chris hayes starts now. tonight on all in. the presidents actions and words on january 6th were reckless. the special counsel wants to get mike pence under oath. i would hope that they would not bring charges against the former president. tonight, what we know about the subpoena for the vice president and what it means for the january 6th investigation. then i read your opening statement isn t actually an excerpt from your book. is that right? well, it covers some of the same territory, yes. next time make sure you give us a heads up and we can set up a table for you to have a book signing after this. from witnesses pushing books to cable pundits pretending to be twitter experts have you ever work for twitter? now. you have any formal relationship with the company? now. i just have an account. a surreal scene in today s first mega hearing on weaponization. if weaponization of the department justice has any meaning this is yet. all in starts
former president. tonight, what we know about the subpoena for the vice president and what it means for the january 6th investigation. then i read your opening statement is actually an excerpt from your book. is that right? well, it covers some of the same territory, yes. next time make sure you give us a heads up and we can set up a table for you to have a book signing after this. from witnesses pushing books to cable pundits pretending to be twitter experts have you ever worked for twitter? no. do you have any formal relationship with the company? no. i just have an account. a surreal scene in today s first maga hearing on weaponization. if weaponization of the department of justice has any meaning, this is it. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. big news tonight. the grand jury investigation into the january 6th insurrection has crossed a remarkable threshold. former trump vice president mike pence has been subp
president presidential records from the archivists. former president trump asserted executive privilege, current president biden said i m not gonna asserted, in this case went through the courts. the lower courts held that president trump s assertion of executive privilege would not be maintained in the face of that but justice kavanaugh in and the supreme court declined to intervene, they didn t take the case up, but justice kavanaugh left the door open that a former president could assert privilege. he said it might be a dummy executive privilege is about protecting the communications between the president and his highest aids so that they can speak to him with candor, without worrying about those communications becoming public. and what justice kavanaugh said, and what has been said in other cases, is that that need for candor can extend even beyond the presidency. however, it might be reduced and even when there is a
executive privilege is about protecting the communications between the president and his highest aids so that they can speak to him with candor, without worrying about those communications becoming public. and what justice kavanaugh said, and what has been said in other cases, is that that need for candor can extend even beyond the presidency. however, it might be reduced and even when there is a sitting president, such as the case of president nixon back during the watergate scandal, even when there s a sitting president who asserts executive privilege in a criminal investigation, that can yield tua demonstrated specific need. and that s where we re talking about, even if we apply that standard. i think jack smith probably has the better of the argument here, at least for some aspects of the former vice president s