santos. that is a new development, and a significant one, and that s worth watching in the days ahead. that s gonna do it for us, that s time for the last word with ali velshi. good evening ali,. that evening, my friend. i appreciate you reminding us about medusa, in the early days the, war your team really relied on medusa, to get the best reporting we can, get from people understand what s going on russia. these are the little pockets of resistance around which people cling. they come to, them out of medusa can stay alive, a number of russians who are going where this war, they don t really understand why they re in it in the first place, they re feeling the economic effects of it. they got to go and get good information from places like medusa. so i think it s important we draw tension to them, and i m grateful for it. thank you for saying, so and it also said that the russian diaspora israel thing, and be unable to get russian language, real news, independent news
money payments to stormy daniels. remember that? now, that could come back to haunt him. his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, says trump can t hide from the paper trail. calling the new grand jury convened by the manhattan d.a. his biggest legal threat yet. and there are many. meanwhile, the former president is suing journalist bob woodward for $50 million. we ll explain what that is all about. plus, more fallout and firings in the aftermath of tyre nichols death. we ll go live to memphis for the latest in that case. for the second time in three years, lawmakers on capitol hill are talking about police reform following a high-profile murder case involving officers. we ll look at whether these discussions have a real chance at being successful. and president joe biden announces a major policy shift on covid in response to strong opposition from house republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 31st. joe will be back tomorrow.
good evening from new york. welcome back to all in. i m chris hayes. in four days the republican majority will be sworn in, and that includes george santos, the freshman congressman-elect from new york, a man who flipped a democratic seat in a biden plus eight district and has subsequently been caught fabricating much of his resume. from his past claims of jewish heritage to his job history, education, reporters are now scrutinizing everything about santos, understandably. especially his apparent sudden wealth. how he went from earning $55,000 in 2020 to loaning his campaign over $700,000 just two years later. and how he spent that campaign money. new york times reporting today that santos spent an unusually high amount on hotels and trips across the country especially for a candidate relatively new to politics. $30,000 on hotels, $40,000 on air fare, $14,000 on car services. government affairs lobbyists telling the times, quote, usually a congressional candidates tries s
here on in. because we discovered from sister andré, 118 years old, and none in france who has just left us at age 118. that her key, her key to life, in addition to prayer, has been wine and chocolate. listen, lawrence, i ve been saying that to myself every day for approximately 30 years. and i am glad to know that i am on the right track. although living 218, given the current state of affairs in this world is terrifying. but maybe with enough wine and enough chocolate i can make it. i am just doing the chocolate part. i don t know what that gets me. i will take the wine. hundred and one, does it get me? i think 107. i think 100 and. seven we look forward to that year. whatever i can get with just the chocolate that is what i hope for. we wanted all for you, lawrence. thank you, alex. have a great show. thank you. well, a federal judge in washington d.c. has found donald trump guilty by implication of inciting the insurrection on january 6th and leadi
pele was 82 years old. and that s tonight s read out. all in with chris hayes starts right now. l in with chris hayes starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. one week after its release, we are still digesting the final report from the january six committee. in almost 900 pages before appendix. later this week, we examined one particularly pernicious aspect of donald trump s attempt to stay in power as outlined in chapter five of the report, titled, search of the legal theory. that chapter details the lengths to which donald trump, as the lawyer of john eastman, knowingly pushed and illegal scheme to have done vice president, mike pence, unilaterally throw out joe biden s victory and hand the presidency to trump. yesterday, we spoke to committee member, jimmy raskin, of maryland about the criminal referrals the committee made against trump, some of his closest allies, and why he thinks trump is likely to go to prison for his attempted coup. and while