the hall already, i'm on the wall already, i'm a work of art, i'm the war hall already. >> he did say that. great quote. >> he did say that. bobito and david to end the week. appreciate both of you. thank you to both of you. ta thanks for spending time with us on "the beat." "the reidout" is up next. good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" on the on going russian stand off in ukraine. after increasingly dire warnings joe biden today addressed reporters and the nation on the rapidly escalating situation and when asked about vladimir putin's intentions he delivered this extraordinary news to the american people and to the world. >> do you have any indication about whether president putin had made a decision on whether to invade? do you feel confident that he hasn't already made that decision already? >> as of this moment, i'm

convinced he's made the decision. >> that remark represents the most blunt assessment yet that vladimir putin will indeed launch an unprovoked attack on eastern europe. president biden made it clear the united states will continue to call out russia for their deception including fabricating a pretext for a full scale invasion of ukraine, but most importantly, he emphasized the kremlin can still advert disaster. >> we're calling out russians plans not because we want a conflict but because we're doing everything in our power to remove any reason russia may give to justify invading ukraine and prevent them from moving. the american people are united. europe is united. the transatlantic community is united. the political parties in this country are united. the entire free world is united.

russia has a choice between war and the suffering it will bring or diplomacy that will make a future safer for everyone. >> the president reiterated the news that russia's foreign minister agreed to meet with secretary of statement antony blinken last week but said any military action before that date will slam the door shut on diplomacy. this comes as russian provocations exacerbate the situation. russia now has as many as 190,000 troops amassed at ukraine's borders. nbc news reports half of the forces have assumed attack position. the united states is also shared new intelligence tieing russia to the cyber attacks launched against ukrainian banks this week. meanwhile, seize fires continued along the front lines where the shelling is described as the most intense since 2015 and in an ominous sign of an attack to come, there was an evacuation

announced for civilians of the territories they control in eastern ukraine. putin is trying to stokeuclear . he chose this moment to say he's staging military drills to test russia's nuclear delivery systems and plans to super vice the launches himself after putin unveiled what he called invincible nuclear weapons in 2018. and after he endorsed a new first strike policy in 2020, justifying their use in a conventional war. joining me now is russian opposition politician vladimir, lieutenant colonial alexander vindman for european affairs and senior advisor to vote vets, in, -- nbc news reporter matthew. give us the read on the ground tonight, at least on the russia side. >> reporter: yes, we've seen a change in the russian narrative today and it concerning and

basically all of the things that we were hoping we would not see. starting this morning as you mentioned with the announcement by the heads of the two break away states in eastern ukraine they were conducting or organizing mass evacuations of the civilian population, we saw actually russian president vladimir putin very quickly swoop in and offer support to these, you know, refugees saying that they are welcome, that russia will provide them with money, about $130, medical assistance if needed, hot food. he sent his emergency situation minister to the russian city on the other side of the border from that region. this has come with a massive uptick in coverage on this issue in the russian state media basically it is now wall to wall on this idea of evacuations of the civilian population from eastern ukraine because of am imminent ukrainian military attack on the region. we're seeing also officials,

opinion leaders all kind of starting to sound off on using in front of the harshest rhetoric genocide they say is being done to the russian speaking population for example in the regions. we're also seeing reports we can't confirm but they are being kind of spread widely in the russian media right now of an explosion in the capital of one regions and two regions are claiming at a gas pipeline in the other region. it's kind of out of basically all today in the past 12 to 24 hours all of the things we were hoping we wouldn't see. >> yeah, alexander vindman, let me play what vice president hard -- harris said today meeting with the nato secretary. >> we remain, of course, open to and desirous of diplomacy as it relates to the dialogues and discussions we've had with

