his resume. from his past claims of jewish heritage to his job history, education, reporters are now scrutinizing everything about santos, understandably. especially his apparent sudden wealth. how he went from earning $55,000 in 2020 to loaning his campaign over $700,000 just two years later. and how he spent that campaign money. new york times reporting today that santos spent an unusually high amount on hotels and trips across the country especially for a candidate relatively new to politics. $30,000 on hotels, $40,000 on air fare, $14,000 on car services. government affairs lobbyists telling the times, quote, usually a congressional candidates tries s
headquarters in new york city. donald trump ready to run for president for a third time, but is the country ready? before we start debating what it means for 2024, what does it mean for the midterms now less than 100 hours away. plus, the former head of the oath keepers, stewart rhodes, takes the stand in his own defense. what he said about the 2020 election and his surprising take on the right-wing militia he founded more than a decade ago. overnight, we got word that a treatment for rsv has now been approved but not in time for what s predicted to be a terrible winter here in the u.s. so lots to get to, but we start with the news that will no doubt mark a new chapter in the political life of this country and could escalate the stakes in what has already been a wildly unpredictable and stunningly close midterm race. nbc news has confirmed that donald trump is expected to officially announce his third run for president later this month. it s something he s teased relent
to sell stuff, and when it comes down to it, when you ve got to sell stuff, elon musk is really no different than larry fink, jamie dimon and every other corporate oligarch that i know. i like these guys [laughter] howard: yeah. it s a them of endearment for you. i know you train all the time, are we ever going to see this cage match between musk and zuck? i don t think so. based on what i know, and i only know this from listening to joe rogan, zuck will kill elon musk. howard: yeah. which is why elon musk is not going to do it. all right, charlie, no cage match between you and me. great to see you. thanks so much. after the break, how the press is covering donald trump versus ron desantis on fund raising, gay rights. it s getting a little ugly.
be unusual to pay for staff, but unclear what the legality would be. there s also, i know he made someone flag that he made donations to other candidates which is also something you don t see that often. you see it with sitting incumbent members, but folks running for the first time, they re trying to raise money. they re not usually giving much of that money away. how successful was he as a fund-raiser independent of the $700,000 loan he got? it s a good question. you know, we can see from his filings that he was spending a lot of kind of effort and also from our reporting, talking to sources close to the campaign, on fund-raising. you know, one of the other things that jumped out at us is he spent $40,000 on flights, i believe, and around $30,000 on hotels. in places like california and texas and virginia. you know, ostensibly meeting with donors. i think what was sort of unusual to us about that was just sort