“There are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence. No consequences for racism. No consequences for misogyny. No consequences for insurrection. And no consequences means that they condone it. It means that that silence is acceptance," says
@AOC
.
WATCH: Bernie Sanders on Israel’s decision to deny entrance to two elected U.S. officials: “If Israel doesn’t want members of the United States Congress to visit their country…maybe they can respectfully decline the billions of dollars that we give to Israel.”
#inners
A reminder that at least 15 women have accused Donald Trump on the record of unwanted physical contact. Listen for the patterns in their stories.
#inners
.
@chrislhayes
: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.”
WATCH:
@chrislhayes
ends
@allinwithchris
with this message:
"A war with Iran is madness, and it is strategically and morally a disaster in the making. And don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise."
#inners
.
@AdyBarkan
: "We can't allow Donald Trump and his lying and selfish sons to rip families apart, to steal our money, to take our health care away. It's up to us to stand up."
#inners
“We are nearing a failed state in Texas. And it has nothing to do with God, or natural disasters. It has everything to do with the leadership and those in the positions of public trust who have failed us,” says
@BetoORourke
.
“I'm finding it hard to hold my rage and my anguish together. We are watching a lack of action by the federal leadership in this country that feels almost criminal. It is depraved indifference at a level I cannot quite articulate,” says
@chrislhayes
on Covid-19.
"This is B.S.—you were doing this as a dilatory tactic to help your political friend," says
@Maddow
on SCOTUS. "And for you to say that this is something that the Court needs to decide because it's something that's unclear in the law is just flagrant, flagrant bullpucky."
“Matt Gaetz is entitled to the presumption of innocence, but he is not entitled to sit on the House Judiciary Committee. That is an honor and a privilege,” says
@RepTedLieu
.
“Leader Kevin McCarthy must remove Matt Gaetz from the committee immediately.”
.
@chrislhayes
on why we aren't playing sound from Trump today:
“In the midst of a global pandemic, the President went out and said things that are flat out wrong, that are lies, and that are dangerous...Frankly, the President has become a genuine threat to public health.”
.
@chrislhayes
on Trump’s failing response to coronavirus:
“We need truth. We need the facts. We need testing. And we need them now. We needed them a week ago. And Donald Trump should take the next month off and golf, while someone else handles it.”
#inners
“If you’re vaccinated, and I’m vaccinated, we can play a pick-up game tomorrow. I’ll probably destroy you, but that’s okay,” Dr. Fauci tells
@chrislhayes
, discussing the Covid safety of being schooled on the court.
.
@chrislhayes
: “There were no disputes. The court was not actually solving any problem between two parties. Instead, the conservative majority was functioning like a legislative body, pushing their preferred right-wing policy outcomes irrespective of the actual facts at hand.”
.
@chrislhayes
: "Anyone that looks at the way the president conducts himself...not as president but as a human being...is horrified, unless they are under the sway of this deeply, deeply toxic and pathological cult that the president has built up"
#inners
.
@chrislhayes
: "They're doing it again. They don't need a secret back channel. They don't need secret messages. Trump colludes with Putin out in the open."
#inners
.
@AOC
: "How about we start by fully funding the pensions of coal miners in West Virginia?"
For more tune in tonight for our
#AOCAllIn
special event at 8 pm E.T
“You know who voted for you in Michigan, General Paxton? No one. Literally no one. So, stay in your lane, and stick to trying to disenfranchise voters in your own state. Don’t come to mine,” says Michigan AG
@dananessel
discussing pro-Trump election lawsuit.
.
@CoriBush
to her colleagues in Congress who refused to go through metal detectors:
“If they want a bye for the simple things this job calls for, then go find another one.”
Compared to four years ago when Trump was president, the country is safer, more prosperous, and more energy independent. There are more people working, making higher wages, and more people starting new businesses.
"These are just the facts," says
@chrislhayes
.
“What we are seeing is a parallel to the 1930s in Nazi Germany," says Ret. Gen.
@mccaffreyr3
on the Trump movement.
“That’s 15-25 House members, a couple of Senators, and all those who are Trump MAGA loyalists—it’s a major threat to the armed forces of the United States."
Chris Hayes on Trump’s disastrous leadership in the era of coronavirus:
“This has been the fear…since day one when we elected and then swore in a racist game show host to the most important job in the country to manage huge systemic risks on our behalf."
Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling for a congressional investigation into the $2 billion Saudi investment in Jared Kushner’s private equity fund. "He has been completely dodging our effort to get at the truth of it," says Raskin.
.
