lining up behind him. i don t know, despite everything we know now, if that calculus has completely changed. one more thing from this week i want to point out. yesterday he met with a qanon follower. of course. and she also believes in pizzagate. complete that trifecta. they took a picture together. is it possible that his judgment is getting even more impaired? just to be fair, they were there for a fund-raiser. it was at mar-a-lago for a fund-raiser for child trafficking. and he took probably lots of pictures that night. i don t think you re helping. i m just saying. i m just giving an explanation of what may have happened. i wasn t there. he doesn t know who she is? i would venture to guess, just like nick fuentes, donald trump had no there are people, however, there are people that should be you ought to know who s in your pictures, that s the lesson from the dinner. he s very generous. trump likes anyone who likes him and it s very possible he doesn t k
for example, one of the members of the mob confirmed that in his interview with the fbi. qanon follower, douglas, seen here on january 6th, told the fbi that he was influenced by the ex president s lawyers. i quote him here, linwood got me fired up. sydney powell got me fired up. rudy giuliani got me fired up. yeah. they were firing people up. trump s lawyers following the ideas laid out by don junior on november 5th, incited him to go to the capitol on january 6th where he broke into the building and infamously chased officer eugene goodman up the stairs in this now infamous footage from that day. johnson is now trying to suppress that interview that he voluntarily gave the fbi, perhaps regretting that he opened his mouth. the way that i have come to see it is that there were basically three buckets. three categories of people involved in that insurrection. they are all part of one story. there is of course the ex president, his inner circle of enablers, then there is the mob
months. yeah, so he reached out to me in january and we were neighbors. i live in a hipster neighborhood in brooklyn and he also lives here because he is a hipster, which is weird. he calls himself a nice jewish boy, and he is. so what was important for me with this story is close your eyes and think about what you think a qanon follower is and you re probably wrong. people come in all shapes and sizes. i ve talked to dozens and dozens of followers and they are moms in new mexico that do yoga and love instagram. they are owners of a mittens store in michigan. so a story like this is important because it does sort of show the just depth of what we re dealing with and how anybody is susceptible. and to your point, this was not like a one intervention and the flip switched for justin
good evening from new york and i m chris hayes. another rioter at the capitol on january 6th received a serious prison sentence. a qanon follower, nicholas lang grant was given 44 months for assaulting enough of sir with a dangerous weapon. he threw an orange traffic barrier and to stick like objects at officers who were protecting the lower west terrorist entrance to the capitol. quote, the items were capable of inflicting serious bodily injury. he also bragged about the attack on social media like so many of his courts. next time we come back with rifles. and while we are continuing to see formal accountability to the insurrections footsoldiers, there are also investigations underway on multiple fronts that are moving up the chain of command. in the case of elmer stewart rhodes, the founder and leader of the oath keepers gang who was allegedly the mastermind
for senator ron johnson. i ve never really felt it was societies responsibility to take care of other people s children. all in starts right now. good evening from new york and i m chris hayes. another rioter at the capitol on january 6th received a serious prison sentence. a qanon follower, nicholas lang grant was given 44 months for assaulting enough of sir with a dangerous weapon. he threw an orange traffic barrier and to stick like objects at officers who were protecting the lower west terrorist entrance to the capitol. quote, the items were capable of inflicting serious bodily injury. he also bragged about the attack on social media like so many of his courts. next time we come back with rifles. and while we are continuing to see formal accountability to the insurrections footsoldiers,