of a criminal invest big asian tonight, asha rangappa and chuck rosenberg what it means to move from subject to target. jay johnson on the secret service scandal and why he says the case against the ex president is already indict-able. plus i debunking of a trump ally from trump tv and a new proposal that gives me genuine hope in these difficult times, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes all of a sudden there s a lot happening in the department of justice investigation into the january 6th insurrection. in just the last few days there s been a bunch of domestic developments some of which were gonna get into in a moment. but before he, do it s worth stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. because the significance here is well, large. for seven years now we ve been covering donald trump and he s basically always been enmeshed in controversy and scandal. he s always been surrounded by investigations and allegations of criminal
trump alibi from trump tv. and the new project that gives me genuine hope in these insane times, when all in starts right now. w. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. all of the sudden there is a lot happening in the department of justice investigation into the january 6th insurrection. in just the last few days, there have been a bunch of developments, some of which we are going to get to in a moment. but before we do, it s worth stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, because i think the significance here is, a large. for seven years now, we have been covering donald trump and he has basically been always enmeshed in controversy and scandal. he has always been surrounded by investigations and also allegations of criminality. serious ones. that is how he has lived his entire life. right on the edge of the law, both before entering politics and after. and there has always been this perpetual sense that trump manages to wriggle his way out of every jam. partl
during the trump administration. in fact, the guy who heads up the secret service right now is the same guy who oversaw during the insurrection. and after the investigation and those text messages were launched, exposed personalist a statement saying quote. insinuation that the secret service mostly bladed text messages was false, instead blaming a technicolor. utah democrats are calling for the inspector general to step aside, because he reportedly found out about those little text messages quote, in the summer 2020 12 months earlier than previously reported and did not alert congress at the time. now, johnson has served as the head of the department of homeland security under president barack obama and is the body that oversees the secret service. he joins me now. it s great to have you on. i want to start with the secret service. because it is an agency with a lot of missiles attached to it. they have obviously incredible job. i think that there s a lot of people who work there wh
during the insurrection. after the investigation to they ve released a statement saying quote, to the insinuation that the secret service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. instead blaming a technical error. they re calling for the inspector general to step aside because he reportedly found out about those deleted text messages quote, in december 2021, two months earlier than previously reported and did not alert congress at the time. jeh johnson served as the head of homeland security it s the bodies to owe body that oversees the secret service. he joins us now. it s great to have you won. i want to start with the secret service. it is an agency with a lot of missiles attached to. it they have obviously an incredibly important and crucial job. there s a lot of people who work there who are patriots who take the job very seriously. institutionally, the story the secret service is telling here doesn t really add up. and i am wondering your