senator catherine cortez masto described that texas rulin with a word i cannot say o television and that exclusive interview i coming up first. plus, what is next for justi j. pearson one of the tennessee three who captivity the country this week i will ask him when he joins m in just a few minutes. meanwhile, after donald trump arraignment in new york, republican stepped up thei calls to defund the fbi into the doj. i will explain all the reasons why the gop is anything but th party of law and order and later, what was th governor of california doing i alabama? i traveled to montgomery for a wide-ranging conversation with governor gavin newsom. i asked him about gun reform abortion rights, the trump indictment and of course his favorite foil, ron desantis. i try not to be alarmists on this show, but every now and then there is good reason to b alarmed. on friday night there was a ne assault on women s rights in this country because a federal judge in amarillo, texas, issued
have the authority over the fd that they just asserted. and i do believe it creates crisis should the supreme court d that it would essentially institute a national abortion baton. plus, as donald trump s nimble sort of republicans i the wake of his indictment, ro desantis plotting in florida o how to take him down new reporting on the florida governor s plan to beat th former president and that s coming up the majority of members of the nashville metropolitan council tell nbc news that they will vote to reinstate expelled state representative justi jones to the tennessee legislature. after he and colleague, justin pierson of memphis, were expelled for protesting on the chamber floor against gu violence that bill could come as earl as tomorrow. and both ousted lawmaker say that they vowed to return to the state legislature. and d.c. s kathy park joins me now the latest kathy, what s next yeah, you were out there as well last week when all of thi kind of came into light. r
if there is anything tha recent events in tennessee and other states have taught us, i should be that state legislatures are critical fo our democracy. i mean, it is where america policy is made and if we don t know who you re stat representatives are, you shoul get to know them because the are determining the future state houses create policies whose impact can reach beyond state lines and influenc entire regions, affectin peoples pocketbooks, education s abilities to make decisions about their own bodies and virtually every facet of lif you can think of beyond laws alone, how you state legislature s run has direct impact on you as well i mean, look at tennessee. more than 136,000 tennesseeans woke up on friday morning with a no representation in their own state house. that s because the republica majority expelled of the two youngest black male legislators, representatives justin pearson and justin jones, saying the violated house decorum rules all for demanding tha
junk science that was pu forward by antiabortio opponents that contradicts the 20 plus years of safe access t mifepristone that women have relied on two and pregnancie safely it just is really a crisis o democracy and it s a crisis of health care. right after the, texa ruling a judge in washington state ordered the fda not to rollback approval of the drug. however, that ruling only flie to the 17 states in washington d.c. where democratic s tierne general made the challenge meanwhile, national outlet - after two black lawmakers rose expelled from the tennesse house after protesting gun violence in the chamber. their white colleague wa spared, msnbc s simone sanders sat down with the legislator in an interview later today. this whole process has been a farce of our due process it s been a farce of our constitutional system of government and so everything about this, even the trial tha they had, it was when the verdict was decided before we even started talking. we re n
he is reacting against what he feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster that power recedes, the more frantically he asserts it. he is raging against the dying of the light. these last embarrassing decisions are in fact his death throes. it is sad, really. unfortunately what happens to men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years our world has been covered by a system formed in the final months of world war ii. it s features define our life. free and open global trade routes guaranteed by the u.s. navy, a universal currency called the dollar and overseein it all one supreme power, the worlds largest economy, the united states of america. it s been a great system in mos ways. but for many reasons, including the passage of time, that syste is dying. what comes next is not entirely clear but how to influence it t america s greatest advantage is the most important task that faces any u.s. government. nothing else comes