school. that day i put my boys on the bus and my friend was calling and she said nick ole, it s a shooting and it s at our school. it was the day after thanksgiving i was in my family s home in chicago. my son was with his father in florid florida. i picked up the phone and there was just this dead silence and i said where is jordan? what happened to jordan? and that s when jordan s dad said jordan has been shot. you re 25 times more likely to die from gun violence in the united states of america than any other developed nation in the world. what does this say about us as americans? we re just willing to let people die because we re afraid of the nra? there is no other single issue in the lobby in the united states that had as much success against the wishes of the majority of the country. gun vie lepsolence is taking at a historic rate. it s only getting worse and worse and we re focused on the right to bear arms and not the right to live. the nra had managed to convin
rights legislation. with majority leader chuck schumer bringing the for the people act to the floor this tuesday. but the bill will most definitely be filibustered mcconnell style despite a compromise from contrarian joe manchin which included a ban on gerrymandering, voter i.d. requirement and establishing election day as a national holiday. while the manchin compromise enjoyed a key democratic endorsement from stacey abrams, republicans were quick to offer their full-throated opposition. a revised version produced by one of the democrats yesterday, which has been endorsed by stacey abrams, equally unacceptable, totally inappropriate. all republicans, i think, will oppose that as well. joining me now, beto o rourke, former texas congressman, former presidential candidate will be rallying on the steps of the capital for support. thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. jonathan, it s great to be with you. and thank you for mentioning we ll be meeting this even
we have civil rights attorney robert pattillo standing by. we are going to go to mike tobin on the ground. it is a snowy night. robert, i think you re ready if you re up with us. i m ready. shannon: robert, what do you make of this? we have this officer, we saw the video. to the police s credit, it was released quickly so people could have as much transparency as possible. the officer, kim potter, decades of service, has resigned, saying it was best for the community and best for her fellow officers. we await potential charging decisions. what are you looking for tonight? what i am seeing is the protests from last year have been effective in changing local policy with regards to policing. often, if you go to the trayvon martin shooting, the breonna taylor shooting, the george floyd killing. one the issues that caused these protests to escalate was a lack of transparency by police department, lack of accountability. we also saw with ahmaud arbery y three months for the c
exclusively as he can afford to, about how to protect the franchise, because it is apparent to me and many in the civil rights community that he will have to, since senate democrats cannot get their act together. meanwhile, the entire republican party only has variations on one goal, set the table for donald trump or one of his prototypes in 2024, while retaking the u.s. house and senate in this november s midterm elections, and brand new numbers from nbc news contend that democratic voters may not have the enthusiasm to stop them. 72% of americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to the poll, and that s just one percentage point higher than three months ago. 76% of americans say our democracy is in existential peril. i reiterate my charge, in solidarity with the civil rights community, calling on president biden to issue what executive orders he can to protect and, frankly, enhance our voting rights. my next guest, a civil rights champion, now a co
republicans try to kick moderates to the curb. plus. i m running for governor. i want to tell you why. beto o rourke taking on texas. joining me live tonight. and an interview on the ground breaking new 1619 project book. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m going to sketch out for you tonight a conspiracy theory. that was apparently floating around the former president of the united states and the upper echelon of power in the country. in the after math of the 2020 election. i have to say, it s a conspiracy so out landish and ridiculous the fact that anyone with a line of communication to the commander in chief believed it. is honestly shocking. and deeply concerning. according to the theory there s a computer server in germany. which contains evidence that a shadow deep state used rigged voting machines to change millions of votes in order to steal the election from trump and hand it to joe biden. here s powell one of the lawyers who worked wi