And why is the speaker of the house considering letting this guy investigate an insurrection. We know what this is about, this is impeachment round three for the democrats, when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, there is big breaking news about another close trump associate arrested and charged with crimes of corruption, his name is tom barrack, he s a billionaire businessman he is accused of illegally lobbying donald trump on behalf of the united arab emirates. Prosecutors in new york unsealed a huge seven count, 46 page indictment, we re gonna go through it, we have a reporter who is reporting on this. But this is a very important development, for a bunch of reasons. When we last we re here, last night, we were talking about the fate of the rule of law, and particularly in the period where the justice department changed hands from william barr s, and then the final days of the trump administration, which jeff rosen to merrick garland. Last night we
Washed, specific washed, specific washington, d. C. , specifically tod. Ask for federal help, to a for new t federal protection th could set a floor on voting rights that no state can fall below. That, of course s the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united states senate right now. Basically because of one conservative democratic senator named joe manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. Er they have met with other senators as well. They ve met with white house officials up to and include the vice president kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families, away from their jobs and businesses, away from their beloved texas. They re likely to be staying away for weeks to continue to press this case and to make sure there is no quorum at home. Like i said, they are literally facing arrest when they do go back to texas. And now six of these texas democrats have tested positive for covid in recent days. It wa
Draconian new voting restrictions. At least for now. They could have gone anywhere outside of texas. They chose to come to washington d. C. Specifically to ask for federal help. To ask for new federal protections that could set a floor on voting rights that no state that s the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united states senate right now basically because of one democratic senator named joe manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. They have met with other senators as well. They ve met with white house officials up to and including the vice president, kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families and away from their jobs and businesses. Away from beloved they re likely to be staying away for weeks to continue to press this case and to make sure that there s no quorum at home. Like i said, they are literally facing arrests when they do go back to texas. And now six of these texas democrats have tested
Capitol, by leaving the state, so they re beyond the reach of texas law enforcement, these democrats are preventing a quorum in the state legislature back home, which means that in very practical terms they re preventing texas republicans from passing draconian new voting restrictions. At least for now. They could have gone anywhere outside of texas. They chose to come to washington, d. C. Specifically to ask for federal help, to ask for new federal protections that could set a floor on voting rights that no state can fall below. That of course is the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united states senate right now. Basically because of one conservative democratic senator named joe manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. They have met with other senators as well. They ve met with white house officials up to and include the vice president kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families, away from their j
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