right now. tonight on all in. we are prepared to take this fight into the court, and if need be taken to the supreme court of united states. pence fights to keep quiet as especial council moves to compel testimony from trump lawyers. tonight andrew weizmann on the big pieces in the trump investigation as we await new details from fulton county. then it is a legal pot legal ponzi scheme. republicans keep attacking social security as the president gets a new ally in the fight to preserve it. plus, as nikki haley makes it official, mitt romney s urgent warning about trump s cap on the nomination, and congressman jamie raskin wants answers about jared kushner s massive payday from the southeast saudis. he s here to talk about it when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. tonight we ve got a lot of news surrounding the various legal cases in smearing donald trump. first, context. it often feels like the investigation into the january six
late breaking, news special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed former president donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith and vesta geisha and into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. now i should say this as according to a single source, and it s being reported by cnn, and we see has not independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for documents and testimony sometime in january. this comes just one week after we learned the special counsel smith subpoenaed trump s former vice president mike pence. clearly, things are heating up. beyond the fact that subpoena of the former presidents chief of staff is a huge deal on its own, mark meadows in particular is quite a potential witness. meadows was involved in the infamous phone call between trump and georgia secretary of state brian rat in which he pressured raffensperger to find 11,780 votes. meadows was in the over office with trump for a
know of agents faced immense pressure that day, protecting the president from himself and the vice president from the mob his boss sent to the capitol. secret service agents feeling fearing for their own lives and they rush to get america second in command away from those chanting to hang him. the secret service acknowledging records were purged as part of a systemwide update. but today, based on a letter review by the new york times, dhs inspector general has informed the secret service to, quote, halted internal search for purged texts sent by agents around the time of january 6th so that it does not interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation. that s right. an ongoing criminal investigation. all of these developments coming to light thanks to the house select committee s quest for accountability. a number of these bombshells dropping during the panels primetime hearing thursday night. the committee, taking nearly three hours to trace what the associated press calls, q
President xijinping on friday. The uss top diplomat said there has been progress in some areas. He praised beijing for its efforts to stop the supply of fentanyl from reaching the us, and the increase in military to military communication. President xi agreed the two sides had made some positive progress since he met his us counterpart, joe biden, in november. Mr xi added that the earth was big enough for both countries to achieve development and prosperity. However, differences between the two countries still remain. Chinas foreign minister, wang yi, remarked that the us has taken endless measures to suppress chinas economy, trade, and technology. He warned that, if such factors continued to grow, it could derail efforts to stabilize us china ties. Translation the negative factors in the translation the negative factors in the relationship i translation the Negativel Factors in the relationship are still increasing and building, and the relationship is facing all kinds of disruptions.
You do not know, what our middle terry leaders do in the pentagon every day . You think they are just about giving advice . The ignorance this guy . I have to bring in Claire Mccaskill here, general hurdle, a guy who knows what hes doing. General hurdling retweeting an interview that he had on fox news. Where tuberville said that the Navy Secretary has to get wokeness out of the navy because quote, we have got people doing on Aircraft Carriers. And general hurdling said what i wouldnt get for a real journalist to Say Something like what the f, are you talking about senator. Senator, you are on the air forces committee. You are on the committee in the house, it is not that hard to figure out what they are doing at the pentagon every day. And it has to do with protecting america from our enemies, and planning on keeping this country safe. And keeping our allies safe, and keeping freedom safe from tyranny. And also, i must say, from idiocy like that guy. I have to tell you the truth. When