@BernieSanders
on the coronavirus response:
“Our job is to act in an unprecedented way, both in terms of healthcare and the economy. And it is going to cost a lot of money, but not spending that money now will make a bad situation even worse.”
.
@chrislhayes
: Why did North Carolina State Rep. Tricia Cotham change her position on abortion so radically in just five months?
She owes that explanation to the voters who elected a pro-choice Democrat who just put a 12-week abortion ban on the books.
“It was like the face of grown up pretending to be scared by a six-year-old's Halloween costume," says
@chrislhayes
on Biden’s reaction to Marjorie Taylor Greene before the State of the Union.
.
@chrislhayes
: The SCOTUS order "was a clear unmistakable sign from the MAGA majority of the Trump-created court that they are with him. That they are going to use their power to make sure that he does not face trial in an election year for attempting to end American democracy."
WATCH: Conservative legal legend Charles Fried on Trump: "Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower speaking the way this man speaks? Or Lincoln? Or Teddy Roosevelt?"
#inners
WATCH:
@AOC
on the cynicism in Trump’s America:
“That doesn’t mean that just because some things are broken you throw out our entire country and set it on fire.”
#inners
.
@chrislhayes
: If the allegations are true, a story Fox presented as a random attack by a homeless person would actually be a story of a guy running around San Francisco bear-spraying homeless people and getting beaten up by one of the many he sprayed. (1/2)
Rick Pence, worker at closing Harley-Davidson plant: "When the tax cut finally rolled down to us, I got about $16, $17 more a week. But now Harley's giving me one heck of a tax cut because I won't have no income at all next year and my tax will be zero."
#inners
“Did
@AOC
, 10 years ago at the tender age of 21, parachute into the state of Texas to put up windmills under cover of night?” says
@chrislhayes
of the GOP blaming power outages on “green energy,” despite Republicans holding "nearly every statewide office in Texas for decades."
“If the Republicans want less Marc Elias litigation, engage in less voter suppression. I’ll make them a deal: If they stop suppressing the vote, I will stop suing them for suppressing the vote,” says Marc Elias.
.
@chrislhayes
introduces his kids on
@allinwithchris
and wishes his son, David, a happy 6th birthday:
"Hold your loved ones close, if you have them close by."
#inners
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@chrislhayes
: DeSantis is forcing a kind of torture on its residents. That's not my conclusion, nor my word.
It comes from Florida resident Peter Rogell, a Catholic father and grandfather who had to watch his daughter endure unimaginable horror at the hands of the state.
WATCH: “We want it back. He’s not allowed to keep a dime of it without coming to Congress first,” says Rep. Jamie Raskin. “We know of $7.8 million that belongs to the American people and not in Donald Trump’s pockets.”
.
@chrislhayes
: It is unbelievable that the right has made Epstein the focal point of their worldview about who the bad guys are.
Because the guy in American politics most closely associated with Epstein and particularly Epstein scandals is, I think, inarguably Donald Trump.
Former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone on Mike Johnson and Donald Trump giving a press conference on election integrity:
"No two people in this country have done more to undermine integrity in our election process than they have. It's laughable."
"In every year of the Biden administration, violent crime has come down. In fact according to the latest estimates, 2023 is on track to have one of the lowest violent crime rates in half a century," says
@chrislhayes
.
“Maybe the indictments and the mug shot will help Trump win the primary,” says Chris Hayes. “But those are toxic qualities for a candidate heading into a general election. I think the Republican Party, honestly, is utterly deluded about what is going on here.”
.
@AOC
on coronavirus rescue bill:
"If we do not get this right, we risk small businesses across the country shutting down, and big businesses experiencing a total pay day with lack of accountability, further consolidating our economy. And that will create a generational issue."
.
@chrislhayes
: Watching Iowa Republicans count votes in popcorn buckets is mind-blowing in the context of four years of The Big Lie and the constant, racist drumbeat about Democrats stealing elections by way of poll workers of color.
.
@RepRaskin
: "When conservative Republicans want some fast action, as in Bush vs. Gore or the challenge to the student loan debt forgiveness policies of the Biden administration, the conservative Supreme Court justices move with Josh Hawley-type speed to make it happen."
WATCH: “This was not an oversight. The justices know that if they don’t act, the map stays in place. And the conservative majority knows that the current map will favor the Republican Party—so by not acting, they have acted," says
@chrislhayes
.
.
@chrislhayes
: "You'd think this would be a pretty open and shut case at this point, but today the indicted ex-president offered a 12-point refutation of the recording."
“No one should succumb to this idea that if Biden doesn't win by a huge margin tomorrow ... than Trump gets to stay in power. The winner is the person who gets more votes when all the votes are counted in states that add up to 270," says
@chrislhayes
.
