It is good to be back with you for this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, Donald Trumps private conversations with Mike Pence in the weeks and months before a mob swarmed the capitol. The neverbeforeseen evidence unsealed by a judge and trumps reaction when he was told his Vice President escaped the violence. The former president prepares to take the stage in michigan after attacking special Counsel Jack Smith as deranging. What else hes saying about a filing detailing his increasingly desperate bid to remain in power. The apocalyptic scenes in lebanon, more than A Million people sleeping on the streets, israel keeping up its Air Strikes. A live report on that, and the stunning claims the agreement Hezbollahs Leader made just days before he was killed. And the growing desperation after hurricane helene, A Thousand active duty troops now in areas without power or clean water. And with the fate of hundreds still unknown, President Biden visiting the Storm Zone right now
State of michigan saying, quote, make them riot. The Question Today beyond the Damming Narrative is whos listening. Joining us now, nbc News Correspondent Garrett haake whos in university center, michigan, for us, and nbc News Justice Reporter ryan reilly. I know the former president will be where you are, garrett, in a moment. Im going to start with ryan. As i said, ryan, the story here is not new. We know what Donald Trump tried to do around the 2020 election. We saw it happen in realtime. We had the January 6th hearings. There have been filings up until this point, a lot of them. But this new 165 Court Filing from Jack Smith gives us some more detail, more color, more insight into Donald Trumps State Of Mind in particular. What stood out to you, was there anything that was particularly damming . Personally, i think the volume of evidence of spreading lies stood out to me. That was going to be the challenge of this case. In 2020, i jokingly referred to this as the question of bad Fai
Now an extraordinary political moment, the kind that just a few years ago was in the category of hell has frozen over and pigs are flying. Vice president harris will be joined on the Campaign Trail by None Other than Liz Cheney in battleground wisconsin. Their joint Campaign Appearance is fraught with symbolism. Nbc news reports, quote, harris plans to play into that symbolism by recognizing the founding principles of the Republican Party. Thats according to a senior campaign official. Harris will be at the Birth Place of the gop together with Liz Cheney. The democratic president ial nominee and a former Republican Congresswoman, former leader of the republican caucus and the heir to a family whose name is synonymous with what it meant to be a conservative republican speaks to the coalition Vice President harris has assembled. Its unprecedented in modern american politics. Its an incredibly large tent she has assembled that includes former Vice President Dick Cheney and bernie sanders.
Special counsel. There is a whole lot here that we have never before seen. 165 pages laying out the case against donald trump. There are many dozens of bombshells here and people right now are poring over them. And what he did on january 6. At the prospect of mike pence being killed or harmed, donald trump, what jack smith found was donald trump s response was, quote, so what? 35 days before the election, new details on how the republican candidate for president tried to overthrow the last election. Rachel maddow and lawrence o donnell join me live tonight. Then did he lose the 2020 election? tim, i m focused on the future. Senator murphy on the republican plan to subvert this election. Plus the threat of regional war as israel invades lebanon. My interview on his brandnew book, when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. Just 34 days out from the election and voting has already started in a number of states. The judge in donald trump s january 6 specia
That fits in this new immunity we invented. We will ask you have a murderers row of legal analyst s. What a night. And when we are finished with that, cassidy hutchinson is going to join us. Unbelievable. She is part of what got this story moving. I envy you. That is an awesome lineup. Have a great show. Thank you. The vice president of the united states was taking notes. Donald trump always hated seeing people take notes in the white house when he was speaking, but taking notes was the least of donald trump s problems with mike pence during a meeting in which the president of the united states was trying to get the vice president of the united states to join what jack smith calls a criminal conspiracy and commit a crime against the united states of america. A crime that special prosecutor jack smith in a 165 page motion today calls a conspiracy against the rights of millions of americans to vote and have their votes counted. It was january 4, 2021. The discussion was one of several d