that violence against the former vice president. tonight, committee members olaf comments on the growing danger. and harry litman on the difficulties of prosecuting. and sandra garza on trump s culpability in the death of her partner. officer brian sicknick, all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. one of the two republican members of the january six committee just offered a stark, personal warning about the threat of political violence in this country. a topic he knows a thing or two about. this threat that came in was mailed to my house. we got it a couple of days ago. it threatens to execute me, as well as my wife and five month old child. i have never seen or had anything like that. there are people, there is violence in the future. i m going to tell, you until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we cannot expect any differently. that is adam kinzinger, illinois. he has been in congress for more than a decade. the vast majority of
chris hayes. one of the two republican members of the january six committee just offered a stark, personal warning about the threat of political violence in this country. a topic he knows a thing or two about. this threat that came in was mailed to my house. we got it a couple of days ago. it threatens to execute me, as well as my wife and five month old child. i have never seen or had anything like that. there are people, there is violence in the future. i m going to tell, you until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we cannot expect any differently. that is adam kinzinger, illinois. he has been in congress for more than a decade. the vast majority of that time he has acted and voted like a conservative republican, which is what he is. he voted in line with donald trump s position, 90% of the time. but after the attempted coup on january six, kings inner was one of ten republicans who voted to impeach trump. and since then he has been essentially ex communicated
moss is false. it s just one more indicia of the ways in which those closest to donald trump knew the election wasn t fraudulent, particularly in georgia where the allegation is they were essentially handing between them a thumb drive of voting information which proved not to be true. in terms of this case, what it really does is it limits the dispute to liability. what is the amount of damages that rudy giuliani will be found liable for? he s admitting essentially that what he said constitutes defamation, that it inflicted emotional distress on them, but he still plans to contest liability either because they weren t damaged at all, seems improbable to me or because what he said about them are opinion statements not facts. giuliani is saying no, no, no, i m not admitting to anything here. i m not disputing it yet. i want the case to move forward. that s kind of where he is
and his supporters were spreading after he lost the 2020 election. his agency release add statement just after the election stating, quote, there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised. i believe he said it was the most secure election in u.s. history. trump fired krebs five days after that statement. how key is he in this investigation? chris krebs is one of the individuals that works for trump like the many that were around him in the white house, on the campaign that knew the election wasn t fraudulent that knew that donald trump lost the election and told donald trump. ana, you mentioned he was fired five days after ha. he was fired via twitter, which is how donald trump acted a lot, and we can see some of his statements during this time. but as garrett mentioned, the fact that chris krebs is being interviewed by the special counsel shows that they re really zeroing in on exactly what the january 6th committee was
deeply unpopular with majority of american voters, some independents and republicans as well, and so if republicans continue to talk about this, we re just going to let them continue to talk about this and that puts them in a bind for when we really want to talk about the real issues when it comes to the election. do you think all the efforts of republicans to be the oversight of the biden administration, president biden, his family in this case, hunter biden, to investigate every allegation is helping them with the american voter or does it just look like they have a grudge with the bidens? it looks like they have a grudge with the bidens and they do, and to alencia s point, they have no other thing to go to. this is all they have. the economy is looking go, we don t know what will happen a year from now, but it is looking good for the democrats. things are moving in their direction. there is another thing at play we can t ignore, donald trump s influence over what the republicans