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capitol hill. and by that i'm referring to the so-called justice for j6 rally where hundreds of protesters advocated without irony that the thugs who desecrated our national state house in the world's view should not face their deserved prosecution for attacking police officers or destroying the definition of public property. because they were victims then and now, political prisoners. as always, we have a lot of news to cover tonight, but i need you to know why today's rally disgusted me to no end. in the last decades where we've marched and protested, just take the last few years when we protested, whether it was around george floyd's murder last year in minneapolis or michael

brown's killing by a policeman in ferguson, missouri, and some were out looting and destroying protocol. we denounced it. we never protested that they were prosecuted for looting or destroying property or somehow political prisoners. we said that is not what we're about. if we had -- imagine if national action network, my group, or black lives matter or naacp had called for rallies to defend those that burned stalls in minneapolis last year and we had a rally calling them political prisoners, we would have been totally castigated and rightfully so, and that's what we saw today. the takeaway from that story today should not be that, yes, they didn't have a lot of violence, just a few arrests, and yes, the numbers were embarrassing, the takeaway is

they were there defending insurrectionist, violent people who caused the death of five people, that capitol police were injured. they were calling for the death of the sitting vice president of their party and the speaker of the house. that's the takeaway and for those people to rally around them like they were worthy of some political prisoner status is disgusting for those of us that just three weeks ago we brought 50,000 and not one utter ransom of violence and not one support of it. we got another big show as the justice department prepares to go all in on texas over abortion and voting rights and the continued inequities around covid-19 vaccination and mask mandates were brought to the forefront this week, not by politics, but pop culture. all that tonight on

"politicsnation." but first, joining me now is congressman troy carter, democrat of louisiana. congressman carter, first of all, our thanks for joining us tonight. watching that so-called justice for j6 rally today, would you agree that the response from law enforcement, conservative media, and even some of your republican colleagues in congress would be vastly different if it was instead of an overwhelmingly white trump supporters and right wingers that was a civil rights group or black lives matter or national action network out there earlier today advocating on behalf of black extremists who showed up with the gallows and stormed the united states capitol, desecrated its offices, and threatened republican lawmakers, including the republican vice president with badly harm, even death, what do

you think? >> i just we know the answer to that. we would have a massacre. we would have blood shed, the kind of atrocities that would have given us memories of the past where there were mass beatings of african-americans when we were fighting for civil rights, where there was nonviolence, but we were met with violence and bloodshed. it's amazing that the level of violence that came from the insurrectionists were met with such kid gloves. >> let me go to this, congressman. i sat down with senate majority leader chuck schumer this week along with martin luther king and his wife, mrs. andrea waters king. as president of the national action network, i was there and i pressed to keep police reforms prioritized in congress, specifically those contained in the george floyd justice in policing act. we also talked about voting

rights, but we focused on this policing act, which was stalled in the senate since passing the house in june. now, according to grio.com, senator manchin and tim scot will meet next week to discuss, while president biden is leaning on manchin and senator kyrsten sinema to abandon the filibuster so this bill, along with voting rights protections, can pass without any republican support. can you explain to our audience the political strategy and the urgency behind all of this sudden activity? >> reverend sharpton, the reality is we can't afford to wait. we can't wait for the gamesman ship deny justice any further. so using whatever resources we can, manipulating the process to

make things work to advance issues that are important such as the george floyd policing act, making sure that filibuster doesn't get in the way, we know how important this is, and this is important to our entire society. so people have to lean on their members of congress, black, white, republican, or democrat, to understand the significance of letting justice find its place through this process. >> now, let's go to your home state. congressman, right there where you are where for months and you and other state democrats have been calling on the justice department to investigate the disproportionate use of force and the detention against black residents by the louisiana state police, often with body cam footage that is long withheld from public view, whether it's ronald green's death in custody two years ago, the justice department now investigating whether the state police covered

for the officers involved in green's arrest. and then last month we saw footage of another encounter that occurred just three weeks after green's death in which motorist aaron larry bowman was beaten 18 times with a police flashlight, despite being heard repeating, quote, i'm not resisting, i'm not resisting. in the graphic body camera footage that was only recently obtained by the associated press. i learned from the ap's investigation that nearly 70% of state police arrests are of black people. what is going on in louisiana, congressman? >> i think this department has a pattern, a culture of abuse. listen, all of the men and women are not bad, but we certainly have a culture of abuse that has

