counsel. >> the first trump crime wave is still being processed. >> how concerned are you? >> tonight, alarming new evidence the next trump crime wave will be worse. >> ladies and gentlemen, it's very simple. victory or death. >> and move over dr. oz and kari lake. meet donald trump's new recruits to run your government. >> they didn't say that i spent the funds on strippers. >> but it was spent at a strip club. >> will they sell food at a strip club don't they? >> and the making of the trump myth. >> mia love, did you come up with the package? >> no. >> who did? >> gary. >> a new look at the reality show distortions that paved the way to the white house, when "all in" starts now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. in one of the most seismic stories of the past years, it is the rise and fall of what you might call the trump crime wave. the wave began in 2020 when, remember, donald trump was president and it is the backdrop of the pandemic and of course the george floyd protests and the police response to them. and of course then president trump also threw fuel on the fire at every opportunity. we saw an enormous spike in crime across red and blue states in small towns and big cities. the murder rate jumped by a record 30%. as you can see in this graph, violent crime overall was up more than 5% and over the past three years with president joe biden in the oval office, we have seen a huge nationwide decline in crime. the latest data even suggest the violent crime rate may have dropped another 15% in the first three months of 2024, compared to the same period last year. so the trend in crime is down, even with holes in the data from various cities. but the overall picture is clear. of course the trump crime wave is about much more than just the macro statistics. those are the most important for people of lived experience. it is also about the fact the man himself is a criminal, convicted of 34 felony counts in new york. a man who surrounds himself with criminals, bringing them onstage and even into the courtroom with him during trial. donald trump believes that following the rule of law, this is crucial, is for suckers. he has reviewed the republican party. top dogs should get away with everything and for all the talk about backing the blue, it is clear that when law enforcement is not under his control as it would be in sort of authoritarian enterprise, then it becomes the subject of suspicion and even insults. look at what happened at the pennsylvania state house earlier this month. democrats welcomed to capitol police officers who were injured by the violent pro- trump mob that was out for blood on january 6. remember donald trump praises the insurrectionists who beat the cops bloody as warriors and hostages who he promises to flee free from prison if reelected. so when these officers were introduced on the statehouse floor, listen to how republicans reacted before they were drowned out by the democrats. >> this morning it is with incredible honor and humility that for the first time on the floor of this house we are so thrilled to welcome former united states capitol police sergeant and former united states capitol police officer harry dunn. both of these men were present physically and verbally attacked, but bravely defended democracy in the united states capitol against rioters and insurrections on january 6, 2021. they are traveling the nation and sharing their stories to raise awareness to the threats of democracy in our nation. sergeant -- please stand. welcome to the florida house. >> so pennsylvania republicans, you could've heard when she talked about threats to democracy. not only did they boo and cheer, they actually walked out according to several lawmakers were there before. again it does not stop there. whenever any parts of the machinery of law enforcement, state level or federal level, is brought to bear on donald trump and his followers, then those folks become the target of violent imitation intimidation and threats. last week a texas man was arrested and charged with threatening an fbi agent involved in the hunter biden investigation. to be clear because this headline you might've seen in the periphery, this man was not a biden fan angry about the conviction of the president's son. no, rather he was a trump supporter angry about a slew of false claims about hunter biden and the 2020 election. you might say these are just the fringes and there is something to that, but it does go well beyond that. last month donald trump's allies and the media went on this crusade against joe biden's department of justice and the fbi. they took a totally standard part of the warranty used for the document search for mar-a- lago and they turned it into an assassination conspiracy theory. >> the biden administration authorizing the use of deadly force during the fbi raid on former president trump's mar-a- lago estate in august, 2022. >> they were actually thinking of using deadly force or it is on the table that it might be necessary at mar-a-lago? >> authorized armed agents to use deadly force in the mar-a- lago raid. that is insane. is there any justification for that? >> absolutely not. my mind is a prosecutor goes to, maybe they wanted the engagement of force. maybe they wanted to come in without fbi, without doj, without all of that, so that they could engage in deadly physical force. >> why is merrick garland prepping for a possible shootout? >> deadly force, does that mean joe biden was authorizing the fbi -- if it came to that and he resisted arrest, it would be okay to kill donald trump? >> that is what it seems. >> that is just a sample of the coverage. it got spun up as basically a biden assassination plot against donald trump and of course trump himself jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon. he blasted out a fundraising email trying to make money on it. breaking, biden's doj was authorized to shoot me. joe biden was locked and loaded, ready to take me out and put my family