Republican candidate for president tried to overthrow the last election. Rachel maddow and Lawrence Odonnell join me live tonight then did he lose the 2020 election . Tim, i am focused on the future. That is a damning nonanswer. Senator Chris Murphy on the plan to subvert the selection. Plus, Original War as israel invades lebanon and my interview on the book. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. 34 days out from the Election Voting has started in a number of states. The judge in Donald Trumps January 6 Special Counsel Case has unsealed a new Court Filing just this afternoon. In the filing, special Counsel Jack Smith outlines the details about why Donald Trump should be federally prosecuted for his attempted coup, so we have a special to show tonight. Im going to be joined in just a moment by Rachel Maddow and Lawrence Odonnell. The filing is hundred and 65 pages long. As prosecutors put it, when trump lost the 2020 president Ial El resorted to track c
Prosecutors and flipped to pleading guilty on all nine of his federal tax charges yesterday. He said he didnt want to subject his family to more pain and embarrassment. Perhaps theyve seen the youtube videos, too. The sentencing for this case is set for december 16th. That will be soon after the sentencing in his gun case. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Hunter biden faces many years in prison in the Tax Evasion Case particularly. President biden vowed he would not pardon his son. And the White House seemed to double down on what the president said yesterday. I can say that it is still very much a no to the questions that ive gotten about if the president is going to pardon his son. I dont have anything else. Can you comment a commutation would be on or off the table . Thats a no. Harris he is exposed to 17 years by pleading guilty. He could have leverage and get it down. Some people dont have big doubts whether or not biden would keep that precampaign promise bec
Great show. Thank you. Okay, so yesterday propublicaes published a recordg they obtained of the President And Ceo of a conservative group called the first Liberty Institute, and on the tape the president reads his donors an email that the first Liberty Institute got from Ginni Thomas. G i got an Email Today from Ginni Thomas, justice thomas wife, so i want to read that to you. You guys have filled the sails of manyll judges. Can i just tell you thank and this is in all caps thank you so, so much. To understand how exactly inappropriate that email is from the wife of a sitting supreme Court Justice you have to first understand what it is that firstst Liberty Institute actually does. Were the nations largest Law Firm exclusively supporting religiouslu liberty. Weve recently won four Supreme Court cases. We win over 90 of our cases, which is unheard of the in the legal world. And at the Supreme Court our record is nine wins and zero losses. That is correct. The organization that Ginni Tho
Released a recording. The president reads supporters any email that they got from ginni thomas. I got an email today from ginni thomas, justice thomas s wife. I want to read that to you. You guys have filled the sales of many judges. Can i just tell you think, and this is all caps, thank you so so much. To really understand how inappropriate that email is from the wife of a sitting supreme court justice you have to first understand what it is that they do. We are the nation s largest law firm exclusively supporting religious liberty. We have recently won four supreme court cases. We win over 90% of our cases which is unheard of that the legal world. At the supreme court the record is nine wins and zero losses. That is correct. The organization ginni thomas was thinking so profusely the law firm that specializes in trying to change the law by bringing cases before the supreme court. That court where her husband clarence thomas is a sitting justice. Even if you don t know them by name yo
A key hearing in trumps federal Election Subversion Case gets underway. Its the first since prosecutors revise their indictment last week following the supreme Courts Landmark ruling on president ial immunity. Earlier this year on the left side of your screen you will see whats happening in court coming from our reporters in the room. Lets get straight to cnn, chief legal Affairs Correspondent Paula reid shoe. Shes outside the courthouse for us. Paula, what are we expecting . Oh, good morning, jim. Today is all about how to move forward in this case after the Supreme Court issued an opinion that really limited what prosecutors can charge former President Trump with and which evidence they can introduce in this case. Now there are no cameras in federal courts, so we are relying on our team of reporters inside to provide us with updates. Also, the former president is not in attendance today. He that appearance has been waived. But what we expec is that Judge Tanya Chutkan, let me tell yo