>> WHEN ALL IN STARTS RIGHT NOW. ♪ ♪ ♪ GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK, I AM CHRIS HAYES. WELL, FOR DONALD TRUMP, THE STAKES AT THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ARE CLEAR. WE ALL KNOW THEM. HE IS RUNNING FOR HIS FREEDOM. THEY PUT AND EVEN FINER POINT ON IT, HE'S RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE. THE EX PRESIDENT NOW FACES 78 CRIMINAL ACCOUNTS ACROSS THREE JURISDICTIONS AND A COMBINED 641 YEARS IN PRISON. AT AGE 77, IF HE'S CONVICTED OF ANY OFFENSES, JUST ONE, HE COULD SPEND THE REST OF HIS NATURAL LIFE BEHIND BARS. THE STAKES FOR THE COUNTRY ARE EQUALLY DIRE. DONALD TRUMP TRIED TO AND AMERICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. WE'VE KNOWN THAT, HAVE KNOWN THAT FOR A WHILE. THE FACTS THERE ALLEGED IN THE MOST RECENT INDICTMENT. THE FACTS AS THEY ARE LAID OUT IN THE 848-PAGE SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT, AND THE FACTS AS WE ALL WITNESSED THEM WITH OUR OWN TWO EYES IN THE RUN UP TO AND ON THE DAY OF JANUARY SIX, 2021. HAD DONALD TRUMP CONVINCED ENOUGH PEOPLE TO GO ALONG WITH THE SCHEME, WE COULD BE LIVING RIGHT NOW AND A KIND OF PRESIDENTIAL DICTATORSHIP. HE HAS EXPLICITLY SET AND SIGNALED MULTIPLE TIMES THAT HE IS RUNNING AGAIN TO FINISH THE JOB. >> I WILL APPOINT A REAL SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO GO AFTER THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, JOE BIDEN. [APPLAUSE] AND THE ENTIRE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY. NAME A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, AND ALL OTHERS INVOLVED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR ELECTIONS, OUR BORDERS AND OUR COUNTRY ITSELF. WHEN I AM REELECTED, AND WE WILL GET REELECTED, WILL HAVE NO CHOICE, WE WON'T HAVE A COUNTRY ANYMORE. I WILL TOTALLY OBLITERATED THE DEEP STATE. WE WILL OBLITERATE THE DEEP STATE. >> THE EX PRESIDENT NOW FINDS HIMSELF CORNERED. HE'S MOSTLY ALONE, YOU NOTICE THAT? NONE OF HIS FAMILY MEMBERS BY HIS SIDE, UNABLE TO CEMENT THE MOBS WITH THE OFFICIAL POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY. HE SMALLER, ANYWAYS, NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER, AND HE IS ATTEMPTING TO START HIS WAY THROUGH. THIS AFTERNOON, HEAT THERE AND, APPARENTLY, HIS PROSECUTORS, WRITING, IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU. IF ELECTED NEXT YEAR, DONALD TRUMP COULD VERY WELL ESCAPE ACCOUNTABILITY. THAT IS THE PLAN OF HIM AND HIS ADVISERS. GET ELECTED AND AVOID FACING TRIAL OVER THE DOESN'T OF CHARGES -- AND THEN UPON TAKING OFFICE, HE WOULD SAY ABOUT THE TASK OF COMPLETING THE UNFINISHED WORK OF JANUARY SIX, WHICH WAS THE WORK OF DESTROYING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. AS THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED LAST MONTH, TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES ARE PLANNING A SWEEPING EXPANSION OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT. RESHAPING TO STRUCTURE OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO CONCENTRATE FAR GREATER AUTHORITY IN HIS HANDS. IT INCLUDES BRINGING IN INDEPENDENT AGENCIES UNDER DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL CONTROL, DIVIDING THE PRACTICES OF IMPOUNDING FUNDS, REFUSING TO SPEND MONEY CONGRESS APPROPRIATED FOR THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT LIKE. MAKING IT EASIER TO REPAY CIVIL SERVANTS, REMOVING STATE DEPARTMENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICIALS THAT HE DESCRIBED AS THE SIKH POLITICAL CLASS OF HATRED AND CRIME. LET'S BE CLEAR, A LOT OF THIS IS TOUGH TALK FROM A GUY WHO IS IN A LOT OF TROUBLE. HITTING UP THE CAPS A LOCK ON HIS TRUTH SOCIAL POST, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. IF YOU EVER SEEN AN IMAGE OF WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY SIX, RIGHT? THE GUY IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, HE CAN'T WIN. IMAGINE HOW OUR SYSTEM OF JUSTICE WOULD RUN IN THAT WORLD? IT'S HARD TO THINK ABOUT, BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN. TAKING THE OATH, HE'S ELECTED PRESIDENT, MAYBE HE WOULD PARDON HIS UNINDICTED COCONSPIRATOR JEFFREY CLARK AND FINALLY SUCCEED INSTALLING THAT GUY AS ATTORNEY GENERAL. NOT A COMPLETELY FARFETCHED IDEA IF DONALD TRUMP WINS THE PRESIDENCY AGAIN. HE COULD NOT BEAT MAKING IT MORE CLEAR THAT HE INTENDS TO DEFEAT AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ONCE AND FOR ALL IF HE IS GIVEN THE MEANS. OBVIOUSLY, OBVIOUSLY, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, I KNOW I HAD TO SAY, BUT A MAN LIKE THAT SHOULD NOT BE. -- THAT