Tonight on All-In, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security

and intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them.

The MAGA offensive against the institution that wouldn't help Trump and democracy.

He is suggesting that you be punished by death.

As much as these comments directed me, it's also directed at the institution of the military.

Then the big decision from the judge in the Trump coup trial as the truth comes out in

a New York court.

Maybe he's not as rich as he says he is.

And as we get more good polling for the Biden campaign, the latest stunt from the Republican

frontrunner to avoid the debate stage.

The headline is, why is he afraid to debate?

He's afraid to go on that stage.

What is the former president afraid of?

And All-In starts right now.

Good evening from New York.

I'm Chris Hayes.

Tonight there's going to be another Republican primary debate featuring a bunch of candidates

not named Donald Trump, polling in a distant second and lower.

And what will likely be laid bare on that stage, even without Trump present, is the extent

to which what used to be bog standard Republican issues have been cast aside to serve the

whims of the ex-president who isn't there.

As someone who's covered politics professionally for several decades, particularly as someone

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