challenged by authoritarianism. if we, americas elected leaders, do not search within ourselves for way out, i fear that this great experiment will fall into history. >> a stark warning about the future of our democracy from retiring congressman adam kinzinger. he'll take us off the air tonight. what that very somber and serious note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i'll stay -- see you at the end of tomorrow. he end of tomorrow >> it is too easy to make fun of former president donald trump in the new nft collection he launched today and we are not going to do it. we could do whole big thing on it and how he is quote unquote trading cards or trump photoshopped in the fantasy scenarios like this one where

he is a cowboy. or this one where he is an astronaut. or this one where he is a race car driver, or this one where he is superman. or this one where he is so cool that hollywood has changed its named to trump world or this one where he is some sort of big important stop guy. we aren't going to. the comedy is just too obvious, it's low hanging fruit. we could talk about the bizarre video he put out to promote this thing today. we could talk about how it seems like the kind of infomercial you might see it two a. m. when you were wake up in the tv is still on. but we will not. we can talk about all we didn't need to pay the $99 to keep price for these digital images because there's right clicking

on them using copy based. even the mere fact that trump hyped the launch of these really low quality photoshop jobs, as a quote unquote major announcement just feels so easy. it would be like stealing candy from a baby to make fun of that. so we will not do that, we will not stoop this low. and you think trump's nft and hausman is worth paying attention to for one reason. i don't think it's any news of trump's once again doing another big blatant grift. trump is doing something like that is about as revolutionary as water is wet. but what was amazing about trump's announcement today was that the conservative ecosystem that is propped him up for years now seems to be embarrassed by him. >> trump announced that he had a major announcement today and in the major announcement it is the sale of a what do you call >> playing cards. >> and it's a trump thing. and so there is the assumption -- >> who advised him and manage fire them immediately.

they are child trump digital playing cards. these trumps features some of the really incredible >> okay i got it. i've got it i can't watch it again. make it stop. >> that was the, first one was trump national security advisor slash wild conspiracy theory assist mike flynn and the former chief strategist slash current far-right tv host steve bannon. both of them can't get on board with this thing. and that's not cherry-picking reaction. major conservative outlets had a field day today rose former president. the new york post called the trumps nfts cringes. the examiner said trump was mercilessly mocked for the whole thing. at a writer the conservative red state said i voted for trump twice so i've zero eminence today towards anyone who remains offend. but, this kind of stuff is making it really difficult to not just throw my hands up. of course it's not just these nfts that have conservatives

hiding their maga hats on a high shelf in the closet. as the editor ensure for the conservative magazine a national review mitch lowry wrote yesterday, it's hard to imagine how trump could've had a worse month long run. ordinarily he might say the way of exaggerating him beside a point, but it could only been worse if he had dinner with a nazi, but of course he did that too. i it's not just conservative media that seems to be abandoning trump. it seems his donors are to. and a key fund raising window right after trump announced his new bid for the presidency, trump raised the grand total of four point $2 million. $4 million over two weeks. now $4 million is a lot for an individual, but for a presidential campaign these days it is nothing. compare it to the $130 million trump raised in the two weeks following the 2020 election. if all of that was not enough cold water, the latest polling should be.

in july, 60% of republicans wanted trump to run again. now only 47% to. and 45% do not want him to. and that's just pulling republicans. yesterday, the wall street journal released the results of a hypothetical matchup between trump and florida governor ron desantis for the florida republican nomination. desantis beat trump 50 to 30%, a four point margin. now, historically, republican primary liberal polling has not mattered this far out. but at this, point in the 2000 election cycle, elizabeth dole and dan quayle were seen as the front runners for the republican ticket. in 2008, lee giuliani seem like a shoe in. and at this point in 2016, trump wasn't even seen as a contender. but this time really does feel different. trump is an incredibly known entity and it doesn't seem like republicans like what they know about him. joining us now as mark leave a bitch staff writer for the atlantic and author of thank you for your servitude, donald trump's washington and the

price of submission. mark there's almost no one in the world and i would rather talk to this about. i will try to refrain from philly. we don't do it low hanging fruit. having said that, let's go back to the nfts. >> let's do it. >> let's talk about the disparity between this major announcement that trump was promising and the reality of basically photoshopped images of trump's a ten year old fantasy. >> stunning. starting in the caveat that we have said stunning words like that before. i couldn't believe it. the fact that steve bannon, michael flynn >> michael flynn! >> i'm not just trying to catch up on, i'm assuming the people of got into the corners and saying this is trump being trump. there was real contempt there. from people who are absolutely fundamentally so loyal to him, that might be an indicator.

