The streets here. Two cops were injured. Well have all the latest details on that ahead. But, first, this morning, we start in the United States senate with the headline isnt that senators passed a funding bill last night to keep the government open for business, the headline is how they passed it. Everything they went on behind the scenes all through yesterday and late into the night to make that vote ohappen. If the story before this weekend was all about Elizabeth Warren then a similar character ended up taking center stage yesterday. Cruz and his ally, utahs mike lee that blew up a deal late friday night and forced the senate into a rare weekend session. Something most other republicans are upset about, too. But this morning, Many Republican senators seem much more upsaid at cruz over his theatrics which they say, backfires. A 1. 1 trillion funding bill did pass the senate on saturday night. The bipartisan vote of 5640. Here on this list right here, these are the senators that vote
Better. Even when they were writing that bill, they were anticipating rejection and upset that something called a Civil Rights Act might bring about in many parts of this country. And so as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, they wrote in basically something that they didnt give too much attention to, but something that they wanted to help head off that prospect. They created a whole new Division Within the federal government, ultimately a whole new part of the Justice Department, to try to head off what they thought might be upset and rejection and consternation in part caused by the Civil Rights Act itself. They didnt do it in a flashy way. They tucked it into the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Even to this day its never had that much attention. But part of the reason for that is when they created this new part of the government, they mandated that it wouldnt get too much attention. Its interesting. Its not exactly secret, but by statute, by the law that it was created about i ed by in 19
Donald trump rolls out his unconstitutional plan to grab guns and stop crime. I would do stop and frisk. I think you have to. As his running mate urges americans to move on. This talk, this talk about institutional racism and institutional bias. And the shockwaves of charlotte and tulsa reach the nfl. Im saying it straightup, this is wrong and we need to do something. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight, major developments in the two Police Shootings weve been following for the past week. Charlotte, north carolina, is in a state of emergency at this hour. As a third night of protests is under way. And in the shooting of an unarmed black man in tulsa, oklahoma. There the Police Officer has been charged with firstdegree manslaughter. More on that in a moment. First, these are live pictures of Downtown Charlotte. Last night during the second night of protests following the shooting death of keith scott, another man was shot as police took positions
Being hacked and having jill stein raise a lot of money, basically leading them down this pass, is it theyre getting off the topic that you and i talk about on air a lot, which is the grassroots politics of winning back these state legislatures, these state governors mansions, so they can actually have some say in the way these elections are run. What do you think . In 24 months, we have another election coming. One things going to happen. Jill stein and this circus shes doing is one thing about money. Its about 40 of us going to the Online Companies thats raising the money. Its going to get watered down. Shes trying to be important and relevant. And to be frank with you, shes using Hillary Clintons donors and the think towards miss clinton, secretary clinton out there in an unproductive way. If they were raising 5 million to go do some get out the vote and redistricting, good for you. Thats a real smart thing for the party to do. Thats a good thing to do while the dnc is disorganized
Why winter is coming, everywhere. This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Goo evening i am chuck todd in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. La last year candidate trump was practically run out of town at cpac, he didnt show. This year, President Trump is coming in a big way. How do you believe President Trump has impacted the conservative movement . I think by tomorrow this will be tpac when hes here. No doubt. May have been a joke, but truer words may not have been spoken. Does President Trumps takeover of this annual conservative gathering mean that conservativism is now trumpism and conservativism as you knew it is no longer there, totally replaced by trumpism . Or is it simply Movement Conservativism is just in hibernation and is there a point at which those conservatives fight back . Today we saw something rare at cpac. The chief of staff, Reince Priebus and steve bannon on stage together. One more sign that there is no one person in charge of the white house. And there are per