and one of the people who spoke most eloquently i thought was congressmanly bria wn mast of florida. his words echoed what benjamin franklin said, we could pass all the rules we, if want, if we in this body, majority of the republicans don t do the right thing, the rules don t matter. i said, this man is on to something, all talk about rules. following thttere rules. if we don t have virtuous members of the house, the rules down matter. i got to thinking, of y franklin s comments onin f september 17, 1787, last day of the constitutional convention, he wrote at speech, this is what he said. i confess that i do not i approve of this constitution of present. buprovt i am not sure i shall neff nevada approve it never approved it, for having lived long i have experienced many instances.e to chane opinions even on important subjects.i i once thought right. but found to be otherwise. it is there that older iow ggrow the more apt i am to doubt my judgment and may more respect to ju
good evening from new york. welcome back to all in. i m chris hayes. in four days the republican majority will be sworn in, and that includes george santos, the freshman congressman-elect from new york, a man who flipped a democratic seat in a biden plus eight district and has subsequently been caught fabricating much of his resume. from his past claims of jewish heritage to his job history, education, reporters are now scrutinizing everything about santos, understandably. especially his apparent sudden wealth. how he went from earning $55,000 in 2020 to loaning his campaign over $700,000 just two years later. and how he spent that campaign money. new york times reporting today that santos spent an unusually high amount on hotels and trips across the country especially for a candidate relatively new to politics. $30,000 on hotels, $40,000 on air fare, $14,000 on car services. government affairs lobbyists telling the times, quote, usually a congressional candidates tries s
learned. also, an expert legal panel standing by, geraldo rivera, brian claire pool and mark geragos, a lot who have a lot of experience with celebrity cases such as these. the d.a., mary carmack says that the set played fast and loose with safety. that she absolutely believes that alec baldwin pulled the trigger that fateful day. something that the actor when he spoke out about the case shortly after it happened denied. watch this. it wasn t in the script for the trigger to be pulled. the trigger was and pulled. i didn t pull the trigger. you never pulled the trigger? no, no, no. i would never point a gun and pull a trigger, never. martha: they ll go back to that time and time again here. baldwin, gutierrez reed and david halls, the assistant director, who signed a plea agreement. did not do their jobs that day says this special prosecutor. if they had, helena hutchins would be alive today. let s bring in judge jeanine pirro that just spoke with the d.a. grea
turned violent in atlanta tonight. wad tyler is live in atlanta tyler what is the latest have there been any arrests made tonight? well lawrence i can tell you six people are in custody tonight have been arrested according to thrarnght police that s what they told us an hour and a half ago and clean upunderway right now this was one of the businesses damaged by protesters scooping up glass theyrd board up woipgd here. this is one of three according to atlanta police that were damaged during protest here and video from earlier that really tells story you ll see it one point a police car was damaged by by a different protesters and then they lit it on fire multiple buildings brings and rocks used to knock out windows and it really started as largely peaceful protest against a proposed atlanta police training center. some folks are not happy about that. they say that they do not want to have it and earlier just a couple of days ago, a protester an activist was killed while t
turned violent in atlanta tonight. wad tyler is live in atlanta tyler what is the latest have there been any arrests made tonight? well lawrence i can tell you six people are in custody tonight have been arrested according to thrarnght police that s what they told us an hour and a half ago and clean upunderway right now this was one of the businesses damaged by protesters scooping up glass theyrd board up woipgd here. this is one of three according to atlanta police that were damaged during protest here and video from earlier that really tells story you ll see it one point a police car was damaged by by a different protesters and then they lit it on fire multiple buildings brings and rocks used to knock out windows and it really started as largely peaceful protest against a proposed atlanta police training center. some folks are not happy about that. they say that they do not want to have it and earlier just a couple of days ago, a protester an activist was killed while t