>> could you state your name as well? you have the right to remain silent and you the right to be represented by counsel. >> the first trump wave is still being processed. >> how concerned are you that your candidate is in jail the week at the convention? >> alarming no evidence the new trump crime wave will be worse. >> ladies and gentlemen, it's very simple. victory or death. move over dr. oz and kari lake, meet trump's new recruits to run your government. >> on strippers. >> a strip club -- >> the making of the trump met the. >> love, did you come up with the package? >> no. >> who did? >> a new look at the reality show distortions that paved the way to the white house when all in starts right now . good evening from new york i'm chris hayes. one of the most seismic stories is the rest of all of what you might call the trump crime wave. the wave began in 2021, remember, donald trump was president debt resident amid the backdrop of chaos of the pandemic in the george floyd protests in the police response to them. of course, then former president trump through fuel on the fire at every opportunity. we saw enormous biking crime across red and blue states in small towns and big cities. the murder rate jumped by a record 30%. you can see the filing crime overall was up more than 5% in 2020 and over the past three years, president biden we have seen a huge nationwide declined in crime. the latest data suggests that violent crime rate may have dropped another 15% inches the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period last year. the trends in crime are down even with holes in the data from various cities. the overall picture is clear. of course, the trump crime wave is about more than the macro statistics although those are the most important for people with lived experience. it's also the fact that the man himself is a criminal. just convicted of 34 felony counts in new york and amanda surrounds himself with criminals bringing them on stage and even in the courtroom with them during trial. donald trump believes following the rule of rilaw is for sucker he has imbued the republican party with his mafia e those. stitches get stitches. top dog should get away with everything. brother talk among trump and his allies about backing the blue, when law enforcement is not under his control as it would be in an authoritarian enterprise, then it becomes the subject of suspicion and insults. look at what happened at the pennsylvania state house this morning. democrats there welcome two capitol police officers enter by the violent pro-trump mob out for blood on january 6. donald trump raises the insurrection is who beat the cops bloody as warriors and hostages who he promises to free from prison if reelected. when these two officers were introduced on the statehouse floor, listen to how st republicans reacted before they were drowned out by democrats. >> this morning, it's with incredible honor and humility that for the first time on the floor of this house, we are so t thrilled to welcome former united states capitol police sergeant and former united states capitol police officer harry done. both of these men were present physically and verbally attacked, but bravely defended democracy at the united states capitol against rioters and insurrections on january 6, 2021, they are traveling the nation and staring their stories to raise awareness to the threats of democracy in our nation. please stand. welcome to the floor of the house. >> [ applause ] >> pennsylvania republicans, you could've heard it when she talked about threats to democracy. they not only jeered but they may have walked out according to several lawmakers who were there. it does not stop there. whenever any parts of the machinery of law enforcement, state or federal level, our bear to trump or his followers then they become the target of threats. just about always. hears an example 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, this man was not ia biden fan angry about the conviction of the president's son rather he was a trump supporter angry about a slew of false claims about hunter biden and the 2020 election. who might say these are the fringes in the something to that but it goes beyond that. last month, donald trump's allies went on this crusade against joe biden's department of justice and the fbi. they took a standard part of the warrant used in the document search for mar-a-lago and turned it into an assassination conspiracy theory. >> the biden administration authorizing the use of deadly force during the fbi raid of former president trump's mar-a- lago estate in 2022. >> they were thinking of using deadly force? it's on the table? it might be necessary? >> authorized armed agents to use deadly force in the mar-a- lago grade. that is insane.'s or any justification for that? >> my mind as a prosecutor goes to maybe they wanted the engagement of physical force. maybe they wanted to come in without fbi or doj without all of that, identifying and, so they could engage in deadly physical force. >> why was merrick garland g prepping for for a shootout? >> deadly force, does it 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's what it seems. >> that's a sample. it was spun up that it was a biden assassination plot against donald trump. trump himself jumped right on the conspiracy bandwagon and blasted out a fundraising email trying to make money off it., quote, 