he did not do it. day four of the seditious conspiracy trial. trump should have acted, and just manned up to do it, but he didn t. tonight, new evidence of how hard the oath keepers pressed for a coup. congressman jamie raskin, on what it means for the committee s final hearing. then, even new reporting suggesting the justice department thinks donald trump is, still, hiding documents. plus, new reporting that herschel walker urged his ex girlfriend to have a second abortion. joe searcy owning, on the presidents candid remarks about vladimir putin, and nuclear armageddon. all in, starting right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. we begin tonight by setting a scene for you at the e barrett premium federal courthouse in washington d.c.. five members of the right-wing gang, the oath keepers, are currently on trial for seditious conspiracy. in connection with their plot to keep donald trump in pair power with, the 2020 election. we have been bringing you up
we have several developing stories as we come on the air, the new microscope for the white house, a magic number in the santos saga, and the dow up, inflation down. let s talk about what is happening right now at the white house. you see it on the left-hand side of your screen. we re expecting to hear from the press secretary, taking the podium any minute, after that news out of the department of justice, yet another special counsel now getting to work, this time on an investigation into president biden and his handling of classified documents, as he is leaving the vice presidency, the white house and the legal team are here standing by live, along with a member of congressional leadership from the hill. also this hour, the art of the dodge. congressman george santos, hitting the air waves today and what he is saying about the rolling calls to resign and why the number 142 is trending on this one today. plus, stocks looking pretty good as we get closer to the losing bell,
it s also an issue in many races around the nation. we are 35 days out from these midterms, and right now the scandal engulfing republican herschel walker in one race, but tells a similar story. he follows a report that states he has backed abortion in his own personal life, specifically funding an abortion for a woman in 2009. that was before the supreme court recently allowed states to ban abortions outright. and it is that personal act that is exactly what walker also claims to be run against. the beast, as you see here, documents what he allegedly did to support abortion in his personal life, including an account of the woman involved, while he publicly claims the opposite and wants to take away that right from others. it is running he is running on this plan to ban abortion while he has been allegedly caught supporting it. so in its own personal scandal louse way it is an echo about who makes the larger decisions, whether this is about what they say, or whether this is
believed former president donald trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted. he has said privately that he wanted mr. garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of january 6th. garland got the message and did what the big guy wanted. but the raid was a replay of the mueller investigation. remember when trump handed over thousands and thousands of documents, showed the special counsel everything and they still tried to charge him with obstructing a crime that he didn t commit? the same thing happened this summer. trump s team cooperated. it was friendly. they handed over boxes that the liberal librarian wanted over at the archives the feds still slapped trump with a subpoena in june. and trump kept cooperating. a team flew down to mar-a-lago, trump s lawyers showed them what was in boxes. they said whatever you are looking for, here, just take it. they all had a nice lunch by the po
point and what it tells us about the investigations, ongoing into the former president. tonight with the context the former democrat senator and us district attorney doug jones katy balls the deputy political editor of the spectator and the republican strategist doug heye. hello welcome to the programme. it is unprecedented. never before, at least in the modern age, have federal agents searched the home of a former president. the warrant that was executed on mar a lago yesterday, while donald trump was in new york, would have required close collaboration between the fbi and the secret service guarding him, and no doubt it was signed off by the attorney general, merrick garland. but what were the agents looking for? and why the sudden urgency? what we do know, is that when donald trump left the white house last year, there were thousands of documents still in his possession, some of them classified. the washington post reported, that injanuary, 15 of those boxes were r