and with it our broadcast for a tuesday night. thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. the house of representatives has just tonight passed the american dream and promise act of 2019. which offers a path to citizenship for folks who were brought here as kids, for the dreamers. >> this vote, the yeas are 237. the nays are 187. the bill is passed. without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> what they're saying there, from the gallery, and with

support from the floor, from the democrats on the floor, you see nancy pelosi there in white, what the house -- what they're saying is "si se puede." this is the house tonight passing a path to legal residency and to a green card if you commit higher education -- complete higher education or military service, ultimately a path to citizenship. you'll remember that president obama tried to end the legal limbo for many of these folks who were stuck in this sort of lacuna in the immigration system. he tried to end the legal limbo those folks were in when he established the daca program in 2012, which of course invited people to come out of the shadows and legalize their status and apply for work permits. well, one election later of course president trump ripped up that program and threw those kids back into a status that was really worse than the limbo they had been in before because of

course in the interim they had come forward to declare themselves to a government that under president trump has declared outright war on immigrants and immigration. that effort by trump to undo the daca program is now before the u.s. supreme court. but nevertheless, tonight the democratic-led house passed this bill to establish a path to citizenship for dreamers, offering also a reprieve to people from liberia and haiti and other countries who had been allowed to stay because of country-specific disasters in their home countries. trump had tried to turn that off and forcibly deport those people. this bill democrats passed in the house tonight would protect those people once again. and the democrats are under no illusions, i think, that the republican-controlled senate is going to take up this legislation or that president trump would ever sign it if they did. but the democrats in the house did get a 50-vote margin for passing this thing. all but seven republicans voted no.

but all the democrats voted yes. and it's interesting. if you compare this vote tonight to the last time the democratic-controlled house passed the dream act, which was way back in 2010, if you look, the numbers for the republicans are pretty similar, right? republicans remain almost entirely opposed. same way they were back then. but back in 2010 there were quite a few democrats. there were 38 democrats who voted no along with all those republicans. now look, zero democrats voted no. now it is a unanimous yes on this issue from democrats in the house. democrats have made it over these past ten years, they have made it a core part of their party that they are pro immigrant. as the trump-era republican party has defined immigrants with increasing aggression and naked hostility often in crassly bigoted terms defining immigrants and immigration as the cause of all of america's problems, democrats have changed too. democrats, you can see from those numbers, have put aside their own differences with each other on this issue and democrats now have unanimity on the issue of supporting

immigrants and giving law-abiding immigrants a path to become citizens in this country. that happened tonight. the house voted on a whole bunch of things that has happened tonight and it comes amid a whole bunch of stuff we're watching for in the overnight hours and into tomorrow morning. early tomorrow our time, because of the time difference, president trump will be taking a somewhat strange meeting with the irish prime minister. he will be meeting with the irish prime minister at the vip lounge at the shannon airport in ireland. the shannon airport is -- nothing wrong with it. it's not a big fancy place, though. and i'm guessing that the vip lounge is very nice there. but holding that meeting for president trump in that somewhat awkward location, that was arranged, that was sort of the plan z after all of the other options had fallen through. president trump started off planning this trip to ireland by initially trying to get the

irish prime minister to come visit and hold the summit at president trump's irish golf course. now, that is a request that the government of ireland rejected for obvious reasons. right? no, we will not use our government to create a commercial for your golf course. even though you, sir, are clearly comfortable using the american government to hold a commercial for your golf course. we're not going to do that. so they're not going to meet at the president's golf course like he insisted. they're not going to meet at another nearby castle which the irish government offered as a second choice. instead they will meet at the airport, which is a little weird. but this whole overseas trip has been pretty sort of clunky for the president. the president for one thing brought along his adult children. not just jared and ivanka, who work in the white house, but he also brought along his other adult children, all of them,

