good evening, and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, it's all or nothing. right now our gop has shown every color it has, and they're all some shade of yellow, like dominos, we watched so many republican congressional leaders fall this week, saab taujds the investigation of the january 6th insurrection months after thumping their own which he says in favor, while at the same time continuing to hold police reform hostage in congress as president biden has no george floyd act to sign on the anniversary eve of floyd's murder. and documents of police violence continue to pile up along with black bodies. tomorrow i will be in

minneapolis to commemorate george floyd's life with his family and his community. joining me in a minute, his brother, philonise. and ultimately for the nation, it indeed has been a year that has tested the limits of america's stomach for real change in policing and criminal justice. and the sincerity of our lawmakers' desire for racial equity as republicans continue to wring their hands over where i will race theory. but wave their hands at the idea that is critical to understand how and why our nation's capitol was breached, violated, and literally soiled four months ago. we'll have more on how the gop devotion to the big lie continues to chain them to the

past, while criminal investigations tighten for donald trump and those that have followed in his image. but we start with criminal justice reform in the congress and a somber anniversary that is just days away. joining me now is the assistant to the speaker of the house, congresswoman katherine clark, democrat of massachusetts. congresswoman clark, the house is going into a three-week break. with that, the president won't get a george floyd act that he can sign by this coming tuesday, the first anniversary of george floyd's death. there's no shortage of sticky points, but the biggest one remains qualified immunity. this week your massachusetts colleague, ayanna pressley, along with congresswoman cori bush and other eight house democrats insisting that it be

excised from any version of the bill, house or senate. but your majority whip, jim clyburn signaled this month he's willing to leave it for now to get a law on the books and then try to do something on it later. where do you come down on this, congresswoman? >> well, thank you, reverend sharpton, for having me on. i can tell you that on this very somber anniversary that we are soon going to be honoring and memorializing with the murder of george floyd one year ago. i'm going to do everything i can to make sure that we get rid of the doctrine of qualified immunity. the key word, and it is what everyone snow shower democratic caucus wants, is accountability. and we cannot have

accountability when we have a doctrine that, through the courts, has become one of virtually absolute immunity. when it is the burden of the victims of police brutality to establish there's an exact fact pattern out there that waives immunity for a police officer or any public worker, that is not a doctrine that works for accountability and for justice. and we twice now have passed in the house the george floyd justice reform act. not only are we committed to making sure that we end qualified immunity, but also the other important parts in that to building accountability back into our justice system. because one thing this pandemic has taught us, the security of all of us is dependent on the security of our neighbors.

and we know how interconnected we are. and we simply at this point in our history, where we are at a time of racial reckoning, we just cannot afford to look away. we must continue to strive. we must push for this legislation. >> i definitely know the civil rights community of which i'm a part totally agrees with that and hopes that we push through a bill with tooth, not just not have a hard deadline and a weak bill. i'm sorry, but i have to ask you about donald trump. his loyalists continue to export these audits. they have accomplished nothing with their audit in arizona.

now they're moving on to fulton county in georgia w new hampshire slated to be next. they have no incentive to stop at the state level because you still have so many congressional republicans still pushing the big lie. and a republican state legislators is trying to take control of their state elections. what can democrats do to stop this nonsense? >> well, let's be very clear where the republican party is in congress. overwhelmingly they do not want to count the votes that were cast in 2020, and they want to make sure that people, especially black and brown people, cannot cast votes in 2022. this is about amassing power, and that is all it is about. they have lost sight of the fundamentals of our democracy. they have lost sight of meeting the needs of the american people

coming out of this pandemic and its economic fallout. they have lost sight of racial justice. they have lost sight of what we need to do to address climate change. they are about regaining and retaining their own power through donald trump and saluting donald trump and perpetuating the big lie about our elections. and what we have to do is to fight every day to protect that crucial right to vote. we need to make sure that as the house has done, that the senate passes the for the people act, h.r. 1 and senate 1, and the john lewis voting rights act. these two pieces of legislation are going to enable us to protect our democracy and protect that sacred right to vote. but we've seen what we're up against when this party -- it's

not just turning against democrats, but their own with what they did to liz cheney when she would not perpetual the big lie. they drove her out of leadership. when john katko negotiated a bipartisan agreement about a january 6th commission, they turned on him and voted it down. 75 republicans says no to that commission in the house. >> now, without trying to be overly forward, i have to ask in the most basic terms, what does it say that republican leadership -- so much of the gop caucus is opposed to investigating what happened four months ago in washington, d.c., on capitol hill, and for some

legislators that coward in fear then, which is understandable, but they now cast it as some kind of peaceful class trip or patriotic protest. what are you are thoughts on that? >> it is horrifying to watch. they obviously do not want to look in the mirror. they do not want to grapple with what happened. the worst attack on our capitol since 1812. this was a moment that the american people witnessed and that many of us lived through, sown by the division and hatred and white supremacy, encouraged by our own president of the united states, telling people to come to washington, perpetuating this big lie around our elections. and we saw the loss of life, the terror, and the property destruction. but moreover, we saw after the

insurrection was cleared from the capitol, republicans who had come that day in support of the electoral college changing their votes, no longer supporting it because they were afraid of what would happen to them politically. we are at a dangerous point for our democracy when we are allowing one party -- is viewing this as some sort of, you know, just protecting donald trump. and this misinformation, and is is not standing up for something as basing as saying let's form a nonpartisan commission and put the truth into history. let's memorialize what happened. let's honor those who died that day. and let's address these issues in a way that meets this moment

of racial justice. we know white supremacy is one of the major issues that fueled the insurrection. so all of this ties together. the fact that we didn't have a single republican vote for the american rescue plan, the fact that we have not had a single republican come out and support the for the people act, the fact that we are unable to garner enough of, you know, solid republican votes for a commission to look at the truth around domestic terrorism. >> it's amazing. >> and what happened on the 6th. >> it is outrageous, to put it lightly. but thank you, assistant speaker of the house, congresswoman katherine clark. we're just days away from the one-year anniversary of the murder of george floyd by an on-duty police officer last year. millions of us took to the

streets, marching, praying, and fighting for change. while the guilty verdict reached by a minnesota jury last month provided a small amount of accountability, the fight is just getting started. one of those who stood strong in that fight is the brother of george floyd, philonise. philonise, let me start with saying the president that has invited your family to meet with him at the white house to observe the anniversary of your brother's killing this week. what do you hope to hear. i'll be -- it's tuesday, the anniversary. what are you hoping to hear as the president addresses the family and george's daughter? >> just feel that he will be able to fulfill meaningful legislation. i think that all the families

across america who lost someone who they loved and had access to their families taken away from them, people are looking and people who voted for the president that really -- going to be in attendance. what i mean by that, just right there when it's on the tv, on the tube. they all want to be tuned in to see what's going on because people want the legislation bill to be right. >> the action that you expect the biden administration to take to ensure this legislation -- and you worked hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder with the civil rights community and leaders. you and i have talked two or three times a week. you've been out in the communities all over this country, formed a foundation

with your wife, worked your family members. you have not stayed back as people that are victims, but you've worked so hard, they even gave you nicknames about what you were becoming. this has become your life. >> yeah. pretty much. i'm tired of seeing people die for nothing. if you can make federal laws to protect a bird, you can make federal laws to protect people of color. there's no wrong or right in these situations. we just need to make sure that we can have that opportunity to know that we won't have to live in fear. we just need that chance. >> now, this week we've seen yet another video of a black man who supposedly died in police custody in louisiana. when cases like these occur, how has that experience over the last year, grieving the loss of your brother, going through the

legal process, changed your approach to news like this? because i couldn't help but notice the night that we received the verdict of guilty, guilty, guilty, on three counts on chauvin, the very next 48 hours, and you members of your family joined me at another funeral, this one just ten miles from that courthouse of don j. wright, and you found it necessary, your brother and your cousin, brandon, found it necessary to be there for that family, even at that time when you had a great moment of seeing the first verdict like this in a long time. how does this shape you now, the philonise floyd of today? >> just constantly every time you look up, you're seeing situations like the man in louisiana. you think about all the time

that his life meant something, you know. he should still be here. that's one of the biggest reasons that i think the george floyd policing act needs to be passed. i think that we need to have meaningful legislation. we need to be able to stop the things that's going on because what i seen, it's like a fresh scab and i'm steady picking at my sore and i can never heal the wound because i constantly see the same thing happening over and over because i think about my brother, all these families that i have to speak with and have to console with. some parents, they couldn't even speak on what happened to their kids because they're hurt, they're crying, and they're broken because they loved that person so much. now they have an empty seat at the dinner table. so i understand a lot of things that's going on, and that is the

biggest reason this george floyd policing act has to be passed because it's blood on that bill. it's others all across this nation and people globally have seen and witnessed people dying on videos. so we have to get this right. this is supposed to be the land of the free, and if i know the -- if it's not the land of the free, i understand why we can't get the accountability we're looking for. >> well, you've been saying that all over the country. you've turned into a real symbol and an advocate and have walked with us. you have been with the civil rights leadership, the grassroots activists, the attorney general of black america, ben crump, and others. appreciate you being with us today, philonise floyd. our thanks to you always. coming up on "politicsnation," the gop has a projection problem. i'll tell you all about it in this week's gotcha. even republicans in arizona are complaining about their state's outlandish election audit.

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for this week's gotcha, i want to talk about projection, you know, the republican party tendency to distract from their own malfeasance by accusing their opponents of the same thing. let's start with maine senator susan collins, often called a moderate republican, even if her voting record doesn't back it up. this week we found out about an fbi investigation into possible illegal campaign contributions to collins's 2020 re-election

bid. purportedly without her knowledge. this comes after collins spent the campaign casting aspersions on a democratic challenger for out-of-state donations. let's be clear, the maine senate race was one of the most expensive of all time. both collins and her opponent had tens of millions of dollars donated both from mainers and other americans. but so far, no investigation is needed into the money raised by the democratic side. it's not just campaign finance where republicans refuse to police their own. after several years of fringe conservative pizza gate and canyon canyon conspiracy theorists accusing every prominent democrat and several random celebrities of being child sex traffickers with no evidence, that wing of the party has gotten awfully quiet now

that republican congressman matt gaetz is under investigation for that exact crime. but the pattern of projection is most clear when you look at the foundation of our democracy, elections. following their loss of the house, senate, and presidency last year, the republican party has overwhelmingly adopted the big lie that democrats somehow rigged an election that trump officials called the most secure in american history, while republicans at the state level are frantically trying to rig the the next election with dozens of laws meant to keep democratic voters from the poll. even after thousands of trump supporters believed that big lie and stormed the capitol in an act of armed insurrection on january 6th, republicans have banded together to stop what should be a bipartisan investigation. and perhaps the most brazen

projection yet, mitch mcconnell accused democrats of being partisan for trying to limit a committee to investigate the insurrection to the actual insurrection. meanwhile, republican party is the only one who benefits from the status quo whereas no investigation means they're free to keep spreading their big lie. ohio get some tim ryan summed republicans' complete abandonment of their principles on the house floor this week. >> incoherence, no idea what you're talking about, benghazi, you chase the former secretary of state all over the country, spent millions of dollars. we have people scaling the capitol, hitting the capitol police with lead pipes across the head, and we can't get bipartisanship. what else has to happen in this country? cops? this is a slap in the face to

every rank-and-file cop in the united states. if we're going to take on china, rebuild the country, if we're going to reverse climate change, we need two political parties in this country that are both living in reality, and you ain't one of them. >> congressman ryan hit the nail on the head. republicans scream about cancel culture when they literally canceled a member of their own leadership for living in reality and telling the truth. but given the pattern of behavior we've come to expect from the more than republican party, i expect their response to be something along the lines of, we're not crazy, you're crazy. unfortunately, for you republicans, the american voter is looking for more sophisticated argument than the old playground standby, i know you are, but what am i? i gotcha. ♪

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welcome back to "politicsnation." we have a lot to talk about with my panel. joining me now is danielle moody, cohost of a democracy podcast. and adviser to the democratic congressional campaign committee. let me start with you, kirk. the president offered a compromise this week to republicans on infrastructure, paring down his original plan and republicans still refuse to compromise. the white house was out with a statement today calling for good-faith counteroffer. if and when republicans refuse, will this convince senate democratic holdouts that republicans are not bargaining in good faith, and that democrats should move forward with passing the plan through a

budget reconciliation? >> well, rev, i sure hope that joe manchin and kristin sinema are making a consideration because the biden administration put forward a compromise that both parties should be able to agree on. but it seems like the republican party is willing to live up to mitch mcconnell's words that he has no desire to work with the biden administration that, his number one priority is to derail it and to try to ensure that they can keep the biden agenda from moving forward before the next midterm election. i mean, it's just painfully clear that there's no appetite on the republican party side for a bipartisanship, which is ironic because the policies that this infrastructure bill represents are incredibly popular countrywide. these are things that would benefit republicans in their own districts, their own constituents want these projects. they want them funded and they want these bridges and the

infrastructure. yet, their representatives in washington are too busy playing politics and partisans games and instead are forfeiting the right to have a say in this process, so when democrats go it alone, republicans only have themselves to blame. >> danielle, despite calls from arizona republicans, republicans, to stop the so-called audit in the state, trump allies are continuing to push their conspiracy theories and they're not stopping in arizona. fulton county, georgia, and their next target and then there are attempts touchdowns mine the election in michigan and new hampshire, as well as other states. what's a really behind the push for these audits. what are they hoping to accomplish? >> the fact is, rev, that americans need to pay attention to exactly what republicans are doing right now. this has nothing to do with 2020. this has everything to do with 2022, 2024, and every election

moving forward. they want the opportunity to undermine every single election that we have and be able to take it to the courts, which mitch mcconnell has already stacked with over 300 right-wing federal judges. and so this is their goal. they have stacked the supreme court, they have stacked the federal circuit court, and their idea is they don't want people to vote ever. if they are not white, if they are not straight, if they are not male, they don't want your vote. if voter suppression laws won't work, they'll take it to the courts where they have planted all of their friends so that they can then say we're going to overturn these elections, something seems wrong. right now they're using qanon theories to use it for an investigation, using uv lights to see there's bamboo to say it's ballots from china. that is how crazy and deep the republicans have gone right now with their gaslight and their madness. >> kirk, while the house passed legislation to empower a commission to investigate the

january 6th insurrection with some bipartisan support, senate republicans are signaling their intention to filibuster the measure. what are republicans so afraid of? >> rev, it's so clear that the last thing that these republicans like kevin mccarthy want to be is under oath in front of a bipartisan commission to explain things like phone calls with donald trump. we know other members of congress were talking to jared kushner and ivanka trump as the insurrection unfolded. we still to this day don't know fully to the extent to which members of congress may have played a role in helping these insurrectionists by giving them tours. republicans are complicit in this. they are accomplices. they're doing everything they can to ensure there's no bipartisan commission because they know the commission is going to find that they were a part of this. and so they're leaving democrats with no choice, but once again,

to go it alone. as they whine and complain about what might end up being a select committee a more partisan process, let me remind everybody that republicans didn't hesitate to have hearing after hearing to investigate hillary clinton under the guise of benghazi, having her testify for 11 hours. so i don't want to hear from republicans when they don't get the bipartisan commission, you know, democrats were willing to give them everything they could have possibly asked for on this for a fair and even process. republicans rejected it, so they're going to have to live with the consequences. >> danielle, let's turn to education. this week alone, republicans in texas introduced a bill to limit the teachings of the state's complicity in slavery and anti-mexico racism. in north carolina, conservative political actors on the state's university board blocked a tenure offer to pulitzer

prize-winning journalist nicole hannah jones. isn't this what conservatives have been complaining about with cancel culture? >> what people have to understand is our k-12 public education system is the foundation for teaching white supremacy. when you look at our history books and how much slavery is talked about or who we decide what leaders are important and who we celebrate, all decided by a panel of people that are in the south. texas is one of the largest manufacturers of textbooks in this country. so this is not just about what they're doing in texas, it's what they're trying to whitewash and do across the country. this is about trying to turn the page or, rather, just rip it completely out of the book about america's past, about slavery, about racial animus, about their anti-mexican rhetoric. these are all of the things that are a part of texas' history, a part of america's history, and,

frankly, we don't want to be educating the next generation in believing in american exceptionalism, which is not true. we want people to know the truth about this country so that we can grow from a better place. and the fact that they are so fearful of what would happen if we taught our children the truth about their history says a lot. they are saying the truth out loud right now, which is that they are ashamed, they are embarrassed, and instead of working through this process with works like the 1619 project, they would rather pretend it doesn't exist. >> speaking of hate, president biden signed the first federal hate crimes legislation in 12 years into law this week, hoping to curb the rise of reported incidents against asian-americans and asians and pacific islanders. this seems like a good first step, but it's notoriously difficult to legislate hatred away. what's next in the fight against

american racism? >> well, you know, it is a landmark legislative signing. it is the first time, i think, in my own life experience that i've seen issues affecting asian-americans become front and center in a way that we've seen in recent months. so i think this is part of a very important first step where we at least have to concede we have a problem here. we need to make sure there are tools and resources to accurately and timely report hate crimes when they happen. law enforcement is so underprepared and undertrained to even deal with hate crimes across the board. this legislation will help narrow that gap and give our public safety officials what they need. it's a signal from the government to say it's important to come forward and report these crimes. so many of these incidents go underreported because there's a lack of trust right now between our citizens and our law enforcement community and our

government institutions. for the better part of a year, we watched the president of the united states, donald trump, openly use racial rhetoric that inflamed tensions that have resulted in people who look like me having a target on our back. just the other day i was literally pulling up to a stoplight and someone pulls up next to me, starts hurling insults at me, threatens to assault me, and speeds away. >> now. >> that's the type of country we have right now. hopefully legislation like this will help us move forward. rev, i want to say thank you because you have been an amazing partner in calling out hate and being an advocate and a champion, not just for asian-americans, but for all communities of color. if we stand together, we have a better chance at doing something about this. >> it's all of us against hate, no matter who it is. you can't fight for hate of those that don't like you if you don't fight for hate against everybody. that's why i stand out there with the asian-american community and every other community. hate is hate is hate.

