continues. by now you ve heard about the extreme measures taken by republicans in georgia to severely limit voting access in legislation that haer harkens bo the jim crow era. make no mistake, this bill will directly hit the black voters who make up roughly one-third of the state s population and who help democrats win the white house and seize the majority in the senate. true to gop form, georgia governor brian kemp mocked the idea that the bill was racist. according to them, if you support voter i.d. for absentee ballots, you re a racist. according to them, if you believe in protecting the security and sanctity of the ballot box you re a, quote, jim crow in a suit and tie. you might be thinking, brian kemp can t touch me or, i don t live anywhere near georgia. but with 253 restrictive voting bills introduced in 43 states, georgia s new senator, raphael warnock, says think again. if you think that this is something happening down in georgia, you are misapprehending the
future policing. and calls to defund the police. here is what the city council s vice president told ali velshi earlier. we transferred $1 million to violence prevention to develop a mental health response, crime prevention so we re not always sending officers with guns out to situations that don t necessarily require that. let s go to nbc s shaquille brewster outside that courthouse. shaq, what do you know? reporter: in terms of the pledge and promise to dismantle and defund the minneapolis police department, the status of that depends on who you ask. it started with a promise and a park. to end policing as we know it. city council two weeks after the police killing of gorge floyd. majority of city council members on stage supporting that idea. headline grabbing commitment. defund the police sxwlr still unfulfilled today. what s happened since that day? we ve allocated it toward other programming. reporter: there has been progress. the police chief an
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
a law clearly aimed at disenfranchising millions of voters, many of them people of color. why did the georgia legislature only pick sundays to say there should be no early voting on sunday? we know why. it s because that s the day african-americans vote in the souls to the pole operation where they go from church to vote. according to them, if you support voter i.d. for absentee ballots, you re a racist. according to them, if you believe in protecting the security and sanctity of the ballot box you re a, quote, jim crow in a suit and tie. the filibuster at the end of the day is about minority rights in the senate. how are you going to insist on protecting minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society. so every time a republican does anything, we re racist. if you re a white conservative, you re a racist. if you re a black republican, you re either a prop or uncle tom. they use the racism card to advance a liberal agenda and we
debut on the show, by sacha baron cohen. do i have to explain who that is, rachel? he is kind of a movie thing. it s not a news i know. and he is going to be joined, actually, by aaron sorkin, who might have, you know, written some words for sacha to say tonight. not that he needs any help. and i am not going to tell you why they are here, okay? because it s actually kind of a movie thing that crosses over into our news. but, you know, that s coming up. you have sacha barron cohen and aaron sorkin? yes and in my case aaron is easier to get because i ve worked with him before. but sacha baron cohen, yeah, i m wicked excited about that. wow. that s incredible. i am going to go because i want to watch your show. you have a reason to watch this time. thank you, rachel. we have a breaking news report which we will get to in a moment from politico tonight reporting that the first trump aide, the first trump appointee has been arrested in connection with the invasion o