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rights in georgia and beyond, win all in starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. as we learn more about how bad january 6th was, i am stopped by the persistent suspicion that the party leadership, with some notable exceptions, would you do it all again. they would all support donald trump, all his anti-democratic intentions, his aspirations to be, basically, a fascist authoritarian. and even if he had gotten worse i mean, we got really lucky on january 6th. it could have been a lot worse. even with the mob chanting hang mike pence had made it to mike pence, they would do it again, even if that happened. i think that very strongly. and that s because they made a trade early on. it was a transaction between them and trump. the trade was, they would blindly support donald trump with all of the dangerous an obvious flaws and all the danger that he would put people in, which he did, of course, in order to have a shot at the super majority on the s ....
specifically. and on the future of the court, and newest member, st ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scamming its own donors? i just have to read you the lead from the new york times, the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacy blatt was in hospice care in september 2020 listening to rush limbaugh s dire warnings about how badly donald trump s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could. $500. it was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in kansas city. on less than $1,000 a month but that single contribution quickly multiplied. another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week, and every week through mid october, without his knowledge. until mr. blatt s bank account had been depleted and frozen. when his utility and rent payments bounced he called his brother russell for help but the blatts soon discovered, $3,000 in withdrawals by th ....
Nation s 116th justice and the first black woman ever to serve often the high supreme court. her husband held two bibles on which she swore, a family bible and the court s bible. a former federal appeals court judge and public defender, jackson replaced stephen breyer who stepped down after nearly three decades on the bench, justice breyer hired ketanji brown jackson as a clerk in 1979 making it a full circle moment when he administered the judicial oath to her today. a formal moment will occur in the fall. taking the oath allows her to begin judicial duties. she arivs on the bench in the wake of several hugely polarizing decisions issued by the court on abortion, gun rights and today s ruling limiting the epa s authority to fight climate change. much more on that ruling ....