Welcome to The Beat the weekend, lets get to the headlines. Busy week in politics comes to a close, three weeks since the news broke that Kamala Harris was entering the president ial race when Joe Biden exited, driving headlines that shifted from the democratic Panic And Infighting to sheer party exuberance. Her campaign achieving a lot these past three weeks, reshaping the race in contrast between the familiar and unpopular Donald Trump, who often looks like he is doing political equivalent of Airing Reruns from seasons past. Contrast between that and this newer face for many voters, especially the nonnews junkies, Kamala Harris. Even though the reruns seem lower energy, he is holding fewer rallies in previous campaigns, less than half the rallies he did in the summer of 16. Democrats are all in on the race with harris with the donations and manes and big crowds, trump seems stuck in the matchup that is over, fixating on the history of his duel with biden. He addressed Reporters Yeste
Committee is chastising Kevin Mccarthy as their requests for evidence begin to come in. Plus, is Colorado Redistricting about to pit congressman Joe Neguse against republican Lauren Boebert . Ill ask Congressman Neguse about his chances tonight. And as School Starts around the country, the key tool on top of vaccine asks masking that could keep kids and their families safe. When All In starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im chris hayes. The first big highstakes political test of the biden era and the posttrump era is happening one week from today. Its the Recall Election of californias democratic governor, gavin newsom. Now, rightwing forces have come together to try to remove newsom, and the person currently best positioned to replace him if the recall is successful is a man by the name of Larry Elder. Weve talked about him on the show. Hes a far right Talk Radio Host. Been one for years. No governing experience. He opposes Abortion Rights and the minimum wage. Recently told
The Disaster Declaration. Thats something that some local state officials had really been hoping for. Were also live in texas, the state where two controversies are colliding over restrictions on voting and abortion. In just two hours from now, the governor is expected to sign into law a plan opponents say would strip Voting Rights away from a lot of people, even with no evidence of widespread fraud in 2020. The law will ban Drivethrough And 24hour voting, requires i. D. For Mailin Voting and adds criminal penalties for election workers. We take you to the state live. Plus in washington, the Attorney General taking aim at a different new law in texas, one that bans most abortions. He says the Justice Department is urgently looking at ways to challenge that law. We want to start in the northeast here at the White House and in New Jersey. President biden just heading to the region as we mentioned, he talked with reporters. Shannon pettypiece is with us and rehema el pice. He talked about
Plus, the new spy games. A warning from the fbi about where china and russia are looking to recruit new spies in the united states. Welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. And we start today with our world lead. President biden addressing the crisis in afghanistan this afternoon admitting that he does not know how many americans are left in the country or where they are located, but pledging to use every available resource to get not only u. S. Citizens but afghan allies out of afghanistan in what would be one of the biggest airlifts in world history. Any american who wants to come home, we will get you home. I cannot promise what the final outcome will be or what it will be or that it will be without risk of loss. But as commander in chief i can assure you i will mobilize every resource necessary. The pentagon says that evacuation flights have now resumed in kabul after being paused for around eight hours today. That s because the biden administration was scrambling to try to find other
Tried to pressure the justice department in the days after the election. Asking the department of justice to investigate fake claims of voter fraud, which would help delegitimize joe biden s victory. But until tonight, we did not know how extensive donald trump s efforts were. According to the washington post, president donald trump called his actingattorney general nearlyevery day, at the end of last year, to alert him to claims of voter fraud or allegedimproper vote counts in the 2020 election. End quote. In those calls, the post report that donald trump raised various allegations of voter fraud that he had heard about. And asked what the justice department was doing about it. Here is the kicker. These calls did not just stay phone calls. There is a paper trail. Quote, attorney general rosen told few people about the phone calls, even in his inner circle. But there are notes of some of the calls, that were written by a top aide to rosen named richard donoghue, who was present for som