all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we know the closest evidence yet that the president was possibly just one degree of separation from the violent armed insurrection. and it comes to us from a federal filing from the department of justice. but before we get to that, and understand what this means, we need to keep in mind how many people had access, of course, did i know workings of the trump white house. particularly in the last few months. we know from mark meadows text messages that fringe conspiracy theorists have a direct line of communication to his office. the wife of sitting supreme court justice terrence thomas was texting meadows about overturning the 2020 election, as well as all sorts of crazy qanon conspiracy theories about trump s enemies being rounded up and held prisoner in guantánamo bay. mike lindell, the pillow man of course, was also texting lindell by the election, including a rambling rant about god and rigged voting
democratic nomination. let s go back to the republican senate contest in ohio and if i can invite my friend cnn senior data reporter harry enten over here and soon enough i think we will have the republican senate numbers behind us right now. j.d. vance what do these numbers you are standing in front of tell you? look, the fact of the matter is if you look at those republican numbers it wasn t even close. j.d. vance at 32% of the vote, josh mandel vying for that trump endorsement look at that just back at 24% of the vote and matt dolan, matt dolan 23%. he was the anti-trump, there was perhaps some sign that he was surging late but at the end of the day j.d. vance basically blew out this field in a somewhat wider than expected victory. again, if you add up the first two people who were wildly pro trump you get yourself over 50%. well over 50%, you get somewhere in the mid 50s and really the only truly anti-trump candidate in the field matt dolan back at 23% and then th
woman s rights and ambition. according to the draft opinion obtained by political the supreme court has privately voted to strike down the landmark roe v. wade decision from 49 years ago. political reports tonight, quote the draft opinion is a full appreciation of the 1983 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights. in a subsequent 1992 decision, planned parenthood versus casey, the lodged and maintain the right. roll was a gradually wrong from the start. illegal rights. political also pointing out justices can, and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinion circulate. nbc news has not confirmed the draft ruling, and so, far the supreme court has declined to comment. even if this leak, even if this leak itself is unprecedented, the new york times pointing out, early jobs of opinions had never leak before the final decision is announced. so we ve got unprecedented across the board and a lot to begin to. with that, let s bring in our e
jd mandel. he is doing great. [ laughter ] oh, my god. you know, you know, if the current occupant at 1600 pennsylvania avenue had done that, there would be headlines for, like, months. about his age. oh, he can t remember. which, of course, underlines the fact, how funny it is. you have people, right-wing trumpists attacking joe biden for his mental acuity. right before donald trump couldn t remember who even endorsed, he this is when he was going through his cognitive test. right. i aced my cognitive test. this is a water puff low. buffalo. this is a ladder. do we have jonathan lemire here? he is our cognitive test specialist. jonathan, what were the six or seven words he could remember? it was man, woman, camera, light, and then one more. it was all very water buffalo, you had that one right. water buffalo. water buffalo is essential. actually a cheat code for anyone about to take a cognitive test, water buffalo, always one of the words. but this from t
them, right? we told on the last hour, a teenager who had to hide in his basement for days to avoid russian shelling and living off of grain and the family had to bury the bodies of friends of neighbors in their own backyard. we re going to tell a story tomorrow about a mother and three children who fled bucha. they re safe, they re in spain now, i saw the happy faces of their children today, that s inspiring, but mother told me they d been reaching out to friends and family in bucha they learned their friends, family, teachers killed and now confronted having to tell her child that story , that s what happening in this war, real evidence of war crimes, we ll do our best the tell the stories but folks at home i ll just say we all got to keep whopping and listening. absolutely, jim, good morning, good evening as we are in the united states, morning as you are in ukraine, we ll see you tomorrow, get some rest. thank you very much. this is don lemon tonight, breaking news, a