brooklyn subway car. and on the latest inflation numbers, whether they can possibly come back down before election day. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. for about 15 months now the bulk of the department of justice investigation into the january 6th insurrection has of course focused on the people who actually stormed the capitol. there is still hundreds to go. it has mostly been the insurrectionist footsoldiers themselves generally pleading guilty to low-level charges. a few trials, if you convictions, one acquittal. or in some cases, they have actually blamed donald trump for inciting the criminal behavior, we will have more on that later in the show with a defense attorney from one of those individuals. a lot of that low hanging fruit, the people who are napped on video cameras, who were there, is now gone. and as we mentioned before, the doj is expanding the scope of its investigation to look at the people who applauded the insurrection. and that could include a man named jason sullivan. jason sullivan is a qanon supporter and a right-wing social media consultant. perhaps best known for his work with far-right political hatchet man and longtime trump friend roger stone, where he apparently instructed stone to use swarms of supporters on twitter to amplify a political message. now, sullivan is a busy man. he was also subpoenaed as part of robert mueller's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. but today he is coming to focus as part of the investigation into part of the insurrection itself. according to a new report in the new york times, sullivan was plotting the storming of the capital back in december 2020, and we know that because there is recording of him doing precisely that. >> it's got to be a multiple front strategy. and that multiple front strategy i think is descend on the capitol. without question. make those people feel it inside, okay? so they understand the people are breathing down their necks. and we had it. and we've got to be perfectly clear about it. now, i'm not inciting violence or any kind of riots or anything like that. but we need to be loud. it needs to be like jericho, okay? >> you can kind of see what he is doing, there. he calls for people to descend on the capitol, expressing to intimidate lawmakers. so the idea is that their presence, and the possibility of them doing something threatening, people breathing down their necks, makes them essentially steal the election for donald trump. he says we need to make congress feel it. of course, he says i am not inciting violence or riots or anything like that. i just need to be loud. generally when you control having to clarify you are not inciting violence, you are in a weird place. now the times reports that the bipartisan house committee investigating the insurrection has a copy of that recording we just played you, and it was provided to them by this woman you see here named stacy berke. it is possible that you might remember her name, you might not, she was one of those figures that popped up during that crazy period between election day and the insurrection. one of the most vocal proponents of donald trump's bogus claims of a stolen election. brick pushed this bizarre conspiracy theory about phony ballots being checked across the country to stuffed boxes, completely not true, she even sued over the results of the election, although the lawsuit was thrown out when a drug judge -- because she was not registered to vote. now that led birth to one of trump's lawyers, sydney powell, perhaps the most ridiculous figure in this whole thing. >> what we are really dealing with here, uncovering more by the day, it's the massive influence of communist money through venezuela, cuba, and likely china, and the interference with our elections here in the united states. the dominion voting systems, the smartmatic technology and software, and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just dominion, were created in venezuela at the direction of hugo chavez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out. >> now keep in mind, that was at the actual rnc. everything she said there is not true. also, i mean, paul's theory is that hugo chavez, who of course has been dead for, years was kind of beyond the grave rigging voting machines from venezuela to switch the election. powell also believed that cia director gina had been kidnapped in germany trying to steal a clandestine computer server. just real to hundred prove conspiracy brain poisoning kind of thing. again, she was one of trump's lawyers. she was in the white house during this period. there is rudy giuliani, she was there at the rnc. well, she introduced stacey bergh to a right wing military themed gang, called the first amendment pretoria. interesting name. the first amendment pretoria often served as security for paul's friend, michael flynn. apparently, they were going to serve as security for miss stacy berke as well. to do so, i am not making this, up this is the reporting, they moved into her home under the guise of protecting her from the deep state. a rotating group of middle aged men invading this woman's home and staying there rent free. of course, the militiamen painted this as a favorite to stacey burke. burke told a local arizona report of the men would say quote, you are going to get killed, all this stuff, you are going to save the country, cupcake. that was their name for her, cupcake. burke says she found it demeaning. i can see why. she was also rightfully terrified of the group who had taken over her home. just moved it and kind of occupied it. again, they say they are associated with michael flynn, they are this weird gray, like, great space militia. she says the man kept trying to take her cell phone which contain her alleged dirt on the deep