tell me @ari melber on social media or connect with me at arimelber.com. that does it for me. "the reidout" with joy reid starts now. >> i shall put in a vote for "we shall overcome" which seems like a strong contender. it's not final but that's my contender. have a good day. thank you very much. have a good night. good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" with a five-alarm warning this country somehow missed. four years ago tonight we got our first on-camera glimpse of the fascism right in front of us. on the evening of august 11th, 2017, a horde of young white supremacists, including neo-nazis, right wing militias and members of the ku klux klan descended on charlottesville, virginia, for an event they called unite the right.

they marched with torches chanting "jews will not replace us" as they paraded through the campus of the university of virginia. it was eerily reminiscent of the torch light rallies held at nuremberg during the third reich. the following day they carried confederate flags and symbols of nazi genocide as they vowed to protect the statue of a treasonous confederate general and openly embraced donald trump as one of their own. in fact just months earlier, an organizer of the unite the right shouted hail trump, hail our people, and was greeted with nazi salutes and applause add a pro trump campaign rally. another organizer was a member of the proud boys which would later lead the siege of the u.s. capitol on january 6th. in other words, charlottesville,

four years ago tonight, was a tinder box just waiting to ignite. inevitably, it did. in fact we witnessed some of the violence live on this very network when one of our guests, reverend tracy blackman, was whisked away for her own safety. >> i was invited in to give a speech to that regard. as we were closing down -- i've gotta go, i've gotta go, i've gotta go. >> oh, my goodness, i don't know what is happening here. i don't know what just happened with our guest. we're going to try to find out what happened. she was standing at the location where it looks like now violence has broken out among the crowd. >> while the footage is disturbing, we saw extremists violently clash with those opposing them and ultimately a young woman was murdered when a neo-nazi thug plowed his car into a crowd of those counterprotesters. but at the moment this country most needed some moral clarity from its leaders, donald trump

made it clear that he had no intention and would not take sides against the fascists. >> you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> fine people, he said. it's the exact same way that trump later described the january 6th insurrectionists who attempted to reinstall him as president by force. >> they were peaceful people. these were great people. the crowd was unbelievable, and i mentioned the word love. the love in the air, i've never seen anything like it. >> the love in the air. thanks to trump and his big lie, the brand of extremism that we first saw in charlottesville and then later at the capitol has only gained support. just today trump attacked the police officer who shot insurrectionist ashli babbitt, to defend the lives of the lawmakers that he's sworn to protect. unbelievably the former president is now putting that officer's life in danger,

claiming, quote, we know who he is. this comes as the department of homeland security is sounding the alarm, issuing a rare bulletin to local law enforcement to warn about the potential for more political violence. as a department spokesperson told nbc news, we are currently in a heightened terrorism-related threat environment that's due to unsubstantiated claims of fraud related to the 2020 election and the alleged, quote, reinstatement of former president donald trump, a theory made popular by qanon believers. joining me now is congressman eric swalwell of california, a trump impeachment manager earlier this year, and malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. congressman, i'm going to go to you first because you're in a lawsuit over what happened on january 6th. i don't know if we have footage just to remind people of how similar that looked to the mayhem we saw in charlottesville. but talk a little bit about as an elected official who was

protected by those capitol police officers how you respond to the president of the united states who defended the charlottesville neo-nazis now saying we know who the officer is who shot ashli babbitt and essentially teeing that officer up to be threatened by his supporters. >> that officer's life sadly is in danger. he is a hero, joy. i am alive today and my colleagues are alive because he had to make that fateful decision, one that no officer wants to make but a mob was crashing through the doors into the speaker's lobby. i saw them, i heard the smashing, the pounding, the breaking of glass, the chanting. had they gotten through, it was many of our more vulnerable members who were the last to leave who would have been overrun had that officer not acted so bravely. that officer has been cleared by the department of justice. any time an officer uses their firearm, they should be investigated, and he was cleared most importantly.

