Political movement and its hard to watch. Its lives at stake. Mo not only careers at stake. Literally lives at stake. Incredible. Incredible stuff. Well done, my friend. Thank you. And thanks to you at home for joining us. Happy to have you here tonight. H we start tonight in the beautiful state of oklahoma. T oklahoma where the State Song is Oklahoma And Everybody knows how to sing at least part of it. Oklahoma is home to the national Cowboy Hall of fame. Oklahoma is home to this giant pair of very veiny anatomically correct praying hands that are over 60feet tall. Thats at the entrance to oral Roberts University in tulsa. Its the birthplace of will rogers, brad pitt, woody guthrie. B its the birthplace of elizabeth Warren And Wilma mankiller. The first Woman Chief of the cherokee nation. This 76foottall golden Oil Driller because oklahoma is the place where the State Capitol grounds hold the worldwide distinction, we think, of being the only capitol anywhere that has an oil well dril
Texas capital until they get their job done. And tennessees top Vaccine Official is fired one day before the state removes all Vaccine Outreach to minors for all diseases, including covid19. That fired official, Doctor Michelle Fiscus joins me live. When all in starts right now. Good evening from New York, im chris hayes. Today, more than six months after the insurrection with no real president in american history, a transfer of power marked by violence not by piece, the president of the United States, the man who the mob tried to stop from occupying the office came forward to say that the country is facing a major crisis. So hear me clearly. There isnt an food Ling Assault taking Place Today in attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections. An assault on democracy. An assault on liberty. An assault on who we are. Who we are as americans. Were facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. Its not hyperbole. Since the civil war. It
Democrats on the record, opposing the filibuster including senators mention and sinema. everyone s throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks. i don t know the answers to those questions, i m not sure anyone does. president biden is right about the threats that america is facing and if democrats are not gonna address the filibuster, then the threats will only get worse. at least 51 democratic members of texas state legislature have fled the state. they are now in washington, d.c.. they met today with vice president kamala harris in the afternoon. and they said instead of texas, because republicans want to pass a bill that will make it even harder to vote in the state. now, there is no filibuster in the texas legislature which is the case in most states. it s just majority ruled there, right? and there is a minority. they don t have the luxury of that majority threshold so they re taking desperate, extraordinary measures that in some ways the filibuster, once represented by the
An assault on liberty. an assault on who we are. who we are as americans. we re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. it s not hyperbole. since the civil war. it s an incredibly powerful thing to say. he says it s not hyperbole, and i agree with him it s not hyperbole. republicans are passing laws making it harder to vote in states across the country. of course, they re using the predicate of the big lie to do so. conservatives on the supreme court have gutted suspensions to, four, and five of the voting rights act. the country has basically only been an actual multi racial democracy in a recognizable sense since 1965, on the voting rights act was passed. it s a very short history we ve been working on. and the president made the case today that there is an urgent problem. and again, he s right. unfortunately, the solution to that problem, the path forward
Is fraud in voting, so that when democrats win, an election in texas for senate, or the next presidential election, republicans can invalidate that election. and that, in the end, is the agenda that i worry about. in 2022, or 24, a big election being won by democrats and republicans in a place like georgia or texas invalidating that election. if that happens, there s going to be a conversation about whether we can still be all in this together. if odors, if their opinions don t matter in certain parts of the country and their choices can be invalidated. that is an existential threat to the people of the united states. that s why i worry about what is happening in texas and other places. do you think that the the voting rights act one of the most successful pieces of legislation in american history,