>> the accountability project is going to start. they are going to be in prison. >> a corrupt retribution scheme in plain sight. >> you have to get in the game republicans. starting every investigation they need to right now. >> tonight, new reporting on maga's very public payback campaign. >> it is a terrible path they are leading us to and it is very possible that this could have to happen to them. >> and donald trump is openly signaling russia to help himself get elected again. >> russia if you are listening, the president of russia will do that for me and i don't believe he will do that for anyone else. >> plus, judge cannon's wild move to disrupt the documents trial and another installment of our series, are you better off than you were four years ago? >> president trump posing for pictures, holding up a bible without explanation. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. tonight's top story, multiple current and former u.s. officials including the speaker of the house of representatives, dozens of senators and congressmen, have been revealed to be working hand in glove with convicted criminals in a corrupt retribution scheme to sway the 2024 u.s. presidential election. conspirators are nearly all republican officials including the heads of the judiciary and oversight committees, former white house officials and at least two men who have been found guilty and right now awaiting sentencing for privacy -- for previous crimes. a campaign to compel national, state, and local government officials to abuse their power. it is happening out in the open with conspirators telling reporters what they plan to do. a nuclear option for an authoritarian takeover that they say was tripped by the criminal conviction of the republican party leader, former president donald trump, for tampering with the 2016 election by paying two women hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep affairs quiet until he won that campaign. as the new york times reports, within hours of the jury finding mr. trump guilty, gop leaders in and out of government have demanded elected republicans use every available power against democrats, including targeted investigations and prosecutions. all of this is happening on behalf of trump, who is so angered by his conviction on 34 felony counts, he openly encouraged allies to consider political persecution of his adversaries a worthy goal for the party. >> would it be so terrible to throw the president's wife and former secretary of state, think of it. the former secretary of state, but the presidents wife into jail. wouldn't that be a terrible thing? but they want to do it. so you know it is a terrible, terrible path that they are leading us to and it is very possible that it is going to have to happen to them. >> some longtime trump allies are taking those as marching orders including steve bannon, who faces a hearing tomorrow morning for his federal contempt of congress charges after he refused to testify to what he knew about the deadly capital insurrection. bannon, who also faces a trial this fall in manhattan for fraud and money laundering and connection with a far right fundraising scheme, pulled new york times reporters it was time for republicans to prosecute democrats all over the country. texting there are dozens of ambitious attorney generals and they need to seize the day and own this moment in history. at the same time stephen miller, who penned the administrations so-called muslim band, went on fox news with an all hands call for authoritarian action in stark existential terms. >> every house committee controlled by republicans using it subpoena power in every way it needs to right now with every d.a. starting every investigation they need to right now? is every donor off the sidelines and in the game? every facet of republican party politics and power has to be used right now to go toe to toe with marxism and beat these communists. >> republicans are doing their part for this plot, led by house speaker mike johnson who outlined the approach yesterday, offering a three- pronged approach on how to target the justice department in new york and other jurisdictions for investigating trump. vowing to use house oversight powers while cutting funds in the appropriations process and taking other unspecified legislative measures. already johnson's closest allies are running with that mandate. judiciary chairman jim jordan, a staunch trump far right ally has demanded testimony from the district attorney who prosecuted trump and proposed withholding federal funding from municipalities that charge trump for his crimes. even republicans without any higher responsibilities are using participation in the revenge plan as a tool for advancement. congressman ronny jackson, former trump white house physician who retired from that post in disgrace amid investigations into alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct, told newsmax it was time for republicans to go after democrats including joe biden and his relatives. >> president biden should be ready because on january 20 next year, when he is former president joe biden, what is good for the goose is good for the gander and i will encourage all of my colleagues and anyone i have influence over as a member of congress to aggressively go after the president and his entire family. >> today house speaker mike johnson installed that man you just saw along with election denier scott perry on the all- important house intelligence committee. congressional republicans seem to be acting on jackson's advice. they sent a criminal referral for president biden's brother james and last living son, hunter, both of whom have been targets of republican conspiracy theories for the better part of a decade. hunter biden facing trial in federal court and in the senate a number of republicans, many of whom hold hopes of being trump's vice presidential candidate, are also involved. here is jd vance. >> that is the only language that i think these people are going to understand, that if they do this, if they turn the american system of justice into banana republic garbage they will suffer consequences. >> and marco rubio, top republican on the senate intelligence committee, blasted president biden in apocalyptic terms, saying our current president is a demented man propped up by wicked and deranged people willing to destroy our country to remain in power. it is time to fight fire emoji with fire emoji. vance along with 10 other republican senators signed a pledge by utah senator mike lee to block all legislation funding and nominations in retaliation for trump's conviction by 12 citizens in new york, a jury of his peers, effectively bringing capitol hill to a standstill. lee saying those who turn our justice system into a political cudgel must be held accountable. these are broad strokes of a plan that contemplates the party using all three branches of government to keep trump free and exact revenge on anyone in their way. up to and including the supreme court where one third of the justices