you have to game in the game republicans. republican d.a. starting every investigation right now. tonight, new reporting on a magazine very public payback campaign. is a terrible, terrible path that they are leaving us to. and it is very possible that it is going to have to happen to them. donald trump is openly signaling russia to help himself get elected again. russia, if you re listening. the president of russia will do that for me. and i don t believe he will do it for anyone else. judge aileen cannon wild move to help disrupt the documents trial. another installment of our special series, are you better off than you were four years ago? president trump posing for pictures, holding a bible without explanation. all in start right now. good evening, from new york. i m chris hayes. tonight tops store, including speaker of the house of representatives, dozens of senators and congressmen have been revealed to be working hand in glove with convicted criminals in
subsequent illegal expansion of the war cost 20,000 americans lives and millions of laotian and cambodian lives. a similar thing happen again in 1980. that election, jimmy carter was facing a foreign-policy crisis of his own. good evening. the american embassy and tehran is in the hands of muslim students and i, spurred on by they stormed the embassy, fought the marine guards for four hours, overpowered them and took dozens of american hostages. more than 50 americans were being held hostage in iran. it was a political disaster for carter and it was later discovered his opponent, ronald reagan, set up a secret back channel of his own. reagan alec, former texas, john connolly, traveled to a number of middle eastern countries in the summer of 1980, worrying a encouraged the leaders to pass along a message to iran, as the new york times, don t release the hostages before the election. reagan will win and give you a
better deal. again, it worked. reagan won. and in a final twist , the hostages were released just minutes after the new president, ronald reagan, was sworn in. all of this to say, for history, it is perfectly plausible that donald trump does have some kind of back channel to russia. but at the end of the day, whether trump is just making things up and trying to influence russia from afar, that is to keep christo bish hostage. whether he has a keep a deal. if donald trump really does have any power to get him released, isn t making that happen right now. then it is donald trump holding that american hostage.