individuals, often young children. correspondent bill melugin shows us tonight from la jolla, texas. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. this border crisis here really showing no signs of slowing down. just a short time ago i had a chance to talk to a border patrol source who told me that just here in this rio grande valley sector in the last 24 hours they have apprehended more than 1300 illegal immigrants remarkable numbers for one single day. and today we witnessed a lot of that activity ourselves. take a look. a little girl stands alone on railroad tracks in la jolla, texas friday morning. momentarily separated from her family she runs towards a border patrol unit where her parents have been apprehended nearby after crossing into the u.s. illegally. also nearby is a group of more than a dozen unaccompanied kids who have all given themselves up, all of them from guatemala. they include this brother and sister, ages 4 and 7. they came without any guardia
prepares to leave it, bomb stell that jeff bezos and many of america s wealthiest millionaires paid little or no taxes at all. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. a big divide among the people in this country who are, i don t know, trying to preserve american democracy. the others, beal hysterical. going to be fine. it s always been fine more or less. it will work out. today those two groups got together for a virtual meeting, two sides of the pro-democracy majority in the country. right? every in the story wants to preserve american democracy. one side democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia recently announced with significant fanfare he will not vote for that huge bill to regulate elections and campaign finance and combat voter suppression called hr 1, for the people act, s1 in the senate and s also won t move to reform the filibuster. opposite the virtual table from senator marchlmanchin, civil ri leaders saying feeling this is
congressman eric swalwell confirmed that the records were seized. here s where the reporting is more disturbing. prosecutors were hunting for the sources of media news reports of contacts with russia. the da the and other evidence did not tie the committee to the leaks. investigators debated whether they had hit a dead end. some discussed closing the inquiry. they took this unprecedented investigative the ep when donald trump took the unprecedented step of asking the fbi director james comey to let mike flynn go. mike flynn took the unprecedented step as the sitting national security adviser to lie to the fbi about the conversations with russian ambassador kissly yak. trump lying about conversations with vladimir putin. the sidelines of a global summit. unprecedented conduct all around contacts between trump figures and russia. all of it as robert mueller investigating the ties to russia. so doj at this time crosses this red line. they subpoena apple for the phone records and
turning point usa, charlie hurt. one of the msnbc contributors going out after she said she saw pickup trucks waving flags, suggesting it s a threat to our democracy. the reality is here that we have a large percentage of the american population, i don t know how big it is, but we have voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others. i think as long as they see americanness as the same, as one with whiteness, this is going to continue. we have to figure out how to get every american at the table. but how to separate americanness from whiteness. until we can confront that and talk about that, this is going to continue. i was on long island this weekend visiting a dear friend and i was disturbed. i saw dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with expletives against joe biden, trump flags, and dozens of american flags, which is also just disturbing because the message was clear. this is my c
unatentded on counting tables, computers sit abandoned at times open, unlocked and unmonitored. procedures are shifting. with untrained workers using different rules to count ballots. arizona secretary of state hobbs on wednesday sent a letter outlining a string of problems that she said observers from her office have witnessed at republican led at the republican-led recount of the 2020 presidential election results in arizona s largest county and now the justice department is stoeping in warning the republican-led state senate that the audit of the ballots could be breaking federal laws because the ballots were turned over to a private company when they re supposed to stay in the hands of election officials and that plans by the company to directly contact voters could amount to voter intimidation. but there s perhaps no greater sign of just how deranged the arizona autoit is than this. an auditor telling cbs news wait for it they re looking for tracing of bamboo in th