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spas just six days ago. ahmad al aliwi alissa is in custody. today president biden called for immediate action. >> i don't need to way another women, let alone another hour to take common-sense steps, and to urge my colleagues in the house and senate to act. the united states senate -- i hope some are listening -- should immediately passed the two house-passed bills that close loopholes in the background check system. this is an american issue. it will save lives, american lives. we have to act. arguably there's no other politician who has more experience dealings with this

that is joseph robinette biden. in 1994, decades before that, then senator joe biden helped to pass legislation that prohibited the manufacture of certain semiautomatic weapons for civilian use. the assault weapons ban phased out in 2004 under a ten-year sunset provision. the ban was folded into the 1994 anticrime bill, the same bill that expanded mandatory minimum sentences and increased federal funding for prisons and police. that bill would later haunt biden and hillary clinton as mass incarceration became a leading sure during their presidential bids. that bill passed nearly 30 years ago during a very different congress and vastly different political climate, but here we are tonight, asking again with new urgency, whether this country will ever again address

the unique american problem of gun violence. once again, it boils down to action. >> america woke up today to another nightmare, shocking, savage, but unsurprising because this kind of horror is thoroughly predictable as long as congress fails to act. >> we need to do more than reflect. we need to act. we need to show we care and prevent the next mass shooting, if we can. we know the story all too well. we have seen it on our television far too many times. we have mourned the lives lost, feeling outrage over the lack o parts of the country it's easier to buy a gun than its to vote. congress now looks and field different, boasting gun-obsessed conservatives who display zoom

backgrounds, and campaign as warriors. so we ask, when will this ask? joining me is coal doll state senator rhonda fields and brandon wolfe, vice president of the drew project. i want to start with you, representative fields. i grew up in colorado. i always knew lots of people have guns. columbine happened, the aurora theater, it didn't seem like a wacky gun state, but it is a gun state. "denver post" -- the metropolitan statistical area had more shootings per capita since 1999 than any of the other country's largest metro areas.

what the hell is going on in colorado? >> i wish i knew. i really wish i knew, because we have some very strong gun safety measures in the state of colorado, but we have people committing homicide and suicide with these assault weapons, and guns and rifles, whatever they can get their hands on. >> and i changed which house you're in, our a state senator. i apologize. there was a assault weapons ban. colorado was kind of proactive and passed some laws including an assault weapons ban. it was blocked ten days ago before this particular attack. not that it necessarily would have stopped it. a judge ruled boulder could no enforce the 2018 ban that was put in place following the parkland school shooting. the judge said the city could

not restrict arms that are otherwise lawful under state laws. the colorado had a pretty good record. >> in denver we have an assault weapons ban there, so the mayor and the city council has an assault weapons ban, but it's a patched approach. same across our nation. we can have people go across borders and buy these assault weapons. we need, really, like the people were talking, for people to catch up with what's going on in our communities. it's time for congress to act. >> a federal solution seems like it is called for. brandon, my friend, thank you for being here. president biden said it shouldn't be a political issue, but of course it is. let me let you listen to some of the senators today.

>> every time there's a shooting we play this ridiculous theater where this commitee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would not stop these murders. not only does it reduce crime, it makes it worse. >> we have a lot of drunk drivers in america who kill a lot of people. we ought to try to combat that, too. the answer is not to get rid of all sober drivers. >> senator john kennedy got $250,000 from nra said cruz, $274,000 in recent cycles. why does the nra seem to exert so much control over politicians? >> i don't even know in that's the answer anymore. i think republican politicians have sold themselves out to the farthest right wing of their

party. in 2019 i became the first survive of the policies nightclub shooting to testify before a committee. it was chaired by jan lewis. i poured my heart out. i told parts of the story that had been previously way too hard for me to share, because this is a matter of life and death. i felt it that important to share. after i left it all the off table, the ranking republican member had the audacity to say to me, rather than ask members of congress what they can do, what are you doing to make your own community safer? the truth is i took that to heart. i worked tireless to give democrats control of congress in 2020. i tell you that, because i'm not going to play the phony outrage game with republican lawmakers who would sooner see our democracy overthrowning that to have someone pass a background

