their time. and it was a great, grave disservice for the country. i respect attorney general barr. so, i accepted what he was saying. tonight, congressman jamie raskin on the big, new things we learned on night one. and what they say about donald trump s consciousness of guilt. we weren t finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states. plus, with the incredible focus on to trump militia groups says about what is to come. you say that proud boys members increased after the stand back stand by comment? exponentially. i would say tripled, probably. and the potential for a lot more, eventually. and how trump s propaganda network keeps finding new ways to launder a coup. sean hannity wrote, in part, key now know more crazy people. when all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the country still processing the testimony from last night s inaugural primetime hearing of the january 6th commit
i would like to keep that friendship. the massive ethics scandal unfolding at the supreme court as clarence thomas copps to the luxury chips he took with his billionaire buddy. tonight, the amendments to his financial disclosures, the reporting that led to it, and the ongoing issues with justice thomas. it really is good to be me, it really is. that is his former chief of staff gets arraigned on charges of trying to steal the election. trump takes his vengeance towards dr. phil. well, revenge does take time, i will say that. and sometimes revenge can be justified, but i have to be honest, sometimes it can t. plus, new data on just where americans are getting misinformed about immigration. and another huge day for the biden jobs market. 272,000, everybody, the estimate was 185,000. and, by the way, that blows even the top of the range from economists going on. all in starts right now. it evening from new york, i am chris hayes. we are currently in the midst
And opinionated media, i love opinion media. i ve worked in it. i love takes, i m a take monger myself. i think there s a situation the way fox news. which they knew they were selling lies to their viewers. the network is being rejected because they re telling people that trump lost. and then, you know hannity reiterates respecting this audience whether we agree or not. telling them what they want to hear which is trump won the election. that s operating in a different hemisphere and again to the right. and why they weren t covering the january 6th committee because the audience didn t want to hear it. it s very much that catering to it. and it s very much driven by concern about the extent to which donald trump has captured their audience. there s a really good quote in which baker talks about how
organized group, who has that purpose. this was a mob. it was a riot. the real coup is an effort to occupy the government, and to change who controls washington. there is no evidence of anything like a coup here. there s quite a bit. charles blow says the new york times opinion columnist, writes about politics, public opinion, social justice, and he joins me now. i gotta say, i mean, obviously, you and i are both in media. and there s a certain wide spectrum of different kinds of media. there s like opinion media. you know, there s people on the right writings that i read. but what they did last night, down to the second cutting away, it was truly a level of propaganda that i have not encountered before. he has, you know, there is a range, as you say. but you can t put fox in the range anymore. i just don t believe so. i did journalism my entire professional career, 30 years,
and that just keeps on accelerating. i m not the first to observe this, but yeah, you have the fox news rush limbaugh folks and then the msnbc folks. the way he puts it, his assertion is all those different folks can t agree on common facts. that s a false equivalence. you re witnessing those powerful democrats minimizing fox s factual problems which are different than, say, observing that there is opinion media out there. it weirdly legitimized fox news through that false equivalence. it s one more polarized source. now, is this the whole story? is this public concern about polarization in general a kind of political signal, perhaps, to swing voters and others, a district way for someone like a biden or obama to argue they re above the fray? or does joe biden really believe this about box? does he really believe that it s