attorney bragg for giving donald the opportunity to come in to tell his story. knowing donald as well as i do, understand that he doesn t tell the truth. it s one thing to turn around and to lie on your untruth social. it s another thing to turn around and lie before a grand jury. i don t suspect she s going to be coming. after decades of screwing over creditors and employees and lawyers and the american people, how rich would it be if an extramarital affair with a porn actress is what finally sinks donald trump? also tonight, leonard leo played a large role in pushing the courts to the far right. now, he thinks the rest of american society needs a hard right turn. but he has a fundamental misunderstanding of why the right is losing the culture wars. and tonight, state of disunion. how political powers being wielding in states with one-party control. in tennessee, republicans are using it like a club. and attacking the lgbtq community. but it s a much different story in
adrianne shropshire, susan del percio, online with chris hayes starts now. starts now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, one of the most frightening trends in american politics in recent months has been the prioritization, across the country, of conservatives and republicans from state to state targeting lgbtq folks. it s one of the, if not the unifying policy priorities in the modern republican party 2023. it s especially pronounced at the state level. the american civil liberties union says it s tracking nearly 400 anti lgbtq bills across the country. tennessee, to name one state, in particular, is home to multiple examples of this particular noxious trend. there is a new law criminalizing many types of drag performance. is 12th night fond of? that will find out. a bill working its way through the legislature which would allow state clerks to refuse to officiate gay marriages if they so choose. but it s not just the states. we are seeing this disturbing trend of
a message in israel. it s important that the united states is committed to making sure everything possible is done to protect civilians. tonight, the calls for a humanitarian pause as the bombardment continues. then the entire world is watching this, and they re laughing about what s going on. day two for some number two. if the gag order grows in new york, meanwhile out west trump incited a violent mob to attack our capital. to stop the peaceful transfer of power, the case to throw trump off the ballot wraps up in colorado. trump claims after all that, he has the right to be president again. and an unbelievable case study and how to succeed in congress without really trying. corruption is a real problem in this country. and i have seen [laughter] it is. it is. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today, america s top diplomats secretary of state antony blinken flee to israel for a second time in two and a half wee
guys, we re going to win this thing. i promise you we re going to win it because we haven t done anything wrong. oh, eric. you re not paying attention. you have already lost, remember? in september, when the judge ruled that you and your brother and your daddy lied for years on your company s financial statements. this trial, it s really just about penalties. also tonight, president biden visits grieving families in lewiston, maine, as we learn more about missed warning signs before the gunman killed 18 people. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with another volatile day in the $250 million civil fraud trial against the trump crime family and their company. today, a new york judge ruled that a limited gag order on donald trump should also apply to his attorneys after he said they made inappropriate remarks about his principal law clerk. judge arthur engoron s order said the lawyers for the former president and his adult sons are, quote, prohibited from
Considering that today is august 1st and we are close to 155,000 deaths into this pandemic so well add an additional 25,000 lives to that total in the next three weeks. More than 7,000 a week. That as we quickly approach 4. 6 million confirmed cases. Remember when trump said it would go to zero and disappear . Even scarier reality is that yesterday on capitol hill the nations Top Public Health officials made it clear we still dont seem to have a National Strategy in place to combat this virus. Heres what dr. Anthony fauci had to say when questioned on the topic. Would you agree with me that the critical difference is either the presence or the absence of social cohesion and Political Leadership to develop a plan, execute it and stick to it . I think there was such a diversity of response in this country from different states that we really did not have a unified bringing everything down. In other words, a lack of leadership is at the heart of this matter. Then theres this, a brandnew v