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I don't think the incoming president should be threatening his political opponents with jail time.

Trump's targets for retribution speak out as we learn startling new details about abuse from Trump's first DOJ.

The most important thing about this report is that it serves as a warning as a second Trump administration is about to take office.

Tonight, one of Trump's targets in Congress joins me live.

Then, I could not be more excited to join the One America News family inside the MAGA pressure campaign to try and avoid another Matt Gates and Senator Chris Murphy on the stakes of these nominations.

And 72 hours after Assad's ouster in Syria, the real opportunity and the real danger that exists at the end of the dictatorship.

When All In starts right now.

Good evening, everyone. I'm Eman Mohedin in New York. I'm in for Chris Hayes this evening.

As Donald Trump is preparing to take the oath of office in just over a month, we're learning new details about how his Department of Justice spied on his perceived enemies the last time he was in office.

The Trump-era DOJ secretly obtained phone and text messages, logs of 43 congressional staffers, and two members of Congress in 2017 and 2018.

That is the top line of a new report by the Department of Justice Inspector General.

It also found that the Trump administration gave, quote, at a minimum, the appearance of

inappropriate interference when it spied on two Democratic members of Congress.

They were current Senator Adam Schiff of California, who at the time was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and fellow California Congressman Eric Swalwell, who also sat on that committee.

Today's IG report also found that the Trump DOJ violated its own policies in the way it secretly obtained phone and text records from reporters in the same leak investigations.

Now, we knew a bit of this before, but not the details or the depth of this Trump effort.

In fact, the IG investigation was opened three years ago after the New York Times first reported

that the Trump DOJ had secretly

spied on Schiff, Swalwell, congressional staffers and journalists from the Times, the Washington Post,

and CNN in an effort to find leakers. It began under the then Attorney General Jeff Sessions,

as multiple news outlets reported on the Trump campaign's connections

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