i m lindsay. i am in for yasmin. breaking news, nbc news confirms that the doj is now investigating the laboratories. that is the company at the center of the national baby formula shortage. meanwhile, merrick garland sends a clear message to jim jordan and other house republicans. hands off of the investigations. he promised to meet with kevin mccarthy. this is an invitation with a warning. no negotiations on the debt ceiling. a florida judge ordered donald trump to pay for one lawsuit that never should ve been filed. a former president withdraws another against the attorney general. ron desantis takes aim at an african american studies class. critics argue that he is taking his anti woke strategy too far. plus, alec baldwin in the charges against him in the rust set shooting. and this. drop it, drop it. a terrifying scene at an indiana walmart caught on body cam footage. we have that for you coming up. we re gonna start with that breaking news. the doj is investigating
texas for a special edition of the readout, among my guests, the democratic nominee for texas governor, o rourke himself. he will be right here in texas with me. thank you all for tuning in tonight, chris a starts now. u all for tuning i tonight, chris a starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we start the show with my big, booming tonight all invoice. but tonight, i want to start by showing you some images from a voter drop box. it is a location in arizona, two people, to thugs addressed in tactical gear intimidating voters dropping off their early ballots. now, if you re trying to pull up these images, if you find these images, these individuals dressed in basically masks and bulletproof vests looking like they are out for a hunt or out to commit some crimes. if you finals him it is chilling or outrageous, or obviously an attempt at voter intimidation, then you are correct on all fronts. there is a significant contingent of people in this country whose br
voter drop box. it is a location in arizona, two people, to thugs addressed in tactical gear intimidating voters dropping off their early ballots. now, if you re trying to pull up these images, if you find these images, these individuals dressed in basically masks and bulletproof vests looking like they are out for a hunt or out to commit some crimes. if you finals him it is chilling or outrageous, or obviously an attempt at voter intimidation, then you are correct on all fronts. there is a significant contingent of people in this country whose brains have been poisoned by donald trump s big lie of a stolen election. that has become trump and his allies, they have pushed the completely invented idea that ballot boxes, particularly dropbox is where people go to bring their mail in ballots or their signed ballots, that they are inherently fraudulent tools used to steal the election away from donald trump and from the right and proper owners of this nation, which are of course t
goes to die. florida governor ron desantis using what seems to be the gop buzzword of the moment there, and his administration is not wasting time turning words into action. the state education department has rejected an advanced placement course. on african american studies for being taught in high school, saying it violates state law and is historically inaccurate. that move is being met with swift condemnation, here is how state senator shevrin rome sees. it quote eruption history, artistry, japanese language and culture, a german language and culture, italian language and culture, spanish language and culture are all ap classes currently offered. it is crazy how ap african american studies made the chopping block in florida. and here is how one teacher share and courtney describe the course to abc news. there is nothing objectionable, it s history. it hasn t been traditionally taught in the united states in a k-12 setting but is also history that once known and understood could c
in his most testimony, it starts with him saying the same stuff that kanye was tweeting some more hostile. connie stuff is not as bad as some of the things that you ve seen. he s echoing things that he is heard. the thing that is been striking to me, i sort of agree with this. i remember nick cannon for instance, he had these very antisemitic things. there was the sense of immediate, swift condemnation. not that that is the end of it. there just seems to be less of that. people are sort of saying things that feel like public officials or others should have to clean them. we are in a new rule now. i think there s an element of the more powerful and influential person s, the more people have a tendency to want to look the other way or to make excuses. that includes i think we saw the sadly with michael jackson. there were a lot of people who don t want to believe things that we knew were true. i think we see that with kanye in terms of cultural influence.