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passed in 19 states and after months of pressure and pleading from activists on democrats to do something, to do anything to stop this wave of voters suppression and nullification laws, the united states senate has now taken up a last ditch effort to try to pass federal voting rights legislation. debate on a sweeping bill that combines the two key voting proposals, the jon lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act, began just a few hours ago. democrats are pressing ahead even though the bill is doomed to ultimately fail. given the plans by the gop to filibuster and the fact that senators joe manchin and sinema and perhaps others are unwilling to reform the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. senate democrats took to the floor to send the message that the fight for federal voting rights legislation is still a necessary effort. that will ultimately reveal who s on the side of democracy and who s not. win, lose, our draw, members of this chamber were ....
do you want to be on the side of john lewis or bull connor? do you want to be on the side of abraham lincoln or jefferson davis? coming up tennessee center marsha blackburn on the senate vote this coming week as arizona senator christian sentiment takes a stand. there is no need for me too restate my long-standing support for the 60 vote threshold to pass legislation. there is no need for me too restate its role protecting our country from wild reversals and federal policy. will policy reverse after the midterm elections? now 296 days away as president trump ramps up his endorsement in hopes of taking the senate majority back as he told us on the program last week. mitch mcconnell is a disaster the republicans have to get a new leader. mitch mcconnell allow this to happen the unfree structure i don t call infrastructure it s only 9%. that means you take 91% of the money we are taking is going to be thrown out the window. meanwhile fireworks on capitol hill with anth ....
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. women are still fighting for equality all over the world. even in long established democracies like the uk, plenty of evidence suggests that from the workplace to the law courts, there is an awful long way to go. my guest today, baroness helena kennedy, has been trying to loosen the grip of the patriarchy in the british legal system for five decades. is she winning the battles that really matter? baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. it s great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a man s world. do you still see britain s legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we haven t yet managed to remove that power imbalance. it s still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and we ve, you know, reformed certain areas of law and we ve seen women in many mor ....
further to one of the weirdest moments of the trump administration. take a look. this was june 2018 of hurricane season. donald trump and mike pence visited fema headquarters to be briefed on the hurricane. the first lady was also there. seated at the head of the table like she is the co-president or something like that. believe it or not, that wasn t even the will part. i want you to watch this. at one point, donald trump takes the water bottle in front of him and puts it on the floor. then mike pence does literally the exact same thing. it almost looked pavlovian for a minute here. anything donald trump does, or says. anybody who watches this can see it was totally bizarre. it was pretty off brand for mike pence, who spent the trump administration dutifully following behind the president. justifying every controversy and misstep trump made as his boss. as we saw, as the world saw, it came to a crashing halt on january 6th when mike pence refused to go along with donal ....
charges mean for other trump world figures. then another big day for the january 6 committee. i ll talk to adam schiff about today s new subpoenas as liz cheney calls out kevin mccarthy for engaging in a cover-up. plus, ted cruz tries to redeem himself with fox conspiracy theories, yet another harbinger in the matt gaetz investigation, and the shocking opinion that the pandemic is not an occupational hazard. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the charges filed today against a plotter in the january 6 election are not only the most serious we ve seen, they are the strictest actions that took part on that day. today a man named elmer stuart rhodes iii, working class hero, became the first to be arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in an indictment by the department of justice. he is a leader of a gang called the oathkeepers. first, here s how the law defines seditious conspiracy. if two or more persons conspire to ....