give some of these republican officer holders truth serum and get out why they were doing this, like why get into the whole election game. what woulde they say? i mean because power is one thing, but to really have no principle that you can particularly articulate. other thanar winning. texas is particularly interesting and interesting in a lot of these states, you re seeing it in missouri. the paranoia is so yeah, to boulder s point, it s a snake eating its own tail. thank you my friend as always. today the florida statehouse of representatives passedse a bill that prevents colleges and universities in florida from spending any money on anything that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion. now it heads to florida governor ron desantis who will undoubtedly signnt the thing. now, if you live in the real world and if the words diversity and equity and inclusion sound like positive things to you, what happened today in florida feels likein madness. but if you are a fox
that they might lose an election, and so they gerrymander a system, or suppress the votes so that those margins that the governor, that abbott ran, probably not as high as they actually are, given the fact that texas is the hardest state in the country to cast a vote. and so, if you didn t have those restrictions in the place, those margins would probably be, you know, be a little lower. but, that shows the bankruptcy of that party. they are so concerned with just losing their election, they re willing to, you know, put it risk their reputation, their place in history, simply so that they win. and again, this is all about the acquisition and the retention of power at all costs. former attorney general eric holder, thank you so much. appreciate it. thank you. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner starts right now, with my good friend, alex wagner. making some time with us. appreciate it. ipon this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my good fri
floyd s death and the midst of the black lives matter protests that followed it, tucker carlson went all in, on the brown mena. he spent the first part of the show listing all the unarmed black americans killed by police in the previous year and why the police said they killed them. carlson made a huge deal out of how menacing these unarmed black americans seemed to the police. on another night that month carlson ranted against black lives matter protesters saying this matterer is, quote, definitely not about black lives, and b remember that when they come for you. and what made what carlson said that month so disturbing wasn t that this is what the host of a major cable news program was saying but that he was finding an audience for it. that month tucker carlson s show broke the record for the best viewership t numbers in the history of n cable news. so stories about the brown menace are t tucker carlson s whole thing.
and looking at his transformation over the course of his career you can make a very good case he just says what he needs to say depending on the audience he happens to have. and thatha to me is also part o this story, that this is a profoundlyly cynical person weaponizing for his own self-aggrandizement. i do want to place him as a figure inpl history, though, professor because he represents so much of the inherentance of of america on the topic of race, right? this idea of white nobility and white gentility has been used since slavery times to justify violence against j people of color. and tucker carlson is no