check for a gun he bought online. republican legislators can join the whenever their ready, so long as they're intent on stomping their feet, obstructing progress, looking for the next viral tweet, we'll haved to it without them. >> it's been an alex jones-ification of the republican party. on she tweeted out thoughts and prayers on the and got this -- you did do that background. with somebody like her in politician hurting the effort? >> absolutely. it's not helpful at all. we need federal leadership. colorado has done some great things, but we need to make sure that congress is acting right now. in the state of colorado, after columbine, we closed the gun show loophole. we have universal background checks, two pieces of legislation that is making its

way through the chambers, which is gun safe storage. also how to report a stolen gun. we are still working on things, but i think at some point we need to ban assault weapons. >> that seems logical. rhonda fields, brandon wolfe, i wish we had more times. thank for you being here. josh shapiro, you're trying -- the state of pennsylvania is trying to do something to get rid of these ghost guns, that you put together afterwards, so you can get around the loopholes. is this still going to come do you think to the state doing all the work here on gun reform? >> look, i'm hopeful that the biden administration will take action. they have said they want to. i take them at their word, but we're not waiting on washington. there are some common-sense things we can do now that will save lives in our states.

you mentioned ghost gun. i brought one with me. this is a ghost gun. you can go and buy a ghost gun at a gun show in pennsylvania, or online, and in fact people were going to gun shows in pennsylvania and buying these things by the duffel bags. then they were taking them back to philadelphia, assembling them and selling them on the streets for 100% profits. why are these particularly dangerous? because when you go to a gun show to buy one, you don't have to go through a background check. furthermore they're un-serialized and untraceable. they are now the weapons of choice for criminals in our communities. with so we stepped up and did something about it. we negotiated with the largest gun show promoter in pennsylvania, and he agreed to stop selling these at his gun shows. in doing so, had he is keeping 36,000 of these, we estimate just this year alone, off the

streets of our communities. this is a weapon you can buy if you're a criminal. we have to close that loophole. we have to close the ghost gun loophole. >> you know, part of your job -- it is a political job. can you just explain what could be -- and have you talked -- i don't know, with the senators, pat toomey and other republicans -- what's their justification now? the nra is catherineled, broke, they're trying to reassemble in texas, about you they don't wield the power that they used to. can you explain, or do you understand what the objection is to what you just said? it seems pretty common sense. >> that's the word i was going to use, it is common sense. the gun show promoter is a

strong -- we know the problem exists and we're trying to solve it. some politicians in washington, in harrisburg and other state capitals, they are male a choice to allow this violence to continue. they are making a choice and say it's okay to shoot up a sin ago -- synagogue in pittsburgh, or a spa in atlanta. i refuse to accept this as a new normal. i refuse to make that same choice to do nothing. i can't explain their inaction. it's not to be a combination of political fear and just an unwillingness to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work that's necessary to save lives. >> the nra tried to tweet out today, the text of the second amendment. that includes the word well regulated and talks about militias. it is irrelevant to gun reform.

would you like to see the united states senate get rid of the filibuster in order to pass what even 70% of republicans want universal background checks. >> if you're telling me that the inaction that is causing the loss of life every single day in the commonwealth of pennsylvania can be fixed by doing away with the filibuster, then hell yeah, do away with the filibuster. it's a vestige of a senate from yesteryear that has rendered it unable to solve the pressen problems of the day. we need these ghost guns and other weapons of war out of the hands of criminals. we should all agree on that. if the filibuster is holding it up, then let's get rid of it immediately.

up next on "the reidout" president biden confronts the humanitarian challenge on the border, while on the right they're using phrases like lower level of human being to describe the men and women and children seeking asylum. remember when they argued no one should believe what tucker carlson says? now another argument in cord that no reasonable person would believe what she said was truthful. plus amy klobuchar joins me, and muriel bowser joins me as well. bowser joins me as well

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the situation at the southern border. >> there's no other way to claim it than a biden border crisis. >> this is joe biden's crisis. he created it by his policies. >> it's a crisis that's unfolding, getting worse and worse every day. >> eventually it would be a national security crisis. today it's children. that is what they're left with. yes, migration at the southern border is a genuine political challenge, an ongoing one that spans several previous administrations, but is it a crisis as reps so desperately want the media to portray it? according to an analysis in "the washington post," the current increase in apprehensions has a predictable pattern, combined with a backlog demand because of the coronavirus closure. adding to the current situation,

long-standing issues of poverty, gang, cartel violence in the northern triangle, some of it fueled by drug deup and down here in america. and add to that, devastation from natural disasters. the region was battered by two hurricanes november. voila, shock of shocks, people start moving to save lives. indeed the biden administration has faced some deserved scrutiny, in particular over transparency of securities currently housing children. it doesn't mean the public doesn't have an interesting in seeing what's happening. so today customs and border protection released new images from two temporary facilities processing migrant kids along the border, but for republicans, their catercaterwalling is not

concern for the children. perhaps the most repugnant example was dished out pirro la false claims about migrant children. >> the bringing of these children into this country, where they will be forever connected to a cartel is slavery. what we're doing here is promoting a lower level of human being who will be controlled from other countries. >> a lower level of human being. joining miss is viktor i don't difrancesco desoto. >> i was saddened and not surprised. those are the same words that were use with european

immigrants, with southern, eastern european immigrants, really there is where the eugenics movement started. so this is not new, and the other thing that is not new is knowing that immigration is something that stokes so much emotion in people, and it's very easy, it's low hanging fruit in terms of taking it when you want to distract, when you want to pivot, and use that. i think this is what we see the gop doing. is there a crisis at the border? look, we've got a crisis when it comes to the border and immigration system for going on a decade. so yes, it is a crisis, but it's a crisis we've been living in close to a decade, joy. >> more than a decade. there's a great piece, with a

gravel. if you call it apprehensions, because they're making it sound like a million people are at the border. look at the side of the chart on my left, stage right. we're talking in 2001, over 200,000 a month during the george w. bush era. it's seasonal. it goes up, down, like where we are in 2021, we are not anywhere near -- we are less than happen of the level of people coming in in 2000. no, it's not a crisis. we need immigration reform. talk about the logistics here. we talk about this on the show there's a challenge at the start of it, right? the triangle countries, by the way, some of it is our doing. we aren't giving enough aid. they have issues with covid, and then the problem of the choke point. when you get to the border, what the hell do you do to people

stuck and backing up after last for you years of terrible policy, and now they know their kids won't be taken, so maybe i'll try. you have to process kids and have them go somewhere safe. sorry, i just talked myself out. tell me what you think we could by doing differently. >> what you just laid out is the multilayered nature of the problem. there is no one push factor of folks coming from central america. it's instability when it comes to their economy, to the gang violence, to the economic instability that's triggered by climate change. we have seen el nino and la nina being much more severe. it's causing more droughts in the highlands of guatemala. the sharecroppers live off the

land, their crops were wiped out. if you're a rational actor, human beings make the cost/benefit analysis. if i stay here, i will starve. if i don't stay here, i might have a chance of surviving appeared thriving. any republican would do the same thing for their family. this is what america is built on. >> the irish did it in the 1840s, germans did it in the 1870s. they came here because they were pushed here and pulled here by opportunity, and by problems back home. let my play greg abbott and ted cruz. here they are. >> the biden administration is importing covid into the state of texas, exposing more texans to that. >> what i care about is stop making the problem worse, stop releasing people who are covid-positive. stop putting kids in harm's way

and stop releasing criminals who prey on the community. >> it's gross for me for greg abbott to basically portray people as decides carriers. for ted cruz to participate in that? your thoughts. >> i would argue he has pushed back against his latino background. he always is very clear to point out he was a political refugee, that he came here fighting communism. he didn't want to be in the communist bastion that was cuba. he came to the u.s., so he uses a very different frame to separate himself from immigrants coming as a result of economic reasons or the plight we're seeing in central america. it's been always interesting to see how ted cruz has separated

himself from his immigrant experience and when pushed, puts the difference of his dad and other immigrants. >> but he also did defend his dad when donald trump said his dad was part of killing jfk. he was like yes, donald trump, yes, donald trump, yes, sir, more, sir. thank you very much for saying that. i appreciate your time tonight. still ahead, senator amy klobuchar. come on, senator klobuchar on voting rights, the filibuster and d.c. mayor muriel bowser will be here on the push for statehood. a very important discussion. but first -- >> release the kraken! we release tonight's absolute worst. i think you will agree tonight's nominee is truly worthy. stay with us. onight's nominee tisruly worthy. stay with us

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remember former trump lawyer sydney powell? she's back in the news, and not in a good way. you may recall, for weeks after november 3rd. , including the bog gus claim that the former president was the victim of a rugged election. most of the theories centered around dominion voting systems.

never mind there was no actual evidence of fraud. she relentlessly talked -- >> dominion operators went in and injected votes and changed the whole system. they run a computer algorithm on them as needed to either flip votes, take votes out, or alter the votes to make a candidate win. >> it has used all over the world to defy the will of people who wanted freedom. >> there's constituental evidence, all kinds of mathematical evidence. >> dominion and its minions and other state officials everywhere are apparently out there trying to destroy everything they can get to before we can seize it. >> they had it all planned, maria. it's one huge, huge criminal conspiracy. but according to powell, the conspiracy didn't just involve

dominion. no, no, it was an international syndicate, including the every-present george soros, hillary clinton and the very, very dead hugo chavez. powell promised to release the kraken that would finally prove her claims once and for all. >> i can hardly wait to put forth all the evidence we have collected on dominion, starting with the fact it was created to produce altered voting results in venezuela for hugo chavez. i'm going to release the kraken. but it turn out, the kraken wasn't real after all? the last of powell's lawsuits were thrown out earlier this month. instead of the vindication she so badly sought, powell was

slapped with a lawsuit by none other than dominion voting systems. in other words she's now in serious legal jeopardy. that brings us to the news of this week. despite her frivolous he challenges, sydney powell is now cast are her statements in a very different light. powell responded to the lawsuit by say, i think no reasonable person would conclude that the statement she made were truly statements of fact. in other words, the people to blame for taking the former lawyer to the president of the united states seriously, were some of whom hauled out of and stormed the capitol. guys, i think she's call you all suckers. it's the same argument that fox news made to defend tucker carlson. a judge ruled that carlson is not stating actual facts about the topics he discusses on live tv every night.

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the last president to sign meaningful gun legislation was bill clinton. earlier this month, the house of representatives passed two bills to help address gun violence, but here's the problem. there's zero chance that republicans will join democrats in passing those bills. two additional bills -- in other words progress in america today hinges on a feckless republican party parked in the senate minority that is devoid of

ideas, clinging to the filibuster in monument to white supremacy. >> this is all about a power grab. >> the filibuster forces compromise, and this is what republicans did when they were in the majority in both the house and the senate and holding the white house. >> i certainly hope there are enough wise and thoughtful democrats who understand that doing away with the legislative filibuster would create a nuclear winter in the united states senate. this morning a national civic engagement group called on congress to pass the for the people act, to increase public pressure on the senators who have the power to pass these popular bills. for more i'm joined by amy klobuchar of minnesota. you used to be a skeptic about