russia but also committed if russia takes abrasive action to ensuring there will be severe consequence in terms of the economic sanctions we have discussed. >> give us your read here just from sort of a national security sort of perspective because it does seem that administration has been very proactive about presenting every possible thing that russia could try to do to try to get away with this and make it look like they were simply defending the people in the region or had some reason to do it. yesterday secretary blinken highlighted different possible false flags, a fake terrorest attack, a staged drone strike, a faxed attack with chemical weapons, claims of ethnic cleansing. they're throwing every possibility out so outside russian state media they won't be able to pretend and surprised how the west held together. what do you make of all this and the potential and likelihood

that this really will happen? >> well, i think it's a good effort to try to limit the options that vladimir putin has. i think it probably has effects on the margins so if you had a whole universe of different possibilities he would do as false flags as these pretexts for war, they will try to narrow down those options. it doesn't really make that much of a difference because vladimir putin will fabricate something as he's doing right now with these claims of genocide and explosions, claiming that it's anoffense from ukraine. what is fascinating what the president had to assemble for the president to declare russia will conduct this offensive. having served in the military, i understand all those assets that the u.s. brought to bear that, you know, there is all sorts of signals intelligence and air assets collecting tactical operational information these communications that the russians are doing as they position their

forces. for the president of the united states to just declare that this is going to happen is, you know, they should leave no doubt of where we're headed and i think even if we avoid this expanding somehow into a broader war pulling in nato, we'll find ourselves in a new cold war. avoiding this hot war, we'll find ourselves in the cold war and face the nation and geopolitical implications, economic implications for china and domestic implications here and i think we'll be dealing with this for years to come. >> vladimir, i won't ask you to psycho analyze vladimir putin but do it as close as you feel comfortable doing. this is one that will completely be isolated if he were to do this. it's very clear this pipeline they very much want to do to get

russia natural gas into europe would be done, finished. he could be isolated from the access, russia could be isolated from access to the financial markets. you were one of the people who pushed for the act. he could receive personal sanctions. so much could be done. this seems like economic suicide and also, at some point you can't ride the russian body bags coming home to their families. how do you even maintain this oligarch system and this sort of autocracy given the pain you would be inflicting on your own people. i don't understand, do you? >> you're trying to speak from normal human logic. that's more than 20 years of logic. the first thing he did when he did come to power is destroy the major independent media, shadow opposition rig elections to make

sure it a completely controlled system. for many exist in a bubble his own propaganda machine created with in checks and balances, no opposition, no significant independent media to speak of. i think at some point a dictator in such a position really starts to lose a sense of reality. the normal rules of logic you're trying to appeal to simply do not apply. let's not forget this is a classic page out of the latest playbook to try to sort of create a foreign war to distract society's attention away from domestic problems. we have an economy in russia for many years and incomes we've been fighting year after year after year. we have shrinking space for civil society and political freedom, shrinking literally by the day, not just by the week and we have a young generation of people in our country who ine -- increasingly see no

prospects as a whole under this corrupt authoritarian autocracy vladimir putin created and that's something that mr. putin faces a really big problem in 2024 when he will likely attempt to stay in power at the end of his final term and in violation of the term which he tried to unlawfully overturn a couple years ago. there is growing international realization just how illegal those constitutional amendments were. this creates a situation where the kremlin is a distraction. you know, what has been termed in previous historical things is a small victorious war in the early 20th century. that backfired badly on the people who tried to stage it as did the afghanistan invasion in the 1980s. so, you know, it worked for mr. putin before georgia. it's worked for him certainly in crimea but sometimes for these

regimes there can be one small victorious war too many and that's a serious risk for the putin regime now. >> to stay with you for a moment, there is a real opposition. they are throwing 15 more years on to his sentence but can't stop his movement by tormenting him and his family. there is a movement. you speak very well of it. there are as you said young russians that want change and a whole huge country in eastern europe called ukraine. if people know conon in -- know anyone in that country there is another option. can there be blow back inside of russia? is there any space at all for putin to pay for this inside of his own country if he does it? >> well, russian public opinion is not in favor of such. it's difficult to talk about public opinion in authoritarian

