6:00 p.m. eastern. you can find me online. tonight on the program we went from texas to mars and back, including the police reporting. i do look, along with our team at social media. if you have thoughts about the show hit me up at ari melber. the reid out with joy reid is up next. good evening. we begin the reid out with the ongoing crisis in texas and the ever evolving story from the absentee junior senator from that state, ted cruz. he spent the day lying while his constituents are dying. at least 20 texans died from

heating the stoves. people are running out of fod and water. heading to a shelter is a pretty frightening concept. millions of texans are still struggling without power after severe winter weather shut down the power grid. it's a disaster. as for ted cruz, fresh off his stint toying with insurrection. well, he just returned from his 24 hour south of the border with fam. who wouldn't want a get away to a beach resort to mexico when their state is in crisis. his story about why he was out of country has evolved. here is ted after getting busted for the trip. >> texas going through horrific storms and millions of texans lost power and lost heat an had been hurt. our family was among them. we had no heat and no power. yesterday my daughter's asked if

they could take a trip with some friend. heidi and i agreed. i flew down with them last night. dropped them off here and i'm headed back to texas and back to continuing to work to try to get the power on. what's happening in texas is unacceptable and a lot of texans are hurting. >> cruz released a statement trying to justify the timing saiding he wanted to be a good dad. his daughters needed an adult travel companion. they do have a mother. her name is heidi. he just mentioned her. cruz doubled down on message his daughters aren't in cancun, they are under the bus. texas has an absentee senator which is perfect. he's far from the only villain. we'll get to rest of them later. now here comes the part about the lying. ted cruz claimed that one reason that he ditched his state was because his house didn't have power. on monday, on conservative joe

paper bag's radio show the canadian said something very different. >> if houston, thankfully my home, we didn't lose power. right now we have a bunch of the neighborhood kids all over playing with our girls because their parents lost hower and our house was lucky. we have kids running up and downstairs right now. >> maybe he lost power after the show. ted, come on. is that why your palm beach boss man called you lying ted cruz. he wasn't right about a lot. he wasn't right about almost anything. that one. you know what it mean to be a gad dad. how about the father who spent hours scouring his houston neighborhood for fallen trees and rotten wood to feed a fireplace to keep his family warm.

thorpts ordering seven mm people to boil their tap water. we see you ted cruz. we see you and your supposedly overnight suitcase bursting at the seams. it's expanded option clearly utilized. we see you branding this as a 24 hour chaperon trip even though you were scheduled to return on saturday. we see you wearing texas flag mask as if texas is always on your mind. in your state, this is what's happening. >> it was colder in my living room inside than the refrigerator. that's how cold it was. >> there was no water in the store. we only have two cases of water left. we're trying to divide it between two families. >> right now we're just -- we're really concerned about how fast the temperature is dropping inside. >> it's, you know, even you stay

in your house and you are cold and you freeze to death and you have no food. this really what's happening in houston. this is people ease lives right now. or you go out and go from hotel to hotel hoping you find something and you risk getting covid. >> for whatever reason, cancun cruz, you thought it was a good idea to abandon the millions of people you're responsible for who are freezing and fearing for their lives to come here instead. only to come back home and lie about it. joining me now is former communications director for the democratic national committee. mj hager, former texas senate democratic candidate. congresswoman, this is your state. ted cruz just did a press conference at his home. he said a couple of things.

one of them he said it was a mistake. he said in hindsight i wouldn't have done it. i was trying to be a dad. when you have girls and a code and want to get out of here, a lot of parents will say if i can do it, that's what i wanted to do. i can imagine lots of parents would love to do that who are freezing with their kids a t home. they don't have a privilege or cash to jump on a flight and go off to mexico. how do you feel hearing that as an excuse? >> it's not just egregious. you'll never catch me complaining when at the scene cruz leaves the state. i think that's the best thing he can do for us. it's the character issues of lying. nobody is talking about the fact he tid up houston pd first responders to escort him to the airport. he's clearly saying there's nothing he can do as senator. there's plenty he can do as a

citizen. i'm here with my community baking bread for neighbors and it was kael really scary when hi house got down into the 50s. i had it a lot better than people that i had it into the 50s. a lot of people have water mains bursting if their homes. the death toll is a lot more than 23. i think it's 23 in houston. it's not just the outrage of watching him flee. come and take it face mask that he usually wears. he's fleeing a situation where we need leaders to stand strong. people like beto o'rourke who ran against him who are making 150,000 phone calls to check on the elderly. that's what we need. not just your official position but anything you can do as a human being, that's what we need. watching that makes he realize even more in stark, it's very obvious in the political system that rewards people for