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and save at trelegy.com. "politicsnation." just as covid has ripped the cover off so many help inequities, a report from "the new york times" this month finds that law enforcement has long been exploiting a genetic trait common to black americans to explain deaths in police custody. among those killed by police who later blamed that death on the victim's sickle cell trait,

george floyd. joining me now, "new york times" investigative reporter jennifer devries, great you have to on tonight. i want to start -- >> thank you so much. >> i want to start with an explanation of what the sickle cell trait is. it's essentially a marker for the disease carried by 1 out of 13 black americans that are objecting to the formally benign. but you found police and medical examiners have been exploiting this tray. can you tell us how? >> yes. thank you for bringing up this sickle cell disease, which is a real problem and can result in painful and dangerous conditions.

sickle cell trait is just where you have one gene for sickle cell. to actually have the disease, you have to have two of these genes. you might be concerned about passing something onto your children, something like that, but it's overwhelmingly benign, unless you're doing military training at a high altitude. there are rare rare case in which having just the single gene can create problems. but this is, again, extremely rare. what is happening in the cases that we reviewed is that when people die in police custody or prison, you know, if they have this trait, it can cause the cells to sickle after death.

sometimes medical examiners or the defense teams for police who are accused in these instances will point to this trait and say that, well, these people would not have died were it not for the sickle cell trait, this has what has caused the problem. >> to be clear, there's no medical basis for that saying just having traits would be the cause of death? it is something they use the try and avoid what may be other causes of death under police custody or in correctional facilities? >> i think that's the concern that we uncovered with our reporting. there are some extremely rare cases where just having the trait can lead to health problems. but the big question is whether -- you know, if you have a health problem, if you have a heart condition, right? and you are put in a choke hold or somebody puts their knee on your neck and you die, medical

examiners told us that should still be a homicide, even if you had an underlying conditions that in rare cases might have created a problem for you. so that is the big question, is whether these should be considered homicides and a lot of them we found were not. they were being labeled natural death, even though the people were tased multiple times or put in a prone restraint that could hinder their breathing or sprayed with pepper spray directly in their face. and i think that's the big question. >> now, your reporting found that since 2015, 15 people have died in custody with sickle cell trait cited as the major factor. in two-thirds of those cases, the person had been restrained or debill tatted by authorities,

but the trait created enough doubt for the prosecutors to pursue prosecution, am i right? >> in a lot of those cases, yes. the genetic trait we found is often used in combination with other health factors or drug use, previous and what happens is the -- the defenders of the police or the police representatives. sometimes, the medical examiners, themselves, will kind of list of all these factors for the person who has died in police custody. and i think it -- you know, it could create a sense that these people may have been, themselves, to blame. >> yeah. >> in these incidents. >> all right. well, i certainly, when i saw your article online and then handed on the front page "the new york times," i wanted to have you on. it was startling because i have heard this over and over, again, dealing in some of these cases. thank you very much, jennifer, for being with us. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate it.

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greene, who is heard saying, i'm scared, i'm scared. and yes, ronald greene was a black man. the twist? it happened two years ago. none of this detail appears in the initial report by the louisiana state police. instead, the investigation office's initial complaint into greene's death says he died on the way to the hospital. and now, we learned that, according to greene's family, police told greene's mother that he died immediately after his car hit a tree, while officers were in pursuit. well, guess what? now, this fatal encounter has reached the public. and now, we are getting the truth. it reminds me of another case. oh, yeah, the phony, initial-police statement after the george-floyd murder, in which the police claimed it was just a medical incident. even though george was completely complying with all the officers' demands.

why are many police units across the country attempting to withhold evidence that will, eventually, come out? is it because it will make them look bad? or guilty of wrongdoing? it's a vicious cycle of brutality, and dishonesty. that, for too long, has robbed victims or their families, to get justice. and justice is why i'm going to minneapolis tomorrow. as president of the national action network, just like i did a year ago, to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of george floyd. for as much as we have achieved in the year since this murder, there's, still, much more to do. and so, i will see you tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern, from downtown minneapolis, for a special-live hour of "politics nation." my colleague, alicia menendez, picks up our news coverage next. g the buick's massaging seat. oohh yeah, that's nice.

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hello, everyone. i'm alicia menendez. we are following breaking news from washington. president biden's effort to legislate on a bipartisan basis. short time ago, republicans dealt a significant blow to those hopes. rejecting the white house's counterproposal on infrastructure. biden offering to slash his american jobs plan, by $500 billion. republicans say, $1.7 trillion is, still, too much. s