society people have access to objective information and when people will be hesitant. from what we see and what social trends we do know of, russian public opinion is certainly not in favor of aggression against ukraine and in the last few days, we have seen an increasing number of iconic cultural figures in russia, musicians, scientists most publicly have spoken out about this war. most use the short hand of russia quote unquote. let's not forget there are different voices in russian and different voices in society. this is not our war. this comes back at the end of the day to this very close relationship that exists traditionally in modern russia between the domestic policy and foreign policy, between domestic oppression. those two things or two sides of the same coin and so i think what is important to remember

perhaps the main lesson from the last century of russian history is major political changes in the country can happen suddenly. they can happen unexpectedly. they can happen literally within the space of a few days. the soviet regime collapse in a few days in 1991. it's a big gamble mr. putin is about to enter if he start as full scale invasion of ukraine. >> i'm so glad we were able to talk with you tonight. very quickly before we go, i'll ask you alexander vindman from the u.s. and nato side, what do you see as the sort of potential reaction, pitfalls on that side, the u.s. and nato? >> once the shots are fired, this could go in any number of directions. if russia encounters significant head winds in the military offensive and starts to take significant casualties and believes that the safe havens, provisions of weapons and equipment that originates from the baltics, from poland is responsible for that, we could see a situation in which we do

see this expanding in a maybe even to implicate nato security directly. there is also, this is not going to play out in a matter of days but weeks. russia when it gets hit with punishing sanctions is going to retaliate and find a way to inflect pain. it's tried to do so before with counter sanctions. this time it will probably do that through energy pressure, shutting off oil and gas, it's built a war chest to with stand that and can probably do that from cyber attacks and through destroying the cable networks, the communications cable networks that connect us to the europeans and i think this just could have the ability to spin off in all sorts of different directions and frankly, we should definitely mention that this is going to be very costly for ukraine. tens of thousands of ukrainian casualties, they've been struggling for independence for decades now and sorry, they've been -- i seen somebody chime

in. they've been struggling for independence for decades in a writing a wrong. where president putin holds ukrainey responsible for the collapse of the soviet union. they voted to disestablish the soviet union for independence that resulted in the collapse of the soviet union and he's going to correct that and bring the one to bring ukraine back to heal and that's part of the reason vladimir points out. >> he'll find out people cannot always be brought to heal and people of ukraine and russia deserves better and deserve to live freely and to live in the way they want to and choose their own governments. that is my final editorial comment. i'll leave it there. thank you very much. alexander vindman, thank you, matthew, thank you. more breaking news, the national archives now confirms that trump had been stashing

classified documents at mar-a-lago so by trump's own standards i guess we should lock him up. why the derek chauvin trial did not represent progress in racial justice. the kim potter sentencing today for the killing of daunte wright proves that. also, the very intentional chaos in texas as early voting begins. "the reidout" begins after this. s your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪

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tonight, the national archives confirmed it found classified material over the 15 boxes donald trump has down at his florida retirement home. the news of the boxes on february 7th and the news prompted an investigation by the house oversight committee. the chairwoman of that committee requested the national archives provide information regarding the communications with the former president about the missing boxes, their content and more by today.

in response to that request, archive david today confirmed that nara identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes. now really that should come as no surprise the guy that spent his life breaking the law continues to do so as president and on his way out of the white house door and also come as no surprise he was a national security risk. a few months into his presidency, trump disclosed highly classified information to russia's foreign minister about a plan for islamic state operation and launched a strike on syria while inhaling a beautiful piece of chocolate cake on the patio of mar-a-lago with the chinese president and their respective entourages. this is the first part of the show where -- this is the part of the show i remind you back in 2016, much of the media and the entire republican party lost their collective minds over the possibility that hillary clinton's personal emails contained classified material. you remember the chants of lock