been allowed to fester, and now it's time we take the necessary steps to remove the investigation from the hands of the very people who are violating. i asked the attorney general for an investigation to determine and evaluate those practices that we have seen all too often in louisiana where people's civil rights have been abused, where we've seen cover-ups that we continue to see each day, each month, a little bit more that demonstrates that this pattern and this culture is real, and we have to stop it. we can no longer have the fox guarding the hen house. >> congressman, you sit on the house transportation and infrastructure committee. back in may you met with president biden as he stumped in louisiana for his infrastructure plan, which you endorsed and voted for. three months later your state has been battered by hurricane

ida a it has been countless storms, and that's predicted to worsen due to climate change. what duty your constituents weary from seeing their lives disrupted again when they ask you how this plan will improve their lives? >> i would say that the one thing that we will do more than anything else is make sure that we correct the inequities that we saw during katrina, where communities of black and brown were disproportionately left out of the discussion or certainly not given the same level of resources as others. and we are going to make sure that doesn't happen again. we had great conversations with the president on his recent visit as we walk through communities in my district with the administrator of fema. just a few days ago we had secretary of housing and under development marcia fudge on the ground walking and seeing first

hand demonstrating that it will it don't tell business as usual. we've gone round and round with fema in making sure we're tweaking and fixing many of the problems we found. i'm confident the president of the united states when he says that he's going to put the full faith and credit of the united states behind rebuilding louisiana, and not only rebuilding it, but building it back better. this infrastructure plan that we're navigating now is a plan that should be by all accounts recognized as a bipartisan, once in a lifetime opportunity to build the social infrastructures, housing, opportunities for broadband, opportunities for economic development, and making sure that all parts of the community have an opportunity to participate in the rebuilding of our devastated state. >> i'm out of time, but congressman, quickly, please.

you represent st. james parish, home to several of the industrial plants that make up your state's so-called cancer alley. we had epa administrator michael eagan with us last weekend, and i brought up the stalled push to bring a $10 million plastics complex to the region, viewed by many residents, activists, and elected officials as an immense environmental threat in a district where cancer rates are 50 times the national average, according to the epa. the permit for the project was suspended last month by the biden administration pending a review. but as you weigh economic needs versus environmental justice, is it realistic that even a smaller version of such a project could come to your district and not add to sickness like this? >> listen, we know that there has been significant issues with plants up and down the river. we know that the residents have

had legitimate concerns about the chemicals released into the air. a person should not have to literally die for their job. when we balance economy over the environmental concern, we have to make sure that we balance it and put the community at the forefront to make sure that people aren't dying for their jobs, making sure that we are bringing those polluters to justice and cleaning neighborhoods while recognizing that commerce will be commerce and we should support it, but not over the safety and well-being of people who live in those communities. >> and the lives of those people in the communities. thank you being for being with us. joining me is my political panel, michelle goldberg, "new york times" columnist and msnbc political analyst, and rina

shah, former republican strategist, founder and principal of relaxed strategies. the department of justice filed suit this week in a texas district court for an emergency injunction against their unconstitutional abortion ban. the filing included actual harm done to women seeking abortions, including one woman facing violence from her husband and trying to sell personal items to discreetly leave the state. michelle, will the inclusion of realtime harms in the filing move the needle on this decision? will it have a meaningful impact as well on public opinion on this? >> so i do think it will have a meaningful impact on public opinion. i watched a focus group recently and was really struck, you know. people who follow politics closely are aware of just how

draconian and cruel this ban is. but one of the clever things that the supreme court did by sort of, you know, making it a procedural issue that they, you know, a procedural thing that went out in the middle of the night is you didn't have the headlines you would have if roe v. wade were overturned. and so there's a surprising number of people who just don't know what's going on in texas. as for whether the justice department lawsuit will be successful, i will make no predictions because the people who know the most about the supreme court were quite sure that they were going to enjoin this law. people say just give it a few days, at some point this week i'm sure they're going to stay it, again, because it's a blatant violation of precedent. yet we saw the supreme court refuse to hear -- refuse to hear

the people who were asking to put this law on hold. and so i think that the train has left the station. i don't think we know what the supreme court is capable of. >> now, republicans in pennsylvania are subpoenaing the private data of every voter in the state, information including name, date of birth, driver's license number, date of last voting activity and even the last four digits of their social security number to hand over to an unnamed private contractor in their, quote, investigation, of the 2020 election. "the philadelphia inquirer" is refusing to call this scheme an audit on the advice of nonpartisan experts. rina, joe biden won pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes, and that result was already audited, so what's the point of this?

