the ongoing movement to undermine the election of 2022, state by state trumpist push to replace the people who held the line in 2020. then europe s so-called last dictator using a fighter jet to stop a passenger airplane and arrest an journalist, increasing boldness of autocrats. note of caution over the wuhan lab theory. and what looks like real progress on bipartisan reform bill. all in starts now. good evening, i m chris hayes. lot of news on the democracy front. weird thing to say but in 2021, possibly most important beat there is. our democracy survived awful assault this year when rioter descended to everturn the results of free and fair election. we re still sifting through what happened. every day, day after day, if you re attuned to this beat as i am and we are on the show, more and more evidence of the fundamentally dangerous and antidemocratic orientation of the republican party across all factions. case in point, liz cheney of wyoming, former chair of th
protests, using force and the role of encounters with police. and federal laws, and a measure named off george floyd still being negotiated in washington. the president wants to sign the bill tomorrow. but a joint statement, we are still working through our differences on key issues. you can bet that s true. the police reform bill, one of several items on the president s list. there is the $4 trillion infrastructure, and a voting rights measure, both up against formidable opposition. today, the white house was asked about these goals. we will assess internally. and where it goes from here. the george floyd act, he is encouraged there is on going progress, and there is a sense from negotiators there is a path forward. now, this bill to create a bipartisan commission to investigate 1/6, the riot, and insurrection, now in the senate where a vote could take place by the end of the week. republican support remains rare and spars. i will bring the bill forward soon. i m sorry
50,000 people, the nation is larger. about 200,000 people of. there i know that still smarter for a country, but it s a country. it s from new zealand it s got independence in 1962, united nations 1976. then, this weekend, they had something really naughty, and potentially exits existential challenging happen to them. for most of the time, they have been an independent country. for nearly 40 years of the 60 years they ve been a country. samoa has been run by the same ruling party. in fact, the same guy, the same individual man, the prime minister from that party, has been in power for as the prime minister for the last 22 years. but, he lost the last election this year, in april, samoa had an election it was really close and hard-fought. in the end, the pry the prime minister, his power has been parties been running in power for 40 years. in a parliamentary system, the opposition power since they have a majority, they get to form the new government. that parties leade
and i know that is still small for a country, but it s a country. samoa gained its independence from new zealand in 1962. it was admitted to the united nations in 1976. and then this weekend, they had something really nutty and potentially existentially challenging happen to them. for most of the time they have been an independent country, for nearly 40 years of the 60 years they have been a country, samoa has been run by the same ruling party. in fact, the same guy, the same individual man, the prime minister from that party, has been in power as prime minister for the last 22 years. but he lost the last election this year. in april, samoa had an election. it was really, really close. really hard fought. in the end, the prime minister s party, which again, his party has been in power for almost 40 years. he s been prime minister for almost 22 years. his party ended up with one less seat in parliament than the opposition did. and in a parliamentary system, that means it s the
gr graphic video yet to be confirmed by fox news though, you can see with your own eyes, shows taliban terrorists murderering 22 unarmed afgan commandos the people that allied with us that we swore we would help get out of there. they surrendered to the taliban back in july. no doubt biden knew this was going on. still abandoned americans, thousands of people with green cards that are eligible to be in america, our friends, our allies, their families and our fellow citizens. now, thousands of afgan green cards, sivs over however many americans are all in hiding. we don t know the number. death squads going door to door searching for anyone whoever may have assisted the u.s. in the last 20 years. biden once lectured the terrorists in the taliban about inclusiveity and allowing more women in the government. now little girls can t go to school and now unarmed afgans are being murdered in the streets in broad daylight. women, girls blocked from attending school and work and femal