including the two who have ongoing roles in his business but no role supposedly in the government. he brought them to the state dinner that was held in his honor in the uk. this was not an official british government visit to host the trump kids, you know, to host the trump family. this was an official british government occasion to host the president. but nevertheless, the president brought don jr. and eric and tiffany and all the rest of them with the white house never really explaining what exactly they were doing there. the president was greeted in great britain by large and occasionally quite funny protests in london. the president told reporters that he believed those people were not protesting him, they were celebrating his visit. which i guess if you squint and you don't read the signs maybe you can get away with that. the president must have noticed, however, that he was not invited to address parliament on this trip as previous u.s. presidents have done, which is quite an obvious snub for president trump. president trump was also quite publicly snubbed by boris johnson, the conservative

party's own sort of trump-like figure who has recently declared his candidacy for prime minister now that theresa may is stepping down. trump went out of his way to praise boris johnson by name on his way to britain. he praised johnson as someone who would be excellent. "i know boris. i like him. i think he would do a very good job." meaning as the next british prime minister. the president all but endorsing boris johnson for prime minister on his way to britain. soon after trump arrived in britain and boris johnson said no, he would not meet with trump, he didn't have time. i mean, part of the public welcome that trump got from the people of great britain also include these comments from boris johnson about trump being projected onto the side of big ben. and it doesn't exactly look like the way you remember big ben because it's covered in scaffolding right now. but this is big ben. and after trump praised boris johnson, basically anointed him to be his choice for the next british prime minister, this is what greeted trump in london. >> i think donald trump is clearly out of his mind.

if you think that's a sensible way to proceed, you can't ban people going to the united states in that way or indeed to any country. what he's doing is playing the game of the terrorists invade and seek to divide us. that is exactly the kind of reaction they hope to produce. donald trump says there are parts of london that are no-go zones. i think he's portraying a quite stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit to hold the office of president of the united states. i would invite him to come and see the whole of london and take him around the city. except i wouldn't want to expose londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting donald trump. >> he says at the end there he would not want to expose any londoners to the unnecessary risk of meeting donald trump. who thinks -- raise your hand. if you think that president trump knew that that's how boris johnson had been talking about

trump publicly before the president endorsed him to run the british government. do you think that president trump had ever had those clips played for him before? do you think he knew that's what boris johnson had been saying about him? i think that those comments from boris johnson about trump may have been projected onto the side of big ben by the same folks who also projected this onto the side of the madam tussaud's wax museum in london. you can see the sort of gentle dome of that building provides a nice aesthetic echo to the crown of the ball cap that says ""uss john mccain," the arleigh burke-class destroyer and the ball cap its sailors wear. that's the destroyer that had to be hidden from view on trump's recent visit to japan because he doesn't like john mccain too much. so i hope you have enjoyed your trip to london, mr. president. boris didn't have time for you. all of london turned out unanimously to basically drop their drawers and moon you. and parliament did not wish to hear from you while you were there.

plus on prominent buildings in london things designed to embarrass or upset you were prominently projected and displayed. but you and your kids all got to dress up and look great with the royal family. also mr. president, i hope you have an excellent time at the vip lounge at shannon airport tomorrow. which is a really weird place for you to be meeting the irish prime minister. as i say, the president's overseas trip has been clunky. meanwhile, at home the president's campaign chairman has just learned he's being moved to rikers island. paul manafort is already serving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence for multiple federal felony charges. that's not going to stop him, however, from also having to face state felony charges in new york. he's being charged with 16 felony counts in state court in new york. and ahead of those proceedings fox news was first to report today that manafort is expected to be moved from the federal correctional facility he's currently living in in pennsylvania, instead to the rikers island jail complex in new york city and all of its notoriety.

across town in federal court in brooklyn, new york today there was a bail hearing for another trump campaign figure, george nader took frequent meetings during the campaign with senior trump administration officials including jared kushner and mike flynn and steve bannon and the president's eldest son, donald trump jr. george nader is also the one who reportedly arranged the meeting in the seychelles islands during the transition between a kremlin-connected russian banker who was there at the behest of the government and erik prince as a representative of the trump transition. after trump was sworn in as president, george nader was also reportedly a frequent visitor to the trump white house including specifically multiple visits to steve bannon's office just off the oval. as of yesterday george nader is now facing serious child pornography charges. and not for the first time in his life. mr. nader was arrested yesterday at jfk airport. he was held overnight at the federal detention center in brooklyn.

