he and 21 other republican men in the united states senate voted no. then marco rubio got caught out once he started giving his speech in the easiest trap to get caught in when you have to give a response address. just minutes after the thing that you are responding to has ended, he anticipated things that he thought president obama would say in the state of the union. he wrote complaints in his own speech about things he thought president obama would say. but then when president obama did not actually say those things, mr. rubio did not adjust his speech the take out the complaints. so senator rubio in his response last night ended up complaining about things said by president obama that president obama actually did not say in the speech that everybody had just finished watching right before marco rubio got to take his turn. mr. rubio s whole windup was about how president obama had just spent his state of the union address defending big government and demanding even bigger government
is that then maybe a better way forward, that democrats make this an issue, that they beat republicans over the head with in an electoral judgele sort of way. is there any historical precedent for that being the way to reform? well, i think what happened in this election, and it s clear from watching your show, and watching the rest of the media is that the issue of voting rights really broke through. you ve been talking about this stuff for years. but it became a topic of regular conversation. you had the sarah silverman video. people were talking about voter id laws. so it s become part of the public consciousness. and to the extent that people think republicans are trying to make it harder for people to vote, whether that s true or not, that s going to work against republicans who are trying to get those swing voters, who are trying to attract latino voters. it s going to make it tough in florida. so it might be that there will be a little bit of a political solution to. this whet
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continued pushing laws to make voting harder. it s underappreciated in the beltway, but this kind of thing did not stop after the election. republicans are proceeding apace in missouri. republicans there trying anew to require voters to show new documentation they have never had to show before, and they know some quarter of a million voters in that state do not have. republicans in montana in the legislature there, they re now trying to take away the long-standing montana right to register and vote on election day. last week, republicans in the virginia legislature voted to eliminate several common forms of id that you can show in order to be allowed to vote there now, things like a paycheck or a utility bill. today virginia republicans advanced a bill with even tighter restrictions. under the new bill they advanced today, get this, the id card that you got to allow you to vote, the id card that you got already from the state board of elections, that would not be good enough to allow y
we were tricked by our own government. not into passing some piece of legislation or letting some corrupt politician off the hook who should not have gotten off the hook. we were tricked into starting a full-blown war. how did they pull that off? and do we understand how that happened to us well enough that we are in a position to stop it from happening again if anybody else ever tries to do that to us again? we have just completed a brand-new blockbuster of a documentary here at msnbc on exactly this question. it will premier monday night here on msnbc. and i think it is possible that it is going to cause quite an upset. we re going to have the first preview clip of it here, exclusively tomorrow night. i hope they will give us another preview clip on friday, although i m not sure. but the whole thing premiers with me hosting it on monday at 9:00 eastern on msnbc. and then everybody will start to lose their minds soon there after. so mark your date, monday night, at 9:00, we ll be righ