weapons ban. it saved lives. no matter how long it takes, we are going to get these passed. we are not going to give up. and that s not the only difficult policy area that biden is pushing in. this week he touted his $2.2 trillion comprehensive infrastructure plan. he emphasized its importance and says it is in the best interests of the american people even if republicans in congress won t support it. a recent poll shows a majority of americans support the plan. 62% of all voters think it is a good idea. 42% of republicans can get behind it. infrastructure is traditionally thought of as roads, bridges, tunnels, things like that, but biden is looking to redefine it. he is expanding its breadth to include things like access to clean water, internet, stable child care and even care for the elderly. it still depends on roads and bridges, ports and airports, rail and mass transit, but it also depends on having reliable high-speed internet in every home. because today s high-sp
the criminal indictment we ve covered in manhattan, florida, and washington, d.c. mr. trump continuing his unrelenting attacks against d.a. fani will is throughout the morning, claiming that this prosecution is the latest, quote, witch hunt against him. mr. trump is also promising a press conference next monday morning, where he is going to release some reports that he says it will improve there was election fraud despite multiple court cases, saying he won the presidency fair and square. and the campaign as with previous indictments have addressed a flurry of fundraising emails to try to turn this latest legal woe to financial gain. garrett haake is here, katie phang, chuck rosenberg, msnbc legal analyst lisa ruben and former fbi general counsel. chuck rosenberg, power panel, and i will start with you if i can. when i read this social media post by donald trump, he promised a large complex and detailed report by monday, to refute this indictment. is it bound with footnot
court and in the federal right to abortion, the nightmare scenario is playing out across the country as we get new evidence of hope of a growing backlash. all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. you know maybe 2022 but we today we have a new in the official investigation into an apparent or possible trump administration s conduct. today, the irs announced it is asked the treasury department inspector general to look into audits of the two leaders of the fbi james comey and andrew mccabe. they were both selected by the irs, supposedly at random for very rare intensive financial audits. to give you a sense of just how rare this invasive random audit is, just one out of 30,000 sickening to taxpayers is selected forward in any given year. now they started an interim investigation the irs is still run by the trump appointee commissioner claims it is ludicrous and untrue to suggest that i arrest officials somehow tout targeted these officials. knowing
an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e