Reid. We begin with the shocking new examples of how this country narrowly escaped a coup at the hands of its former president. Last week we learned that trump pressured its acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, and rosen s deputy, to simply declare with no evidence that the entire 2020 election was, quote, corrupt. Thankfully they refused, even though trump had threatened their jobs. Now politico is reporting that rosen s deputy and another doj official were prepared to resign effective immediately if trump had in fact fired rosen as was feared. Most stunning, however, is that the resignation letter that they prepared accuses trump of trying to, quote, utilize the department of justice s law enforcement powers for improper ends. But wait, there s more. Another damning story reveals that acting attorney general rosen also faced pressure from inside the department of justice. Abc news reports that in late december trump loyalist jeffrey clark, who then served as the acting head of the
Let s use it. As a governor facing a rise in cases admits his antimasking law is hurting his state. Our cases were at a low point. Everything has changed now. And yes, in hindsight i wish that had not become law. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I m chris hayes. The coup came closer to succeeding than we ever knew. And we know that donald trump plotted with his associates to overturn american democracy. He tried everything he could to keep himself in power over the will of the people. And day by day we ve been learning more and more about how comprehensive and how dangerous that effort was. But we did not learn the details of the single most damning piece of evidence yet until yesterday. And frankly i have to say it s so damning and unnerving i had to spend the last 24 hours scratching my head in disbelief it is not a bigger story. Because the document we learned yesterday should live in infamy as a truly villaininous text. And if the acting attorney general at
kenosha police claimed the person said they worked with msnbc and was trying to photographer the jurors. the judge calling the allegations extremely serious. as wisconsin officials are on edge for a verdict that could come at any moment. sandra: jonathan turley and mark will dig into that. first alexis live outside of the courtroom in windy kenosha, wisconsin. what exactly did the judge say? the judge talked about a major security concern here in the kyle rittenhouse trial. investigators with the kenosha police department are questioning a person who was following the jurors home last night on the jury bus when they left the courtroom. this comes as the deliberations continue for the kyle rittenhouse case. two motions for a mistrial still on the table. key video evidence at the center of one of the motions and the other is based on claims that prosecutors acted in bad faith. the judge said the state included information that was not supposed to be shown to the jury. there
is now the target of the special counsel s 2020 election investigation. it s an historic moment that tells a lot of legal trouble for the former president trump of the i m anderson cooper in new york. and i m dana bash in washington. you re watching a special edition of inside politics. at 9:21 a.m. eastern, trump hit send on a truth heard around the country. jack smith, the prosecutor with joe biden s doj, sent a letter, again, it was sunday night, stating that i am a target of the january 6th grand jury investigation. trump goes on to say he now expects to be arrested and indicted again in short order. another indictment guarantees another data point in the political campaign strategy that he s a victim and, therefore, the gop should rally around a him. cnn is reporting at every single angle of this from the justice department to the former president s plan to respond. we re going to start with cnn s katelyn polantz. you have been reporting on this for a long time. firs
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