ringleaders get a free pass. then, the anatomy of a collapse. we ve become a party of losers at the end of the day. rebecca on the ongoing rejection of abortion restrictions across the country. across the state, we are going to bed knowing that we own our own bodies. plus, what is joe manchin s announcement means for the effort to defeat trump. i don t think that democracy as we know it will withstand another trump administration. and is israel announces intermittent pauses in their strikes, the on what we know about what is happening in gaza. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. good big development today. the case of the fallen off the radar over the past few months. special counsel jack smith s federal election interference case against donald trump. even as the ex president dries to wriggle and bully his way out of accountability for his various misdeeds, to lash out at the judge, the prosecutors, special counsel s
capital on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. jack smith tips his hand on how he plans to prosecute trump. as described in the indictment, fueled by lies. tonight the new evidence the republican front runner will be treated like the people he sent to the capital. ours is not a system of justice where footsoldiers go to jail and the masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass. then, the anatomy of a collapse. we ve become a party of losers at the end of the day. rebecca on the ongoing rejection of abortion restrictions across the country. across the state, we are going to bed knowing that we own our own bodies. plus, what is joe manchin s announcement means for the effort to defeat trump. i don t think that democracy as we know it will withstand another trump administration. and is israel announces intermittent pauses in their strikes, the on what we know about what is happening in gaza. when all in star
thursday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now, good evening, alex. alex wag chris, domestic polin israel, netanyahu s ability to survive are just a dimension address that never ceases to stop me. it does seem like particularly with the war effort right now, andy fractiousness and the rage s government, even some of it beforehand, but in the aftermath, there is pressure building up in the chamber. we ll see where that goes. we will. thank you, my friend. thank you at-home for joining me this evening. if you missed it, this is what it looked like when robert f. kennedy junior officially announced that he would run as a third party candidate for president. [crowd chanting] [applause] i need my speech. [laughter] you can t read anything. you can t read anything. what? [crowd chanting] it s upside down. it s upside down. it s upside down. that is how rfk junior began his independent bid for the presidency last month, and that is kind of how it s been the whole time
Convicting you, it s an accusation that you did it, that makes the case available to then be sent to a trial jury for an assessment as to your guilt. when that happens, there is an arrest. there is also a courtesy extended, it would be extended here to a former president to surrender yourself. the yissue is, how that is done. if it s done securely or safely. people have a right to protest. people that find it is purely political and it s nonsense and they will be protesting. others will say it s about time the president was found accountable for something and they will be counterprotesting. i think that s important. my hope is that they re peaceful, and people should express their views like they should in any democracy. and trump will have to answer to these charges.
Literally chuck schumer with my right and bernie sanders to the left and other colleagues around the table to come forward that $3.5 trillion package that meets the moment from a climate change standpoint plus from a child care standpoint and from a resiliency of the grid standpoint, from some other areas. okay. so i do think that the process has momentum and we ll have the support of all 50 democrats in short order. i do hope so. one last question before i let you go, senator. as democrats are doing things in congress like trying to get immigration reform and voting rights and climate change action republicans like matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene are continuing their road show of protesting and counterprotesting outside their event in riverside in your state of california. yesterday it led to a confrontation. we saw it all over social media. you have these america first far right gop members of congress riling up people, provoking scenes like that far from their own homes