by early january most of the fake elector votes had arrived in washington except those from michigan and wisconsin. undeterred the trump team arranged to fly them to washington and hand deliver them to congress for the vice president himself. quote, freaking trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the senate president, wisconsin republican party official mark jefferson wrote to the party chairman andrew hitt on january 4th. hitt responded, okay, i see a have a call and a text from someone else. the next day trump campaign director for election day operations g. michael brown sent a text message to other campaign staffs suggesting that he was the person who delivered the fake votes to congress. after sending the group a photo of his face with the capitol in the background, brown said, quote, this has got to be the cover of a book i write one day and i should probably buy mike roman a tie or something for sending me on this one. hasn t been done since 1876 a
our nation s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world. the special counsel built his second case against the president. my office will be unrelenting and unstopping. tonight, the story of the first world leader jack smith prosecuted and why there is good reason to think he won t let trump off easy. and then if we nominate a lawless, selfish, failed politician like donald trump who lost the house, the senate, and the white house, we all know joe biden will win again. the republican presidential field swells, as trump s calendar fills up with plus the only people who believe they are above the law are members of the united states supreme court. justice samuel alito s long history of accepting lavish gifts, the titanic submersible lost at sea, and a blistering texas heat that s only going to get worse when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. special counsel jack smith has just turned over the first tran
i mean just to be clear i am quoting. i m a journalist, people say it, i quote it. i let you decide whether it s appropriate or not. the use is important here. i m mentioning, not using. i remember when we were talking about donald trump having sworn and at some point you just had to just say the words he said on tv and there were a lot of firsts over the last few years. i have not arrived at a consistent policy on this because it s ludicrous either way. it s ludicrous when you actually say it because it s like silly, but it s also ludicrous when you re like, called you a little b word. every part of this is unreal. thank you, chris, and thanks to you for joining us this hour at home. ten hours is about how much breathable airtime the u.s. coast guard estimates is left for the five men aboard the missing submersible which is named the titan. it began its descent to the wreckage of the titanic saturday. it conducts a search and rescue operation to find them in an are
southeast with this counter offensive means for the future of the war and democracy abroad as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. what good evening once again i am alicia menendez, in for stephanie ruhle. the former president s hit with new restrictions in his criminal trial. as he prepares to fight charges that he mishandled the nation s most sensitive secrets. today, a federal magistrate judge issued a protective order borrowing in trump and his co defendant walt not up for revealing or keeping any trial evidence. that also means no posts on social media and they are not for allowed to review evidence unless a lawyer or staff member from the defense team is present. the ruling follows a request from jack smith s prosecutors filed late friday. it also noted that the evidence contains information about ongoing investigations that could identify uncharged individuals. trump of course continues to talk about the case, he s pleaded not guilty to 37 counts including
ship or surface platform of some kind as a kind of home base of which it is linkedch the vehicle that has been lost, that they re looking for right now is the ship from which it launched lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it45 started a dive. the dive was supposed to be about 2 1/2 hours down, 3 hours on the bottom of the ocean, and another 2 hours back. so it was supposed to be about 8 hours beneath the waves, but about an hour and three quarters into thatre 8-hour mission they reportedly lost communication. on thisre submersible there are five peoplesu onboard. the reason they were going down the reason they were in that part of the north atlantic is because they were planning to gotl look at the shipwrecked rus of it titanic. again, it should have been about 2 1/2 hours diving down roughly 2 miles to see the shipwreck, about 3 hours they were down looking at it, poking around, and then another 2 1/2 hours coming up those 2 miles back throug