documentary filmmaker alex holder on what he saw before january 6th, and the threats he faces for cooperating with the committee. all that and stacey abrams on the fight to preserve abortion rights in georgia and beyond, win all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. as we learn more about how bad january 6th was, i am stopped by the persistent suspicion that the party leadership, with some notable exceptions, would you do it all again. they would all support donald trump, all his anti-democratic intentions, his aspirations to be, basically, a fascist authoritarian. and even if he had gotten worse i mean, we got really lucky on january 6th. it could have been a lot worse. even with the mob chanting hang mike pence had made it to mike pence, they would do it again, even if that happened. i think that very strongly. and that s because they made a trade early on. it was a transaction between them and trump. the trade was, they would blindly suppor
rights in georgia and beyond, win all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. as we learn more about how bad january 6th was, i am stopped by the persistent suspicion that the party leadership, with some notable exceptions, would you do it all again. they would all support donald trump, all his anti-democratic intentions, his aspirations to be, basically, a fascist authoritarian. and even if he had gotten worse i mean, we got really lucky on january 6th. it could have been a lot worse. even with the mob chanting hang mike pence had made it to mike pence, they would do it again, even if that happened. i think that very strongly. and that s because they made a trade early on. it was a transaction between them and trump. the trade was, they would blindly support donald trump with all of the dangerous an obvious flaws and all the danger that he would put people in, which he did, of course, in order to have a shot at the super majority on the supreme
reject any electorate votes! i m telling you, if pence game, we re going to drag mother [ bleep ] through the streets. you [ bleep ] politicians are going to get drug through the streets. hang mike pence. hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! this was real. this is the evidence. this has nothing to do with partisanship or how one might feel about how vice president pence conducted himself in government, his view, his ideology. that sometimes gets lost partly because of right wing lies. this was about america. a threat to the vice president pushed and organized by the president, and we re learning new details that people need to understand for our society and future, how close these rioters and criminals and would-be indicted insurrectionists came to locate pence as they plotted his assassination during what you have to remember then, no one knew how it would end, how long it would go, how bad it would get. as they got that close to him during that insu
Brian tyler cohen, thank you for your time and insight into these important matters. That is our show this evening. Now it is time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. I love to listen and what you did last on the show and offer you very legitimate and sincere comments on however the discussion went. We didnt have time tonight. I also wouldnt be able to do that if i was the last guest on the show, so i appreciate the strategic spacing. Alex, have a great weekend and see you next week. Have a good show. The third week of Donald Trumps historic criminal trial has come to a close, setting the stage for what could be the end of the Prosecution Case next week, but not before another highprofile witness, former trump fixer Michael Cohen. We saw dramatic testimony from Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels who would not be intimidated by Donald Trumps lawyers out of telling her account of the alleged sexual encounter with donald trump and the subsequent scheme to buy her silence. Today
But not before another high profile witness, former trump fixer, Michael Cohen. We saw dramatic Witness Testimony from Stormy Daniels who would not be intimidated by lawyers out of telling her account of the allegedly counter encounter with trump. Todays testimony did not include any star witnesses, but it was important in setting the stage for next week. The trump lawyer turned enemy, Michael Cohen, will take the witness stand monday. He was the fixer of the 130,000 cash money payment to Stormy Daniels before the president ial election of 2016. We began the trial today and continued testimony from trumps former director of oval office operations. She remains loyal to trump despite being fired in 2019 after she reportedly told reporters she did not want to be photographed with trumps daughter, tiffany, because of her weight and used her testimony to paint donald trump as a hardworking, family man. A picture that was unrecognizable to pretty much anyone else who has ever heard of donald