Who are celebrating. Im ali velshi we begin this hour with th latest in the investigation an the insurrection, and th historic january Six Committees highly anticipated final report the document is massive, bot in scope, its 845 pages long, and importance, relating to th future of democracy in the United States. However, Synthesizing Th Monumental Report down to on line is easy its this. Quote, the Central Cause O january six was one man. The man is exactly who you think it is, donald j trump. The report also notes, quote none of the events of januar six wouldve happened withou him. Separately, the committee is voted to refer trump to Th Committee Of Justice for prosecution and for criminal charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding, a well as 18 and insurrection. Important to know right now, the 14th Amendment of th constitution, vance individual who engage in an insurrectio from holding federal or stat office the Committee Reports persists recommendations to prevent ano
it s not even the only pending case involving trump in th state of new york. at some point this coming week donald trump is expected t travel back to new york from florida to be deposed in relation to a civil lawsui filed by the new york attorney general, letitia james last september, james filed 250 million dollar lawsuit against trump, his three eldes children, and the trum organization, accusing them of fraudulent business practices. in an earlier deposition for james s investigation last summer, trump refused to answe most questions, pleading the fifth more than 400 times. then, on april 25th of thi year, just 16 days from now, a trial is scheduled to begin in one of the two civil lawsuit that been filed against trum by the author and columnist, e jean carroll a few years ago, carol published a book in which sh accused the former president o raping her in the dressing roo of a luxury manhatta department store in the mi 1990s. trump denied careles accusations, saying they
if there is anything tha recent events in tennessee and other states have taught us, i should be that state legislatures are critical fo our democracy. i mean, it is where america policy is made and if we don t know who you re stat representatives are, you shoul get to know them because the are determining the future state houses create policies whose impact can reach beyond state lines and influenc entire regions, affectin peoples pocketbooks, education s abilities to make decisions about their own bodies and virtually every facet of lif you can think of beyond laws alone, how you state legislature s run has direct impact on you as well i mean, look at tennessee. more than 136,000 tennesseeans woke up on friday morning with a no representation in their own state house. that s because the republica majority expelled of the two youngest black male legislators, representatives justin pearson and justin jones, saying the violated house decorum rules all for demanding tha
midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
i have nothing to hide. i have a constitution to uphold the former vice president agrees to talk after his bos surrendered for arrest in ne york president trump, when you come speak to us president trump? tonight, 24 hours of lega disaster for donald trump. 24 hours of political disaster for the party he leads and why there is no sign of an of it letting up who would like to watch m sleigh a zombie? and it is the latest lega setback for fox news i dare dominion to sue me because then it would go faster explaining your pandering t a pillow salesman from the stand. when all in starts right now good evening from new york, am chris hayes i have to say, okay, even by the standards of our time, o this day and age, right, a avalanche of news an spectacle. this sort of dizzying cloyin for your attention the last 24 hours have reall been something else. so i want to begin tonight b just taking a second here to try to collectively just wra our heads around the mea