Flight to fight demanding congress do something, the farthest theyve gone literally and figuratively to block Gop Voting restrictions, even as texas republicans predict theyre delaying the inevitable. Once they step back into The State Of Texas they will be arrested and brought to the Texas Capitol and we will be conducting business. We are live in philadelphia where President Biden will head soon to deliver this long promised big Speech One that some democrats say is also long overdue. Our new reporting exclusively here on msnbc on what to expect from President Biden today, as his party pushes for more. I am Hallie Jackson in washington with the voting Rights Fight Front and center. Mike memoli is in philadelphia, sahilkapur on Capitol Hill, and reverend Al Sharpton joins us as well. Thank you all for being here. Sahil and mike, let me start with the reporting. Sahil, you have Texas Democrats, you are inside the capitol, about to deliver a News Conference i think at a different locati
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but as the holiday season approaches, few of the priorities that i and millions voted for have been passed into law by this congress. to be fair, we did get billions in desperately needed pandemic relief funds. however, the president s infrastructure plan that has dominated his 2020 remains dead locked, not just due to the obstructionism of republicans, but also as a result of the infighting within the democratic party. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema continue to chop at key provisions while progressives threaten to walk away from the table if they don t get most of what they are asking for. meanwhile, senate republicans are blocking the one bill that nearly all democrats can agree on, the freedom to vote act, one of the last shots by democrats this year to shore up voter protections ahead of the coming midterm elections. to his credit, the president has been more present than ever promoting his agenda on the hill as analysis suggests last year s census may have undercounted b
that s how democrats feel right now because in fact, everything is at stake. joe biden cannot continue toau controlse this country if you have free access to information, it s that simpleif bidenin certainly is not improving your life. he s not even trying to improve your life. an so the best he can do is lie to you and demand that you believen it. butd too do that , he needs tod make certain that nobody else and talk because if you were toe hear the truth, you might not obey. how is biden going to pull that off? it s not easy. well,to one option would be to get men with guns to tell youou to shut up. a most americans probably haven tt thought of that because this isn t africa or eastern europe. othis is america and we don t p things like that here and never havee. we more precisely we hat until now. buthave. more now joe biden is t and everything is different. so today to herald the coming of the new soviet america, the administration announced its own ministry of truth. thi
nation s capital. yeah. the biden administration looks to get the mask mandate for travel reinstated. yeah. just in, new reporting on how republican leaders privately blasted donald trump in the wake of the january 6th attack. like heaven. and even about to drive him from politics. mitch! only to later hear from their constituents. i don t know. back off. welcome to morning joe . willie, it appears first of all, let s talk about the capitol being evacuated yesterday. it appears that somebody at the washington national s pr department, as jonathan lemire said, forgot to send one extra e-mail. oh, boy. say, we re going to have this plane flying overhead, over the nats stadium and drop some people out of it in parachutes. so you had frantic messages going out on twitter yesterday, and the nationals were going, look up in the sky, everybody. oh, no. i don t know exactly what happened. but, man, you got to kind of notify. it is not like it is in de th