Favor of even allowing debate on the legislation. Put another way, all 50 republican senators voted no. While states are back home working hard to suppress the vote or certain votes, should we say, theres not a republican in the senate who wants to even allow a debate on this topic. An angry Majority Leader spoke moments after the vote was announced. Senate republicans have signed their names in the ledger of history alongside donald trump, the big lie, and Voter Suppression. Today, every single democratic senator stood together in the fight to protect the right to vote in america. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights. This vote, im ashamed to say, is evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. In an unusual move, Vice President harris presided over the senate during tonights vote. Afterwards, she vowed democrats will continue pushing for federal Voting Rights legislation. When were talking about the right to vote, it is not a republican concern or a democratic concern. It is an american concern. This is about the american peoples right to vote, unfettered. It is about their access to the right to vote in a meaningful way. Nobody is debating, i dont believe, whether all americans have the right to vote. The bottom line is that the president and i are very clear. We support s1, the john lewis Voting Rights act, and the fight is not over. Since january of this year, just since january, at least 14 states have enacted 22 new laws that restrict access to voting. And right now there are at least 61 bills with restrictive provisions moving through 18 other state legislatures. Yet Senate Republicans maintain, as was evident in tonights vote, that theres no reason for the federal government to step in here. There is no effort in any state in america to suppress votes based upon suppression of minority participation. What this is really about is an effort of the federal government to take over the way we conduct elections in this country. It is a solution in search of a problem. Regardless of what may be happening in some state, theres no rationale for federal intervention. The democrats only real hope of passing any kind of elections overhaul now seems to hang on a long shot to eliminate the filibuster. Tonight the president issued a statement that read, in part, quote, unfortunately, a democratic stand to protect our democracy met a solid republican wall of opposition. It was the suppression of a bill to end Voter Suppression, another attack on Voting Rights that is salad not unprecedented. Biden added hell have more to say next week about election reform. While there was no sign of bipartisanship, of course, in tonights vote, thats the problem, the Biden Administration is still hoping for more luck with their infrastructure bill. The white house has started meeting with senators from both sides of the aisle who are working on their own version of a bill. Tomorrow schumer and pelosi sit down with Administration Officials to talk about it further. Also tomorrow, biden lays out his plan to try to stop a nationwide wave of violent crimes. Today the Justice Department said it is creating a new strike force to target Gun Trafficking in five cities. Also today, the white house acknowledged it wont meet the president s original goal of getting 70 of us vaccinated by independence day. Tonight dr. Fauci said the focus is still on reaching as many people as possible. Were almost at the 70 vaccination with one dose of adults when we reach the fourth of july f. We dont get it by then, well get it within a week or so, but we dont want to stop there. Thats an aspirational goal. The goal line is crushing the virus with as many vaccinations as you possibly can. Theres also a Major Political story developing tonight. A local race with national implications. Big expensed in the big apple. Today was primary day in new york city. The citys first ever rankedchoice election, apparently because there was something too easy about voting for only that one candidate. If history is an indicator, the democrat who wins tonights primary will go on to be mayor in the heavily democratic city. Polls closed a few hours ago. We got Steve Kornacki standing by at the big board to explain why there could be a delay in announcing a winner, which is not helping the suspense in new york. Then theres the matter of one former new york City Resident in other new york news with national implications. Theres this. Nbc news confirming the manhattan d. A. Is investigating trumps former body guard, now an executive at the trump organization. Nbc news confirming Matt Calamari is and his son hired outside counsel to represent them. With that, lets bring in jonathan lemire, White House Reporter for the associated press, st. Oxney, former federal prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and sam stein, a veteran journalist whos now white house editor over at politico. Sam, indeed, id like to begin with you. Id like to play this for you and our audience. Well discuss on the other side. This is republican senator mike lee of utah tonight. This bill was written in hell by the devil himself. This bill wouldnt make it easier to vote. This would make it easier to vote illegal. This is the corrupt politicians act. If theres chance this becomes law, it would be devastating for the country. This would be bad for everyone other than Democratic Political incumbents. So sam, how is bipartisanship going . If that was meant for outreach for the Democratic Party, i think the senator has to work on his communication skills. First and foremost, i dont think the