today, a texas appeals court acquitted crystal mason. today, after years of fighting this, crystal mason won. >> it's been overwhelming. i cried and hollered when i got the news. trying not to cry now, but, seven years. i've been out for six years on bond, one foot in, one foot out, not knowing if i was going to go to prison. so i'm humbly grateful right now on the outcome. i lost jobs, good jobs, insurance, just, every night. crying, praying, asking god for this to end. i knew victory would be the outcome, i can tell you that. it's been really rough, and when i got the news yesterday, i was overwhelmed with joy. it's been a long journey. >> joining me now is crystal mason, who is now acquitted of voting illegally in 2016, along with her attorney, kim cole. thanks for talking about this tonight, it's really important story. i'm sorry it had to be yours. crystal, let me start with you and how you're feeling. do you feel free? >> it's setting on me right now, it's sitting on me that i'm actually free, i'm no longer facing going to prison.

today, a texas appeals court acquitted crystal mason. today, after years of fighting this, crystal mason won. >> it has been overwhelming. i cried and hollered when i got the news. seven years. i have been out six years on an appeal bond. one foot in and one foot out. not knowing if i was going to go to prison. so i'm really humblely grateful right now on the outcome. i lost good jobs. lost insurance. just, every night, crying, praying, asking when is the end. i knew victory would be the outcome. it has been really rough. when i got the news yesterday, i was just overwhelmed with joy. it has been a long journey. >> joining me now is crystal mason who is now acquitted of voting illegally in 2016 along with her attorney kim t. cole. thank you both for talking about this tonight. it is really an important story. i'm sorry it had to be yours. crystal, let me start with you and how you are feeling. do you feel free? >> it is setting in on me right now. you know. again. like i said earlier. i'm overwhelmed with joy. and, it is setting in on me

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they destroyed crystal mason. i hope she gets some kind of compensation but she won't. >> i'm going to ask you about this. the supreme court is very clear . they just want republicans to win. they have slow walked a congressional map of south carolina. they say that you have to use that map because we can't be bothered to fix it. it seems to me that at this point the supreme court is in the business of trying to get trump and republican selected. >> they informed people about a year ago the map where nancy mace represents is an illegal gerrymander. it dilutes the votes of black people. they are get this in court last fall and this gop court has not delivered an opinion. the result is a practical matter. they will run the election on illegal maps. this gop court, everybody has to be with the same way. it is part of the gop. it is part of the apparatus. democrats have to make expanding the court and bringing judiciary to to the judiciary one of the big things. they are delaying the immunity case. the only thing they

crystal mason said she didn't know she wasn't allowed to vote during supervised release for tax evasion she says a poll worker suggested she filled out a provisional ballot, which was never counted. she was out of jail, but texas law requires you complete all punishment before being allowed to vote, and she was on supervised release. >>> a kansas city man is suing a u.s. congressman for incorrectly identifying him as the super bowl parade shooter online. denton laudermill was definitely not the shooter, he was a chiefs fan detained by police. congressman tim burchett tweeted he was the shooter and an illegal alien, also not true. >> spread the word that i am not the guy that he said i was, he spread my name, he said i was the shooter and an illegal alien. >> congressman burchett has not responded to this man's lawsuit or nbc's questions. >>> and this tweet ricochetted across the internet in the last 24 hours. a michigan lawmaker showing a group of people getting off a plane onto buses in detroit, happening right now, he writes, three buses just loaded up with illegal invaders at detroit

an appeals court has finally overturned the excessive prison sentence for crystal mason. convicted of voting illegally in the 2016 election but she always maintained it was an accident. for that one act mason was sentenced to five years in prison because she cast a provisional ballot. by the way, because it was discovered that ballot was not counted towards the outcome of the race. she has said she did not realize she was legally ineligible to vote because of a prior conviction and a poll worker said you go ahead and vote. mason now has become an advocate for reform and voting rights and these issues. >> my call to action would be, know your rights. don't let being a felon define you from voting. if you're eligible, go out there and vote, you guys. my mom, she carries the voter registration cards like it's a bible. when you turn 18 in my house, she got them ready for you. if you are eligible to vote being a felon. go vote. our vote is our voice. >> mason's sentence also reflects a much larger racial disparity in cases. we see this on cases large and small. we reported whe