her up at every trump rally. the entire so-called scandal ultimately helped deliver the morally corrupt former president to the white house. "the washington post" previously reported some of the materials included in the contraband boxes were trump's love letters were to kim jong-un and trump was secretive about the packing process and top aides and long-time administrative staffers didn't see the contents. we have official confirmation the former president knowingly and brazenly ignored the law. chair of the oversight committee, which is investigating these classified documents added the national archives also confirmed that they informed the d.o.j. of the former president trump's removal of classified material to mara -- mar-a-lago and identified documents torn up by trump. this could violate the law. the national archives also confirmed that potentially many more trump administration records, including direct

messages sent by senior officials on multiple social media platforms are missing. joining me now, congresswoman carol maloney of new york and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney. congresswoman, i want to start by -- take us back for a moment and play donald trump talking about the abuse of classified materials. >> hillary clinton should be in jail for what she did to our national security. she sent vast amounts of classified information including information classified as top secret. top secret. okay? if that were a republican that did what she did with the emails, they would have been in jail 12 months ago. in my administration i'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified

information. no one will be above the law. >> congresswoman, talk about what happens now. it's confirmed by the national archives. what happens? >> we're continuing our investigation. we got the information today from the national archives and confirmed everything we suspected, he removed classified documents, torn up classified documents, torn up records and did not turnover overall of the records. we're preceding with the investigation. the archives is going to do an inventory of what is contained in the 15 boxes. we look forward to seeing that. we're working on getting the additional information. we know he literally tore up documents. they reported they received documents that were torn up and

had to piece them together so i agree with one thing he said, no one is above the law including the president. >> well, clearly and are you republicans felt hillary clinton, they talked about things like preimpeachment had she become president. i wonder if you can foresee the oversight committee perhaps doing a criminal referral for the abuse of classified records. >> the national archives returned this information over to the department of justice. it's up to them to make a determination of what the steps are. following that it's my job to get the information together and make sure this doesn't happen. it's our job in oversight to make sure the presidential documents are preserved and belong to the american people. we're working to get documents back and it's astonishing. >> it is. it absolutely is. the reason i played that opening

montage, it was a large portion of donald trump's campaign for president was accusing hillary clinton of misusing classified information and i'm old enough to remember james comey released a statement 11 days before the election confirming they were investigating whether the information was mishandled by the former secretary of state and three days before the election made another public statement saying oops never mind. i can't think myself, i'm not a lawyer, why the department of justice would not treat donald trump in exactly the same way. what is the difference between donald trump and hillary clinton except he was president of the united states when he mishandled classified information? why wouldn't the doj proceed? >> i'm sure -- >> doj should -- >> go ahead, joyce. >> go ahead. >> doj should -- sorry, doj should absolutely be conducting an investigation.

it should be full force because this is a serious violation and while the congresswoman and her committee have this job of making sure it doesn't happen again, doj has the job of making sure people who violate our laws are punished and held accountable so there is detour rans of future misconduct. in this situation, i would not want to prejudge whether it appropriate to prosecute but i have no trouble saying there has to be a full force investigation. this is potentially far more serious than what happened with secretary clinton and joy, i know you're already enough to recall secretary clinton's reaction to the investigation was to encourage everyone at the state department who is being interviewed to cooperate fully with the investigation. she, too, saw it as a very serious matter. one problem prosecutors won't have as they investigate this case is should they decide there is something criminal, in this

situation that would be some form of obstruction, either records were deliberately with held to interfere with investigation or perhaps records were leaked out to other sources, foreign, domestic or what have you. if anything that doj decides to look at in the course of the investigation requires either knowledge by the president it's a crime to do this or any sort of legal knowledge about the obligations that government officials have in connection with classified information they've got him dead to center on tape saying he's well aware of the obligations a president has in this regard. >> indeed, congresswoman, donald trump has a history of disclosing classified information to the russians, to the russian foreign minister before. he's somebody deep in debt financially in debt. someone like that if they weren't president of the united states being in possession of

