will look at whatever legal analysis the president gives him, the president here is the second part, and when i talk to the president about that, he told me pence never told him no. again, the speed bump metaphor is useful. the car still in motion, which is why it is evident. if you get michael bender s book wherever it sold. thank you. breaking news tonight in texas, democratic lawmakers have s flood restriction lawlessly fly from austin, washington d.c., we will talk to one of them love tonight. we re also gonna speak to washington d.c. police officer michael funyun. he answered the call on january six, michael fanone, he was beaten and tased, leaving him
you are not a capitol police officer, you don t work there, but you ve been to the capital. i just wonder what it s like to go back and imagine how it must be to go there to work every day. if you had to go back to work there every day, what that would be like? i have no idea, to be completely honest with you, how those officers continue to show up for work every day, other than the fact that they swore an oath, and that s what police officers do. we go to work day in and day out, but you know, for me, i have had a lot of interactions after january 6th with harry dunn. you know, a hell of a guy he, he s been incredibly supportive of me. i gave him all the respect in the world going back up there
conclusions were, given how it turned out on the ground. and i think most importantly, people came into this knowing that biden was very skeptical of the military s role in washington. he said on the campaign trail that he hoped that the vast majority of the troops, and i think the most important factor that distinguishes this time from last time was the fact that everyone had another decade to conclude that this war was never going to be one on the battlefield. and even the most argument supporters and the powers of military force, if you want to put it that way, had concluded that it wasn t going to happen in afghanistan. and everyone realized that there would be a negotiated outcome. all right, missy ryan has been doing great reporting on this topic. thank you so much. thank you. that is all in on this monday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now.
legislature because they have the numbers but when it comes to democracy, that s something that was not difficult especially the second time because the governor called a special session and put a lot of nonsense on the call and there was nothing on the call for the texas people and our great wasn t on that call so there wasn t really anything to keep us there. so i m so proud of my colleagues and i m so thankful to the good lord above that we all made it out and everybody has arrived in d.c. safely and we don t have to worry about dealing with going to the floor tomorrow. so why d.c.? you want from texas to d.c.. you re talking from d.c. tonight. why d.c.? yeah, absolutely. i, mean wet other place can we go that we can actually seek some relief. we re still working on behalf of the people of the state of texas. and this isn t a vacation and
have flood the legislature to stop voter suppression bills. tonight, texas democrats landed in washington d.c. on the eve of the presidents major address on voting rights tomorrow. i m joined now by one of the leaders of the walkout. texas state representative jasmine crockett. you ve done it. getting 50 legislators can to do anything can be hard. how did you guys come together to take this very dramatic action. man, listen. first of all, thanks for having me. and you re absolutely right getting that many people to do anything feels impossible but when democracy is on the line i think those who truly understand what we are supposed to be in this country, we don t compromise and so for so long the republicans the have been pushing us around the texas