Personnel at the border. It was clear we want to fix the border. Its also clear the speaker didnt give a reason why you had to do one before you did the other. Thank you. Reporter congress, Pope Francis On Sunday called for sir so you see the two Democratic Leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries coming out of what sounds like an extraordinary and incredibly intense meeting that they had with President Biden, Vice President harris and Republican Leadership. You heard Hakeem Jeffries saying its an existential moment for the free world, talking about whats going to happen with aid to ukraine and Chuck Schumer saying, its one of the most intense meetings hes ever had. The stakes for these meetings are high. Based on what we just heard from those two Democratic Leaders they escalated the intensity. I want to bring New York Times correspondent peter baker and sarah sutt mayer. Peter, tell me what you thought about what you heard there. The messaging was very intense right now. It was int
jury investigating fundraising fraud. and breaking reports that stephen miller has been subpoenaed. then, new signals that donald trump s favorite judge maybe backing down to the justice department. plus, a victory for democracy and reproductive rights as the states supreme court smacks down michigan republicans. and as king charles greets his subjects for the first time, melissa murray on coming to terms with the imperial past of the british empire. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the department of justice s investigation into january 6th, attempted coup, is once again expanding its scope. quite a bit, in fact. the doj sent out a raft of new subpoenas this week for just learning about. subpoenas of former trump white house and campaign officials. reportedly relation to trump save america pack, as well as the fake elector scheme. top trump policy advisor in speech writer stephen miller, and trump s white house political director brian jac
Facts of the situation. but, fraud, one of those areas and law that seems much more cut and dried. there are paper trails, documents, wire transfers which can lay up a criminal case much more clearly. and this new line of inquiry should inspire some worry and trump s already overstretched legal team. because look no further than steve bannon in new york yesterday in handcuffs. steve bannon is currently awaiting trial for his alleged role in another scheme to defraud trump supporters. probably the very same donors giving money to the super pac that trump was writing for. in bannon s case, it was a bogus campaign to crowdfund trump s border wall which, despite his promises to the contrary, trump was in able to to pay for. the organizer of that campaign called we build the wall promise not to take a cut of the money raised, but he was secretly skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars off the
The $3.5 trillion infrastructure package with amnesty and mail-in ballots. not one of us. not susan collins, not one, because it will be a disaster for the country. the people in charge of your government right now are crazy. brian: and they are your colleagues. thanks. and they know better. senator lindsey graham, thank you so much. not crazy. i could add that. thank you. brian: also here tonight texas governor greg abbott knows about challenge at the border. governor, governor, you were raising money asked for private money at the wall that president biden won t finish what happened? the money is coming in by people making donations texas, stepping up to provide the primary funding build the border wall which, includes the initial down payment of $250 million and on top of that there will be additional allocations by the senate texas. one of the multiple things we are working on to secure the border. we begin officially this week.
somebody s w.h.o. flying and about security. right. the notion that people don t care about government is the fundamental problem with the republican party. they don t understand particularly when you re in power, your obligation is not to attack and destroy government. it is to govern well make it work. the other thing i think that republicans i get the sense, and i spoke just yesterday with a very conservative republican who was as thought it as odd as i did that republicans are hill they re dying on is the idea of a border wall which, au a, there s water and desert on the southern border. it s not going you can t physically build a wall. just look at a map, get google earth. the other element of what you d have to do in order to build a border wall, you have to seize private land. you want to talk about the senators, maybe we ll get the two in texas. most of the private land you ll have to seize in texas because most of the federal land you have to seize is in arizon