how coronavirus transmits helps save their season. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m 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 he s 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
makeshift camera from home when i had to broadcast from home because i was in covid quarantine back in november. because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. the roads are not fit for manor beast nor cable news hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higglety piggelty. i ll be back in the studio tomorrow night. january 2009, barack obama was inaugurated as the 45th president of the united states with joe biden as his vice president, in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. the great recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying wall street collapse. the economy had been hemorrhaging jobs for months at a rate not seen since the great depression when president obama was inaugurated. unemployment was headed for 10%. the wall street collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. people were hurting. people were very sca
file. as you may know by now, trump lost his entire legal team over the weekend. he has since named two new lawyers just last night. they are david schoen and bruce caster, he s represented mobsters and longtime adviser roger stone. earlier tonight he previewed his trial argument on fox news. besides the fact that this process is completely unconstitutional and this is a very, very dangerous road to take with respect to the first amendment, putting at risk any passionate political speaker, which is really against everything we believe in in this country, foundation of the first amendment. but i m going to tell you, it s the most ill-advised legislative action i ve seen in my lifetime. it is tearing the country apart at a time when we don t need anything like that. i think president biden missed a great opportunity to be a statesman and to demand that this thing be called off, frankly. this is the political weaponization of the impeachment process. meanwhile, the biden
quarantine back in november. because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. the roads are not fit for manor beast nor cable news hosts so, again, apologies for things looking a little higgledy-piggledy. i ll be back in the studio tomorrow night. january 2009, when barack obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the united states with joe biden as his vice president, in january 2009, over 800,000 americans had just lost their jobs. the great recession caused by insanity in the financial industry and the accompanying wall street collapse. the economy had been hemorrhaging jobs for months at a rate not seen since the great depression when president obama was inaugurated. unemployment was headed for 10%. the wall street collapse had wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. people were hurting. people were very scared. and one of the reasons americans had just elected obama and biden by a n
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, let s 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 in