at his bail hearing today the judge agreed that george nader will be held one more night overnight in the federal detention facility in brooklyn. then tomorrow he will be driven by fbi agents to the eastern district of virginia, which is where he's expected to face trial on those child porn charges. now, george nader of course was also an important cooperating witness for the mueller investigation. he's said to have provided testimony to the grand jury in mueller's investigation as well. all in exchange for limited immunity. now, what kind of immunity did he get? how at the end of that deal did he end up getting charged with these serious felony charges? it's just one little piece of the many mysteries that surround this disturbing and unusual character who played such a strange role in the trump campaign, the trump transition, and the first year of trump being in office as president. presumably when these court proceedings start against him in virginia on these child pornography charges, presumably that will give us at least some

window into what has happened with him overall. meanwhile, today was the deadline for former white house communications director hope hicks and former chief of staff to white house counsel don mcgahn to hand over documents to the judiciary committee in response to a subpoena from that committee. both hope hicks and annie donaldson were witnesses for mueller's inquiry. they both provided documents to mueller and his prosecutors. the judiciary committee wants to speak to both hope hicks and annie donaldson themselves. they want to see supporting materials as to what hicks and donaldson testified about. today the white house sent this letter to jerry nadler, chairman of the judiciary committee, telling him nope, they should not expect those documents or that testimony. the white house is now insisting as they are with other mueller witnesses that annie donaldson and hope hicks will not be allowed to testify, they will not be allowed to hand over documents. there had been some expectation that one or both of these witnesses might try to say that

they wouldn't testify and they wouldn't hand over documents pertaining to their time working in the white house specifically. but hope hicks, for example, also spent time working on the campaign and on the transition well before trump was president. there was some expectation that that period of time she spent in trump's employ would be fair game. right? that that wouldn't be covered by anything that could be construed as any sort of presidential privilege since that was all before trump was president. that had been sort of the expectation as this subpoena deadline for hicks and donaldson approached today. but ultimately we got a letter from hope hicks' counsel today declaring than only would she not testify or hand over documents related to her time in the white house, she's also not handing over anything related to her time in the transition. nor will she hand over anything related to her time in the campaign. in other words, they can have nothing from her. the only things that hope hicks is willing to hand over to the judiciary committee are documents that she's already previously given to other

committees. and other than that they can take their subpoena and project it up the side of big ben. as the democratic-controlled house tries to follow up on the mueller investigation, tries to investigate what mueller found and the implications of what mueller found, the white house is as promised taking steps to block congress from accessing any materials, any personnel, any witnesses. and don mcgahn, white house counsel, crucial mueller witness, is defying the subpoena that has been issued to him. hope hicks former white house communications director. annie donaldson, former chief of staff to mcgahn. they are now defying these subpoenas that have been issued to them by congress as well. the attorney general himself has defied a subpoena issued to him by congress to hand over the unredacted mueller report and its underlying evidence. and that one actually took an interesting turn tonight. it's been about 24 hours roughly since the democrats announced that they would schedule a vote in the full house of representatives for next week, tuesday next week, to hold

attorney general william barr in contempt for refusing to comply with the judiciary committee's subpoena to hand over the redacted portions of mueller's report and the underlying evidence. and you know, there's been a lot of bluster from the justice department about that subpoena and how unbothered they are by it and how much disdain they have for the democratic-led committee that has issued that subpoena. but attorney general william barr also apparently really, really, really does not want to be held in contempt. and you might remember that he got to this point where he was defying an intelligence committee subpoena and he was going to be held in contempt and at the very last minute the justice department weighed in and said no, no, no, we think we can give you some stuff, just don't hold him in contempt, don't hold that vote. and the intelligence committee backed off and they said they started finally to receive some materials from justice. well, the justice department today tried the same trick with the judiciary committee. the justice department today sent this sort of remarkable letter to congress saying that they are prepared to negotiate, they are prepared to talk, they are prepared to try to come to some kind of accommodation with the committee over the subpoena.

