in a lifeless book, that h wrote titled so help me god. mike pence appears to have tol his story to other authors like possibly bob woodward, an robert costa as an unnamed source for their books about the final days of the trum white house. and now mike pence will testif under oath to jack smith s grand jury about every singl word that donald trump said to him when he was trying to ge vice president mike pence to break the law and overturn the presidential election on january 6th. if those conversations wit mike pence or evidence tha donald trump committed a crime mike pence could be the star witness, the michael cohen i the case of donald j trump united states of america versu donald j trump if donald trump is charged b jack smith s grand jury with crimes leading up to and o january 6th. mike pence s refusal to appeal that he must testify, is a indication of just how muc mike pence himself might not have believed the absurdis grounds of which he wa claiming that he did not h
defendant trump in photos that will live in infamy. the first american president to be charged with a crime. defendant donald j. trump, is seen here surrounded by his legal team a photo trump most certainly did not want you to see. it s nothing short of a remarkable image of the new reality for the man who raged in all caps on social media ahead of his day in court before surrendering for arrest and processing in manhattan criminal court. trump was uncharacteristically grim and silent, ignoring questions from reporters before pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. the now unsealed indictment lays out the 34 counts. in the form of numerous entries made with, quote, intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof the indictment isn t explicit about the other crimes trump tried to conceal but it s laid out clearly in the prosecutor statement of fact as a scheme involving trump a
judge aileen canon. we would love to talk with you more about it but we have to leave it there tonight. thanks for your time. and try. that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word. good evening, katie. alex, listen, we just got some crazy news. you know how everyone has been saying how 500 people had gotten notices to appear on monday for donald trump s first criminal trial ? nbc news getting source reporting that 6000 jurors will be subpoenaed next week for manhattan criminal court. more than 1500 for monday. this is not just for trumps trial but because a lot of people don t report for jury duty, they are saying they think 500 will appear on any given day. think about that. casting a wide net in this city of ours, katie, or mine. you are a welcome addition. is going to be an interesting process, which we will be covering in detail next week. thanks, alex, i appreciate everything. donald trump s last ditch effort to avoid accountability, denied.
coming up next, a conference on the end of the civil war. historians discussed the postwar political and cultural environment in the north. the virginia secretary organized this event. our topic is the union cause in the war and in the framework of how americans remembered it from the wartime generation and later. everybody is awake. matt, john, and joan are our panel this time around. the first question i want us to talk about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. about is what union meant to the loyal citizenry during the war. to begin, i would like all of you to discuss what loyal mea nt within the context of the u.s. effort during the war. joan: i will start. one of the members of the audience came up to me and asked me to make sure there were more jokes in the session. [laughter] i will try. i think at a very basic level, i think these concepts are very tied together, union loyalty and sacrifice, patriotism, nationalism. it meant loyalty or cou
time. [laughing] just getting. i would not do that to you. i m really so thrilled to be in this conversation with you, chris, and to bring your stellar stellar book, yazidis audits your to the brooklyn book festival, book this will also to the use of the live stream at home. i think anybody knows who chris hayes is everybody knows that he is the editor at large of the nation magazine. he is on our television screens and on our social media feeds, seems nearly constantly as he broke on to the scene, when was it? winded when did i break? 2011. which was really when thoughtful policy discourse joined cable news and usually been able to bring that to his nightly new show at 8 p.m., all in. chris also a new york times best-selling book twilight of the elites, america after a meritocracy. and then this spring release this book, a colony in a nation. so let s get started. chris, why did you write this book? who did you want to read it and what did you want them to feel w