adrianne shropshire, susan del percio, online with chris hayes starts now. starts now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, one of the most frightening trends in american politics in recent months has been the prioritization, across the country, of conservatives and republicans from state to state targeting lgbtq folks. it s one of the, if not the unifying policy priorities in the modern republican party 2023. it s especially pronounced at the state level. the american civil liberties union says it s tracking nearly 400 anti lgbtq bills across the country. tennessee, to name one state, in particular, is home to multiple examples of this particular noxious trend. there is a new law criminalizing many types of drag performance. is 12th night fond of? that will find out. a bill working its way through the legislature which would allow state clerks to refuse to officiate gay marriages if they so choose. but it s not just the states. we are seeing this disturbing trend of
desantis. he is success with that bill has no let other folks say oh, okay, the gender ideology, the drag queens, the kids in schools, this is now something we can go in offense on again. now we re going to have the scandals again. i saw a report today, and again, it s always hard confirmed these individual reports, like what book in what librarian what school is or isn t there. so i saw someone mentioned that tango makes three had been taking out of the school in florida, which is an amazing story about a gay couple of penguins in the central park zoo. a great book for kids. it s a great book for kids about being gay and his obviously nothing to do a sex. i just thought, like, in terms of going back in the clock, i remember heather has two mommies controversy in new york city board of ed in 1992. i mean, that s 30 years ago. taking a book like that ode to the library. it s back. yeah, i retain go to my
is trying to figure out how do we move forward past title 42. and we know that and have that conversation. i m just not going to lean into rumors. the moment i talk about rumors are conversations that are out there, it opens up a whole other conversation. so just want to be mindful of that. all, right karine jean-pierre, appreciate making time for us. still to come, florida governor ron desantis prepares to challenge donald trump for the republican nomination, but does the man people are calling sure trump have it takes to go on the offensive? ahead. offensive? ahead. [ ]
let me start with you, fernando, just in terms of how you understand ron desantis s book tour and what the sort of view from florida is about his sort of political legs. well, chris, you alluded to that this is a book tour in name only. he is absolutely setting the stage for a presidential run. but there s a little bit of an edifice rex desantis complex going on here because don t trump is the father political father of ron desantis. know that. besides ron desantis handpicked, of course, by trump, so the governor s race in almost eight years ago and that led to his victory. so, i think that desantis s preference here is to basically do all of the shadow campaigning as he starting to do pretext. but at the same time so he does not have to politically kill his father, so to speak, he wants others, or
outclassed because of that larry craig interview that you just played. i have watched in a while, but i forgetting the out of the closet. so is the motivation i needed. the reason why you re bringing me back and we re all going back in time it s pretty simple, unfortunately. the republicans think that it s a political winner again. it s really a simple as that. i think you laid it out nicely about the damage done in the north carolina bathroom bill to republicans. obviously the gay marriage issue became such a loser for republicans across the country. a lot of them just stopped talking about. at some of them change their views, some of the rear pretending that they were into gay marriage to begin with. others interview stayed the same but they stop talking about it. particularly with school issue, that s what started us down this path. the republicans saw with the don t say gay bill in florida, the debt seemed over the line. that seemed kind of crazy, but it was a political winner fo