they're prepared to find some way to answer some of the requests congress is making with this subpoena. but they'll only do that if the house unschedules their planned vote to hold william barr in contempt. "the department is prepared to resume negotiations with the committee provided that the committee takes reasonable steps to remove any threat of an imminent vote by the house of representatives to hold the attorney general in contempt." "we look forward to your confirmation that the contempt resolution has been withdrawn and following such confirmation, to returning to our efforts to accommodate the committee. we would be happy to meet and discuss these matters further." did i say happy? i mean just delighted. we'd be over the moon. just don't hold the attorney general in contempt. whatever you do. we'll do anything you want. do not hold that vote. please take that vote off the counter. we'll talk to you about this stuff. we're sorry. just don't do that. judiciary committee chairman

jerry nadler responded tonight by saying thank you, no. jerry nadler sending a response back to the justice department saying basically we're happy that you're willing to resume discussions with us and you're willing to talk about accommodating this request for these materials, but we're not unscheduling that vote. nadler telling the justice department tonight, "we are ready to proceed without conditions." "we urge you not to make the mistake of breaking off accommodations again. we are here and ready to negotiate as early as tomorrow morning." but again, no, they are not calling off that scheduled contempt vote for the attorney general on tuesday of next week. and why would you, right? now you that know how much the attorney general really, really cares about that vote. it seems to be the only thing that's driving him and the justice department to hand over anything in response to these lawfully binding subpoenas that are coming at them from congress. that they're otherwise super happy to defy. so there's a lot of things in

motion right now. again, just before we got on the air tonight, the house voted to -- overwhelmingly to pass legislation to protect the dreamers. and of course republicans are not having it. the republicans voted overwhelmingly against it. only seven republicans siding with the democrats on this. but still, the democrats run the house, they got an overwhelming majority. republicans won't do anything with it. mitch mcconnell won't let the senate vote on it. president trump will never sign it. but the democratic-led house is showing the kind of policy and the kind of legislation that they value and that they would pursue and that makes up their governing agenda. and if there is a democratic senate elected in 2020, they're saying basically, look, we already teed this up with an overwhelming vote, now you guys pass it, this is ready to go. simultaneously, they're pursuing from every angle the oversight efforts that at least in the judiciary committee right now center on the mueller investigation and what happened to the mueller investigation. document requests are becoming subpoenas. subpoenas are being defied. defied subpoenas are becoming

contempt votes. contempt votes are freaking out the potential subjects of those contempt votes. i mean, it can feel like a slow motion train, but it is a train that is definitely in motion. and the president is having a terrible and embarrassing long trip abroad. and meanwhile, the democrats who are vying to run against him in 2020 are starting to hit their first benchmarks. the democratic national committee has set up the first debate in the democratic presidential primary to have slots for 20 different contenders. a two-part debate with ten podiums on the stage for each of two successive nights. well, today congratulations colorado senator michael bennet, today the 20th democratic candidate hit either the polling threshold or the fund-raising threshold to qualify to make it onto the stage for that debate. the problem for the democrats is that we're still almost a month away from that debate and they've now filled the 20 slots. there are more than 20 candidates running. there's plenty of time for yet more of them to hit either the polling threshold or the

fund-raising threshold to technically qualify to be on that stage. but as i said, as of today that stage is right now full. so the democratic party will have to come up with some way to allow people to be on that stage up to 20 while coming up with some other criteria to keep others out. you know, the president's campaign chairman is in prison. he's about to be moved to rikers island. the president's personal lawyer is also in prison, in upstate new york. this guy pictured here with the president was just arrested yesterday at jfk airport and tomorrow will be driven by fbi agents to virginia to face child pornography charges in the eastern district of virginia. the president's deputy campaign chairman has pled guilty to multiple felonies and is awaiting sentencing. the president's first national security adviser has also pled guilty to felony charges and is also awaiting sentencing. the president's new attorney general is about to be held in contempt of congress. the democrats appear newly enthused about the prospect of subpoenaing robert mueller to

