plus, she was one of five people who died during the insurrection. tonight roseanne boylan s six-month descent into conspiracy theories and how she became an american radical. and new reporting on the number of people potentially exposed to covid during trump s deception and some really important news about why you need a booster shot, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a big development today in donald trump s ongoing quest to turn the republican party into a vehicle for his own authoritarian aspirations. of course, the former president continues to exert this power over the republican party with a litmus test he created for republican politicians after his ignominious defeat. and the question, the single question they must answer is did they support his attempted coup? and would they support a coup in the future? and if the answer is no to either question, they re in trouble. we re seeing this again today. now donald trump has set
signed a document acknowledging that the ussr, the union of soviet socialist republics was coming to an end. the baltic states had been first to bale out of the soviet union but by the end of 1991, 30 years ago, all the constituent parts of the ussr had been fighting for or declaring their status as independent nations and it was a landmark moment 30 years ago this week when russia, itself, acknowledged the game was up. the leader of the ussr mikhail gorbachev realized basically he would have to agree. and before the end of that month, on christmas night, december 25th, 1991, mikhail gorbachev stepped down as head of the soviet union. the hammer and sickle flag of the ussr was brought down at the kremlin. the three color flag of the russian federation was raised in its place. and on christmas 30 years ago christmas, 1991, boris yeltsin became president of the russian federation. he served as president for eight years almost exactly from christmas 1991 until new year s eve, 19
the president continues to exert this power over the republican power with the litmus test he created for republican politicians after his defeat. the question, the single question they must answer, did they support an attempted coup and would they support a coup in the future? if the answer is no to other question, they are in trouble. we are seeing this again today. donald trump has set his sights with complete focus on this question above all other issues. you remember now trump s legendary bullying of georgia s secretary of state raffensperger, trump called him in early january asking him to just find 11,000 votes to turn the race in georgia. i just want to find 11, 000, 700 nadine votes. which is one more than we have, because we won the state. i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break as we all know, raffensperger refused to participate in the coup not even clear what he could do if he wanted to. but he refused to find 11,000 votes so roet
Information. and that is for safety. and for understandable reason. but in this case, mark meadows claims that he told them until the necessary people, treat the president as if he has covid but in fact when we went back and reported that was simply not the case. we talked to a number of officials who said that they were not alerted. the vice president pence put out the first statement that in the subsequent days he was not told. and even someone who flew with president trump on marine one, after it was known that he had coronavirus. so even if you believe that was a false positive for trump, we now know that he has been exposed with someone who has the virus. they were not told by the mask -less trump that he had it. ashley parker, thank you so much, that is all in on this monday night. rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. good evening chris, much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us, happy to have you here on this monday night. 30 years ago this
First day and on subsequent days he was never told. he continued to interact with the president. even someone who flew with president trump on marine one after it was known that even if you believe it was a false positive for trump you now know he has been exposed regularly to someone who came down with the virus. they were not told before they got on marine one with a maskless trump that he had it. ashley parker, great reporting. thank you so much. that is all in on this monday night and the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening chris, much appreciated. happy to have you with us here on this monday night. 30 years ago this week the other super power in the world besides the united states breathed its last breath as a nation. 30 years ago this week the leaders of what was then russia not an independent country but russia part of ussr, the leaders of russia and ukraine and belarus met in belarus and