good evening from new york. welcome back to all in. i m chris hayes. in four days the republican majority will be sworn in, and that includes george santos, the freshman congressman-elect from new york, a man who flipped a democratic seat in a biden plus eight district and has subsequently been caught fabricating much of his resume. from his past claims of jewish heritage to his job history, education, reporters are now scrutinizing everything about santos, understandably. especially his apparent sudden wealth. how he went from earning $55,000 in 2020 to loaning his campaign over $700,000 just two years later. and how he spent that campaign money. new york times reporting today that santos spent an unusually high amount on hotels and trips across the country especially for a candidate relatively new to politics. $30,000 on hotels, $40,000 on air fare, $14,000 on car services. government affairs lobbyists telling the times, quote, usually a congressional candidates tries s
two days after election day in 2020 before the results of the presidential election have even beenio called. president donald trump s chief of staff received a text message laying out a veryte detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. the text was from donald trump s son, don jr. and described in detail the plot to use republican legislatures to keep trump in office regardless of the actual vote count. if that failed, republicans in congress could keep dump in keep trump in power. it matches up with the scheme that trump and his allies tried to carry out by replacing biden electors with fake trump electors in states that joe biden won. today the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack released the transcriptsse of the interview with donald trump jr. and he told the committee he doesn t remember where the idea came from. quote, question. is that something you wrote, or did you cut and paste that from somebody else? junior,me i imagine i cut and paste
right now. after a year s long legal battle, donald trump s tax returns are now public. the thousands of pages show that during the first and last years of his presidency, trump paid very little in federal income taxes, claiming huge losses to shave down his tax bill. we have experts ready to break down the six years of filings plus a member of the house ways and means committee into what went into the decision to make everything public and the precedence it sets going forward. we ve got more developments from the january 6th committee. another batch of deposition transcripts just dropped. among the interviews, rudy giuliani, jared kushner, and mick mulvaney, and what they said and how it all impacts the former president coming up a major break through in the quadruple idaho murder cacy a 28-year-old man has been taken into custody in connection with the case according to multiple law enforcement officials. what we know and what we could find out at today s news conferenc
street, new york city, that calculated the value of the property at $200 million as of august 2010. and $220 million as of november 2012. yet, in his 2011 statement, mr. trump listed 40 wall street with a value of $524 million. which increased to $530 million over the next two years. more than twice the value calculated by the professionals. so the case is a civil suit, important to note that, and meaning there is no potential for jail time and more for the potential of criminal hot water, and we will talk about that in a moment. but the penalties, they could be amount to a whopping $250 million. trump and his kids, they could be barred from doing business at any new york-based office for five years, and the family and the organization could be barred from borrowing funds from any new york state registered financial institution, and here is where it could get even bigger. for the family and for the former president. james said her office has referred the former president an
do you have the votes for speaker locked in tomorrow? i think we ll have a good day tomorrow. what are your conversations like with i hope you all have a very nice new year s eve. taking the shine off the republicans big day, new york republican congressman-elect george santos will likely be among the new lawmakers sworn in despite to admitting to a growing number of lies about his life and resume. we will dig deep near that and the multiple investigations into santos and his campaign. the latest on donald trump s taxes. what he paid and where that money went. we have details on the dozens of countries where he was making money and paying taxes. including china, india, and the uae we re going to start with the house republicans, taking control of the house officially tomorrow. but right now, what should be a triumphant moment is perilously close to turning into a political disaster. the likes of which we haven t seen in 100 years. that s because kevin mccarthy,