inside with jen psaki starts now. good evening. chris hayes has a well deserved night off. this is a special edition of inside with jen psaki. the biggest danger to the world in 2024 is donald trump. not more, not a pandemic, not climate change, the former president and leading republican candidate. he s the biggest danger. and i ll don t take my word from it, i ve said versions of this before. that s according to the economist. in recent days, the former president elevated a call to addressed a judge and the prosecutor in his new york fraud case. in a mental institution, it compared his political opponents to, quote, vermin. what is really frightening is that his language is clearly intentional. on saturday afternoon, donald trump posted this veterans day message, pledging to, quote, root out the communists, marxist, facets, and radical left dogs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. that was a post, a written post. he then repeated that fascist rheto
the new speaker, mike johnson, in an october prayer call, says american culture is dark and depraved. the same mike johnson who played a key role in the depraved effort to overturn the 2020 election. also tonight, the judge in trump s new york fraud trial issues a ruling about trump s request for a mistrial, using words like nonsensical, red herring, and bad faith. and what awfulness does the extremist moms for liberty have in store for us next, following their huge losses across the country on election night? but we begin tonight nearly three years since an army of maga extremists laid siege to the u.s. capitol at the direction of donald trump. in a final attempt to hold on to his seat of power. since then, we have learned a lot about the confluence of events leading up to that day and what occurred on the day itself. but one aspect that continues to be shrouded in some mystery was trump s bizarre efforts to get to the capitol and join the very people he unleashed on