WAS CLEAR TO ME AND MANY OF YOU EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN HE CAME DOWN THE ESCALATOR. >> THERE ARE MECHANISMS STOPPING SHORT OF PUTTING HIM IN PERSON FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S A GOOD CASE TO BE MADE THAT HE SHOULD BE BARRED FROM HOLDING OFFICE UNDER THE 14TH AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION. SECTION THREE OF WHICH STATES, AND I QUOTE, NO PERSON SHOULD HOLD ANY OFFICE HAVING PREVIOUSLY TAKEN AN OATH TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, SHALL HAVE ENGAGED IN INSURRECTION OR REBELLION OR THE SAME, AND THERE'S BEEN A MOVEMENT SPRUNG UP TO TRY TO BAR HIS REELECTION ON PRECISELY THESE GROUNDS. I GOTTA SAY, IT HAS NOT GOTTEN A TON OF ATTENTION, BUT I THINK IT HAS A LOT OF MAYOR. DONALD TRUMP PLAINLY ENGAGED AND AN INSURRECTION AND SHOULD BE INELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE OFFICE PER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. I THINK THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE AMENDMENT WOULD SEE IT THAT WAY TOO. BUT, OF COURSE, THERE IS ANOTHER WAY THAT HE COULD BE A PART OF THE FUTURE OFFICE, AND THAT IS IMPEACHMENT. REMEMBER THAT ONE? AFTER JANUARY SIX, DONALD TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED BY THE HOUSE FOR THE SECOND TIME, THE FIRST PRESIDENT EVER. HE COULD HAVE BEEN CONVICTED IN THE SENATE, AND PURSUANT TO THE CONVICTION, BARRED FROM HOLDING FUTURE OFFICE. SEVERAL MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY VOTED FOR THAT CONVICTION. IT WAS THE MOST BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR A IMPEACHMENT CONVICTION IN THE HISTORY AT THE NATION. AT ONE POINT, EVEN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL WAS REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING VOTING TO CONVICT. WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO IT, MCCONNELL JUST WASHED HIS HANDS OF THE WHOLE THING. SHRUGGED, TOLD THE COUNTRY, NOT MY JOB TO HOLD DONALD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE, BUT MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT? >> OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT GAVE A SPECIFIC TASK. THE CONSTITUTION GIVES US A PARTICULAR ROLE. THIS BODY IS NOT INVITED TO ACT AS THE NATION'S OVERARCHING MORAL TRIBUNAL. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS STILL LIABLE FOR EVERYTHING HE DID WHILE IN OFFICE. AS AN ORDINARY CITIZEN, UNLESS THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IS RUN, STILL LIABLE FOR EVERYTHING HE DID WHILE IN OFFICE. IT IS NOT GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING YET, YET. WE HAVE A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY. WE HAVE CIVIL LITIGATION, AND FORMER PRESIDENTS ARE NOT IMMUNE FROM BEING ACCOUNTABLE TO EITHER ONE. >> ALL OF THESE GUYS, THEY'RE ALSO TOUGH, STERN, HECTORING, POSTING IN CAPS LOCK, IT'S MCCONNELL, HE'S NOT AT THE WOODS YET. BRAVELY STANDING ON THE SENATE FLOOR TO DUMP THE PROBLEM OF A SOCIOPATHIC, MANIACAL HATER OF DEMOCRACY ON SOMEONE ELSE. HE SHOULD REALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS GUY. AND THEREBY ALLOWING THE EX PRESIDENT TO ESCAPE ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE OF HIS PUNISHMENT FOR HIS CRIMES WHICH IS TO BAR HIM FROM RUNNING FOR OFFICE AGAIN, WHERE HE CANNOT DO SO AND THREATENED THE REPUBLIC. AND MITCH MCCONNELL VOTED TO ACQUIT DONALD TRUMP. HE TOLD REPUBLICANS TO VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCE AND ALL THOSE THAT VOTED TO ACQUIT. SO, NOW THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS ACTUALLY DONE THE THING THAT MITCH MCCONNELL SAID THEY SHOULD DO, HOLD HIM LIABLE FOR HIS ALLEGED CRIMES UNDER A SYSTEM OF JUSTICE, GOSH, HAVE NOT HEARD A LOT FROM MITCH. HE SEEMED SILENT ON THE MATTER. TO BE CLEAR, WE ARE WHERE WE ARE, WITH BOTH ACCOUNTABILITY OF DONALD TRUMP AND THE FATE OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, I AM NOT OVERSTATING THINGS, HANGING IN THE BALANCE, A TOSS-UP, BECAUSE MITCH MCCONNELL AND ALL THE SENATE REPUBLICANS AND THE WHOLE REPUBLICAN PARTY JUST REFUSED TO DO THE OBVIOUS SIMPLE STRAIGHTFORWARD THING. THEY COULD HAVE JUST CONVICTED HIM. WE WOULD NOT BE HERE, BUT THEY REFUSED TO CONVICT HIM, FOR INCITING A VIOLENT INSURRECTION ACT, THERE EARNED A BUNCH OF POLICE OFFICERS, THE LIFE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT, AN INSURRECTION THAT WENT ON FOR HOURS, VIOLENTLY IN FRONT OF US, WHERE OVER 1000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGED, THAT WE ALL WATCHED HAPPEN, THE ONE THAT HE INCITED, THAT WE KNEW HE INCITE
