all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. good present order seal team six to assassinate a political rival? history inside a d.c. courtroom. i asked you yesterday question. could a president who ordered seal team six to assassinate a political rival who was not impeached, could he be subject to criminal prosecution? the united ex president claims complete immunity. i think qualified, yes if he s impeached and convicted. first trump s criminal attorney is confronted with trump s impeachment defense. after he s out of office, they re gonna arrest him. the arguments, the implications, and the timetable for a republican front-runner running to stay out of jail. plus, starting new evidence of the ongoing coup as we learn of harrowing new threats to trump s prosecutor and judge. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. history made in front of the entire country today. at least we can all hear it, if not s
ide with jen psaki starts no w. well, if the first week of the new year has shown us anything, it s that joe biden and donald trump are basically living on different planets when it comes to their approach to american democracy. tonight, i m gonna talk to house speaker emeritus nancy pelosi about all of that. plus, president obama has appointed david plouffe as a senior strategist who might be useful to the biden campaign. of course he would be. david is gonna join me tonight as well. but we do want to start tonight with some new reporting from abc news that is shedding greater light on what trump was doing, and more importantly not doing on january 6th. as a mob pushed its way into the capital, becoming more and more violent as the minutes tic by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted t
and with a little help from artificial intelligence, beatles fans can expect a new track from the fab four more than 50 years since they last recorded together. former president donald trump is celebrating his 77th birthday today as a source inside the trump camp tells nbc news he is bracing for the possibility of more indictments. trump was defiant and insisting he did nothing wrong as he rallied supporters at his new jersey golf club last night. just hours after he pleaded not guilty to charges he lied and schemed to hold on to sensitive national security material, he was supposed to turn over when he left the white house. earlier this morning, former vice president mike pence who was challenging trump for the republican presidential nomination spoke out about the indictment. the very prospect that what is alleged here took place creating an opportunity where highly sensitive classified material could have fall noon the wrong hands, even inadvertently, that jeopardizes
fraud. stone may regret letting the cameras roll in that room. there is new video from that session and we have it for you exclusively later tonight. we begin with news on a story that i can tell you some on the right are hoping the nation forgets. the kind of story they re hoping that you news viewers and citizens will forget because we live in a time of growing inequality and corruption. take supreme court justice thomas blatant taking and grifting gifts from insiders, or billionaires, shaping our politics and clashing with anyone who dares disagree with the power they think they bought over our democracy, or this ongoing rolling trumpian takeover of a political party which has resulted in rallying the gop around rank, transactional calculus, self-interest as a kind of new norm to be minimized or even defended. and i ll tell you this as introduction to some really important stuff we re about to show you. the modern republican party has long embraced capitalism, sure. bu
ts r ight now wit i have one question for you, why is it so cold in the studio? i like it like this. this is you doing this? is it me? i don t even know. i think this is the equilibrium i am used to. i like being with you, so if that is the cost of sharing a studio you know what? we could raise it up to whatever you want. i ll just wear a sweater, thank you, have a good evening, chris. thank you for joining us tonight. i am ali velshi in for alex wagner. we will warm up in the next few minutes. president biden is now officially releasing his first campaign ad of 2024. in that ad, president biden makes clear what he believes will be the central issue of this election. i have made the preservation of the american democracy at the center of my presidency. i believe in free and fair elections. and the right to vote fairly and have your vote counted. there is something dangerous happening in america. there is an extremist movement that doesn t share the basic b