UNTRUMP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
"ALL IN" STARTS RIGHT NOW.
GOOD EVENING FROM NEW YORK.
I’M CHRIS HAYES.
THE THEME OF PRESIDENT JOE
BIDEN’S INAUGURATION DAY
YESTERDAY WAS UNITY.
UNITY IN A DEEPLY DIVIDED
COUNTRY.
A COUNTRY STILL TREMBLING FROM
THE UNPRECEDENTED VIOLENT
INSURRECTION DIRECTED AGAINST
THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION AND
MEMBERS OF COMMERCE INCITED BY
THE FORMER PRESIDENT.
THAT UNITY MESSAGE WAS
APPROPRIATE, I THOUGHT.
ABSOLUTORY THE RIGHT ONE FOR OUR
COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.
BUT HERE’S THE STARK REALITY.
THE STARK REALITY IS THAT ONE
PARTY CANNOT JUST DECLARE UNITY
AND HAVE IT BE SO.
UNITY CANNOT BE ACHIEVED
UNILATERALLY.
IT CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT
SOME COURSE CORRECTION, SOME
ACCOUNTABILITY, SOME
SELF-REFLECTION AND AN APOLOGY
AND RETRACTION BY THOSE WHO
PLAYED THEIR PART IN THE EFFORT
TO OVERTHROW THE DEMOCRATICALLY
ELECTED GOVERNMENT.
BASICALLY SOUGHT TO DESTROY
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN ITS
CURRENT FORM.
WHAT WE SAY TODAY ONE DAY AFTER
THE INAUGURATION, THE FIRST DAY
OF THIS NEW ERA, IS NO SUCH
APOLOGY SHALL BE FORTHCOMING.
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS, THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY IN GENERAL,
WILL ATTEMPT TO PRETEND IT ALL
JUST DIDN’T HAPPEN.
TURN THE PAGE AND GO BACK TO THE
IMPLACABLE OBSTRUCTION THEY’RE
USED TO.
A WEEK AGO, HOUSE MINORITY
LEADER McCARTHY ADMITTED DONALD
TRUMP BORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
THE ASSAULT ON THE CAPITOL.
TODAY HE SAID HE DOESN’T THINK
TRUMP PROVOKED THE ATTACK.
SENATOR JOHN CORNYN OF TEXAS
SAID, THE SENATE SHOULD DISMISS
THE ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT
AGAINST THE NOW EXPRESIDENT WHO
INCITED A VIOLENT MOB THAT
KILLED A COP AND COULD HAVE VERY
WELL HAVE KILLED HIS OWN VICE
PRESIDENT.
THAT HAPPENED TWO WEEKS AGO.
DESPITE THE THREAT OF UP TO A
10,000 FINE, SOME HOUSE
REPUBLICANS CONTINUE TO IGNORE
THE NEWLY INSTALLED METAL
DERKTORS ON THE WAY TO THE HOUSE
FLOOR.
TWO REFUSED TO BE WANDED AFTER
SETTING OFF DETECTORS.
DON YOUNG HAND WHAT HAD LOOKED
LIKE A KNIFE BACK TO HIS WIFE
BUT DON’T WORRY, SHE SAID, IT
WAS A PIECE OF METAL.
AND MARYLAND CONGRESSMAN ANDY
HARRIS SAID I BELIEVE IT WAS A
GUN BECAUSE A COP MADE A SIDE
HOLSTER MOTION TO ANOTHER COP.
THEY REFUSED TO LET HIM IN.
THE MEMBER SAID HE DOESN’T HAVE
A LICENSE.
FULLER LATER CONFIRMED ABOUT THE
CAPITOL POLICE OFFICIAL THAT
HARRIS WAS INDEED CARRYING A
GUN.
TWO WEEKS AFTER THEY AND THEIR
COLLEAGUES WERE ALMOST KILLED.
THE SERIOUSNESS THE REPUBLICANS
ARE SHOWING THE CAPITOL POLICE.
NOW IN THE SENATE, SEVEN SENATE
DEMOCRATS LED BY SHELDON
WHITEHOUSE FILED ETHICS
COMPLAINTS FOR ENCOURAGING THE
ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL.
THE COMPLAINT SAYS THEY SHOULD
FACE STRONG DISCIPLINARY ACTION
INCLUDING UP TO EXPULSION A
CENSURE.
AND THEY SHOULD.