and so to want to out this person after being cleared is only intended to put that person's life in danger. and this is just crushing these officers. we've had five deaths by suicide of officers who were at the capitol on january 6th. and to see two versions of the same event being told, to redescribe and reimagine what happened that day, it's such an insult to the brave men and women who defended the capitol. >> malcolm, you seem to be in the business of prognosticaing bad things that later happened and you saw the trump movement as a violent movement. you and i have talked about it, the sort of pretty open fascism of it. a couple of pieces of data for you, malcolm. morning consul did a poll in june where 29% of republicans say that they believe that trump will be reinstated as president, a ludicrous assertion for anyone who had 7th grade civics. a monmouth poll in june showed

63% of republicans believe that joe biden only won during voter fraud. they believed the same about barack obama. an american enterprise institute poll in january showed 39% of republicans say that they believe and they support violence. they support violence if political leaders fail to act, meaning they don't do what they want. 45% of trump voters are unvaccinated and so are holding the rest of us hostage to the pandemic. your thoughts. >> you know, four years ago when charlottesville happened, i recall saying on air that what we were looking at is the cotillion, the coming out party of all the disparate various factions of the conservative right and the youth movement that steve bannon created through the gamer community, all coming together and forming their own wing of what would be arguably a paramilitary support

organization for the trump team. that was the neo-nazis, the ku klux klan, the boogaloo boys, the militias, all of them came together at charlottesville and marched like the nazis at nuremberg and that was purposeful. we thought that that broke up after charlottesville. we thought we had put them down. as i monitored them for those years, you could see that they had gone underground. what was happening was they were congealing. and by the summer of 2020 with the george floyd protest, they had come back together as a paramilitary of the trump campaign unofficially. and in -- after the 2020 election, they have appointed themselves an insurgency. they carried out exactly what i

predicted last november. the first insurrection of what i suspect will be many insurrections. we are dealing with an insurgency in the united states, and they are now organized under the banner of trump. >> my pin tweet on twitter says exactly that, that the republican party, representative swalwell, is harboring that insurgency and it is a white nationalist insurgency, let's just be blunt. it breaks down along the lines of this idea of replacement theory, which malcolm just mentioned. so replacement theory, representative swalwell, here's tucker carlson promoting replacement theory, which is a core white nationalist belief system, on his very popular fox news show. take a listen. >> what's happening at the border is not a crisis. this is an intentional act. this is the administration bringing felons, violent criminals into our country on purpose. why would you do something like that? only to destroy it. it's an act of hostility against

the united states in order to change it forever. the only beneficiaries are the people who run the democratic party and this is an effort to change the country. we should be honest about it. >> of that not on his show, that was on the comfy couch show, the "fox & friends" morning show, but still on that network. you have to work with people who pretty much have that on in their offices all day and think that is mainstream beliefs. you work with these people, congressman. do you feel comfortable and safe working with people who at minimum are willing to live with that kind of fascism and white nationalism in their party? >> no, joy, i don't. and we look at many of our colleagues and believe that had they not been in congress on january 6, they would have been on the other side of the door right next to ashli babbitt. so i'm not working with them, i'm working to replace them from congress. that's the replacement theory that i'm all in for, to make sure they don't come back in 2023. but it's really, joy, these twin

lies that are killing us, literally killing us. the lie that the election was stolen has taken the lives of many police officers, and the lie that vaccines do not work also propagated by tucker carlson, kevin mccarthy and those guys in the republican party. it's killing americans and it's starting to kill our kids. so the two twin lies, to make sure they are held accountable for that, i think that's the pathway to make sure that we keep the majorities in both the house and the senate. >> it's critical -- the democratic party had a lot of issues. i get annoyed with you all a lot. but at least it's a normal political party, right? the republican party, as malcolm has said, is an insurgency and is housing an insurgency. so give me another prognostication. i'm going to take the risk -- scaring is caring, malcolm, so i'll allow you to do this. on august 13 or 14, just a few days from now, the qanon believers, which is now a substantial portion of the republican base, believe that donald trump will be reinstated

as president through some magic that they only understand. when that doesn't happen, then what? >> well, nothing is going to happen here in august. you know, there's a substantial portion of the gun slinging conservatives base that really doesn't support qanon. even though, and i said this a year ago on this program, qanon would take over the republican ideology. and it has. even though they don't allow q shirts at trump rallies and things like that, the belief in the inherent evilness of all democrats and that that's a global cabal that must be destroyed by force of arms, that is now standard throughout the conservative base. so let me prognosticate a little bit more. the republican party -- you know, i used to joke that they were vanilla ices, all of these militia men. they were like isis. they were like al qaeda in the sense that they radicalized

