with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. rachel, i ve been waiting to see, hear, and i hope someday talk to fani willis since the story broke in georgia last month. i remember the first night we covered it as a possible criminal prosecution of donald trump in georgia, remember saying then that fani willis is on the threshold of becoming the most famous district attorney in american history, period, done, because if she ends up being the first and only district attorney in history who prosecutes a former president of the united states, her place in history is assured. the mystery for me as we ve been covering it, and reading all these articles about it, is who is she, what is she like, and you answered that tonight, rachel. this is someone who knows exactly why she s investigating this. she s very solid and sure about what she s doing. very, very impressive interview in this last hour. i was really, really, really psyched to book her. and cre
and what that means mathematically is that we ve now got sort of a horizon on our pandemic finally. i mean, at least on paper. what this means, what this announcement from president biden means tonight is that we should have enough supplies on hand to vaccinate every american by the end of july. today we had another day of more than 2 million shots administered in a single day. remember, facing all that skepticism whether they could get to a million shots a day in order to get to president biden s goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days? well, today we had another day where they did 2 million. 2 million vaccine doses administered today. we are finally starting to get there. we re going to have more on that story ahead. it is really tremendous news. chris hayes talking about that earlier tonight on msnbc with a lot of optimism in his voice. i share that feeling. alongside that, some disturbing reporting from the new york times tonight that the former president, p
passed in 19 states and after months of pressure and pleading from activists on democrats to do something, to do anything to stop this wave of voters suppression and nullification laws, the united states senate has now taken up a last ditch effort to try to pass federal voting rights legislation. debate on a sweeping bill that combines the two key voting proposals, the jon lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act, began just a few hours ago. democrats are pressing ahead even though the bill is doomed to ultimately fail. given the plans by the gop to filibuster and the fact that senators joe manchin and sinema and perhaps others are unwilling to reform the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. senate democrats took to the floor to send the message that the fight for federal voting rights legislation is still a necessary effort. that will ultimately reveal who s on the side of democracy and who s not. win, lose, our draw, members of this chamber were electe
welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd here in a solemn washington in a studio that is just outside the perimeter of the u.s. capitol which was stormed one year ago today by a mob of trump supporters seeking to overturn the results of the free and fair 2020 presidential election. it has been a day of solemn remembrances here at the capitol. last hour we saw speaker pelosi lead a moment of silence. members will hold a prayer vigil on the capitol steps this afternoon. we ve heard from lawmakers mostly on one side of the aisle recount their harrowing experiences. 17 are speaking on the senate floor. none from the republican side of the aisle. it hasn t just been a day of remembrance about what happened then, it s also been a day of reckoning about what s happening right now to our democracy. as the former president and the lies that incited the riot itself have grown stronger within the republican party not weaker, a lot of us were wrong about that. virtually every el
knoxville, tennessee, boston massachusetts, wilmington, delaware. reno, nevada. st. paul, minnesota. kansas city, missouri. austin, texas. americans turning out in city after city across the country, many of them kind of in shock. the country is digesting the bombshell news that broke just over 24 hours ago that a majority on the supreme court appears poised to revoke the constitutional right to abortion in the united states. today, the chief justice john roberts confirmed that a draft majority opinion published last night by political.com is authentic. and that draft opinion, justice samuel alito eviscerate s both roe v. wade, and planned parenthood versus casey. the foundational supreme court precedents that have guaranteed the right to an adoption in this country for decades. if the court does ultimately rule that way, the justices take away a right that americans have been guaranteed for nearly 50 years, the ramifications will be immediate, widespread, severe, and in some