the feeling on the ground there? reporter: well, here just outside of yellowstone national park, which is on the other side of that ridge line, they re having a fire preparedness meeting tomorrow, alisyn. the entire west, over 90% of the west is in this deep drought, and this climate change is a cascading series of events, right? so years ago before climate change, there was a certain inspect that would burrow into the trees but cold winters would kill it off. now that doesn t happen anymore. as a result there s a lot of dead trees, a lot more fuel, and we are seeing what is happening in the west. yesterday, the most stunning number to come out of cal fire you talk about the bootleg fire in oregon, just south of them in california they have had five times the acreage burned this year than last year, and last year was epic worst of all time in history wildfire season. already at this point in mid-july it is five times that big right now. so we are in a stage really
democracy is under vigorous, vicious and sinister attack, beginning with the events of january 6th at the capitol and cascading like a tsunami through state legislatures across the nation. a movement from the ground up is starting to be the only way that we can preserve our right to vote. we informed them that this is going to come not from the white house down but from our houses up. all right. among those at the meeting, national action network president reverend al sharp ton who hosts politicsnation, by the way, coming up after this hour on msnbc. thank you for joining us and good to see you this afternoon. thank you. talk us through first how this meeting went and the president s perspective. we wanted to meet with the
democracy is under vigorous, vicious, and sinister attack. beginning with the events of june, january 6th at the capitol and cascading like a tsunami. for legislators across the nation. they knew voter restriction legislation that mark morial is talking about and in republican state legislators as the newest version of the fight for equity and fairness in voting. the white house meeting today actually did not discuss the oldest method of denying voters very representation in american government. gerrymandering. gerrymandering began soon after our first president george washington left office and the partisanship he warned against began to infect our politics. gerrymandering got its name in
the need for joint cooperation between the white house, congress and local leaders. democracy is under vicious, sinister attack, beginning with the events of january 6th at the capitol and cascading like a tsunami through state legislatures across the nation. a movement from the ground up is starting to be the only way that we can preserve our right to vote. we informed them that this is going to come not from the white house down but from our houses up. i told the president we will not be able to litigate our way out of this threat to black citizenship voting and political participation. we need legislation to be passed in congress, both hr-1 and hr-4.
what they plan to do to safeguard the right to vote. democracy is under vigorous, vicious, and sinister attack, beginning with the events of january 6th at the capitol and cascading like a tsunami through state legislatures across the nation. we are going to build a movement around this country to resist that, what is clearly a move to try to disenfranchise people of color from voting, the methodical way this has been laid out in the state legislatures and at their state legislation is geared toward robbing us of the vote. the movement from the ground up is starting to be the only way