devil wrote the bill. A bill was written by democratic lawmakers. It was amended by joe manchin to including one republicanoriented idea, which was a version of voter identification. Manchins provision would have said you have to bring Something Like a utility bill in order to vote. I think its fair to say that democrats did try to move a little bit in the republican direction in order to win the votes, but really it was never there was never a chance that they would. I dont want to call it a messaging exercise because that diminishes it. This is showing where the cards were, essentially. This was democrats saying we have 50 votes in our caucus, we want to move this bill, we notice whats going on in the state houses across the country, lets see what republicans have to say in response. And what they said in response was a resounding no to consideration of this debate. The big question now, brian, is where Do We Go From Here . What other cards does biden have to play . What over maneuvers do they have. Our reporters talked to officials and they concede theres nothing they can do. Theyre looking at consulting state House Democrats or leading young cooperator america to do essentially what they did in georgia, which was apply pressure to lawmakers in the states to not go down this path. Neither of those options are particularly fruitful, so the white house is kind of stuck. Jonathan lemire, stein just tossed you the ball. Pick it up and run with it. Where Do We Go From Here . Well, brian, i keep it as a personal policy not to agree with sam stein very often, but hes largely right about all of this. The administration feels like their hands are relatively tied. We should expect public pressure from the house. Aides signaled to us earlier today soon after this bills defeat in the senate that wed be hearing more from the president on this and his statement backed it up, that we would have perhaps an event on this next week. We did hear from the Vice President sort of speaking lets be candid, shes speaking powerfully about the need to protect the right to vote. When her remarks earlier today after she presided in the senate. But theyre short something really significant at the state level. Their only move would indeed be to embark on some sort of filibuster reform. But the problem is there arent too Many Democrats willing to do that, or not enough. Joe manchin, of course, is the leading figure, but hes far from alone. Kyrsten sinema and others saying its not something she supported. We also know that there are some other democrats who privately agree with them that are happy to let them be the public face of this opposition. Short that have, this is going to be potentially a real disappointment for democrats and biden himself who has said repeatedly this is a Lifelong Mission to expand access to the franchise, that he would do anything it would require to defend this, to expand the Voting Rights. This is an existential threat to prove that democracies still works. Its a harder sell if democracy cant protect the right to vote at home. This is on an agenda thats quite full right now, but this is something that is a huge proprietary for democrats. It may not be something they can actually enact anytime soon without some swooping 11thhour change. St. , i dont see it often, but we need a lawyer. What is your level of fear for our country and a free and Fair Election if we dont have a federal remedy, something new where Voter Suppression is concerned . Well, im pretty scared about it. You know, i live in florida where just about anything goes these days with our governor. So im hoping very much that well figure out a way to get some of these bills passed, particularly anything having to do with protecting this minority vote because it looks like the republicans will do almost anything to figure out a way to make it impossible for people to vote if they dont have just the right i. D. Or if they move or if they do anything. So i am hoping that we can come to some agreement with manchin and sinema. It just doesnt seem very likely to me. Sam stein, you are the recipient of tonights video daily double. I got another one for you. This is senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, tonight. Well discuss on the other side. Whats next . Were going to georgia. When the people of georgia saw what was happening back in early january when they saw the big lie being perpetrated on them, when they saw their elections being undermined by the republican party, they turned out and they voted. They didnt just vote in one democratic senator, they voted in two. So we are not ending this fight. And one of the ways we do that is getting out of this capitol dome and heading out to the states. Sam, im just a guy asking questions here, but why take a victory lap of excitement over a field trip to georgia, already represented in the senate by two democrats . Its an uncontested yesyes vote to my Voter Measures in the senate. Why not im just putting this out here go to a state with one or more republican senators . Its a good question. Senator warnock is up again this coming cycle. All of them are 50th votes for democrats. But georgia is the epicenter for Voting Rights legislation right now. There is something too when the intense focus on the Suppression Laws actually has a sort of boomerang effect, in that it inspires democrats to defy the legislation and go to the polls. But will but the real elections the democrats need to worry about are not the federal election. What were seeing now is the residual impact of democrats just getting bludgeoned downballot, losing