it s a good story. it s a good story. tell. it he does. michael steele, that s tonight s reidout. by michael steele. now watch in with chris hayes. that starts right now. s hayes. that starts right now. tonight on all in. tonight the court is getting involved before votes been cast. the supreme court agrees to decide whether donald trump can be thrown off the ballot. i do think the colorado supreme court got it right and this is a big precedent for the country. tonight, the argument the, timeline, and a high stakes of the supreme court decision as the trump campaign warns justices to play ball. people like kavanaugh, who the president fought for, he ll step up. on the eve of the anniversary of january 6th, the president goes squarely after his likely opponent. he thinks that s funny. he laughed about it. what a sick [laughter] [applause] . tonight former police officer michael fanone after fighting off an insurrection. when all in starts, right now
ballotaud coconspirators, elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, it s a trap are being arrested and detained for a ballot fraud righnoand over coming days and will be living in barges of gitmo to face military tribunals for sedition, adding, quote, i hope this is true. just think about that for a second. in just all the different ways that is troubling. that said, the odds of justice thomas recusing himself are very very low. especially considering what we have learned about his ethical standards over the past years and the fact that the court doesn t have any regulatory body to tell him it has to recuse. they decide themselves. regardless it does not appear as though thomas s justice. the ex president is worried about. trump has apparently clocked his appointee, brett kavanaugh, is a swing vote against him, which may be why trump sent his tv lawyer on hannity last night
previous impeachment and investigations. i think, you know, justice thomas recusing himself would also lend itself to sort of bolstering this idea that virginia thomas is a power player in this stop the steal movement and in trump s in trump s circles in washington, d.c. who had sway over and influence over planning in advance of the january 6 rally until efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. so, committee members, from that january 6 committee, are seeking to fill in those seven hours of blank space on white house call logs and diaries from the afternoon of january 6th. what s your how are their efforts, how do they go about doing that? how do you see it playing out? how vital is this information? so, this is something that we re still digging into after our colleagues bob woodward
likely that they will move forward in requesting to speak with her, hallie. that is something that president biden was asked about as we watched live unfold right here on msnbc not 30 minutes ago when the president was asked if he believes that justice thomas should recuse himself and the president very clearly said not up to me, i m going to defer to two entities, to the january 6 select committee on anything related to ginni thomas and to the department of justice as relates to the january 6th investigation. as leigh ann knows, dick durbin, head of the senate judiciary committee, said this. i m going to play it. it raises a serious question about conflict of interest for justice thomas. to think that he would consider a case where his wife is frequently contacting the chief of staff for the president and giving advice on matters that are going to be ultimately litigated by the court, that is the ultimate conflict of interest. for the good of the court, i think he should recuse hi
on the supreme court. while you were away, there were reports about the wife of justice thomas and texts that she had with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. should justice thomas recuse himself from any cases involving the january 6 insurrection or former president trump at this point? i leave that to two entities. one, the january 6 committee and, two, the justice department. that s their judgment, not mine to make. so justice thomas recusing, you don t think he should? i said that, i told you those things get into legal issues that in fact i told you i would not tell the justice department what position to take or not take. i m not going to instruct the congress either. did you get any chance to watch much of the judiciary committee hearing? i didn t see any of it. the fact that republicans were questioning judge jackson on matters like former sentences related to child pornography