news breaking about how the secret service scrambled to find some way donald trump might have joined what we now know is a march that ended in a criminal breach of the cooperate that day. we re also learning this hearing will feature testimony by the first capitol officer injured as well as video evidence that appears to blow the lid on a sket military meeting in an underground parking garage. this was on insurrection eve. stewart. pleasure. pleasure s all mine. i m going stay close, just to make sure my guys are okay. okay. tomorrow. i got a lot of stuff to do tomorrow. that s what the meeting looked like. both of the individuals you see there are now awaiting their trials for sedition. one of the most serious types of conspiracies on the federal books. we ve got a lot going on tonight as i mentioned, so i m going to get right to it and bring in our special guest on this busy news week, barbara mcquade and veteran political strategist and former obama adviser and
joining. this is big tonight. they have long argued this institution is broken, that right wingers broke it and that you can t even pretend to tackle america s tough problems if you won t clean up the system. today newly elected georgia senator raphael warnock used his first floor speech to invoke the pitched battle over americans right to vote arguing senators right to vote should not be vetoed by republican minority abuse of the filibuster tactic. we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crowe era. it is a contradiction to say we must protect minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society. colleagues, those senate rules should overrule the integrity of our democracy. this is jim crowe in new clothes. this was a powerful way to begin his senate career. warnock looking like the rookie and the vet willing to offer new ideas with the experience of a
converse could identify them. our guest now is someone leading the fight on this, democratic congressman don bear has a plan to get around republican filibuster obstruction and still regulate and limit assault-style weapons in a manner that could get through the senate. it s an interesting plan. sir, we will get into that. that s why we invited you on, but first, given that mr. mcconaughey was also meeting with lawmakers today, your thoughts on what he said? i haveh not realized the bodies were that torn up. i don t think i ve ever seen a body in person that s been shot by an assault weapon, so it was very moving, and i m hoping that mr. mcconaughey was able to move some republican senators. because those are the votes we re going to need. yeah. that makes sense. it s tough stuff. yeah. very hard. yeah. you, sir, are doing something
heard. and that s why today s push is a bit surreal. democrats do not have the votes to reform the filibuster obstruction of these voting bills, which means they won t get an updated voting rights bill to the senate floor unless something changes. that means this holiday steeped in history and progress is serving to mark one way that the history of antiobstruction is in a very real way repeating itself right here on this holiday. it was martin luther king himself who diagnosed the exact same antidemocratic forces over 50 years ago, how made up rules like the filibuster thwarted civil rights and majority rule itself. the tragedy is that we have a congress with a senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.
seen this movie before, well, another president did once talk about this kind of dynamic. there s an old saying in tennessee that says fool me once, shame on you, if you fool me, you can t get fooled again. close. it s actually fool me twice, shame on me, and that s how some are feeling watching this routine. now, proportion matters. it is still overwhelmingly republicans, not chuck schumer, that are responsible for the actual filibustering of these civil rights bills. and it s republicans who won t consider even treating the voting rights carveout like they do nominations or spending policies, which are not magically subject to this filibuster obstruction. and when it comes to democrats vowing more hardball than they are willing to actually enact, some activists may start to feel