>> good evening and welcome to this mother's day "politicsnation." tonight's lead, black to the future. right now the situation in congress truly reflects the times that created it. as one-half of the people's house is largely committed to progress, while the other half is still mired not in the distant past, but the past four years. for voters of color, a stack of bills aimed at improving their lives has either been passed by house democrats this year as republican state legislatures attack black voters. the for the people act aims to protect the franchise with federal action as police unions push back against reform, the george floyd act offers unprecedented action to reduce

misconduct. and as our electoral map is poised to add more red district, the admission act evens the balance by finally recognizing the historically black district of columbia as a state. of course, on the other side, the house gop caucus is purging the last of its members who acknowledge reality because that reality requires republicans to admit that they cannot continue to campaign on a big lie. but regardless of what comes out of congress, the senate is where the future is either stalled or starting. and it is there that mitch mcconnell and senate republicans have committed to inertia if it means denying president biden a victory. of course, it doesn't help that moderate democrats like west virginia senator joe manchin refuse to take their best weapon

away, the filibuster. but what should not escape anyone watching is that you are now seeing nearly every state level gop trying to find its rudder after last year and plotting their future at black and brown voters joining me now, congressman hakeem jeffries, democrat of new york, member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the house democratic caucus. you know, congressman, as i said at the top, house democrats have introduced or passed a slew of bills that stand to have real corrective impact on voting rights, police reform, reparations, and full representation for residents of washington, d.c. on the other side, though, house republicans are cannibalizing each other over donald trump

still. your colleagues pro pre pair to oust liz cheney from our leadership post because she dares to tell the truth about electoral laws, what are you thinking as you watch this, congressman? >> great to be with you, rev, and it's just shameful that the display of arrogance, the lack of patriotism, facts don't matter, and hypocrisy is not a constraint to behavior as it relates to what we're seeing out of house republicans at this particular point in time. as democrats, we're trying to move the country forward. they are trying to turn back the clock. we're working to bring people together. they are tearing us apart. we believe in democracy. they appear to be all about autocracy. we're trying to get things done. the american rescue rescue plan, american jobs plan, american families plan with great leadership from president biden and speaker pelosi, and they're

in the midst of a reckless civil war, and about to oust liz cheney. >> congressman, you tweeted yesterday that the filibuster is a racially tinged artifact of the jim crow era. we cannot let it stand in the way of progress. can you explain why the filibuster poses such a threat to democrats' current priority, particularly for black dems, and particularly for bills like the floyd act or for the people act, et cetera. >> well, as you pointed out, rev, we have consistently moved important pieces of investigation out of the house that have significant and robust support amongst the american people. that's the for the people democracy reform bill, the george floyd justice in policing act, the dream and promise act,

gun safety legislation to make sure we have universal criminal background checks. these are all bills whether it relates to our democracy, whether it relates to end the era of voter suppression, whether it relates to making sure we can transform the way that policing takes place in this country, or high priority issues for the american people that are being held up in the senate right now because of the presence of the filibuster. and so a minority of senators are allowed to block progress for the majority of the american people. and that's something that has to change. >> now i want to hear your opinion on a dramatic event yesterday. marilyn governor larry hogan, a republican, granted posthumous pardons for 34 black lynchings in the state. the governor said it was a step toward rectifying the killings of black citizens denied due process.

what are your thoughts on that? >> well, this relate, reverend sharpton, as you know, to sort of the rise of the filibuster in many ways. the filibuster was first deployed by senator calhoun in the run-up to the civil war to try to protect white supremacy as well as the institution of slavery. and then in terms of its modern form, it was really deployed in the early part of the tenth sent troy stop civil rights legislation, including anti-lynching legislation that passed the house of representatives in the early part of the 20th century, but could never break through a senate filibuster. and that is part of the legacy of the absence of progress that we're still living with to this day. i commend governor hogan for doing the right thing. that's a backward looking step

in terms of rectifying injustice. we also need to move forward to solve the challenges that we have in america right now. >> you're the chair of the democratic caucus in the house. there was a narrower margin of majority democrats. are you concerned with the state's changing a lot of the voting requirements and many of us see them as repressive requirements? are you concerned about the midterm elections and the democrats maintaining or even being able to expand the majority in the house next year? >> i believe that we will maintain and grow our majority. principally because we are getting things done to crest the virus, to provide direct relief to everyday americans who are struggling, and ultimately to lay the foundation to super charge our economy and create opportunity and prosperity in every single zip code, not simply for the wealthy, the well off and the well connected.

that said, republicans are trying to artificially seize power through these voter suppression efforts that we see in state after state after state. that's one of the reasons why we will pass the jean-robert lewis voting rights act that you've been a tremendous champion of out of the house in the next few months. but again, we've got find a way to get it through the senate. >> all right. thank you, congressman jeffries. and happy mother's day to mrs. jeffreys. now we want to go to the police reform push from within. joining me now is mimi rocah, district attorney of westchester county, new york. and john muller, police commissioner of yonkers, new york. now district attorney rocah, before i get to ask you about issues in your county, the trial

of three officers accused of helping derek chauvin kill george floyd will help determine whether the system is really capable of change. yes, mr. chauvin's conviction was noteworthy not to be reduced. but it has to be understood moving forward that facilitating this conduct will no longer be tolerated, ooerve for those who don't actively participate. and that will take more than one verdict. what are your thoughts about that? >> well, i think that's right, rev. and thanks for having us on. you know, we -- it's one of the things i think the commissioner actually is going to talk about, because i've talked a lot about it with him, which is this active bystander training for police officers. putting aside as a city d.a., it's hard for me to comment on other pending criminal case, but i will say that obviously we want to train police officers to have the ability to safely

intervene when they see something that's wrong. and it's something that i've talked very frankly with my partners in law enforcement here in west chester, and i'm fortunate to have amazing law enforcement partners here, including commissioner mueller, who i can have very open, honest, frank conversations with and find that we bring on a lot more than we disagree on. but one of the things i talk about is the need for when we're pursuing in the d.a.'s office any kind of criminal investigation, which are rare, but they need to happen, but of a police officer, we want other good police officers to feel free to speak up and come in and give us information truthfully. and it's a similar mind-set. and it's something i think we're going to work on, and i know the commissioner is working on from a training point of view. >> and not only feel free to come forward, but obligated to come forward if they're observing something that is a crime, even by one of their

partners. commissioner mueller, before i ask you about your own town, we learned today that an alabama police officer was convicted of murder for the 2018 shooting of a man who called 911 to report his suicidal thoughts and had a gun to his own head. that officer is facing between 20 years and life in prison. now the police chief in his town of huntsville said he did not believe the officer is a murderer, and that local law enforcement there were in the first stages of shock. how much are police forces around the country possibly beginning to understand that maybe things are changing? >> thank you for having me, reverend, and thank you mimi rocah for having me. things are changing a lot. and a lot of very positive real ways. as the d.a. mentioned, project

able, which is important to say it's not just in these real serious use of force situations, but it's also utilized in the many more situations where there may be two officers engaging a member of the community, and one officer is not really feeling it. or the person isn't really feeling the officer. so the other officer can step in and talk to them. but i think a lot of good things are happening, reverend. i think it's important for us to remember that there is 18,000 police departments in the united states. and i always like to use the example of an emergency room. there is one guy who has cardiac arrest. there is five doctors around him. there is another guy with a broken ankle. we have to really dial in community by community exactly what the community is looking for, where our strengths are, and where our weaknesses are. that's key. the national conversation is great. but more importantly, like you say, all politics is local. all policing should be local. >> now district attorney rocah,

as merrick garland's justice department announces investigateses into minneapolis and louisville, kentucky police departments, you've certainly and recently called on the doj to investigate alleged abuses by the mt. vernon police department, operating not too far from this studio. in your jurisdiction of westchester county, new york. and you know i know mt. vernon well, reverend, w. franklin richardson and i work closely together, as you know. can you tell us why you asked for this and what those abuses entail? >> so first of all, i didn't do that -- i understand it's something that should be done carefully and considered. and i did it because i want to help bring as many resources as possible to mt. vernon. i want to help. i know the current mayor and police commissioner are working on transforming and rebuilding the police department there, and

rebuilding the trust between the police department and the community. but i think it's really hard in certain cases like in mt. vernon at this point to do that alone. and we were doing and continue to do the criminal investigations, many of which were referred to us by the police department and by the mayor in that city. and we are continuing that work. but a pattern and practice investigation by the department of justice is something completely separate. it doesn't look at individual liability of officers or individual criminal conduct. it looks into overall department and over a long period of time. and what are the training and what are the practices. is the manual in accordance with, you know, good policing. and then is the manual being followed? and i think even the -- i don't want to them, but i do think there have been instance already since i've been there just in four months where the mt. vernon police department has realized you know what? we do need to change this

training. and that's something that's happening around the country. but in mt. vernon, it needs to happen to a degree that it really it seems to me they need help. and i hope that the department of justice and others have seconded my call for this. congressman bowman, senator schumer, state senator alexander biagi. asking to put limited resources into this community that i think really could benefit from it. it can only help the community. when we talk about things like strip search, body cavity search, those are things that need to be done absolutely in such a delicate way, and there were too many signs of it not being done the right way. so i hope that won't be part of their investigation. >> commissioner mueller, let me go back quickly to you. we go from mt. vernon and the department of misconduct to the d.a. to your department in neighboring yonkers, new york,

also in westchester county, also under the d.a.'s jurisdiction, the difference being you have taken on the challenge of self-generating reform, which we certainly welcome here on "politicsnation." what do those reforms look like, commissioner? >> well, the first thing is from a crime standpoint, we're very big on precision policing, reverend, which is it's the recognition that mass incarceration does not work, and it never has, and crime doesn't support that. that 95% of the people don't commit any crimes. so when you dial in and you focus on the 5% that are victimizing our community and you can find it across every crime category, every crime category, gun violence, persistent offenders, it's the same 5% of people. what does this do? it allows us to really dial into the people we need to keep our communities safe. and because we're not kind of blanket carpet bombing enforcement, our enforcement footprint is small, but we're so

dialed in and focused on those offenders that we're having real success. i think that's a win for the community because what the community wants at the end of the day they want to be safe and they want to feel secure in how we're policing. >> mimi rocah and john mueller, thank you both for coming on "politicsnation." to trump or not to trump? the republican party is tearing itself apart over that question. plus i want to talk about immigration reform and why we must rise up to make the real american dream come true. but first, my colleague richard lui with today's other top news stories. richard? >> rev, a very good sunday to you. some of the stories we're watching this hour, chinese rocket space junk splashed down into the indian ocean last night. no one was hurt that debris caused some tense moments last week. scientists did not know exactly where it might land. several u.s. states including south carolina and washington are scaling back

their coronavirus vaccine orders as demand plummets. public health experts worry it's a sign of persistent vaccine hesitancy. a cdc says a third of u.s. adults are fully vaccinated against covid. arizona firefighters are battling a rash of wildfires. three of the biggest blazes rage just outside the phoenix area. officials warn that fires could grow with more dry windy weather on the way. and kentucky derby winning medina spirit failed a drug test. churchill downs racetrack suspended its hall of fame trainer that trainer denies any wrongdoing. results of a second test will determine if the horse is stripped of the title. more "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton right after a short break. our blood sugar is crucial. try boost glucose control. the patented blend is clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels. boost glucose control products contain high quality protein and key nutrients to support immune health. try boost. not all 5g networks are created equal.

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for this week's rise up, i want to talk about one of the great contradictions of the american promise in this so-called melting pot.

this nation of immigrants. the immigration system is broken. but let me start with the rare bright spot. this week, just in time for mother's day, the first reunifications took place between parents and kids separated by the trump administration. 19-year-old brian chavez was reunited with his mother sondra after more than three years during which he graduated high school early and began working for an immigration advocacy group. >> there is no words to describe the happiness that i'm feeling right now, and i'm really grateful with all the people that did this amazing work to allow my mom to come back. i just hope they can -- all the people that participate and make this possible, they keep doing this amazing work and they help more people reunify with their families, just like they did with my mom. >> but how did we get to this moment with republicans flatly

refusing to consider any immigration reform, when 20 years ago the dream act was introduced in the senate by conservative oren hatch of utah. the bill would have granted a path to citizenship for undocumented people who were brought to the united states as children, now often referred to as dreamers. but it didn't pass. despite bipartisan support in both the house and the senate. versions of the dream act failed again in 2007 and 2011, unable to overcome senate filibusters. in 2012 following this partisan gridlock with hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people living in limbo, president obama took executive action to, the deferred action for childhood arrivals policies does not provide a path to citizenship for those brought to this country as children, but it

does prevent deportation and allows them to work legally. of course, the trump administration attempted to rescind even this tiny measure of security to undocumented folks resulting in years' long legal battle. and then president biden signed an executive order reinstating daca on his first day in office. but his predecessor's attempt to strip status from nearly a million dreamers is proof that we need a legislative solution. the biden administration has put forward a comprehensive immigration plan. but with jim crow filibuster still intact, it faces an uphill battle in the senate. in the meantime, biden is also pushing for smaller moves, protecting dreamers and farm work. >> hoping to get the public

votes those measures would need. this week biden raised the refugee cap that trump had slashed, allowing more immigrants to seek asylum. it's that last move that might help bryan chavez and his mom, who was denied asylum by the trump administration. sondra has been granted humanitarian parole to reunite with her son, but no permanent policy yet exists for her or the hundreds of other parents who were deported without their children. so this mother's day how can you rise up to help moms like sondra? as always, get on the phone to your senators and your representative. demand action on comprehensive immigration reform. and if that means abolishing the filibuster, well, that's just icing on the cake. in your home state, find out what programs provide legal support to immigrants and

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culture. they are perpetrating that which they argued they are against. >> here to discuss the devolution of principles in the gop is my panel. dan calloway, democratic strategist and founder of the national voter protester connection action fund, and dan miller, former communications director for jeb bush and current writer at large for the bulwark. tim, let me start with you. as soon as wednesday, house republicans could take the vote to oust liz cheney of wyoming from leadership in favor of elise stefanik of new york. despite the fact that their voting records show cheney as being far more in line with the conservative principles that republicans claim to value. still, stefanik is willing to bend the knee to the former president. what does this say about the

state of the party? >> thanks, rev, for having america and happy mother's day to the moms out there. here is what it says about the state of the party. fealty to donald trump and fealty to the big lie is all that matters to be a republican in good standing right now there there was a moment after january 6 where lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell and some of the kind of old guard republican establishment were speaking out and saying this is enough. this has gone too far. a siege of the capitol that resulted in deaths is just a step too far. there was a moment there i think where the party could have made a pivot. but now here we are four months later and acting like that siege is not a big deal, continuing to repeat the lies that led to that siege and subbing up to donald trump is more important to republican leadership and republican voters than any issue. and that's why you see liz cheney who is more conservative, as you mentioned, getting the chop while elise stefanik who is more of a center right in her

voting record, but has been more brazen and shameless in her sucking up to donald trump and willingness to repeat the lie getting a promotion. >> talking about lindsey graham, he made headlines this week for saying republicans can't grow the party without trump. here is what another high profile republican, john mccain's daughter meagan had to say on the subject. >> and i'm going to be a little crass. they're shiving her for going on television multiple times and saying the election wasn't stolen and for refusing to debase herself to chee-to jesus. the message that is being sent by the highest member of republicans in congress is that women like me and liz cheney who refuse the bend the knee to president trump but still remain loyal republicans, we don't have a place in this party. we are worthless. >> don, this insistence on complete devotion to trump's big lie about the election actually shrink the party?

>> i don't know. and i don't -- but i don't think so. because right now substantively, there is no republican party platform other than voter suppression, white supremacy, and ppatriarchy, frankly. what do you see across the state legislatures in common? you see voter suppression bills. you see anti-trans bills, and that's about it. this is not about small government orifice skal conservatism at this point. the question is i don't know if it will shrink the party or not because republicans do not have the fortitude writ large to leave the party. you're not seeing a mass exodus in the era of donald trump. so republicans are really going to have to make a choice. people like adam kinzinger, people like meghan mccain are going to have to decide whether or not they are republicans in this iteration of what it means to be a republican. and right now i hear them talking against trump, but they

have decided that they're still republicans. so that's kind of the fundamental existential question. and i don't know whether or not their party grows or shrinks, but i do know that i don't see people really jumping ship and saying i'm not involved with this. >> president biden will host the majority and minority leaders from the house and senate on wednesday to discuss his legislative agenda. the first trip to the biden white house for kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell. tim, do you think the republican leaders will be negotiating in good faith? >> no, al, but i think i think it is in president biden's interest to pretend like they are and act like they are. part of president biden's mandate that was why he had seven million more votes is that he campaigned on uniting the country. he campaigned on working with republicans. just because he doesn't have a willing partner doesn't mean that he doesn't need to try. and i think that if i'm

president biden, i'm calling their bluff. this is a party that claims to be a working man's party now. and i'm saying here are all the things i want to do the working class. you guys want to be a working class party. what can we do to get you on board? at the end of the day, i don't think conservative media and fox and the former guy down in mar-a-lago let them sign on to any big initiatives and support joe biden. and so that's why i think it's in joe biden's interest to try to get them on board, call their bluff, and when they fail, pass whatever he needs to pass any way through reconciliation. >> we saw in 2020 that trumpism alone does not captivate the majority of voters. yet republicans are doubling down. rather than growing their appeal, they have decided to try to shrink the electorate, introducing voter restriction bills in nearly every state. don, will this combination of trumpism and voter suppression work for the republican party in

your judgment? >> no, but it will not work, but it will only fail if democrats do the work that we're supposed to do during this moment. democrats have got to register voters, they've got to continue to continue to build infrastructure by staying in touch, contacting voter, building infrastructure, filing their own voter expansion bills as we've talked about on this show. we can't sit back in our legislative systems and vote no. democrats have got to spend this time not laughing at republicans and pointing fingers and guffawing at their silliness. we have to build infrastructure. and if we fail to do that, trumpism will continue to reign supreme and you'll see them not having the massive losses that their policies dictate they should absolutely deserve. >> all right. let me think both of you, don calloway and tim miller. . up next on this mother's day sunday, we talk about some of the great black matriarchs who shaped our very nation. that's right. after the break.

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happy mother's day. it should come as no surprise to anyone that behind every great man is an even greater mom. a mother who inspires her children to rise up and take on the world. my next guest has a new book out about just that. joining me now is ana malika

tubbs, the author of "the three mothers: how the mothers of martin luther king, malcolm x and james baldwin shaped our nation. now in your book, ana, you discussed the lives of three influential black mothers who raised their sons to become heroes of black history and help shape the world we live in today. there are so many books that focus on these three great giants of men, martin luther king jr., james baldwin and malcolm x, but what made you decide to write about their mothers? >> you know, i was shocked that i was the first person to have this idea to highlight the moms, because it's so clear to me that the way mothers are treated in a society will tell us we're doing on all other health and wellness indicators. we need to treat women with respect. we need to honor this role, because it is crucial to how we do, especially when it comes to

black motherhood. black mothers have done everything in their power to make sure their children are treated with humanity and seen in the light that we see them. we have done so many things for this nation, and that's how we shaped it. and it's definitely the king with alberta king, louise baldwin and lewes little. >> my mother used to take me to church as a little boy, rallies as a kid. i millennium reverend jones, jesse jackson when i was 12. her passion helped me find mine. >> yeah. >> when researching these mothers for your book, what is the defining factor of how burgess baldwin or alberta king or louise little raised their sons to make them the legends that they are known today bigger than any of us that are out here now. what did you find that was the spark, or was their spark that helped them influence their sons

who operated in different fields and really attracted total different kinds of follows? >> that was the most surprising for me, thing for me in the research. when i set out to write the book, i just wanted to tell these women's stories in their own right. i wasn't set out to say this is why malcolm did this, because le weiss did this, or this is why malcolm did this because alberta did this. the connection between the mothers' passions. alberta king was a religious leader. she believed that faith is intertwined with social justice. you have to stand up for the oppressed. you have to stand up for the poor. if you're privilege and have an education, you use that to advance freedom causes forward. she someone of the first members of the naacp alongside her parents. so the only difference between her and the way mlk approaches it is he calls it nonviolence. when we think about louise

little, she was a radical marcus garvey activist. she believed in black independence and black pride. you stand up for your respect and you stand up for your dignity, no matter the cost. and she even faces off with the kkk in person. and this is malcolm x, what we revere him for, that kind of courage, that kind of bravery. and with berta baldwin, james baldwin's mother, she was writer. she believe you'd could help people through writing, through the darkness, through the pain they're experiencing in their own life. she gifted her letters to everybody who knew her. and her son becomes the famous james baldwin, the writer who callings hardships a witness to the power of light. in these three cases it can't get any more obvious. before this book, this is tests they should have been told, but it was kept from us and it was hidden. >> for several weeks on my show, we've been discussing the crisis surrounding black maternal health. black women face a higher risk of pregnancy mortality in the u.s. than others.

the cs estimates that black mothers are up to more times more likely to die from childbirth than their white counterparts. and we spend mother's day appreciating the ones who nurture us and give us life. what can we do today to protect black mothers' lives? >> this book isn't entirely about history. it's all about seeing how relevant it is to where we are today. i am pregnant right now. i have a son who is 18 months old. i was well aware of the black maternal health crisis when i was pregnant. what was so hard for me in writing the book is the fears that alberta bert tis and louise faced for their own lives and their children are still so relevant to me right now. i want all of us to move past this admiration of black women's strength as if we have some kind of higher tolerance for pain which is contributing to the black maternal health crisis, this bias that treats us as if we're either less than human or somehow more than human, and that needs to translate into policies and protections where

we're changing the system that was literally built by experimenting on the bodies of enslaved women. so now is a time for us to really open our eyes, really think about the ways in which we can change what history has done and really face the truths of history so we can move forward in healing and make these practices safer for me, for my children, and for all black mothers. >> all right. anna malika tubbs, thank you for being with us. my final thoughts are next. but before we go to break, some history made today. the first black female president of any news organization, our own msnbc president rashida jones delivered the commencement address at hampton university, her hbcu alma mater earlier today. here are some powerful words of encouragement. >> you will remember what it was like to be a young black person, not only living through but in fact leading a nationwide reckoning on race.

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fight as hard as i do, because children ought to bury their mothers, not mothers bury their children at the hands of those entrusted to protect them. i also at our weekly saturday rallies at national action network give flowers to mothers in the community every mother's day saturday who may not have kids at home to give them a flower or who just needs to be encouraged in the community. i do that because i was raised by a single mother who encouraged me, who when i was 4 years old said i wanted to be a preacher, didn't laugh at me and stop me. when i was 12 years old, wanted to be an activist, she brought me to rallies. that's why on friday, as i went to dothan, alabama, to speak for the t.o.p.s. anniversary, 20 years, i went with my daughters to put flowers on the grave of my mother where she was born, raised, came to new york, had my

sister and i went back to dothan where she spent her last years, because i know no matter what good i do, it's because of her. and what mistakes i made, she always kept me going, saying life is not about not stumbling. life is about getting up when you stumble. admit where you made your mistakes, and go on and remember those that helped you along the way. that's why in honor of my mother, i fight for other mothers. because others helped my mother make a better world for me. we'll be right back. [sizzling] i may not be able to tell time, but i know what time it is.

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well, she has committed to pushing her party to admit that donald trump lost to joe biden and in fact fueled the january 6th insurrection at the capitol. in a new interview today, house minority leader kevin mccarthy, who helped lead the charge to oust cheney, signaled it is all but solidified that her exile is imminent. >> to defeat nancy pelosi and this socialist agenda, we need to be united. that starts to leadership. that's why we will have a vote next week, and we want to be united in looking, moving forward, and i think that's what will take place. >> do you support elise stefanik for that job? >> yes, i do. >> at the end of the day, this all boils down to a gop that continues to propagate donald trump's lies. cheney will likely lose her leadership spot because she sought another path forward. a hard pill to swallow for some members of the republican party, like the governor of maryland. >> sort of a circu