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Seen with roger stone one day before the insurrection. "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. what do you do with a person who abuses their position of authority? elemental question. in the history of human government and human affairs, a question our country has been confronting persistently since long before donald trump but even more consistent since then. today as we look at the scope of the abuse of power that occurred under the former president, we are seein...

Watch this exchange from thewa early days of the administration. adam schefter came on the show and we asked a simple fact based question about what we know and what we dont know. it was, we certainly russian government hacked his gmail account? heres how he responded. >> look in the camera and say i know for a fact that the government of vladimir putin was behind the hacks. >> the government was behind the hacks of her to mike or institution. also in europe. >> tucker: look and say i know they ...

Murder of this journalist. >> so theres no such thing as definitive proof in the intelligence community. they dont talk about slam dunks any more. they talk about high confidence. that said, before taking consequential foreign policy actions, of course we want to actually be sure. the issue here is not that trump doesnt have enough evidence, though. it appears that his administration is not even seeking out the facts. secretary of state mike pompeo, who went to riyadh and istanbul, has said that...

Stuff, because that goes on his permanent record, and its very possible a whole lot of attention is about to be laid on mike pence. >> exactly. and this notion that he was just repeatedly kept in the dark on these extremely sensitive matters around the national security adviser is kind of absurd. i mean ive spoken to people in pences circle. thats the message they are puing. look, he didnt know about this. the white house is still saying that trump wasnt informed about this flynn turk iish lobby...

That trump wasnt informed about this flynn turk iish lobbying deal but how many times can pence go out there and make statements that turn out later not to be true or to be very dubious and just get a pass on oh, well maybe he wasnt told about it? something is not ringing true there. >> ali, to a more elemental question, we asked this on the broadcast last night and probably the night before, what is it about trump and flynn? what is it? >> we are not even two years into this relationship which ...

There is a basic elemental question on whether americans think the federal governments footprint has expanded too much. and it goes -- it goes back to these hhs policies. >> sure. >> and do you want the federal government to be telling religious institutions what they have to do? what you have to compel them to do? and this is a good example of something thats not left or right. i guarantee you, there are a lot of progressives in the catholic church that say im pro choice, but i dont want the fe...