character deficiencies and those same character deficieies cost people their lives when we need to turn to our leaders. >> mistakes were made. beto o'rourke can't do anything about the winter storm. none of these people can stop a winter storm. >> nobody can. >> ted cruz is busy sucking in oil company money. beto o'rourke can't do anything either but he's there. the symbolism of being there for your community, making phone calls, trying to help people. trying to find a way to make a difference. ted cruz has the power of the united states senator. i want to go to you on this. the other statement that he made in front of his home was this. from the moment i sat on plane, i began to second guess that decision. i know why we are doing this but i also have responsibilities. it's been my attention to work remotely to be on the internet to be engaged. i needed to be here. that's why i came back. here is the thing. he could have worked remotely

from washington, d.c. that's where he works. what do you make of his excuse? >> that's right. leaders are tested in a time of crisis. when leaders can't live up to the moment, that's when you have to ask real questions about whether they should be your leader at all. ted cruz, he has shown us time and again he can't be a good leader for texas. whether it's the insurrection, whether it was the pandemic. now he jets off to cancun. throws his kids under the bus. lies to american people again saying he his intention was to come back to help the people of texas. that's a lie. he rebooked his flight this morning at 6:00 a.m. i'm not surprised. this is the man who he is. i think that republicans in the state and in the nation have to ask themselves a question. they had to request themselves before, will we be the party of trump. now with ted cruz, this is a lot. this is very trump like. in a time of crisis was not able

to live up to the demands of the position. i think that in 2024, he will have a really tough race. he hardly won his race against beto o'rourke. beto o'rourke almost beat him. ted cruz won by a slim margin. i think that with all of these things, it just shows us the failure of leadership on the part of ted cruz and my phone is ringing from republicans and democrats in the state and those who did not vote saying, why did he go do cancun. we need to get rid of him now. the chatter is already starting. the man is done in 2024. >> matthew, you work for george w. bush. thing about katrina was george w. bush couldn't have stopped that either. he was not the state authority in charge and the governor of state bore a lot of responsibility herself. there was federal system there. the levees were built and

maintained by the federal government. there was that piece of it. he had some responsibility and he took a beating for the image of him flying overhead and looking like he was so distant from it and didn't seem to care. in this case, texas is all on its own. all of this is self-contained. the tragedy is texans. they decided to have their own separate power grid, deregulate the market. this ain't the united states fault. the current president is sending help. the texas junior senator is like, i can't be of any use. let me go to mexico. talk a bit about the bigger picture of what that means. >> well, thank you, joy for having me. i worked with ted cruz in 2000 and the 2000 campaign. i know ted rather well. he was in the policy shop and i was in the political part of the campaign. there was a common expression about ted cruz is why do people take an instant dislike of ted cruz and the answer is because it saves time.

in how one sees ted cruz. this does not surprise me at all that ted cruz has done this. up with of the things about ted cruz and this is a thing we should demand from our lieders and i talked about integrity and telling the truth and how when we don't tell the truth people lives are lost. we saw it happen if flint, during covid, we saw it in the conspiracy theories in the election. now we're seeing it happen in texas not only of the governor but the senator from here. what i don't understand is ted obviously believes he's in a political party that this is acceptable for. it's not only acceptable to abandon your responsibilities and it's acceptable to lie about it. i'm of the mind of i'm willing to bet republican primary voters won't hold ted accountable. the only people left to hold him accountable are independent voters and democratic voters in

a state light red but turning more purple in the course of these few years. it's an amazing thing that the lack of responsibility and accountability that ted has. i'm not one to criticize other people's parenting. i have four kids. i'm here in texas. i had to leave my house because the pipes froze, the drains froze. i just came back here and staying with neighbor up the street bauds of all of that. one of the things you do in time of crisis is you help people. maybe his daughters, maybe the lesson to teach his daughters isn't, which i find ironic that he crossed the mexican border for a better life for his family when he advocates for a wall. it's quite aaronic that he did that. teach your kids in a time of crisis that the thing you do is help people out. you bring them water. you pull them out of the ditch. you do something. even if you're not going to pass a law which is the least of the problem. in the moment we're in, people

