middle of a blizzard. the elements are all break whatever i need to. i don t even know what negative 15 is. tonight, the defendant in the over hurled election trial takes a break from the courtroom to head to the iowa caucuses. then, every day, mike johnson gets closer and closer to this deal, brings me closer and closer to vacating the chair. brand-new house speaker already on the outs of the maga caucus, as democrats demand an accounting of the trump presidency. you don t care about the principle that our governmental leaders should not be on the tape from foreign governments. that s outrageous. congressman jamie raskin joins me tonight, plus i was hoping that this film could spark conversation, the part of a conversation that we should be having in this country, this year, right now. director ava duvernay, on her brand-new film, origin. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. it is here, well, almost here, on monda
everything they were asking for. we would have loved to have had steve bannon or jim jordan, or scott perry, remotely comply as much as hundred biden did. because hunters people, basically, said we will come in, we ll negotiate. then, when chairman comer went out on tv and basically taunted him, saying you can come before the committee, before the whole world, or you can come in a deposition, you choose, one or the other, but come on in, you talk to us. they said, fine, will come in. as you know, they ve shot up in person several times, but no longer did chairman comer want that, they wanted the secret behind the door depositions. basically what his lawyer has said is go ahead and issue a valid subpoena, now that you finally got the votes for an impeachment inquiry, and we will do whichever one you want. a deposition or in front of the committee, and obviously, he s got his own special counsel. so everything is either out there going to be out there on hunter biden.
district court to do in order, we had four months of compliance before chairman comer shut it down. at least according to trump s lawyers, who said he shut it down. we are getting now, mixed messages from that. maybe trump s lawyers lied. in which case chairman comer should make it very clear that mazars has to continue to comply. it any event, we know that seven point $8 million that belongs to the american people, and not in donald trump s pockets. this report was issued amidst the context again of this fishing expedition we ve been on for as we played you now for over a year, with the republicans saying there s this grooved crime or foreign money flying to joe biden, which again, they haven t demonstrated. and, also they re considering impeachment even though it didn t happened when he was president. they ve been chasing hunter biden around, again, i ve sort of become convinced, i used to think this was about the scandal that they found politically useful. it s partly that, it gen