were appointed by donald trump. as speaker johnson reminded fox viewers last week when he said those justices should overturn trump's conviction. >> the justices on the court, i know many of them personally, i think they are deeply concerned about that as we are, so i think they will set this straight. >> that's interesting. this is all happening in plain sight and further emboldening influencers to ratchet up rhetoric beyond what a peaceful society can sustain. >> should democrats be in jail? no question. should donald trump start locking them up? should there be a list of democrats who need to go to jail? 100%. >> not just jail, they should get the death penalty. we staff punishment for treason in this country. >> chances are if you watch the show or read the newspaper, none of the details are breaking news to you. you have seen who donald trump is and you have seen what the republican party has become. day in and day out in headlines buried by more headlines. when you take it altogether from a mile high perspective everything that has come to an end since trump's criminal conviction, when you think about how this would play in the news happening in some other country, you would say to yourself, whoa, that's not good. what is happening there? what is wrong with that place? with those people? how in the world does this get resolved? congresswoman jasmine crockett is a democrat from texas and she joins me now. it is good to have you here. what you think about the growing voices in the republican party, congress and former white house officials, who are explicitly saying we want to corruptly use state power to persecute democrats, to use the criminal justice system when we are in power, to go after them? >> they live in a very scary world and unfortunately this nation is probably one of the few that you can get the truth and find out what it is that their agenda is. we are in the midst of an election cycle and an election cycle that when you knock on doors people talk to about the housing crisis. they talk about food prices. they talk about needing to make higher wages and they are saying we want to vote for whoever is going to do this, but the reality is the republican party is only trying to appease a party of one. they are not looking out for us as a country, not looking out for their own constituents. instead all they care about is making donald trump happy. that is not what democracy looks like and i need people to wake up. this isn't about saying, you know what, i am a republican so i am going to vote r. you may be a republican, but these people are not even american as far as i'm concerned, because when we took an oath it was an oath to make sure that we would swear against any enemy, foreign or domestic. i am telling you right now anybody that would propose the death penalty but have a problem with the fact this guy is a criminal. we knew he was a criminal. we set it before. he said he could go out and kill somebody and nothing would happen to him and one out of four of the prosecutions he is facing actually went forward, but we experienced a breakdown in this country, because the fact the other three prosecutions are being held up, where we have grand jurors that came together, saw evidence and soffit to say you have enough for an indictment and now you want to challenge and threaten these jurors. that makes no sense and that's not the american way. >> i want to ask, trump is sort of leaning in to this criminal thing and he has compared himself to al capone multiple times. he had, on stage with him in the bronx, to individuals who are currently under indictment for a conspiracy that includes attempted murder if i am not mistaken. they are facing those charges and i have heard him say it almost explicitly and others that black folks and black voters will like this because they like criminals or they like -- they have had an unfavorable experience with the criminal justice system. what is your reaction? >> it is more racism, because essentially what you're saying is black people, we know you know about going to jail. to be clear, this guy has 34 felonies. i've never been arrested for a traffic ticket. i want to be clear there are black folk who have not experienced jail. i have been in jail as a former criminal defense attorney, but i want to be clear that as kendrick lamar says, they are not like us. he is not like us. my clients, i have never had this many charges pending against one, but never had anyone come close to him and still be walking three, pretrial. that is not how we get treated when we end up lock it up. in addition to the fact that i appreciate those on social media pointing out the hypocrisy that right now in this country this guy can get high six figures for a job and potentially be hired, where in most places we can't even ban the box so that people who have a record can get an interview for an hourly job. you are not treated like us, it is a two-tier justice system and you have been treated so much more favorably. the fact we are debating whether or not he is going to jail does not make sense either. >> when you hear your colleagues talk like ronny jackson, he is a colleague of yours. >> thank you for reminding me. >> he is in the state delegation. there are two ways to interpret this. this is what an old coach of mine would call down the block tough. after someone walks away like, what? there's a little bit of that. jeannie vance is almost the most down the block tough person i've seen. there is also listen to what they are saying. which of those do you see yourself pulled toward? >> definitely they inspire other keyboard warriors and they like to do a lot of talk, because they will send out an email and raise money because they talk tough. i do think the vast majority of them don't have it in them to get anything done. they just like to talk tough and rile people up. i do believe that we do have some real crazy people. like legit, you are all the way out there and you will push forward -- >> if in power again? >> if given power, absolutely. i also think even if some of those are more talkers, there are followers and that is also scary, because that is what we have seen. maga will take the lead and we can't get caught slipping, like we have to go along with the show. reluctantly. you have very few that actually push back. i always bring up ken buck because he has freedom caucus. the freedom caucus guy said you guys are crazy, i'm out. not the moderate republican, the freedom caucus guy. but he absolutely believes in our institutions and that is what we are missing right now. >> congresswoman jasmine crockett, thank you very much. coming up and stop me if you have heard this before, donald trump asks for russia's help winning the next election, again. trump is dangling in american citizens freedom for his own benefit, next. you can't leave without cuddles. but, you also can't leave covered in hair. with bounce pet, you can cuddle and brush that hair off. bounce, it's the sheet. 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