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attorney general supervision of the trump case. and the case of potential criminal prosecution drawing closer. then, connecting the dots between new anti gay laws in florida to a right-wing mobs attempt to storm a drag show. and elie mystal puts this radical turn from the supreme court into perspective, win all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, welcome to this holiday weekend, i hope you are kicking back right now, enjoying. there's a question i have been wrestling with all week, which is why did cassidy hutchinson -- former trump administration off...

Adversarial process, you don't have to do all of the very difficult meet evidentiary standards, and you are making it look like we are just some bumbling slow walkers with your presentations of the evidence, which you won't even turn over to us and we are mad at you for that. >> yeah, i think that's fair. look, i think there's been a mistake by both sides here. so the justice department's decision to start at the bottom and prosecute hundreds of people, i believe, is at least 800 cases they've looked that, and there's a question why didn't the justice department focus more resources in the top...

Could. it shows you why we need federal standards. you don't have that in every zip code, in every state in the country. as for the john lewis bill, that is a very important piece of this. that will allow us going forward to have the justice department focus on some of those states that have been enacting discriminatory laws. we know senator murkowski has publicly voiced interest in supporting the john lewis bill. we've had at least one republican who is very interested in this bill, and there may be more. so we'll take what the house has given us, the work they've done, and we will go from th...

Is going forward to have the justice department focus on some of the states that have been enacting discriminatory laws. where this goes, we know senator murkowski has publicly voiced we support in the john does bill. so we have at least one republican who was interested in this. bill there might be more so we will take with the houses given, us the work they have done at getting some of the requirements put up by the supreme court after the shelby decision, and we will go from there. >> senator murkowski has also said, as the only senator -- republican senator who is one able to say something...

Convicted of murder. he hasn't been. it is almost like one of those in california we call them amber alerts. a child has been taken and they pop it everywhere. i think everybody in the country is on amber alert to make sure if he comes back, he is reported and deported again. >> melissa: i bet we see his face again after that, just a hunch. thanks to both of you. happy friday, at least. >> happy new year. >> jon: hillary clinton is back in the headlines as two new investigations by the justice department focus on the former presidential candidate. more on the department's dual investigations a...