surrenders to law enforcement as we get still more disturbing reporting on donald trump s obsessive plot to overturn the election. then alex jones must pay the families of sandy hook victims. tonight the attorney who won today s massive defamation suit joins me live. plus you lose the right to self-defense when you are the one who brought the gun. what we learned today as the murder trial of kyle rittenhouse nears conclusion and joe biden throws a party at the white house as infrastructure week finally arrives. today we re finally getting this done. reporter: when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. we have a ton of new developments today in the story of the attempted coup. the effort at the very highest levels of the u.s. government to throw out the results of last november s free and fair election and install the loser donald trump into power. today one of the most prominent coup plotters former top trump adviser steve banno
recall, in the second impeachment trial, went on the attack. this is gonna be the misdemeanor from hell, for merrick garland, nancy pelosi, and joe biden. joe biden ordered merrick garland to prosecute me from the white house. if the administrative state wants to take me on, bring it. we re here to fight this. you stand by you see how we re gonna go on outfits. it is outrageous it was instructed to by his attorney not to show up to congress. this has to follow s attorneys love vice, in my view at least. maggie haberman of the new york times posted tonight that trump had asked his form an impeachment lawyer to take bannon s case. there was a big lie in what bannon just said there, and indeed tonight, the white house denied that biden had destructed the justice department to prosecute him. the decision to bring these charges against mr. bannon was made exclusively by the justice department, the president had nothing to do with it. we are an independent justice depar
the effort at the various highest levels of the u.s. government to throw out the results of last november s free and fair election. and install the loser donald trump in power, today one of the most prominent coup plotters, former top trump advisor steve bannon. who was indicted on criminal charges last, week over his refusal to cooperate with the house committee investigating the insurrection, bannon was in court, he now faces two charges of contempt. which could each result and a hefty fines, from prison time, because he refuses to tell the committee, or turn over documents to the, committee about what he knew about the attempt to violently overthrow the government. true to form, however bannon remains defiant. if the administrative state, wants to take me on, bring it. we are here to fight, this and we will go on offense. you standby, you see how it will go on offense. nancy pelosi, mayor garland, joe biden, the whole. that s just, steve bannon, he was like that when h
i m boris sanchez. jake tapper is in tel aviv and we re following the latest out of israel where talks are continuing to free a large number of the more than 200 people being held hostage by hamas. this as one of two israeli hosta hostages released yesterday is now speaking out about her harrowing experience. i went through hell that i could not have known. i was kidnapped on a motorbike on my side while they were driving towards gaza. as we got there, the people told us that they are people who believe in the koran and they will not harm us and we will get the same conditions they get in the tunnels. we begin walking inside the tunnels with the wet ground. there were guards and a paramedic and a doctor who took care of the fact we would have the same medicine that we need. there, we laid on mattresses. they took care of the sanitary side so we won t get sick and we had a doctor who came to see us every two to three days. as israeli troops gear up to launch a possible gro
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the times, by the way, standing by her hire saying they understood her twitter past and understand it for what it was. we had candid conversations with sarah as part of the thorough vetting process which included a review of her social media history. she understands this rhetoric is not acceptable at the times and we are confident she will be an important voice for the editorial board moving forward. interestingly, the fact that the times already knew about her tweets is significant due to another hire in february, quinn norton. when some of miss norton s old tweets surfaced which included racial slurs and an internet troll which works for a neo-nazi website she ended stepping down that same day. in that case, it had not been aware of her tweets before it hired her. we reached out to miss jeong, but we were told she was unavailable. go to smerconish.com