testify about the president and about mueller's investigation if they have to, if mueller won't do it voluntarily. the democrats are showing themselves broadly to be capable of both passing significant legislation like the dreamers act they passed tonight and also simultaneously investigating the president from a whole bunch of different angles, like an octopus holding eight different gavels at once. and so yeah, in that context every democrat who has ever looked in the mirror and thought yeah, maybe, why not me, every democrat on earth is running for president right now because they all want the chance to run against this guy in the general election. and yes, that creates its own drama and its own complications inside democratic politics. what are they going to do when more than 20 of these candidates qualify to be on that debate stage and there's only 20 slots? it does create its own drama and its own complications.

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why are you against impeachment now? you're going to change your mind very soon. >> i think we're ultimately ending up there. i'm the only candidate running for president who actually would have to try the case because i'm on the judiciary committee. i've called for immediately impeaching barr and mnuchin. i think they're front door obstructors and they're holding the evidence that we need right now. i firmly believe as a former prosecutor no one is above the law. and there has to be consequences when people break the law. >> congressman eric swalwell there stating attorney general william barr and treasury secretary steven mnuchin should be immediately impeached themselves for blocking the release of the unredacted mueller report and underlying evidence. mr. barr. and in mnuchin's case the president's financial documents and his tax returns.

joining us here on set is congressman eric swalwell of california. he's on the judiciary committee and on the intelligence committee. he is also very busy running for president. sir, thank you very much for being here. >> of course. >> appreciate it. let me ask you about this prospect of impeaching barr and mnuchin. they are both defying subpoenas that should require them to do something fairly simple, in each case just handing over materials. you think that's impeachment-worthy. >> absolutely. and also i believe the attorney general lied to congress when he testified and stated that bob mueller had never contacted him, that no prosecutor had objected to the way he characterized the report. i also believe that the work that he's doing for the president of investigating the investigators has a chilling effect on any future investigations. you know, what do you do if you're an fbi agent and you get a tip that the president's team is still working with the russians or some other country and you see the attorney general is having this clampdown.

i think there's a number of reasons to move on the attorney general and mnuchin where the law's clear, he should turn over the tax returns. ton take off the table at all impeaching donald trump but we want all the documents if that's where we end up and right now they've buried those documents. so they should be held responsible for that. >> cabinet officials being impeached is something that doesn't happen much if at all. is the process of mounting those sorts of impeachment efforts similar to the type of structure that you build around a potential presidential impeachment where you essentially start it in the judiciary committee, you start hearings, and then it goes to the full house, the same way? >> or a bottom-up prosecution. right? a lot of times in like money laundering cases or prosecution of the mob it's bottom up and you get the evidence that you need to go after the real offender. the real offender here is donald trump. i just as a former prosecutor, i want to make sure that we get it right and we have all of the evidence as we reach that crescendo. >> it strikes me as i've been following what's happening with the attorney general himself that he really, really, really, really does not want to be held in contempt of congress. >> that's part of my wagering here. i think he is impeachment-worthy but i also believe that he is a

serious lawyer and unlike this president, who i don't think is serious about many things, i think we actually may get what we want if we hold the attorney general responsible. he may say okay, i'll give you what you want, i don't want to be impeached. he doesn't want that stain on him. i think that's what he doesn't want to be held in contempt. >> it's interesting because you are in a unique position of being both on the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee, both of which have pursued some degree of contempt charges against the attorney general. >> that's right. >> and the two committees are handling it differently. you're sort of the man in the fulcrum in the middle of this. our intelligence, the attorney general was ordered to hand over intelligence-related information that pertain to mueller's investigation including unredacted material from the report. he refused. there was a threat of contempt there. when you guys got right up to the wall there, we got in letter from the justice department saying please don't hold him in contempt, we promise we'll give

you some stuff. am i right to believe the justice department did in fact start handing over some of those materials after you got close to that vote? >> as i understand, that was supposed to have come last week and we're going to be able to review that very soon. we authorize a lot of their programs too. and i think chairman schiff recognized that and, you know, has stood firmly to get all of those materials. >> and once the justice department that and said we don't want the contempt vote, chairman schiff let off the gas, okay, we won't hold you in contempt. opposite process happening with the other chairman in judiciary. chairman nadler was just told today by the justice department okay, okay, we're ready to talk, just unschedule that contempt vote. and he said no, we're keeping that on the calendar and we're happy to talk. what do you make of those two different approaches from those two different chairmen? >> i actually think they both are using the tools that they have. chairman schiff, we've got the authorizing ability for many programs. i think the justice department recognizes that. here i had i think the attorney general as you describe doesn't want to be held in contempt and to have that public vote and that permanent stain.

and that's something that chairman nadler can control. i just want to back up too and say we are still proceeding from intelligence to look at the president's finances. we think we're the first set of eyes to look at his finances. here's what we see, is that it's probably a virtual certainty that donald trump has cheated on his finances over the last ten years. we think it's a virtual certainty that vladimir putin probably knows this if he knows about hillary clinton's e-mails. it's a virtual certainty that donald trump has been blackmailed in the past. we saw that with stormy daniels. so the question is would he sell america's secrets to protect his own? we're going to find out. >> when you say it's a virtual certainty he cheated on his finances, what do you mean by cheated on his finances? >> it's a lot of what the "new york times" has already laid out and what he's done with his taxes. i believe he's acting guilty in his refusal to turn over his tax returns. you've got consciousness of guilt and you have what michael cohen has testified to congress in his overinflation of assets. so i think he has a lot to hide. and if he has a lot to hide, that means vladimir putin would know a lot and that if he is willing to be blackmailed as we've seen in the past, what would he trade to not have that

exposed? >> as you are part of these processes, both in intelligence and judiciary, pursuing this stuff, chasing these things down, having these fights with the white house and the justice department over access to materials and witnesses and contempt votes and subpoenas and all of this stuff, you are also running for president. >> there's that happening. >> there's that happening too, which is keeping you very busy. i wonder how those two things are balancing for you. obviously it's a question for the democratic party writ large. can we pursue these investigations and tell the american people what they need to know about their president and at the same time pursue a governing agenda, pass the dream act that passed tonight in the house and otherwise show people that we are addressing the pocketbook issues and the needs that are most important to voters? >> there's a cost of this corruption. the cost of this corruption, one is we have a president who will not act on behalf of the american people on infrastructure, on the dream act, on gun safety measures, we passed background checks already. but taking a bigger step back, what i see when i look at

republicans who have told me privately, friends i've worked with, passed bills with, traveled to war zones with, who say i know what he's doing is wrong, i'm just worried -- one person said i'll have my head lopped off if i go against him. the real issue here is the money on the outside that will be dumped on their head and put a primary challenge against them. until we get rid of the dirty money and the dirty maps you're never going to see people put our country above their job. people always think it's party over country, what we're seeing. it's just their individual jobs. that's what i see. >> so you think it's not so much a matter of finding individual courage, character among these individual people, it's a structural problem that doesn't allow them to be brave. >> absolutely. >> congressman eric swalwell, a member of the intelligence committee and the judiciary committee and a democratic candidate for president, as we are getting down -- >> my father, who sent his kid to preschool for the first time. there's a lot going on. >> first day of preschool is this week. >> that's right. >> how'd it go? >> it went okay. we'll get through it. >> it's the start of something. thank you, sir.

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see if you can spot the difference. today there was a hearing in the democratic-controlled house about reproductive health care, reproductive rights. democratic congresswoman mary gay scanlon is on that subcommittee that held that hearing today and she tweeted out this picture. she took pains to point out that

the panel of witnesses called to testify at this hearing today happened to be a panel of women. expert witnesses who are all women, there to testify about women's rights and reproductive health. the congresswoman tweeted out this photo and said, "when you hold a hearing on the threats to women's reproductive rights, this is what the panel should look like." so that was today. see if you can spot the difference because who among us here is old enough to remember this panel? from the last big house oversight hearing on contraception access and health care from back in 2012 when republicans controlled the house. this was their panel on the same subject. at the time congresswoman caroline maloney famously said about that hearing, "what i want to know is where are the women?" but look, it only took a few years and somebody found the women. anybody looking to hold hearings on women's health care in the future, heads up. somebody will hold you to account in this same way, depending on how you book it. we'll be right back.

