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To open up america's largest national forest to loggers. >> got to take care of the floors, you know, the floors of the forest, very important. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes there is a case to be made that there is a loaded gun embedded in the constitution, and that loaded gun is the pardon power. just sitting there, waiting to be abused. it's a power given solely to the president, and it would theoretically allow for all kinds of misuse. for example, what if a really, really violent genuinely fascist president ordered his chief of staff to m...

Today's vote, i ask how this could help in cases in court if they were to open impeachment inquiry and he said this. >> won't your hand in court be strengthened? >> the congressional power is at its zenith. how much of a difference it is is a different question. >> you still support moving forward? >> i never said i did. i'll say all options are on the table. that's all i'm going to say publicly. >> reporter: all i'm going to say publipublicly. privately it's a different days. that debate raging behind the scenes in various levels of the house democratic caucus. one thing he said is in light o...

Barr, the attorney general in contempt, as well as wilbur ross over a separate probe. that dealing with how the citizenship question was added to the 2020 census and cumming is could go to court quickly with his new power if he chooses to do so. he won't have to worry about the full house. these court fights could be significantly escalated with this new power given by the full house. >> is this a step toward beginning formal impeachment proceedings? >> reporter: some democrats are pushing hard to open up an impeachment inquiry. jerry nadler has made the case to move forward with an impeachmen...

>> agree. he did not have intention to free slaves because he had no power given oath of office that prescribed for him in the constitution to defend, protect, preserve the united states constitution. that meant that he did not have the authority to change the arrangements of the constitution that designed. >> glenn: some people say that lincoln was -- i'm not one of these people. lincoln was one of the guys who really caused this mess. that he was the first one that put the nail in the coffin, beginning to drive nails in the coffin of the constitution because he said i'm going to be a big sta...

>> agree. he did not have intention to free slaves because he had no power given oath of office that prescribed for him in the constitution to defend, protect, preserve the united states constitution. that meant that he did not have the authority to change the arrangements of the constitution that designed. >> glenn: some people say that lincoln was -- i'm not one of these people. lincoln was one of the guys who really caused this mess. that he was the first one that put the nail in the coffin, beginning to drive nails in the coffin of the constitution because he said i'm going to be a big sta...