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job next. on that no, folks, i wish you a very good night. stephanie is back tomorrow. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. we will see you again tomorrow. tonight on all and. >> what did donald trump say last night about january 6? >> that was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions. >> he called today, quote, day of love. >> it's donald trump's greatest -- >> the american people are exhausted with his gaslighting. >> the republican nominee's most consequential lean people who know better are helping him get away with it. >> this is something more deranged., more desperate,

maybe to stay out of prison. >> marc elias on the lawsuit to disenfranchise voters in michigan and the major breaking news out of gaza. >> justice has been served. the united states, israel, and the entire world are better off as a result. >> david in the killing of the leader of hamas. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. we're 19 days out from election day in the harris/walz campaign is betting big that there are more americans who care about and want to preserve the democracy than those who do not. it's because trump simply cannot stop reminding everyone what happened on january 6, 2021. might be the moment of his presidency. he's most proud of. >> you had hundreds of thousands of people come to washington. they didn't come because of me but they came because of the election.

they thought it was a rigged election and that's why they came. some of those people went to the capitol. i said peacefully and patriotically. nothing done wrong. at all. nothing done wrong. strong action was taken. ashli babbitt was killed. nobody was killed. there were no guns down there. we didn't have guns. the others had guns but we didn't have guns. when i say we, this was a tiny percentage of the overall, which nobody season nobody shows, that was a day of love. >> that was trump's answer when he was asked by the menus on the left of your screen, undecided voter, to win's will back by apologizing, essentially, in a town hall yesterday. we didn't have the guns he said. the others had guns. first of all, there were trump supporters with guns at the capitol. we know that now. setting that aside, notice how restructures that sentence?

he is referring to the violent mob and the rioters and people who assaulted police officers as we. his people. his team. the guys who desecrated the m ransacked offices and chanted hang might pence. that's the others, the other side, the other team with guns. the ones on the other side, those, who was at? the cops who defended the capitol and our constitutional republic itself? trump has declared the two teams. him in the rioters on one and the rest of us on the other. because, again, he agrees with with the rioters did. he wishes they had been successful. today, kamala harris issued a direct rebuttal to those very remarks to voters in wisconsin. >> so now we here know that january 6 was a tragic day. it was a day of terrible violence. there were attacks on law enforcement, 140 law

enforcement officers were injured, some were killed, and what did donald trump say last night about january's ex? he called it a, quote, a day of love. but, it points out something that everyone here knows. the american people are exhausted with his gaslighting. exhausted. [ cheers and applause ] with his in enough. >> harris knows voters correctly find would have been on january 6 indefensible. the majority does. trump and his fellow republicans are doing everything to make voters forget about it. this is central. his hand-picked supreme court helped enormously by granting his ludicrous request for total immunity in making sure the criminal january 6 case got

delayed past the election. republican politicians were at the capitol during the insurrection have not forgotten. at least not privately. those people nobody did was despicable, and i use that were despicable specifically because it's how mitch mcconnell refers to trump, according to a new book amid trump's efforts to overturn the election, mcconnell called him a despicable human being , stupid, and ill tempered. mcconnell apparently sobbed to his staff after the insurrection and privately lamented that trump should have to pay a price for the attack. mitch mcconnell is not denying his disparaging comments about the current nominee for president. whatever i may have said pales in comparison to what j.d. vance, lindsey graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now. he is right about that. because, as donald trump, to his credit pointed out, there

are two teams here. there is a team that wants to preserve american democracy and the rule of law, and there is the team trying to overturn it. for donald trump, that is we versus the others. mitch mcconnell? he is with the we. he is part of the same despicable team, as donald trump. to forget, mitch mcconnell ran the senate during trump's second impeachment after january 6 and he could've whipped votes to convict trump, and had he done so and been successful, would've removed him from the possibility of public office. he could not have run again mcconnell chose not to do the. now trump is running again and mcconnell is by his side. i think the biggest hope i have is that voters do remember how terrible january 6 was. in the hours, days and weeks after the attack, it really did feel like trump might be finally finished. look at this graph. i think of it all the time. it shows trump's favorability as

four years of presidency. greenline is the approval rating. see how it reaches its lowest point ever at the very end? january 2021? the immediate aftermath of the violent insurrection he led. is favorability ratings were nearly 20 points underwater. what trump did that day sitting idly by while his supporters try to end american democracy and in fact encouraging them, is disqualifying. listen to how trump's longtime friend, billionaire robert kraft put it. >> donald trump became a social friend in the early '90s when i was going down to florida. then when my wife of blessed memory dies 13 years ago, he was one of four or five people who reached out to me and was really, really nice.