state. according to that same report, a quote when she repeatedly refused to hand over the phone saying she had protective medical information on it from her previous nursing patients, her security detail stole the phone. now, eventually they left her with her phone. but not before she managed to recall record the call you just heard, what we started with. that is the one where you hear sullivan putting the insurrection. burke says she was recording everything because she was essentially living under occupation by this militia which had moved in and taken over her house. this is far from the first time we have heard of a far-right gang involvement with the plotting of january 6th, of course. they were all over the place. alert stewart rhodes, the third, the head of the far-right group the oath keepers has been charged with seditious conspiracy, fairly rare federal charge for his role in planning the insurrection, including a so-called quick response team which was prepared to bring guns to the occupied capital. we also know one other far-right group, the proud boys, were involved in the planning with investigators also reportedly having their connection to roger stone in the days before the attack. according to one report, the january six committee even believes those two groups were coordinating on the planning. there is some evidence that two of those leaders met in a garage. according to one report in the guardian. so, that is just one of the many threads the committee is following. today had interviewed former white house counsel pat cipollone. one of the guys who stood up and defended trump on his first impeachment. he is one of the latest high-profile former trump allies to testify. according to the sun's report on the attempted coup, he was one of the aides who told trump they were being masked -- if trump tried to interfere with the department of justice to get it to investigate his fake claims of fraud. look broadwater covers congress in the new york times. he joins me now. luke broadwater, there is the call, and there is the context. the context is bonkers. let's just talk about the call because here is my found so striking about it. there is a question about what happened on that day. how thought it was it? how planned was it? how spontaneous was it? we have testimony, i have even had people on the show who is organizers at the ellipse rally who told me on this program there was a debate about whether people should march to the capitol, and they argued they shouldn't because it would not be safe, they could not secure them. they were shocked when trump invited them down. that phone call from jacob sullivan suggested that that is the first and earliest indication of an active plot to do essentially precisely what happened on january 6th, which is to use the mob as a tool of intimidation for the people inside. >> yes. it is really a key piece of evidence. credit to my colleague who obtained the trove of recordings, which has also been turned over to the january 6th committee. i understand just today the january six committee has taken a great interest in this act of publication of this article. jason sullivan on the call, it is pretty clear what he is asking. this is a week before the riot at the capitol and the storming of the building. he is telling people in pretty explicit terms that they need to put pressure on congress. he is talking to a group of what he describes as anti-vaccine activist who were supposed to be at the capitol that day. we do not know any of the people he talked to in that call, if they actually did storm the building. but this was the message that we have on a recording that was going out to activists who are going to be there that day. there is talk on the call of donald trump potentially imposing some sort of martial law, and there is also talk of a potential armed clash with police. so you can see that even though he cries the violence in his statement to us, this type of rhetoric being pulled the people who were going to be there that day could only serve the intentions, not defuse them. >> yes. the marshall law part is also interesting. this is one of these details that have floated around in various aspects of the reporting, and what we know, that there was maybe a half baked planned to declare it. we know that facts in the d.o.d. were worried about that. but this is another indicator of again, someone recently well connected, associated to roger, stone not just a complete random person. at some point, someone told him this was a plan that martial law was also possibly in the open. >> right. it is a step up from the rioters, right? we have 770 rioters arrested. but there were political people who got people to go to the capitol that day who got them interested in planning an attack on the capitol. and got them to want to intimidate lawmakers. and so every new stone we overturn as a paper, we are seeing more and more examples of people who were connected to political figures, who were political actors themselves, who were encouraging the highly intentions that resulted in january six. so even though you say after the fact, or even during that call he says explicitly i do not endorse violence, if you are telling people to march on the capitol and intimidate lawmakers, where's thought unavoidably gonna lead people? >> yes. we see it on the show sometimes, there are three categories. the people the footsoldiers who went, and the presidents and nurse circle who did not want to relinquish power, and the middle category of whoever is in that sort of middle space, mr. sullivan being one of them, roger stone who was hanging around at the time, alex jones, a whole bunch of other people who kind of had connections in the insurrection. in terms of principle, on he does strike me as a pretty important witness for