REPUBLICANS HAVE AN OBLIGATION
TO APOLOGIZE TO THE COUNTRY, TO
PATROL THEIR CAUCUS, AND TO
EXILE THE SEDITION FACTION, AND
NOT JUST TWEELD MINORITY POWER
THEY NOW HAVE TO CONTINUE TO
OBSTRUCT AN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
IF THEY WILL NOT DO THAT, WHICH
THEY ALMOST CERTAIN WILL YOU
WILL NOT, THEN DEMOCRATS WITH
THE POWER FROM THE AMERICAN BEAM
RARE CONTROL OVER BOTH HOUSES OF
CONGRESS, WITH THE PRESIDENT WHO
GOT MORE VOTES THAN ANYONE IN
HISTORY, WHO WON BY 7 MILLION
VOTES, AND A SENATE MAJORITY
DERIVE FROM VICTORY IN THE STATE
OF GEORGIA WHERE EVERYONE KNEW
THE SENATE WAS ON THE LINE, THEY
HAVE A MANDATE, THE DEMOCRATS,
TO DO THINGS TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S
LIVES AS QUICKLY AND AS MUCH AS
POSSIBLE AND TO FORTIFY AMERICAN
DEMOCRACY AGAINST THE FORCES
THAT WOULD SEEK TO DESTROY IT.
IF THAT CAN BE DONE IN A WAY
THAT FURTHERS UNITY, GREAT.
UNITY ON MATERIALS OF
REFORTIFYING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY,
HATRED, ED SXIGS TYRANNY, THAT’S
GREAT.
LET’S UNIT IDENTIFY AROUND THAT.
BUT TO THE EXTENT THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY CHOOSES TO HOLD TIGHT TO
THAT PATH, THE PATH OF DONALD
TRUMP, THE PATH OPPOSED TO
DEMOCRACY, THEN THE DEMOCRATS’
NEW POWER MUST BE WIELDED
AGAINST THEM.
RIGHT NOW WE’VE GOT A CRYSTAL
CLEAR EXAMPLE.
DAY ONE, RIGHT?
WE JUST STARTED THIS TODAY.
HERE’S WHERE WE ARE.
SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL IS
THREATENING TO FILIBUSTER THE
ORGANIZING RULES OF THE ROAD FOR
HOW THE SENATE WILL BE RUN.
AND IN DOING SO, HE’S PREVENTING
DEMOCRATS FROM CARRYING OUT THE
ROLES OF THE MAJORITY PARTY.
IT IS AS THE SENATOR NOTED,
ABSOLUTELY UNPRECEDENTED,
COUNTER PRODUCTIVE.
AS I SPEAK TO YOU TONIGHT,
DEMOCRATS HAVE STILL NOT TAKEN
THE MAJORITY BECAUSE MITCH
McCONNELL IS OBSTRUCTING THAT.
THE SAME MITCH McCONNELL WHO
WHIPPED HIS CAUCUS AGAINST
TRUMP’S FIRST IMPEACHMENT VOTE
WHEN HE WAS WARNED, THEY WERE
ALL WARNED THAT TRUMP WOULD DO
THINGS TO HURT THE COUNTRY.
THE SAME MITCH McCONNELL WHO
REFUSED TO NEGOTIATE THE
PROCEDURE FOR THE TRIAL.
THE SAME MITCH McCONNELL WHO OF
COURSE FACILITATED AND AIDED AND
ABETTED DONALD TRUMP AND HIS
DANGEROUS DEADLY DESTRUCTIVE
WINS THAT HAVE LED TO HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN DEATHS
AND ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL AND
DEMOCRACY HANGING BY A THREAD.
THE SAME MITCH McCONNELL WHO FOR
WEEKS REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE JOE
BIDEN WAS THE VICTOR EVEN THOUGH
HE KNEW HE WAS, AND IN SO DOING
GAVE LIFE TO THE DANGEROUS AND
DEAD WILL HE CONSPIRACY THEORIES
THAT WOULD COME CRASHING THROUGH
THE CAPITOL DOORS.
THAT McCONNELL STILL RETAINS HIS
POSITION AS SENATE MINORITY
LEADER.
DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE TO CLUES
VERY SOON.
DO THEY ROLL OVER FOR PHONY
CALLS FOR UNITY?
ABSOLVE THE PARTY?
OR DO THEY WIELD THE RARE POWER