Movement led by sdon don. He is mon shod the 13 13 times. Trump and the threat he thoses to our democracy here at home to our standing in the world looms large over every line of the speech. New york times describing the president s State Of The Union quote unleashed an unyielding. Mr. Biden seemed to relish the showdown. While he boasted his accomplishments as president s do, he made no aspiration to rhetorical flourishes. He men shod his utty agenda with no utty in it and he. We will not walk away biden said in his address we will not bow down. He was speaking go russia and he seemed to intend it for the fight for his own presidency. President biden came out swinging against donald trump and the gop in the speech that laid out in the bluntest terms the stakes in the upcoming election for our democracy and freedom at home and abroad. With us at the Table Board Member Analyst is here and National Affairs analyst is here. The host of politics nation here, and the president of the Nation
for photo id. always a pleasure. good to see you. you can catch his show at 6:00 p.m. eastern weeknights here on msnbc. joining me judith brown deanna. codirector of inadvancement project. what does the landscape look like legally in terms of the fallout legally, not legislatively, legally, with the voting rights act, the core part of it, the preclearance part being gutted, the states moving ahead. what recourse is there now in the courts to fight back? right, well, thanks for having me, chris. so right now, with the gutting of the voting rights act by the supreme court, what we re finding is groups like advancement project and others having to go in and aggressively litigate. so, for example, we have a case in north carolina against what s called the monster voter suppression bill that has everything in there, it s the kitchen sink. but you also see in texas, very quickly, i mean, we must remember, after the shelby county case, texas tweeted out
1.3%, which isn t everything. we have to do better yet, but it s certainly a good start. it s at a very reasonable price. we re talking at about $230 billion over two years. that doesn t count how much we would save with people getting off their unemployment and other benefits they need when they re unemployed. that s just direct costs. some of that would go to the private sector. if school districts want to hire a construction firm to help fix up schools all over the country, that can be done. don t miss the rachel maddow show at 9:00 eastern weeknights here on msnbc, the place for politics. believe it or not, it s time for football. robinson cano slams the yankees back in the battle for first place. your first look at sports is next. you re watching first look on
employee, health care plan and the public employee pension plan the problem? well, it is one of the problems. and we can t get into this reflexive almost in new jersey you re seeing volume get up to beating up state workers. in many ways they bargain for this at the bargaining table and came many of them putting into their pension for 10, 20, 30 years. the realty is we have to re-evaluate the system. we cannot afford it as it is right now. lean forward with the last word as lawrence o donnell takes on compelling stories. it airs at 8:00 p.m. eastern weeknights only on msnbc, the place for politics. coming up, the nuggets don t miss carmelo. the heat can do no wrong, and the same team squabble with a happy ending. plus, blake griffin goes home and makes more than a little noise. sports is straight ahead. you re watching first look on msnbc. [ male announcer ] colorful, original
gnarl restaurant association, he led a campaign to prevent raising the minimum wage under the clinton administration. on those issues, african-americans strongly disagree with him and the republican party. lean forward with the last word as lawrence o donnell takes on the day s most compelling stories. it airs 8:00 p.m. eastern weeknights on msnbc. elsewhere, facebook is in hot water. this time with congress over potential privacy violations. co-chairs of a bipartisan congressional caucus have asked the federal trade commission to launch an inquiry after it was recently discovered that facebook was using cookie software to track users online activity. facebook says it has since fixed the problem, adding in a statement yesterday that it, quote, did not store or use any information it should not have. still, congress is concerned the