How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
the economy. inflation remains high but unemployment remains low. jarred bernstein of the president s counsel of economic advisers will try to explain. 31 years after her judiciary committee testimony against clarence thomas, anita hill talks about the supreme court and her bud, believing, live. and laura proof that speaker pelosi ate one bit afraid of donald trump. i m gonna punch him out, i m going to go to jail, i m going to be happy. i m jonathan capehart, and this is the sunday show. this sunday, the january 6th elect committee is closing argument. and what was likely last public hearing on thursday, the committee voted unanimously to subpoena donald trump. after more than a year interviewing more than 1000 witnesses, they want to hear from the man who started it all. the committee also presented never before seen evidence that showed just how horrific things were inside the capitol during the insurrection. there is also exclusive reporting from nbc news that the com
her testimony. he does not have the courage she showed and is refusing to tell the committee what he knows. men like mark meadows who are openly defying the subpoena to testify and avoiding us as well. we d love to talk to him not under oath, but he s shown no willingness to even face questions from reporters. house minority leader mccarthy is seeking to cast doubt on miss hutchinson s testimony and the work of the committee. this is just the continuation. they re obsessed with trump and this is all they want to do, but this here say would never be allowed in the court of law. we should point out, nothing would be here say if mr. meadows or pat cipollone would testify under oath. all they need to do is tell the truth. say what they said. then everything would be clear. hutchinson is also being attacked be i the former president himself. here s some of what he told news max yesterday for an interview that aired today. this lady yesterday, there s something wrong with her
we begin tonight with the effort to discredit cassidy hutchinson s testimony before the house january 6th select committee and effort to destroy the credibility of a 26-year-old woman who had the courage to do what the former white house counsel and president s own chief of staff do not have to courage to do. two days after telling the committee that the former president of the united states sent a mob of people, some of who he knew to be armed to the capitol, she is being attacked by the president and his defenders. men like jim jordan whose republican members are attacking her testimony. he does not have the courage she showed and is refusing to tell the committee what he knows. men like her former boss, then chief of staff mark meadows who are openly defying the subpoena and testify and avoiding us, as well. we d love to talk to him not under oath, but he s shown no willingness to even face questions from reporters. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is seeking to cast d