i was upset what happened january 6. >> i think he led an anorak -- insurrection? >> i haven't talked to him since then. >> republicans understood what trump did was a disaster morally and politically. remember? even has friends of fox news admitted as much privately. >>, quote, mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy, laura ingraham wrote. please get him on tv. destroying everything you have accomplished, ryan texted. , quote, can he make a statement, ask people to leave the capitol? sean hannity urged. >> he didn't want to do that at the time because he was too busy

watching it and eating and hoping the rioters were victorious. those very same folks, the same individuals quoted on fox, they are working night and day to wipe your memories. actively collaborating with this despicable human being by covering up his despicable plan to end the american republic as we know. they don't want you to think about the horrors of january 6 while you're filling out your ballot. listen to j.d. vance today. >> the media loves to talk about january 6 and january 6, 2021, fewer violent, if you committed acts of violence, then you should be prosecuted. everybody believes that. >> does everyone believe that, jd? because trump thinks it was a day of love. he refers to himself as part of the mob and promising to -- the via -- rioters. the biggest obstacle for folks like vance and laura ingraham

in mitch mcconnell, they want to make you forget it all. the biggest obstacle to their plan? donald trump himself who absolutely refuses to run away from what he did on january 6 because he is proud of it. to do it again. he is trying to do but again and he says so out loud. the only silver lining is that his pride and his despicable actions may be his downfall. acting solicitor general under president obama now a professor and published an op- ed on what to do in case of an election crisis and he joins me now. is a think about this, it's so striking to me what an enormous assist the supreme court ruling in the immunity decision was. i do think a criminal trial which due process calls for here. he was duly indicted. would require everyone to

reckon with this in a way that no one has had to reckon with that yet, and instead, in the immunity decision of delayed things enough that the folks who want to make you forget it can try to make you forget it. >> that is exactly right and that's what i like so much the last few minutes of your show in which you reminded us coast there's a lot of collective amnesia about what trump did on january 6. frankly, how virtually every american at the time felt about it. we would be experiencing all of that in real time at the criminal trial of donald trump took place. because of a bunch of legal maneuvers, he was able to delay it. i think the most important thing from the last minute the clips you have been showing about trump is not just what he tried to do on january 6, 2021, but what he will do and what is telling us he is going to do after november 5 of this year.

in 2021, he declared victory, when he got blown out in the electoral college, biden had 306 votes in trumpet 232, but yet, trump still claimed election fraud, hoax, fake slates of electors in all sorts of stuff, a list of the happened january 6. if he did it there where he had to run the table on this legal and political challenges to try to put the election, what do think he's not gonna do it now? that's why wrote that piece in the "new york times". it may be the most important op- ed i have written because i took all of trump's statements and what j.d. vance saying how trump 1:2020 and the like and i looked at the legal architecture of this country and how elections work, and is scared the heck out of me. any number of pressure points that donald trump and his minions can use in state legislatures, state governors, local election boards. the united states congress, and

of course, the courts state and federal. >> up to the supreme court which depending on what happens and depending on the margin as in 2000, you would suspect would have some final ruling one where the other. the same court that is shown itself amenable to arguments he has made that are quite outlandish to my humble point of view on immunity. >> i agree on the immunity decision. it's indefensible. for me the biggest worry is even if the justices act in a known nonpolitical way, they decide a case up and up, half the country is going to be upset at the supreme court in a way they were not before. in recent years has lost its legitimacy compared to its historical stature. in 2000, i was a junior lawyer on al gore's team and i

remember december 12 when we lost in the supreme court and al gore right away said, i am going to concede. the supreme court has spoken. that's the reverence in which he and the american people held the supreme court. i don't think the court plays quit that role today. when i think of election chaos, the court is a part of that. >> one of the things that struck me in the mcconnell, getting these excerpts from it, and it's clear mcconnell wants this to come out because he wants his cake and needed to. the guys like it bad guy but i support him. less than a month after special counsel jack smith brought the charges mcconnell said, if he hasn't committed indictable offenses, i don't know what one is. he said the same thing in a speech when he was denouncing his impeachment vote. he is subject to criminal and civil accountability. little did he know what the court had in store. that plain truth there, if this is indictable i don't know what

it is speaks for a large majority of the country. >> i agree. first, let's talk about mcconnell. mcconnell calls him despicable and a federal felon and says he tried to overturn our democracy and yet he still wants to vote for him? i don't know how that makes any sense whatsoever on any planet, in the solar system. that's the first thing. the second is, absolutely i agree with you that at the time it was very clear that to many people, republicans and democrats alike, that this was criminal activity and deserve to be the thing that should be tried in a court. what trump has managed to do through delay and legal tactics and with an assist from u.s. supreme court in the immunity decision is to delay it and hide from the american people the trial and the truth. i just find unforgivable. we the american people deserve

