The quorum needed to approve the bill. At least for now, governor greg abbott will add election integrity to a list of topics for a special session. He like others in florida, iowa, and georgia are using former president trump s lies about the 2020 election to make it harder to vote in future elections. Democrats said they ll keep fighting. We used all the tools in our toolbox to fight this bill and tonight we pulled out the last one because reno longer going stand to allow them to continue push measures that disenfranchise our voters. So really it s a witch hunt. Itst a witch hunt that is aimed at people of color. We re going back centuries. We may have won the war tonight but the battle is not other. We ll continue to fight and speak out against those measures that attempt silence our voices. They don t want you to know the truth on that bill. They don t want you to know how they don t want to see you at the polls. They don t want you to know you have rights. Now the measure would ha
To white wash and rewrite the shameful events of that day to avoid accountability and turn away from difficult truths. If we avoid confronting what happened here a few short months ago, we can be sure that intimidation, coercion and violence will become a defining feature of our politics. That was peter meyer, one of the few republicans who voted to impeach the insurrectionist former president speaking the truth, someone who doesn t speak the truth is this woman. Ms. Jewish space lasers herself, marjorie taylor greene, who in a deranged speech on the house floor actually uterred the sentence, quote, the people who breached the capitol on january 6th are being abused. She then continued, quote. When will the witch hunt of donald j. Trump and all of those who support him come to an end, end quote. Another member of the racist domestic extremist group proud boys has been arrested for his role in the attack, a florida man that goes by the name milkshake. Milkshake. As the washington post n
jail. plus why the voting reform bill that just passed the house is crucial for democracy. and as vaccination rates climb, dr. peter hotez on why we may soon hit an anti-vaxxer problem when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. on january 6th of this year, shortly after noon, news leaks that merrick garland would be getting a huge new job. two sources familiar tell my colleague mike memoli and me that president-elect joe biden has selected judge merrick garland to serve as his attorney general. merrick garland is someone who is widely viewed who can be a unifying force within the department of justice, trying to restore public faith in that institution and restoring morale within it. garland, of course, everyone knew, went through a historic snubbing in 2016 after then-president obama nominated him to fill antonin scalia s vacant seat on the supreme court. and for nearly a year, senate republicans pulled an unprecedented stunt, refu
very visible surrogate and enforcer for trump, after mr. cohen pled guilty to, among other things, helping cover up illegal campaign contributions for his presidential campaign actually hush payments to women to prevent them talking before the campaign, after he pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may, 2019, he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and was transitioned effectively to home confinement and the reason he got out then is because of covid. it wasn t special treatment for him, this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time but a seriously crazy thing happened to him right after that. something that appears to have been very specifically designed for him. just a few weeks after he was sent home because of covid, the bureau of prisons revoked his home confinement and decided even though he had only been home a couple of weeks, they d send him right back to prison. sure he d been released becaus
actually hush payments to women to prevent them talking before the campaign, after he pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may, 2019, he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and was transitioned effectively to home confinement and the reason he got out then is because of covid. it wasn t special treatment for him, this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time but a seriously crazy thing happened to him right after that. something that appears to have been very specifically designed for him. just a few weeks after he was sent home because of covid, the bureau of prisons revoked his home confinement and decided even though he had only been home a couple of weeks, they d send him right back to prison. sure he d been released because of covid like other prisoners, told him he would wear ankle monitor and serve out the rest of his sentence at home but a few weeks into it, changed their minds, and without wa