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. as we have seen, as i told you about the guy threatening the fbi agent, those words are very dangerous which is why special counsel jack smith has asked the judge overseeing the documents case to bar trump from making statements that endanger law enforcement. and smith's second petition after judge cannon denied the first request, he writes of former president, quote, deceptive and inflammatory assertions put a target on the backs of the fbi agents involved in this case, as trump well knows. here is the thing. in response, a group of 24 republican state attorneys general from across the country filed an amicus brief, 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 bus's right to falsely accuse the assassination plot against him and tangibly danger ring lives is what you do in the trump crime family. congressman dan golden, democrat serving on the oversight committee. you are a prosecutor as well. i have to say i was really brought up short by the amicus r brief by the attorneys general.t that our first amendment issues when you have a candidate is involved in criminal trials so there is some things to worry about. to have a who's who list of every attorney general saying it's important donald trump be able to say these things about fbi agents when we have the evidence that this does put them in danger. >> let's even take a step back and how unusual it is for state attorneys general to file income amicus brief in a federal district court -- >> on like a motion on a gag order. >> even if this were to go to the appeals court, you still would not see state attorneys general chiming in on something. what is clear is 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 gaslight the american public is by claiming that joe biden is using what they call law fair which means he is politicizing the doj and then you get the question of, if he's politicizing the doj, why would he charge his own son? it doesn't make sense but it's the projection to try to disengage and offset their own efforts to abuse their authority, their official authority, for the benefit, as you put so well and i was a prosecutor, the mob boss of the republican party. >> i want to come back to the conspiracy theory but the amicus brief, it's bizarre. it's all of them. the hill they are dying on is it's not that he is innocent. it's important for him to be able to go around saying these things about fbi agents that are obviously inflammatory. obvious incitement. >> i thought what jack smith said and special counsel that is the critical line is as trump well knows. because, it's one thing if this is the first time you have done something like this, and you may not understand how your words will be interpreted by your followers. we are so far past the. we have january 6, we have the guy who sent all the bombs to people. >> a man broke into the speaker of the house and almost beat her husband to death. >> attacked the fbi and had to be shot. it is crystal clear to donald trump, to all his supporters, steve bannon singing victory or death, that they know what reactions their words are going to have. they have no plausible deniability. that's what jack smith put thatt in there. donald trump knows when he attacks the fbi, it will incite his followers to attack the fbi. it's all part of the authoritarian playbook because he wants to undermine accountability. he wants to undermine checks and balances so he attacks the c media. he attacks the accountability institutions, fbi, doj, intelligence community, anybody who can call him out and expose his wrongdoing is someone subject to attack. the worst part about it is it's not just him. you have 24 attorneys general now. people formally with dignity and integrity of stooped down to this level, they are undermining their own authority in many ways. those attorneys general work with law enforcement. he is undermining law enforcement. >> the scariest aspects of this is that with this look like if the department of justice were back at the hands of donald trump. i want to read from project 2025 description of their vision of the department of justice. it's a blueprint for the next republican president who in this case would be trump. the doj has become a bloated barack or c with a critical core personnel who are infatuated with the perpetuation of a radical liberal agenda in the defeat of perceived political enemies. it's essential that the next administration place a high priority on the reforming the doj. anything other than a overhaul will other further erode the trust of the significant portions of the american people and harm the very fabric that holds -- >> 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 worked in the department of th justice for 10 years and worked with fbi agents. fbi is notoriously a republican leaning institution. it >> the notion it's a bastion of woke liberals. >> to their credit, did not know what their politics were because we checked politics at the door when you're career civil servant. that's what trump does not like. he wants to make everything political, it's part of the reason you say project 2025. i join date task force in congress that is being chaired by jared huffman of california that is the stop project 2025 because it's trump's former senior executives who have now gone over to the heritage foundation and to put together a 900 page playbook to take over american government, to create an authoritarian dictatorship that would do what they said on the doj in terms of getting rid of all nonpartisan career officials, eliminate the department of education. ban rtabortion. the list goes on is to all of the efforts that they are laying out in plain language as to how they are going to take down our democracy, and we will continue to amplify this because it is scary of what will happen to our country if donald trump becomes president. >> dan goldman, great to have you here. from strip club loving there is to carpetbagging billionaires, the latest slate of candidates running this november. . 