Bring the for the people act to the floor later this month for a vote. It can t come soon enough, as republican led legislatures across the country have introduced nearly 400 bills that limit voting access. An antivoting wave that this country has not seen since the end of reconstruction. Ari berman writes that much of what we re witnessing is a concerted attempt to end the second reconstruction which began with the passing of the voting act in 1965. The republican party is rewriting the rules of american democracy to protect conservative white political power from the rising influence of new demographic groups. Unless something is done now, the damage could be irreparable. Tuesday, president biden, signaling a new phase in the pressure campaign, he called out two obstinate members of his own party. This sacred right is under assault with an intensity and aggressiveness that we have not seen in a long, long time. It s simply unamerican. I hear all of the folks on tv saying, why doesn t
hearings on the issue. generations fresh from being discriminated against generating ideas about strengthening hate crime laws and assisting our asian-american communities. all americans must demand lawmakers follow up on these proposals and pass the best of them into law. and yet at these same proceedings, we saw republicans dig in on a position that is difficult to interpret as anything other than anti-social justice and pro-white grievance. republican congressman chip roy of texas made himself the face of this modern-day, know-nothing movement, trying to sully the hearing about rants about the chinese communist party and bizarre and offensive references to lynching. many experts trace the latest wave of anti-asian violence and harassment to former president trump s effort to blame the coronavirus on china and distract from his own disastrous handling of the pandemic. but as this week has made clear, trump isn t the only one stoking the hatred, and we have a lot more work t
as the president said just last week, chris, it s been abused. he s not eager to move with destroying the filibuster. he s eager to get things done for the american people. but he s also not going to stand by and prevent forward-moving progress from happening. in just a few minutes hear the exchange as a congresswoman takes on the head of facebook about the head of vaccine misinformation. she was targeted by anti-vaxxers. new controversy regarding the colorado shooting after what congresswoman lauren boebert said about guns and hammers. and why a trump donor holdover is still in charge of the u.s. postal service. but now let s check in with nbc s monica alba at the white house and amanda golden on capitol hill. ladies, good day to you both. the president is expected to unveil his infrastructure plan. where does that fall on the priority list now that there are calls for gun control laws and election reform? the white house has made clear they re going forward with
yeah, i was just going to call you and have you come out to our scene here. not really, but we just had to hold the guy down. he was going crazy. wouldn t go in the back of the squad. okay. well, that supervisor took the stand on thursday and explained the correct use of force. do you have an opinion as to when the restraint of mr. floyd should have ended in this encounter? yes. when is it? when mr. floyd was no longer offering up any resistance to the officers, they could have ended their restraint. and that was after he was handcuffed and on the ground and no longer resisting? correct. also developing this morning, truly stunning details in the scandal surrounding florida republican congressman matt gaetz. federal investigators said to be looking into whether gaetz used campaign funds to pay for travel and expenses for young women he was allegedly involved with. and sources tell cnn gaetz was bragging about his sexual exploits with fellow lawmakers, showin
let s dig deeper. carol lee is covering the white house, our brand new political respondent alivitali on capitol hill. how is this supposed to move the ball forward and get covid relief done? it s lawmakers that make the decisions but it s voters that actually influence those lawmakers. reporter: what you re going to see tonight is the president taking questions from americans about coronavirus relief, about the economy, really about anything they want to ask, but his focus is on his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan and the economy, which really goes the two things actually go together, there s a number of economic initiatives within the coronavirus relief plan as well as money for vaccine distribution and other things that people are eager to see happen. so what we re going to see is this is the outside game, where the president hits the road, making his first official trip outside of washington, trying to pitch his plan to the country, to try to put pressure inside