to a woman while at a college party in the 1980s. but late sunday, the times iraqed a clarification. the female student declined to be interviewed, and friends say she does not recall the incident. today democratic senator chris coons said he was aware of the allegations during the confirmation hearings and wrote the fbi asking it to investigate. i think it was too narrow, too brief and too constrained around the american people deserve to know why. i brett m. reporter: kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed after a gut wrenching day of testimony from him and christine blasey ford who accused him of assaulting her at a high school party. speaking publicly for the first time or the to thetime s reporters, fore s close friend leland kaiser who said she didn t believe ford s account and it just didn t make any sense. she said she told the fbi that ford s allies pressured her to say otherwise. now all four people that ford identified as being at that high school party in the
new york city and in d.c. where students were required to produce a negative test result. but this week in chicago, the third largest school district in the country, the teachers union voted to refused to show up for in-person work, upending school altogether. tuesday, the second day back from winter break, chicago public schools reported 422 new cases among students. while that s reportedly the highest in the school year, the district has more than 340,000 students. this translates to roughly 0.1% of the student body. that shouldn t bring everything to a halt. thousands of other schools around the country have delayed a return to in-person learning cincinnatis including atlanta, milwaukee, cleveland and detroit have switched to online learning or postponed reopening. what happened to the funding that was supposed to alleviate all of this? $130 billion of funds were earmarked for ventilation in classrooms. 10 million more set aside for testing in schools. so, what have we do
sounding alarms over an authoritarian republican party. plus, brandy with new reporting on how january 6th extremism is being felt on the local level across the country. and what we re learning from the chaos of another back-to-school moment in year three of the pandemic. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, and happy new year to you all. as we enter this new year and brace for the anniversary of january 6th, now one of the most ig no minius dates in american history, the future of american democracy still hangs in the balance, resting on a knife s edge and one of the most important roles that the bipartisan committee investigating the insurrection is taking on, aside from fact-finding, which is important, is just the simple act of reminding the country what was true in the moments while the attack unfolded and in the moments afterwards, which is that what happened was horrific and extremely existentially dangerous to the country s
fellow conservatives like her, during and immediately following the storming of the capital. she did it a few weeks ago when she read aloud the texts of legislators and fox news personalities and even don jr. begging that trump stop the attack. and she was at it again this weekend, showing new information to the committee that learned on how reckless and dangerous and average trump s behavior was as he watched the insurrection unfold live on television. the committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the oval office watching the attack on television as the assault on the capital occurred. the president could have, at any moment walked those very few steps into the briefing room, gone on live television, and told his supporters who were assaulting the capitol to stop. we know, as he was sitting there in the dining room next to the oval office, members of his staff were pleading with him to go on television to tell people to stop. we k
getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered