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tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury, investigating the former presidents actions surrounding the january six riot and an attempts to overturn the 2020 election election. i am john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whether a president, his running mate, illegally tried to overturn an election. so much has happened in the last few years, its easy...

china. erin? >> will ripley thank you very much for that amazing report. thank you for joining us. anderson is now. one for the history books tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury investigating the former presidents actions surrounding the january 6th riot and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. im john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whe...

National Security Adviser all together. Trump then asks the directors of National Intelligence to clear him of any guilt in the matter. When that fails, he fires the fbi director saying he wanted to rid himself of the russian thing. He then shared with the Russian Ambassador his relief having gotten rid of the fbi director. Thats a lot of obstructing, not to be obstruction. Thats hardball for now. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in what is the nature of what you saw in i...

Security? a ponzi scheme and says the answer to fix it is to privatize it and raise the age all the way up to 70. now, thats one, actually both the positions he is attacking ron desantis for taking into 2012 when he first ran for congress. now, lets fast forward now to 2011, 2012, trump again is flirting with a run for the presidency. around that same time paul ryan is putting out that ryan budget that democrats say will turn medicare into a voucher system. trump was very, very critical of ryan ...

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The conservative leadership in the Congress does not accept that cutting defense is the right path restoring fiscal responsibility. The Republican candidate for president has already come out in favor of not cutting defense. Regardless of who wins in Washington in November, conservatives are unlikely to abandon their rediscovered commitment to defense -- as long as they also retain their commitment to low taxes and entitlement reform.

>> i think perhaps youre right. he certainly had academic patter down a lot better than a lot of them did. to me, and i grew up in massachusetts, paul ryan is the biggest fake ive ever seen in politics. i mean, nobodys close. if hes not doing this, you know, phony wonk thing, you know, where hes -- hes putting together his budgets with magic asterisks, hes going down the old jack kemp fwral how he cares about poor folks. paul ryan cares about one thing and only one thing shoving as much wealth u...

Know, phony wonk thing, you know, where hes -- hes putting together his budgets with magic asterisks, hes going down the old jack kemp trail about how he cares about poor folks. paul ryan cares about one thing and only one thing shoving as much wealth up to the very, very top of the food chain and making sure it doesnt trickle back down again. thats the summation of paul ryans legacy. >> thats a much clearer through line than deficits and debt i think. of you said look at what hes done. although...

>> -- i think trump was right. every time ryan would present one of these budgets, everybody else in the republican caucus would hide behind the drapes rather than attach themselves to it because they knew what political poison it was. >> thats exactly right. you saw it as two moments. the bush social security privatization fight and the ryan budget where theres an uncommon degree of it and in both cases you saw massive political blow back. ruth, what you get is a lot of bait and switch which is...

That. i mean, you know, my abiding memory of paul ryan will be joe biden laughing at him during a debate, which as far as i know is unprecedented in american political debating. that was the -- you know, it was an economic discussion that brought out the word malarkey which had never appeared in a presidential or vice presidential debate before. yeah, with the donald trump thing, you know, theres a story about a blind pig and an acorn, but i think, you know, with his kind of ferrell predator ins...