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
Patrick j murphy. Honor to have you, were thrilled. We begin with americas crime crisis and deterioration of Law And Order in our biggest cities. In washington, d. C. , the crisis is worsening, murders is up 30 and some residents are afraid to walk down the street in neighborhoods and capitol hill. Seeing the crime Crisis Closeup for themselves. Warning, the video you are about to witness is disturbing. [beep] what the yeah. Ex Security Footage shows moment one of senator rand pauls staffers was stabbed in march. Philip todd was attacked while walking back from a restaurant with a friend. They were a mile and a half from the capitol. The suspect was released from prison just one day earlier. Dc leaders struggle to get the crisis under control, one democratic councilman is calling f for. I have never seen this onslot of violence portrayed on our women and kids, enough is enough. We are clearly in a war zone. I have spoken with the dc national guard. And while i have to have more convers
Greg to still be doing this amazing, amazing happy tuesday, everybody how do you know when you have reached peak idiocy . We now need Diversity Guidelines for clearing land mines. It seems canada has just donated 4 million toward an effort to clear land mines, but in a genderinclusive manner. If theres one thing we can agree on concerning the war in ukraine, there simply isnt enough gender inclusive mine action, right . But lets be clear up front, anyone in charge of Clearing Landmines is way braver than i am. I can barely clear my driveway. If it is something you accept as your job, i dont care if you are white, black, gay, trans, or identify as a Cabbage Patch kid. Oh, look at that. [laughter] how did anybody like those dolls . Tyrus i never saw it either. Greg hideous. But its not about the dolls its about how dei and sanity has injected everything. He used to correct only the places where useless people where, like academia or media. But not airlines, medical school, and war, even
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