online, they would meet together in secret and they did all of these activities which were very much like a terrorist insurgency. now i think they have shifted. the republican party is more like shin faine and the irish republican army terrorist group who called themselves terrorists. these guys view themselves as this fanciful group of patriotic freedom fighters, the second coming of the sons of liberty. there are many of them who are preparing for civil war right now. all the shame that we tried to give them after january 6, that's gone. there are many of them right now that are ready to fight. we're seeing politicians in the statehouses and the capitol who are actually, you know, pushing them subliminally to fight.

>> by the way, joy, who would want to come to washington in august? that tells you everything you need to know about their judgment. >> there you go. very quickly, a little news for our audience here. we did have some testimony today by a guy named bjay pak who told congressional investigators that his abrupt resignation in january had been prompted by justice department officials warning that trump intended to fire him. why? for refusing to say that the election was fraudulent. so donald trump was actively attempting to overthrow the incoming government. keep that in mind as you think about what we're dealing with on the other side of the aisle from representative eric swalwell. representative swalwell, thank you very much. malcolm nance, thank you very much. on this four-year anniversary of charlottesville, an event joe biden said inspired him to run for president, it's also a reminder that biden chose the third anniversary of that racist outrage, one year ago today, to make history by announcing a black and

asian-american woman, senator kamala harris, would be his running mate. in a tweet today biden called it one of the most important decisions i have ever made. i couldn't ask for a better friend on this journey. and getting outright hostile and threatening violence, as schools reopen. >> we will finding you. >> do not go out in public again. >> that mob going after medical officials after a school board meeting in tennessee. education secretary miguel cardona joins me. plus senator sherrod brown is here over the democrats' biggest priorities. and the republican fettish for locking up their political rivals. "the reidout" continues after this. he rei dout" continues afte this

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into the pandemic, parts of america are essentially back to square one with vaccine rejectors holding americans who did the right thing hostage with their intransjens and with republican politicians denying protection for the newest vulnerable population, our nation's children. across the country and principally in the south, the delta variant that's ravaging communities has hospitals stretched to their limits in florida, georgia, louisiana and arkansas. texas has its fewest icu beds since the pandemic began. the search coincides with the start of the school year in parts of this country. and while california today became the first state to require vaccination or weekly testing for teachers, republican governors ron desantis and greg abbott of texas have doubled down on their ludicrous and dangerous mask mandate bans. but even in states where school boards are empowered to put in masking requirements, things are going south, so to speak. in tennessee, health officials are warning that the current surge is on track to surpass

last year's. a terrifying scene unfolded after the school board in williamson county, an affluent suburb of nashville, voted to require masks in elementary schools. >> we know who you are. we know who you are. you can leave freely, but we will find you and we know who you are. we know who you are. >> you better watch out! you better watch out! >> joining me now, u.s. secretary of education miguel cardona. secretary cardona, thank you for being here. i've got to start by asking we're at the point now where we have to ask how do we keep health professionals and teachers safe if you've got people who are willing to get violent over mask mandates?

>> you know, it's hard enough to reopen schools in the middle of a pandemic. you know, educators have done everything in their power to safely reopen schools and get kids back into the classroom where they learn best. now to have to worry about poor policy or people that are frustrated and threatening educators and health professionals, it's unbelievable. it's truly unbelievable. >> and i don't know if there even is, it's just a genuine question i don't know. is there anything that the federal government, the department of education can do, to provide for the fact that we now have to potentially have security for teachers who want to have their students masked, for school administrators, and also financial security? because in the state of florida, the governor is threatening to dock the pay of people who don't make a lot of money, teachers and administrators, simply because they want to keep kids

