0 control but also federal standards, and to make sure that the system is not being abused. and now we are here, senator tim kaine of virginia. thank you so much for your time tonight. chris, it s going to be an important i m excited about it. we will keep our eyes on it. that is all in on this tuesday night. rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. thank you very much. thanks to you at home for joining us. florida s republican governor, ron desantis, submitted a new map for congressional districts. in his state. what he proposes is that florida should cut in half the number of congressional districts that are majority black. okay. texas s largest counties are starting to report on the real world impact of the voting restrictions that texas republicans passed this past year. as many as half the ballot requests they are getting from voters in the state s largest counties are now being rejected by the states, because the new voting rights restrictions they j
trump campaign aide teamed up with kanye west s publicist to pressure a random georgia election worker and intimidate a georgia election worker to intimidate to confessing to crimes she did not commit so donald trump would have a predicate to overturn the election. that is the story? right. and prior to this there were already questions due to the number of republican operatives on kanye s staff about whether his whole, as you said, half-baked campaign was an effort to help trump take away votes from biden. people i have talked to about that wondered, you know, was it a grift or was it dirty tricks because kanye sort of threw $12 million around so people might have had motivation to join him besides helping trump, but it is also a connection between the trump campaign and the kanye west campaign. but i think as you alluded to, one of the most interesting things here is that it took place on january 4th, two days before president trump stood on the elipse and told people to march to t
associated for something as solemn as the white house so for us, it was devastating, very deflating and one of those snap to reality moments where you look back over all of the previous warning signs you ignored and have to challenge yourself on. desdon stockton, one of the organizers at the rally at the elipse, serving almost as a tail gate for the election rally. telling chris hayes he was shocked at the moment trump urged his supporters to march to the capitol. him and his partner jennifer lawrence have been called the bonnie and collide of maga world. now, these right wing activists provided the 1/6 committee with reams of evidence, one of the nearly 300 witnesses who come
trump give directions and donald trump did not give specific directions. he talked about oprah for like 10 minutes and then, you know, a little bit further along he said, you know, we re all going to the capitol and i m coming with you and he did not come. so it s easy to see how that would happen as a q-anon supporter. let s be haunsz, nobody thought donald trump was going to walk from the elipse to the capitol, that s a long walk. let s talk about one more thing, the vulnerable here, i ve been looking into the death of rosanne boilen, accountability is a major issue, and q-anon, talk about their tactics. you get this guy trump, a demagogue saying i got this theory and people fall into the