the polls might be an indicator. look, on its face it's kind of a joke, i think that's how people are reacting to it. but i am beginning to think that maybe this actually might be different. the t-line guy might actually be turning a corner and the party might be ready to move on from him. >> it also speaks to the character event, part of trump 's appeal in part of the thing that he was granted reluctantly in some corners was that he understood the sort of pulse of the american electorate. and he had a way of communicating and they didn't see him as the grift or that some other people especially in the media understood and to be. but this is one time where you really feel like he's lost his sales pitch. they are not picking up what he's putting down. they are not buying what he's selling. >> my sense is that's true. there isn't a greater eye roll.

the fact of the matter is, he could go into summer iowa, michigan, ohio tomorrow and almost certainly he had 20,000 people somewhere. ron desantis, maybe a higher curiosity rate, but look, right now you have this 1 to 1 race. mike pence, ted cruz, any other republican, liz cheney aren't the kind of people who are going to defer to ron desantis's decide to sort of step down. i think despite all of this, he is the overwhelming front runner and has to be taken very seriously because of that. i will >> and i want to talk about ron desantis, somebody you have been writing about at the atlantic.

i laughed want to read the latest piece, we'll get to it in a second. i do think setting aside the presidential race which let's just remind everybody, is years away. beyond just the accolades saying cringing of what trump is doing, the right-wing media -- the fact that he seems to have lost rupert murdoch new york headlines -- is fox news next? it begs the question, is there anything the man can do to sort of turn the wheel back to a time when he was more championed if you will by the right wing? >> my sense is and this is kind of a personal pet issue with me. there has been such a high-level cowardice up and down the conservative media, the ecosystem, the republican party that if he does turn a corner, if he just sort of gain some momentum and normalcy back, i'm of the belief that most people will fall into line again. i think. >> you say came from normalcy back. ptsd from everybody watch the presidency and will be these moments where trump did something outlandish, and that is dividers would get him out in the rose garden reading scripts from rose garden and i would say he's become presidential again. he's down, he understands that

he can't act like that. and then again the joke was on us. every single time he would continue to do something outlandish. and mitch lowry makes the point. trump does not have easy lovers to change the narrative. it's not as though you can have a good legislative session like to governors who are thinking of running, or use their executive powers to pick useful fights. all we've got all he's got,-ism self and maybe a couple of classified documents down to maryland a bunch of nfts, and boris epstein. that's all he's got. those are the tools in his. arsenault >> look, if he weren't so lazy, if he weren't so and creative, he actually could do a desantis-like thing where he could go to the border. he could do some sort of event in an intercity somewhere to highlight crime. he could do something, i don't know in the middle east,

visitor friendly capital somewhere where people still love trump. there are things that he can do to accentuate if you are a serious politician if you're willing to actually do the work here that could accentuate the good that many in the conservative world perceive as him having. but ultimately now, this is i think emblematic of one the lack of levers he has to play, but also it's just laziness and frankly he almost feels bored. he almost feels like this thing is sort of played out and in some ways maybe he is

projecting over the conservative base, the maga base is responding to what they see in him. maybe i'm projecting my own wish casting on him, but i do think there is a lot of that. >> well, boring is something he is never wanted to be. yes. the f t's sort of have me twittering my thumbs of nothing to do better quality than that. do you think the investigations help him if he's indicted by the special counsel. if the doj goes after him formally. set up in a way that the mueller investigation helped? >> it could because i think most republicans are -- desantis, are such cowards that they would actually run to his defense and say make him a cause celeb or, make him a bit of a martyr that that would probably elevate him in a perverse way within the republican party. having said that, people can sort of say, well there are csis -- these are all big deals on their own. look, i don't care if you are a sociopath or what. if it's hanging over you, it is going to take a great deal of financial resources, legal resource, a lot of time. i don't, know i don't envy

that. >> how much legal representation to the nfts pay for? nobody can know that. >> let's talk about ron desantis, because you have some choice analysis in the atlantic. nobody has really talked about who ron desantis is as a politician. we talked about the legislation, the stuff is overseen in florida as a governor, talked a lot about that on the show, but as a person who would have to theoretically contend with trump in the arena, the blood sport of debate and campaigning. ron desantis is an excerpt from your piece.