state house after state house, to the point they cant have an impact on these Voting Rights laws in the states, not only that, but they wont be able to impact redistricting coming up too. So the Democratic Party tends to be way too focused for their own good on the national highprofile elections and they forget that the lower chamber, state house elections, are the ones determinative of how the laws progress. If theyre going to georgia, they should look at house seats, the state house and senate seats too. Yeah, its been a real colossal dropped ball over the past couple cycles. Jonathan lemire, again, im just a guy asking questions. A whole bunch of democrats out there are angry to the aforementioned national democrats. They would like to see a level of anger from them. Chuck schumer gets earning a in the course of a 3,000word statement in the well of the senate. To you and the beat you cover, when are democrats going to see their president get anger over the kind of thing that happened today, more than a released statement on paper . Brian, you hit on something there that White House Press secretary jen psaki was asked about today. That was before the for the people went act went down, but the writing was on the wall. Basically she was questioned why hasnt the president done more here . If this is indeed, as he has put it a lifelong passion, why hasnt he used the bully pulpit more . She said he puts out statements and said this and that. But the question is, where was he today . Why wasnt this more of a priority as this faced its fate in the senate. And she didnt have a really good answer for that, and i think the white house now is trying to suggest that of course it will be corrected. But this is a white house and a president in particular who knows how to count votes. He has decades of experience in the senate and there doesnt seem to be a path for this. Even the compromise of joe manchin put out last week was immediately shot down by republicans. Theres no bipartisan buyin on this. The republicans suggested this would basically end democracy as we know it, which of course is a gross overstatement, but thats how theyre selling it to themselves, their caucus, and their voters. Theyre not giving an inch, it seems, even on a compromise bill. Yes, this would seem to get righteous anger from the democrats. We havent heard yet from the president , and maybe that will change, but that doesnt necessarily in between legislation is going to change. For a white house thats been so careful in sequencing its legislation, the Voting Rights wasnt at the top of their list. It was covid relief, infrastructure. Were going to hear on crime and guns tomorrow. Certainly still theres other things to tackle as well, but right now there doesnt seem to be a lot of hope, and it will be interesting to see if this president can summon that fury to maybe move people in the coming days but i wouldnt bet on it. St. , you got the last word tonight. While its true that trump and trumpism has infused our entire conversation, as we start off the broadcast tonight, doesnt it always come down to calamari . Lets go local to new york and the manhattan d. A. Investigation. What does it say to you as a veteran former fed that mr. Calamari, is under such scrutiny, enough scrutiny that he and his son apparently are lawyering up . Right. Well, hes a new focus of the investigation. He doesnt strike he as the central focus of the investigation. If he were, it would be a sign that the investigation was in trouble. I had the unfortunate experience of watching some of the old reruns of the apprentice today and saw him, and lovingly, hes probably not the brains of the organization. The brains of the organization is mr. Weissleberg, and thats the central focus of the investigation. If they cant flip him, theyre going to have to indict him if they want to get some information. Theyre going to have to call his bluff. Apparently now hes saying im not going to flip, and theyre going to have to do something. Reportedly theyre going to do something this summer. Well see if they really do. The other person to really watch is the woman from deutsche bank, the person who handled many of the trump finances. Thats somebody to watch. I do not think calamari is the central focus or beall, endall in this investigation. We are much obliged to our big three on this tuesday night. To sam stein, jonathan lemire, and cynthia alksne, thanks, gang. Appreciate you starting us off tonight. Coming up for us, when is a race for mayor National News . Well, the answer, when there are more people in the city than there are people in 38 different states. Steve kornacki is standing by for us at the big board to explain the returns tonight in the new york city mayors race. Democrats want to battle with joe manchin right before they lost the war, for now at least. Well talk strategy with two veteran political watchers. Later, a maskfree fourth of july for much of our country, but a race against time to get enough americans vaccinated by fall. One of our doctors explains its importance to all of us, all of it as the The 11th Hour is just getting under way on this tuesday night. Your hands or fe . Try Nervivenerve Relief from the worlds 1 selling nerve care company. Nervive contains Alpha Lipoic Acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. Try Nervivenerve Relief. Over the years, mercedesbenz has patented thousands of safety innovations. 