taking the fifth amendment would be a fool, an absolute for. tonight, the maga movement to move away from donald trump. then nobody tells me to do anything, i made a decision on my own, and i will have to live with it. george santos kicks himself off committee so that republicans can focus on their agenda of attacking ilhan omar. he just felt like that there was so much drama really over the situation and especially what we re doing to work to remove ilhan omar. plus congresswoman katie porter on today s first big hearing for the maga oversight committee, and he s a congressman accused of plotting a coup who had his phone seized by the fbi. i went to the door, there are three fbi agents, and they want to take my cell phone. tonight, the secret fight to gain access to scott perry s phone, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, we ll begin tonight with a little secret i want to let you in on, ready, here it is. there is no
nobody tells me to do anything, i made a decision on my own, and i will have to live with it. george santos kicks himself off committee so that republicans can focus on their agenda of attacking ilhan omar. he just felt like that there was so much drama really over the situation and especially what we re doing to work to remove ilhan omar. plus congresswoman katie porter on today s first big hearing for the maga oversight committee, and he s a congressman accused of plotting a coup who had his phone seized by the fbi. i went to the door, there are three fbi agents, and they want to take my cell phone. tonight, the secret fight to gain access to scott perry s phone, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, we ll begin tonight with a little secret i want to let you in on, ready, here it is. there is no one in this entire nation, including myself, who wants donald trump to somehow be rendered incapable of wants donald trump to some
brick in the wall confirming that the big lie is indeed baseless. from washington post, quote, u.s. postal service investigators found no evidence to support a pennsylvania postal worker s claim that his supervisors had tampered with mail in ballots according to an inspector general s report. allegations cited by top republicans to press baseless clams of fraud in the presidential election. richard hopkins alleged he heard the local postmaster general. he revised the initial claims eventually stated he had not heard a conversation about ballots at all. rather he saw the postmaster and supervisor having a discussion and assumed it was about fraudulent ballot back dating. the new report states. even though the dubious claim was recanted the damage was done. it became a case study in what trump and trumpism can do with a lie. trump referred to hop conditions as a quote brave patriot. senator graham cited the false claim from hopkins in a letter to the jd demanding a federal in
insurance programs have been at risk for fraud for over 20 years. they had fraud problems under republican presidents, including donald trump, under democratic presidents, blue states, red states, it s a structural systematic problem. republicans are gonna give me a chance to talk about that tomorrow and talk about the prevent fraud and protect taxpayers, that s a chance i will take. i want to play something that one of your colleagues met gaetz said to my colleague last night about the deal that was struck between kevin mccarthy ultimately that allowed him to become speaker after the seemingly interminable week of multiple votes and confirming that there was a deal, essentially a secret deal, some are in town, some seen by some folks, take a listen. point blank, congressman, have you your staff seen this additional agreement in writing in any form? yeah, it took multiple forms. there was specifically a side-by-side sheet where we made offers to mccarthy, some offer see excepted,
i guess the question is, when you don t have the control of the agenda setting, well then what do you do as a committee member? look, sometimes, the republicans are going to find problems that i think both sides should be concerned about. that s exactly what is happening tomorrow our first oversight hearing, which is about the fraud and pandemic unemployment program. that hurt all of us as taxpayers and someone who made sure the people out of work at help, having that money stolen by fraudsters helps everybody. if we comes are on a permit program, her and all taxpayers. i do have questions about what we need to do to strengthen and prevent fraud in that program, but where the republicans are falling down is that they re attempting to paint this as a failure of president biden when in fact, the facts and data are very clear, we are unemployment insurance programs have been at risk for fraud for over 20 years. they had fraud problems under republican presidents, including donald trump,