Coconspirator best known for being detained without pants helped him do it. Step on out. Here come this way. Can i put pence on . First sir, youve got to clear the house. And why the people who prosecuted the impeachment of donald trump agree with the attorneys defending donald trump that the federal trial of donald trump should be televised. Lets have cameras in the courtroom so that all americans can see what is happening in our criminal Justice System. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. Well, for donald trump, the stakes at the next president ial election are clear. We all know them. He is running for his freedom. They put and even finer point on it, hes running for his life. The ex president now faces 78 criminal accounts across three jurisdictions and a combined 641 years in prison. At age 77, if hes convicted of any offenses, just one, he could spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. The stakes for the country are equally dire. Don
as the nation s overarching moral tribunal. president trump is still liable for everything he did while in office. as an ordinary citizen, unless the statute of limitations is run, still liable for everything he did while in office. it is not get away with anything yet, yet. we have a criminal justice system in this country. we have civil litigation, and former presidents are not immune from being accountable to either one. all of these guys, they re also tough, stern, hectoring, posting in caps lock, it s mcconnell, he s not at the woods yet. bravely standing on the senate floor to dump the problem of a sociopathic, maniacal hater of democracy on someone else.
that is just the reality. they are not bothered by the prospect of democracy no longer being a thing, at least not enough to stop it. adam serwer and jennifer horn, thank you both. still ahead, this man in a driveway not wearing any pants, and the insidious role he played and donald trump s plot to steal the election. that is next. at is next get it with gurus. cargurus.
backseat to all of this. mccarthy entertaining the idea of the resolutions to a race is impeachments as though that never happened. tell that to the officers who lost their lives, to the families who lost their lives, the officers so severely wounded. all of us in the capital terrorized, your colleagues terrorized, these staffers who cleaned up the mess, you can t arrest this part of history. and we must not let this former president, this criminal, former president who cares nothing for democracy get back into office. congresswoman madeleine dean of pennsylvania, one of the impeachment managers, very important and while presented a second impeachment of the former president. thank you so much. thank you, chris. coming up, the story of the unassuming, environmental lawyer with a plo american democracy. but first, they had a chance to
tried to install trump in a mini coup at the doj as the acting attorney general in a bid to power, so clark send the letter out and have the doj help with the coup. and clark s starting role to subvert american democracy is detailed in the indictment. clark is not named, but he sure does match the description of coconspirator for. when clark was confronted with the ramifications of trying to steal the election, things took a turn according to the indictment. on page 30, federal prosecutors described the moment three days before the attempted coup, quote, on the afternoon of january 3rd, clark spoke with the deputy white house counsel, tried to dissuade clark from assuming the role of acting attorney general. the deputy white house counsel related to collect that had there not been an outcome determined fraud in the election, and that if trump remain in office nonetheless, there would be rights in every major city in the u.s.. clark responded, well, that s