why president biden is in a unique position to do something about it. we re not going to change the constitution. we re enforcing it. and former dnc chair tom perez on the state of the dems and his big announcement on running for office. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we call higher learning, colleges, universities, eve monasteries, conservatives traditionalists have been freaked out by just what dangerous ideas are being shared there. i mean, really, the whole dangerous ideas are coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. it has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. just like everything else, this old thing is new again. which brings us to the most recent republican freak-out in florida, which as you may have heard, has a governor there, ron desantis, calling the creepy thought police to campus. he just signed a bill tha
republicans at every level, federal, state, everywhere, are putting in place step by ugly step all of the tools that they need to steal the next election and the one after that and the one after that. you get the picture? across the country 14 republican-led states have enacted 22 laws that restrict access to voting. and they re just getting started. at least 61 additional bills with equally restrictive provisions are snaking their way through 18 state legislatures. most of these laws just so happen to target communities of color, the elderly, people with disabilities and the young. and if that s not repugnant enough, some of these republican laws have stripped secretaries of state of their power, clearing the way for partisan control of state election boards and made it easier to overturn election results. take, for example, the partisan unconstitutional and undemocratic 2020 election inspection happening in arizona, which republicans across the country are keen on replicati
bengahazi was all they talked about. some dreamed it could stop president obama and impeaching hillary clinton after the 2016 election. after all the frankly, delusional, obsessive focus and bengahazi becoming a swear word for republicans, many who probably couldn t find it on the map. there was no evidence of any scandal, no bombshells, no stand down orders. it was all just horse pucky. the same guy central to shaking the bengahazi shiny keys is the current leader, quote unquote of house republicans. only now he suddenly not so into investigations. today he came out against legislation to form a bipartisan commission to invest good day the maga seize of our capitol. just 24 hours before the vote tomorrow. despite his support fer the many reboots of the bengahazi probe, he had the nerve to say the january 6th commission would be redundant. giving the counter productive nature of this effort, i cannot support this legislation. it doesn t end there. instead of focusing on the s
democratic sovereignty or stadiumize the elections and would respond. the bottom line is i told president putin we need some basic rules of the road that we can abide by. those comments on the heels of a solo press conference of vladimir putin who noted the 180-degree reversal and described talks as constructive but needled the u.s. he compared his repression of dissidents there to the treatment of the insurrectionists that stormed the capitol. the summit and the remarks by biden a striking contrast to the-time an american leader met with the russian president when trump believed an autocrat who undermined democracy over the assessments of his own intelligence community. it was shocking here and had u.s. allies questioning whether america was still capable of leadership. i also told him that no president of the united states could key faith with the american people if they did not speak out to defend our democratic values. i hold both countries responsible. i think that
republican who faced heat. are republican voters interested in anything than the politics of trump? spencer cox joins me to discuss. plus, full-stop? president biden set to meet and mitch mcconnell not open to compromise. 100% of my focus is on stopping this new administration. where do things stand on biden s agenda? i ll speak to the house majority whip jim clyburn in minutes. hello and happy mother s day. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is grateful that falling space junk decided to spare us. president biden is trying to turn bad news into momentum. the white house says a disappointing jobs report is a clear sign that congress needs to move forward and quickly on biden s $4 trillion infrastructure and families plans. this week the president will host a group of republican senators for negotiations, even as the jobs news has some republican governors undoing a key part of biden s covid response package. those extra $300 federal unemploym