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virginia senate bill 1458 would allow law enforcement to temporarily prohibit somebody from purchasing a gun if they posed a substantial risk of injury to themselves or others. one of these red flag bills. that bill was blocked from ever getting a vote. senate bill 1467, designed to protect victims of domestic violence. it would force people with permanent restraining orders to surrender their firearms. that bill did not get a floor vote either. there was also a bill this year in virginia that would let localities prohibit firearms at community meetings. that was also blocked from getting a vote. how about a bill that would let local authorities prohibit guns at events in big public areas? areas where there's an increased risk of a mass shooting. that was blocked from coming up for a vote too. another bill would have required a gun owner to report if his or her firearm was stolen.

lost or stolen firearm, you have to report it. not a crazy idea. right? that one was blocked too. same with a bill designed to combat gun trafficking as well as a bill focused on universal background checks. all these gun reform measures were proposed just in virginia, just this year. not a single one of those bills was ever al oud up for a vote. they were all knocked down in committee in the republican-controlled virginia state senate. and this happens with all of these bills, and it happens every year now. one of the bills they killed this year, the way they killed all the others, was this bill. senate bill 1748. which would do something very specific. it would stop the sale of large-capacity magazines, ended capacity magazines like the ones used by the gunman in friday's shooting in virginia beach in which one gunman armed with a semi-automatic handgun and multiple extended magazines for ammunition was able to murder 12 people before dying himself in a shootout with police. that bill would have prohibited

the sale of magazines designed to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. he would have had to reload more frequently, use more magazines. he would not have been able to shoot off quite as many rounds before having to break, stop, and put in another. that bill was struck down in committee on a party line vote. all eight republicans in that committee voted against it. none of this opposition to gun laws is new, especially in virginia. democrats always bring this legislation up. it's mostly republicans who always vote it down. but in the wake of friday's mass shooting, in the wake of what happened in virginia beach on friday, democratic governor ralph northam said today that he's going to convene a special session of the legislature, a special session of the virginia legislature to take up a package of gun control bills. he indicated that he is looking to hold the special session soon, and he means soon. like this month. and while it is true that gun reform legislation has not fared well in the state of virginia, after what happened in virginia

beach on friday they will be taking up these bills in a different climate. at least this time they know the whole nation will be watching as they take up these gun reform measures that they have been so happy to knock down every single time before now. joining us is virginia state democratic senator. he proposed the bill to ban the sale of large capacity magazines, one similar to those used in the shooting in virginia beach. he's also co-chair of the prevention caucus. senator ebbins, thank you for coming on the show this evening. it's a pleasure having you here. >> thank you for having me. >> so it is with hindsight that we look at that extended magazine bill that you proposed and we picked that out. we highlight that now among all of the other gun bills, all of the other gun reform efforts that have died in the virginia state legislature. that one seems like it glows in the dark because of what happened in virginia. i wonder if you feel like the politics around that may have

changed in the state now given what you've just been through. >> well, we're hoping that the ice will crack and there will be some more serious consideration. in the past we've seen all these bills dismissed out of hand. and by having a special session i think the governor's forcing a focus on these proposals and that the people of virginia are demanding action. so we're hoping that their legislators will listen. >> i feel like because of the way democrats have proposed these things in the past including your bill on extended magazines, they're very narrow-cast provisions. right? and a lot of the reforms that are being talked about, potential reforms, potential remedies, things that might have made a difference in virginia beach, things that have been talked about over the last few days, are narrow-cast reforms. the question of whether or not it might have made a difference to police in the response time to the shooting at virginia beach had the alleged shooter not had a silencer. should silencers be legal to sell? should the kinds of extended magazines that he used so that he didn't have to reload as frequently as he otherwise would, should those be for sale in virginia?

