of a criminal invest big asian tonight, asha rangappa and chuck rosenberg what it means to move from subject to target. jay johnson on the secret service scandal and why he says the case against the ex president is already indict-able. plus i debunking of a trump ally from trump tv and a new proposal that gives me genuine hope in these difficult times, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes all of a sudden there s a lot happening in the department of justice investigation into the january 6th insurrection. in just the last few days there s been a bunch of domestic developments some of which were gonna get into in a moment. but before he, do it s worth stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. because the significance here is well, large. for seven years now we ve been covering donald trump and he s basically always been enmeshed in controversy and scandal. he s always been surrounded by investigations and allegations of criminal
they know if they can make it about a choice between themselves and whoever the nominee is that s how a race is won or lost. a big percentage of that poll of the people who responded said they didn t want biden to run because of his age now he is the oldest president he would be the oldest president. ed by trump is 76 and biden is 80 there s a way to discuss this without being ageist. sure. but if they both seem okay, then it s almost moot if it s that rematch right that s true, and if it is that rematch. there s also, i think, you underestimate how important actual issues are to people including young people and people who presuppose young people aren t going to support someone who is 80 and a guy who is for taking away their rights to have an abortion and taking away their rights to marry pro probably not that s on the white house and the campaign to make that choice
investigation into fraud in the trump organization, which was then handed to the current trump attorney. that s all separate from the new york state investigation into fraud, led by trump attorney general letitia james, which remains very active. to say nothing of trump s first impeachment over his pressure campaign to get ukraine to dig up dirt on the bidens. which of course and it in his acquittal. in fact, many of those cases fizzled isn t a reflection of trump s actual behavior. rather, it speaks to the ex presidents ability to avoid accountability for himself even as he often leads a slew of cronies investment over the bag. crucial, that does not appear to be the case right now and january 6th. at the very least, in the court of public opinion. now, there s a few reasons for this. first is the size, make historic nature of just when he did. attempting a coup, using a violent mob to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, for the first time in the country
lawsuit will go nowhere, he will be held in con temperature by the congress, and i believe the department of justice will seek thiz indictment. it s a patriotic obligation. if you truly had nothing to do with the insurrection, the treasonness act on january 6th, you would help your country. if you had something to do with it, you would do what mark meadows, john eastman, clark, and others are doing, and that is act like a guilty person. congressman lieu, led by trump has been an attack on what we thought were reliable washington institutions. the new institution that i see under attack tonight by the trump gang and the attack is succeeding is the federal judiciary, especially the federal judiciary centered in washington, d.c. we never knew before that if you got a congressional subpoena, you could possibly sue the speaker of the house for being