could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. it is about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this. whatever it takes. when the president does it it means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade hostages for arms. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. he develops weapons of mass destruction. we are in trouble. i just want to find 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the watergate, the nixon white house started covering up. i was the desk officer of the cover-up. i get the information and gather it and i share it and they were maki
releasing the search warrant itself. the doj arguing the road map was too sensitive to be released. citing witness protection and ongoing investigation. the doj lost that argument today. the judge finding that those prosecutors failed to meet the burden to prove the entire of adate should remain sealed, ordering the garland doj to file their secret proposed redactions within a week. so that s a loss for them on process and a win for getting more information about this operation, as a general citizen, if you are interested in learning even more about what s going on there, well, that s a win. most news outlets wanted the outcom outcome. trump also wanted that outcome. he went from hiding the original warrant, which he had the whole time, then saying he wanted it released, then the judge releasing some new materials as well today like more of the warrant application with sites he illegally possessed contrabrand at mar-a-lago. it is in early stages as they review the evidence th
reporter: has it hit you, what if you were on the other side of the bench with him? how close you guys were? i don t want to think about that. i don t want i don t want to think about that. here in washington the white house is responding to growing outrage over what experts call a russian show trial for wnba super star brittney griner, the administration officials say the president has read the letter from griner, talking about the terror she feels about never being freed from the prison. it s a priority for this president, he is doing everything that he can. he takes this to heart. he take this is job very seriously, especially when it comes to bringing home u.s. nationals who are wrongfully detained, it s a priority. we are going to make it happen. and we are following a big development in the georgia investigation in to donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. as a fulton county special grand jury hands down the subpoenas to current and former mem
the key to understanding richard nixon is that richard nixon was never self-confident that he could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy, with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. it s about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develops weapons of mass destruction. i just want 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the waterg
we should get to the bottom of that. people defending democracy from the inside. i was ready to fight. i saw a lot of bleep. i was not going to die bleep on the floor of the house of representatives. a key member of the committee investigating the coup. the hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the house. and the republican congressman who wore a bulletproof vest on january 6th joins me live. he always brings up we ve got to rescind the election, you ve got to take a biden out and put me in. now he still says that? yes. a special two hour edition of all in, the an american coup, starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. in 24 hours, the first public hearings on the january 6th insurrection will finally begin. and while the story has been fairly front and center for a year and a half, the true horror of that day, the terrifying threat, the violence directed at members of congress and the police at the capitol, the vice p