alive. can the federal government do anything? >> that's literally adding insult to injury. we have policies that are being implemented now that are not safe for students. so yes, we're working closely with all states, but in particular with florida we're having conversations about what we can do to make sure that, number one, our students have access to safe learning environments, that educators are given the opportunity to do what they do best. let's let our superintendents do their jobs. they know what to do. it's tough enough reopening schools during a pandemic. they shouldn't have to have their salaries threatened or deal with repercussions of making the right decisions. unfortunately, look at the data. look at the data. we are talking about the rates in florida going up. it's dangerous and we want to make sure that our schools are reopened for our students and that parents feel confident sending their children to school. they have been through enough already. >> we have the chairwoman of the broward county school district on the show yesterday. she said she doesn't care if she

does lose her salary, she's going to protect students. miami-dade said we will not switch -- they have put mask mandates in place despite the governor saying that they cannot do it. there's been a lawsuit by parents of kids with disabilities. they are suing ron desantis saying that his ban on mask mandates violates the americans with disabilities act. i mean there are kids, first of all, too young to get vaccinated. >> right. >> and then there are also kids who have pre-existing conditions who could die from covid. and there are screaming, sometimes violent parents saying they want no mask mandates and they want to be able to send unmasked potentially contagious kids to school. to me i have to ask you, do you feel that american public schools at this point are safe with those people out there? >> you know, i have mask fatigue as well, right? but there is no way i wolf comfortable sending my children to school in a place where the

rates are higher and they're growing. we know what's right. while we're all tired of wearing the mask, we want to make sure our children are safe and that they have a chance to learn in the classroom. to the governor there and to the folks making these decisions, don't be the reason why school is interrupted again. i talk to seniors this week who said i just want to have another season. so to them i say don't be the reason why we can't have games, extracurricular activities, and our students can't engage in those experiences because of your poor policies. yes, we can reopen schools safely. we have to keep an eye on the delta variant because if it accelerates due to the community spread, i would hate to think that we have to disrupt learning again for these students. they have been through enough. get out of the way. >> we know that there have been millions of parents who have disenrolled their children or failed to enroll their kids because of fear of covid or the practical implications there. a lot of those have been students of color. i also want to ask you about

what can be done with the already passed covid relief funds. we know that the administration is helping to pay some teachers who are getting docked in places like florida. we know that that may have to happen in other states because texas seems to follow them. what about other things like schools that are physically not ready to bring kids back safely because they don't have adequate heating or cooling, places that are too hot, buildings that don't have enough green space to allow children to play outside. how is the administration handling making sure that schools, particularly in low income and minority communities, are physically ready to bring kids back safely? >> we know the pandemic affected everyone, but it affected some more than others. as you mentioned, in the black and brown communities or the very densely populated communities, it really affected those communities. but the american rescue plan, $130 billion intended to safely reopen schools. i visited a school recently in dekalb county, georgia, that fixed their ventilation system

to have better air flow. so the funding is there, the urgency is there. to those places struggling to do that, we want to work with you. if your intent is to get children back safely into school, we want to work with you. but if your intent is obstacles, we'll have conversations about how to support our educators in those places. at the end of the day, it caters know what to do. lean on the health experts. i don't have a degree in epidemiology and i would argue that the governor doesn't either. so let's let the health experts who know what they're doing make decisions and let our educators education, let our leaders lead. we've got your back, educators. we're going to discuss what ways we can support you better. but at the end of the day as you mentioned, gaps were made worse during the pandemic. i wonder how some of the rights of these students were violated. we're looking into this. >> these kids have rights to, at least they should. it would be nice if both parties cared about them equally. thank you very much. really appreciate you being here this morning.

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on the heels of a massive infrastructure victory, senate democrats have begun work on rec -- reconciliation. they have until september to figure out how to allocate $3.5 trillion for things like climate change, universal pre-k and affordable housing. this bust out the champagne just yet. today west virginia senator joe manchin expressed his serious concerns about the grave consequences facing west

virginians and every american family if congress spends another $3.5 trillion. nancy pelosi isn't interested in his theatrics. on a call she assured her caucus there would be no infrastructure bill without a reconciliation package. her senate counterpart, chuck schumer, says he's optimistic. >> look, there are some in my caucus who may believe it's too much. there are some in my caucus who believe it's too little. i can tell you this, in reconciliation, one, we are going to all come together to get something done. and two, it will have every part of the biden plan in big -- in a big, bold, robust way. >> i'm now joined by someone playing a key role in that reconciliation package, ohio senator sherrod brown, chairman of the banking committee. senator, thank you so much for being here. i've got to tell you, i'm a little tired of talking about joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. when they wanted something, they got together with 20 people, all

white, nobody of color, and there are a couple of folks of color they could have pulled in but they're like we don't want to talk to y'all. we'll just have our friends and make a bill and everyone is expected to support that. but they don't seem committed to supporting the bigger bill, which is the thing that democrats like yourself are fighti they in any way on the bn team at this point? >> well, they voted -- ask them, but the answer is yes. last night in a party line vote, republicans have decided to oppose everything. we know that mitch mcconnell said he wants joe biden to fail the way he said he wanted barack obama to fail. but we moved forward last night. every democrat stayed with us, not just on infrastructure, what you talked about, joy, but also on the budget bill. we will be -- we will be doing as you call it human infrastructure, call it whatever

you want. we'll be doing major investments in housing. we will lengthen the life -- we will extend the child tax credit, the most important thing i think congress has done in a quarter century with possible exception, the affordable care act. we will move forward on all kinds of children's issues and health care and family issues. so we're going to move forward on these, and broadband and other things. i expect we get the 50 democrats onboard as we did last night. when they see what we write in the weeks ahead, the next four weeks, on all of these i think there's going to be great enthusiasm from not just democrats here in the senate but from the country. >> well, the thing is -- first of all, i call it the human infrastructure bill because that's what democrats are calling it. i generally don't understand why democrats name thing. i don't know why you call it the housing, child care and climate

change bill. i will just throw that out there as my little critique of the way the party operates. >> fair enough. >> call the other bill shots and checks, it would have been easier to pass. that's just my opinion. i guess what people i talk with worry about and what i worry about for you guys in terms of your future in the majority is that a lot of regular folks just feel like the fix is already in. that people like kyrsten sinema and joe manchin got the things they want, to do bridges and roads and things, but the things that the base really cares about, voting rights, being able to vote, just access to the vote, things like the police reform bill which seems to be on its deathbed, the bigger picture things like extending the child tax credit and making it permanent and not temporary, that all of that is being thrown under the bus. are people wrong to feel that? >> well, i understand people's concerns when you hear a

statement like the statement that you started at the top of the show or the top of this segment of the show. i have that frustration of course too. but watch what we do. and we are beginning this friday, i'm assembling the other 11 democrats on the banking and housing committee and talking about the $300 billion commitment and investment we're going to do for first-time home buyers to really answer what's happened with jim crow and red lining in neighborhoods around this country, to deal with lead-based paint and lead in pipes in the water going into people's homes, what we do to reach broadband, not just appalachia. and the pandemic showed how people don't have health care, education, jobs. so watch what we do in the next four weeks. i'm committed to discussions and writing this bill. i'm thrilled with what we're

going to be able to do. we're going to get all 50 democrats to hang together. some of them are going to say things. people are always saying things and getting attention. my head is down. we're going to deliver and that's what you hold us to and that's what this show holds us to, so thank you for that. >> well, i appreciate that. i just want to note for the audience that senator schumer, the majority leader, has talked about the reconciliation committee, which it looks a lot more like america. it does have senator warnock, senator merkley, klobuchar, manchin, tester and king. take us behind the scenes just a little bit on the conversations that you guys are having behind the scenes. do progressive members like yourself, who is able to win in a red state, so it's not as if your politics are out of line with your constituents. what kind of conversations do you need to be having or are you having with some of the moderate members who are worried about the cost, the price, the $3.5 trillion? is that going to get shrunk?