rather have teeth pulled without an axe and aesthetic then beyond a vote with ron desantis. to sum up, desantis is not a fun and convivial dude. he prefers to keep his ear buds in. he is a step away from the vehicle vibe is strong and then this. on a debate stage, all of trump's strength go straight to desantis's weakness. trump's energy in presents, desantis is dour and doesn't improvised particularly well. people who are say he possesses a particular charisma. even people who votes for desantis don't say that about

him. kim and launch any charm incentive unarmed. that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of what may come in 2024. >> he may have a complete personality overhaul? >> all can you completely do that? how can you possibly do. that >> he can do anything. >> look, there is a long tradition of sort of next big things who are built up, donors love them, they win elections like desantis did last month and pretty impressive fashion. then they come out to play and it's like oh, where's president better o'rourke or rick perry, he'd go down, jeb bush. desantis right now seems to have the theoretical field to himself. i think though that his personality type, people know him in florida, people have served with him in congress, other republican congress governors in other republican states who were serving when he was there. all people say that trump is the type of person who can run circles around someone who is not fundamentally comfortable in a political skin, doesn't have good stage presence. maybe i'm being shallow here, but i don't think it's a good matchup for the saddest, and i don't think he's gonna wear particularly well. >> my sense is that trump would got desantis. >> or a club like up baby seal. he loves the violet animal metaphors. >> they speak. volumes >> they do. >> it's an honor to have you. writer for the out staff writer for the atlantic great reporting ryan desantis, thanks for the time. >> thank you alex. >> we have lots more coming up this hour. remember this scene inside the u.s. capitol on january 6th? republican lawmakers gleefully applauding as members of their own party objected to the electoral college count? senator amy klobuchar joins me next and, oscar what does congress have in the works from preventing future elections being stolen in the same way?

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attacked the u.s. capitol, mark meadows trump's former chief of staff is getting these text messages back at the white house. >> dozens of texts including from trump administration officials urged immediate action by the president. quote, potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed.

and another, mark, he needs to stop this now. a third, in all caps, tell them to go home. a fourth, and i quote, potus needs to comp -- down. >> it was over a year ago that liz cheney first revealed the text messages sent from republican members of congress and conservative media to mark meadows during the january 6th attack. they all requested the same thing, for trump to do something, anything to stop the attack. these messages were revealing in that they pointed towards trump and his inaction. but equally revealing is what liz cheney said next. >> these non privileged texts are further evidence that president trump led to a supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes and mr. meadow's testimony will bear on another key question before this committee. did donald trump through action

or inaction corruptly seek to obstruct or impede congress's official proceeding to count electoral votes. >> cheney was suggesting deliberately for the first time that trump might have committed a felony, and the language she carefully used and later repeated pointed to a specific section of the criminal code under section 1510 title 18. that said that whoever obstructs or influences any official proceeding or attempts to do so shall be fined under this titled not more than 20 years or both. a year later, the january 6th committee is finally ready to prevent its conclusions that will happen next week. on monday, the panel is expected to meet and consider issuing civil criminal referrals against certain people. the final report will be, is expected to be released wednesday.

those are just referrals, the power of prosecution rests with the justice department. but it is worth noting that the -- members of the special subcommittee analyzing whether to make these criminal referrals in the first place, most people are all lawyers. all with prosecutorial and trial experience so they know what they are doing. for the more, jamie raskin who was leading that subcommittee has said that while they largely relying on publicly known evidence, in some evidence cases there may be evidence that is not come to light. he also said we are going through the painstaking work of analyzing how much evidence we have and -- joining us now is luke broadwater, congressional reporter for the new york times. luke, thank you for being here.

we wanted to play that all soundbite of liz cheney because what's so abundantly clear, from the inception of the committee, from its first televised hearing, the congress people on the committee were referring to criminal statutes. they were building a legal case against those involved in the january 6th plot. i just wonder, how much do you expect there referrals to not be vague but highly specific and incite criminal code and in so doing make it very difficult for the doj to ignore these referrals or otherwise pushed them aside? >> right, well i do expect them to be quite specific. that team of four lawyers that you pointed to or some very accomplished attorneys. they have been going through this and they spend weeks and weeks working on these referrals. and not all of them started off

in favor of referrals. zoe lofgren at the beginning of this process was deeply skeptical of congress issuing criminal referrals. she thought it wasn't really their purview, who was maybe outside of their jurisdiction not really the right exercise for congress to be doing but over time they gained a level of confidence in the investigation that they were doing. they realized that they were ahead of the justice department in many aspects, and that they also realized that they had a role to play in educating the public about how certain actions violated certain criminal codes. they felt that they could even prevent present evidence and influence even the justice department and how to interpret some of these statutes to apply to what they believe were crimes that happened on january 6th and what led up to it.

