we didn t see the name reaction about the border. bill: more about the voting stuff. new emails revealing dr. fauci s correspondent with foreign health officials in the very early days of the pandemic. what they tell us about efforts to downplay that lab leak theory. it s coming up. plus this. martha: dramatic body cam footage released showing officers responding to a mass shooting at a san jose rail yard. the effort to track down the kirl ahead. bill: democrats slamming a new texas voting bill. they call it unamerican. at the same time democrats are pushing a national plan that republicans call an all-out power grab. so then what gives next? president biden: in 2020 we faced a tireless assault on the
from that pesky voting stuff. one local democratic activist in michigan, chris savage started charting the effect of this emergency manager law in his state, started looking at the places that had their democracy taken away from them at the local level. chris savage started charting it at his website, ecollectablog where he noted if you consider the african-american population of michigan and consider the racial makeup of the towns where michigan state government has decided to take away local democracy, all of these towns, the relatively small ones like benton harbor on lake michigan or allen park, ecorse, add inmont yak, flint, and now finally potentially add in detroit itself, since they re considering taking over detroit, you add all those places up and what you get is a michigan that is on the verge of eliminating local democracy for almost half of the black people who live in that state. for almost half the african-americans who live in the realm of rick snyder. quoting chris sav
from that pesky voting stuff. one local democratic activist in michigan, chris savage started charting the effect of this emergency manager law in his state, started looking at the places that had their democracy taken away from them at the local level. chris savage started charting it at his website, eclectablog where he noted if you consider the african-american population of michigan and consider the racial makeup of the towns where michigan state government has decided to take away local democracy, all of these towns, the relatively small ones like benton harbor on lake michigan or allen park, ecorse, add in pontiac, flint, and now finally potentially add in detroit itself, since they re considering taking over detroit, you add all those places up and what you get is a michigan that is on the verge of eliminating local democracy for almost half of the black people who live in that state, for almost half the african-americans who live in
you really have to be ensconced in your bubble of privilege as a member of the elite to look at someone who is a minority and assume he has it so easy because he s black. this reminds me of when mitt romney was saying if only i had been mexican, this thing would have been a snap. because we had so many mexican presidents. but what s so troubling is that george f. will, he s not some fringe person. no. he s not some that s right. he is an established mainstream very well respected columnist with a long career. yep. he has an audience, he has a following and he s disseminated his opinions. he believes this. melissa, what s so shocking to me is in 2012 how explicit republicans are being in playing the race card. i mean, it s just shocking what they re saying. you look again at the voting stuff. i mean, in south carolina, the author of the voter i.d. bill got an e-mail after it passed from a supporter saying that if you offered blacks voter i.d. it would be like bees go
now, i think judith, and see, i started to show tonight by talking about this move to the states rights. funny, they ran national tea party, but they went right into states rights mode including voter id mode. i think we are missing this. i can t believe it is just a coincidence that 34 states just all of a sudden at the same time starts going after voting stuff. yeah. i mean, it s no kwo kwis dense. the republican state takes over the election fles 210 and at the beginning of 2011 you have state legislatures taking up the bills. bills that would all really target african-american voters, latino voters, young voters and elderly voters. all of the groups that saw record number of turnout in the 2008 election. so this happened right before we are getting toward go into 2012. now, senator maloy, have you