former president trump announced he has gotten his booster shot. maybe one of the few things he and i agree on. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the only reason that anyone knows kyle rittenhouse s name is because he shot three people and killed two of them. last month rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges after his lawyers argued that he acted in self-defense when he shot those people. i think most reasonable people, even those who believe it was the correct legal finding in that case, understand the key facts of what kyle rittenhouse did in kenosha, wisconsin, last august, what brought him to that moment. he was a minor, 17 years old at the time of the shooting. he took an illegally acquired semi-automatic rifle to another city that he didn t live in and inserted himself in the midst of protests and chaos, and he then took the lives of two people including robbing a young child of her father. his actions are not worthy of c
Next, lib. the right s celebration of violence, their fetishization of guns, which there s a lot to say about where that is coming from, but the fetishization of guns and the celebration of violence is one of the most ominous developments in american politics, and sometimes it has been happening for a long time but they re putting it now on full display. joe lawnie cobb is a staffer at the new yorker, professor at the columbus school of journalist. linda chavez joined as the highest ranking woman in the reagan administration. they join me now. linda, i want to start with you because i noticed something in interactions with people on social media about kyle rittenhouse that it is a little bit of a wedge among conservatives, similar in to ways to the vaccines. a lot of conservatives are like, i m a trump person, i hate liberals, i hate fauci but i got the vaccine. then some people are like, no, it is a secret plot by george