so i do expect that we will see multiple criminal referrals on monday but what's yet to be determined is exactly what charges and what they will recommend against which individuals. >> one other thing -- while there's two other ways of looking at a. they're either gonna put a lot of pressure on the doj, special counsel and intern merrick garland the a. g., or they could just -- the case that they are developing. do you have a sense of that there is trepidation at the doj about what is coming next week or whether there is enthusiasm and anticipation? >> from my understanding, merrick garland and the top lawyers at the doj will say that this has no influence on them one way or another. they are running an independent investigation. yes thank you congress for sending us this letter with your thoughts but you are

different branch of government and we are doing our own investigation. that said, i do think what's is quite important for the committee is to lay things out for the public at large. and when you do that you can create a pressure on the justice department. now the concern from the committee that this could actually backfire in a way that it would look untoward, that the political branches trying to influence the judicial branch. but also they came around the view that if you have evidence, if you accumulated all of this testimony from all these interviews. you've got all these documents, that he sort of need to give it to the justice department. it's almost your duty to do it. that's where they have landed in the end, and i expect that we will see some very specific language about which civil or criminal statutes were violated. >> yeah, well just from what we saw earlier this year i would expect that as well. i do wonder, we've gotten the suggestion that will be new

evidence in the report that's issued next week. we know that since the last public hearing the committee has spoken with tony ornato, i was on december 6th and bobby angle, i was on december 17th. both of those secret service agents were key players in cassidy hutchinson's bombshell testimony about what happened with the president on january 6th. do you think that testimony, the information gleaned from those interviews and those testimonies will be in the report that we see next week? >> the matter with the secret service was i think the last big final leg of this investigation. all of that sort of blew up after the final of the last public hearing that the committee had. the members were essentially enraged upon learning that text messages had been deleted, that they hadn't got full cooperation from the service secret service, that they believe that some of the agents

may have misled the committee. so they hauled in these agents again to re-interview them. my understanding of what they have learned is a bunch of conflicting stories and they basically just do not believe some people were being fully honest with the committee, that some people's testimony contradicts some of the documents and evidence they have. so no one thing the committee is looking at is obstruction or interference type of referrals. that potentially could apply here, we might see that on monday. i'm almost positive that we will see a breakdown of the secret service with sort of a side by side comparison of what different testimony was. and remember, they are playing all the transcript, so even if things don't make a chapter in the report, we won't get to read through them all and see exactly what people said to this committee. >> there are gonna be a lot of people interested in the full transcript. congressional reporter for the new york times, luke broadwater. i know you're gonna be reporting a lot next week. thanks for making time for us. >> thank you. >> coming up. antiabortion activists are already gearing up for the next big fight over reproductive rights by adopting tactics first pioneered by the environmental movement. what they are doing and what pro advocates are doing to try to stop them. that's coming up. next. feel like... sound like... even smell like. more on that soon.

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order these calls from telemedicine providers who then mail them. in fact exactly one year ago the fda decided to permanently allow abortion pills to be mailed. that is where loss lee bass come in. the group has been providing abortion pills for women in mexico for decades when abortion was first banned there. and now that millions of acts no americans lost access to abortion, they're calling lost leave is for covert access to abortion medication, this call as increased to brown adequately. this week the washington post carolyn kitchener as, said it is rankled conservatives who thought the dobbs was a big win, and now they are trying to do something about it. now many conservatives are complaining that the abortion bans are not being sufficiently enforced even though much of the illegal activity is happening in plain sight. everyone who is trafficking these bills should be in jail for trafficking said the president of pro-life america who started to speak with republican governors about the

prevalence of an illegal abortion pill network. even co-opted the environmental network. this is the strategy is to limit access to health care. students life to america says it's caused by medication abortion, specifically from fetal remains flushed down the toilet as often happens when people moment take abortion pills at home. the group is making plans to systematically test the water erin brock of itch style and several large u.s. cities, searching for contaminants that they say result result from medication abortion. the she says we will be meeting with republican attorneys general enough new year to, -- based on the groups claims about toxic waste water. in the fight over access to this pills ramp up, is next become in the fight for next antiabortion conservatives. kara joining us now is caroline qishan, the washington post reporter who's been covering

