by early january most of the fake elector votes had arrived in washington except those from michigan and wisconsin. undeterred the trump team arranged to fly them to washington and hand deliver them to congress for the vice president himself. quote, freaking trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the senate president, wisconsin republican party official mark jefferson wrote to the party chairman andrew hitt on january 4th. hitt responded, okay, i see a have a call and a text from someone else. the next day trump campaign director for election day operations g. michael brown sent a text message to other campaign staffs suggesting that he was the person who delivered the fake votes to congress. after sending the group a photo of his face with the capitol in the background, brown said, quote, this has got to be the cover of a book i write one day and i should probably buy mike roman a tie or something for sending me on this one. hasn t been done since 1876 a
our nation s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world. the special counsel built his second case against the president. my office will be unrelenting and unstopping. tonight, the story of the first world leader jack smith prosecuted and why there is good reason to think he won t let trump off easy. and then if we nominate a lawless, selfish, failed politician like donald trump who lost the house, the senate, and the white house, we all know joe biden will win again. the republican presidential field swells, as trump s calendar fills up with plus the only people who believe they are above the law are members of the united states supreme court. justice samuel alito s long history of accepting lavish gifts, the titanic submersible lost at sea, and a blistering texas heat that s only going to get worse when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. special counsel jack smith has just turned over the first tran
ayman. coming up, conservative elites want to play by a different se of rules, enter clarence thomas, donald trump and gop megadonor leonard leo honored all seem t think you should be held accountable, but not them. then, the trump trial collidin with the campaign trail, 202 is becoming a referendum among the rule of law and th potential gift to presiden biden. and silencing their critics, tennessee republicans just expelled to democrats of color from the state house over a gu control protest. why are they so threatened b the scent? i am ayman mohyeldin let s get started. summer is just around the corner, and you might be starting to consider som vacation plans, maybe a trip t an amusement park with the kids, or i don t know, maybe a weekend get away, you know just you and your partner, maybe even a trip to the beach with your friends. or if you are a supreme cour justice like clarence thomas you might be planning to jum on a friend s private jet, and spent the weeken
paige, if you get this, please, please call somebody everybody s worried about you. everybody s looking for you. please let us know you re ok paige was a woman with premonition. she said she knew something bad was gonna happen a couple of days she, wa missing. we found out she had this second life. quite obviously it dangerous. she had been playing a risk game that opened up the door t the a multitude of people that we needed to start looking at. he was a scam artist. correct he was a liar, manipulative he had a list of names, and whether or not they would have sex with them. could investigators get their man before he struck again? i turned around and he wa sitting in the dark. and sai i m doing to kill you. it s been years since she vanished but few have forgotte paige, how could they, the story of the young mother disappearance has woven itself in to local lore, as thunder hits, finally a trial. it s a mystery we ve been followin
democrats who led gun safety protests we will take you there and across the country as we loo at what is going on in a state houses from coast to coast the big question, the lawmaker know what their constituents really want? money power politics and the supreme court the investigation into justice clarence thomas secretly accepting luxury trips from major republican donor the 11th hour is getting underway on this thursda night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, we begin in the state of tennessee we are in a stunning act o political retaliation. republican lawmakers expelle two of their democrati colleagues, justin jones and justin pearson they joined in a peacefu protest on gun violence with students jones and are both black a third democratic lawmaker wh is white was up for a vote but was not expelled here saw the tennessee newspaper wrote it up. quote, ten days after a shoote on loaded 152 rounds inside nashville school and killed si people, tennessee