into that kind of thinking that goes just beyond the president s going to be in office again and to that sort of bending their own reality, thinking things that are true are not. i m telling you, it trickles down into society, beyond, you know, january 6th, just into the way people react and react in their normal lives. some of it comes out in violence. so i think there s something to be studied there. i got to go. i m going to talk to somebody else. this is one of the most far-reaching voter suppression bills in the country. tell us about the danger to your state, but this has nationwide repercussions, ramifications. well, it wasn t me that led the house democrats. it was the house democrats that decided that they had enough of the sham legislative process that was going on sunday night. they had been given a 70-page
mad. what is the democrats next move? i m going to ask the chairman of the state party who will join me in a few minutes. first i want to bring in john harwood and denver riggleman. john harwood, president biden calling the attack on voting rights an unprecedented assault on our democracy. he s putting vice president kamala harris in charge of the white house efforts. you say this is an example of shifting power dynamic in the country. talk to me about that. don, think about what happened today. a democratic president elected on the strength of non-white votes in key states, went to oklahoma to recognize a racial massacre of african-americans in a way no previous president has done, to propose steps to redress, to narrow the racia l
thanks. listen, a lot of it depends on what the word reparations means. what does the word reparations mean at this point to most people because it s gotten caught up in a larger division in our politics as just about anything to do with race does. well, the idea is to repair, but i think more specifically because words tend to become more specific in their actual meaning, we think about making up for slavery and jim crow and more recently we also think about redlining as something that black americans need repair for. and i think that s a great thing in itself. yeah. so let s get to specifically what the president was asked about today. should the descendants of the tulsa massacre receive reparations? i actually think yeah. it was 100 years ago. there s still people living who underwent the trauma or who were just one generation from those
president biden slamming the efforts by republican led states to restrict voting rights, calling it an assault on our democracy. this sacred right is under assault with incredible intensity like i have never seen, even though i got started as a public defender and civil rights lawyer. with an intense skpit aggressiveness we have not seen in a long, long time. it is simply un-american. it is not however, sadly, unprecedented. the president announcing vice president kamala harris will lead the biden administration s push to protect voting rights across the country and acknowledging it will be an uphill battle. democrats in texas walking out and derailing a republican bill designed to suppress voting. the g.o.p. governor is fighting mad. what are the democrats next move? i will ask the chairman of the party who will join me in a few minutes. first john harwood.
this point because you just had a mob attack the capitol and republicans don t care about that. they re not even going to investigate it.. and you had a majority of congressional republicans voting to overturn the election results. i really feel, don and i fear that we ve crossed a rubicon here that things that were once unthinkable are not so unthinkable anymore. to me, it seems like this is what republicans are building up to, is having the ability in the next presidential election to simply toss out the votes and just ignore the will of the people. yeah. that s that s a real danger that we have to confront. max, thank you very much. i appreciate it. i ve got to get to some breaking news. this is breaking election news tonight. cnn projects that democratic state representative melanie stanz bury will win the special election to represent new mexico s first congressional district. that was the seat that was left vacant when the interior secretary deputy haaland joined th