good evening from new york. welcome back to all in. i m chris hayes. in four days the republican majority will be sworn in, and that includes george santos, the freshman congressman-elect from new york, a man who flipped a democratic seat in a biden plus eight district and has subsequently been caught fabricating much of his resume. from his past claims of jewish heritage to his job history, education, reporters are now scrutinizing everything about santos, understandably. especially his apparent sudden wealth. how he went from earning $55,000 in 2020 to loaning his campaign over $700,000 just two years later. and how he spent that campaign money. new york times reporting today that santos spent an unusually high amount on hotels and trips across the country especially for a candidate relatively new to politics. $30,000 on hotels, $40,000 on air fare, $14,000 on car services. government affairs lobbyists telling the times, quote, usually a congressional candidates tries s
that january six committee today released dozen more transcripts from its interviews with witnesses. these interviews are revealing even more about what went on in the days leading up to the deadly capitol attack, including in this latest batch of transcripts are depositions from ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, trump aide and longtime secret service official tony ornato, trump s son-in-law and senior aide jared kushner, and rudy giuliani, who led the ridiculously attempt to overturn the 2020 election. ginni thomas told the committee she never spoke with her husband about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election. she did confirm, though, that the supreme court justice is the best friend that she referenced in her text today than trump chief of staff mark meadows. and she told investigators she regretted texting trump s chief of staff meadows, about you know, having a coup. tony ornato told the panel the first time here the story about trump
welcome back to all in, i m chris hayes. in just four days, the new republican authority will be sworn into the house of representatives, that includes george santos. the freshman-elect from new york, the man who flipped the democratic seat in a biden district. and essentially has been fabricating his resume. he s currently under vessel gagen by federal prosecutors for his background and finances. from his past reporters are now scrutinizing everything about santos, understandably. especially his apparent southern while. how he went from earning $55,000 in 2020, to loading his campaign over $700,000 just two years later. and how he spent that campaign money. the new york times reporting today that he spends a unusually high amount on hotels, trips across the country. especially someone is relatively new to politics. $3,000 on hotels, $4,000 on air fare, government lobbyists republican citizen says usually a congressional candidate will try to spend as little as possible o
ruhle. the january six committee released dozens of more transcripts from its interviews with witnesses. these interviews are revealing even more about what went on in the days leading up to the deadly capitol attack. including the latest batch of transcripts, we ve got the latest from ginni thomas s wife, of supreme court justice clarence thomas. trump aide, and longtime correspondent, and jared kushner, and rudy giuliani that read the ridiculous to overturn the 2020 election. she told the committee that she never spoke with her husband about any of the challenges to the 2020 election, and she did confirm though, that the supreme court justice is the best friend that she references in her tax. terror then chief of staff mark meadows. and she told investigators that she regretted check texting, the chief of staff about having a coup. tony told the panel, the first time he heard the story about trump s fight with a secret service agent going to pass the law. with from cassid
john: reversal from the manhattan district attorney s office, good tuesday afternoon to you and you as well. gillian: nice to see you on this happy tuesday. i m gillian turner, who is out on assignment. new york city bodega worker charged with murder is now off the hook after fending him off in his store. hi, alexis. the nation has been closely watching and waiting for the decision. manhattan d.a. office says after reviewing the surveillance video and interviewing witnesses and the people who called 911 they will not present the case to a grand jury. in the motion filed here, the manhattan d.a. office says the people have determined we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of deadly physical force. this case, we had an innocent, hard working new yorker that was doing his job and someone was extremely aggressive towards him and i believe after the d.a. review, made the right decision. that was mayor eric adams commen