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activists have been sounding the alarm live in miami ahead. welcome to tuesday. i am chuck todd. democrats in the senate will hold what they claim is a key vote on the much hyped voting rights bill, known affectionately as s 1. i say it is supposed to be key because i think we are all a little confused how serious democrats are about trying to pass the piece of legislation. passions are running hot on the left over the bill and voting rights issue in general. here's senate leader chuck schumer speaking on the senate floor as he teed up today's vote. >> there's a rot, a rot at the center of the modern republican party. donald trump's big lie spread

like a cancer and threatens to envelope one of the major political parties. even worse, it poisoned our democracy, eroded faith in our elections, which is so detrimental to the future faith people need to have in this democracy. and of course, it became the match that lit a wildfire of republican voter suppression laws sweeping across the country. because of one man's lie, republicans are now doing the dastardly act of taking away voting from millions of americans. millions of americans. making it much harder for them to vote and many, many will not. >> the democrats arguably put themselves in awkward position hitching their wagons this this

legislation. they've known it for two years. forget the 60 votes to overcome filibuster, they may not have 50 votes for the procedural vote. joe manchin hasn't said he would climb aboard. let's say he did and they got 50 votes, doesn't mean they have votes to eliminate the filibuster. if they didn't realize that, kyrsten sinema's op-ed reminded them last night and sealed that idea shut, not to mention this bill won't really address what republicans are doing at the state level anyway. despite all of that, democratic party leaders expended a lot of energy and political capital hyping this impossible to pass piece of legislation. >> we're not giving up. earlier this year, house of representatives passed for the people act to protect our democracy. the senate will take it up later this month and i am going to fight like heck with every tool at my disposal for its passing. >> this reminds me what it must

have felt like at valley forge. everything is at stake. we must win this race, this fight for this bill. >> s1 is going to be a top priority this congress. we will fight and fight and fight to get this done legislatively. failure is not an option. too darn much is at stake. >> party leaders mislead progressives on the bill for years, they never acknowledged it wasn't crafted to pass in the first place, first introduced in 2019 as a messaging bill and statement of democratic party values. now progressives are frustrated not just with republicans but with leaders of their own party, including the president, who say and have been told that this bill must pass. but they haven't put any work into passing it because the leadership has been whispering it is not a bill meant to really pass. case in point, what's on the

white house agenda today? infrastructure talks. not voting rights. peter alexander joins us outside the white house. let me start with you. if this feels as if the democratic leadership in congress has never wanted to admit to progressive activists that the bill was not really designed to pass and then it sort of got a lot of support among progressives, and they've never wanted to say oh, well, wait a minute, and now they're in this box where they have a bill that doesn't have votes, they're set up to disappoint progressives, and haven't created a wedge inside the republican party. >> reporter: they are in a box, democratic leaders, chuck. they feel they need to do something, but there's no path to voting rights legislation, major voting rights that can get to 60 votes. it is not as if they change the

bill can win ten republican votes. it is not going to happen. it can win one or two. if they shrink it down, do the john lewis voting rights act. the only path the bill had which party leaders held out hope for was that they get all 50 democrats on board. it runs into a filibuster, then there's pressure to persuade holdouts to weaken, abolish the filibuster to push it through. that clearly hasn't happened. not only are senator manchin and sinema not supporting, they're digging in deeper as it heads to the 60 vote buzz saw. the path is unclear for democrats. they insist they want to do something but don't have a road to getting 60 votes as long as the filibuster remains. >> sahel, it is not about priorities, do you put a bill up that divides your party or put a bill up that attempts at worse if you can't pass it to divide

the other party. why didn't they lead with the john lewis voting rights act, that historically had bipartisan support. that would have put all of the onus on republicans and would have made the story about republicans filibustering the john lewis voting rights act. strategically this feels like just a whiff of leadership priorities here. >> reporter: i asked this to democratic aides. they say that's not a piece of legislation, hasn't gone to legislative council. won't be ready until fall according to speaker pelosi. hrs 1 was drafted as a messaging bill back when donald trump was president and it has taken on a life of its own since the 2020 election. democrats have cited this piece of legislation as necessary to save democracy. as you point out, hyping it aggressively. now they don't have a path to passing it unless they have a path for the filibuster.

it will be pain for democrats until they figure a way around that box. and in their view, if they believe democracy is at stake, that's a much bigger problem for them too. >> peter alexander, the fact the president met with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema yesterday, was the topics voting rights or infrastructure? >> reporter: i guess they would say it was a little of both. what was striking to me, what we received from a white house official, readout of the conversations was a lot of fond words for joe manchin saying they had a shared commitment on this issue. the president expressing sincere gratitude, sincere appreciation here. the white house is obviously frustrated in this moment, while a lot of focus is on the senators, they say plenty of others are not on board with changes they need for filibuster rules to be changed, voting rights act obviously as a function of that has been unable to go anywhere right now. they dispute the premise frankly that the president isn't doing enough on this.

they say look what we've done to this point. he has spoken out on this with multiple, you used sound bites, using the bully pulpit best he can. administration, department of justice has doubled the staff working on voting rights now. signed an executive order early onto work on protections for voting rights, but obviously none of that changes the fundamental challenge now, their inability to move congress on this issue, chuck. >> you know, i want to put up a tweet from levin, part of a progressive activist group. he put out a tweet. i thought it was a fair point when you look at the priorities of the president. he said this is what legislatively successful presidents do. obama did a live debate with house republicans on the aca. clinton gave 18 speeches on nafta, deputized gore to debate ross perot, george w. bush when they focused on tax cuts, that's all he focused on. look at this. biden does a lot more live

events about infrastructure than he does about this. you look at the two, event wise, what's the priority of the white house. looks like infrastructure. >> reporter: yeah, covid and infrastructure. and obviously this is lagging behind. notably when you press the white house on this as i did earlier to a senior white house official, they made some points i was sharing with you and said, you know, the president tasked his vice president with this issue. even as i was walking out to the camera, now hearing from the vice president's office, defending everything she has done on this, she spoke to chuck schumer about this very issue, voting rights legislation over the weekend, is engaging voting rights advocates, lawmakers, business leaders. she had a meeting with texas legislators last week. when it becomes a moment of pressure on them, in this case obviously as you've seen the white house says the vice president is doing what she canon this thing.

>> capitol hill, white house, thank you for getting us started. bring in a democratic senator, john hickenlooper from colorado. senator, when you were last seen on our show, you were in the back seat of a car trying to do an interview with your senate partner, michael bennet. nice to have you outside the back seat. >> looking forward to doing more car pool karaoke. >> there you go. look, i am intrigued about you the former governor, not you, the current senator. as a former executive how frustrating is it to work on a bill and to be prioritizing something today that you know can't get passed and frankly it looks like this is a classic cart before the horse, sort of leg work isn't done yet, yet you guys are doing it on a vote. i think i understand why progressive activists are frustrated, maybe they don't know the ins and outside of the

legislative deal making, but this thing never had a chance. now they're feeling as if the rug was pulled out from under them. has this been handled well? >> i think what's frustrating is the fact that we can't even debate it. what we're voting on today is not trying to pass sb1, what we are trying to do is bring it to the floor so we can look at how to improve it, and maybe it ends up being john lewis act, voting rights, but tied in with dark money. republicans seem like they want to be sure dark money isn't part of the discussion. why can't we debate it on the floor. that's what frustrates progressives, moderates, many independents, many republicans to be honest. >> so that is a little bit of confusion today. you're voting exactly on what, because joe manchin wants to know whether he is getting a

guarantee. is the bill you're voting on sort of a shell and you'll fill in the gaps later? is that how you view this vote? >> i view the vote, as you know, i'm new to this building. >> i know. >> we are voting to begin debate, to look at how, what this looks like now, how do we improve it, and you know, some of the things are really important, to make sure we have disclosure, when joe manchin talked about trying to find a voting rights bill that would satisfy what is most essential in protecting voting rights. one thing tied into that is getting dark money out of politics, people disclose when corporations are paying for political ads against a candidate, let's make sure that company discloses who is paying for the ad. >> should that be a bill that's part of also how voting works or should you have that as a

separate up or down vote? that sort of thing, is hr1 too big, should you be tackling these piecemeal, one piece at a time? >> again, i think we will have to go back. if you're correct and being the optimist i am, i am still hoping that republicans, we'll get ten republicans to allow us to debate issues on the floor, if that doesn't happen, then we have to go back and start from scratch, and at that point maybe we take the crucial components of voting rights and take them one at a time. the key is, we cannot, we have 34 states where their state legislatures are voting to restrict voting access. that's not good for this country, not good for democracy. >> considering so many state laws are being done as a

partisan act, where it is one party jamming this through, does that make you more comfortable with the idea of having 50 democrats change voting laws federally? >> again, 50 votes, changing laws, we become a pendulum going back and forth. i'm not convinced that's healthy. i am as i said in the beginning, i am intensely frustrated and i think we have to begin looking at alternatives. now that the filibuster is being used strictly to block anything from happening, i don't think that was the original intention, at least my understanding, not the original intention, and we should begin looking at other options if that's what's occurring. >> i am curious what you thought of your colleague, kyrsten sinema's op-ed. my support for retaining the threshold is not based on any

policy, it is based on what's better for the democracy. it compels moderation, protects the country between wild strings between opposing policy pulls. i read this because that's what it sounded like you were saying in effect about your concern of governing by exactly 50 votes like this. i take it you like the filibuster or you prefer it to stay, not go? >> well, again, if we can't get 50 votes just to discuss, then we have to examine alternatives, and what that means, how that might change the filibuster so it is not the same draconian tool. right now, it is a tool used strictly to make sure nothing happens. and when you have 34 states trying to limit access to polls, access for people to be able to vote, you can't stand by when

that's going on. you're creating too much risk for future elections. that's the foundation everything else is built on. whether that becomes a talking filibuster as you mentioned a number of times, that's one of the alternatives. i think certainly there will be a stronger conversation around figuring out an alternative that we can use. >> it sounds like one compromise might be should you be able to allow a filibuster to begin debate? i understand a filibuster to end debate, preventing end of debate, but it seems odd you can't even start a debate. is that something you think the filibuster ought to be nixed for? to begin debates? >> it is something to be examined. to me as someone new to washington, to be able to have one person or the requirement to get to 60 people to obstruct the beginning of even discussing an

issue that a majority thinks is important to begin to discuss, that doesn't seem to make constructive sense now. >> you can't be the world's most deliberative body if afraid to debate. let me ask you about infrastructure talks. you're in the middle of this. it is not lost on me that 8 former governors are involved of the 21 in here. i think the only former governor not really involved is rick scott, and he has his own partisan 2024 focus, which is why he might not be here. how optimistic are you that you guys are going to agree on figuring out how to get rid of the gas tax and keep everybody together? >> you know, again, that's my small business background, all the years. i remained an optimist. i feel that as these discussions go forward, it feels to me like

we are making real progress, and i have a strong belief that republicans and democrats are negotiating in good faith, putting forward solutions that they think move us in constructive direction, and we're getting closer. i think joe manchin and mark warner, kyrsten sinema, rob portman, you go down a list, everyone is coming at it from different ways. i feel there's forward momentum. don't you agree that right now in this country we need to demonstrate that we can come together, work on things in a bipartisan way and solve problems and move forward? we almost have to. look at all of the other things, climate change and getting universal coverage for health care, we're not going to be able to do any of that if we can't get infrastructure done. >> he did markey said yesterday he couldn't support the

bipartisan deal if there wasn't a guarantee that there would be a second bill, that there would be 50 votes to consider that second bill basically on reconciliation grounds. are you confident that the democrats involved here could do that two-step deal, are you confident republicans will stick by you on part one? >> well, i am. i feel pretty comfortable with both those possibilities. i think that democrats are willing to go to a second bill and i think the republicans stick by and what they're negotiate being for as a bipartisan solution, a compromise, is not dependent on whether there is or isn't a second bill. it is focused on getting this part of infrastructure done. >> senator john hickenlooper, democrat from colorado. former governor. good to have you on and share your perspective.

>> thank you. another uncomfortable truth in the fight over the voting rights bill. this doesn't address the threat to democracy as more and more republican supported bills in state legislatures give the power to legislatures. i talk to an election law expert about what the bill should have in it if they want to address that issue. later, as we celebrate pride month, an historic announcement from an active nfl player that became the league's first openly gay player. how the nfl, players, fans are reacting. that's ahead. reacting that's ahead ♪ ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service.

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welcome back. as we said at the top of the show, activists believe the for the people act is the best way to protect democracy. truth is, the sweeping reform bill lacks a solution to what may be the most urgent election issue. many of the state level

republican bills that have potential to subvert the actual election counsels, it created new election powers and changing the administration at the state level. joining me, somebody that's been sounding the alarm, rick hoss. good to talk to you about the issues. let me start with this election law issue. i talked to someone that said you know, getting hr 4 up and running, getting a new voting rights act, could it give the justice department some leverage here to deal with some of the state level laws, but what do you believe is the best avenue to deal with this? >> first, i understand the reason for the reluctance to move the john lewis bill with preclearance quickly because the supreme court said back in 2013 when it last killed part of the voting rights act, you need to establish legislative record that states you're engaged in intentional discrimination, you

have to build that record to make it more bold for the supreme court. you're right. the number one issue needs to be are we going to have an election in 2022 and 2024 where the results, the outcomes, announced totals accurately reflect the voters' will. you had the president calling the secretary of state in georgia, asking him to find 11,784 votes. now the person that stood up to trump has been taken out of the process of being part of the system of counting votes. we need to assure we have transparency, rules in place so we don't have sub version of election results by elected officials or election officials. >> so what's a federal piece of legislation that would address this? >> i think there are a lot of components. a part of hr1 that joe manchin didn't include in the list of things to do, paper trail. it is absolutely essential that

all of our elections are held where there's a piece of paper that can be recounted by court or neutral body. imagine if trump claimed that the election was stolen in georgia, and all there was were old voting machines, you push a button, it tells you the total, there was no piece of paper. it would have been worse. he was able to conduct a hand recount of every piece of paper to prove what the votes were. we need transparency. there have to be rules of chain of custody so people can watch where are the physical ballots, how are they preserved and counted. you also need to fix the electoral count act. that's the law that allows congress to count the electoral votes from each state. that's where we have about 160 republican members of congress who objected to votes from pennsylvania or arizona on no basis whatsoever. we need rules in place so frivolous objections are not entertained. there's a lot of stuff that can

be on the list of the bill which could potentially get bipartisan support that would assure the election results are being announced are accurate and fair. >> you think the way hr1 and s1 is written, should we be tackling this stuff piecemeal? you throw in the dark money situation, on one hand, it is a broad part of our democracy, i understand that, but should we really be splitting off the voting process from the election, sort of the campaign process here? >> well, i wouldn't get over hung up on process. if there were a majority willing to pass the joe manchin compromise that would fix the dark money problem, that would work towards ending partisan gerrymandering, restore preclearance, that would go a long way. the reality is the democrats are divided among themselves. what can the democrats get

through. what is it joe manchin is going to be willing to get behind to potentially ease the filibuster. democrats and republicans agree to tweak the filibuster on issues of nominations, judicial nominations and executive nominations. why not tweak the filibuster on voting rights, one of the most important issues facing the country. whatever it is going to take to get joe manchin to that place is what democrats should do now. i think at the top of the list has to be not stopping voter suppression or campaign finance reform and disclosure which is so important, preventing election sub version, the most important thing on the list now. >> no. i mean, look, the hurdles to voting are terrible, but there are ways to navigate around them. worst case scenario. dark money is terrible, both sides can go this way. if you have unfair umpires, nothing you can do about that. i am curious, any way some laws

that changed will be struck down by the courts under equal protection argument? >> so every state law is different. laws are going to be challenged under state constitutions and voting rights act. one of the things i am waiting for, should come in a week or so, supreme court will be deciding a case from arizona where it will tell us what section two of the voting rights act means when states make it harder to register to vote. that's probably the most important voting decision the supreme court will have made since 2013 when it killed off that part of the voting rights act in the shelby county case. >> well, you tell me, but where do you think that's headed? >> well, it is not clear from oral argument. the justices didn't seem they were ready to junk it. i am hoping we get a compromise between the three liberals on the court, i don't want to call them moderate, but the

kavanaugh, roberts group active on the court, maybe they can come up with something to provide meaningful federal voting rights role to police the egregious state laws. >> i guess we have to call that the institutionalist wing of the conservative court. i am with you. we have to come up with a clearly acting slightly differently than the other three. great to get your perspective and expertise on things. >> thanks so much. coming up, if it is tuesday, somebody is voting somewhere. it is new york city. that mayoral primary is happening now. are they doing it in a whole new way. important election not just who wins but how they win. this one needs a big board explainer. kornacki joins me to ask my questions about rank choice voting. questions about rank choice voting baseball trust t-mobile. because the business of baseball reaches across america, just like t-mobile's 5g.

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using a form of it for federal elections, not on the state level elections in maine for some reason. rank choice voting is gaining in popularity, can be a complicated process. that's why we have kornacki at the big board to break it down for us. bad news for political junkies, we are not going to see this in action for weeks, and i guess that's the first question i have for you. when will this process begin. >> it will begin tonight. folks are going out there, voting at the polls today. they had for the first time an early voting period in new york. all the votes cast early, all votes that are cast today, what they're going to release tonight is the first preference vote for ballots. that's probably going to be 80% of all votes cast. we are going to find out who the first choice for those were tonight. that will leave a big chunk of

votes, mail in ballots that aren't due until next week not touched until next week, so those aren't going to be part of the process. then that process you're describing of the rank choice, instant runoff, multiple rounds of tabulation, stuff that determines the winner, that's not going to begin for another two weeks or so. it might be mid july before you get an official result when it comes to that. >> all right. look, maybe by a miracle, one of the candidates gets 50%, and then they don't have to bother. if nobody gets 50%, walk us through this. i think we have a hypothetical ballot here of let's say you have wiley, stringer, donovan, and garcia and adams. garcia and adams are considered the two potential frontrunners. at what point would garcia's

vote count? >> the hypothetical voter, they walk in today, ballot looks something like this. there are 13 candidates on the democratic primary. fill them out in the order you said. voter says wiley is my top choice, wiley gets the first. donovan my second choice. stringer is my third choice, garcia my fourth choice. adams my fifth choice. the voter fills out the ballot and it looks like this. how does it work in terms of instant runoff once they get going in that. first thing they do is tabulate everybody's first choice. this voter's first choice is wiley. they add them up. whichever candidate comes in last place there gets eliminated. basically let's do this. take the final poll conducted by marist and wnbc, go with who had the least number of votes in that to the most and eliminate candidates in that order. that means the first cut would be this candidate.

that wouldn't effect the voter here. that voter didn't rank him. but anybody that picked him, you would then look who is their second choice. that would be allocated to whoever that is. that's the process. they go through in rounds. the last place in each round is eliminated, votes are reallocated. this is based on a poll we saw. wright would be a second cut, taylor third cut, none of this effecting this hypothetical voter, haven't touched these candidates. shane the next cut. paper boy -- >> that would have gotten my vote. >> hypothetical voters. but bad news for the hypothetical voter. donovan would be the next cut. that's the second choice. that would be out.

wiley is still standing, first choice still standing, but second choice is now out. then you pick it up again. next cut, ray mcguire. he would be next cut. diane morales after that. reallocating, rerunning. scott stringer would be next, third choice for the voter. the race is getting down to a few candidates. next cut would be yang. now you're down to three candidates and that's where it gets interesting. there are three candidates left. wiley, garcia, adams. your vote is still with wiley, but in this round wiley finishes third. she gets eliminated. the first choice is now eliminated. the race down to katherine garcia and eric adams. first choice is out, second choice is out, third choice is out, we land on the fourth choice, it is garcia. in the final runoff, garcia

versus adams, this hypothetical voter ends up voting for garcia over adams. whoever wins that wins the democratic primary. >> well done. i am refreshing to see how paper boy love prince does. forget the rent is too damn high party. give me that. absolutely. good stuff. going to be a fun night and weeks in the making to figure out who won that primary. coming up, the growing problem of disinformation specifically targeting latinos, misinformation on spanish language, social media and radio. they swung some latinos to trump in 2020, particularly miami-dade. then they moved from lies about voting to lies about the virus and the vaccine. that has some potential dire consequences. consequences

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welcome back. the white house conceded they will not get to the goal of vaccinating 70% of americans by fourth of july. they're moving the goalpost. the white house covid briefing, they highlighted the fact that the country has already reached the 70% threshold for those 30 and up. but let's turn to one of the reasons the vaccine efforts are struggling. many latinos in parts of the country like florida are hesitant to get the vaccine. according to the cdc data, under 30% received one dose of the covid vaccine. while some latinos face access issues, it has been disinformation that's emerged as a major player in keeping the numbers so low. nbc news correspondent morgan radford reporting on disinformation surrounding vaccinations in miami, joined by the president and ceo of voter latino. maria teresa alerted us to

disinformation during the election that in many ways had us focus on the issue. morgan, what have you found? >> reporter: i have to say, it has been striking, the numbers, chuck. 29% of latinos across the country according to the cdc have become vaccinated, but the issue is discrepancy between latinos and white counterparts. in miami, only 40% received a dose of covid vaccine, compared to 80% of white counterparts. the issue in miami, chuck, across the state of florida seems to be the politicization of the vaccine and mis and disinformation around that. one woman is waiting on papers. so many rumors made her hesitant to take it and hasn't gotten it yet. listen to what she told me. >> what are the people saying, are they ready for the vaccine?

some said -- wow. you heard rumors that by taking the vaccine, people would turn into zombies? >> uh-huh. >> so people thought by taking vaccines they would have a chip injected. so chuck, in states with heavy latino populations like california, texas, florida, we have seen a 10% increase in recent months of latinos getting the vaccine. here again, a question of the disinformation that's encouraging people or discouraging people as we should say from getting the vaccine right now, chuck. >> maria teresa kumar, this was again an alarm you sounded on the election, and now we're seeing it on covid.

how much overlap do you see? is it the same group of people intentionally creating misinformation? >> one of the things we saw, chuck, was disinformation in florida. behind the heels, disinformation specifically around covid. and beautiful reporting on your part. i have to share with you, i had a conversation with my mother, it was all around what's up. persuadable voters are most susceptible to the disinformation targeting. we are learning it creates a distrust in government. if you don't trust the government to take care of your health, it becomes the most morbid form of voter suppression, because if you don't trust them with your health, why are you trusting them to go out and vote. that's what we are trying to unpack now with the media partnership with the latino

disinformation lab. we find the origins aren't just from the right, they're being lodged from other parts of latin america onto our borders. and it is incredibly complex. the essence is don't get a vaccine, the government is against you, don't participate. take care of your family. basically keep your head down. that's the worst that you can possibly do. we know that latinos sadly are at the forefront of the deaths because of covid. they're still incredibly exposed because they're part of the essential work force at the front line. we need the community healthy but need to take it seriously. a lot of disinformation is spread by facebook and what's app. facebook announced they have a bot in the what's app, call them closed networks, to have these conversations peer to peer. it will take a group effort. one of the things we're finding, for example, young latinos are becoming hesitant. that's because they don't have access to health care in many ways and depend on their elders to talk to them specifically

about the covid vaccine. and that is not a good formula. >> you know, about the only place, the only hispanic community they overperform national in south texas. sadly, it's because of how hard south texas was hit by covid. has that been the only effective way to break through this misinformation barrier, is just firsthand accounts? >> we just came back from the field and we found the person that resonated most with the community was not an actor. it was a woman from the central valley who had known ten people in her life that had died of covid. it is a raw example of what you're saying. it is this life experience of seeing people suffer. we're going to get out of this and we're going to learn that there's going to be so many families that are now missing their mom, their dad.

they are now orphans overnight and they're not just folks that are older. it's very much peer-to-peer conversations, i know someone who passed away, this is why you need to get the covid vaccine. it's not your traditional medical professionals. it's going to have to be people from the community. thank you for doing the segment. there's nothing more important to get the country healthy and the second largest group of americans back to healthy as soon as possible. >> appreciate both of you and the focus on this issue. we'll be right back with a game changer for pride month for the nfl. game changer for pride month for the nfl. don't like surprises? [ watch vibrates ] proactive notifications from fidelity keep you tuned in all day long. so when something happens that could affect your portfolio, you can act quickly. that's decision tech, only from fidelity. cookies and breyers. you can act quickly. that's like getting two desserts!

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w football season is still a couple of months away. 28-year-old carl nassib became the first active player in the league's 101-year history to come out as gay. the nfl veteran announced he was finally comfortable enough to get it off his chest and said he would also donate $100,000 to the trevor project, a nonprofit dedicated to suicide prevention efforts among the lgbtq community. reaction across the league was quick and overwhelmingly positive, a big change since

michael sam came out back in 2014. roger goodell put out a statement saying the nfl family was proud of carl and that representation matters. while stars like the recently retired julian edelman of the patriots tweeted out support. saquon barkley also did it as well. this is one where you have a feeling this is one of those eventually we'll just say, yeah, so what? maybe we've made that step here. we'll see. that does it for us this hour. we are partnering with our friends at the american film institute. watch afi docs starting today. so we'll be back tomorrow but msnbc's coverage continues with jeff bennett right after this break. rage continues with jeff bennett right after this break

♪♪ it's great to be with you. i'm jeff bennett. as we come on the air this hour, congress is just hours away from what a senator called political armageddon. the senate is expected to hold a key test vote on its voting rights bill, a critical piece of the democratic agenda. supporters argue this legislation is an existential necessity for the american voter and the democratic