need immediate help. they need bologna sandwiches, space heater. this idea you'll be a good dad by taking your daughters to cancun, and not show them lessons of accountability and compassion and helping people out, fundamentally shows that you have to have vanity in order to understand other human beings. >> yeah. the sound bite about ted cruz being a good dad. i think we have that. >> i was taking care of my family the same way texans were taking care of my family. >> mj, to matthew's point opinion ted cruz lives in state where greg abbott tried to blame alexandria ocasio-cortez for the power outage. she has nothing to do with it. or the lieutenant governor dan patrick with issues of his own. he said there's more important

things than living and defending his statement that he and older americans will give up their lives to die to get the economy open. you have ken paxton who used his office to help wealthy donor. there's two pieces here. ted cruz knows he lives in state where republicans can get away with all of that and their voters don't care. part two is they live in state where the colorado city mayor said you're on your own. we're sick of you. this is a public official saying we're sick of you thinking we need to help you. we're not here to help you. he said i'm here to help my family get a better life in mex doe. >> we also have rick perry saying texans will take blackouts over federal oversight and regulation of the energy grid. when people make profit driven decisions at the expense of people's lives then there has to

be accountability. the only place is at the polls. that means more than gist running good campaigns. we have to fight the voter suppression, the gerrymandering. all things we're trying to do here in texas. we're not going to see change because there are problems on both sides of the aisle. i might be biassed. i might think there's more problems on the other side but until we elect more people who have faced the challenges of our constituents. people who have gone without health care, people who have been laid awe and worried ant don't have the resources to whisk their children off in first class to cancun. then we'll have the let them eat cake mentality. we have to demand better for our leaders. >> democrats are calling on ted cruz to resign. doesn't seem he has the basic character to do that. how do you do that? texas came so close to being able to elect something like beto who has great humanitarian

instincts and cares about other people. who dough you get texas past that hump? >> john cornyn, i think i would like to see what he thinks about hi flying off to cancun. at tend of the day, elections are about whether you're better off now than you were before. i think texans will look at the leadership and see that the republican leadership of texas has failed them. i have a republican friend who drove one hour outside of austin with her baby and she -- it was a war zone. the streets are not plowed. it's everything is terrible. i think voters will look back and remember this moment and my hope is that we have strong democratic leadership running at the top. >> let's see if the texas republican party sanctioned him

the way they have been sanctioning their leaders for daring to criticize donald trump. let's see if this come up with a reason. i'm not going to hold by breath. thank you. much more on the cisis in texas is coming up next. some texans were prepared. the lack of preparation by elected leaders is nothing short of a disgrace. we know that donald trump feels threatened by women. politico reports he's refusing to meet with nikki haley. he did meet with kevin mccarthy who screamed at trump, who the f do youty you're talking to. the haley snub is not the worst recent example. we'll reveal what the worst is. the big announcement right here on the reid out that would turn a red senate seat blue. se.

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texas republicans are looking for scapegoats and skate routes. texas power officials are telling how close the state came to a system wide catastrophic failure. this could have been way worse. if you've been watching our show, you've heard me talk about how texas politicians backed by the oil and gas industry brought their state's power grid to its knees. they did so by handing oversight to the energy companies and not state regulators. politicians let the fox guard the hen house. there's one exception. the city that opted out of this energy ka ball. el paso, escaped the power outage because el paso electric is not part of the texas power grid. they are connected to the western power system which links

14 western states. two canadian provinces and part of baja, mexico. in 2011 texas went through a similar weather event. after reviewing what went wrong in state, el paso electric spent nearly $5 million to upgrade and winterize its system. the texas power grid did not. they declined recommendations to weatherize their system and here we are today entering day five of rolling power outages. i'm joined by congressman mark who represents the ft. worth area and richard parker, contributor to the new york times. i'm going to go to you first richard because the el paso story, in a lot of ways makes the overall texas story even more tragic. just talk about the disconnect and the break down and how texas managed to deregulate itself into this mess. >> yes. the history goes back to the 1930s when texas began to opt out of a national grid that was

being created by f.d.r. that solidified itself and allowed the industry to go unregulated. really had nothing to do with whether the feds regulated approvals. it had to do with money. without federal oversight, industry could operate without any regulations and make all the money it wanted. that has not really changed. there's three corners of texas, el paso, the far panhandle and east texas that are connected to national grid. they all faired better in this tragic and unnecessary human made event that's unfolding. el paso is part of a grid that connects to new mexico in the west. canada. it's also -- el paso took that federal report in 2011, took it serious. el paso spent the money exactly