in danger. now as we have seen, as i just told you about the guy who was threatening the fbi agent, those words are obviously very dangerous, which is why special counsel jack smith asked the judge overseeing the documents case, a trump appointee, to bar trump for making statements that endanger law enforcement. in the second petition after the judge denied his first request, he writes the former presidents deceptive and inflammatory assertions irresponsibly put a target on the back of the fbi agents involved in this case, as trump well knows. now here's the thing. in response a group of 24 republican state attorneys general from across the country filed an amicus brief. again, this is a gag order petition in a florida court. an amicus brief supporting trump, calling jack smith's request, quote, presumptively unconstitutional. of course defending the bosses right to falsely accuse the fbi of assassination plot against him, tangentially endangering lives, is now what you do in the trump crime family. congressman dan goldman is a democrat from new york, serving on the oversight committee and he joins me now. you were a prosecutor as well. a lawyer. i have to say i was really brought up short by that amicus brief. i want to be clear, there are first amendment issues when you have a candidate involved in criminal trials, so there are things to worry about, but to have a who's who list of basically every attorney general in the country say it is important that donald trump be able to say these things about fbi agents when we have evidence that it really does put them in danger. >> let's take a look back at how extraordinary and unusual it is for states attorneys general to file an amicus brief in a federal district court. >> on a motion on a gag order. >> right. even if this were to go to an appeals court you still would not see state attorneys general's chiming in on something. what is clear is that this is a continuation of what house republicans have been doing. what all republican elected officials around the country including attorneys general, is they are trying to use their official position to assist donald trump's defense against these criminal cases and to help his campaign. the way they are trying to guess like the american public is by claiming joe biden is using what they call lawfare, which means he is politicizing the doj and then you get to the question of okay, if he is politicizing the doj, why would he charge his own son? so none of it makes sense, but it is this projection to try to disengage and offset their own efforts to abuse their authority, abuse their official authority for the benefit of, as you put so well and i was a mob prosecutor, the mob boss of the republican party. >> what is striking, and i want to come back to that conspiracy theory, but what is striking is to your point it is procedurally totally anomalous and bizarre. it never happens. also the hill is not he is innocent, which maybe you think he is. it is important for him to be able to go around saying these things about fbi agents that are obviously inflammatory. obvious incitement. >> and i thought what jack smith said in the special counsel, which is the critical line, is as trump well knows. because it is one thing if this is the first time you've done something like this and you may not understand how your words will be interpreted by your followers. we are so far past that. we have january 6. we have the guy who sent the bombs to other people. >> a man broke into the speaker of houses house and beat her husband almost to death. >> there was someone in ohio who attacked the fbi and had to be shot. so it is now crystal clear to donald trump, to all of his supporters, to steve bannon saying victory or death, that they know what reaction their words are going to have. they have no plausible deniability and that is why jack smith put that in there. donald trump knows when he attacks the fbi it is going to incite his followers to attack the fbi. and it is all part of the authoritarian playbook, because he wants to undermine accountability. he wants to undermine checks and balances, so he attacks the media. he attacks accountability, institutions, the fbi, the doj, the intelligence community. anybody who could call him out and expose his wrongdoing is someone who is subject to attack and the worst part about it, chris, it's not just him. >> that is so wild. >> you have people formerly with dignity and integrity who have stooped down to this level now. they are undermining their own authority in many ways, because those attorneys general work with law enforcement. he is undermining on law enforcement. >> one of the scariest aspects is what would this look like if the department of justice were back in the hands of donald trump. i want to redo a description of their vision from the department of justice. this is a coalition of 200 groups. it is a blueprint for the next republican president. the doj has become a bloated bureaucracy with a critical corps of personnel who are infatuated with the perpetuation of a radical liberal agenda and defeat of perceived political enemies. it is essential that the next conservative administration place a high priority on reforming the doj. anything other than a top to bottom overhaul will further erode the trust of a significant portion of the american people and harm the fabric that holds together a constitutional republic. what do you think when you hear that? >> i get scared. i get scared for what is clearly an effort to effectively politicize and overtake our criminal system and the department of justice. i work in the department of justice for 10 years. i worked closely with fbi agents. the fbi, by the way, is notoriously a republican leaning institution. >> that it is just the bastion of woke libs. >> to their credit i didn't know what the politics were, because we checked our politics at the door when you are a career civil servant and career official. that is what donald trump doesn't like