tonight on all in. enough, i said please don t be too nice. donald trump admits he crossed the line, but demands immunity, like a cop who gets away with breaking the law. the president of the united states, must have immunity. tonight, the dark implications of trump s new manifesto. then, the latest attack on e. jean carroll inside the trump defamation trial. plus. let s just wait and see what happens in new hampshire. if nikki haley wins new hampshire, that i think we ve got a race in our hands. if polling and new expectations settings for the next vote in new hampshire has global elites warned the indicted ex president. i don t think voting for trump s family values, but he wasn t wrong about some of these critical issues. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we are awaiting a ruling from the d.c. circuit court of appeals on donald trump s audacious and a dangerous claim of near total presidential immunity, for crim
and could face no criminal accountability or prosecution, unless he was first successfully impeached and convicted. could a president ordered s. e. a. l. team six to assassinate a political rival? that s an official act, in order to s. e. a. l. team six? he would have to be, and would speedily be impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution. but if you weren t? there would be no criminal prosecution, no criminal liability for that? in the chief justices opinion and our constitution, and in the plain language of the impeachment judgment clause, all clearly presuppose that what the founders were concerned about was not. i asked you a yes or no question. could a president who ordered s. e. a. l. team six to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, could he be subject to criminal prosecution? if he were impeached and convicted first. so your answer is? my answer is qualified yes. it was always clear that these weren t particularly s
we have andrew weissman here. should be interesting. also late they are hour, new clues on where covid really came from and what it means for safety and geopolitics. we do the facts here with an open mind, and we ll try to bring that perspective to a very important story. even if we re talking about some aspects of safety policy, we re going to get into where this virus came from. that s later tonight. the top story now is a once in a year moment. comics raising the curtain on this cpac conference in today s real news. stays coachella were team who post on facebook in all caps. clowns periodically in ash centers. there will be a quan session sorry, q&a. qanon/q&a, you get it. this conference has become in more ways bizarre than conservative. while many political gathers have all kinds of characters i have been to conferences across the spectrum. you see all kinds of stuff. we ll show you what the proramming is and you can see for yourself. they have sessions on
Seriously, im more excited than a Guy Seeing Beetlejuice with lauren boebert. Im more excited than a jets fan during the first three plays of the season. Youve got to be kidding me in case youve forgotten, im jimmy. Ive been off the air five months. Weve been gone so long. Weve been gone so long, the bachelor is now a grandfather. Its been a long time since our last late show. We looked at the calendar today, and check my math on this, i believe we have been off the air for 154 indictments. A look at some of the late night shows which returned to tv for the first time in five months. We have a lot to get to this morning, including a recap of day one in Donald Trumps Civil Fraud Trial in New York City. Part of that is the Punishment Phase. Well tell you about the moment that seemed to enrage the former president. Also ahead, the latest on Kevin Mccarthys Speakership Battle as a far right Republican Forces a vote in the house to decide his fate, whether he keeps his job as speaker or whe
adjudicate in the court, but it s one reason why the politicians in congress might say skip it. and what does it tell you that the republicans who support trump don t want to give a speech this weekend? that s a great question, ari. what a lot of people do who are running for office focus on the question, what s my path to victory? and by path to victory, people mean, who are my likely voters? who are likely to be my base. one signal i think it sends is a lot of these folks don t think it s their base. maybe it s a base. i think we ve seen from a ron desantis, a base he s trying to wink but nonetheless may not be his starting point base, and i think some of that footage you showed about the popularity of donald trump amongst some republicans we know from polling that s roughly a third of republican who is really self-identify as trump republicans as opposed to