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
appearances before a grand jury. and then also some reporting, indicating that he is a subject of investigation. i ll start with you asha, then woodchuck. asha, what do you think? yes chris. what i m looking at is who where they talking to and are these people fruitful avenues of investigation to get to trump s personal, criminal liability. and i think that this is where short and jacobs are changing the game a little bit. all of those instances that you laid out chris in the beginning, which has protected trump is that he has been able to maintain a cone of silence around him. partly by never having a paper trail, partly by surrounding himself with loyalists who will never write him out. and what short and greg jacobs allow is for them to pierce that cone of silence from the vantage point of mike pence. to get to what was being told in these personal