>> no. we're going to deliver on what we said we were going to deliver on that budget bill last night, the $3 trillion. i come down to the question i want voters in macon, georgia, in july of 2022 to say, you know, i voted for biden and harris, i voted for warnock and ossoff and my life got better. we know it's going to get better because they're going to keep getting that monthly child tax credit that lifts people out of poverty and helps to answer the anxiety that families feel at the end of the month trying to cobble together their dollars to pay their rent so they're not evicted. they're going t see their lives better because of the infrastructure and because of access to broadroadband. they're going to see their lives better because of access to child care and their wages are going up. elections have consequences. elections mattered last year. i'm not saying people shouldn't

be a bit skeptical, that's fine, and you express that well in an idealistic sort of way, joy, but we're going to deliver on this. that's why i ran. this is by far the best year of my career, the child tax credit, the pensions we got people. what we're going to do on housing. what we've already done on transit. we've invested more already in transit, the biggest increase in american history. 20% of highway dollars are going to transit, the way it should be. that's not just big city transit in cleveland or where i live and where i am right now in columbus, it's also rural areas where people need a transit bus to pick them up at home and take them to their dialysis treatment. all of these things matter in people's lives. it's up to you and all of us to show people who delivered and that every republican voted against the child tax credit, for instance, and every democrat voted for it. hold us to that. >> that is why democrats vote

for democrats because democrats do stuff that actually helps you. but my advice to y'all, make sure your voters can re-elect you. make sure that your voters are able to access the polls. because if they are being blocked out of the polls by the other party and the other party is willing to steal elections, it won't matter because they'll just reverse it. >> and they are. and that's exactly right. thanks, joy. >> indeed. thank you very much. senator sherrod brown, really appreciate you. still ahead, we heard for the first time from the soon-to-be governor of new york, kathy hochul. plus the latest on the covid scandal. we'll be right back. t on the cod scandal. we'll be right back.

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i think it's very clear that the governor and i have not been close, physically or otherwise. i want to stand right here. at the end of my term, whenever it ends, no one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment.

new york lieutenant governor kathy hochul didn't mince words in her first press conference since governor andrew cuomo announced he would be resigning in the next two weeks. she made it clear that no one who did anything unethical in the state attorney general's report would keep their jobs. but when asked if she'd pardon cuomo, she said it's, quote, premature for her to discuss. i'm joined by cornell belcher. all right, my pollster friend, give me your skinny on the politics here. kathy hochul is a moderate conservative pro-nraish kind of democrat. she's sort of a republicany kind of figure. for her politics going forward, do you think a pardon of the governor is something you could see happening? >> well, for her politics going forward, i think a pardon of the governor doesn't help her politics going forward nor does it help the broader politics of democrats in the state.

when you look at the polling around this, marist did a snap poll right after the allegations -- right after the a.g. came out and it showed a strong majority of new yorkers thinking that the governor should resign and if not resign they should impeach him, which is a different question. we usually see the numbers behind impeachment not quite -- you know, further behind than the numbers on resign but this wasn't the case. even among democrats you had a majority who think the governor should resign. joy, the culture around this is changing, and particularly with women voters. there's no more important cohort in the electorate, especially for democrats, than women voters. if you look at where women voters are on this, it would be political suicide i think to pardon the governor. >> and again because she is sort of a right of centerish democrat, i can't see her doing it either. there is all the talk, which

it's unavoidable, about the future governorship, right? the future of the governorship. i believe it ends at the end of this year. she is likely potentially to run, but letitia james' name is out there as well and letitia james, unlike kathy hochul, is not an nraish i was with the republicans on fast and furious democrat. she's gone after the trump organization, the nra, purdue pharma. she has gone after some of the biggest boogiemen on the right and been successful. what would that look like a hochul versus letitia james race in your view? >> i think it would be an interesting primary. and for our viewers, i always wanting to sort of -- people to understanding that primaries are different from general elections and we shouldn't compare them. they're apples to oranges in comparison. what's happening in primaries is fundamentally different. when you look at how progressive james has been, i think -- and

when you look at the makeup of a democratic primary there in new york, very diverse state. it's going to be like primaries we're seeing across the country. and, joy, i think i said this to you going into 2008, whoever wins south carolina is going to be the nominee because african-americans are increasingly flexing their power in the democratic primary. and if you look at both african-american and particularly women of color and look at sort of the large swath of that primary that's coming out of new york city, i think she's going to be hard to beat in a primary. although, again, incumbency has its power. you know as well as i do, joy, it's hard to take out an incumbent. so it is hard to beat an incumbent in a primary unless you're aoc. it's really hard to beat an incumbent in a primary. >> no, you're absolutely right. this is going to be a race to watch. because this is a state where

