mayor sylvester turner and former senator al franken, on the flying ted controversy that s so bad fox news is dunking on him. if there s a weather disaster in your state, you don t go on a tropical vacation. then, how nikki haley s attempt to have it both ways on trump is backfiring spectacularly. plus the latest insurrection arrest is the heir to a high-profile family. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. there is some light at the end of the tunnel for texans tonight. who have been suffering through back to back winter storms, record low temperatures, and power outages affecting both electricity and heat and even water all week. the good news is that power has been restored for millions of residents, less than 400,000 still waiting for the lights to come back on. down from highs over 4 million earlier this week. the texas tribune reporting today the state s power grid was, quote, seconds and minutes away from a catastrophic failure
then, how nikki haley s attempt to have it both ways on trump is backfiring spectacularly. plus the latest insurrection arrest is the heir to a high profile conservative family. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. there is some light at the end of the tunnel for texans tonight who have been suffering through back-to-back winter storms, record low temperatures, and power outages affecting both electricity and heat and even water all week. the good news is that power has been restored for millions of residents, less than 400,000 people still waiting for the lights to come back on, down from highs of over 4 million earlier this week. the texas tribune reporting today the state s power grid was, quote, seconds and minutes away from a catastrophic failure that could have left texans in the dark for months. officials saying that if operators had not acted in that moment early monday morning to start rolling blackouts, that s blackouts they th
charging him in connecith his efforts to overturn the 2020 electi. include the conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. moments ago the special counsel, jack smith, spoke more about the indictment and the charges trump now faces. the attack on our nation s capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. it s described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the u.s. government, the nation s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election. the indictment went on to say that trump had six co-conspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. this is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. the former president of the united states, who is now the current front-run
and what they made this claim to be you find that the form of which to pay it is actually what came through. you now have irs whistleblowers who are not republican, philosophically, who now say they were denied the ability to do their job and in trying to do their job in the investigation of the biden family they were denied the 1023, even in meetings where david weiss has said one thing to them and different to the american public, different than the attorney general had promised the attorney public, he said that they should be prosecuted but now we have found out that the department actually called the biden family attorneys, told them ahead of time where documents were, treated other people in politics differently, even went to the inaugural committee. why would they give a head s up to the inaugural committee. why would they be denied the ability they believe the investigation was hampered using political purposes to treat them differently. now, as an elected official h