we have civil rights attorney robert pattillo standing by. we are going to go to mike tobin on the ground. it is a snowy night. robert, i think you re ready if you re up with us. i m ready. shannon: robert, what do you make of this? we have this officer, we saw the video. to the police s credit, it was released quickly so people could have as much transparency as possible. the officer, kim potter, decades of service, has resigned, saying it was best for the community and best for her fellow officers. we await potential charging decisions. what are you looking for tonight? what i am seeing is the protests from last year have been effective in changing local policy with regards to policing. often, if you go to the trayvon martin shooting, the breonna taylor shooting, the george floyd killing. one the issues that caused these protests to escalate was a lack of transparency by police department, lack of accountability. we also saw with ahmaud arbery y three months for the c
different reports that came from officials saying that there was a mood within the department. and i ll just quote one formal official report. quote, nobody wanted to write a formal intelligence report about this in part of the fear that such a report would be very poorly received by the maga folks within dhs. and to follow this up, brian murphy, former head of dhs, and i don t know, were you also the deputy to him as well? i was one of his deputies, yes, sir. he noted that dhs officials had ordered him to stay away from the threat of white nationalism, that chad and ken cuccinelli also asked him to modify intel assessments to ensure that they matched up with public comments by president trump to downplay the threat posed by white supremacists. in your time at dhs, it s very important that intelligence is unaffected by politics. it s like the root information. did you get a sense that there was kind of a troubling cloud as reported in various sources including from the fo
americans. senator majority whip dick durbin said biden s recent poling is scary. sandra: the wall street journal showing 61% of americans believe the economy is headed in the wrong direction and the numbers don t look better for wynned. biden. 57% approval rating. john: we will speak to ronna mcdaniel in a moment. we begin with peter doocy in kansas city. hopefully you got a belly full of barbecue. i just had a brisket sandwich the side of my head. we are awaiting the president on his way to missouri. to pitch the extra base hits bill he made to a state that trump won by a lot. we talked to one of missouri s republican senators who doesn t get why the president is on his way here. it wreaks of desperation and to change the subject. what his visit will highlight in missouri is how bad his policies have been. i can t figure out what the president has against working people. he doesn t want them to buy cars or be fired if they don t get the vaccine. doesn t want the
delivered by voters and division within their own party. west virginia senator joe manchin sounding the alarm to democrats while speaking to fox news saying the disappointing result from tuesday s races should serve as a wake up call to all of us. sandra: wuwill it? house democrats are planning it to vote on both the social spending plan and the bipartisan infrastructure bill by the end of the week. kevin: fox news coverage. peter doocy at the white house. sandra: we begin with congressional correspondent chad pergram. house speaker nancy pelosi is not tipping her hand on when the house could vote but she did say passage of the infrastructure bill could have helped democrats in virginia. without saying what impact it had, it s always a positive message to have results that are understood by the public. but it was not a good night. republicans are ready to pounce if democrats forge ahead with their agenda especially after the rebuke at the ballot box. you saw i
someone s health status. a showdown in chicago and across the country as police unions refuse public health orders on vaccines. and how one reckless law in texas is causing chaos for teachers across the state. how do you help us. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. according to one estimate, there are more than 10,000 local election jurisdictions in the united states and they are run for the most part by everyday bureaucrats, county clerks and election commissioners. i d wager before 2020 the vast overwhelming majority of americans had absolutely no idea who their local elections official was. most probably still do not. it s kind of like the power grid or the supply chain. you do not want to hear about it or do not hear about it when it is working. you only really think about it when it is in crisis. our election systems are in crisis thanks to donald trump s authoritarian aspirations. at the ground level followers of the ex-presid