if we re not spreading the infection, isn t it just theater? no, it s not. and you are wearing two masks. isn t that theater? no, it s not. here we go again with the theater. let s get down to the facts. plus, congresswoman katie porter on covid relief. and adam mckay on his new document deep dive into the origins of qanon. trump put this photo on twitter. so, you can see, if you trace the thumbs, they make a q. when all in starts right now. good evening, from new york. i am chris hayes. tonight, we are learning more about some of the eight victims of that horrific-shooting spree in the atlanta area, on tuesday. 33 years old, a wife and mother to two children. she and her husband mario were at young s asian massage tuesday for a relaxing-spa day. just to get a little time to themselves. when the shooting began, they were in two different rooms. mario was able to lock himself inside one of those rooms, and escape, uninjured. family members described alana as
the courthouse. three big decisions just came down from the judge, what are they and how do they affect the trial? these are major decisions. the judge in this trial ruled that he was going to deny a motion from chauvin s attorney to delay the trial. the defense complained about the pretrial publicity and asked the judge to for this relief bill. they say it will just not be able to be avoided. and two he says he doesn t believe anywhere in the state of minnesota that the tension of this has not reached. the impact has been too wide spread. this involves an arrest, a prior arrest of george floyd. a year before he died. that involves evidence to be admitted in that. the judge did partially rule with the defense to admit some evidence and some democrat. he says the fact pattern where he is approached in a similar matter, accused of ingesting drugs. he says some of that is. that is the day he died and that is what is leading up to the trooifl they are trying to get to get it de
that seeks to deny the real fears in the communities. as a result of historic racism exacerbated by a former president and media allies who describe the coronavirus pandemic as the china virus or kung flu for more than a year up to and as recently as this week. the right is doubling down on the violence trutherism with this comment from congresswoman chip roy. we believe in justice. there is an old saying in texas find the rope and get a tall oak tree. you know, we take justice very seriously. we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. my concern about this hearinging is that it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society. now we are talking about whether talking about china, the chi coms, whatever phrasing we want to use, if some people say we think those people are the bad guys. i think the chinese communist party are the bad guys. and i think that they re harming people. those remarks prompted an immediate outcry, among these colleagues in
brick in the wall confirming that the big lie is indeed baseless. from washington post, quote, u.s. postal service investigators found no evidence to support a pennsylvania postal worker s claim that his supervisors had tampered with mail in ballots according to an inspector general s report. allegations cited by top republicans to press baseless clams of fraud in the presidential election. richard hopkins alleged he heard the local postmaster general. he revised the initial claims eventually stated he had not heard a conversation about ballots at all. rather he saw the postmaster and supervisor having a discussion and assumed it was about fraudulent ballot back dating. the new report states. even though the dubious claim was recanted the damage was done. it became a case study in what trump and trumpism can do with a lie. trump referred to hop conditions as a quote brave patriot. senator graham cited the false claim from hopkins in a letter to the jd demanding a federal in
voting rights legislation. senator warnock s whose state was at the center of calls by trump was on the floor. watch. we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crow era. this is jim crow in new clothes. since the january election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country from georgia to arizona, from new hampshire to florida. using the big lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression. the same big lie that led to a violent insurrection on this very capitol. the day after my election. make no mistake. this is democracy in reverse. rather than voters being able to pick the politicians, the politicians are trying to cherry pick their voters. i say this cannot stand. the legislation the senator is promoting there takes direct aim at institutional barriers to voting and create national standards for voter registration. according to dem