a familiar face at the political act conference in maryland, former president trump makes his pitch to be the republican nominee for the white house again. bakhmut could be on the verge of falling to russian troops but ukrainian forces say they re holding on in the fight to keep the city. over a month since the toxic train derailment in east palestine ohio, another norfolk southern freight train derails in the state live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with laila during crowd greeted former u.s. president donald trump saturday at the conserve in maryland, trump spoke nearly two hours promising retribution against democrats and republicans an scientific strap hold of cpack attendees found 62% want him to be the next republican presidential nominee compared to 20% who want florida governor ron desantis, cnn national correspondent christian holmes is there to at the conference and has this report. former president trump talking to a therapeutic crowd here at cpack
the beat with ari melber starts right now. it is friday. i appreciate you sharing that story and i wish you a great weekend. thank you. and it is friday and one of the fridays with a lot of news. there is even more fallout from the scandal engulfing fox news and rupert murdoch. my colleague chris hayes is here with us his fellow author, one place and one show and stick with us, you ll hear from them by the end of the hour. we begin with the political heat emanating from the cpac gathering in the beltway and it upd scores a dilemma for republicans in realtime. after the midterms where they recoiled from the big lie and the trumpy obsession with the party, and this gathering is televising the out right domination, sometime even self-parity of once fringe figurers in charge. candidates who may run against trump decided to cut and run from even trying to make a cpac appearance leaving to to leaders doubling down on things that turned off many voters in november. the far
taking the fifth amendment would be a fool, an absolute for. tonight, the maga movement to move away from donald trump. then nobody tells me to do anything, i made a decision on my own, and i will have to live with it. george santos kicks himself off committee so that republicans can focus on their agenda of attacking ilhan omar. he just felt like that there was so much drama really over the situation and especially what we re doing to work to remove ilhan omar. plus congresswoman katie porter on today s first big hearing for the maga oversight committee, and he s a congressman accused of plotting a coup who had his phone seized by the fbi. i went to the door, there are three fbi agents, and they want to take my cell phone. tonight, the secret fight to gain access to scott perry s phone, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, we ll begin tonight with a little secret i want to let you in on, ready, here it is. there is no
nobody tells me to do anything, i made a decision on my own, and i will have to live with it. george santos kicks himself off committee so that republicans can focus on their agenda of attacking ilhan omar. he just felt like that there was so much drama really over the situation and especially what we re doing to work to remove ilhan omar. plus congresswoman katie porter on today s first big hearing for the maga oversight committee, and he s a congressman accused of plotting a coup who had his phone seized by the fbi. i went to the door, there are three fbi agents, and they want to take my cell phone. tonight, the secret fight to gain access to scott perry s phone, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, we ll begin tonight with a little secret i want to let you in on, ready, here it is. there is no one in this entire nation, including myself, who wants donald trump to somehow be rendered incapable of wants donald trump to some
house democrats will always put american values over autocracy. benevolence over bigotry, the constitution over the cult. democracy over demagogs. working families over the well connected. yes, we can over, you can t do it, and zealous representation over zero sum confrontation. house democratic leader hakeem jeffries makes it sound as easy as abc. but after 15 tries it s kevin holding the gavel. we re watching the house floor as republicans try to get organized and what kevin s struggles mean for our democracy. also tonight, the nexus of insurrection. steve bannon and the others who cheered on the january 6th attack on the capitol are now exporting that brand of anti-democratic violence to brazil. and that is where we begin tonight. with the notion of contagion. for most of the 20th century and into the 21st, the u.s. considered itself a leading if not the leading exporter of democracy around the world. and while that sometimes involved nefarious acts like overthrowing