senator catherine cortez masto described that texas rulin with a word i cannot say o television and that exclusive interview i coming up first. plus, what is next for justi j. pearson one of the tennessee three who captivity the country this week i will ask him when he joins m in just a few minutes. meanwhile, after donald trump arraignment in new york, republican stepped up thei calls to defund the fbi into the doj. i will explain all the reasons why the gop is anything but th party of law and order and later, what was th governor of california doing i alabama? i traveled to montgomery for a wide-ranging conversation with governor gavin newsom. i asked him about gun reform abortion rights, the trump indictment and of course his favorite foil, ron desantis. i try not to be alarmists on this show, but every now and then there is good reason to b alarmed. on friday night there was a ne assault on women s rights in this country because a federal judge in amarillo, texas, issued
similar movements that are on the way inevitably. the few visionaries that have grasped this obvious truth have not been welcomed by blue america, they have been mocked and derided as profits always are. a few years ago, a blue-eyed blond woman from montana declared she was black because she decided she was black. blackness was her lived experience. she was not greeted as a liberator, she was almost immediately booed off the stage and she disappeared. tellingly none of the people yelling at her ever explained why she couldn t be black why not? in this country you can change your sex but not your race how does that work? what species of science are we talking about here? it was not a defensible arg argument. over time it will collapse. someday the new york times will give her the coveted glass ceiling award for her courage in the face of prejudice, that will happen. before it does we would like to highlight some of the early adopters of our new civic religion for each of
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think the candidates should take the interviews come on the air. i know you would love to have them i would, too ask questions and force folks to talk about something else. thank you you can catch simone this weekend on msnbc or streaming on peacock. that is all in this monday night. good evening, rachel good evening. much appreciated thank you for your help joining us this hour we re really happy to have you here at 10:13 a.m. today, 10:13 a.m. exactly, kids in nashville, tennessee, all walked out of their classes. look at that when the first help me 911 call started coming into the police department in nashville one week ago today. monday last week when that horrific school shooting started at the covenant school an elementary school in that city police today said in the roughly 14 minutes that it took for that school shooting to elapse, the shooter fired 126 rifle rounds and 26 rounds from a handgun 152 rounds all together in 14 minutes. to honor the three little kid
legislation after another series of deadly mass shootings of force the issue back to the top of its agenda. on wednesday, family and survivors from the racially motivated attack at a supermarket in buffalo, new york, as well as the robb elementary shooting in uvalde, texas, will participate in a hearing held by the committee on oversight and reform. among the speakers will be maya surrey oh, a robb elementary fourth grader who was trapped in one of the adjoining classrooms of the gunman attacked. she told cnn that she covered herself in her classmates blood and play dead for an hour until law enforcement finally brought an end to the attack. now, she will tell her story to the entire country. think about this for just a second, think about the trauma that has been inflicted on school children because of our inaction. think about how much we ve been active asking of young people across this country as the united states senate has continued to stall on passing any kind of legis