him, honestly, the companies from which he was extorting these bribes these warned the kinds of companies that would normally tend to have a lot of cash laying around. it would be one thing if this guy, this government official was taking bribes from retail stores or even gambling operations. something where lost of paper cash is trading handle there was a legit explanation as to why that would be a lot of cash in the books, and at the sight of these businesses. for this corrupt official who is demanding and collecting bribes from his company, he wanted them in cash and the problem was that these firms that he was getting the bribes from were like, engineering firms and architecture firms. in companies like that there s not a lot of call for cash money in those types of businesses. in fact it would be weird if there was a lot of cash in a business like that. what they did was that they developed a scheme. the boss at the company who knew he needed to pay this guy the bribe,
accountable for the terror that still haunts many of them. in the suit, they each describe how they narrowly escaped the trump mob that day. and could have been killed, like five others who were. you re looking at one of them on that very day that he thought his life was going to be over. he s joined the suit, and tells us why. guess who is in tune with the democrats. a former republican speaker of the house, john boehner, writing that trump incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, perpetuated by the bullshit he d been shoveling since he lost a fair election. watching it was scary, and sad, and it should have been a wake-up call. for a return to republican sanity. should have been the keyword. but it wasn t. the rite is dominated by a trump fringe that wants to double on division. here s exhibit a on hate tv. they didn t have guns. but a lot of them had extremely dangerous ideas. they talked about the constitution, and something called their
this is an epidemic, for god sake, and it has to stop. i m going to use all the resources at my disposal as president to keep the american people safe from gun violence, but there s much more that congress can do to help that effort and they can do it right now. they ve offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of congress, but they ve passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence. enough prayers. time for some action. previewing the criticism he knows will come from gun rights advocates the president says his executive orders do nothing to threaten the second amendment right to bear arms. let s go live to the white house and bring in cnn s jasmine write. jasmine, the president ak knocked that the bold actions on things like assault weapons and background check loopholes those need congressional action but he seems determined to just do at least something right now. reporter: that s right, laura. look, president biden is once again leading by executiv
was in a resting state meaning like he just rested his knee on his neck then as covid cases surge in wisconsin, republicans shot down the governor s mask mandate while in pennsylvania infrastructure week finally arrives. it s big, yes it s bold, yes and we can get it done when all in starts now. good evening from washington, d.c. i m medhi hassan in for chris hayes. if you ve been following the news today you ve probably heard a lot about the justice department investigation into republican congressman matt gaetz into potential sex trafficking tied to an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, which gaetz denies there have been a lot of crazy developments in this story since we first reported on it last night, and we re going to bring you all of them. but first we thought it would be worth reminding you who matt gaetz was before he was under investigation in a child sex trafficking case because this guy is really something. gaetz is the son of wealthy for
for senator ron johnson. i ve never really felt it was societies responsibility to take care of other people s children. all in starts right now. good evening from new york and i m chris hayes. another rioter at the capitol on january 6th received a serious prison sentence. a qanon follower, nicholas lang grant was given 44 months for assaulting enough of sir with a dangerous weapon. he threw an orange traffic barrier and to stick like objects at officers who were protecting the lower west terrorist entrance to the capitol. quote, the items were capable of inflicting serious bodily injury. he also bragged about the attack on social media like so many of his courts. next time we come back with rifles. and while we are continuing to see formal accountability to the insurrections footsoldiers, there are also investigations underway on multiple fronts that are moving up the chain of command. in the case of elmer stewart rhodes, the founder and leader of the oath keepers gan