the politics of abortion. caroline, thank you for being with us tonight. let's just start with this new strategy in how feasible it is to try and trace women who have had medication abortion through water. is that even possible? can you do something that sort of accuracy? >> well, it wouldn't be so much to trace them. the claim is that these medications are creating toxic water and they are hoping to create some sort of injunction against these pills broadly. so the idea is to make up or shin bills illegal, not just in texas and oklahoma, states that already have bands but also in california and new york. that's the end goal for some of these groups, but they are growing increasingly desperate about what they see is a catastrophic problem. >> they're effectively easing an environmental argument to outlaw abortion pills? is that what we should glean from all? of this and we think that is something is going to find favor with the court? >> exactly.

i have learned covering this abortion beat that the things that sound mild he should not dismiss. i've seen time and time again that the antiabortion movement as come up with new and creative ways to crack down on this procedure. and oftentimes, especially in the past few years they have been successful. so i think we'll have to wait and see how this plays out. >> we also have reporting the republicans in texas are trying to work on a bill that would block websites that lead women to go and get these abortion pills. it reminds me of other countries in the world where websites are blocked to cut back on peoples personal freedom. i won't go down that rabbit hole, but in terms of the effort, where is that effort in

the court system right now and how favorable is the landscape in texas which of course has been leading the way in antichoice legislation? >> texas is very much a testing ground. -- it is the place to look if you are interested and what the rest of the country could be doing a few years from now or next year on the issue of abortion. i've been watching the very closely, and one of the bills that they are drafting right now is that basically censoring the internet. saying the people in the state of texas will not be able to go on these websites. even anti-abortion lawyers said that -- i think we'll have to see how it plays out, really remains to be seen whether there is a political will for these kinds of extreme measures, especially after the midterms with

abortion being so widely popular. i think it's a really big question how much support these republicans are going to have when they push for these kinds of measures. >> yes, you think the writing would be in the wall yet some people choose to look away. carolina been doing such great era important writing on what's happening at the forefront of this really key issue. thank you for time and all the work to be doing at the post. really appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> coming up next. a stunning 147 republicans including eight senators objected to the results of the 2020 election certifying joe biden's win even after a violent trump supporting mob ransacked their place of work. and now congress finally looks likely to take action on a bipartisan basis to try and prevent a similar coup from happening in the future. one of the key centers behind that effort, minnesota senator amy klobuchar joins us to discuss that. next. mr. fabelman, this is your big moment. the best movie of the year is the fabelmans. and now it's nominated for 5 golden globe awards.

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writing and signed by a second? >> yes it is. [applause] >> a standing ovation from her republican lawmakers during a joint session of congress during january 6th for congressman paul gosar and senator ted cruz were the first to issue former challenges to the certification of joe biden 's electoral college victory. this was an integral part of the coup that was attempted on january 6th. in the months since, republicans have shown almost no appetite to hold the perpetrators of that plot account opponent accountable. except for one minute. right now at the very moment, congress is likely to pass a law that would make it much harder for a handful of lawmakers to try and subvert a fair and free election. it is called the electoral

count reform act, and it would modernize the electoral count act of 1887, an antiquated law that trump's allies took out in their attempt to overturn the of 2020 election. it would show up -- he and he or she cannot. it also change the threshold for objections to a slate of electors by requiring one fifth of the house and senate to sign on to any objections. not a single congressman like paul gosar or a single senator like ted cruz. but there is a very short timeline to get this done and the clock is ticking. joining us now is minnesota senator amy klobuchar. she chairs the senate chair rules committee. senator klobuchar, it's always great to see you, thank you for being here tonight. is this bill going to pass? >> yes, i think so it is going to pass and senator schumer assured me that he has been working to get it on the bill as has mitch mcconnell, speaker pelosi and many others.

this is very important for our country. i was the one who read the votes that night for arizona. i will never forget in the morning what happened. but mostly i will never forget what happened later in the night when it 3:30 in the morning, roy blunt and vice president pence -- walking with the three pairs of young pages with the mahogany -- filled with the electoral ballots up to wyoming. that was after the insurrection. we said democracy will prevail and it did and two weeks later there we were and that beautiful blue sky with the inauguration of joe biden and kamala harris. i was naive, i thought that was it. the towards has been passed. but what we have since learned is that voter suppression efforts were again made all over the country on election day just in the last midterms in arizona, people in camel showing up at election spots. this continues and this is why it is so important that this electoral count act which was worked on by senator manchin and senator collins and so many others, zoloft greene and liz cheney over in the house of representatives, that we pass it. it basically says, no you cannot use this archaic law from the 1800s to stop the will of the people.

