ultimately accountable. joyce, the new york times reports there are a small circle of republicans who pressure the justice department in attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. they include jim jordan, andy biggs, paul gosar, louie gohmert, mo brooks and scott perry. what kind of legal exposure could they have if any? so the legal exposure is all involved in the investigation. we could look at the sort of tip of the iceberg effect. but what doj has to do if doj is in fact engaging in criminal investigation, is they need to learn more. they need to learn the entirety of the conduct to determine whether it s criminal or not and to determine if it s criminal where it falls within the parameters of crime, something that barb and i have spent a lot of time talking about is whether or not there s the possibility of prosecution of some group of individuals for a conspiracy to
rights act. we must. we re going to keep up the fight until we get it done, and you re going to keep up the fight. and we need your help badly. joining us now is the lieutenant governor of wisconsin, man della barns. he is also running for the united states senate. lieutenant governor, thank you very much for coming to the last word. what can we do to keep our elections safe while republicans are continuing their attacks on the ballot box? well, thanks so much for having me. and i ll tell you one thing we absolutely have to do is have action in the senate. we need to expand the majority to make sure there are people, representatives there who are committed to expanding our democracy to protecting the sacred right to vote. unfortunately, it feels it s not always top of mind for people. and in a state like wisconsin as the things you just mentioned, we see just how fragile democracy can be. because there are so many people who were just very intent on destroying and dismantling our
difference between the two parties and thou they target black voters. for republicans it s helping to fund a strong man candidate designed to syphon votes from the opposing party. for democrats it s creating actual legislation to help black communities. it s talking policy. as president biden did today when he delivered the commencement address at a historically black university in south carolina. with the infrastructure law we just wrote and signed into law and jim did so much to pass, we re going to pass better jobs for millions of peoples to rebuild our roads, highways, bridges, small towns, ruraltuants. it means more opportunities for black businessmen, black contractors, black engineers building black communities back to where they have to be. and i mean it. so if you don t know the community it s hard to know what it needs. joining us now eugene daniels, white house reporter
donald trump pushed wisconsin republicans to back a sham investigation into the 2020 election results. the post reports that investigation, quote, makes little pretense of neutrality and is being led by figures who have shown allegiance to trump or embraced false claim of fraud. these election lies are fueling hundreds of republican bills to suppress voting and subvert legitimate election results. president biden keeps pressuring senate democrats to pass voting rights protections. speaking today at south carolina state university s winter graduation the president called out these republican-led attacks on our democracy. this new sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion is un-american. it s undemocratic, and sadly it is unprecedented since reconstruction. but this battle s not over. we must pass the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting
for politico and an msnbc political contributor. eugene, i ve been waiting to talk to you all night about this. i want your reaction to this kanye report but also, come on, republicans, you think running kanye is going to get you black votes? why do republicans do this? look, you re trying to get me in trouble on a friday night. i think the thing as you re reading this over and over and this story is what you realize is that the misunderstanding of black voters by certain segments of the political world is still at an all-time high in a way that is kind of shocking, right? because something black voters have made very clear over and over and over again is that they take the right to vote very seriously that in 2020 they felt the stakes were very high. so there s no world in which a bunch of black voters were going to change their mind and flock to kanye west because they liked