judge to hold trump team in contempt of court. tonight, the latest escalation in the mar-a-lago documents case and what it can mean for potential indictments. then the president a peru arrested for attempted coup, mass arrests in germany to stop a far-right coup plot there. tonight, congressman adam shift on our former presidents escape from justice nearly two years after his failed coup. and incredible new details of the prisoner swap that got brittney griner out of a russian prison. she s safe, she s on a plane, she s on her way home, she will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. we have big developments in the special counsel to investigations into former president donald trump.
own. this is what we are wrestling with. congress ought to police its own, but what does that look like, and how do we accomplish the? this is what we are determining, and again, we will be letting the public know shortly the conclusion we reached and how we think accountability ought to take place. finally on that question of accountability, i spoke earlier in the show about some of the international headlines we ve seen over the last few days in germany with what appears to be a seditious plot to overthrow the government was exposed and rounded up and arrested in peru, in which the president announced, essentially a coup and massively within police custody within a matter of hours. how do you think we fare in the level of accountability that
house released these parts of cheryl speaking to brittani on the phone. about the president, chill griner address the public after the deal was announced. she is safe. she is on a plane. she is on her way home. after months of being unjustly detained in russia, held under intolerable circumstances. brittani will soon be back in the arms of our loved ones and she should have been there all along. it s just a happy day for me and my family. i am in a small right now. thank you. children, as you saw, there will be reunited with her wife soon. when brady lands in an army base and san antonio, texas, for medical evaluation. now, the deal was part of a streak of one for one prisoner swap. you can see it. they re happening on the tarmac. the man you see there being shop for griner s infamous. victor bout. a notorious arms dealer,
congress. but this is all dicey non charted territory, i think it s fair to say. it s also happening on the eve of the majority of switching. if you will be on the other end of this in three weeks, how do you think through that? we have had to wrestle this question continually, which is should we do the right thing knowing that the republicans, when they take over, but use the president to do the wrong thing? my feeling is, we did the right thing, and so we re examining what is the right way to treat members who are contemptuous of a committee and congress, unwilling to make their applications open to the public. i think there is a reluctance to try to get some other institutions, some other branch of governments, the police our
i also to say as someone who has, harry, skated remarkably close to the line of overall criminal conduct over the years, not that there has not been criminal conduct. there is good evidence there has been. but prosecutable over cases, what he has done with documents here is just a deranged. the constant lying, the constant ignoring lawyers, not giving it over, mine, mine, mine. up to possible contempt of court, possibly getting an indictment over it, this is just illogical extreme at the entire trajectory of this whole story. that s it, it s the ranged but as this sort of exquisite quality about donald trump, because what s happening is that even the small thing has fault lines that all go to what donald trump dishonesty. everywhere you look, that infects things, even through the simple act. i want to stress, this happens