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i don't want to be a vampire anymore. >> then pennsylvania with a candidate for governor was doug mastriano pictured on the left at the stop the steal rally on january 6 just before the violent insurrection. you can see the denying qanon doug mastriano at the left at his confederate civil war uniform. and kari lake who ran for governor, former tv news gov -- who campaigned against the fake news media. he parroted trump allies but she claimed her own election was stolen and still does. in fact, lake who is not the governor although she think she is, she's on the ballot again. running for senate against the popular war veteran ruben gallegos. she has been losing to him at every major poll taken in that race since february. which is to say republicans are doing the same thing again. in minnesota, incumbent democratic senator amy klobuchar, a former nba player turned infowars lover. he has advanced conspiracy theories from nancy pelosi's husband and the federal reserve while reportedly managing to oh over $800,000 in child support is having to answer questions about why his campaign spent $1200 at a florida strip club. >> your claim as there were filings which said you spent campaign funds at a strip club -- >> no. they didn't say i spent the funds at a strip club, they said not on strippers. >> it was spent at a strip club. >> a strip club sells food. >> you spent the money on food at a strip club? >> you seem to be unfamiliar with strippers, strip clubs and i will inform you that they have food at strip clubs. >> delicious. white rallied against -- railed against the jewish elite. claimed women have become too mouthy. that's not an isolated incident. a guy named mark robinson who spent years posting unbelievable bile about jewish americans, black folks and from denying the holocaust happen declaiming the movie black panther was created by agnostic djoos vision put together by satanic marxist. robinson ranted against women and abortion so many times that his democratic opponents stitch them into one brutal ad. >> by say i was the governor. we can't have an abortion in north carolina. for me there's no compromise on abortion. it makes no difference why or how that child ended up in that womb. in this country, it's not about protecting the lives of mothers. it's about killing the child because you were not responsible to keep your skirt down. it's not your body anymore. >> killing a child because you were not responsible enough to keep your skirt down. running for governor in north carolina. this is haunting republicans everywhere including indiana where the republican senator is running for governor. he came prepared but rather to a c to his wishes the state party convention selected a pentecostal pastor, podcasters self-described christian nationals whose only public service expense was an attempt to purge controversial books in his local library. gained notoriety of the capitol insurrection for claiming that gut had spoken to him and endorsed the rioters. >> a lot of people are freaking out over what they saw and i can understand that. i was in prayer this morning and you know what the lord told me? he said i sent those riots to washington. he said what you saw yesterday was my hand at work. >> it's always in the car those videos. as michelle goldberg, they are freaked out that his candidacy gives democrats an opening in a red state. his elevation is the latest son of a conflict splitting republican parties nationwide as gop activists demand greater levels of belligerence from their leaders. the crazy thing is even when the party elites get the candidates they wanted, they tend not to be appreciably more palatable to mainstream voters. in pennsylvania where they got tv dr. oz to run for senate even though his residence was across the river in new jersey? this year they are running david mccormick, another rich carpetbagger who spends his time in a $60 million mansion in connecticut but with this hedge fund wealth. he's not alone. to challenge tammy baldwin in wisconsin was a contested swing state they have selected the ceo of the utah-based bank who lives in a $7 million oceanfront mansion in california not far from his main office. he recently took fire for defending his claims about voting irregularities by suggesting that residents of nursing homes are too close to death for their votes to count. all this is a reminder we are at a paradox of the trump era that only trump gets away with being trump-like. everybody else being polarizing and repellent does come with some political costs. gravity does exist for them. this has led republicans -- over and over again. the majority in the senate with better candidates. this election so far is looking to