to know everything that happened on january 6 and of trump thinks what he did is in a, stand up in a court of law and prove it. >> to your point in the op-ed that we are watching this happen again. what's most important in terms of the republic? the institutions, civil society, the legal profession? these different institutions girding themselves for what we know is going to come if he loses on november fifth. >> i think we have to steel ourselves against it. what that means practically is trying to build a coalition of people, behind the veil of ignorance and we do not know who will win it. we need people to respect voting rights in what that means and practices people like president george w. bush need to come forward. mitt romney of the world needs to come forward. mitch mcconnell's of the world need to come forward. there used to be a consensus in this country that the right to

vote was the most precious thing we have. the voting x-ray act in the supreme court reauthorized 421- 3 in the house of representatives and 90-0 in the senate. that's the way just a few short years ago thought about how amazing and how important the right to vote is. now you have a party that is bent on taking the right to vote away and deciding the election themselves and the u.s. congress, stay governors, state legislatures, that's what should frighten all of us we need to steal against it right now. >> neal katyal, thank you. 19 days until the election the most litigious in history. marc elias is here on the latest of trump's attempted a slow-moving coup. slow-moving coup.

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this upcoming election is the most litigious in american history according to the democracy docket. they are laying the groundwork for postelection challenges. we are seeing the effects of the onslaught of cases filed since the last election. in georgia, the state election board enforced a last-minute mandate that stay counties must count ballots by hand. fulton county sapir judge rejected it saying it's too much too late. yesterday, thousands of legal voters in alabama had their status restored after a vote removal program crafted by republicans wrongly accuse them of illegally registry. the federal judge said the secretary of state office blew the deadline by trying to purge voters close to the general

election. earlier today, loss of fell by the rnc in the michigan republican party faced a hurdle. the judge presiding said republicans waited too long to file a suit challenging the right of some u.s. citizens who live abroad to vote. disenfranchise the entire group of citizens. marc elias has been the litigating cases like this across the country. he joins me now. a lot to get to. would start with the michigan case in which the rnc in michigan republican party are trying to stop some set up up overseas ballots from being counted or going out? >> yet. it's a big trend we have seen from the republican party. we've seen it in pennsylvania north carolina and most recently in michigan. they are targeting a subset of ballots cast by people who are living overseas, many of whom are in the military. these are military and overseas voters.

they are throwing caution to the wind. they are challenging the ballots of people who are stationed overseas and their dependents, and it shows the republican party -- there was a time the rnc would've waived the flag and wrap themselves in veterans but time and again they will disenfranchise anyone and any group if it gives them an advantage. >> a federal judge in the case who seemed skeptical at that hearing today on the. partly because of how close it is to the election. the alabama case is interesting because scrubbing voter rolls has been so thick republican secretaries of state have done. they've done it in texas and alabama and you have seen litigation from progressive groups, democratic party aligned groups against the scrubbing. in alabama and appears to be successful. how important is it? >> i think the republicans are purposely trying to pay these lawsuits which are meritorious

lawsuits. in some ways they want to be agreed by losing. federal law is clear states may not do list maintenance within 90 days of a general election. what did alabama do? it removed names within 90 days. wvu the same thing. republican secretaries of states and other places being goaded into doing. these last-minute purges. the law is so clear that you are left believing it has to be part of a plan for them to lose and then say you see? the judges have these roles dirty when in fact it was these last-minute purges that were in clear violation of federal law. >> that's extremely cynical and the various. use think it's not to win for some of the litigating is to lose on purpose as a kind of narrative building exercise for postelection, either pr or legal challenges where they can say we lost because there was

some set of phantom illegal voters that the judges made us keep on the roles? >> absolutely. donald trump thrives off of grievance. he thrives off of feeling cheated. he is getting what he wants from his political party which is an excuse structure before he loses to explain why he lost. and so, republicans are bringing these lawsuits. as of today, there's been 180 lawsuits filed this year which is a record by a lot. 111 were filed by republicans to make voting harder. they are losing the overwhelming majority and part is because they don't have meritorious claims. i think part of it is them pleasing the boss and filing these lawsuits and then being able to say this is why we lost the election because the judges follow the law. >> in georgia the state

election board that has three hard-core maga members and they came up with rules including hand counting the ballots which seems nuts to me. the superior court judge striking that down along with a few other last-minute changes. on this basic, it's too late principle, which we've seen and a bunch of places, will that hold? or will that get appealed? >> it's actually two different judges that have struck down these rules. the most important of them is the hand-counted rule and the certification. election deniers want the ability to do their own inspections and decide whether to certify and they lost both of those along with others. one of the lawsuits they lost was from the dnc and kudos to those lawyers but they lost one from a bunch of republicans who challenged these rules. third losing from the left and the right and the losses will stand up although i'm have no doubt the rnc will appeal. >> marc elias, we should have

you do one of these every night. this was very informative. up next, a rapturous reception for kamala harris in wisconsin will trump things out in new york. in new york.