see you. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i hope you stay with us. tonight we begin with developments that i think really offer a kind of a contrast in this period of legal reckoning and accountability we have been talking about together because we were thinking about this for tonight s show. if you look at all of the prosecutors and all the investigators and all of the probes that donald trump has faced, including squaring off against big-time experienced investigators like prosecutor and former fbi director mueller, there were crimes found. there were issues that ensnared donald trump s aides. but even as the now-two-year probe of a public insurrection and attempt the coup has grinded on and on and not reached donald trump or most of his top aides, there are more clear signs and steps that show one prosecutor on a different fact pattern, a different case, has proven able to legally get farthest against donald trump and make precedent. i m talking about the new yor
this, i don t know what the gunman s problem was, his motive, but it country mental health that killed these people. it was an automatic rifle with bullets. i m a gun owner, i have guns. former police officer, army officer, but these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening. condolences and prayers won t bring these people back. we need action at the federal and state level for better gun control. i m saying that as somebody who loves guns. what texas is doing in a big-time way, we are working to address that anger and violence by going to its root cause, which is addressing the mental health problems behind it. we know that texas had been lagging in addressing mental health for years, and that s why, over the past three sessions, we ve added almost $25 billion to address mental health. we re in the waning days of a session right now where we will be adding even more funding. yeah. it s just really, right now, there are law enforceme
block the ruling for mifepristone, but it remains o the market, what now plus, trump, back on trial, th civil case about to begin. our legal expert on if trump could speak, before what matte shows up also, the right-wing gun radicalization, there is a intersection between them. is it a factor in this rash of accidental shootings in this country? and from the boardroom, to broadway a conversation with the firs latina actress to front a play by the legend, andrew lloy weber, this is american voices we begin this hour with the first major test for abortio rights in front of the supreme court since the conservative majority overturned the rule last summer, on friday, th court temporarily blocked decision by u.s. district judge, matthew kacsmaryk, which throughout the fda s longtim approval of mifepristone the drug, which is also used t treat miscarriages, will remai widely available in states where abortion access is legal as all of this plays out i court. since the dobbs decis
good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. a global superpower says it is calling for peace. early friday morning, beijing time, the chinese government released a 12 point plan which is calling, quote, china s which it s colin, quote, china s position on the political settlement of the ukraine crisis. while lacking in specifics, the document goes out of its way to urge russia not to use nuclear weapons in this war. quote, nuclear weapons must not be used and nuclear wars must not be fought. the threat or use of nuclear weapons should be a post, and quote. the document also takes a swipe at nato, with a section titled, quote, abandoning the cold war mentality. and it to cries u.s. anxious russia, quote unilateral sanctions and maximum pressure cannot solve the issue. they only create new problems. in a wide-ranging press conference today, ukrainian president zelenskyy seemed to signal and openness to a good faith peace plan from china and he says he hopes to meet with chin
much. and that is, indeed, tonight s reidout. all in with chris hayes starts right now. reidout. all good evening from new york. i am ali velshi, in for chris hayes. happy new year to you. we re just hours away from republicans taking control of the house of representatives, and tonight, kevin mccarthy might just be the most nervous man in washington. is mccarthy, he really wants to be speaker of the house. it has been his singular focus in washington for years. and that drive is the reason behind his deal with the devil that he made with donald trump. mccarthy has spent years placating trump, and enabling his worst behavior in exchange for trump s support. and the support of his hard-line allies in congress for his eventual speakership. it s why mccarthy went from saying this, in the days after january 6th the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfo