good job. >> and now you will hear from a young man who talked to george on a daily basis because george was like a father to him. mr. brandon williams, his nephew. >> i just want to say thank you to everybody who was up here standing with us. congressman al green, always there, we appreciate you as well as ms. shabbaz. miss jackson-lee, auntie, she's always there, and random 2:00 in the morning some nights and even comes to eat with the family so she's there for the part of the family and we appreciate everything that you do. and of course, we call him the michael jordan of civil right, that's what our family calls him, always there, always hard working and always on the front line fighting for the cause. i think everybody around the

world appreciates you. thank you, brother. but on a lighter note. it feels good to be here. we grew up right across the street in cuny homes. that's where we were raised. we were a big family. i grew up with rodney and george was always like a father figure to me. we slept in the same bed and there were a lot of play fights and it's real significant to be here right at home. >> yeah. >> but i think the many reason we're here, yesterday on that call, it meant the world. we were very grateful for it. if you saw that video, it's self-explanatory. we all know that it was a murder and a torture in broad daylight. we all know his civil rights were violated, but for some reason with video footage, evidence and everything supporting exactly what we saw, we somehow never get these charges and for what reason?

that's -- that's to be identified later, but we are grateful that other situations, and you see similar things and no charges are brought. i'm going go back to the day we heard the guilty verdict. i was actually on facetime as the judge read the verdict. i was on facetime with miss tamika palmer, the mother of breonna taylor. there was one thing, the fact that she cried and she cried very hard for us and we're connected and as the judge read the verdict she said that she was happy for us. she said i'm happy for you all, and i stopped her, and i told her, no. you're happy for us. this is a moment for america. this is a moment for you, too. this gives you hope. she said this, she said that she had hope, that she was proud because what happened to her daughter wasn't right, and we are still fighting for charges

for breonna taylor. so in a sense, this was for america and immediately after the guilty verdict we held a press conference similar to this, and one thing that stuck out to me was something i said and i never rehearsed or write down anything i say, and my exact words were so when i say today is a pivotal moment and it's a chance for america it take a turn in the right direction and right a lot of wrongs so we don't keep adding to these names. >> thank you, brandon. >> and when i said that, that's exactly what i meant. there shouldn't be another george floyd. i lost a man that was like a dad to me. he was also a father to children. yes, he was. >> -- it is a call. a lot of days i find myself, and i usually call him just for life advice or laugh about a sports game, and i can't do that. no family should go through what we went flew and it's

unacceptable and when is he going to start? amen. >> but this gives us hope. this lets us know that there is change on the way, if we keep it on the gas to pass police reform. it's no way that the color of your skin or your race dictates how you are policed when in police custody. [ applause ] that's absolutely unacceptable. i'll close on that note. >> that's absolutely superb. >> we have time for, like, four questions and then the family and us have to get to the next graduation? any questions? all right. if we answered it all. [ inaudible question ] >> the hope is that -- >> okay, everyone, we have been

watching a news conference there from the family of george floyd and you are seeing the well-noted attorney benjamin crump in houston. members of that family and ben jam incrump have been invited to speak to the graduates, and i am sure their words will be heartfelt. as i wish you a good day from msnbc headquarters in new york and welcome, to alex witt reports. very busy day and we'll begin with breaking news out of texas and demonstrators are gathering on the steps of the capitol and what's in the works with restrictive voting measures and let's go straight to allison barber. what's happening at this event today? >> you can see people have started to gather in front of the capital building and they were chanting don't mess with

texas voters. part of the goal is to run out the clock on those bills. yes, we did see legislation pass the house, but it has to go back to the senate. it's different than the legislation that passed the senate. so the senate now can either accept what was passed in the house or they can go to a conference committee and try to reconcile those two bills. that would have to happen and votes would have to happen in the house and the senate before the governor could sign it and all of it has to happen before the legislative session ends on may 31st. so this rally, activists have told us even though, yes, we did see legislation pass the house. this fight is not over yet and more can be done. i want to bring in congressman beto o'rourke and he's been at the forefront of fighting these matters and the republican who sponsored this legislation said this is not voter suppression and he said this is voter enhancement and those were his words, what say you? >> this bill, if it passes and becomes law is going to make it a lot harder for a lot more

texans to vote in a state that is already the toughest to vote in bar none in the united states. we've had hundreds of polling places closed, the toughest voter i.d. racial gerrymander, the closure of drop-off ballot boxes during the pandemic that has killed 50,000 and now they want to make it harder for shift workers, harder for people of color and harder for disabled texans and harder for the elderly and harder for those in big cities to be able to vote. this is an attack on democracy and this is the response. you have hundreds of texans driving from as far away from el paso, hours to our west and every voter, republican, democrat, and independent within it. >> i was expanding how part of the goal we've heard from activists is to run out the clock. may 31st is when this legislative session ends and how big of a deal can this rally be? you have a republican-controlled state, but can it do something? >> this bill that passed in the

dead of night earlier this week now has to go to a conference committee. there will be democrats in this committee. this kind of public pressure forms some of the political will necessary to provide the leverage and negotiations to improve the outcome of that bill. having said that, there's only so much we can do here in texas. we really need the biden administration to step up and support those of us in georgia, in texas, and arizona, and kansas across the country fighting these voter suppression bills and offer us some protection and ensure that every eligible voter can cast their ballot. we need federal action right now and we need the for the people act to pass the senate. >> america has been watching what happened in florida, georgia, and what's the most important thing for people outside of texas, in your view to understand as it relates to what's happening in this state? >> this is part and parcel of the big lie. this fraud perpetrated by the former president that he's somehow won the 2020 election and that our current president

is illegitimate. this is part of the insurrection that we saw on january 6th where five people were murdered inside the capitol including a police officer. this is one of the voter suppression bills and voter suppression bills that are pending in 47 state legislatures and this is the biggest attack on american democracy since the voting rights act of 1965 was passed. that's why folks are calling this jim crow 2.0 because it's trying to roll back multiracial democracy in america and if we allow it to happen we will never get it back. this is our moment of truth and we need everyone in america to step up, stand up and fight for it. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> a little later today, the congressman is one of a few people who will be speaking at the podium just over my shoulder there. this is set to take place kind of within the hour. >> he is sure going to motivate everyone there gathered as he did to our viewers. thank you for that.

new demands for the release of police video and transparency in the shooting death of andrew brown jr. religious figures are leading a march today after a judge limited how much footage brown's family can see. his relatives are expected to see 18 minutes of the video next week, but they want to see all of the unedited video and that amounts to two hours long. county sheriff's deputies were serving warrants when they shot and killed brown in their car since april. those two deputies involved are on administrative leave. new from "the washington post," the trump justice department secretly obtained phone calls they did on russia's role in the 2016 election. former impeachment manager congressman jim hines reacting to this report this morning. >> we are putting a fine point on what we have always known which is then-attorney general barr turned the department of justice into the donald trump defense firm. we'll have more on that in just

a moment for you, first in just a few hours, cities across this country will be rallying for voting rights in honor of the late john lewis. it comes as a growing number of states that are advancing bills that would make it harder for people to vote. the divide in the republican party growing deeper. two of the most controversial republicans, marjorie taylor-greene and matt gaetz, you're seeing them here. they're kicking off their america first tour, bashing members of their own party including liz cheney and sending a clear message on where the republican party of today stands. tell me who is your president? that's my president, too. >> we have never abandoned trump and he has never abandoned america. he is still fighting for us. he will continue to fight for us and we're going to have his back when he does. >> oh, boy. and this morning the white house is grappling with a bump in the road to recovery, the latest unemployment report show the

economy gained only 266,000 jobs last month despite expectations that that number would top a million. the president saying those numbers underscore the need to pass his jobs act while republicans point fingers at biden's relief plan. two states moving to kick people off the extended unemployment benefits and the governors of montana and south carolina announcing they are ending their participation in the federal programs at the end of june even as the aid is available through september. so let's begin right now with monica alba in washington, d.c. and the doj accessing phone records of washington post reporters. this is a developing story, monica. what do we know at this hour? >> we are learning about what the last administration did in getting some of these phone records. we should point out this is not about the contents of the call or what was discussed and who these reporters called potential sources and how many calls were

made and whether the duration of those calls was notable. what's so interesting here and what we need to underscore is that the justice department, the current one, is confirming that this took place between the months of april and july 2017, in the heat of the russia investigation, and this team of washington post reporters, three of them and we should note it's not just cell phones and work phones, but also home phones that were a part of this record request and subpoena, they ultimately wrote a story about then-senator jeff sessions talking to then-russian ambassador sergei kislyak, this is a time travel here, talking about the trump campaign of 2016. the subject of that article was also about the classified intelligence intercepts and that's why you remember former president trump always wanted and urged his attorney general to look into leaks particularly of this kind of classified information. so it seems now that we do have

confirmation that that is exactly what that justice department did under then attorney general bill barr in terms of these reporters who were notified via letter last week that their phone record his been obtained. "the washington post" and the national press club are both conveying their dismay over this, writing in a statement also now -- with their outrage about the situation, but urging the current attorney general merrick garland to investigate whether anyone in the trump white house was involved in the decision to subpoena or saw the reporters' records. that's important because we don't have the full picture here. we know that this did take place and we're not quite sure how much was in those records and whether this was an isolated incident or whether there were many others and we're waiting from the white house or the justice department to give us more details on that as the story continues to develop. >> it's important to know what or at whose direction this happened. thank you for that. joining me now madeleine dean

from the house judiciary and financial services committee and she's the co-author "under our roof. a mother's battle for her son" for which we had a wonderful conversation a while back. let's get to these reports what from what we were hearing from monica alba. ted lieu says this is a direct attack from the trump justice department. and former white house counsel, john dean says it is way beyond nixon at his worst. you want to weigh in on this? what's your reaction? >> well, first of all, alex, very good to be with you this happy mother's day weekend and happy mother's day to you and all of the mothers out there. it is extraordinarily troubling and not surprising that the trump white house actually seized the personal phone call, the professional phone calls and the phone records of "the washington post" reporters for three and a half months.

think of that, and this was done under attorney general barr's auspices. of course, the attorney general had nothing to say about that, but what what this administration and this department of justice is doing is shining a bright light on what i think is mischievous behavior of the trump administration's department of justice. >> here's another big doj-related story, we have amy berman jackson who ruled that former a.g. bill barr was disingenuous about the process behind his decision to issue a memo clearing trump on obstruction of justice charges and she ordered the doj to release a memo that barr claimed had informed that decision, a memo that contained advice from top doj officials. the review of the document reveals that the attorney general was not then engaged in making a decision about whether the president should be charged with obstruction of justice.

the fact that he would not be prosecuted was a given. so the question has to be asked, was justice served? >> of course not, but thank goodness for this judge's report and this judge's opinion calling attorney general barr disingenuous in a very blistering opinion and saying that the memo should be released. you saw also in the month of march, another judge, federal judge reggie walton said that mr. barr lacked credibility and candor. we've been saying that all along. you remember, just two days after the mueller report was released to the attorney general at that time. he came out with a strange, incoherent press conference saying there was nothing to see here. he then delivered to the heads of both judiciary's committee and both house and senate, a four-page letter saying the same thing, misinforming the american public. i said at that time he didn't

sanitize, simplified and really misled the american public with that four-page letter and then it took 28 days for him to release a redacted mueller report. the judges are both right. mr. barr has no credibility. he had no credibility then and we will get to the truth of the matter, but in the meantime, what has been done to the folks of doj and to the american public in terms of disinformation is powerfully dangerous and sadly, those seeds we're seeing come to fruition even today. >> so clearly, this is serious. can anything be done now about it? >> certainly, and i look forward to attorney general merrick garland doing exactly what they're doing, being transparent under the rule of law, not as a department that represents a president or a person, but as a department that represents the rule of law for all america. so yes, we will get to the truth of it, and it will take a lot of

time when you have a lot of complicit, elected officials that want to continue to spread big lies, but we will get to the bottom of it, thankfully and we will have the new administration that prizes the rule of law. >> let's take a look to january 6th and the capitol attack. nbc news is reporting that the fbi has the worst of the worst in the riot, rather, even as his new economy, steady pace, are lawmakers concerned. the worst of the worst are still out there. is this at all personal for any of you. >> we worry about our safety and until every single one who was in any way responsible for the attack by americans on americans during a joint session of congress, i won't be at ease. we have to seek justice for those insurrectionists who came and attacked our capital, attacked, maimed, wounded and killed capitol police.

this is something this is incredibly serious. that's why i support the independent commission. i don't understand, frankly, alex, why every single lawmaker, whether they were in that capitol or not, regardless of party, wouldn't say of course, we have to understand what happened here so that it never happens again. we have to bring them all to justice. >> so, if a january 6th commission is formed, will house minority leader kevin mccarthy, will he have to testify about his call with donald trump on that day, january 6th? >> i would hope so and i would think he should welcome it. again, it's information for the american public for the record and for the greater safety of individual people, staff and actually, it's about our democracy. all of this has torn at the fabric of our democracy. it is a precious thing and it's something we have to lift up and protect. mccarthy should want to testify exactly what conversations and

communications he had with the president. what was the president's state of mind and it's been obvious from my reporting and my own problem with the impeachment and trial, mccarthy wasn't in communication with the president who was more concerned from the big lie for any of us, including mr. mccarthy. >> congresswoman madeleine dean, thank you so much. you probably figured those trump-related conspiracy theories would have died down. if you saw what happened at a trump-supporting gathering in florida, you might agree with what this tells us, republicans embracing conspiracy theories more vigorously. we'll show you exactly what happened ahead. l show you exact happened ahead be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna.

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should be disappointed, but when we passed the american rescue plan i want to remind everybody it was designed to help us over the course of a year. we have to build back better. that's why we need the american jobs plan i proposed. >> 266,000 jobs were added last month. experts were anticipating a million or more. joining me from capitol hill is ali vitali. we have president biden meeting next week and they'll be discussing his infrastructure plan and how might this jobs report impact the negotiations. >> it does set a whole new backdrop, alex, because they can be taken both ways politically. for republicans, they're looking at these lower than expected jobs numbers and arguing that the big packages that biden has been proposing both on covid which passed and also going forward on infrastructure and other social safety net shore-ups that those packages are contributing to rising

inflation and they're targeting the $300 a week unemployment benefits that came with that initial covid relief package saying that that's contributing to hiring problems for companies across the country. democrats, on the other hand, though, are seeing things themselves in these numbers that they say bolsters their argument for these future plans like the american jobs and then the american families act. they look and they see things like women, for example, not coming back to the workforce in as numbers as big as we would like them to be in part because of things like a lack of consistent child care and also because not all kids are yet back in school. those crises would be things that are targeted in the american jobs and american families plans, things that democrats now argue are certainly infrastructure because of the impact that they're having on things like the economy. all of this, alex, is the backdrop to this week of white house meetings where biden is going to meet with the gang of four and top democrats and republicans on the hill and it

will be the first official meeting we have senator mitch mcconnell and he'll be meeting with republicans on infrastructure and those meeting the charge for the infrastructure package which is far smaller. shelly of west virginia is leading the charge there and she'll be bringing in republicans who are key committees on the hill. even though capito has said she feels like bipartisan could be reached there, democrats like senator tim kane saying he's not sure about that. >> i think the bill that we'll ultimately vote on the senate will include many priorities that republicans put on the table, however i expect virtually all of them to vote against the bill because senator mcconnell is saying our agenda is to battle joe biden. >> reporter: and alex, those comments from senator mcconnell, pretty problematic because as soon as he made them, you know that democratic ad makers went

to work cutting spots. it's not the last that we're going to hear about mitch mcconnell saying that his job and 100% of his focus is to block the biden agenda. it gives democrats an extra push to say they should go it alone on these future bills on jobs and families. >> we'll hear a lot more of that. thank you, my friend, ali. i want to bring in heather boucher, a member of president biden's advisors. as we said they expected a million new jobs and the u.s. added a quarter million. why such a vast disparity on what was expected and the reality? >> well, here's the reality, alex, we are trying to recover from a pandemic. that is a massive supply shock that we had over a year ago and now as the vaccine is getting distributed and things are getting more back to normal for many american family, we're getting the economy back on track. so we always expected that there

would be, you know, some volatility. there's always volatility in economic recoveries, but because of the unique nature of the supply side prices with the pandemic, it's to be expected that there are bumps along the way, but let's remember a couple of things. first of all, we've created and added 500,000 jobs for the past two months on average. that's up from 60,000 jobs a month in the months prior to that, so that is certainly progress moving in the right direction, and there's a lot of indications when you sort of dig under the headlines in this report, there are lots of indications that people are coming back into the labor force and i was really hurting by the fact that there's been an acceleration in jobs and leisure and hospitality that includes restaurants, and bars that the biggest sector that grew in april, 331,000 new jobs and it celebrated from recent months and so that's a good sign that we're moving in the right direction.

>> let's add hotels to that, too, and they should be picking up. heather long writes, this is not a labor shortage. it is a great reassessment of work in america as people re-think what jobs are needed and what workers want to do on a daily basis. do you agree with that, heather, and what does that mean economically in the future? >> here's the thing, every time we come out of a recession, you see people saying, oh, we're going to do a great realignment and we saw that out of the recession, as well. this is a challenging year for businesses, families and the people who changed the way they worked and there's been more telecommuting than anything and we need people to figure out how they're going to adapt to the new normal as people get the vaccine. so i think to some extent, we only were able to open up vaccines to everyone on april 19th which is after, you know, the survey that the household

was done and let's get the shots in arms and then we'll see how the economy recovers, but also let me stress they think that this continues to show us the really important role that the american rescue plan has been playing in the economy and the important role of making sure that families have the care support that they need to get to work. so i do agree with heather long in some respects that we have seen where some of the fragilities in the labor market were over the past year and we're taking steps to address those. >> let me ask about when one traditionally thinks of high unemployment, it's because the jobs are not available. now you have a lot of small businesses saying they do have job openings, but no one to fill them. so is there a specific phenomenon that's driving this now that jobs are available? >> so you have this unique situation. the american rescue plan went out and the check went out and millions of american families and you have the vaccine getting

out to families and all of that is taking its time to work its way through the system. it's actually happening quite fast, but this month i think you see a little bit of that disconnect between supply and demand. again, now that vaccines are open to everyone, that's going to make a big difference in america's labor supply because up until april 19th, vaccines were not necessarily available to all of those who need and want to get a job and so if you're looking to go back and be a weight staff person you didn't have the opportunity to make sure that you were safe at work. so i think that we're going to see these things and the supply and demand mismatches work their way out. i don't think it will take that long, but i do think that the supports that we've given to family businesses and the communities are certainly helping in this moment. >> all right. heather boucher, it's good to speak to you. come see me soon. thank you so much. the gop sideshow kicks into high gear and it is not the fist

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did anybody in here vote for joe biden? >> no! >> do you guys really think he won? >> no! >> okay. overnight, two controversial house republicans taking center stage, georgia's marjorie taylor-greene and florida's matt gaetz kicking off their america first, and laying out a very clear message. trump's republican party is here to stay and nbc's leann caldwell is joining us from the villages where that took place last night. leann, welcome to you. give me some of the big takeaways from last night's rally. how did you see it?

>> hey, alex. there were a few main points that representative gaetz and marjorie taylor-greene wanted to make last night. the first is that the former president is still their president and the greatest president of all times and they wanted to also point out that democrats are backing a socialist agenda according to them, but they also went to great pains to critique the members of the republican party, their own party who aren't sufficiently loyal enough to the former president, something -- something they call rhinos, republicans in name only and representative matt gaetz specifically name checked representative liz cheney who is embattled and about to lose her leadership seat in washington because of her lack of loyalty to her former president. let's take a listen to how he put it. >> if liz cheney could even find wyoming on a map and went there

she would find a lot of very angry cowboys who are not happy with the fact that she voted for every war, war in syria, war against the republican conference, war against her own voters and it appears that liz cheney may no longer be the chair of the republican congress. this might be the first war she's ever sought to end! >> gaetz and greene were well received down here in central florida in this retirement community called the villages and the enthusiasm for them is why you see what's happening up in washington where republican leadership is backing the ouster of their own, liz cheney, because she is willing to call out the former president and say that the election was, in fact, not stolen. members of congress and aides that i'm talking to, republicans are saying they don't want liz

cheney to keep talking to the 2020 election. they want to move forward. they need to look ahead to the 2022 election, but alex, but if you lock at what the former president is focused on, he is focused on the 2020 election insisting that he won that election, but seems like the republicans have made a very clear choice in the direction of the party. alex? >> it's just extraordinary that someone with the last name cheney is not considered a real republican. just remarkable. everyone think about that for a moment. leann caldwell, thank you for that. we'll think about that more as joining me now is zerlina maxwell from sirius xm and host of the show zerlina on peacock and kurt bardella former supposeman for the house oversight committee. always great to have you. let's get into this. when you see the split screen that we'll show you here. you have marjorie taylor-greene who was kicked off her committees including education for which i had a sigh of relief for her controversial

statements, matt gaetz who is facing allegations of sexual misconduct which he denies, both remaining defiant and liz cheney is being ousted for essentially telling the truth. zerlina, what goes through your mind what you think about this? >> the republican party is in complete and total disarray. they don't have any core principles. they do not have a platform of policies that they are promoting or even alternatives to the democratic ones that the biden administration is putting forward. so they are stuck in the past. they are stuck back in the trump era, donald trump is no longer the president. he is a retiree, off at his resort at mar-a-lago, and i think that they need to come to grips with the reality of the fact that the demographics are shifting away from what they currently stand for right now and that's scary for them and so they're suppressing the vote and they're continuing to lie about the election, but we all know

the truth, and i think it's important to understand that what they are doing is not anti-democratic party, alex. it's anti-democracy and we all have to care about that, no matter where we stand on the political spectrum. this is dangerous that has led to violence and can lead to more. we talk about the shifting and the divide in the republican party and this particular instance seems like a definitive break. nbc news this week characterized it as the surrender to the lie that he won the 2020 election and the insistence that all gop critics must be purged. kurt, it is clear that donald trump still has an iron grip on the republican party even after the january 6th riots and for the republicans taking to the full-on trump route is there any going back? >> no, there isn't because it is very clear now that the number one prerequisite to exist in

this republican party is to accept the conspiracy theory of the lie that the election was rigged and that somehow donald trump actually won it. it's really something to hear leann's report there where she says on one hand republican leaders are justifying the purge of liz cheney by saying we don't want to focus the past and we want to move forward to 2022 and on the other, we just heard a sound bite of matt gaetz and marjorie taylor-greene advancing that very lie and we saw statements by president donald trump repeating the election lie and you can't have it both ways. you can't say you're getting rid of liz cheney while everyone else in the leadership in your party is talking about it. it is insane and let me tell you something. i got a lot of heat and triggering of fox news this week for saying that the biggest threat to our democracy today is the republican party that they pose a greater threat to our democracy, to our elections and to our process that anything, that any other foreign -- every

time i saw sound bites of marjorie taylor-greene and every time we see that happen and the denial of january 6th it is clear that it is a clear and present danger to our democracy and our way of life. >> powerful statement there. let's take a listen to what senator lindsay graham had to say this week. >> i would just say to my republican colleagues, can we move forward without president trump? the answer is no. i've always liked liz cheney, but she's made a determination that the republican party can't grow with president trump. i've determined we can't grow without him. >> so zerlina, as much as republicans believe sticking with trump is a winning ticket, isn't that how they lost in 2020? do they have any -- any solid messaging to win elections that does not involve donald trump? >> no. and it's -- i mean, i understand the frustration, right? if you don't have a message or a

platform, you're sort of flailing around trying to find something to say, but it is a little bit sad that they are so tied up in the past and in the losing candidate, alex, because the number, 74, is less than the number 81 and that will always be true no matter what donald trump says, and so as long as they go along with this lie, the more dangerous it becomes. i think that kurt is right to ring the alarm that this is a clear and present danger to our way of life and our safety and security. this is a dangerous environment for people of color because of the emboldened, how the republicans emboldened white nationalists and the groups that were organized on january 6th. it's a clear and present danger to latinx people who had been dealing with violence and this rhetoric and the fallout from trump's policies for the last five years, and so i think that people of color have been saying this from the beginning that this is very dangerous and then we saw a real, actual live,

violent insurrection and people are still wondering. so don't do that anymore. we now have to understand the risks that we face and we need to be clear-eyed in talking through this because this is a very precarious moment in american history. joe biden won the election. that's just the truth. >> yeah. period. full stop. >> let's take a listen to what mitch mcconnell said was the focus of the republican party this week. here's that. >> 100% of our focus is on stopping this new administration. >> so jennifer rubin of "the washington post," will mcconnell's zeal for opposition and obstruction interfere with reclaiming the majority in the senate. republicans have become so invested in recording right-wing media that they no longer seem capable of discerning what is in their own political interests. picking up on what zerlina was saying, kurt, what is the

republican logic here? is the strategy going to win back the house and senate in 2022 by just being the party of no and not letting anything get done? >> i don't think it will. first, number one, anyone who asked the question why aren't things bipartisan? why can't the president work with republicans to get things like infrastructure or gun reform or the majority of this country want to happen. look at this sound bite. that is your answer. when democrats move forward and get things done and do things out of reconciliation and think about getting rid of the filibuster, the reason why was articulated just light there by mitch mcconnell. number one. when you look at the parties in the last two decades, one party has gotten smaller. the other party has gotten bigger and the other party is welcoming communities of color and the other party is growing and there's a reason for that, and republicans keep doubling

down on the strategy that in the long run will fail them and that's the reason they're going out of their way to dismantel deconstruct election laws to try to prevent to keep them from voting. they know that the path that they're headed leads to electoral disaster in the long run so they're doing everything they can to rig the game before it's played and the final thing here is at the end of the day, the american people care about their lives. what's going on in their day to day dynamic and are things better than they were two years ago. democrats will be able to sit there in november 2022 and point to success after success about how people's lives have gotten better and how we emerged from the covid winter and got back to real life and how people in the economy got better and how people got jobs back and how people got their normal lives back and that will be what democrats will be able to run on and the only thing republicans will be able to do is say we opposed it all and we've done nothing for you and it's one

thing to watch republicans on social media try to take credit successes for the biden agenda all while voting no for everything and the only thing republicans are offering right now is nothing. >> kurt bardella and zerlina maxwell, let's make a date for next saturday. anyone can watch her show zerlina at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the peacock streaming channel the choice. there's something going on in virginia that's probably never happened. it involves the gop there and one newspaper describes itsa trumpy, trumpier and trumpiest. that's next. nd trumpiest that's next. hooh. that spin class was brutal. well you can try using the buick's massaging seat. oohh yeah, that's nice. can i use apple carplay to put some music on? sure, it's wireless. pick something we all like. ok. hold on. what's your buick's wi-fi password? “buickenvision2021.” oh, you should pick something stronger. that's really predictable. that's a really tight spot. don't worry. i used to hate parallel parking. [all together] me too. - hey. - you really outdid yourself.

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msnbc. right now reps are holding a drive-by convention to choose their lieutenant governor and attorney general. this unusual nominating contest includes a count that could last for days. according to "the new york times," the candidates for governor are being described adtrumpy, trumpier and trumpiest. deepa, big welcome to you. the whole process sounds somewhat complicated, right? >> reporter: it pretty much is, alex. i wish i can clone myself because we're separated by the high school building that's behind me. on the other side of this building is essentially two lines of cars. there's multiple tents set up. cars are waiting in line. they've been waiting since 9:00 in the morning and folks are coming by. those at the present times are divided by the county that they live in and where they vote. they will go pick up their ballot from there and essentially they loop around to where they are behind me and drop off their ballot by those tents that you see there and

it's an elaborate system that's been going on since early this morning and there was a line of cars that stretched owl of the way down to the highway and it slowed down a little bit and the question behind all of this is why? why is this system so much more complicated than a regular primary which is what republicans have often done in the past and it's what democrats are doing just one month from today on june 8th and it's a system that typically makes it easier to vote and more people can vote and here today, that's not really the case and there's 54,000 delegates that are taking part in this election all across the entire state of virginia and only 39 polling looks in the entire state. it's very different and part of that reason, alex is because there was some debate over whether or not state senator amanda chase, someone whom you and i had talked about before would make her way to the top in this ranked choice system. so part of all of this comes as republicans are feeling mistrust in our election system and we

heard this from donald trump himself and his supporters that the election was rigged and we need to talk more about election security and it's interesting and i heard mixed reviews from voters that we spoke about in line, about whether or not the system is safer or just makes it harder to vote. take a listen to what they said. >> everybody's got to present their idea and everything, and i think that's a good thing. i think it should be as difficult to vote as it is to buy a firearm or vice versa. i think this is a better process than the national process by far. i think it was to rife with fraud. i really do? >> you disenfranchise voters in a convention. it's just not fair, i don't think, but it is what it is, and i'll go with the flow. >> so, alex, you hear split opinions about whether or not this is the best way to conduct democracy, right? at the end of the day something you mentioned earlier was talking about how this process

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so that's a window for you. now where is trickier because if you're off by a minute or two it can change where this could hit dramatically, but alex, here's a little bit more about what we do know. >> it started with the launch of a massive chinese rocket. that nine-story tall, 20-ton rocket body is out of control. hurdling around earth at 18,000 miles per hour on a path taking it as far south as australia and as far north as new york and it could hit anywhere. >> it's really hard to predict when it's going to come in and where it's going to be. temperature can wind, solar wind can change and all kinds of winds that can change. >> the debris is likely to fall on water, experts say simply because it covers 70% of our surface. the risk of being hit is small, but it's not zero. and unlike in movies like

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