the january six committee. he was there in the room reporting what seemed to indicate he was not on board with the coup. despite the fact that he was a loyal foot soldier for donald trump. what can we glean from cipollone's testimony and the fact that he cooperated with the committee? >> a couple of things. one, this was just a preliminary meeting between cipollone and the team investigating the attack. he may come back for a sworn deposition which would be recorded and transfer. he was in the oval office, and the white house, for several very key meetings with donald trump. one in particular was the meeting with sydney powell, and mike flynn, where they encourage the voting machines. one was the meeting with bill barr where he tendered his resignation after he told donald trump that there was not widespread voting fraud in the election, he was there for when a rogue lawyer named jeffrey clark and this rogue plan that donald trump was going to buy into the fire a journey general. so he is a firsthand witness to some of the most pivotal events in the lead up to january 6th. so his testimony is, i would think very important for this committee. i 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for your client, why he is not guilty even in fact he was inside that building in an unauthorized fashion, maybe took a coat rack as a souvenir. >> chris, you define a correctly. without commenting on the facts of a case in which i'm currently trying, you've hit the nail on the head. you've got this president this gangster imploring a crowd of people who is groomed over the last year with his associates to help him with his desperate last ditch effort to overturn the results of a lawful election. >> does your client agree with that characterization? >> chris, again, you understand what it's like to be a lawyer on trial but let's talk about it in the abstract. imagine that you've been used and abused and left out to dry. one of the conclusion would you embrace, right, i mean it's sickening what's happened to these people. who would've otherwise had no business coming to washington d.c. and certainly wouldn't have stormed the capitol in this fashion and behaved in such a lawful and discussing manner. >> i think that, i have to say, i'm sympathetic to the psychological account, even a novelist took one if i were to do a character severe whatever. but i guess the legal question is, on a legal level, why should that remove the culpability for a set of actions that your client appears to have taken here, again, without getting into the facts or anyone appears to have taken. which they had to know at some level was wrong or even if they didn't, they still did. >> chris, again, you analyze it correctly. when you have the president of the united states grooming you to believe that the election was stolen or democracy is at stake. fight like hell, we're never going to concede, it's either you get down to the capitol and i'll be right there with you or else an illegitimate president is going to take office. so it's not hard, at least for my perspective to understand how vulnerable, unsophisticated, politically speaking, people who have been fed this diet of bs would behave in accordance with their presidents wishes. and that clearly impacts one's mental state, which as you well know, is an issue with this trial and every trial. >> has this, i mean there are multiple, many defensive tierney's representing many different clients, this is the largest investigation the department of justice has done, there's only been a few trial so far. a few bench trials, few jury trials. has this line of defense, which i think other attorneys have adopted, have any outcomes been produced by it as of yet? >> chris, i can't say because i don't pay any attention toward anyone else is doing. i have enough problem paying attention to what i'm doing. but i said a year ago to my client was arrested, this can be the only explanation for otherwise law-abiding citizens with no record to convene in washington, d.c., and storm the holiest of holy spots in our fair capital. there is no other explanation. zero. they were cajoled, groomed and directed, period. >> does your client 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that will be complete. but you're right, chris, to say that there is something different here. and that is, these are the kinds of weapons that are much more offensive in nature. as opposed to some more of the defensive ones that we've been seeing the united states and other allies provide to ukraine. so a couple of things that are really critical here. one is artillery. the u.s. is providing the ukrainians with not only the system to launch artillery, but a lot of artillery to launch. this is a kind of thing that has been very devastating that the russians have been providing with devastating effect in ukraine. not just that, the u.s. is providing some counter artillery radar. that's to stop, to be able to hopefully identify and stop incoming russian artillery. the u.s. is providing hundreds more of the switchblade's, we've talked about those in the past, these are these loitering missions which basically means, it's an explosive that can fly in, it's unmanned, it can void or or hover over a target and then literally fall down on it or target it. a munition explodes. these things are so powerful in some cases they can even take our tanks. speaking of tanks, the u.s. is providing even more of the javelin anti tank missiles. so you're right, these are the kinds of weapons, and sort of defensive capabilities like the radars, that the ukrainians are really going to need for the coming fight in the donbas officials believe that that could begin literally in a matter of days. so there is a real effort on the part of the biden ministration to get this equipment to