the united states are known to have been infected with covid-19. more than 442,000 americans have died. add to that america is struggling with the vaccination rollout and there s growing concern about new variants of the virus. dr. michael osterholm with the center disease research at the university of minnesota. he says a surge of the u.k. variant could happen in the u.s. in the next six to 14 weeks. i think right now in advance of this surge, we need to get as many one-doses in as many people over 65 as we possibly can to reduce the serious illness and deaths that are going to occur over the weeks ahead. meanwhile, millions of americans remain out of work. tomorrow is the first of the month. rent s due. so it might be good news that ten senate republicans are proposing a relief package in hopes of a bipartisan solution. but it is significantly smaller than president biden s $1.9 trillion proposal. today they wrote a letter asking to meet with the president and pitch him
head down to the capitol. plus the vote to charge the sitting president of brazil with crimes against humanity on the same day he gets a fresh endorsement from donald trump, and new evidence the facebook pr crisis could be turning into a legal one, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today the attorney general of the united states, merrick garland, appeared before the senate judiciary committee and much of his four hours at this hearing with lots of very important things happening in the justice department and everything, much of it was spent being yelled at by republicans performing righteous anger, claiming to be upset that the attorney general would send federal agents to spy on american parents. now, if you are asking yourself, wait a second, is the federal government sending federal agents to spy on american parents? no worry, they aren t. but that did not stop republican senators from running with it. you re going to create
coup. drafted in the days before january 6th that outlined a step by step plan for vice president mike pence to nullify the electoral votes from up to seven states. it was a secret and likely illegal plot to over throw joe biden s presidency before he was even sworn in. then last week we saw eastman suddenly disavow his em moe. in an interview with the national review the architect of the coup memo said having pence reject the notes was not viable and would have been crazy to pursue, however, eastman is under cut his little charade by candidly revealing that he was fully committed to the ideas expressed in his memo. and he says it would have succeeded, too, had it not been for the pesky mike pence. he willingly admits this in a series of undercover videos filmed on saturday by lauren windsor at an event for the claremont institute, the right wing think thank. windsor identified herself as a trump supporter who had taken part in the insurrection and here is what he said in a
section is, judge cannon got through the entire thing without saying a single crazy thing. not one crazy thing at all, unlike the way she handled this case last year, when this evidence was first brought to her. well, i think a lot of influences are going to be made by that. and i cannot wait to see what you guys get through in the course of the next 5 to 10 minutes, once you scan that meaty transcript, lawrence. i eagerly await your analysis. thanks, alex. bank. you have a great show. thank you. it was another terrible day for defended trump including the revelation today of the specific charges mentioned in the special prosecutor jack smith s met letter to donald trump on sunday telling him that he is a target in jack smith s criminal investigation of events leading up to end on january 6th, attempting to overthrow the presidential election. donald trump had a very bad day in two different courts in new york city today in refusing to ultra quest for a new trial in t
version of what donald trump has been saying on the campaign trail about the presidential records act. and how this place is really about the presidential records act. and it is fascinating to read a lawyer trying to say that, didn t make any sense to me. but we will have experts here who are going to translate that part of it. and, then alex maybe the big surprise, or the thing that everyone was really waiting to study in that section is, judge cannon got through the entire thing without saying a single crazy thing. not one crazy thing at all, unlike the way she handled this case last year, when this evidence was first brought to her. well, i think a lot of influences are going to be made by that. and i cannot wait to see what you guys get through in the course of the next 5 to 10 minutes, once you scan that meaty transcript, lawrence. i eagerly await your analysis. thanks, alex. bank. you have a great show. thank you. it was another terrible day for defended trump