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backlash. how dare anyone in this dictate to my staff how they may live their lives. the nbc reporting on whistle blowers who were told to downplay a covid outbreak among migrant kids at a shelter when all in starts right now. good evening, from no, i m chris hayes. it was a failed coup. let s call it what it was. an immediate after math of the january 6th attack in the early revelations of donald trump s attempts, both privately to overturn the democratic election, there was a back and forth about whether coup was the appropriate term. but as we learn more, it really does feel like that s the best way to describe what we are talking about here. today we got new evidence that supports precisely that. earlier today the new york times first reported not only did donald trump press the justice department to save the rules of the 2020 presidential election were corrupt. there were contemporaneous notes that provist. quote. the exchange unfolded during a phone call ....
how typical this set of charges is. a practical legal matter he could face over a decade in prison and if convicted those are numbers that could get anyone s attention. trump s children are speaking out about the indictment. donald trump jr. posted a 13-minute video on facebook discussing of the intent, tried to defend the company where he works and his family business. some of what he said may have made matters worse. my father after almost 50 years of employment paid for his grand kids private school in the city and their employees. my dad did that because he s a good guy. well, that may not be helpful. he s linking his father and he s providing a testimony and admitting it was trump who personally paid for weisselberg s kids. now, for school i should say. i want to be clear with you, as a logical matter, there is no defense to tax evasion that you did it to help someone. by definition if you evade taxes, extra money, if you give that money to someone else or give ....
members of the president s own party are losing faith in the self-described healer in chief. since april democrats approval rating for the economic agenda plummeted 12 points in the same can be said for just about every other issue, approving for his handling of racial inequality, taxation, immigration, covid, gun violence have all dropped. it looks like they aren t buying biden s bag of excuses for why nearly everything in the country is falling apart. immigration, kamala is taking care of that. high taxes. everybody needs to just pay their fair share. crime? get ready, if the republicans fault. you know. those republican mayors and famously conservative cities like chicago, the g.o.p. stronghold of los angeles and of course deep red new york city. i m sure you remember last summer when thousands of trump supporter s marched to the streets chanting defund the police and black lives matter as the burned local businesses to the ground but it s not just republicans, i ....
wildfire across the northern, the border in northern california. also making headlines the delta variant now to be the most prevalent strain of the coronavirus in the united states the. partial lock downs as cases surge in countries. could it return to mask wearing become a reality as we head into the fall? plus a monumental mistake here in new york city which is raising questions this morning about results in the democratic primary for mayor and the integrity of the process. election officials somehow adding 130,000 nonvalid test ballots to the count. cnn senior political writer and analyst is with us. the question i think for so many people waking thunder morning or last night before they went to bed last night how does this happen? it s a disgrace. i mean, look. you have one job. count the ballots. they had a week after the initial preferences came in. do the rank choice a week after that. look there s nothing wrong with testing your software but you take those ....
that was president joe biden wednesday night calling on congress to raise taxes to pay for an astonishing $6 trillion in new government spending that has been proposed or passed in his first 100 days in office. the president outline aring the third outlining the third part we say night, the $1.8 trillion american families plan which includes universal pre-k, paid family leave and to two years of free community college for all americans, among other things, paid for in part by raising the top income tax rate to the pre-2017 level of 39.6% and nearly doubling taxes on capital gains. let s bring in texas congressman kevin brady. he s the top republican on the tax-writing house ways and means committee. welcome, good to see you. you re one to to one of the architects of the 2017 tax reform, historic piece of legislation. does it look to you like president biden and the democrats are going to try to take a hatchet to that and try to chop it into bits? yeah, they are, p ....