.
@AOC
: "Three thousand Americans died in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Where is our response?"
#inners
For more tune in tonight at 8 pm ET. for our
#AOCAllIn
special event on the
#GreenNewDeal
.
@AVindman
responds to Tucker Carlson: "He is right. I am all in on defending this country. The problem is that I have to defend it against guys like him, guys like Mike Pompeo, and guys like Donald Trump."
Former Watergate prosecutor
@JillWineBanks
: "I know I can" make an obstruction case against Trump. "The pieces of the puzzle are fitting together and they spell obstruction."
#inners
WATCH --
@chrislhayes
: Leonard Leo and the right had a problem: they were putting people on the court, and then couldn't control how they ruled.
So they came up with a two-fold solution to create a captured court—one that explains the many Clarence Thomas benefactors.
“Ted Cruz sees his job as basically being a guy who records a podcast, goes on Fox News, and tweets snarky jokes. And increasingly, that's what being a conservative politician is. It's a form of performative trolling,” says
@chrislhayes
.
“Right now, right this moment," says
@chrislhayes
, “there are Americans who are alive and healthy who will be dead by the fall. And there are Americans who have already died who did not have to. All because of the failures of our government."
“He needs to be removed from office, quickly. And then he should be arrested and tried for sedition. That is where we are right now. Anyone who pretends otherwise is deluded,” says
@chrislhayes
.
WATCH:
@chrislhayes
on Trump’s attempt to downplay the coronavirus spread in order to help his re-election:
“He is literally incapable of distinguishing between what the national interest is, and what his own *personal* interest is.”
#inners
“H.R. 1 stands up against lobbyists and dark money. I would reckon to think that this is probably just as much a part of Joe Manchin’s calculus as anything else. Because when it comes to this bipartisan argument—I don’t buy it,” says
@AOC
on Manchin opposing voting rights bill.
“There are ways to cover Donald Trump. In fact, there are ways to interview him...that don't involve a live platform with hundreds of his whooping, cheering super fans, ritualistically humiliating your host and network," says
@chrislhayes
on the CNN town hall.
"It is just a lie that wind turbines, 'green energy' are the root causes of the problems in Texas right now,” says
@chrislhayes
discussing the right wing attempt to turn power outages into a culture war.
“A lie pumped into millions of people's brains as they watch TV.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin on Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House: “He’s got a tragic flaw. Which is, that because of his natural flair for authoritarianism, he loves to cover up and apologize for men in power who abuse their power to vicious ends."
"Trump was president from 2017 to 2021—not 2020. I promise you, I was there," says
@chrislhayes
. "Republicans want you to chop an entire year off of the end of Trump's term as if he just gets a political mulligan for the catastrophe that was the end of his presidency."
“The most dangerous reasoning in policy is, ‘Something must be done. This is something. Therefore it must be done,'" says
@chrislhayes
.
"Yes, this campaign of bombing and maybe ground incursion into Gaza is something. But no, it does not need to be done."
“I have become convinced that a huge part of the negative perception of this economy is that good economic news just doesn't make the same kind of splash. Here are some recent examples,” says
@chrislhayes
.
“William Claude Jones spent his life wielding his power over women and over girls and their bodies with complete tyrannical domination," says
@chrislhayes
on the man behind the Arizona abortion ban. "And that is exactly the kind of ‘history and tradition’ that Samuel Alito and…
Rep. David Cicilline: “We see people like Lindsey Graham who are essentially saying, ‘Either allow [Trump] to get away with what he’s doing, or there will be more violence.’ That’s a fascist statement. It’s the use of violence for political means.”
.
@chrislhayes
on new FBI data showing a massive drop in U.S. crime:
“It is indisputable that the country is getting both safer and more prosperous in the last four years under President Biden.”
“Ted Cruz sees his job as basically being a guy who records a podcast, goes on Fox News, and tweets snarky jokes. And increasingly, that's what being a conservative politician is. It's a form of performative trolling,” says Chris Hayes.
“For the first time in the development of this whole story—it's clear there was an actual, cognizable plan to overturn the election," says
@chrislhayes
"An actual strategy to get Donald Trump declared the winner of the election, not just throwing stuff against the wall.”
.
@chrislhayes
on what's behind the GOP debt fight: "The Republican calculus is simple: Spend like there's no tomorrow when you're in power because it helps you politically. When you're out of power, do everything possible to stop Democrats from spending in order to hurt them" 1/2
.
@chrislhayes
: "Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado has not been honest with us. Not with the American people, not with her constituents in Colorado. She has lied about what happened to get her ejected from a recent performance of 'Beetlejuice, The Musical.'"