rnc meeting which shows the maga elitism problem the party faces. this is behind the closed doors. the r fl rnc meeting has a behind the doors closed meeting. this is a departure from the past. you can see how it used to look in the old days. take haley barbour, 94 rnc chair or michael steele who so many people know from the similar meeting they held when he was chair to the closed press secret meetings. this is a file photo that shows the contrast over the years, the tightening secrecy. why is it a secret? the rnc is clearly trying to duck any further pressure, scrutiny or efficacy to end the employ primaries which would have tried to declare the primaries over and trump the nominee. the rnc said haley should drop out, trump has to be the winner. this morning nikki haley did something unusual, something trump hasn t done, which is face questions from a different and more adversarial set of interviewers. she went, just like biden has, to the breakfast club and took the que
the news continues. was handed over to the next level. transparency. that is a word you are hearing a lot from the former president and his allies in the wake of the fbi search of his former home. he is calling for the unredacted affidavit used to justify the search to be released. but his interest in transparency does not seem to extend to testifying. lindsey graham is trying to dodge a subpoena to appear before the special grand jury investigating republican efforts to under overturn these election results. refusing to put on hold their own ruling that the senator must appear. but he s also filed an emergency request with the court of appeals for the 11th circuit asking them to put the subpoena on hold running it up the chain. talk about transparency. a federal appeals court ruling today said the doj has to make public that internally legal memo that was pushed by william barr. do you remember the one that he had to analyze whether not he should charge the then president wi
gretchen whitmer, london lamar, and senator elizabeth warren all join me live. all in starts right now. good evening from los angeles. i am chris hayes. it is a brutal day for american democracy, for american women, specifically, for all americans could become pregnant. for all americans, really. it right enshrined in the constitution as intimate as any right one could imagine. it has been discarded and destroyed by five unelected justices. three of whom were appointed, of course, by the last president, who got about 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. in american democracy, it is truly rare to see rights taken away in this fashion. the proverbial moral arc of the universe, justice, striving for a more perfect union, to watch these things born backwards towards a reactionary pass, as starkly as this, and one moment to the next, it makes you feel physically nauseous. speaking only for myself, as a person who can become pregnant, a man, it s not even a tiny sliver
some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. tonight investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter after key putin ally was preplanned. the murder investigation is now under way after darya dugin died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and considered one of the architects of the ukraine invasion, often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen is in moscow tonight. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stand with that investigation. however, one of the things that we have h
abroad could start arriving this weekend. after the president used emergency powers to try to solve this formula crisis. amid the conflicted messaging, the white house is in the midst of a staff shakeup. john kirby is now headed to the white house joining the national security council. the latest from ukraine where the donbas region in the east is, quote, completely destroyed and resembling hell according to president zelenskyy. this as ukraine is about to get nearly $60 billion more in aid from the u.s. and from g7 nations. in oklahoma, the most restrictive abortion law in the nation approved by the legislature on thursday. banning the procedure from the moment of fertilization. the first of the growing challenges facing the white house. joining me now is senior white house correspondent. kyle: kelly o donnell in seoul, jonathan lemire, and former white house press secretary robert gibbs. we have former undersecretary of state richard s this engle. kelly, why thi