• Democrats avert a 'Trump-Musk shutdown' just hours ahead of deadline
    Dec 21 2024

    Guests: Sahil Kapur, Rep. Summer Lee, Faiz Shakir, Nancy Goodman, Melanie Zanona, Donna Edwards

    Democrats bail out Republicans before a shutdown. Tonight: how Elon Musk imposed his will on the Republican Party. And how the world's richest man killed cancer funding for kids. And from his troubled transition to failure in the House, Donald Trump's weakened state as he returns to office.

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    43 mins
  • Trump deal fails after 38 Republicans vote against spending bill
    Dec 20 2024

    Guests: Melanie Zanona, Rep. Dan Goldman, Matt Fuller, Jamelle Bouie, Matt Duss

    Elon Musk assumes control of the MAGA House. Tonight: the Republican mess that could shut down the federal government. Plus, Jamelle Bouie on the difference between "determined" opposition and what Democrats are doing now. And amid all that media coverage and campaign hysterics about record crime, the actual truth about America's falling crime rate.

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    42 mins
  • Trump threatens shutdown AFTER Musk posts 70 times trashing deal
    Dec 19 2024

    Guests: Melanie Zanona, Brendan Buck, Sherrilyn Ifill, Cecilia Muñoz, Jelani Cobb

    Trump chaos and dysfunction is back, baby. Tonight: co-president Elon kills the Republican plan to fund the government and brings us closer to a shutdown as the House Speaker loses control of his caucus. Then, Trump escalates his threats of show trials for his political foes. And what the Great Drone Debate reveals about public trust.

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    42 mins
  • ‘Chilling’: Chris Hayes and Ari Melber talk MAGA’s war on the free press
    Dec 18 2024

    Guests: Ari Melber, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sam Adler-Bell, Lisa Rubin

    Trump's latest attempt to intimidate the media with lawsuits. And how the former Republican candidate Governor of North Carolina just jeopardized his own case. Then, Senator Elizabeth Warren on Trump's new MAGA agenda with the same old Republican priorities. Plus, murder as an act of terrorism charges filed in the murder of an insurance CEO as new polling reveals a shocking amount of support for the killing.

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    42 mins
  • Top ally of RFK Jr. petitioned FDA to revoke approval of polio vaccine
    Dec 14 2024

    Guests: Rohit Chopra, Brandy Zadrozny, Faiz Shakir, David Milliband

    Bombshell reporting on the Trump transition and the deregulation craze. Tonight: new alarm over the man Donald Trump picked to protect American health and the growing concern over the broad MAGA push for deregulation. And as the Fox News cabinet keeps filling out, why is the future president sending his future daughter-in-law to another continent?

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    42 mins
  • ‘Enraging’: Hayes slams lawmakers, billionaires for submitting to Trump in advance
    Dec 13 2024

    Guests: Brian Beutler, Adam Serwer, Sen. Peter Welch, Jennifer Granholm

    The intimidation continues and the MAGA picks keep coming. Tonight: why Republican rejection of democracy is still alive and well. Then, despite a massive PR push, the signs that Trump's Pentagon pick is not out of the woods yet. And Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on the case that Donald Trump can't roll back all of the Biden climate progress.

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    43 mins
  • ‘The bureau is in trouble’: J. Edgar Hoover biographer reacts to FBI director resigning
    Dec 12 2024

    Guests: Ryan Reilly, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Beverly Gage, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Goldberg

    The FBI director resigns before Donald Trump takes office. Tonight: the resignation of Christopher Wray—and the major implications it has for Trump's second term. Plus, the historian who wrote the book on J. Edgar Hoover on why Trump's new pick could be worse. And inside the MAGA campaign to save Pete Hegseth by intimidating the Republican Senate.

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    42 mins
  • ‘This is a signal flare’: Swalwell reacts to Trump DOJ secretly seizing his phone records
    Dec 11 2024

    Guests: Ken Dilanian, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Sahil Kapur, Alexi McCammond, Sen. Chris Murphy, Samar Ali

    Trump's targets for retribution speak out as we learn startling new details about abuse from Trump's first DOJ. Then, inside the MAGA pressure campaign to try and avoid another Matt Gaetz. And 72 hours after Assad's ouster in Syria, the real opportunity and the real danger that exists at the end of the dictatorship.

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    41 mins