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Put another way, the population of the city is higher than 38 of our 50 states. As youre about to hear, that was the easy part. New york does nothing simply. Tonights election, no different. Lets go to steve at the big board. Steve, good luck. All right, brian. Lets take you through what we know and what we still dont. These are the votes that have been counted tonight. It says first choice here because thats the way ranked Choice Voting, which theyre doing in new york city for the first time. When you went in to vote today, you could check off your first choice, your second choice, your third choice, all the way through your fifth choice. The city said it would release the first choice for all of the inperson votes, meaning folks who went and voted today and folks who voted early. So this is most, probably just about all of those votes, the first choice preference there. There are still a chunk of mailin ballots that arent even going to be opened for another week, so when you factor that, these numbers will change quite a bit. You saw andrew yang conceding defeat tonight. Yang and everybody south of him you see in this first choice clearly mathematically theyre not going to win this. Now, if you voted for yang, who your second choice was on that ballot is going to matter here. But yang wont win, stringer wont win. The winner will be one of these three candidates, eric adams, maya wiley, kathryn garcia. And the lead right now that adams has over both wiley and garcia is potentially significant. Ranked Choice Voting has been done. Its not that widespread right now, but its been around in a number of places for a while. In fact, if you look at every ranked choice election thats taken place in this country, really, in the history of ranked Choice Voting, the biggest margin that somebody whos finished in the first choice round outside of first place, the biggest gap thats been overcome to win one of these things has been 9. 3 points from the first choice. Wiley right now, if you play it out to the decimal point, is 9. 2 points behind eric adams. Again, there are mailin ballots that will be counted. Maybe this will get tighter. There are still a few more votes to come in tonight, but i think its clear eric adams is going to lead on the first choice when theyre tabulated. In about a week or two, theyll run through all these multiple rounds ever voting. But the history of ranked Choice Voting has been the candidate who finishes first in the first choice has tended to win, not automatically. When the lead is as big as adams is right now, very high probability of winning. So the question is, the mail votes, the remaining votes, can wiley or garcia make this thing a little closer perhaps, and when they do the retabulations through the complicated ranked choice system, it would take a lot for them to pull it off, not impossible, but it would take a lot, brian. My friend, thank you for gently correct me. A friend of mine for many years corresponded at our network, john yang, i made that mistake with andrew yang, now former candidate many times. Were flattered and lucky to have you on the broadcast and, more importantly, at the big board tonight. Its a lot and its confusing. Thank you so much. With me now, two more friends of this broadcast. A. B. Stoddard, journalist, associate editor for real clear politics, Michael Steele, former Lieutenant Governor of the great state of maryland, happens to be the host of the Michael Steel podcast. For those of us who found that too hard mathematically, was it too simple to vote for one candidate . And was there a checkoff on the form, if were out of chicken, the fish is okay . Thats essentially it, yeah. And there are people who like fish and chicken. And i think its good and appropriate that our Voting System seemingly is trying to accommodate that now to give People Better options and better choices for people who disengage and step back from politics because they support someone who everyone else, the conventional wisdom says, oh, theyre a gadfly or theyre not part of the traditional lot of candidates. Well, with ranked choice and other forms of balloting that are taking shape in various states right now, theyre opening up that possibility. And what it means, particularly on the heels of what happened in the senate today with the Voting Rights measure, its giving the voters the incentive to participate and, you know, to say your first choice may not be everyone elses first choice, but they could be their second choice. And thats the point that steve was just driving for maya and katherine is that, okay, yeah, youre sitting at this percentage right now, but theres still a lot more votes to come in, and voters have the option to maybe perhaps pick you as their second choice, which changed the dynamics of the voting process. And thats a good thing for the country. A. B. , first of all, im stunned by our friend michaels magnanimity on this topic but well move on. Just saying, if you had to write a column tonight on deadline, the column could be, could it not, while theres a discussion in washington and out in the states on restricting the vote, in new york where theyve been open for days and they have a robust mailin effort and open late at night for hours on the actual primary day, has such a luxury of elections they have filled an ihop menu with your choice of candidates. Im a big fan of ranked Choice Voting. Its not that complicated. People get to pick the chicken or fish and rank the other menu choices below. Its only five, and then leave it to the computers to do the tabulation. Im the biggest fan of final five voting, that would get rid of the partisan primary and gives you an open primary. You pick