my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. trump on trial in august? the first court date is officially set, and it is just eight weeks away. tonight, what it all means for the possibility of a trial before the election and, the motives of the trump appointed judge in charge of it. then after a five year investigation by a trump appointed prosecutor, hunter biden strikes a deal. if trump cooperated with the justice department he might have avoided the situation he is in right now. he chose not to, because he s arrogant and does not care about the law. plus, the impact of the indictment on the polls, and the inability of the republican front runner to just stop talking. you lost the 2020 election but when all in it starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. and we have an initial trial date in the trump florida documents case. just one week after donald tru
my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. trump on trial in august? the first court date is officially set, and it is just eight weeks away. tonight, what it all means for the possibility of a trial before the election and, the motives of the trump appointed judge in charge of it. then after a five year investigation by a trump appointed prosecutor, hunter unlikely that the august 14th start date, the one that is two months from today, will hold. it s fairly common practice for a judge to set an early start date as a sort of benchmark, only to see the trial slip further and further down the calendar. the prosecution needs time to prepare its arguments, and trump s lawyers deserve time to mount a reasonable defense of their client. the defense has not yet received, for instance, the classified evidence as part of the discovery process, something which, on its own, could had significant
ringleaders get a free pass. then, the anatomy of a collapse. we ve become a party of losers at the end of the day. rebecca on the ongoing rejection of abortion restrictions across the country. across the state, we are going to bed knowing that we own our own bodies. plus, what is joe manchin s announcement means for the effort to defeat trump. i don t think that democracy as we know it will withstand another trump administration. and is israel announces intermittent pauses in their strikes, the on what we know about what is happening in gaza. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. good big development today. the case of the fallen off the radar over the past few months. special counsel jack smith s federal election interference case against donald trump. even as the ex president dries to wriggle and bully his way out of accountability for his various misdeeds, to lash out at the judge, the prosecutors, special counsel s
capital on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. jack smith tips his hand on how he plans to prosecute trump. as described in the indictment, fueled by lies. tonight the new evidence the republican front runner will be treated like the people he sent to the capital. ours is not a system of justice where footsoldiers go to jail and the masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass. then, the anatomy of a collapse. we ve become a party of losers at the end of the day. rebecca on the ongoing rejection of abortion restrictions across the country. across the state, we are going to bed knowing that we own our own bodies. plus, what is joe manchin s announcement means for the effort to defeat trump. i don t think that democracy as we know it will withstand another trump administration. and is israel announces intermittent pauses in their strikes, the on what we know about what is happening in gaza. when all in star
other day, i was kind of a normal guy, and then covid open my eyes. and you can t believe how many people have fallen down that same rabbit hole. and rfk jr. as really shows in to gobble up the spotlight in a time where he is the leader of everybody s brain worms. yeah, but this is what is so fascinating to me. so, what you have seen is a polarization between the party coalition sorting a long high trust, low trust. and you have increasingly the center to center left has a higher social trust coalition. yeah. the center to center right, to the right wing, is a low trust coalition. and so this migration, where rfk jr. comes from the left i mean, he s obviously the most famous name in democratic politics but also how he aligns his politics, but the people who are most enthusiastic about him are roger stone and elon musk and joe rogan and donald trump has good things to say to him, and he s getting all this amplification, because that kind of stuff is the beating heart of right-wi