>> you know what's surprising about the law? first of all that's an incredible memory that i'm eager to hear more and more detail of that walking of the mahogany box. but what's interesting about the bill as that it has 15 republicans have signed on to sponsor the bill. there are some names on there that will be familiar because they're the names of retiring senators. also signing on, lindsey graham, chuck grassley, mitch mcconnell, john corman, john thune, republicans in leadership have been some love to say anything contrary to the concert of line about january 6th. they have been loathe to hold accountable and in the insurrectionists or any the plotters of this coup. do you see this as an indication that republicans like those might have more of an appetite to actually have a check on people like donald trump in the coming years? should be read anything into the the report for this? >> first of all, there was a bit of a checklist for those midterm elections in the u.s. senate races should i say. that was become of the voters. i think they are well aware of that. but the second reason is that this bill needed to be

reformed. as i said, it's archaic. what we do here and they agreed to this because they understand this can happen anytime again, and no one wants another insurrection except maybe one guy who's sitting out there. number one, it says the vice president's role is ceremonial. you are not going to have this hang mike pence happening in because it is clarifying and ceremonial. secondly, it makes clear the you have to have 20% of the senators or representatives in each body, 20% have to object in order to get to a vote and a debate. it could take days and days if someone really wanted to gum up the process because as it is right now, only one senator and one house member could object

from any party, even if their own person what. that is the crazy law and that is why it needs to be changed. and finally, no more of these fake electors after the fact. they have to be sent ahead of time and there has to be an appeals process put in place. so we made it very clear and we welcome the republican support. senator blunt tonight made some changes, improved the bill. we believe we got a 14 to 1 vote out of the senate rules committee and that's part of the reason we've had this momentum to get it in on the end of the year package. >> how are you feeling about the incoming senate? we know that some of the republicans on this are the guys that are leaving, to meet, blunt and others, they are not going to be there. you have j. d. vance in the upper chamber. democrats have a larger majority than they did before kind of, depending on how you look at kyrsten sinema and her role in the upper chamber. are you feeling optimistic also?

-- >> first of all, she's always had an independent streak and think she made a very clear she's going to continue to work with -- what the routine votes we have every day. but i look at it this way. we had a 50 to 50 crushing majority there, and now we are up to 51. it does help us to get nominees out of the committees. all kinds of things. and we were able with the presidents leadership, we were able to get all kinds of bills done on a bipartisan basis starting with the senate i should add. infrastructure bills, initial gun safety bill, we know we have so much more to do. the work on semiconductors, making them in america. those are all bipartisan efforts, so i don't rule them out. my concern about what's gonna go on in the house of representatives with some of the people in that caucus? yes. and it's a very, very tight situation over there but it does give some democrats some power to try to work with us to try to push things through and we always welcome some republicans as well. but what you saw, miracles happen with all odds against us with that 50 50 vote, we were able to pin this bill after

bill after bill. >> that's amazing what you guys got down and with that crushing majority. >> by the way including just the last week with the respect for marriage act. the fact that we were finally able to pass the bill on a federal level with jamie -- leadership in so many others. watching senator schumer and speaker pelosi and president biden, vice president harris up there, it was an amazing moment. and all the couples who had fought so hard to get this bill

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technology reporter ryan mack's last tweet before his twitter account got suddenly and mysteriously suspended tonight. quote, me setting up my mastered on account, referring to a new twitter competitor, and a meme of simpson's character ralph whigham saying i'm in danger. the joke here is that this new york times reporter knew the odds were good that an account light be suspended, not because anybody told him it would be, but not because he did anything wrong, but because he fit tonight's pattern. tonight twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a

dozen journalists, from cnn, the new york times, the washington post, and other outlets. because sessions came without warning or explanation. but many of the suspended accounts had recently written about a dispute between twitter 's new owner, elon musk, and a 20 year old florida college student who uses public information to track masks jet. now we can't say why this happened but this pattern is concerning. we are keeping an eye on it and we will report back if we learn more. we will tweet the updates but after doing this segment i feel a bit like well we commit self. am i in danger? that does it for us. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word, with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence.