it is good to be with you. i'm geoff bennett and as we come on the air, there is major breaking news from state of texas. my colleague jane tim reporting that democrats in the texas legislature are planning to leave the state in a last-ditch effort to stop republicans there from passing new voting restrictions. at least 58 statehouse democrats are involved in the plan to fly here to washington and paralyze the chamber in texas. stopping business until the lawmakers return to town or the special session ends. it is similar to the tactic that

texas democrats used to block a redistricting proposal in 2003, but the latest move is not without risk as jane reports the lawmakers could be arrested. she writes this. under the texas legislature, the quorum of 2/3 is required for the legislature to conduct business and they could be compelled to report to capitol and they could be tracked down. the white house press secretary a short time ago teeing up the speech by calling the republican push for voting restrictions across the country, the worst challenge to democracy since the civil war. and with that, we will bring in our guests, priscilla thompson in texas, and the digital reporter the aforementioned jane tim, and playbook political

reporter eugene daniel. and priscilla on the ground, as i understand it, you have the lawmakers in the airport in austin ready to board planes ready to come here to washington. >> yeah, and that is exactly right. we began hearing the murmurings of this picking up yesterday and i was in the car with a lawmaker headed to the airport to board her flight to washington, d.c., and what she told me after seeing what happened after the public hearings over the weekend when hundreds of people showed up to voice their concerns about these voting bills and the republicans passed those bills out of committee on a party line vote without amendments it was clear that they were not concerned with working with democrats to reach a common ground here, and the democrats felt they had no other choice but to move forward with this option. and so now, many of folk, and some of them are on the way to washington, d.c., and others are

going to be heading there in a little while, but we know that the plan is to speak with the lawmakers about federal voting rights legislation, and the lawmakers that i was in the car with, the state representative mentioned that she wants to especially have these conversations with senators manchin and senama, and there are no plans to speak with the president, but the representatives from texas will be watching his address tomorrow very closely to hear what exactly he has to say about this issue. >> yeah, and we are going to be talking a little bit more about that. so, jane, help us to fill in the gaps here. these folks get to washington, and then what? they are taking two private charters and who is funding these private flights? >> it is not clear who has, but we know that the democrats in the past have worked with advocates in washington to sort of being messengers of this voting rights battle that many

of the advocates are funding with quite a lot of money, and one thing that is important is that we know that they are doing it today because the house is adjourned and the reason that they can actually get arrested for the the legendary texas rangers or other law enforcement to go after them, the house has to convene and vote based on my read of the texas constitution, and compel them back, which is why they are going today is while the legislature is adjourned and there, there is going to be a push that they think that they can be a national symbol for the fight for voting rights, because texas is one of the 22 different states, and they are ones making the headlines and they are going to be taking advantage of it. >> so then they go there and come back and governor abbott calls a special session, and they leave again, and is that the strategy? >> well, that is what happened the last time in 2003, and the bills were called house bill-3 back in 20003 as the house bills

here now, and the last time, they called a special session, and the democrats fled again and they called another special, and the redistrict thing they were fighting for in 2003 when they last did the thing they were fighting for, it eventually pass and the governor can call as many as he wants and he has promised to call another one for redistricting again. and it is a temporary focus of why this is so focused on voting rights legislation again. sorry. >> and eugene, the white house press briefing wrapped up and what is the white house word on this, because this is a backdrop, and one that even president biden did not expect for the speech tomorrow which is going to be there in philly as he is giving the speech on voting rights. >> no, absolutely not as dramatic as they thought that it was going to be at the white house, and they like to tend to make these things quieter. president biden, when he met with civil rights leaders and him and the vice president last week, they talked about the voting rights and talked about what they would do, and he is

doing the speech, but we all know that federal legislation is not going to happen unless there is some kind of the filibuster reform, and this is what the questions from the white house, and the questions to the white house have been about. are they looking at the ways to do voting rights through the reconciliation, which is something that civil rights leaders brought to the white house last week when they were there, and when the texas democrats came and met with the vice president a few weeks ago, i was there talking to them, and the thing they told us is that they were going to continue to do whatever they can. you know, as they said in 2003, they have done it before, and so they have a repertoire of the things that they can do and things that work, but they want to be a symbol, and they want to bring to the forefront, because basically all they can do, right, is to continue to push, and continue to be very public, and get a lot of attention, and when you are talking to the voting rights advocates in the white house, and local and state

legislatures, and what they are telling you is that what they can do is to get a ground swell of reports of voting rights, and so that is where they are at, and the drama around the president's speeches is something that the white house is going to have to contend with or they didn't think they would have to contend with. >> and eugene, it is interesting, because the legislative system in texas is vastly different than the system in d.c., and you have democrats in the national level, and democratic voters who are looking at the democratic messages who say they have a lot the fight, and a lot and the democrats of the national level can learn from that? >> absolutely. any time you are talking to the advocates on the left, they say that the democrats don't fight enough for anybody, and that is what we ask them, what is next? how do you counter balance and counter act these things that are happening especially when -- it is interesting, because the democrats own d.c., and that i

have the chambers of government, and they have still not even though they have the keys as advocates to put the pedal to the metal, and you have people like joe manchin and krysten sinema and there is a cadre of the democrats who are not as willing to go as far as the left-leaning democrats might be willing to go, and that is what they are doing is to push them to be more aggressive. >> eugene daniels thank you, and jane timms and priscilla thompson, thank you. and at this hour, president biden is holding a summit to stem the gun violence across the country. he along with the attorney general merrick garland is gathering police chiefs from newark to d.c. to san jose, and the gun crime rates are not only up after the covid, but well

above 2019 and before that. the president has called on congress to close background loophole, and he wants to restrict assault weapons, and repeal the gun manufacturers' immunity from lawsuit, but the sweeping gun reform seems to be going nowhere and that is coming just after four were arrested a block from the site of the major league baseball all-star game. the officials say no connection at this point of terrorism or active threat to the game. with that, we bring in my colleague shannon pettypiece, and also in los angeles, erin mclaughlin, and so we heard from the president at the top of the meeting, and what did he have to say? >> well, he is trying to get the message to the local leaders and the law enforcement leaders and

community leaders for two things, to use some of the $350 billion for state and local governments in the covid relief plan to use it for hiring police officers and implementing some of the community programs that the administration says are proven to work. he is also trying to do a little bit of the optics messaging here. this white house is no stranger to the optic, and to send the signs and the signals to the people that this is a issue that president is aware of, and trying to counter message that we have been hearing for over a year from the republicans that democrats are not interested in crime and anti-police, and that is something that we are continuing to hear from the white house. >> and shannon, how is the white house tackling this need to crackdown on gun violence with also a need to make sure that communities are policed adequately, safely, and also responsibly? >> well, right. the white house has made no secret they are a big advocate and supporter of the police

reform bill that does appear to be stuck in the senate. it is unclear if that logjam will be broken now that the senators are back in washington. they are an advocate of that, and along with calling for the local departments to add more police officers, they are encouraging a lot of the community programs that advocates are calling for the help formerly incarcerated people to come into society for summer programs with kids and the direction, and keep them from getting into the trouble. and so they hiring more reform programs than funding more police departments. >> so there is no active threat to the game, but it was a chilling discovery in colorado,

and not too far from the las vegas incident. so what are you hearing? >> three of the four suspects appearing in court, and the fourth appearing over the weekend and three of them charged with weapons and drug-related offenses, and the bail is set for $50,000 cash only by the judge, and the alleged leader with his bail set for $75,000 cash only and he said in court today that he has been a government employee for some 16 years, and according to prosecution, inside of two separate hotel rooms in the maven hotel in downtown denver, numerous drugs and ecstasy and amphetamines and heroin and cash found by the hotel employee who call the tip in to police, and one eyewitness described the scene when the police arrive and

take a listen. >> a dozen police vehicles including a truck diagonal across the road so nobody could get through, and a number of ambulances and gurneys out as if they were preparing for something. but, it was lots of officers with large guns. >> reporter: now the arrests were made on friday just days away and a block away from where tomorrow's all-star game will be held, although the fbi saying that at this point, there is no link between this arrests and the game and the terrorism, but the investigation is ongoing. geoff. >> erin mclaughlin and shannon pennypiece, thank you. >> and now, heat in the west, and heavy flooding in the east. we are going to talk about the extreme weather from coast to coast, and how climate change is make it worse. the latest out of haiti where the police say they have arrested the mastermind behind

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western united states. multiple wildfires across six states are burning quickly and fueled by the relentless heat. the so-called bootleg fire in oregon is the latest of them all with almost 150,000 acre burning out of control. look at that. the recent record high temperatures left hundreds dead in the pacific northwest. an entire town burned to the ground in british columbia, and this is due to the impact of climate change according to the analysis of an international team of climate scientists. they wrote that the extreme heat would be virtually impossible without human-caused climate change. joining us is the governor of washington state jay inslee, and thank you for joining us, governor. >> you, too. >> and you have been wondering about the causes of climate change for years, and decades actually, and you wrote a book about it in 1987. and how are washingtonians dealing with it?

>> well, the reality is that we should not hide from it, but face it. the reality is that we have a permanent emergency in my state, and the western united states, and indeed the whole nation. because of climate change, this is a reality that we are experiencing. when you ask, how are we feeling it? the thing that is most impressive to me in the last two weeks is that we are feeling it in virtually everything in our lives. >> mm-mmm. >> today, we are getting ready to teach our kids to stay inside because of the smoke from the forest fires. we have lost billions of shellfish, and the oyster industry lost a majority of the crop rotting on the beaches, and the glaciers are melting around and the highways, the highways have buckled because of the heat. today, one of the major northeast corridors is closed, because of the forest fire over the northern cascades. so the point about climate change is that, you know, you can run, but you cannot hide.

it will find you in one aspect your life, and this is demanding a robust clean economy. i have just opened up a ground-breaking electric bus manufacturing plant in washington. and we have a reconciliation package because of the leadership of joe biden, so it is time to act right now. >> well, let me ask you this, because the spike in temperatures is creating a tough environment for farm workers after the laborers of which there are many in your state, and lots of people without easy access to air conditioning for washington state, because for generations they have not needed it, and is there a climate-friendly short-term solution to that? i mean, if you give people more air conditioning, that is not good for the environment, and it is drawing on the electric grid. >> well, look, we know that we are going to have to do things to save ourselves in the short-term to adapt to this changing climate. that includes additional cooling stations.

we opened up a whole bunch of cooling stations for the folk, and including the homeless folks. we will build more air conditioning units when you are doing building in washington state, because of the changing heat structure, and we are will have to change the public water infrastructure to deal with the sea level rise, and we will have to do all of these things, but you can't, you can't replace the fundamental infrastructure of our biological system. we have to eat. we have to have crops. the crops are threatened right now, and the vineyards and the wheatfields, and we lost a bunch of the berry crops, and people have to eat, so air conditioners is not the solution. and so we have to find out what is driving this climate change, and the good thing is that we can do this and we are building new industries everyday and putting people to work everyday and in electric cars and buses, and in wind turbine, and wind

efficiency and rebuilding the homes and this is the type of the work that is going rebuild the economy at the same time that it saves us, but we have to look at adapting to this is just like trying to wind world two by building more bomb shelters, and we have to move forward. we have to protect the farm workers and the people who are working outside. we had one loss in oregon of an agriculture worker who is feeding us. that work is incredibly hard, and we have adopted new rules both in washington and oregon to protect the agricultural workers, but it is not enough. we have to stop the horrific heating that is making it dangerous the work outside. >> well, let's talk a little bit more about the solution, because you recently passed as i understand it a cap and investment program to give the companies the incentives to cut the carbon emission, and how might that be a model nationally? >> well, we are very proud of what we have done.

we have passed two bills in the last session. one in cap and invest bill to put a limitation economy-wide on the amount of the carbon pollution going into the atmosphere. and essentially a surcharge for companies to make sure that you comply with the obligation. it is also a good bill, because it has a lot of the environmental justice built into it. we know who are the first and the worst hit by this. it is the people in poverty, and the people who have to work outside. so we have embedded environmental justice to bring more equity to this effort while we are fighting climate change. we have adopted a clean fuel standard to give the consumers cleaner fuels with less carbon pollution. over time, we know it is going to work. it has worked in california and other places in the world 106789 we now, it is safe to say have the most robust and comprehensive and more importantly, the fairest approach to tackling the climate crisis, but it has to be all

hands on deck. if we are going to solve this problem. fortunately, we have the tools to do it, and we know thou do it, and we know that it grows the economy while we do it. you mentioned the book that i wrote that the book was basically how to build a clean energy economy, and the things that i suggested that we could do, we are now doing it. we are putting the people to work making the electric cars and wind turbine, and building more energy efficient buildings and all of the things they thought that were going to be happening in 2007, they are coming to pass and a good news story here, and we have to use the tools, but the laws to require it. >> yes, i read that book back in the day and you were prescient. >> well, i was sure that somebody did. >> governor jay inslee, thank you for your time. you have been leading the charge against climate change for some time. and great to speak with you. >> be well. >> you, too. and coming up british billionaire richard branson is leading the race to space, but

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to refrain from violence after thousands of cubans took to the streets sunday in an incredibly rare public demonstration. people there are outraged over the country's coronavirus response and shortages of food and medicine. this morning, the cuban president said that the country's army would confront protesters, and he blamed the u.s. embargo for the shortge as. joining us now is havana freelance journalist, and also our msnbc journalist ed armandi, and so, ed, describe what you are seeing and hearing on the ground there? >> i have been here for eight years reporting, and i have never seen protests here in havana, and across the country, thousands of people out. in one protest in havana, people were ripping up the paving slabs, and throwing them at the

police officers, and the police responded with the pepper spray and batons. one policeman was hit in the face with a paving slab, and whisked away by his colleagues. so violent protests in some part, but in others they were peaceful in character, but what is amazing is the scale of it. and also, what to be say is that as the day continued, the army came out, and the police came out, and the army who supports government to come ut on the street, and they did come out, and later on in the evening and the day, that was the government. so we have seen a face-off of those who support the government, and those who do not in havana yesterday. >> and fernand, the images we are watching right now, these are protests on a scale and size that we have not seen in decades, and one thing that strikes me is that for

generations, there is not a castro in power. >> geoff, that is exactly right. i don't think that we can underscore enough the unprecedented images as you said, and ed has commented on the firsthand witnessing on the ground. these are protests 60 years in the making, and even images that 12 u.s. presidents have been waiting to see happen that the population of cuba finally rises up and says no more, no mas to the dictatorship, and the regime that has oppressed the people. and to your question, what has caused this moment? you cannot discount that there is no castro on the scene leading the scene, and president diaz does not clearly have the influence or the intimidation factor that the castro brothers, themselves, as they ruled with the iron fist over the last 62 years showed. that coupled with the movement of artists on the island and the

san sidro group have captured this notion of a counter point to the castro revolutionary theme which is "fatherland or death" and they are saying, no, "fatherland and life." that has animated and created a sense of the younger generation of the cubans who have seen their opportunities squandered now, and another manifestation of the regime's inability to manage this pandemic, and calling for change, and that is why you can see president biden and the administration aligning with the people against the regime. >> i will ask you more about that in a moment, but, ed, how is covid complicating things down there. cuba as far as the region goes, it had one of the best health care system, and yet the covid response is horrible to put a fine point on it. why is that? >> cuba is going through the unprecedented peak at the moment

in terms of the covid infection, and in the city and we are seeing thousands of infection rates per day, but this is contrasting greatly with how cuba dealt with the covid last year. and last year, and actually since the crisis hit cuba last march. cuba has had one of the lowest covid rates in latin america, and the highest doctor/patient ratio in the world, and the only latin america country to come up with its own covid vaccines. cuban scientists that vi spoken to have said that the u.s. sanctions on cuba which were tightened by the trumm administration, and yet to be slackened by the biden administration have slowed down the vaccine production, and so the country is going through a peak, and living through very, very difficult time, and in some parts of the country, it may be

that the health care system is near collapse, but putting it in perspective, cuba compared to other latin american countries may have a pandemic, but this peak coming at the moment is a perfect storm and contributed to the mass feelings of frustration and anger that we are seeing on the screens now. >> and for now, president biden says that we stand with the cuban people, and what must that support look like to be beneficial? >> geoff, the president of the united states again continues to be the leader of the free world, so president biden has a choice to make now. is he willing to invest his presidential capital to rally the community of nations around this unprecedented moment in cuba where for first time in 62 years, the people, themselves, on the island, and the long suffering population are saying no more to the dictatorship, and this is a call for freedom, and democracy. the very nature of the elements that biden, himself, from the

summit in europe set a priority for him. and he has a choice to make now, and the eyes of the world are on him, and if the choice is made to align himself with the cuban people, and by speaking a coalition as the world is watching now, and the next move is over the next week or so. >> fernando, thank you, and ed augustin, thank you for the on the ground reporting there. we are also following another big story in the region, the investigation of the assassination to the president of haiti. a third person has been arrested and he is a florida man who played a key role in this organizing the attack. earlier president biden said that the people of haiti deserve peace and security, and he has dispatched a group to the country, but the high minister says it is not enough, and the interim president is pleading

for help to fill the vacuum. and so, jacqueline is joining us from "the miami herald." what do we know? >> he has ties to florida, south florida to be particular, and he has been a doctor, a pastor, and at the miami herald where we have done an investigation on him, we have not found any license for the state of florida. we have seen that he has bankruptcy, and over 400,000 of debt, and that is raising the question how somebody this much in debt is able to finance thes a sas nay oigs of the president moises. >> yes, and questions how they got to the president. what is the report of how this brazen assassination took place? >> well, we are still trying to

get the answers, and the authorities are as well, and so is an interpol investigation. and now they said that these individuals, 16 of them were in custody and recruited by this doctor who recruited a company called ctu which is out of the miami area, and the idea was to provide protection around the mission, and at some point the mission changed and to provide protection around this president. but then they got several individuals who were told that the mission was not to kill him, but to arrest him and take him to the pal lance, and put in a certain as a transitional person. >> and the interim prime minister wants troops there to keep the order, but the u.s. says it is not in the best interest to do that now. you on the ground in haiti, and

how volatile is the situation there? >> i will tell you that before the assassination was happening, this is a area dealing with a huge surge of people coming in. this is just several years after the peacekeepers have left, and there is a huge concern about the peace amid the elections. many people here have felt violate and you are slowly seeing the life coming back, but today, there is tension of whether or not the gangs are going to take back to the streets. there were burning tires, and at the southern end of the country, the southern corridor is very much cut off, so we are waiting to see if there is a vacuum, because the president is now dead, and we have three people vying to take care of this country, and despite of the delegation, we don't seem to be much closer to figuring out who is in charge of haiti in the

coming days. >> jacqueline charles has been immaculate reporting from the beginning. thank you. >> after 20 days, army commander scott charles officially stepped down in afghanistan, and at a ceremony general miller handed over control to his boss central command general frank mckenzie. miller said that the afghan people will be in his heart and mind for the rest of his life. the full withdrawal is scheduled to be complete by the end of august according to president biden, and more than 90% of the u.s. troops and equipment are out of afghanistan. all right. still ahead, richard branson wins race to space, and what that successful mission could mean for the future of space tourism. and inside "the ugly truth"

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three, two, one, release, release, release. and that is a full duration burn, folks, and we are headed to space. >> billionaire richard branson made history yesterday when he and his crew marked a new era in space exploration, and he and the five crew members from his company virgin galacta launched above earth in a small rocket plane to clear the way for space tourists to take flight. he told my colleague tom costello in an exclusive interview after the trip that for him, it was a dream come true. >> sir richard, congratulations. >> hello. >> how are you? >> i will come down with a bump soon. >> did it live up to your

expectations and your hopes? >> i have always dreamt about what it would be like to be in space looking back at this incredible -- and it is impossible to describe just how magnificent it is. >> and enjoining us now is nbc's cal perry who is in new mexico and current astronaut and adviser at the intrepid museum, and so he pulled it off and when could tourists actually start paying for flights like this? >> well, look it, vi spent the weekend appearing with the astronauts like mossimino who is going to tell you that it is insane for him to launch himself to a rocket to go vertical 53 1/2 miles above earth, but this is a lifelong dream for richard branson who has spent his life taking chances and like a modern

day howard hughes, and has sometimes pulled the wrong cord, but he has currently ridden on this sort of rolled this out on a ride that is $300,000 each, and this is a publicity action and he has succeeded in getting out the word of virgin galactic and opening up a new era of tourism, geoff. >> any scientific value or just about tourism dollars eventually? >> well, geoff, thank you for having me, and i don't think that i have to say that any space ride is normal, and every one is extraordinary. but i think that there is more to it than just tourism, and certainly, some people want to go to experience it to look out the window, to look at the window, and experience some weightlessness, but there is a scientific component to it where

they have flown with experiments on board, and some of my students from columbia have put them and the blue origin vehicle similar to what jeff bezos is going to be on next week and so there is exploration that can be done and tourism, so it is more than just tourism for sure. >> and you mentioned the jeff bezos flight set for next tuesday and what should we expect there and how different from what richard branson did? >> well, what you saw with richard branson's model with the company and what they are doing is taking off from a runway with the mother ship being drop and going into space and then landing back on the runway, jeff bezos going to do a little bit more traditionally with the rocket and the name is "new shepherd" named after allen shepherd and go out with the suborbital and then blast off and come back and advantages and

disadvantages to each, but what is cool they are different and offer different experiences, and different ways to experience space travel. >> our thanks to the both of you, mike massimino and cal perry. new news coming in about the johnson & johnson covid vaccine, and health officials are saying they are monitoring an extremely side effect found in about 100 people who have gotten the shot which is a neurological condition called the gillain-barre disease in some people. the chance of getting this is very rare, and this has not been found with the pfizer and moderna vaccines which were made

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tell you? >> well, jeff, you know, the book really depicts an an going tension in the history of facebook. it covers the years between the 2016 election and the 2020 election. and that tension was between what was good for people and society and what was good for the bottom line. one of the two authors describes specifically what it was about trump that challenged that tension specifically. >> he asked the vuzors to give something he can to trump. that is data that showed that trump had the highest engagement of any other politician in the world. the accounts in this book are

cherry picked. the facts are cherry picked and somehow the authors are speaking to disgruntled individuals, never mind they spoke with over 400 employees of the company, current and former according to the authors. but it's that on going tension, the sense that something that was built to be a sort of one size fits all neutral algorithmic thing that was challenged all over the world by geo politics, all sorts of misinformation and especially by president trump is really the theme here. he met with world leaders all over. and that meeting with president trump was like any other. but certainly president trump was according to the book the absolutely toughest challenge that faced what was otherwise this ethos of everyone should open up as much as possible.

all of that seems to have gone wrong with president trump according to this book, jeff. >> and this all led up to tleent the recent decision to us is spent donald trump. how does that factor into the reporting? >> well, it's really fascinating to see according to the accounts in the book. the president's actions just testing the leadership over and over again. at one point a senior executive is quoted as saying that we knew that misinformation might come out about covid-19. i'm paraphrasing but we never thought it would come from the president of the united states. yet at the same time, he was the center of national attention on this networking so many others. as a result, facebook wanted to make sure they were part of the attention as well according to the authors to see that tension building. then finally get to a place where after the january 6th speech and the speech that came right afterwards, they imposed this go year ban. but that now only kicks the can down the road to 2024.

he will be in theory possibly back on the platform in time for the next election cycle. that is more of a pattern, the authors say, of kicking the can away that is facilitating thngs all over the world and creation tension for facebook that they're not clear how they will solve it. >> jacob, great report thing. and lastly, if you think video games are expensive to play, try not playing them. an unopened copy of super mario 64 from 1996 sold for get this, $1.5 million at a dallas auction house. it broke the record for the highest price ever paid for a single video game. days before an unopened copy of nun tend yoe's the legend of zelda sold for $870,000. i had my brother's old atarry system at home. i wonder if that is worth anything. probably not. that's it for me today. ayman mohyeldin picks up the coverage coming up next. ay ayman mohyeldin picks up the coverage coming up next. ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪

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