critics. actions we have taken thus far will not be our last. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. and tonight, on the eve of that violent day, there is still one major lingering question from donald trump s attempted coup. well, there are many, but this is the one i keep coming back to. we know now, it s quite established, after a year of reporting, that the former president and a small group of allies were deadly serious about overthrowing the results of a free and fair election. and we know that most of their schemes were both at once dangerous and absurd. there s still one remaining question, which is how close were they to succeeding? and this has been the subject of quite some debate. and contrary to some folks out there, sknr and i read a lot along these lines that the whole thing was preposterous, doomed to fail from the beginning. after the ridiculous lawsuits
today of course is january 5th. a year ago today, in the great state of georgia, georgia voters elected two new u.s. senators, democrat jon ossoff and democrat raphael warnock. there were runoff elections for both of georgia s u.s. senate seats one year ago today and the democrats won both of those races. now, georgia electing two democrats to their two u.s. senate seats, that s how we got senate majority leader chuck schumer. that s what flipped control of the u.s. senate from republican control to democratic control. that s what made it possible for the biden administration in its first year to enact all the legislation they ve passed in the past year including covid relief and the big infrastructure bill and all the rest of it, not to mention confirming president biden s cabinet, confirming judges, all of it. all of that made possible by what happened a year ago today when those senate elections happened. that said, it wouldn t be until a year ago tomorrow, it wouldn t be
reporting, that the former president and a small group of allies were deadly serious about overthrowing the results of a free and fair election. and we know that most of their schemes were both at once dangerous and absurd. there is still one remaining question which is how close were they to succeeding? and this is been the subject of quite some debate. contrary to some folks out there, and i ve read a lot along these lines, who argue that the whole thing was preposterous. doomed to fail from the beginning. there was also, it s the intimidation tactics against global officials, donald trump and his allies settled on a brazen anti-democratic strategy that the rest of unjust in one person. and here s the thing. it could ve worked. what they wanted, but they settled on was for vice president mike pence to essentially throw out the electors in case states over entirely fabricated bogus claims of fraud and irregularity. but how done that, it cannot be overstated how dangerous and
the danger of political despair and john podesta on joe biden s battle against rising gas prices. it will take time but you should see the price of gas drop when you fill up your tank. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. you know, this week we mark 58 years since the assassination of president john f. kennedy. as his motorcade drove through dealey plaza in dallas, texas. yesterday this was the scene. a small crowd gathered. this red pickup truck drove in circles, proclaiming trump won 2020, along with a bunch of qanon slogans. now, we ve mentioned this group before. it s a small group. they re a splinter faction from the fringes of the far-right qanon movement. three weeks ago hundreds of members of this cult, for lack of a better word, assembled at dealey plaza awaiting the return of john f. kennedy and his son, jfk jr. who died in a plane crash tragically in 1999. they believe the kennedys are not actually dead and will reveal
america. from backed up ports to flights on planes, america s search for a new post-pandemic normal. all that and the washington football team cheer leaders still seeking justice in the wake of jon gruden s firing. it s high time that this was exposed and that the nfl takes action. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, just hours ago the january 6th select committee issued a brand new subpoena. this one for trump justice department official jeffrey clark. we ve talked about clark before on this program. he is a key figure. clark is a lifelong republican lawyer. nothing particularly remarkable about his career. he became the acting assistant attorney general for the doj s civil division, which is a very big job at the very end of donald trump s term. that was when a lot of people were fleeing, right. once trump lost the election, jeffrey clark became one of the leading voices, if not the leading voice pushing the justice department to pl