why america seems to be responding with an empathic this is american invoices. american democracy s doing undermined by election lies fabricated by don t donald trump and his allies. voters are fed up by those lies. trump is backing several it s not just trump s backing candidates and three other battleground states who falsely claimed trump s won the 2020 election. it s all part of the slow-moving crew to move the future elections. it s a crisis spreading in state legislatures across this country. you re reporting for the new york times reads at least 357 sitting republican legislatures in closely contested battleground states have used the power of their office to discredit or try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. the tally accounts for 44% of the republican legislators in the nine states where the presidential race was most narrowly decided. in an interview with the times, trump acknowledged he is looking for candidates who want state legisla
america day to all of you at msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news that s today, millions of parents are now one step closer to the relief they ve been so desperately seeking. just in the last hour, at the plane carrying more than 70,000 pounds of baby formula from europe touching down, you see it there in indiana. this is the first of several deliveries with more snow to arrive in the states in the next coming days. it is part of the biden administration s initiative to increase the supply of formula amid the national shortage. agriculture secretary tom vilsack speaking just moments ago about their efforts and that indianapolis airport. i m told that the shipment provides enough formula to take care of 9000 babies and 19,000 toddlers. for a week. now that s about half 1,000,008 doses a formula on that plane. about 78,000 pounds. joining us now, nbc s megan fitzgerald in indianapolis. that s for that first baby f
surged in georgia. early voting. ahead of tuesday s primaries in the state. more than 850,000 residents already have cast their votes, despite some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. yet, the core of it all, a most visible reminder of donald trump s unpredictable but enduring pull on the gop. in a state that trump brazenly tried to bend to his will two years ago. is endorsed candidate in the state governors race. david perdue is limping behind incumbent brian kemp. trump announcing last minute a televised rally for purdue tomorrow night. on the other side, democratic former state representative stacey abrams is running unopposed in her race to become the nation s first black woman governor. tonight, we are all about with the primaries will mean for the rest of the country. that s politicsnation this evening. plus, a new washington poll revealing the depth of our racial divide two years after george floyd s murder. now in the aftermath of the tragedy in buff
previously thought. what would it take for them to finally take action in the jimmy thomas scandal? i will discuss. using religion as political ammunition? a san francisco archbishop says that nancy pelosi cannot receive communion in his archdiocese unless she changes her stance on abortion rights. i will speak with the reverend claiming that the archbishop is using communion as a partisan political weapon. later, dozens of republicans voted against the bill that will help ease the broad baby formula crisis. i will introduce you to one texas businessman who says, i am tired of waiting for politicians to solve the problem. he stepped up in a huge way. all of this and more is coming up. a good saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. we have so much talk about this morning. let s get started. president biden is an indictment meeting with allies in the region. hours ago, he spoke in south korea about the importance of uniting the world democracies in the face of authorita
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they form