as you said to winterize and upgrade the power generators which are miles from where i sit. i can see them almost every day when i come into town. >> it is -- these are choices that were made. part of the choices feel like they are made because of the power of the oil lobby and the money they put into texas politics. whether it's governors who are from the texas oil patch in their own backgrounds like perry and governor george w. bush. just in general. is the problem here the oil company and its money? >> the problem, joy, is years and years of neglect from republican leaders in state. they have been in charge for decades now. just like their failure with covid. i have these masks made up that say it didn't have to happen this way with texas in there. what this weather event and the problems that we're having with the grid, it didn't have to happen this way. the republicans have basically

allowed for there to be very little oversight at all of ercot and what they are doing. the puc is supposed to be watching ercot but everybody knows that ercot is just watching ercot. i was in the texas legislature for eight years before i was in congress and it's been an ongoing problem. there's a lack of transparency in everything related to energy and energy transmission in the state. a perfect example of that is we have in texas what's known as the texas railroad commission. it has nothing to do with railroads. it regulates oil and gas in this state. the gas component that we're having with our grid right now and electricity transmission will have to be looked at by the railroad commission. the power generation issue that we're having will be looked at by the puc. when you're in this sort of

emergency situation, they're not even allowed to be in a room together unless they are having a public hearing. they can't work these problems out. having those separations just really is part of the problem. there's power and gas all under the same umbrella. there's a lot that's wrong with our system. there's a lot of trickery involved like trying to hide from people the name of the agency that regulates oil and gas in the state and it's really all due to republicans just basically playing games with voters because they just haven't been held accountable for the last couple of decades now. >> richard parker, you have president biden who is sending help to the state. he is doing the emergency declaration. he's doing what he can do. texas, as we talked about in the previous segment is kind of generous. it's self-contained. it's created itself as the

republic of texas where they regulate themselves. this is a issue about climate change as much as anything else and the leaders in texas don't believe in it because oil company, oil money. what, in theory, could the federal government do to help this state and the citizens who don't deserve to live under this oil oligarchy? >> not a great deal in the short term. even the short term what could be done is not happening. this is really big catastrophe. you're absolutely correct. this is purely climate change. the polar vortex is wobbling on its axle and dipping further and further south. paralyze madrid just weeks ago. it's paralyzed texas. that's just bad planning and

preparation. oklahoma has faired far better. there's really no excuse for not being prepared for the effects of climate change. in the movie, "the day after, " this region, texas and mexico is the place where americans fled the polar vortex in the climate ka -- catastrophe. this is wake up call. texas has them all the time and usually they are localized. a hurricane strikes near houston. those folks experience it. this time, most of 26 million texans got a horrible taste of it first hand. they are still getting it for weeks coming. >> absolutely. the hardest story to do on television is climate change because people tune it out

because it's something so distant. it's happening right now. i remember the first time it snowed in miami beach. i was like it's coming now. representative, i guess the question is politics have to kick in here at some point. we are announcing tweets from ted cruz's wife where they were prelaning their trip to run off to cancun because they don't feel like they have to care about the their own constituents. they care about where they can have a nice warm vacay. if politics are not holding republican leaders accountable, what then? >> it's a huge problem, joy. it's a massive problem. i'll tell you that, for instance, eric johnson who is the major of dallas. when he was in the state legislature, he prepared some legislation that would have required state agencies to submit a report for how well they were prepared for an

extreme weather condition right now that we're having. every republican voted against it. each and every turn of the way, whether it's change in the name of the railroad commission to reflect what it does, which has nothing to do with the railroad commission. anything that brings transparency, anything that educates the public about what's happening with energy here, they just turn their eye and turn their head because they think they won't be challenged and state is so republican they will never be held accountable. that's the attitude they had when i was in the state legislature and the attitude the congressional delegation has now. it's the attitude that greg abbott has. as long as they keep getting elected statewide in texas, incidents like this will continue to occur and as it's been stated, we were literally seconds away from this entire grid crashing and us not having

power for who knows how long. unless we start holding republicans accountable in the ballot box. they have to stop thinking they can do whatever they want to and mess over texans and keep getting away with it. >> joy -- very quickly. sure. >> i believe, at this point, this is a catastrophe so big it's going to require federal intervention. that's going to be tricky. we have a right wing govrping class in texas that's wrestling with its qanon wing over its very relationship with the united states. the biden administration has to rush in to prevent a massive humanitarian disaster from unfolding right in the first few months of his administration. there's a lot at stake here. >> it's a big deal.

