between people who are willing to use the power of the state to silence their opponent, and those who are unwilling. what s the hill this country together since the civil war? it s not that of a federal code, it s not even the bill of rights come as important is. remember, the soviet union had a bill of rights for guaranteed freedom of speech and equal rights. but in practice the bolsheviks sent their dissidents to the gulags. as he boasted, show me the man, i will show you the crime. now what s kept us functioning through the centuries where the bolsheviks failed is that our constitution separated powers and prevented a unit party. we also had an understanding that state power shall not be used for improper political purposes. the law must be enforced equally, without political considerations. and once you lose that common understanding, it s mutually assured destruction. nobody had any reason to uphold the system, so the system will collapse. the late anthony scalia made th
world, they were able to produce nationwide results in a single night when they have tens of millions of people voting, but apparently not pennsylvania. recently, france determined a winner in their runoff presidential election in less than 24 hours despite over 82 votes being cast. as chair, candida managed to confirm the results countrywide during a single day in what was a very close election. and in 2016 it took united kingdom about a day to get the final results there during the brexit referendum despite 33.5 million votes cast in that election. but now it s taking the commonwealth of pennsylvania, watch, days, six days, maybe weeks, to count around a million votes in the senate primary? so what s happening here? how did we get to this point? for starters, the state s widespread mail-in voting is a big problem. in 2019 pennsylvania did pass a new law allowing no excuse mail-in voting, which, by the way, and interestingly, violates that state s constitution. constitution
u.s. policy. basically diplomatic chaos this afternoon. ending with paper statement from the white house in an attempt at clarifying from the defense secretary. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president starts us off tonight tuesday morning from tokyo. good morning, peter. peter: good morning, bret. president biden spent months explaining the u.s. was never going to fight russia in ukraine. he was very clear about that. and when it comes to fighting china in taiwan, he was very clear about that, too. he just wasn t on the same page as his staff. the future of the 21st century economy is going to be largely written in indo-pacific. the president planned to talk about confronting china economically but wound up talking about confronting china on the battlefield. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. but what the president says the u.s. would help t
Evening. And the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. You. Just lived my nightmare. I know. This was going to come out while i was live on the air. Your staff had a betting pool on it. We did. Whoever won the betting pool was supposed to get tacos. You got tacos anyway. We got tacos for everybody at 8 00 anyway. I couldnt wait any more. It worked, because i got it. We brought the tacos, we did not bring your staff any tacos, well make that up to you tomorrow. Usually when i start this show at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, i have a script that i have written because there are things in the news that i would like to tell you about. Tonight there is no script because im going to go through what we just learned from the special Councils Office, im going to go through it with you,
basically as i am learning this. This just came out within the last 30 minutes, god bless chris hayes who was able to very ably digest this, handle, go to the i think the key elements of it right away, bring in lots of Expe