five choices and those people, those five campaign for the general election. And they campaign nicely because they know that they want to be peoples second choice so they dont they campaign on a platform and results for voters. So its campaigning against each other. I would also be tempted, brian, to focus on the fact that if maya wiley doesnt prevail and aocs endorsement didnt get her over the edge, nyc isnt the progressive stronghold they thought it was, thats a big warning to progressives. Its going to be an interesting part of the divide, as you see progressives get louder with the Biden Administration in the months to come and how they all try to pull together their coalitions before the midterms where theyll take a beating. Indeed. If further, the winner tonight, the guy who prevails, is a former republican, former Police Officer in new york who ran on a toughoncrime platform in the middle of a postpandemic crime wave that no one can deny, im getting ahead of myself. Both of our friends are going to stay with us through the break. Well talk about the democrats. Were going to talk about what happened in the senate today well be right back. Happened in thsee nate today well be right back. Best deals on all smartphones. Let me break it down. You got your new customers they get our best deals. You got your existing customers they also get our best deals. Everyone. Gets. The deals. Questions . Got it. But, why did you use a permanent marker . 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Wow, mira esto. Gracias, you guys [kikds] happy fathers day thanks, you guys its not the gifts. Its really the smiles that count. Smile, crest has you covered. The 1 toothpaste brand in america. [drum beat and keyboard typing] [keyboard typing] [trumpet] [keyboard typing] this is not dead. This is not dead. Today were ringing the bell on round one of the fight. Well come back for round two and round three. In the fight for Voting Rights, this vote was the starting gun, not finish line. So if you want to hear how its not dead, youre not alone tonight. Back with us, our a. B. Stoddard and Michael Steel. A. B. , if you come on one night a week, i quote you on the other four, so i hope you get your residual checks for all five nights. You called what happened today a mile away. The democrats have no game over 50, so what do you do . And do you trash the bill, put it in the trash, rewrite, start over, and present the full senate with something fresh . I do think that joe biden as quiet as hes been is well aware of these negotiations with joe manchin. Joe manchin talks to schumer almost every day, meets with him at least once a week in a small leadership huddle, and none of this is a secret. So there are two tracks theyre taking. Hes either going to come up with a new bill that he negotiates with republicans, and vet something he can get ten republicans on, or he will back down on some filibuster reform, not the elimination of the legislative filibuster. Those are the two paths that both Majority Leader and the president are aware they have to follow. We will find out which one manchins going to take them down. He might want to drag republicans on the record first, but i think those are the two options that they have left. Michael steel, here is our mutual friend, Nicolle Wallace on thetop of the filibuster. The idea that theres political peril and doing away with it is faulty. The other thing i hear more and more on tv and off tv is theres political peril in leaving it in place. I think theres real political peril in all this failure to deliver in two years. So i think theyre choosing between bad and worse, and i think today the worse is leaving the filibuster in place. Michael steele, how is she wrong . Do you agree . I mean, to a. B. s point, thats more and more the reality that the democrats are confronting right now, is how do they get over this obstinate hurdle known as republican minority in the senate . The Senate Republicans have been clear what theyre intending to do, which is to give democrats nothing. Theres no insensitive regardless of what joe manchin things, says, or puts in front of them. Theres no incentive for republicans to give joe biden and his administration a win on anything. I think the sooner democrats realize that truth, the sooner they will be able to come up with a strategy to overcome it. But right now theyre just spinning wheels, and i think thats really the basis of nicoles point. Michael, i got about 20 seconds left. What about a democratic tour to at least blue dots in space, tv, newspaper, tv ads, and appeal to people in red states represented by red senators . Five months too late, but okay, do it. That you do out of the gates you sound like my friend, a. B. Stoddard. A. B. Is right. The political juggernaut instincts, work it. Thank you both. What a day weve just witnessed, but we wanted to have you both on. A. B. Stoddard, Michael Steele, our guests tonight with our thanks. Coming up for us, a new warning from dr. Fauci on this Delta Variant as virus rates increase in some areas of our country, salad. D. Ly. Treatment and get to and stay undetectable can no longer transmit hiv through sex. Serious side effects can occur, including Kidney Problems and kidney failure. Rare, lifethreatening side effects include a buildup of lactic acid and liver problems. 