crystal mason said she didn't know she wasn't allowed to vote during supervised release for tax evasionays it was a poll worker who suggested she fill out the provisional ballot, which was never counted. now, she was out of jail, but texas law requires you to complete all punishment before you can vote. mason at the time was still on supervised release. >>> a kansas city man is suing a u.s. congressman for incorrectly identifying him on social media as the super bowl parade shooter. denton laudermill definitely was not the shooter. he was a chiefs fan which he was detained by police. tennessee congressman tim burchett tweeted that he was the shooter and was, in fact, an illegal alien, the congressman's words. that's also not true. >> spread the word that i am not the guy that he said i was, like he did, spread my name, he said i was the shooter and an illegal alien. >> congressman burchett has not responded to the lawsuit or nbc's questions. >>> and this tweet ricochetted across the internet in the last 24 hours, a michigan lawmaker showing a group of people getting off a plane onto bus

sunday, april 21 at nine for years, crystal mason facedown the eventuality of spending five years in prison. she was convicted of voting illegally in 2016 a mason says that she filled out a provisional ballot and she did not know that she was not allowed to vote as a felon on release while an appeals court in texas this week overturn that conviction. in its opinion, the court said the evidence was insufficient to support the conclusion that mason actually realized that she voted knowing that she was ineligible to do so. and therefore, insufficient to support her conviction for illegal voting she spoke with laura coates last night >> it's been seven years. seven years, six years. i've been out on appeal by one foot in one foot out not knowing if i'm going to phrase it than that. so this has been very, very hard. well, you can see is two systems that's, that's exactly what i saw when i realized that i filled out a provisional ballot. i didn't vote and i was sentenced to five years in were these people have actually voted in dead moms names and their wife things going up there to vote a

mason got five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election at the time she was on supervised release for federal tax evasion. mason said she did not know that made her ineligible from voting. the court ruled that there's not enough evidence to prove otherwise. so kia recalled more than 427,000 telluride suvs these because they can roll away when they're in park, which seems to violate the primary reason for having park the tapper prize, which were made between 2,020.20, 23 includes certain models when this year as well. they say, if you have one of these, take them to the dealer so they don't maybe roll away because they're >> thank you. can we now know when the house will send the impeachment articles against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas to the senate speaker mike johnson told senate majority leader chuck schumer that will happen on april 10th. cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox joins us now from washington lauren, what are you hearing about this >> yeah, it's been several months now since the house actually acted to impeach secret

her name is crystal mason. charged with illegal voting and because of the law that santos put into order, she was sentenced to five years in jail. she served about 10 months in jail and had to report every week to somebody so she would not go back to jail. but she didn't serve the five years and she was cleared earlier this week. but you have a gop official named brian prichard, who is from georgia. he's chairman of the georgia republican party. he voted nine times illegally. and he was only sentenced to $5,000. did not serve a day in jail. he still has his job. this is how racism is in this country. if she got five years for voting when she didn't know that she was voting illegally -- her vote did not even count. this man here, he voted for dead people that was in his family. so after nine times, he should get 45 years in jail. this is how white racism in this country works. now, the other thing is with donald trump, and i will end on this. he's threatening these judges. he's threatening their families. every

her name is crystal mason. charged with illegal voting and because of the law that santos put into order, she was sentenced to five years in jail. she served about 10 months in jail and had to report every week to somebody so she would not go back to jail. but she didn't serve the five years and she was cleared earlier this week. but you have a gop official named brian prichard, who is from georgia. he's chairman of the georgia republican party. he voted nine times illegally. and he was only sentenced to $5,000. did not serve a day in jail. he still has his job. this is how racism is in this country. if she got five years for voting when she didn't know that she was voting illegally -- her vote did not even count. this man here, he voted for dead people that was in his family. so after nine times, he should get 45 years in jail. this is how white racism in this country works. now, the other thing is with donald trump, and i will end on this. he's threatening these judges. he's threatening their families. every