>> joy, it's got to be in that list too. >> we are out of time. >> i was going to say have a letter asking to look into this particular situation in texas just like the other guest was just saying. absolutely. that's right. >> yeah. absolutely. we'll stay on this story. thank you both for being here. really appreciate it. thank you very much. still ahead, donald trump tried the leave a lasting impression on the pentagon which i think we can agree would have been very bad. the absolute worst is the impact he did have on career advancement for women in our armed forces. that story is next. stay with us. d forces that story is next stay with us this is decision tech. find a stock based on your interests or what's trending. get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology

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tonight's absolute worst. a new report that sheds light on the culture of sexism that former, no longer, ex and fired president trump fostered inside the federal government. promotions for two generals in the u.s. armed forces were put on hold by former defense secretary mark esper and the chairman of the joint chiefs. why, you ask. both of the candidates for promotion were women. according to the times, under president trump u trump, the two pentagon leaders feared any candidates other than white men for jobs held by white men might

run into turmoil once their no, ma'am neighs -- nominations reached the white house. every one at the pentagon agreed on that. they figured the guy who specialized in calling women fat pigs and called ted cruz wife ugly and carrying a couple dozen assault allegations might object to elevating women to high end roles. trump stuff. esper and milley held back the nominations after the november elections betting if biden won he and his aides would be more supportive which seems logical. the decision to delay the promotions to qualified women is, shall we say, a vivid commentary on trump's leadership or lack thereof. it is the worst. it's is tip of the iceberg when it comes to the chaos trump installed at the department of defense. that's coming up next. machine defense. that's coming up next. machin

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. the closing month of the previous administration, the pormer president turned the pentagon upside down. days after the election he fired defense secretary mark esper as retribution for a host of petty grievances. he didn't like he didn't back the insurrection or nor that he approved of renaming army bases named after confederate generals. then the former president purged the department's leadership and installed loyalists. all of this unfolded during the presidential transition when u.s. national security is most at risk. what we learned yesterday just as unnerving. the new york times report the pentagon delayed promotions for female generals out of fear that the trump white house might object to women holding four star commands. it's great to see you.

i want to put up a picture of the four top commanders in the oval office with the previous president. you'll notice something that they all have in common. they are all white men. this, apparently, is the look that trump required. >> well, the pentagon leadership has long sort of been the domain of white men, joy, as you know. in this case, you had a situation where both the former defense secretary, mark esper and general mark millie wanted to promote these two women. laura richardson would have been going -- will be going as it turns out when she is formally nominated. she will be the first woman to take on a combatant command when

she becomes the commander of united states southern command. both men figured at time that president trump had already slammed them on the confederate ba bases. he was angry at them for not supporting his desire to use the insurrection act to sort of quell black lives matter matters protesters. they didn't want to submit these two women to a president adverse to the idea of putting women in these commands. they held back on it and decided to wait for biden betting they could get the women into the jobs once we had a new president. >> we have a military that is substantially made up of people of color. people of color serve in the military, black and brown folks that's been struggle since the truman year how to add

african-americans. how to add lgbt people and allowing them to serve openly. they were already there. now these questions about trans americans serving their country, about immigrants, people who are daca serving and whether or not that protects them from deportation. all of these things are happening. it's become more multi-cultural. what's been the change internal military cultural while all those changes have been changed in the culture? >> it's such an interesting question because the military is very, very diverse. at the same time, you have very, very white and male leadership. the marines, for instance, have never had a four star general who was not a white male. the army has very few. you have 43 right now and of the 43-four star leaders, one is a woman and there are two black. it's not -- it's been an issue

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take this pennsylvania down chair deciding to send sewer pat toomey who voted to impeach him following the january th insurrection. we did not send him there to vote his conscience. we did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. we sent him there to represent us. >> oh. well, alrighty then. i'm joined now by pennsylvania state representative malcolm kenyatta. always great to see you, represent tichlt i want to know what you think about the republican party in your state, the state of it. i understand you also have an announce men. i want to let you do that first. >> joirk always a pleasure to be with you. i think what's clear from that clip and from everything we have been dealing with for the past four years is that america is really at a crossroads right

now. i think that was made even more clear by what happened on january 6th. and the reality is that there is nothing written on a tablet somewhere that says america has to succeed. you know, america succeeds because every generation steps up to protect and expand the promise of america. a promise that has excluded for too long so many working families whose lives were tough prior to covid, and this deadly pandemic has made those cracks even worse. so i know that we have an opportunity right now to expand that promise. to make sure that we have a country that doesn't just talk about justice and fairness for all, but that actually make it real. and it's with faith in that mission and joy in my heart that i am announcing here tonight that i will be a candidate for the united states senate to represent the commonwealth of pennsylvania. >> i know a lot of people are going to be excited about that.