>> this is performative, this is for a base completely engrossed with the past. i've been part of a local party, and i know exactly how these people function. they've been part of parties for a long time, the structure, the leadership structure i'm talking about, and they are frustrated by the lack of ability they have to overturn the free and fair election which elected joe biden from the state of pennsylvania. this is what we're talking about here is the sham audit that many a republican think are still acceptable in the year 2021. we are nearly one year past this election and these republicans continue to grasp at straws. why? because this is going to continue to help them fund raise, this keeps their pace angry and mobilize. this anger and this frustration. i'll say this. this is a nothing burger. it's a black mark on the face of the pennsylvania gop, which i

thought in previous years used to be very sensible. but the reality is this. you attend a conservative political action conference every year and you would see this exact type of frustration that these party leaders carry cycle into cycle. they fund raise off it and mobilize voters offth, and, frankly, they're even activating younger voters with it. this is a question for this past week with congressman gonzalez announcing his retirement, talking about the toxic state of the party. >> right. >> nationally, we look at it regional and locally, you see that same toxicity. i've been thinking a lot about is the republican voter of today the republican voter of tomorrow? and perhaps i'm a little too optimistic, but i think the answer is no. i think there will come a point at which the pendulum will swing, and these younger folks that have been mobilized with anger and frustration and fear will say no more, we need to do

something different. i'm hopeful seeing those stripes in different parts of the country, particularly maybe western republicans as we lead up to 2022 midterms. >> today's so-called rally in washington was organized by a former trump campaign official, meant to valorize the insurrectionists who attempted to stop the certification of the election on january 6th. while there were not leaked republicans in attendance, the gop has also refused to condemn these people, michelle. briefly, please, are they offering tacit endorsement? >> i don't think it's tacit endorsement, it's open endorsement in many cases. it's true that no republican members of congress spoke. donald trump warned people it's a setup, but he did it in a statement in which he also talk

about how unfairly these insurrectionists were being treated. there were many people on the right, including members of congress, who have spoken about people who were arrested for the january 6th riot as political prisoners, who had tried to turn ashli babbitt into a martyr. so i think the minority position, the fringe position in today's republican party are the few members of congress who are condemning that riot outright. >> thank you both. coming up on "politicsnation," republicans are licking their wounds after a botched attempt to unseat california governor gavin newsom. but they seem to have a new ally in their misinformation campaign against covid-19 vaccine. i have some words for my friend, ms. nicki minaj that you're going to want to hear. but first, my colleague richard lui with today's top news

stories. richard? >> rev, a very good saturday afternoon to you. stories we're watching for you this hour, the united states reached over 42 million cases of covid. idaho health officials say over there in the state there's only icu beds of 91 open statewide. wednesday more than 700 residents were hospitalized with the virus. this as an fda panel recommends booster shots for those at high risk. spacex is about to end in a couple hours. the spaceship is expected to splash down off florida's coast around 7:00 p.m. four private citizens took part, including billionaire jared isaacman. the season's fifth tropical storm is formed, odette. more "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton right after a short break. inside the

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for this week's gotcha, i want to talk about the most recent failure of the republican party, their botched attempt to recall the governor of california, because there are lessons to be learned from this spectacular misfire. and what happened to republicans in california, the home of hollywood magic, could be a preview of coming attractions. so first, let's review. knowing they had no chance of success in a regular election, california republicans tried to recall democratic governor gavin newsom, and the voters gave the idea two thumbs down, way down, nearly two-thirds of voters wanted newsom to stay in office. and the republican effort to make this recall a referendum on newsomose covid response, that failed spectacularly.

