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
sprawling investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this is separate from jack smith s other criminal investigation into trump s handling of classified documents. in that case, he has been indicted on 37 felony counts, including willful retention of documents, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and false statements, among others. then, there is the fulton county district attorney fani willis s criminal investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the election in georgia. last night, georgia s top court unanimously rejected trump s last ditch effort to shut down that investigation. the dea has set a timetable for announcing potential indictments for the coming weeks. in new york, the ex president is facing a trial early next year. in his 34 count felony indictment by the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg over a hush money payment scheme that involved falsifying business records during the
recounting how trump wanted the max removed, those are magnetometer s that helped detect guns. the end of the january 6th investigation, and after ten public hearings, the committee referred for criminal charges against donald trump to the department of justice. we propose to the committee advancing referrals where the gravity of this specific offense, the severity of its actual harm, and essentiality of the offender to the overall design of the unlawful scheme to overthrow the election compel us to speak. ours is not a system of justice where footsoldiers go to jail and the mastermind and ringleaders get a free pass. but until, now that s exactly what s happened. the footsoldiers have gone to jail and the masterminds and the ringleaders have, for the moment, had a past. so here we are. seven months later, a historic moment with the department of justice boys to finally bring charges against the ex president in the january 6th case. we ve already seen and heard the evidence about d
hearing today before a judge cannon. whether trump should be treated like any other defendant in a federal prosecution or whether certain allowances should be made because, not only is he a former president, but he s a candidate for office running against the incumbent president. todd blanche said today being prosecuted by that administration. and that drew a s sharp rebuke from the special counsel s office. he s quick to say, none of us are political appointees. we are all here just to do our job and enforce the rule of law. i think judge cannon and whoever this case is assigned to will try to take into account the fact that president trump has first amendment rights and that he is a political actor with political speech rights. but you don t just get to say, i m busy, i have other things going on. every defendant, or most defendants have other employment, other obligations. that is not an excuse for postponing a trial for infinity. joyce, you heard john brennan say it, when jamie r