make. last night we kicked off our town hall series in terms of th election season and the all-important caucus state of iowa, we did it with former president donald j trump, now the president state after the show for a considerable period of time and took a lot of questions from townhome process depends. take a look. and want to talk about issue first because those of the issues that impact people s lives. i want to start with what matters. peace and prosperity in the future of elections in my opinion. we have a border that is out of control, why would they open up the border? do you think this is by design? by the end of this year, joe biden by estimates will of allowed him seven and a half illegal immigrants into this country with no background chec at all. i think there will be 15 million people and these are people coming from prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, don t use that term place, but there from insane asylums freight i read somethin about three wee
forth and i misread your tex [laughter] i thought i was gonna have you on the top of the show and the you are you crossed on the top of my show and i was lik sending everyone on a while it was chase. but it s wonderful to see you. no or you thought i was gonna be on with you an hour ago, just pop up roundly o your show uninvited? no, i was having you on but then i realized afterwards tha i d screw that up and heads an a bunch of embarrassing emails telling people to stand down having revere the text you sen me so it s wonderful to see you here on this very importan day. thank you, chris. hey, and thank you for askin me to be here, i m here unde weird circumstances. i did my own makeup which is hilarious. so i look like we ve all bee talking about nicks nixon an actually here to remind us o the ghost of nixon nixon it s 1960. you do everything including your makeup. before you go, let me jus ask you, chris, because you ve been asking a lot of questions this hour and,
marked its first 100 days in power. democratic congressman gre casar is here to help us grade their work plus, double trouble special counsel jack smith s investigations into trump ar both ramping up, and his forme top aides are finall testifying before grand juries then, a worst of the wee first. ted cruz makes his debut appearance facing off agains lindsey graham who s gonna take the top spot? i am ayman mohyeldin let s get started. bear with me here for a moment, professor ayma mohyeldin has some grading t do this week, kevin mccarthy an the maga-controlled hous marked 100 days in power, 10 days of score settling for far right virtue signaling, an circus like hearings at a pace that would put the wrangling brothers to shame. it has been such a hectic 10 days that it is easy to forget that all the individua episodes of bedlam the gop unleashed in the holes o congress just a few short months ago, house republicans required a excruciating 15 ballots to elect kevin mcc
how much does it cost to lie t the american people? well, this week, fox settled the dominion voting system defamation lawsuit, agreeing t pay a staggering seven point 8 excuse me, 787 point $5 millio in settlements it is one of the largest settlements in defamatio history in this country, and i shows that fox was at leas somewhat afraid that the jur might sign against them. that, it s, clear was th financial cost of lying to the american people. but the other cost, th reputational costs, that is little bit harder to explain after the settlement was announced, fox released this statement, which read, in part we acknowledge the court rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to th highest journalistic standards we are hopeful that ou decision to settle this disput with dominion amicably, instea of the acrimony of a divisiv trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues now, did you notice a word
i have nothing to hide. i have a constitution to uphold the former vice president agrees to talk after his bos surrendered for arrest in ne york president trump, when you come speak to us president trump? tonight, 24 hours of lega disaster for donald trump. 24 hours of political disaster for the party he leads and why there is no sign of an of it letting up who would like to watch m sleigh a zombie? and it is the latest lega setback for fox news i dare dominion to sue me because then it would go faster explaining your pandering t a pillow salesman from the stand. when all in starts right now good evening from new york, am chris hayes i have to say, okay, even by the standards of our time, o this day and age, right, a avalanche of news an spectacle. this sort of dizzying cloyin for your attention the last 24 hours have reall been something else. so i want to begin tonight b just taking a second here to try to collectively just wra our heads around the mea