they tried to proper tray newsom as a movie villain, drunk with power and overstepping his authority when it came to pandemic regulations. but the voters saw a different story. 47% of them thought newsom's approach was right on, and 18% thought it wasn't strict enough. confronted with the rag-tag ensemble, two-thirds of the state population is fully vaccinated, almost exactly the margin that voted for newsom in the recall election, because most californians take this pandemic seriously, and most americans do too. nearly two-thirds of the adult population is fully vaccinated, and three-quarters of us have at least one dose. we're tired of watching so many republicans indulge the small

minority of people who refuse to take the pandemic seriously, putting us all at risk. but just because vaccinated californians overwhelmingly chose to keep the democrat in power, does that mean the rest of the country will follow suit? recent polling on president biden's vaccination initiatives show majority support for vaccine mandates for school workers, health care workers, and government employees, all while the loudest wing of the republican party seems to take the side of the virus, and that's where the recent spate of voting suppression laws are coming from. republicans know that their policy approach is unpopular, and in a state like california where everyone gets a no-excuse ballot, they can't win. they've been saying so much in public on camera for years. when every eligible american can vote, republicans know they will lose. that's why it's so imperative

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welcome back to "politicsnation." as we near yet another fall season while battling coronavirus, the fda announced that those who are 65 and older are at high risk should get a third jab of the pfizer shot. however, the advisory committee did not recommend a booster dose

for the rest of the population. all this happening as many americans remain unvaccinated and hospitalizations continue to overwhelm many icu s across the country. joining me now to unpack this all is msnbc medical contributor and founder of advancing health equity, dr. uche blackstock. as of today, 1 in every 500 americans have died from covid-19. that's a grim statistic as the u.s. has seen in overall total of more than 676,000 deaths. your thoughts about these numbers a year and a half into this pandemic? >> thank you for having me on, reverend al. these numbers are a travesty and signify a failure of our government to adequately protect

its citizens. we are seeing death rates and cases that rival earlier this year and are higher than at times last year, and we did think with the change in administration that there would be changes and improvements. but i think the delta variant and the fact that vaccinations have stalled are factors. but also we need to consider other policies like mask policies, capacity restrictions. we are essentially wide open as a society and that's why we're seeing the case numbers that we're seeing. >> now, this week rapper nicki minaj and others in entertainment told fans that various things, saying she didn't attend the met gala because she was not vaccinated and remained conceptually. citing a story about a side effect her cousin's friend who got vaccinated had was actually factually incorrect.

let me tell you my thoughts. i'm not a friend, but i am a fan of nicki minaj. i have a lot of respect for her artistry and she broke through barriers. and i'm not going to get into the fact that the right wing have embraced her and attack her for that because i don't think that serves what we're really concerned about on all sides, which is the life of people disproportionately in our community. but today to call joy reid, even before she came to this station -- i'm not saying this because she's a colleague. i knew her in black radio in florida 20 years ago and she's put her career and neck on the line to cover stories and bring things mainstream. that's across the line. i think if people want to raise questions, fine, but leave the name-calling out of it, particularly someone that has had the, in my opinion, the model example of journalism that

joy reid has. two of the women are at the top of their field. we don't need name-calling, we need solutions as we see disproportionate people die in our communities and in every community in the country. let me get back to this, doctor. i know you and your sister wrote an op-ed about ms. minaj. tell us your thoughts. >> yeah. so reverend al, my thoughts are that we absolutely need to keep the lines of communication open. what i'm saying in our op-ed is as black physicians and health care professionals, we are here to give out education that is accurate and responsible about the covid vaccine. we're asking that black music artists, those with platforms use their platforms responsibly. we're here to give them that information, but we also need to hold them accountable for putting out potentially inaccurate information , that we need to work together as a community to encourage covid

vaccine uptake among black americans, because, as we know, we've been disproportionately impacted in this pandemic. we're seeing worse and worse numbers, especially even right now, disproportionately still affecting black americans. so we need to work together, come together to really end this pandemic. >> if you got a big platform, you're blessed. you should not misuse your blessings. you should really try to do what you can, even if you've got to ask questions. i asked questions at the beginning of this, but you should be careful about the information you put out. now, president biden has announced a vaccine mandate for all federal employees. on wednesday he met with top business executives at companies like microsoft and disney that have also pushed vaccine mandates for employees. the meeting was meant to encourage other companies to show that vaccine mandates are good for the economy. what are your thoughts on that? >> so i think vaccine mandates