i wonder if you feel like the smaller scale the ambition the more likely you may be able to at least enter into dialogue with your republican colleagues. >> well, sure. there can be more like -- we'd be more likely to have a good dialogue that way. but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have a comprehensive approach. it's not enough to pass one little measure. we need things also like universal background checks, extreme risk protection orders, as you detailed earlier, and child access prevention. we can't count on one measure to make the entire state safer, but we've got to try and enact a package. >> how do special sessions work in virginia? obviously the governor's saying he's going to convene the legislature for this special session. he can call the legislature back into session. but with a republican-controlled legislature they can decide what to do thereafter. couldn't they just shut down the session right away if they don't want to talk or think about these things? >> they could try. but that's -- i think that the public wouldn't have it. the governor will call the

session for a date certain, probably in the second half of this month. we'll go down there. there will be rules adopted by the rules committee about what's taken up. and i would expect that we meet not just once but more than once. >> let me ask about virginia and the issue of the nra. the nra obviously is headquartered in virginiami. it historically has been a juggernaut in loosening regulations and certainly blocking any reforms aimed at gun safety or preventing gun violence. the nra is also in a pickle right now in a lot of different ways. they are caught up in the russia investigation. they are caught up in multiple financial investigations. they're caught up in some epic infighting. they're facing inquiries in new york state where actually they chartered that potentially posed an existential threat to the organization essentially being deligsed as a non-profit organization, which might be fatal to them as an

organization. i wonder if the nra as a factor has been sort of a different type of force, a different magnitude of force on these issues in virginia than it might be right now. >> no, it's been a significant factor where the nra gets its way on every bill. and i guess your question is is it going to be diminished, and i think they'll still be there, people will still be taking their point of view into account. but if your question is whether or not the constituents point of view is going to be the one that matters to legislators. >> thanks for your time this evening, senator. >> thank you. >> more to come tonight. stay with us. thank you >> more to come tonight. stay with us this thing is beautiful. i love the lights. oh man, it's got a mean face on it. it looks like a piece of candy. look at the interior. this is nice. this is my sexy mom car. i would feel like a cool dad. it's just really chic. i love this thing. it's gorgeous. i would pull up in this in a heartbeat. i want one of these. that is sharp. the all-new chevy blazer. speaks for itself.

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the government of the great state of michigan changed hands six months ago, january 1st. republicans had been in full control of state government until this year. but thanks to the november 2018 elections, democrats in january were sworn in to take over the top elected jobs in that state, including governor and attorney general. and when governor gretchen whitmer was sworn in january 1st, it's interesting, she made it her first act as governor to issue an order that required state employees to immediately report any threat to public health or safety. and that's because this is michigan and michigan is home to flint, michigan, and flint, michigan is home of one of the worst manmade environmental disasters in this country's history, and the people who man made it were the government in michigan. the government which caused the

lead poisoning of that city and its kids with a series of terrible policy errors that they should have known better to commit. so the new democratic governor takes over january of this year, and her first act is a direct response to what happened under the last governor, under republican governor rick snyder, whose legislation really did lead poison the whole town of flint. 15 state and local officials have faced criminal charges for the poisoning of flint thus far. a few are even facing charges of manslaughter. governor snyder himself has not been charged in connection with the flint water crisis created by his government. he may never be charged. but this week we learned that the new administration of michigan has taken an intriguing investigatory step. the associated press was first to report that state prosecutors obtained search warrants that allow them to seize the state-owned mobile devices of former governor rick snyder.

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you must watch the elizabeth warren town hall with chris hayes tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. eastern. if you are used to tuning in at 9:00 to watch me tomorrow good evening, lawrence. >> so i've driven through fort wayne, indiana. like the time it took to drive through it, that's my entire experience with it. i'll be watching. i'll be learning more about it tomorrow night. this is going to be really -- these town halls i think are getting more and more important. >> yeah. >> as we approach the debates. it's one of the places where these candidates can score before they get to the debates. so there is a lot of pressure on the candidate. tomorrow night is going to be important. >> we are less than a month away from that first debate. we know that there will be a minimum of ten people on that