getting rid of the filibuster -- >> a wise and thoughtful senator. i was just listening to senator thune's words. so go on. >> yeah, sorry about that. i didn't mean to step on you. you used to be skeptical, but you've made a hard turn on that. what triggered your change of heart a that. >> i think it was the winter that senator thune referred to that we have not been ability to get anything major done, short of a natural disaster when we have the pandemic upon us. then make people scurry, scrum together and get things done, but we have major, major issues before us. one of them, it would be the first time, thanks to senator warnock and senator ossoff and their wins in georgia, we'll have the gavel and we'll have a hearing, i am, on the rules committee, on the for the people act. over 200 bills have been

introduced to try to dismantle voting rights. it's they thought, we lost a national election, we're not going to change our message or try to reach out, instead we're going to double down on that message at cpac, and let's make sure less people vote. i think warnock made it best in his maiden speech. what this is about is some people don't want some people to vote. those eight words mean more than anything i say on this interview. >> there is a lot of focus from some groups saying, okay, make a carveout for voting legislation. however, we just have had another massacre, two in two weeks. you've got the for the people act that you just mentioned, enhanced background checks, there are so many bills piled up. i'm old enough to remember that

when mitch mcconnell was in the minority during the obama administration, he used the filibuster to pretty much bring the senate to a halt. there's a great piece in "the atlantic" that basically talk about there's no accountability. just threatening a filibuster can kill any bill in advance before there's any debate. mitch mcconnell is demanding is it stay that why. why would any democrat go along with that? can you explain? >> first of all, you know, joy, there's a whole bunch of people who want a change. even senator manchin has talked about bringing in a talking filibuster. they have to come in and speak instead of going home. i think what has happened here is people have realized in stark terms -- if january 6th didn't turn you, i don't know what

does. there are people trying to upend or democracy, who don't believe in people's rights to vote, only believe in some people's rights to vote. that's not what america is about. in the words of the african-american police officer who was pummeled with poles, turns to his friend and says, is this america? it's not. that will allow us, by the way, to do a bunch of other important things for this country. i think the proof is in the america rescue plan. none of the republicans voted for it in the u.s. senate, but a bunch of constituents and democrats wanted it, we did it with a 51-vote margin and it worked. >> you know these guys, what do you think the trigger might be for them? you had something that finally said we've got to change this. just in speaking with your

conservative colleagues on the democratic side, what will it take? will it take all of these bills failing on the floor to get clot your -- cloture? do you think the bills will fail before they change their minds? >> you would have to ask them. i will say senator manchin is one of the authors, as you know, of the background check bill that almost passed before. they understand what the stakes are. senator sinema understands the stakes in her state of arizona, and so i believe that we need to get this bill to the floor. we need people to understand there are people in the country literally trying to make it impossible for them to vote by mail. why did all these people vote in the middle of a public health crisis? for the first time in many states, you could vote by mail.

you didn't have to have a notary public sign things? they're literally trying to peel that back. i think you'll see movement on our side. >> very quickly, on the derek chauvin trial, do you expect justice in this case? you've been a prosecutor in that state. >> i think you know where i am on this case. i've been very clear. i felt those prosecutions had to be brought. i have faith in our attorney general keith ellison. they have good lawyers on the case. i always believe that you let the evidence speak for itself in the middle of a trial. right now the jurors have been picked and the trial is going to start. for me, my piece of it, it's not the trial, because i won't be in the courtroom. my piece of it is what you mentioned, joy. that's my role on the judiciary committees to get the george floyd justice in policing act

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more than 700,000 people live in washington, d.c.

as their license plate aptly points out, they have exactly what the country was founded against. with only one delegate in the house who isn't even able to vote on bills, d.c. isn't able to entirely make its own decisions. during the capitol siege, the d.c. national gad had troops ready to depluto, but it tonight more than three hours. for a almost a century they were not ability to elect their own leaders. in a survey conducted by "the washington post" in 1966, white d.c. residents clearly articulated the racism behind the opposition, saying things like it isn't right the nation be all colored. and they don't have the right education. now the opposition from republicans against statehood

has echoed the past concerns, such as when republican congressman in 2013 said d.c. wasn't ready to be a state, comparing its leaders to teenagers. that republican opposition was very much on display yesterday as the house head a hearing on statehood, with republicans using the excuse of how democratic d.c. is. but beyond the gop's open fears about a d.c. state adding to a democratic senate, they're left with ridiculous excuses. take this argument from a legal fellow at the heritage foundation at yesterday's hearing. >> there's no question that d.c. residents already impact the national debate. for the members here today, how many of you saw a d.c. statehood yard signs or bumper stickers or banners on the way to this hearing today? i certainly did. where else in the nation could such simple actions reach so many members of congress?