ukrainians as quickly as possible, chris. >> yeah, i don't know if we have the map of where the occupation, but there's a switch here and this is a sort of second act of this war. the first was this invasion in which russian forces were offensively attempting to gain ground as they marched into, hopefully they wanted to take kyiv and other places. and ukrainians were repelling them. now, as you can see on your screen there, throughout the southeastern part of the -- crimea and kharkiv. you have the russians essentially have a swath of the country occupied, the ukrainians hope to retake. which means they are now going to be offensively trying to take back territory which is a harder task than what they face before. >> that's right. so because, and for a couple of reasons, number one, exactly as you point out, the russians already have not only just been there since the invasion but in some cases like in the donbas area, they've been there for years. they know the territory, they know the terrain, it's not as heavily populated. there's not major population centers there. so it's kind of easier for fighting, in some ways, from a russian perspective. so it is, has the potential to be frankly more advantages to the russians than what we've seen. in addition to that, as opposed to after the invasion where they had these three major axes, it's going to be a much more concentrated effort on that southeastern part of the country. there also, because they have an established present there in many cases, they have a much easier logistical capabilities. so we have a better ability to resupply themselves through their military. so yes, absolutely, the concern is, we've talked a lot about this new russian general who's going to be sort of the new ground commander there. but not just that, there is a concern because the rest of already seen a tone so many brutal tactics in that area. in the last eight years, not just since the invasion. that the coming weeks of this new sort of offensive could be really brutal for the ukraine military and ukrainian people. and the reality, chris, even though this next sort of phase of this offensive hasn't begun, the shaping operations already have. so the russians have started taking strikes into a city called -- which is sort of in the more central east part of the country. and in that region, there is, they're already beginning the initial very early phases of this next offensive that we have any yet seen. the grand operation begin. but that could begin literally in a matter of days. >> finally, some news today, the missile cruiser which is one of the most formidable and impressive ships in the russian navy. it was the ship that landed its snake island in the infamous russians go f yourself. it was that ship that was radio-ing with ukrainians there. that has been struck by two neptune missiles, ukraine army is claiming, and the russians have admitted that they said ammunition far on board. if -- that seems like a pretty big deal. >> it is. and this could be indicative of sort of the next part of this offensive as well. it has not really been in the maritime environment. so the russians have minesweepers and frigates in the sea of azov which is off closer to the donetsk area. and they have a number of landing ships in the black sea. those have not been very active, there have literally been just a handful of missiles that have been flown off of those. they haven't brought any russian troops off of any of the ships yet. there has been some resupply efforts from the frigates in the sea of haze off. but there hasn't been much of a maritime fight here. what u.s. officials are watching very closely is, is that going to change in the coming days and weeks? now, one thing that might be indicative of the fact that the u.s. believes that could happen, one of the pieces of this major foreign assistance package of the u.s. announced today, and that is what some people call see drones. but they're basically unmanned sea crafts that can be used for coastal defense, in some cases, we don't know a lot about what the u.s. is providing but in some cases, it can even be used to find minds. there is some concern though there could be some minds, mining of the northern black sea. so it's something we've been watching for weeks now but it hasn't materialized yet. this next offensive could involve more of a maritime battle. >> 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(sigh) on tonal. ♪♪ week is again, that it is high. over 8% in the u.s.. the highest headline numbers since the early 1980s. predictably, at the right wing media, conservatives, and republicans are counting the democrats on it. but thinking about historical precedents for this moment, i was looking back at 1946. harry truman was president, it was a mid term, your democrat-controlled congress. the u.s. was still recovering from the enormous society wide disruption of world war ii that touched every aspect of life. as americans suggested to the new normal, inflation soared over 8%, just like what it is doing now. guess what? not a good year for the democrats. truman and the democrats lost big in the midterms that here. republicans controlled both the house and the senate. it was sort of the end of the new deal rain. the parallel here is not perfect. the economy in 1946 was actually shrinking excellence inflation. there is a lot of other factors to consider. but the big question for democrats now is can inflation around and time for them to avoid a 1946 style election night? tell pence around that question, i am joined now by noble prize economist winner paul krugman, peddled inflation is about to come down but don't get too excited. paul, let's start on that. people don't like inflation, and understandably so. the politics of it are pretty uniform across the world. there