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texas is in a full-blown coronavirus crisis. cases surging, hospitals are overflowing, and republicans are -- oh, they're fixated on suppressing democratic votes so they can hang on to minority rule apartheid style, and not on saving the lives of their constituents. perfect. yesterday the texas house speaker signed warrants to arrest the 52 democrats who fled the state to stop texas from passing voter suppression bills. here's the house sergeant at arms delivering a warrant to the

office of representative thompson who obviously wasn't there. while many democrats plan to stay in d.c., at least four have returned to texas, meaning the house is just a few votes short of a quorum. the republicans are so focused on reaching a quorum that one of the representatives, infected with coronavirus, has been voting from a quarantine room. so after doing everything that you can, texas republicans, y'all are the absolute worst. joining me now is one of those texan fugitives from the long arm of the law, texas democratic state representative, gina hinajosa. i have to start by asking you, do you fear arrest? >> well, i'm not in texas right now, so i don't currently have that fear. but definitely it is one of the reaches why i'm not in texas. so absolutely the threat of

arrest is why in part we are in washington, d.c. >> can you explain to the rest of the country who thinks it's bizarre that a state has a law that says that if you don't show up for votes, you can be arrested, how is that legal? >> well, we don't think it is legal. and in fact we are utilizing the courts currently to try to block the speaker of the house from exercising these warrants. so we filed a case a few days ago. we got an order that would prohibit -- a temporary restraining order that would prohibit our arrest that was stayed by the republican -- our republican texas supreme court so there will be a hearing on that. meanwhile, we are talking to our lawyers and looking at all legal avenues to protect our freedom. >> you have a covid crisis in your state. your governor is preventing mask mandates. dallas and some other counties are defying it.

that seems to be what the republicans should be concerned about. and yet what they're really fixated on is this bill. they want to ban drive-through voting and 24-hour voting. they want to shrink voting hours. they want to ban distributing mail and ballot applications. they want new voter i.d. they want monthly citizenship checks. enhanced poll watching restrictions. they want to basically make it uncomfortable and very difficult to vote. can you -- is there a way to explain that obsession as anything more than an attempt to hang on to minority rule? texas is a majority/minority state. >> there is no other way, you are exactly right. in fact our unguided attorney general, ken paxton, explained on public radio that but for his successful attempt to block harris county from sending applications to vote by mail to all eligible voters in the county, that's where houston is located, but for his successful

effort there, trump would have lost texas. now we see, you just went through the provisions of the bill that we killed in our last session. now we see that that is in the bill and it would have made it a felony for our county to do that. we know their motives. they say them out loud. they're not even ashamed anymore by their effort to suppress the voice of the people. >> let me play this for you. this is lauren windsor, who's done a lot of these videos where she catches them telling the truth. here she is talking about what you just said. >> pass the bill with harris county, our largest county with houston, they made all these changes to the election code. >> they're going to lose seats, they're not going to gain seats next time. they're not going to take over, they're going to erode. we're going to make sure we come back with more republicans. >> i'm in a real red district.

but i don't want to get primaried. >> do you think that average texan voters know this and understand what republicans are up to? >> i think they do now. that's why we broke quorum and left the state. it made our constituents, it made americans stop and pay attention and ask why are these texas lawmakers leaving the state? why do they have to leave the state? what's going on. we're all awake now to how fragile this democracy is. after january 6th when they could not take control of our government by brute physical force, they are now going state by state to accomplish what they did not there. they are trying to hold on to power at all costs. they are trying to silence the will of the majority of voters. and that's what we stood up, walked out to stop.

we stood up, walked out to protect the freedom to vote. and now for a month, we've been in d.c. urging congress, urging the president to prioritize this issue and to pass federal voting rights legislation before it's too late. we can only hold the line so long in texas. we're the minority party. and we need congress to act now. >> well, thank you for all that you've done, texas state democrats are showing us how it's done. thank you, texas state representative gina hinojosa. that's tonight's "reidout." "all in" starts now. >> tonight on "all in" -- >> donald trump's pattern has been to use acolytes and sick fants whether in the white house or in the congress. >> the widening investigation into trump's effort to subvert democracy and the role his chief of staff played in it. >> mark meadows, ev