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forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if th ....
Forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes ....
Start about 13 minutes from now to get round two of their voting restrictions bills through the legislature after democrats blocked that first attempt in may. you have public hearings on these bills already set for tomorrow. this is going to get heated with opponents calling for voting right advocates to flood those hearings. it comes as the white house announces a new national strategy to combat voting rights crackdowns like the one happening in texas. the dnc committing $25 million to support voter outreach and legal fights basically money to boost grassroots level voting access effort, all of it as we get new reaction from the meeting president biden and vp harris held with leaders from top civil rights groups about voting rights issues and the need for police reform legislation. the leaders calling it a very constructive meeting. with me now is one of them. president of the national urban league. thanks for being on the show. thanks for having me. take us inside those talks. ma ....