Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Spent an entire week at one of his golf course. It should not be that hard to find out whose interest the president is serving if own the congressional leaders would say subpoena his tax returns. More likely to support a candidate who promises to be a check on the president. Fresh off another round of encouraging Election Results on tuesday, democrats have a message of their own, they are in the words of nancy pelosi clean up corruption. What does that mean . Cleaning up corruption. How do you do it . We have to make sure that we can get big money out of politics. What we have seen is dark money
risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. It is not a matter it is a matter of timing. That sounds like they support in impeaching Rod Rosenstein but not doing it now. The plot which is to go after Rod Rosenstein but allow the senate to jam the Supreme Court justice. Do that work and then return after the midterm elections to try to jam up Rod Rosenstein.
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Legislation that this congress has been pushing forward. The biggest example of it was the corrupt gop tax scam where 83 of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 . This was not done for the people. Thats what we stand for as democrats. It was done for the lobbyist, the wealthiest, the billionaires. This is corruption happening in plain sight. I would not disagree that is corrupt. But that is every day corruption. That is a system that is shot through with corruption. I dont want to minimize that. We are talking about specific corruption in that this president has a whole host of corrupt relationships to his business and things like that. That my question would, what would they do if they got the majority they are lying, cheating, stealing and doing it with impunity. And the reason is this congress has refused to do constitutional oversight responsibilities. The House Of Representatives doesnt work for donald trump. We work for the American Peopl
when representative clyde talked about a normal tourist visit, that tells people, well, this wasn t that bad. in repetition, people sometimes find facts. they think that because it s been repeated, that s the truth. the simple fact is that this was an insurrection meant to overturn the election. it was not a riot. it was not a protest that got out of hand. it wasn t the actions of like, you know, a drunken frat party. this was an insurrection. you was going to say i went so far as saying it s an act of terrorism given the fact this it had a political objective. illegal use of violence. we will talk about that later in the program in light of ted cruz s comments. hunter, your thoughts for a moment. you were inside the capitol on january 6th. what was your experience like marking this first anniversary? how do you recall the events of that day? so i wasn t inside the capitol that day. i started the morning with
as a given. the resilience of our democracy. trump s attempted coup didn t succeed, but that wasn t because of the inherent strength of our political system. it was because a select few number of people decided to do what was right. on thursday, president biden addressed those patriots during his speech while pointing the blame for the insurrection directly on trump. even before the first ballot was cast, the former president was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results. he built his lie over months. it wasn t based on any facts. he was just looking for an excuse, a pretext to cover for the truth. he is not just a former president. he is a defeated former president. yeah, president trump was in fact defeated. but the truth is that trumpism is still alive and well. in fact, trump s big lie has now
explain the message behind president biden s striking words on january 6th. and comparing our former president who actively spread misinformation about a global pandemic and our current one as he takes on an omicron surge nearly two years later. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. so on this day one year ago, january 8th, donald trump was permanently banned from twitter. the social media site at the time said trump s personal account was suspended, quote, due to the risk of further incitement of violence because two days earlier on january 6th, 2021, the former president s supporters stormed the united states capitol. but for many of those supporters that wasn t the first stop of the day. just hours before rioters breached the capitol then-president trump held a save