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Irwin red liner, founding director of colombia after the pandemic we have been through when dr. Fauci uses a phrase about anything that is, you know, doubling every two weeks it really focuses the mind, and i assume you concur with his assessment of the Delta Variant and the potential danger it poses to us, even though we think were through it. Yeah. This is why weve been proceeding with sort of cautious optimism. Yes, we made a lot of progress, brian, as you well know, but we have to be careful not to overpromise ourselves that were done with this because were not. In the wings is waiting this Delta Variant and maybe more variants later. I dont want to be dr. Doom here, but i do feel its important that we not get ahead of ourselves and we keep pushing people to get vaccinated because like dr. Fauci has said numerous times, the vaccine will help prevent teen Delta Variant. But for those people which are many, many people throughout the southeast in particular, there is a problem because people arent getting vaccinated at the rate they should be. They are in danger, brian, and theres no two ways about it. Were going to fall short of that July 4th Benchmark of 70 of the souls in our country having been vaccinated. Does the sledding get really tough after july 4th . Well, i think well get there to the 70 in the next couple weeks, but will that be enough . I dont know. Well have to see. The problem is the patchwork of the picture in the united states. Were doing great in new york and many other places in the northern parts of the country. But in the Southern Parts of the country, in missouri, in alabama, in mississippi, and arkansas, we have very low rates of vaccination with large numbers of people who are not just hesitant, brian, theyre actually resistant. Theyre the antivaxxers who are not going to budge and were potentially going to have a problem in those areas where the Vaccination Rates are low and the vaccination is going really quite slowly. I think were all kind of concerned about that. What should the messaging be since by training and trade you are a pediatrician first and foremost. What should the message be to the young people, some of the holdouts of our country . So theres the sense of, you know, immortality among a lot of people, and i think probably you and i experienced a bit of that at those ages as well. The problem is theres been nothing like this before for the 20yearolds and 30yearolds, and they really have to Pay Attention because a lot of people are getting sick, even children are getting sick. And i think theres been a little bit of a lightness in the approach of young people getting vaccinated, and i think we need them to step it up, really, as an example to other americans. But we need 20yearolds and 30yearolds to kind of say i need the vaccine and i need it now. If we can break loose there, i think we can make some big progress. But its going to take some messaging, by the way, who are peers of those who seem to be resistant or hesitant. Its not going to be the older sect thats going to be that influential with people that are younger, and i think we ought to find peers we have an doing that and government has been looking to do that peers who can speak the language of folks who are still resisting or hesitant about getting a vaccine. I can indeed confirm fleeting feelings of immortality until i blew out my knee in high school football. It was all over then. Dr. Irwin redliner has been taking our questions about this pandemic so far without end. Coming up and staying on topic, how do you welcome the world to the Olympic Games when the virus is still rampant in your country . Well, were all about to find out, indeed, from the comfort of our homes. 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There will, in fact, be strict precautions in place as we learned front nbc news Foreign Correspondent keir simmons. Reporter tonight, with olympic trials under way around the world, the president of tokyo 2020 telling nbc news in an exclusive interview the games will be a blessing. But there may be difficult days. If an athlete is confirmed covid positive, she says hard decisions will have to be made, including possibly canceling individual events. With just a month to go, the Olympic Village is ready to house more than 12,000 athletes from all over the world. Theyll be shuttled in and out to be tested every day, and they will have to dine alone. Theres even a fever room. Local spectators will be able to attend the games, the organizing committee announced monday. Venues will only operate at 50 capacity, no more than 10,000 socially distanced fans per competition. You can still decide to have fewer spectators . Maybe even no spectators . Yes, thats always an option, she says. 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It will have made it illegal to Chain Up Dogs and leave them outside without drinkable water, adequate shade or shelter. It also called for a ban on tethering dogs with heavy chains. Quote, texas is no place for this kind of micromanaging and overcriminalization, said the governor in the veto statement. That goes right to the base, or at least its designed to. Now tonight the Hashtag Abbotthatesdogs is trending. Remember the rules, when youre trying to appeal to that trump base, nothing can be shocking or outrageous enough, because abbott figures apparently dogs cant vote. And really, what have dogs ever done for us . The latest news from texas to take us off the air tonight. That is our broadcast for this tuesday evening with our thanks for being here with us. My thanks to my friend, Chris Jansing for filling in for me last night. On behalf of all our colleagues here at the networks of nbc news, good night. Did you know . I did not know. 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