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breathing a little easier this weekend after golden state voters shot down a republican-led recall election against governor gavin newsom earlier this week. while newsom clenched his victory in a landslide, his support from california's latinx voters was underwhelming when compared to previous years. the governor attributing the gap to disproportionate impact of

covid, saying latino voters felt left out of the recovery. joining me now is maria theresa kumar, president and ceo of voto latino, also an msnbc contributor. ms. kumar, calls glad to have you join us. before you get to your group's legal actions against texas's suppression law, some democrats are warning a canary in the coal mine with regards to what they view as a lackluster showing from latinx voters in this week's recall election in california. with our own nbc news exit polling suggesting that latino voters sided with newsom and against the recall 60% to 40%. "the new york times" is reporting that 63% of people of color and 60% of latinos who supported newsom is, quote, the weakest for a california

democrat in memory. is it fair to suggest that the democrats need to do more to reach out to voters of color, specifically america's brown voters? >> al, we've had this conversation before. part of the challenge is that campaigns come in and start talking to brown communities and black communities towards the end of it. voto latino, we got a call from the governor's office from his recall campaign, to stop the republican recall. and he came in in mid-august and invested in getting out the latino vote. but our recommendations are always start early, as soon as you can, because as you know, african-americans and latinos and asians, we have been at the front lines, we've been essential workers, we're trying to manage so much, and this idea, then, that we're at the same time supposed to pay attention to politics, it may

sound easy, but when you're just trying to put food on the table and keep a house for your children and they're back to school, there's a lot of different forces that people take for granted that black and brown communities are dealing with every single day, and that's just survival. our recommendation to the democrats has always been the same. you have to talk to latinos year round, and you have to engage them constantly. and that's why you did see at the end of the campaign a surge. again, the circumstances at this time because it was a nail biter, we would have perceived earlier but when you talk about the contrast of larry elder, my goodness, there's no competition right there. and i know that while we are having these difficulties of trying to get out of the pandemic, gavin newsom has been able to start delivering the latino community, making sure people are vaccinated and still talks about the importance of eviction moratoriums and is talking about making sure that people have access to health

care regardless of their legal status. >> well, i tell the democrats when it comes to black and brown voters, latino voters, come early and stay late. it's unfortunate that latinos in texas must celebrate this year's hispanic heritage month under legislative siege. your organization, voto latino, is one of several latin civil rights groups that filed a federal lawsuit against texas this month over its new voter suppression law contend that the electoral changes stemming from this law are explicitly designed to restrict black and hispanic voters access to the franchise in the state's most diverse jurisdictions. can you explain how it specifically goes after latino voters in texas? >> i'll share with you something. in texas last year, it is the hardest to vote state in the union, full stop. yet they were able to certify a

free and fair election saying that the election results of 2020 were legitimate. that should give us all pause. why now are they trying to take the vote away? because we saw a huge increase in youth, in latino, in asian, and black voters in texas. and just right now, reverend, we have -- when you look at the latino community, we have an additional quarter of a million youth that will be eligible to vote by next year when greg abbott is on the ballot. the reason voto latino is suing is they've made it clear they do not want brown and black individuals enfranchising themselves. they are taking away the drop-off ballot box only in harris county, the most diverse county in the country. they are not taking those drop boxes away in the surrounding counties that are predominantly

white. we must step back and ask ourselves why >> yeah. >> this orchestrated process that's not just hitting texas, it's hitting georgia, arizona, and the biggest culprits behind it are the heritage action fund, part of the heritage foundation. this is a bill in a box. >> before i lose you, another pressing issue, abortion. abortion ballot in texas -- i was in houston last weekend -- it is directly impacting other states with as many as 7,000 nonresidents coming to california for access to reproductive freedom. maria, briefly, please, you sit on the national board of planned parenthood. what do you know about the population of women and girls whose reproductive rights are being restricted, many of which are low-income black and brown residents? >> the majority of the people that are getting restricted are black and brown women because we are disproportionately at the lower end of the economic sail. if i were to talk to a

girlfriend of mine who is white, she is more than likely going to be far more fluent than people that are being targeted right now, and that is why we should all be locking arms, all women, because they start with the poor, but it doesn't mean that's where they end, and this idea that a woman has this idea that a woman has to drive from texas to california already tells you who can afford to do that. and that tells us that right now -- for folks that may not be aware, the texas law is so foul that an uber driver could technically get fined for bringing someone there. >> thank you, as always. up next, my final thoughts. but first a quick programming note. my colleague ayman is taking his

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that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern for another live hour of "politics nation." my colleague alicia menendez picks up our news coverage now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone. i'm alicia menendez. thank you for joining us for another weekend of "american voices." a busy show ahead as we keep our eye on the waters of