Descend on the state capitol today. Joining me now, live from the march, former congressman from texas, beto o rourke, and cochairman of the poor people s campaign, bishop william barber. Bishop william barber is also the author of we are called to be a movement. Gentlemen, thank you both for being here. I want to tell our viewers that you are about a mile i understand, a mile from the state capitol, with marchers gathered behind you. Beto, let me start with you. And just get your sense of the mood, the mood there among the marchers, heading to the state capitol, demanding that their right to vote be respected and protected. Reporter: there is a lot of energy, there s a lot of power here, there s a lot of strength where we are right now in austin. As we make our way to the state capitol, where we re urging people to join us there at 10:00 a. M. This morning. They re going to hear from bishop barber, the poor people s campaign, allied organizations. And at the end of the rally, willie n
here so i don t have more details than that right now. just speaking about economic impact, each day that the port to shut down, what is the economic impact? last i checked, there is between $10,200,000,000 of value that comes through that port every day. about $2 million in wages that are at stake every day and that s one of the areas we are most concerned about. it s one thing for a container or a vehicle or a sugar shipment to be absorbed or accommodated somewhere else but these longshore workers, if goods are not moving, they are not working. right now there is work taking place even inside of that bridge because of the work that has to be done to off-load some of the vehicles that are stuck there and get that back onto surface transportation to get to the other site. there are likely working right now but that work will not last long and that s a main area of concern. thank you very much. when you look at cfr, the code of federal regulations, you earlier talked abo
so just speaking about economic impact, each day that the port is shutdown, what is the economic impact? again, there s between, last i checked, between 100 and $200 million of value that comes through the port every day, and about $2 million in wages that are at stake every day, and that s one of the areas we re most concerned about. it s one thing for a container or a vehicle or a sugar shipment to be absorbed or accommodated somewhere else, but these long shore workers, if goods aren t moving, they re not working. now, right now there is work taking place even inside of that bridge because of the work that has to be done to off load some of the vehicles that are stuck there and get that back on the surface transportation to go out to other sites, so they re likely working right now, but that work won t last long, and that s one of our main areas of concern. thank you very much. so when you look at cfr, you know, the regulations, you earlier talked about how, you know
i was just notified that this is that right now? just thinking about economic impact each day that the borders shut down. what does economic impact? well again, there s between last i checked between $100,200 million of value that comes through that port every day. and about $2 in wages that are at stake every day. and that s one of the areas we re most concerned about. it s one thing for a container or a vehicle, or a sugar shipment to be absorbed or a common but they did somewhere else. but these longshore workers, if goods aren t moving, they re not working now. right now, there is work taking place even inside of that bridge because of the work that has to be done to offload some of the vehicles that are that are stuck there and get that back on a surface transportation to go out to other sites. so they re likely working right now, but that work won t last long and that s one of our main areas of concern is i thank you very much. so menn, you look at cfr the code of
the justice department engaged in what has become the largest investigation in our history. the counts included obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the united states. he wanted to take away your right to vote, and today, they charged him with. it the first ever indictment of a former president for trying to steal an election. this is the greatest political crime since succession. what we have right now is a test on democracy. this is happening at the same date that we have a poll showing that donald trump and biden are running neck and neck. it is a charge ball, this guy could be charged again. i wish for a speedy trial, that there be and mike pence is going to be the star witness. every one now will need to concede that things about to get complicated. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live from msnbc headquarters here in new york city. and we got a special two hour edition of the 11th hour tonight. let s di