Seen with Roger Stone one day before the insurrection. All in starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im chris hayes. What do you do with a person who abuses their position of authority . Elemental question. In the history of Human Government and human affairs, a question our country has been confronting persistently since long before Donald Trump but even more consistent since then. Today as we look at the scope of the abuse of power that occurred under the former president , we are seeing an anxious to that very question and it comes from republicans. Not the ones in the Nations Capitol, with the chieftain of maralago. Rather from the state of oregon. State lawmakers confronted the same question that we are now confronting as a society. The same that republicans and democrats alike confronted at the Nations Capitol on January 6th. How to deal with a person who has egregiously abused their power. A person who has transgressed. In this case, it was one have their own. Republican
Their aides and Family Members including a minor were targeted, too. The records were sought as part of an investigation into leaks of Classified Information. Lets just say trump was never shy about who he thought was spilling his business. Schiff is a big leaker. Well have a Committee Meeting and Hell Leak all sorts of information. You know, hes a bad guy. I think Adam Schiff is the biggest leaker in washington. You know that. I know that. We all know that. Ive watched Adam Schiff leak. He is a corrupt politician. Hes a leaker like nobody has ever seen before. They ought to stop the leaking from Intelligence Committee. If they dont stop it i cant imagine people arent going to go after thEm And find out whats happening. This isnt the first time trump shredded our institutions in an attempt to hunt down his enemies and snuff them out. This was a thing with him as it is with all autocrats real and wannabe. This is a big deal. Unprecedented in this country and arguably worse than anything
are certified, the party of trump has to reap what it has sewed. 51 days until joe biden takes office, how the fate of his administration could rest on who controls the senate. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today the states of arizona and wisconsin, hotly contested swing states formalized joe biden s victory and ending all but the faintest hope that president trump had of stealing the election. there are millions and millions of americans who will not accept that. that s because donald trump, rupert murdock and the conservative media have spent decades metaphorically drugging their followers, because it helped them at the time and it was easier than trying to win them over with the truth. but there are consequences out past the immediate benefits that may have redowned. we find ourselves in a surreal and strange situation. the president is a lame duck. he spends all his time golfing and sitting behind his little desk there and raili
the united states. and he is taking action to hit the ground running. meanwhile, the current presidency has descended into almost shakespeare tragedy if not comedy. to over turn the election veered from the theater of the absurd to just flat out absurd. hold up in the white house fuming about the election and refusing to admit it s over. the fact is joe biden victory was clear and decisive. with a 6 million plus vote margin. today arizona certified results showing that once again biden won. in a state trump contested. and wisconsin signed the determination of its result confirming biden won there too. that followed a $3 million wisconsin recount. that trump bamboozled supporters into paying for. which resulted in biden gaining 87 votes. in a pennsylvania court on friday rejected an effort to revive a trump challenge. the judge writing calling an election unfair doesn t make it so. charges require specific allegations and proof. we have neither. trump continued the assault on
of ashley judd, it could not have been a weirder week for politics. all this is coming up. first an update on the storm hitting the northeast. alex, thanks to you. i m craig melvin. here is the very latest on that winter storm. new york transit authority has suspended the system that goes into kkds. rhode island and new york with limited in maine as well. governors have issued travel bans this afternoon for all nonessential vehicles. nearly 5,000 flights have been canceled so far. amtrak suspended northbound service out of new york s penn station earlier tonight. this was governor chris christie earlier tonight. the overall safety issues is an obvious one, stay home. let s go to bill karins with the latest on this. what can you tl us? we re halfway through with our blizzard. that we know for sure. some areas are fairing well and some are doing as bad as we thought they would, rhode island up toward the boston area. let me show you the wind gusts. now we re cutting i