Committee can do about it. Judge for yourself, is it working or not? we think that it is. Plus as kids go back to school, how pro covid governors are putting backlash ahead of the health of their constituents. Letting my people have freedom. It starts right now. Good evening from new york. I m chris hayes. After a week of breath taking revelations about the scope of donald trump s failed coup plot, the investigation into that plot is accelerating. Political reporting, the senate judiciary committee is scheduled to interview former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and former acting deputy attorney general richard donahue in the coming days. Based on great reporting and emails obtained and released by the house oversight committee it is clear that they were pivotal in stopping part of trump s coup. Trump s ally jeffrey clark proposed that they sign a letter to officials in multiple states encouraging their state legislatures to send new electors, overturning the election, essentiall
Financial officer allen weisselberg at this point just charges and indictment. They re allegations. It s not the sum total of what prosecutors know and we haven t read the defense response. But if the allegations are true in the context they are presented, it sure seems look a pretty black and white picture of tax fraud, not some incidental bookkeeping error, but a plan that was systematically engineered over the years to create a means of evading taxes. The smoking gun of tax fraud is the classic two sets of books, right? any time a business or individual has financial records you have found fraud because why would you need two. The cornerstone of fraud is telling one set of people like tax collectors lies about your finances while you were keeping an accurate set of records hidden. And you need to two sets of books. That is what prosecutors allege they have evidence of here, just one example of many. Prosecutors say, quote, the payment of tuition expenses for weisselberg s family. Wa
Do you have to does anybody know the answer to that stuff? okay? but they indict people for that. We hear a lot about using the company apartment. Company apartment. His family was lying about the case and lied it was sympathetic quotes on trump tv. Fringe employment benefits? is that really what the d. A. Is focused on? they ll go after a corporate vehicle and a corporate apartment? they want to go after the cfo of the trump organization for free parking or something like that. The best they could come up with is a corporate car for the cfo of the trump organization. They spent millions of dollars. They reviewed 3 million documents, countless number of witnesses and they got a guy because he got a corporate cash and didn t declare it on his tax return. Keep in mind amidst all this, they re not saying you have it all wrong at all. How dare you prosecute someone who s evading taxes on millions of particulars of income. That s nothing to us. People get prosecuted and go to jail for this
much more on matt gaetz political legal peril in a moment. but we begin the reidout tonight with science, namely riveting testimony in the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin that focused on the key question of exactly what caused george floyd a death. the prosecution zeroed in on that very question today with dr. martin tobin, an expert pulmonologist and breathing expert with 46 years of experience, who gave testimony free of charge to the state. no fees involved, offering his medical opinion on exactly how mr. floyd died. mr. floyd died from a low level of oxygen, and this caused damage to his brain that we see, and it also caused a p.e.a. arrythmia that caused his start to stop. dr. tobin, who said that he watched videos of floyd on the ground hundreds of times also noted the body language that revealed floyd s desperation during his final moments of life. you see his knuckle against the tire. and to most people, this doesn t look terribly s
hey, everybody, good afternoon, i m yasmin vossoughian. we re covering a lot of news for you this busy saturday afternoon. breaking news in the houston area. at least one police officer dead, several others shot in what officials say was an ambush attack. president biden commenting on that attack at a police memorial event in washington just a couple hours ago where he also praised capitol hill police officers involved in the capitol hill riot. this is coming, everybody, as the clock is ticking down to a vote to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt for defying the committee looking into the january 6th insurrection. donald trump facing his first post-presidency deposition on monday. coming up, i m going to talk to the lawyer that will have the former president in the hot seat. plus, a texas school that was the focus of accusations of racism now facing new controversy involving a secret recording involving the holocaust. and the latest fallout from the jon gruden debac