if you seen my tweets about you, representative, i think you are a political star. you have to have a star quality. that's one of the things it takes to be able to run. rough to have charisma, and you have to beat what others built into the system. pat toomey among others didn't get elected with huge margins. some of these elections happen in mid terms. mid terms are when you have lower voter turnout. they oscillate. you have higher voter turn out in presidential years. how do you get enough people to turn out in a midterm year in order to get to the top, in order to get that seat? it is not going to be him obviously on the ballot but whoever the republican is. >> thank god it is not going to be him on the ballot. if he had chosen to run, we would have retired him either way. let me say this. i think we have to do two

things. the first thing we have to do is, we have to have a message that resonates with working people. and not just a message that resonates with working people, but authentic mess i thinkers. my first gig was at the age of 12, washing dishes to help my mom pay bills. we are talking about raising minimum wage, student loan debt, climate change issues, these issues are real to me. authenticity is going to matter. this is what pennsylvaniians are dealing with all across the commonwealth. the second thing we have to do is bring the band back together. look at what we did when we delivered the state for joe biden and what we did in georgia with historic victories there. there was record turnout among young people, among african-americans w.h.o. don't live just in pill philadelphia and pittsburgh but are all across the commonwealth. also, we saw turnout in the suburban counties where people recognize that the republican party has lost its way and that we need leaders that are

actually going to speak to the concerns that families are dealing with. listen, this is not about a cult of personal. this is about building the biggest coalition, and already, my campaign has started to do that. you know, the american federation of teachers has already endorsed my campaign. the working families party has already endorsed my campaign. we are going to build a campaign that lifts up and centers working people with every single thl thing that we do. if people believe we to have health care for everybody, have a criminal justice system that keeps us safe then they should go to malcolm kenyatta.com and find out what my campaign is about and join it. that's the campaign we are going to build that's going to win this state to take the slim majority we have right now in the senate and get us to a big majority where we can deliver offer bollywood things for the american people and so folks can go right to malcolm ken yetta.com and figure out how to get engaged? always marketing.

you have got to get people to know your website. you are in the stage legislature right now. we know republican-rolled state legislatures are working really hard to suppress votes. what you just talked about is difficult to do. they are busy gerrymandering the state in their favor. that won't affect the state-wide race. but what does is your plan to counter-act the statewide voter suppression that you know is coming? >> to do what we did before. folks have been talking about jerry mannedering the courts. organizations like white courts matter have been stepping up -- why courts matter happen stepping it up and taking that on. they have made it clear they are had the going to run on a message that supports the working people. they are not going to convince working people they are for them. because they are not. they are trying to of the shut people up. look at the united states

senate. we have only elect 1d 1 african-americans to the united states senate. we have a chance to elect a 12th. the last election cycle, we are going to continue to do it. i have introduced legislation to expand early voting, deal with precanvas issue and make it so every single voter irrespective of who they want to vote for can be protected. >> quickly, we are out of time. is your husband ready for this? has he given you the a-okay, or did you have to have an argument whether or not it was time to hit the campaign trail? >> he has given me the a-okay. he's excited. dr. mack is ready to go. i think pennsylvania is ready to go. go to malcolm kenyatta.com. >> thank you very much, state representative malcolm kenyatta good luck on your race. we i have vited lieutenant

governor john fertman, also a candidate to come on the show. we are looking forward to having him on soon. before we go tonight, we can't ignore the pair of aces that dazzled last night at the australian open. osaka beat serena williams. not only did they serve on the court. they serve as a reminder that black women are not only fierce competitors but uplift and inspire millions around the world. if i may so, serena is the true g.o.a.t. in sports. er to, san bernardino. >> all in with chris heys starts right now. tonight on requesting all in". the disaster in texas grows, millions out water. people desperate for food and shelter, and their senator heads to the beach. >> we booked a flight. you know, i have to admit, i started having second thoughts almost the moment i sat down on the plane. >> tonight, the man-made suffering in texas,h