because he wants to make everything political. project 2025. i've joined a task force in congress now that is chaired by congressman jared huffman of california. it is stop project 2025, because this is all of trump's former senior executives who have now gone over to the heritage foundation and put together a 900 page playbook to take over american government, to create an authoritarian dictatorship that would do what they said at the doj in terms of getting rid of all nonpartisan career officials, eliminate the department of education. ban abortion. the list goes on. as to all of the efforts they are laying out in plain language as to how they are going to take down our democracy and we are going to continue to amplify some of this, because it is scary to think of what will happen to our country of donald trump becomes president. >> congressman dan goldman of new york, great to have you here. thank you very much. >> coming up, from 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trump era and as in previous cycles the republican party is fielding a bunch of candidates we like to call freaks and geeks. it has been a feature of this era that the trump elements of the party have seized control of the grassroots level and in primary contests they have successfully elevated extreme candidates who are down light repellent to swing voters. whatever mojo trump has when he runs, which again he lost the popular vote twice, it has proven to not be replicated by his republicans down ballot. we saw this in 2022. remember there was supposed to be a massive red wave, but republicans didn't have candidates who could surf the wave. they fielded herschel walker, who like trump had no political experience and a reputation for serial dishonesty. when he was being honest he was rarely coherent. >> the other night i was watching this movie, watching this movie called fright night, freak night, some type of night. i don't know, but it was about vampires. vampires are cool people. i will tell you something i found out. i don't want to be a vampire anymore, i want to be a werewolf. >> then there was pennsylvania where the candidate was doug mastriano, pictured on the left at the rally at the capitol on january 6 before the violent insurrection. you can also see him in this photograph on the left in his confederate civil war uniform. then there was kari lake who ran for governor in arizona. a former tv news reporter who campaigned against the fake news media. she not only parroted trump's lies, she also subsequently claimed her own election was stolen and still does. in fact, lake, who has not been governor but inks she is aware that she won, she is on the ballot again this year. she is running for senate. she has been losing in every major poll taken in that race since february, which is to say republicans are doing the exact same thing again the cycle. notably minnesota where the take on any klobuchar, republicans have nominated royce white, a former nba player and info wars lover who has advanced conspiracy theories while reportedly managing 20 over $800,000 in child support and is now having to answer questions about why his campaign spent $1200 at a florida strip club. >> your claim is there were filings which said you spent campaign funds at a strip club, but they were incorrect. >> they didn't say i spent the funds at a strip club. they didn't say i spent the funds on strippers. >> but it was spent at a strip club. >> well, they sell food at the strip club don't they? >> so you spent the money on food at a strip club, is that more accurate? >> you seem unfamiliar with strip clubs and strip shows, so i will inform you, maybe you aren't informed, that they do have food at strip clubs. >> delicious. white has also rallied against the elite. he complained women have become to mouthy. you get the idea. but that is not an isolated incident. there is a republican candidate for governor of north carolina who spent years posting file things. from claiming the holocaust didn't happen to claiming that the black panther was put together by a satanic marxist to extract money from black people. robinson has ranted against women and abortion so many times that his democratic opponent stitched them together into one absolutely brilliant dad. >> we can pass a bill saying you can't have an abortion in north carolina. for me there is no compromise on abortion. it makes no difference to me why or how that child ended up in that womb. abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers. it is about killing a child because you are not responsible enough to keep your skirt down. it is not your body anymore. >> killing a child because you are not responsible enough to keep your skirt down. running for governor of north carolina. this dynamic is harming republicans everywhere including indiana where mike braun is now running for governor. he came prepared with his own pick for lieutenant governor, but the state party convention selected micah beckwith, a pentecostal pastor, podcaster and self-described christian nationalist whose only experience was an unsuccessful attempt to purge controversial books in his local library. he claimed that god had spoken to him and endorsed the rioters. >> a lot of people are freaking out over what they saw and i totally understand that, but i was in prayer this morning and you know what the lord told me? he said micah, he said, i sent those riots to washington. he said what you saw yesterday was my hand at work. >> it is always in the car, those videos, aren't they? michelle goldberg wrote recently in the new york times that party and sisters are free out that beckwith's candidacy gives an opening in a red state. it is the latest sign of a conflict splitting republican party nationwide. as activists demand ever greater levels of purity and belligerence. even when the party elites get the candidates they wanted, they tend not to be appreciably more palatable to 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