You can assemble, but you know, its peacefully assemble. What we saw on january 6th is not a peaceful assembly. But as you know, there was no permit for the march to the capitol. The former president encouraged the group to come to the capitol and stop the steal. Meantime, President Biden now officially one whole month on the job is making a public push for his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. The full text of the nearly 600page bill released yesterday, including increasing the minimum wage to 15 an hour, 1,400 direct checks, extending federal Unemployment Benefits, and more money for struggling small businesses. And Breaking News on the growing crisis in texas. President biden declaring a major disaster as the state enters its sixth day of subfreezing temperatures, and while thousands of texans are finally getting the power back, millions are still without Running Water. And last hour, the mayor of san antonio telling me the situation may get worse before it gets better. At this po
And kelly hyman, legal analyst and democratic strategist welcome to you all. There is a section in the Special Counsels indictment in which jack smith breaks down this alleged scheme into five distinct parts. First, it begins with the false claims of Election Fraud. It is important to note that the doj says explicitly that donald trump it is important to note that the doj did know that he had lost the election and made knowingly false claims about it. Second, the former president and his Co Conspirators launched a seven state strategy to pressure state and local officials to overturn the officially certified results. Third, they weaponised, to coin a phrase, Thejustice Department to lend credence to these false claims of Election Fraud to try to pressure State Officials. Fourth, they pressured the Vice President , mike pence, to do something they knew was unconstitutional and illegal. And finally, which brings us to the violence of january 6th, they exploited that disruption and redoub
we have been told that governor scott will not be participating in this debate. the incumbent governor of florida is a no-show thanks to a fan under his podium. frank will join me tonight as we examine exactly what happened. is there anything wrong with being comfortable. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. just moments ago, president obama pushed back on mounting calls to impose a travel ban from the west african countries where the outbreak began. i don t have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban, if that is the thing that is going to keep the american people safe. if we institute a travel ban instead of the protocols that we ve put in place now, history shows that there is a likelihood of increased avoidance. people do not readily disclose their information. they may engage in something they called broken traffic. essentially breaking up their trip so that they can hide the fact that they ve been to one of
florida is a no-show thanks to a fan under his podium. frank will join me tonight as we examine exactly what happened. is there anything wrong with being comfortable. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. just moments ago, president obama pushed back on mounting calls to impose a travel ban from the west african countries where the outbreak began. i don t have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban, if that is the thing that is going to keep the american people safe. if we institute a travel ban instead of the protocols that we ve put in place now, history shows that there is a likelihood of increased avoidance. people do not readily disclose their information. they may engage in something they called broken traffic. essentially breaking up their trip so that they can hide the fact that they ve been to one of these countries where there is a disease in plaus. and, as a result, we may end up getting less information ab