you have to game in the game republicans. republican d.a. starting every investigation right now. tonight, new reporting on a magazine very public payback campaign. is a terrible, terrible path that they are leaving us to. and it is very possible that it is going to have to happen to them. donald trump is openly signaling russia to help himself get elected again. russia, if you re listening. the president of russia will do that for me. and i don t believe he will do it for anyone else. judge aileen cannon wild move to help disrupt the documents trial. another installment of our special series, are you better off than you were four years ago? president trump posing for pictures, holding a bible without explanation. all in start right now. good evening, from new york. i m chris hayes. tonight tops store, including speaker of the house of representatives, dozens of senators and congressmen have been revealed to be working hand in glove with convicted criminals in
of anyone who is better off today than they were four years ago? oh, yeah, i do, actually. to give you some context, four years ago, 100,000 americans already died of the coronavirus, losing nearly 1000 people every single day. the unemployment rate has skyrocketed into double digits. the country was in the throes of mass protests and street unrest unlike we have seen in a generation. in a week and a half minneapolis police officer, derek chauvin, had murdered george floyd, captured on cell phone video. and the historic protest and unrest were beginning. across the country, what started as peaceful gatherings, protesting the death of george floyd evolved into destruction. from new york, where police and protesters squared off in the streets. to portland, where the mayor issued a state of emergency and the city curfew. the nation erupted into scenes of chaos. violence, and widespread
subsequent illegal expansion of the war cost 20,000 americans lives and millions of laotian and cambodian lives. a similar thing happen again in 1980. that election, jimmy carter was facing a foreign-policy crisis of his own. good evening. the american embassy and tehran is in the hands of muslim students and i, spurred on by they stormed the embassy, fought the marine guards for four hours, overpowered them and took dozens of american hostages. more than 50 americans were being held hostage in iran. it was a political disaster for carter and it was later discovered his opponent, ronald reagan, set up a secret back channel of his own. reagan alec, former texas, john connolly, traveled to a number of middle eastern countries in the summer of 1980, worrying a encouraged the leaders to pass along a message to iran, as the new york times, don t release the hostages before the election. reagan will win and give you a
a catastrophic war in vietnam. just a few days before the election, he looked up the johnson admin station was on the cusp of securing a negotiation to end the war. at the last minute, the nixon campaign opened up a secret back channel in order to get them to pull out of the peace talks. on november 2nd, with just three days to go until americans went to the polls, president suddenly announced that the south vietnamese government would not attend the proposed talks after all. a representative of the nixon campaign, at the candidate s personal direction, had secretly contacted the saigon government, urging him to stay away from the talks. promising that once nixon was elected, he would drive a harder bargain with hanoi than humphrey did. at work, with the peace talks stalled nixon won the election. he prolonged the war in order to get elected. the delay, and nixon s