he did not do it. day four of the seditious conspiracy trial. trump should have acted, and just manned up to do it, but he didn t. tonight, new evidence of how hard the oath keepers pressed for a coup. congressman jamie raskin, on what it means for the committee s final hearing. then, even new reporting suggesting the justice department thinks donald trump is, still, hiding documents. plus, new reporting that herschel walker urged his ex girlfriend to have a second abortion. joe searcy owning, on the presidents candid remarks about vladimir putin, and nuclear armageddon. all in, starting right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. we begin tonight by setting a scene for you at the e barrett premium federal courthouse in washington d.c.. five members of the right-wing gang, the oath keepers, are currently on trial for seditious conspiracy. in connection with their plot to keep donald trump in pair power with, the 2020 election. we have been bringing you up
off in ohio with tim ryan. everyone knows why these races matter, control of congress, the first election since the supreme court ended the right to choice, and the premise here is of course the votes will decide the outcome. i shouldn t have to say that, right? the reason i shouldn t have to say that is this is still a democracy. so here we are tonighted in midterms homestretch, and this is america. it s not like many other countries where you have authoritarians or december cots that make it clear they don t intend to follow any outcome except the one where they win. take for example brazil where you have an autocrat who sound likes this. translator: there are only three alternatives for me to be arrested, to be killed, or to be victorious. and i tell those scumbags i will never go to jail. that s how authoritarians talk. he s basically saying the only right outcome is that he wins. that s abroad, but consider why i m showing you this as the first thing in the beat.
On capitol hill the January 6th Select Committee about to share striking never before seen testimony and evidence all with the Focus On Former President Trump and the central role the panel says he played in the attack on democracy. Welcome to cnns live coverage of the January 6th Hearings. Im anderson cooper. Im jake tapper. This is the final hearing. Committee members are promising to hammer home their urgent argument that donald j. Trump remains in their view a Clear And Present Danger to American Democracy as trump continues to push false claims about the 2020 election. Committee aides tell us the hearing today will zero in on trumps State Of Mind on and around january 6th. Were told well see and hear from Cabinet Officials, and other new witnesses who have recently been interviewed by the committee that could potentially include former Secretary Of State mike pompeo, former treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and elaine chao. Some coming from the Secret Service. They have turned over
we want to get to the september jobs report. the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%. what does this mean for future interest rate hikes? meanwhile, the markets are reacting, the dow down around 400 points and it comes as americans face a convergence of economic pressures from rising prices at the gas pump, rent and mortgage rates up, and inflation burning a hole in our wallets. we could hear from president biden as he heads to maryland. we ll watch to see if he stops to comment on this report. with me now brian cheung, josh letterman, also joins us, host of public radio s full disclosure and politico chief chief correspondent. the biggest jobs gains were in leisure, hospitality, health care. i think the big takeway is that the labor market still appears to be chugging along. americans have options out there. with the unemployment rate a 3.5%, by the way, multidecade lows on that front, you re not seeing the traditional recessionary dynamics in this labor market where you
indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. here s how team trump responded to brat according to the new york times reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trump s lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside firm to conduct a further search for documents. and another camp advising trump to maintain a more combative posture. the more combative camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. to put all this in perspective. after months of pleading by the national archives, a subpoena from the department of justice back in may, a court-approved search of president trump s private golf club and residents which yielded 11,000 government documents, all in all, a process that has now gone on for m