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Seen with roger stone one day before the insurrection. "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. what do you do with a person who abuses their position of authority? elemental question. in the history of human government and human affairs, a question our country has been confronting persistently since long before donald trump but even more consistent since then. today as we look at the scope of the abuse of power that occurred under the former president, we are seeing an anxious to that very question and it comes from republicans. not the ones in the nation's capi...

Watch this exchange from thewa early days of the administration. adam schefter came on the show and we asked a simple fact based question about what we know and what we don't know. it was, we certainly russian government hacked his gmail account? here's how he responded. >> look in the camera and say i know for a fact that the government of vladimir putin was behind the hacks. >> the government was behind the hacks of her to mike or institution. also in europe. >> tucker: look and say i know they did. >> i think ronald reagan is rolling around in his grave. we were carrying water for the kreml...

Murder of this journalist. >> so there's no such thing as definitive proof in the intelligence community. they don't talk about slam dunks any more. they talk about high confidence. that said, before taking consequential foreign policy actions, of course we want to actually be sure. the issue here is not that trump doesn't have enough evidence, though. it appears that his administration is not even seeking out the facts. secretary of state mike pompeo, who went to riyadh and istanbul, has said that he did not discuss whether or not the journalist was alive or dead. the elemental question that ...

Stuff, because that goes on his permanent record, and it's very possible a whole lot of attention is about to be laid on mike pence. >> exactly. and this notion that he was just repeatedly kept in the dark on these extremely sensitive matters around the national security adviser is kind of absurd. i mean i've spoken to people in pence's circle. that's the message they are puing. look, he didn't know about this. the white house is still saying that trump wasn't informed about this flynn turk iish lobbying deal but how many times can pence go out there and make statements that turn out later not...

That trump wasn't informed about this flynn turk iish lobbying deal but how many times can pence go out there and make statements that turn out later not to be true or to be very dubious and just get a pass on oh, well maybe he wasn't told about it? something is not ringing true there. >> ali, to a more elemental question, we asked this on the broadcast last night and probably the night before, what is it about trump and flynn? what is it? >> we are not even two years into this relationship which is odd. they met in summer of 2015. what may be working in donald trump's favor is that we are not...