middle of a blizzard. the elements are all break whatever i need to. i don t even know what negative 15 is. tonight, the defendant in the over hurled election trial takes a break from the courtroom to head to the iowa caucuses. then, every day, mike johnson gets closer and closer to this deal, brings me closer and closer to vacating the chair. brand-new house speaker already on the outs of the maga caucus, as democrats demand an accounting of the trump presidency. you don t care about the principle that our governmental leaders should not be on the tape from foreign governments. that s outrageous. congressman jamie raskin joins me tonight, plus i was hoping that this film could spark conversation, the part of a conversation that we should be having in this country, this year, right now. director ava duvernay, on her brand-new film, origin. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. it is here, well, almost here, on monda
[ laughing ] democrats are taking rude, crude, and shouty congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s calls for decorum in the house as seriously as the republicans seem to be taking the threat to our economy with their manufactured debt ceiling crisis. but i m guessing our veterans and social security recipients are not laughing. plus, the longest january 6th sentence so far as oath keepers leader stewart rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy. and later, ron desantis disastrous campaign rollout leads to speculation that pudding may have been clogging up the twitter tubes. yuck. but we begin with the republican lie that could plunge our nation off of an economic cliff. with just seven days until the united states could default on our debt, talks between republicans and white house representatives have yet to resolve the issue. but today, president biden made a very important point. it s time for congress to act now. i want to be clear. the negotiations we re havin
weapons of death also tonight, michael cohen joins me to talk about what weaponization of government really looks like. as jim jordan plays make believe on the issue in an embarrassing field hearing of the once respected house judiciary committee. plus, justice clarence thomas is promising to fix his financial irregularities as a whole new set of questions come to light and we begin tonight with more young americans fighting for their lives at this country s massacre epidemic rages on following a spate otmass shootings less than three weeks since the children of nashville were buried, this is a feeling of an accelerating gun culture and the carnage and death that comes with it. the fear, the violence, they can feel unstoppable, even all consuming at times and it isn t just because of america s indifference to gun violence it feels like parts of this country are engaged in a celebration of gun violence. a veneration and devotion that has turned america into the most heav
You are presented with another societies caste system, it seems ludicrous on its face. we call them untouchables. you re like, why? when you are in your own version of it, you are so acculturated to it. so the transport across these different boundaries allows you to step outside your own. and it s an empathy machine, but also, shocking, i had no clue, and i m an african american studies major i have a degree in african american studies. i had never heard about the fact that american segregation and misogyny shun loss where the blueprint for not see protocols. that s not something that is widely taught i remember leaving that in the book and having my mind blown. so we explore that moment in the film where she puts those pieces together. we explore how the trayvon martin case was really the catalyst for her to start thinking about, wait, everyone is calling this race, but
Martin situation, the idea of violence against black and browm police to civilians, like it did in the trayvon martin case. it doesn t feel like we have come as far as we could. how do you feel about it? today, president biden said on the third anniversary of george floyd s murder, equal justice is the covenant that we have with each other, but justice has to be viewed through the lens of who is meting out the justice, when it s not looked at through the lens of true equality, it s just lip service, and i think to paul s point and to your point, the deaths are the facts. the deaths aren t stopping and they re occurring at the hands of civilians and also occurring at the hands of law enforcement. you can t paint all law enforcement with one swath, one brush, saying they re all bad. there s bad apples in all groups of people, but i think the fact that cops are given guns and given badges and imbued with the