classified information, one would think they're at serious risk. is that part of the oversight investigation, what is he doing with this classified info mission? >> well, we are pursuing all angles. there are many areas we're looking into, joy, i cannot discuss the investigation that we are conducting right now. it is in process and i do say that you brought up an incredibly important point when it came out days before the election and literally alleged hillary clinton had done so many bad things and it turned out, oh, didn't really happen. well, here we have the national archives confirming to my committee that they found classified boxes and information and documents that -- and they have sent that to the justice department to follow up with their activities and they confirmed that he ripped up and

even tried to flush it down the toilet a torn up pieces and also the social media records were not preserved and they seem to have been destroyed or deliberately destroyed there are a lot of serious allegations that violate the law. >> indeed. even apparently ate some of them. he had a different way of getting to the archives. thank you both very much. up next, former minnesota police officer kim potter is sentenced in the killing of daunte wright and raising questions about fairness and equal justice under the law. stay with us. and equal juste icunder the law. equal juste icunder the law. stay with us yes. formulated to help you body really truly absorb the natural goodness. new chapter. wellness, well done.

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today former minnesota police officer kim potter was sentenced to just two years in prison for fatally shooting daunte wright during a traffic stop last year. that was well below the state's recommended sentencing guideline between six and eight and a half years in prison and even with that meager sentence with good behavior and time served, potter could be back home with her family in just 14 months. 14 months. for the shooting death of a 20-year-old wright pulled over for an expired registration tag and air freshener hanging in the back windshield, which is to say he was pulled over for driving while black. wright was shot in the chest and killed after potter said she confused her handgun for taser.

14 months in prison and a $1,000 fine is all wright's life is worth in the state of minnesota which is why so many, namely daunte wright's mom could not call this justice. >> kim potter murdered my son. and he died april 11th. today the justice system murdered him all over again. this is the problem with our justice system today. white women's tears trumps, trumps justice. >> the light sentence comes on the heels of the derek chauvin trial some said was a new era of accountability for police officers killing black people. chauvin was a one off. there was no accountability today. but that isn't where this story ends. we also saw on full display the imbalance of empathy that is based on the color of one's skin

by a judge that shed tears for the white killer but not for the black victim and his family while also gaslighting the entire country by using the words of barack obama, former president barack obama to urge everyone to empathize with potter. >> to those who disagree and feel a longer prison sentence is appropriate, as difficult as it may be, please try to empathize with ms. potter's situation. as president barack obama once said, learning to stand in somebody else's shoes to see through their eyes that's how peace begins. and it's up to you to make that happen. officer potter made a mistake

that ended tragically. she never intended to hurt anyone. her conduct cries out for a sentence significantly below the guidelines. >> joining me now is elie, justice correspondent for "the nation ". i asked my team to pull a couple tweets that summarized a lot of the feelings about this sentence. a military veteran killing a black man gets you less time than accidently voting while on probation as a black man. nobody that does stuff like this should be allowed to remain on the bench and friend of the show and navy veteran says it's not a sentence, it's an inconvenience. your thoughts on this sentence? >> joy, this country hates us. this country hates black people and we know it. we talk about it.

we joke about it. we know what we're up against. but sometimes that hatred that this country has for us really comes out and just takes your breath away, just grabs you by the neck and takes your breath away and today judge regina chu was that hatrid, that icy hate around our throat. she was the spit in our face today, the gull to stand up there, sit up there in her courtroom and plead, cry out for sympathy for the killer in front of that boy's mother. i don't have words to describe how offensive that is, how hurtful that is, how unjust that is almost goes without saying. people are like oh, she made a mistake, potter made a mistake. yeah, we have a sentencing guideline for this mistake, it's called six to eight years. why did she get two years?

somebody needs to answer me why she got two years. of course, we all know why she got two years, because she was a crying white woman. that's why she got two years and not the six to eight years that her crime cried out for. you know, she want -- judge chu wants to look at things through potter's eyes, no, i'll look at things through daunte wright's eyes and i can m -- imagine what the last thing daunte wright saw. those are the eyes i will remember and i would encourage others to remember and i would encourage others to reject judge chu and instead, think about daunte wright. >> you know, i mean, there is a guy name mohammed, i believe in the same state got 12.5 years for accidently, you know, firing his weapon and killing a woman. she was a white woman from australia.

he's doing 12.5 years for that. i think about the people who voted thinking i'm on probation, i'm out of prison and served my sentence, i can vote now in texas and get five years. black woman got five years for voting and then you think about what we talked about yesterday in new jersey where a black teen and a white -- a black teen and a white or maybe white latino teen get in a fight and literally the police say no, no, no, this isn't about you. we're here about this black kid you were just on top of punching. he's the one we're going to arrest. you're right. it's hard to walk away from the idea that the system has really tried to tell us no, your lives are literally not valuable at all. they mean nothing. >> as you know, i have two black sons and told you last y trying figure out. i got a 9-year-old. he loves people and people love him. when do i show him your interview with zaki? when do i show him judge chu's

sentencing of kim potter? when do i tell my 9-year-old how deeply this country hates him? when is it appropriate for me to explain for him even should he be shot to death for an air fresher, this country will sympathize with his murderer. i got to tell him. i got to protect him. i have to tell him at some point what this country will do to him. when is that appropriate to have that discussion? people need to understand your interview with zaki yesterday and this sentence are part of a continuing linear track because it's the same thought process that led those cops to man handle and physically restrain zaki while letting the white kid walk away. that's the same thought process kim potter had when she pulled out whatever, whatever she could find to make the black man stop,

make him stop. judge chu, she wasn't trying to hurt him. she was trying to hurt him. she was trying to hurt him. that's what happened. and it's what is going to keep happening because there are not enough people in this country who care about stopping it. >> yeah. every word you said i have said it in my own mind, too, because i have three black children, as well, and it is something that we all have to face as the parents of black children that once they walk away from us, there is no law enforcement protect and serve, they're just at risk every moment that they're not physically in our arms and it is quite a way to live. elie, thank you, my friend. be right back. live elie, thank you, my friend be right back. metamucil psyllium fiber, gels to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down.

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realtime what it looks like when a state suppresses the right to vote. today is the deadline to submit mail in ballot applications for the march 1st primary. in person early voting began monday. in harris county, the state's largest election workers are dealing with the confusion and logistic nightmare senate bill one created for voters since the law implemented strict voter i.d. requirements and causing many ballots to be rejected. >> we have to reject 40% of the mail ballots with people saying i put my i.d. number on the application, why do it have to do it again on the ballot? i don't want to share that information. it a layering of issues in texas. these are people's votes. if we reject the application, many we reject their mail ballot, their opportunities to vote are dwindling. >> the numbers are so alarmingly high, county officials asked the justice department to open an investigation. the d.o.j. is suing texas over

sb 1. it is only a matter of time before every red state will be texas, though, since the big lie has shown it doesn't matter who oversees your election. at least 21 election deniers are running states. mark in arizona was subpoenaed this week. mesa county clerk tina peters currently under investigation for confiscating voting infrastructure and a judge blocked her. i'm joined by jasmine crockett and jenna griswold, colorado secretary of state. i'll start with you secretary of state griswold. let me play something that's relevant. this is steve bannon. this is him at cpac in 2017 on the goals of a trump administration. >> the third broadly line of work is what is deconstruction

of the administrative state and if you -- [ applause ] >> how do you deconstruct administrative state? one way, this is two for my producers, the co -- she was the nation's first insider threat, compromising voting equipment her county. causing that county $1 million. she's working with steve bannon, and actually announced on his program she's under criminal investigation, and was arrested last week, she had when people called for my death at a rally, and she's unfit to be secretary of state. and, joy, if your viewers want

