top the hour here on your monday. i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. nice to be with erica. right now president biden is in mexico as he prepares to meet face-to-face with the mexico president obrador later today in what is a big week for u.s./mexico ties. biden made his first visit to the u.s. southern border on sunday. enormous political implications here. we met with border officials in el paso, texas. while highlighting the disturbing rise not just in migrants but in u.s. fentanyl deaths. also we are following what is happening in brazil. shades of the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol after false claims of a stolen election. sounds familiar. supporters of brazil s jair bolsonaro smashing windows and clashing with police and breaking into congress and the presidential palace and the supreme court. hundreds have been arrested. meantime, in washington this morning with kevin mccarthy fin finally locking up the house speakership, gop members meeting to select thei
abundance of russian cable news are openly and loudly disagreeing with their favorite pundit on american cable news. vladimir putin is not losing the war in ukraine, he s winning the war in ukraine. when all in starts right now good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. in a major escalation, the department of justice has now sent 40 subpoenas to trump allies, just the past, week as part of its investigation into the attempted coup, and the insurrection. new york times reports, the doj also seized cell phones from two of trump s coup plotting aids, boris and mike roman. now, mike roman might feel a little remote in your memory. there s a lot of characters here. he was actually the director of trump s 2020 election they operations, and crucially, according to reporting we have, he reportedly hand-delivered slates of fake electors to congress as part of trump s attempt to go. in addition to his own role in the fake elector scheme, epstein was also the appointed
new york times reports a major escalation in the department of justice grand jury probe of trump s inner circle. and, mark ally on the part of the big lie in the claim they have a 45,000 new poll launches for election day but, 57 days out. new caution on what will look. like great numbers for. democrats, and why even the pundits of russian cable news are openly and loudly disagreeing with their favorite pundit on american cable news. vladimir putin is not losing the war in ukraine, he s winning the war in ukraine. when all in starts right now good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. in a major escalation, the department of justice has now sent 40 subpoenas to trump allies, just this past week, as part of its investigation into the attempted coup and the insurrection. new york times reports, the doj also seized cell phones from two of trump s coup plotting aids, boris epshteyn and mike roman. now, mike roman might feel a little remote in your memory. there s
See who will want to negotiate lower spending and things like that but they won t want to shut down the government. but then you have that chaos group that really has so much control now and they have no problem shutting down the government because for them, you know, gumming up the works is sort of the point. so it is about to get even more complicated for kevin mccarthy. right. the talk is constantly about how from that group of hardliners, they want to show the government doesn t work and at any chance the they can to make that happen. david, as we look at what is playing out today, where do you think things stand, jessica dean at 5:00 tonight on the rules p package. there is a chance this doesn t pass. how realistic is that chance? i guess there is a chance when you re dealing with such small margins and speaker mccarthy could only afford to lose four votes. but you heard from manu, that
Lisa rubin who stuck around for which i thank you. so let s get into this lisa because what merrick garland announced the appointment of jack, smith as special counsel late last month, he suggested he would be focusing on two investigations, the 16 transfer of power interference allegations and the classified mar-a-lago documents. to all of these new subpoenas to state officials fall within that mandate or has a special counsel now extended his purview? no, i think these new subpoenas alex to the state and county officials as you were mentioning earlier fall squarely within the january six investigation. let me outline how. right, now we know the department of justice as well as congress is sort of looking at whether trump and people in his inner circle who have looking to obstruct a proceeding and interfere with the lawful function of government by gumming up the works and the chance for power on january 6th. they did that in a variety of different ways, it was sort of a series of o