is nowhere where inflation is going up, and the opposition party isn't just absolutely hanging in around the neck of the incumbent party. that happens in all kinds of places. the question is, what do you see happening in the next six months? >> okay. barring another war starting someplace else, the inflation headlines are about to come down. half of the march inflation was gasoline prices, which was very much driven by fears about the impact of the ukraine war. that is already, prices at the pump are already down significantly. when you see the inflation number, that is the average for march. cats prices have come down considerably since mid march already. wholesale gas leading prices are down 60 cents a gallon. so, that factor is going away. a lot of the other stuff that has been pushing inflation really high is -- it seems to be easing. there seems to be shipping rates coming down, we were all talking about a shortage of truckers, all of a sudden the trucking industry is worrying about a trucking recession because it appears that inventory has been built up, there has been such a frantic urge to ship stuff. so we are bound to get almost eric medically necessary, we are deep bound to get a series of monthly numbers that are below what we were seeing, and the corresponding months last year, which means that the annual average rate of inflation is going to be dropping for the next several months. >> there is of course the distinction between the core cpi index, and headline, and the distinction there is that there are certain parts of what is called the basket, the prices that are monitored, that can be very, very volatile. energy, food, for instance. court takes that out. court is actually lower. which again is encouraging the story that you are telling. but politically, food and gas mean a lot to people. >> yes. gus is going to look a lot better unless something unexpected happens. again, wholesale gas prices are way down. that is going to -- i mean it has already partly reflected. food is a different issue. ukraine and russia are pretty big parts of the world. so that is going to continue. but there are other things. in the court case of food and energy, it turns out that there are other things that are also very volatile. like used car prices, which are coming down. so, i have no idea whether this good news will be in time to make a big difference for the midterm elections. the headlines on inflation for the next six months are probably going to be very different from the headlines that we have seen for the past six months. >> i hope -- i mean, just on the merits, i think it would be better for everyone. there is also this interesting thing that happened, i have seen people worried about this, what other things that happened were that there was a huge shift of american consumption habits from services to goods. people could not do a lot of the stuff that they were doing. vacationing, all of this, they were buying a lot of stuff. that created the supply bottlenecks. we sought in prices spiking. we could not produce enough used cars, for instance, because it was not enough circulation. it does seem like that is shifting back, which is another thing that is going to maybe believe that inflation area pressure. >> yes. that is an important part of what i think is about to happen. and there is something that people call the bulb effect. when you see an increase in demand for stuff, and people start panic buying a little bit, because they are worried about it. retail starts stocking up, and it works down the chain. the ball whip is starting to crack in the opposite direction now. aside from cars, where there were special problems because of schiff's, inventories are actually high. we are actually looking at a situation where all of that reduces the pressure. so a trucking recession, all of a sudden it appears that people do not want to ship nearly as much stuff. freight rates are coming down. there are still high by historical standards, but all of those things which contributed, i would say that about two thirds of the rise with inflation from normal levels that we have seen is the special factors. oil, supply chain stuff. there is still a significant part that will not go away. which is why i said don't get too excited. we still have some underlying service inflation issues. but the short term stuff is likely to be -- we will see how the media treats it, but when the inflation rate is coming down, we will get headlines that look like the inflation rate is going up. >> yes. there is this actual fact, and then the coverage of the fact, and how that factors perceived. i think it will affect the political outcomes. it will be interesting to see what happens in the next six months. i hope that the good scenario is on target, and hopefully we can avoid a recession and hitting the brakes too hard on the growth we have had, which you have been writing about, it has been remarkable. paul krugman, as always, wonderful to get a bit of your expertise. thank you. >> thank you. >> that is all in on this wednesday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. good evening chris, i am sorry that he's you about your sweats. >> i think they were very sweet and stylish sweats. my wife got them for me for my birthday. and i think they look very nice but you know what, that's what i do is 2022, third year the pandemic. i took my kid to his baseball practice and i got on the trade in my sweats. and then i rolled through 30 rock in my sweats. and mainz was now? no, i changed. but that's just where we. are >> it's like a match sets is a like animals where -- >> no i'm not quite there yet at tony soprano yet. but i am definitely on my way there. >> all respect to you. all respect to you chris, no problem, well done my friend. you know, and coming from