to join me in defeating her, and these big lie candidates, they can join me at jennifer colorado.com. >> and do you fear that if she becomes secretary of state, then the next election, she will simply substitute her own desires at the actual outcome of this? >> well, i think my opponent, tina peters, is a danger to colorado elections. she's completely unfit, and what we are seeing in these big lie candidates is the willingness to lie and put their party ahead of american voters. what we are seeing in the states is a massive swelling of voter suppression that many of these candidates are pushing. they're pushing out this information about 2020 future elections. i worry that they will continue to allow election administration to be attached, and all of this is so the next time there is a january six, it will be easier for these extreme candidates to take on power. we are seeing a realtime, and it's up to american voters to

stand with us, who are defending democracy. >> speaking or realtime to, let's go to texas. because the other way you can construct administrations take is to make it so hard to vote, that even your own voters can be obligated to compensate. very few people are able to get through this morale. lieutenant governor, dan patrick's campaign, this is the third item on his agenda. some voters may ultimately not receive their ballots out all, because lieutenant government campaign instructed eligible voters to send their request for absentee ballots to the texas secretary of state's office instead of their local elections office. in other words, he's hurting his own voters. meanwhile, in dallas, according to dallas morning news, 28% of dallas county ballots have already been rejected during early voting. this is a working just as planned, by the republicans, representative, or did they messed up or hurt themselves in the process? >> you know, we have a running joke in this texas house. half of the time they don't understand the bills that they're filing, and the push it has. and this is the very example of it. i mean, right now, even in

reading our lieutenant governor, encouraging people to vote by mail. this is something they wanted to make sure election officials cannot do, or elected officials couldn't do. they would say, lena holden ago, down in harris county, because you make sure that they invested, so that people will know that they do vote by mail in the midst of a pandemic. so they decided, too many people in harris county voted, so when i get rid of that. guess what? i have questions right now as to whether or not our very own lieutenant governor, who pushed this voter suppression bill, should actually be under investigation. but guess who does the investigation? so, i don't anticipate that our a.g. has going to investigate this. but i think that they're actually violating the law that they wrote, and i knew and i said, this is not going to be a democratic thing. this is going to be something that actually goes both ways. it's going to hurt democracy. and we heard from a bipartisan coalition of election officials,

that warned them and said, this is parliament. and furthermore, on the actual voter mail application, it says, fill this in, or fill this in, just like we do when we register the vote, it gives you the option. but then they kick it back, if you don't have the right one of those, and it doesn't say that. so the language they used is problematic. as far as i'm concerned, they shouldn't have not picked anybody's applications back, if they put the wrong identifying information, because the plain language on there does not read and that way, and they shouldn't just have to live by whenever the plain language said on the actual ballot by mail applications. >> it sounds as if the voting laws as working about as well as the texas grid. how can voters who are caught up in this mess, what they can do about it at this point? >> you know, at this point, i hate to say it, but you gotta get to the polls. and clearly, our lieutenant governor, i mean, we're talking about really, arguably, the most powerful person in texas.

he clearly needs to go. i mean, are you not saying this? republicans, you should be fired up as well, saying wait a minute. this is with our lieutenant governor did. he did not know that you can't send the applications back to your state. he did not know that. and mind you, this is a state that our governor put into place. this was the trump guy. so everybody should be on the same page with their game, and they're all confused, and they're confusing and hurting their own voters. and it's sad, because we weren't fighting for republicans, who aren't fighting for democrats, we weren't fighting for independence. we were fighting for democracy. something that used to matter to everyone, regardless of party. and that's what is at risk right now. people don't understand that if democracy is lost here, in the united states, imagine what happens in this world. it really does matter who we put into effect, because that we've got this crazy loss spring-like adorable cancer throughout the entire country. >> unbelievable! texas state representative,

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