endangering our democracy. plus, crickets from the republican field who should want to defeat donald trump. and fox news fires up the outrage machine over a human crisis invented by trump republicans. you can t survive with the money one makes even to have food. one day, one day we will be able to see each other again. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. last night, let s talk about last night. last night at this time, the man that led the insurrection against our democracy was spewing vile nonsense on another network. of course, i was here hosting this very television show, hopefully with many of you watching. i did not see the whole thing play out live. but i ve seen enough. i ve seen enough to have to have the same visceral reaction as many others. that it was disgraceful, despicable, gross. if you had that reaction as well, i will just say i think that is the correct response. i don t think you really need to second gues
the insurrection is broadcast live on national television. january 6th was just a dress rehearsal. this is a profoundly dangerous moment. tonight, blow back against the disgraced ex president and the people who thought putting him on tv was a good idea. to platform him is to participate, i think, in endangering our democracy. plus, crickets from the republican field who should want to defeat donald trump. and fox news fires up the outrage machine over a human crisis invented by trump republicans. you can t survive with the money one makes even to have food. one day, one day we will be able to see each other again. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. last night, let s talk about last night. last night at this time, the man that led the insurrection against our democracy was spewing viable nonsense on another network. of course, i was here hosting this very television show, hopefully with many of you watching. i did not
saying this stuff but he s not saying it on cnn and not saying it outside of the kind of right-wing ecosystem means a lot of people have been able to put it to the side, to forget about it. i think there is value in everybody being reminded of it but you don t need to do it on such explicitly pro trump turf. i think this is actually where you and i agree. there is some brittle thornton is here about what to do about this sort of attention black hole that we ve all wrestled with over eight years. there is a certain school of thought that shows up in my inbox and 20 feet of don t play him at all, don t cover him. it s the coverage that gives empowered self. i don t agree with that. he is powerful because he says things that republicans, the republican base likes, which is where his power comes from. so i think there is an over correction in the other direction. you said that the other, day i thought it was interesting with the e. jean carroll thing. the ex president is being civilly tr
this relates to the ratings a little bit and people will say, people aren t playing close attention, but i saw people say part of the news, as you, say he would review s to commit on pardoning the jan sixth years. he s been saying this all over the place. there is nothing new. he doesn t say anything new. he says the same. things i actually think there is a mix. there is like a mixed thing there in the fact that he is saying this stuff but he s not saying it on cnn and not saying it outside of the kind of right-wing ecosystem means a lot of people have been able to put it to the side, to forget about it. i think there is value in everybody being reminded of it but you don t need to do it on such explicitly pro trump turf. i think this is actually where you and i agree. there is some brittle thornton is here about what to do about this sort of attention black hole that we ve all wrestled with over eight years. there is a certain school of thought that shows up in my inbox and 20 fee