Headquarters in new york. Well, everyone, to alex witt reports. Demonstrators on the steps of the capital. Let s go right to allison barber who is joining us from austin. I m curious when you are hearing from the participants there? i was telling them that s okay, they didn t need to move because we were standing here. They came out here today because they feel there s no question in their mind that these laws, this legislation is designed to limit voting opportunity particularly for communities of color in texas, and yes, there is a republican governor and yes the legislature is controlled and the odds of stopping it might not be very high. They wanted to make sure people heard what they had to say and this is not voter suppression, he said and this is the term he used that it is voter enhancements. Activists say that could not be further from the truth and that this law is designed to restrict voting rights by limiting voting options as well as imposing new restrictions on mailin vot
and if he didn t get off, he would get the maximum sentence spending the rest of his life in prison. is that a fair punishment? was he guilty for the specific crimes he was convicted? we can debate all that, and over this next hour we will. c but this is what we can debate. no politician or media has the right to impose a different standard of justice on its own supporters. those things are unacceptable in america. all of them are happening now. if they continue to happen, decent productive people willil leave. the country as we know it will be over. we must stop this current insanity. it s an attack on civilization. at stake is far more than the future of derek chauvin. where the memory of george floyd. at stake is america. so before we consider the details of today its verdict, one bigger question, one should we should all think about, what is the promise of our justice situation that it is impartial and fair as human beings can make it. as the cop who was just convicted
plea deals surface and the attempt to launder an insurrection continues. they wandered freely through the capitol like it was their building or something. plus congresswoman katy porter on the jaw-dropping new trumppo fund-raising scam. and who needs a xwlankt pardon when you can have a disgraced twice impeached character witness? thee denial was not only a denial. it was a very firm denial. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. more than six decades ago the flagship publication of the american right the national ti review published an editorial in defense of southern segregationists. the legendary william f. buckley founder of the review, argued why the south must prevail. writing that the white community in the south is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail politically and culturally in areas in which it does not predominate numerically because for the time being it is the advanced race. that was 1957. ji