Tonight on all in. Theres so many moving pieces i think it becomes harder and harder to see how one of these cases actually make it to trial other than the one in new york before the election. New york or bust as judge cannon delays the classified Documents Trial indefinitely. It is truly a disgrace that she is not doing her job. Tonight the failure of the courts to hold donald trump accountable. Then President Biden heads to wisconsin to troll his rival fox con failure. They dug a hole and then they fell into it. And a rare moment of agreement on capitol hill. Declaring the office of Speaker Of The House representatives to be vacant. Boo. As Democrats Team up with republicans to save speaker johnsons job. This is just another wednesday on capitol hill. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. For all of Donald Trumps attempts to subvert and sabotage the democratic process, to steal the last election in 2020, overall the system held. I mean maybe barely, but
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In 2012, a retired professor named Kamene Okonjo got kidnapped in Nigeria. As ransom, the abductors wanted her daughter Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to resign as their country’s finance minister for having cracked down on a fuel-subsidy scam. She secured her mother’s release alright, but did not back down. She will need that tenacity. This week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) chose Okonjo-Iweala as its director-general for a four-year term by a consensus among its 164 members, as required for all its major decisions. This need underscores the immensity of the challenge that confronts her: a world more divided over trade than any period since World War II. As Roberto Azevêdo’s successor, she will have much going for her once she assumes office. She has dual US-Nigerian citizenship, had a long stint as a World Bank economist, and will be the first woman to lead the WTO. Crucially, she can count on t
senior writer for u.s. news and world report. mollie hemingway senior editor at the federalist and marc thiessen. mark, quite something honestly the president said well canada knows now it did affect the negotiations today. it certainly did. canada he definitely knows how he feels and quite frankly the whole world knows how he feels when it comes to trade. i think what donald trump is doing here in all of these negotiations is he has been accused of being a protectionist. what he is doing using tariffs as a tool to pursue a radical free trade agenda at the g-7 he prey posed all tariffs gone they said no we ll not negotiate with a gun to our heads. front page of the new york times today this is from the failing new york times president trump s threat to impose tariffs on imported cars is working. sending foreign leaders from mexico to japan racing to the negotiating table to make deals. european union just agreed to go to zero tariffs on automobiles because what he did was he
own house in order. then he also has to get his unified government in order. who knows what s going to happen in 2018? if he can t stay as a steady hand and remove beyond talking about the electoral college and beyond talking about november 8 and taking credit for things that he quite honestly didn t do. then we ll see, 2018 will be exciting for the democrats. i heard that theory sha jared and ivanka are less available when the sun goes down. i haven t seen it confirmed in actual reporting. it is a theory. congressman jolly, i will give you the final word. what do you think congress is more likely to actually do based on the speech tonight, if anything? look, i have never been a defender of donald trump s policies. what i will tell you it s clear his road to success as a president is as a populist, not as a tea party conservative. his policies are not fiscally conservative. they throw the free trade agenda of the republican party out the