From people there in little haiti? reporter: yeah, there is a population that immigrated here and stayed here in the united states following the 2010 earthquake. There s a population gain of about 100,000 haitian immigrants here over the last ten years. We are in the little haiti district of miami, and i want to let you hear from regine batiste, one of the individuals that was in the heart of portauprince back in 2010 in the earthquake that took the lives of anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000. As we see this new video today roll in, it is individuals like her that are now just watching from afar. What i saw left me jaw drop. I said, what in the world can happen again to haiti. Then i just found out that haiti was hit again by a mega earthquake, and it melts my heart because i m a survivor from the 2010 earthquake. I know how it feels. I know how it is. Reporter: now, joe, we are distinctly talking about a different part of the island that s been impacted here today from this earthquake.
Committee can do about it. Judge for yourself, is it working or not? we think that it is. Plus as kids go back to school, how pro covid governors are putting backlash ahead of the health of their constituents. Letting my people have freedom. It starts right now. Good evening from new york. I m chris hayes. After a week of breath taking revelations about the scope of donald trump s failed coup plot, the investigation into that plot is accelerating. Political reporting, the senate judiciary committee is scheduled to interview former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and former acting deputy attorney general richard donahue in the coming days. Based on great reporting and emails obtained and released by the house oversight committee it is clear that they were pivotal in stopping part of trump s coup. Trump s ally jeffrey clark proposed that they sign a letter to officials in multiple states encouraging their state legislatures to send new electors, overturning the election, essentiall
Is investigating voting in irregularities. So un georgia should call special session, nick wink wink, nudge nudge, and send all of your electors to washington. So since george is run by republicans, they would be trump electors. That would be a violation of georgia state law, that would be a violation of the will of the, people trump lost the election, it would put the election process into chaos. Thankfully, rosen, refused to sign. At the letter was never sent. Not for lack of trying though. Because the new york times reported that jeffrey clark cooked up a plot with donald trump. Madam in person, for trump to fire rosen so that jeffrey park could take his role and send a letter. And it was just won the senior justice of we learned something after the show last night, they weren t as targeting georgia. It turns out that this guy jeff, was writing or drafting these types of letters with all the six states that ended up going for joe biden, and i think that, you know, when we see is the
Left their jobs and families behind and fled to washington to keep a vote from going into law. Which means all eyes are on those state representatives still camped out in washington. New york times reports, quote, abbott s announcement sent national attention swinging back to a hotel in downtown washington, where several dozen democrats from the texas house of representatives are grappling with a familiar question: stay or go back? but more progressive members are pushing to stay in washington and continue to call attention to voting rights, at least while congress is in session. I think there is a collective will of this caucus to do everything we can to continue to defeat repression of voting in texas. That s what we did in may, we did that in july and we continue to do it going forward. It s not the federal legislation that texas democrats have been pressing for, but it might help. Merrick garland weighed back in on the fight today in a new oped of the washington post marking the 60
People s lives are at risk. Congresswoman cory bush joins me live, when all instruments know. Good evening, from new york i m chris hayes, as the delta variant moves through the country with truly stunning speed, senator lindsey graham is the latest lawmaker to contract the coronavirus, this afternoon he announced via twitter, that he tested positive, but the good news is he s fully vaccinated, and experiencing mild symptoms. Says he s grateful for the vaccination. Other senators may have been exposed, graham attended a party on senator joe manchin s house bowen saturday, at least eight senators including graham and manchin were at the party, several of those senators say they have tested negative since being on the boat. Several others are still waiting for results. Senator manchin jewelry importers that everyone on board was vaccinated in the party was held on deck. We were outside okay. And well everyone s been vaccinated. So i talk to lindsay today he s fine. He s all good. How lon