>> okay, because the ability to have yard signs is exactly the same as having two senators to represent you. then there was this georgia congressman. >> d. cnn would be the only state without an airport, without a car dealership, without a capital city, without a landfill. >> even if it didn't, i can assure you the founding fathers did not include that as a requirement in the u.s. constitution. with me is mayor bowser. the arguments were dumb. let me read you one more. here's mike rounds saying the founding fathers never intended for washington, d.c. to be a state. the reason there are two dakotas, because they were

deliberately created as two different states so republicans could literally have four senators. your thoughts on these their arguments of stupid. hr-51 makes clear we'll still have a federal district. we have one of the best-run jurisdictions, a great economy and the economy is coming back. so they're lest with their simple partisan arguments that i argued yesterday were rooted in the history of race it is a demonstration that people have

long been concerned about the black political power that we have developed in washington, d.c. north carolina, again, these were supposed to be one state, but they made them two. they're just above dc, and vermont and wyoming have fewer people. who do you make of the attempt by one of the people arguing against statehood, saying what if we lowered your talks, would that be enough? >> well, you know, joy, the people of washington, d.c. voted on statehood. they didn't vote et to secede from the union. they didn't vote to shirk their taxes. they just voted to say we need equal representation and full autonomy. we need two senators. you rightly pointed out the ridiculous argument that people can put up yard signs and that's

the same as having two senators. it's not. the people of washington, d.c. saw what can happen when we have nobody arguing for you in the senate in the c.a.r.e.s. package. we were shorted $750 million to respond to a global pandemic. that's what it means to not be represented in the senate. we saw donald trump attempt to overfake our police department. we're full tax-paying americans, just like new yorkers, just like californians, just like south dakotaens, except we don't have two senators, and we have to correct that wrong. >> what might have been different on january 6th if d.c. had been a state, in terms of your ability to react? the big difference is the d.c. national guard, which is not

actually the c.d. national guard. the d.c. national guard reports to the president of the united states. we know there were some delays in his approve of the guard being deployed to the capitol building. we had requested the guard. i would have immediately deployed the guard that we're working with my police department to the capitol, you would not have seen that three-hour delay. >> would you want to see the filibuster ended? >> i support how senator schumer will get this through. we make the argument, joy, this is as much a voting rights issue as all the voter suppression we seed around the country. 712,000 tax-paying americans don't have a voting

representative in congress and no senators. that is in our view a sift rights and voting rights issue to be taken up. >> we definitely will be keeping our eyes on this one. mayor muriel bowser, thank you so much for being here. before we go, the sports world lost a legend yesterday. nba hall of famer elgin baylor played 14 seasons with the lakers. number of times numbs noted his acrobatic brilliance. in a statement, the lakers' ceo said elgin was the superstar of his era. he was later an executive with the l.a. clippers. elgin baylor died monday with his wife and daughter by his side. he was 86 years old. before we go to this -- this is a hard turn.

i just want to wish my bestie, kim mccray, a very happy birthday. i told her i was going to give her a shoutout. that's my hard turn. with every sad and difficult story we have, we also want something positive. "all in with chris hayes" starts now. \s tonight on "all in" the president calls for an assault weapons ban. >> this should not be a partisan issue. this is an american issue. why the nra was cheering the day before. are you willing to do what it takes for fight for america? >> the bumper crop of trump republicans growing by one. plus -- >> president trump won by a landside, and we're going to prove