i would rather lose by telling the truth than lie in order to win. chris christie drops out with no endorsement. anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be president of the united states is unfit themselves to be president of the united states. as the rest of the field panders to maga. don t just build the wall. bill both walls. anthony, you are fired. tonight, what christie s departure means to the race in our party led by an indicted front runner. sits here with a smug look on his face and runs away when it s my turn to talk. how the tent collapsed on the margaret circus, with congresswoman jasmine crockett, and george conway on how trump attorneys walk into a trap at a d.c. courtroom. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a major development tonight in the race for the republican nomination. chris christie, the only candidate telling the truth about trump from the republican side and his attempted coup was
i want to tamp down on this and be like oh now he wants to be us to get a slot at the dnc. chris christie speaking to republicans and saying wind arnold trump isn t fit is very important,. the second that he becomes a democrat, he s gonna lose that credibility. i don t think there should be a rush to do that yet, because we need this civics education. we wonder, why do republican voters think the way they do? why do they support trump? there s a self fulfilling doom loop where trump tells them something, his maga media echoes that, all the go along politicians repeated and get covered, the voters get it may reflect back to everybody. and on an honor goes. if chris christie can get in there a little bit, and be like hey maybe this is why presidential immunity matters. i don t know. something like that going out of the courts. that would be great. angry with that, and jamele,
d.c. courtroom. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a major development tonight in the race for the republican nomination. chris christie, the only candidate telling the truth about trump from the republican side and his attempted coup was essentially forced out of the primary race. he s done. just before he made the announcement that he is dropping outformer governor of new jerseywas caught on a hot mic bluntly explaining w s campaign s message just did not renate with the voters. pple don t want to hear it. they don t want to hear it. wewe are right. but they don t want to hear it. andhe s, we couldn t have be clearer. we co havbeen any more, harder.direct or reach any so you know, y i mean yeah, that s what you get. i mean she spent 68 million so
base, is this transformation of the base of the party towards the discontented white working class, predominantly white voters, white conservative voters without college degrees. that base of the party as the kind of bedrock for electoral success in republican primaries has created a weird dynamic. you see it everywhere. what it has done is made it increasingly difficult for republican politicians, who themselves are not part of that bass, to connect to their own voters. so they are playing this kind of game of translation all the time. we see it playing out all the time. it is a big part, i submit, and why republican politicians in the trump era sound soul weirdly cringey. just off. and you re like, what did he say? here is the ultimate example. that guy. ron desantis.
position was extreme. at the same time, when trump s counsel resisted saying that, yes, a president is absolutely immune for sending in seal team six, she then sort of went to the underbelly of the argument that he was making as to why it was not always the case, which was this argument based upon the secondary provision that trump relies on, which is the impeachment and judgment clause, which says that you can prosecute someone criminally after you impeach and remove them through congress. and her point really was, there is a tension between those two positions, in addition to the fact that the position was taken was extreme under one cause. the second clause, under the second provision, which is the impeachment judgment provision, basically undercuts the absolute immunity claim, because it makes clear that officeholders and dozens under