All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once in a cent ray pandemic, we got a glimpse of what a full or fuller participation version of our democracy would look like because due to the pandemic, state after state, jurisdiction after jurisdiction, and i should note this is both democratic and republican there were fights over this. But across the board, more or less on the whole in the aggregate, all these places did something praise worthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mail
Aggregate, all these places did something praiseworthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mailin voting and early voting and adding drop boxes for ballots right . Theres Public Health concern. You dont want everyone crowding in on election day so people found ways to just make it easier to vote so you wouldnt have that. And the results are clear. It worked. Turnout was the highest it had been in 120 years. Nearly 67 of eligible voters cast a ballot. And also there was no uniform drubbing of one party by the other. It was not a blowout. It was a competitive election. Yes, joe biden won by a healthy margin. 7 million votes. 70 plus Electoral College votes. But remember republicans gained seats in the house. They want some key senate rates right . Now rather than looking at that outcome and thinking wow, we can be a Competitive Party even in high turnout elections which would have been a totally rational conclusion. Republican
members of the house will be getting back to work this week, but a major priority right now is wrangling with the details of a potential bill to deal with the border, and aid to ukraine. last night president biden reiterated his support for legislation that would give him the authority to shut down the border if it becomes overwhelmed. also last night, donald trump said he would rather have no border deal than a bad one. so had much support is the current legislation garnering in the congress? joining us now is nanette california, she is the chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. welcome to you congressman have you seen any text, legislative text, of this potential border security bill? not a single word. we don t know what s in the details. we only know what is reported, we only know vaguely what the white house shared, but no text at all. there s really no way to say whether it s fantastic in great, as we re hearing some people say, and we don t know how bad it
we began this morning with an update on that traumatic incident with the chinese spy balloon 60,000 feet in the air. eight days after it was first spotted in u.s. airspace, and have 22 raptor shot down the balloon with a single missile yesterday off the carolina coast. the search for degree is now underway. it my touch off a war of words between the u.s. and china. heightening tensions in an already data diplomatic relationship. china expressed its, quote, strong dissatisfaction. they have insisted that the device was a civilian weather balloon. a u.s. senior administration official said in response that they were confident the balloon was, quote, seeking to monitor sensitive military spots. we shift the focus now tuesday state of the union. president biden s first before the new republican house majority. security is being ramped up with plans to install fencing around the u.s. capitol ahead of the primetime address. we don t know too many specifics about what the president
politicsnation. tonight s lead, tipping point. strong winds are blowing in donald trump s world. and then appear this week, that at least one of the investigations are circling trump has reached a critical mass. that of course being new york attorney general tish james s probe of trump illustrate business. lodging at a minimal that trump s old evaluation of his properties constituted a massive decades-long fraud. not denied that defined his organization. of course, the revelations were met mostly with silence from congressional republicans. as a house gop was more concern this week for the unveiling of 2023 agenda ahead of midterm elections in just six weeks. that agenda on surprisingly focused on crime and the border. both issues providing a backdrop for the ongoing drama over the falls relocation of hispanic migrants to liberal cities by red state republicans. one of those cities being the one i am reporting to you from. new york city. and in a few moments, i will talk