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>> so there were four of them all together. four of them thus far. the first one was put up in 2008. it was in glendora mississippi. a tiny little town in mississippi. less than 200 people. so it was right on the bank of the river. and this spot, from the 1840s until the 18 90s, there had been a big steamboat landing there on the bank of the river. kind of a bustling, spot coming going in the spot of commerce that they were roads in buildings of course of course because of the steamboat landing. but in the 1890s, a tornado came and right out the steam boat landing on the riverbank. they never rebuilt. so all that is left at the spot to this day it's kind of just a clearing.

a break in the vegetation through which you can knock it down to the river. as where they put the sign up in 2008. but as soon as they put it up, somebody came in torn down. this was the post it was standing on. you can see that it's been cut off. the top, down cut it off. through the sign in the river. then last their six months. for somebody destroyed it. after the first sign got point down, they put up a second. another one just like. this was the second sign. what are all of those holes in it? well, people started shooting at. by the time this one was taken down in 2016, it had 317 bullet holes in it. 317. in 2018, they put up yet another new one. a third one, this time it was a big study one they thought could stand up to it. this time the sum was heavy. it weighed 50 pounds.

lasted barely a month before that one was full of bullet holes to. and in july of 2019, three fraternity brothers, three white fraternity brothers from the university of mississippi, actually kind of far from there, our drive away. they posed in front of the shot sign. holding rifles and a shotgun in the picture. so that third sign it came down as well. so now, it is the fourth version of the sign that is up. and this one does not weigh 50 pounds, this one weighs 500 pounds. it is made of half inch thick ar 500 steel. which is what they make good armor plating from. it was a company in new york actually, the company called light bright neon studio in brooklyn new york that made the sign, pro bono. it made, it shifted, installed at their own expense. in this time, the fourth version of the sun, this time

it is made to be able to withstand a rifle around. and of course, it needs to be. the reason that this sign, the reason all of these signs, all four of them in succession were put up there on the bank of the river is because in 1955, that is the spot, it is believed that is the spot where the body of a 14 year old kid was hauled out of the river. he was 14 years old. who's from chicago. was staying with relatives in mississippi. and he was accused of whistling at a white woman. the white woman said that the 14-year-old boy had grabbed her and made lewd comments to her. as well as winter. but he had not done that. more than 50 years later, she finally admitted she had lied and made it all up. but of course by then it was more than 50 years too late. two white men, roy bryant and j.w. objected the 14 or both.

threw him into a pickup truck, tortured him horribly. and they murdered him. and they put on trial for murder, in front of an all white jury. which acquitted them. those two men admitted in court to the kidnapping part of the crime. but when a grand jury was asked to indict them for kidnapping, which they admitted to in open court, the grand jury would not even indict them for that. so acquitted of murder, not even indicted for kidnapping. and soon after they were acquitted of murder, the two men did a magazine interview that they got paid for. a cheerfully admitted in the magazine interview that of course they had committed the murder, of course they had killed the kid. the boy's name was emmett till. and the site where his body was found is where the sign memorializing his murder has been torn down and thrown in

the river and cut off its supports and spray-painted and they housed with acid and a shot at. literally, hundreds of times. the marker, noting the place where his 14-year-old body, tortured, mutilated body was pulled out of the river, that is the place with that sign keeps having to be rebuilt and put up. tomorrow, the president of the united states will designate that a national monument. that site. the emmett till national monument will be created by president biden tomorrow. and this new monument includes three sites that riverbank site where the sign has gone up and up again and again and it is now a bulletproof version of the sign. the riverbank site also the site of the courthouse where men who admitted to killing

emmett till were acquitted by the all white jury. that courthouse will be a part of this national monument as well. that courthouse has also where local officials apologized to emmett till's family. in 2007. which is the year before the first sign went up on the riverbank. the third sight in this new national monument will be in chicago. at a church, at the roberts temple church of god and christ. where more than 10,000 people turned out for young commit till's funeral in september of 1955. after he had been murdered. his mother, made the decision to allow a photograph of her brutalized son to be taken for a magazine chicago defender newspaper. and it tells mother made the decision her son would lie in an open casket as if you know. so everybody could see what had been done to him. but again, the national

monument that would be designated tomorrow by president biden will be named both for and it still and for his mother. it is called the emmett till national monument. becoming a national monument means now this is protected land. protected by the federal government, protected and maintained by the national parks service in perpetuity. with this particular new national monument, with that sight in particular on that river bank in mississippi. that has been treated like a shooting gallery, this had four different markers go up. the latest one 500 pounds and bulletproof protected by a gate and alarms and cameras. where a white nationalist group nevertheless tried to shoot in anti black, white power propaganda video in 2019. with this newest, designated national monument, i don't know how it's going to go for that to be federally protected land.

something the national parks service agrees to maintain and protect in perpetuity. but they now have that responsibility. and that is a start. that is something >> president biden will sign a proclamation, designating the new national monument tomorrow. on what would have been emmett till's 82nd birthday. had he lived past the age of 14. >> and this designation, this decision to do this by president biden, this comes at a time when it certainly feels right to do something like that. it comes at a time when the state of florida has just approved bizarre, new mandates for teaching african american history in the state of florida. the new rules, created under florida river on santa's. the rules order teachers and florida to say that slavery was

not that bad. had some upside at least, according to florida's new history instructions for teachers. enslaved people were lucky enough to learn skills and traits well they were being enslaved and sold and tortured and rape with impunity. these new history regulations in florida, compel teachers to point out the sides of slavery. it's just astonishing. florida governor ron desantis was of course at the helm of a floundering presidential campaign, he frankly seems divided within himself, as to whether or not he wants to distance himself from this abomination. sort of tried a little, but that wasn't me, i didn't do that, that didn't have anything to do with me. he sort of divided within himself whether or not he should distance himself, so he had nothing to do with it. or maybe he should embrace it. because after, all he loves controversy, particularly when

it relies on racial provocation. maybe there might be a way for him and his campaign to benefit from this was racially provocative controversy. but this new national monument comes at a time when alabama's state legislature, which of course is overwhelmingly republican, alabama's legislature appears poised to do something very radical. to make sure black voters in alabama cannot elect representatives of their choice. you may have heard that the supreme court of the united states, this might have crossed your radar. the supreme court of the united states, you might know right now is a very conservative body. a 6 to 3 hard right conservative majority on the nation's highest court as we speak. but even so, even that hard align conservative 6 to 3 court could not swallow the recent

decision by alabama's legislature to draw congressional districts in the state. so there is only one black majority districts in the whole state, in a state where a quarter of the population is black. the high court ordered the state of alabama to make a new map. where there are two such districts where black voters might be able to elect a representative of their choice. they've been ordered to do this by the federal courts. alabama is refusing to do it. even though alabama technically is a state. in the united states of america. which is a country that is technically subject to the ruins of the supreme court of the united states. even the alabama parts of the united states are subject to federal court orders. but apparently, they are deciding on this issue that may be they do not want to be. so we will talk about this morning to tell a little later on in the show tonight with somebody right in the middle of

the fight. but alabama deciding that it might not follow federal court orders when it comes to black people voting in 2023, it is not like a rascal little tantrum album is strong here. this is the whole point of the country kind of stuff. this is as serious as it gets. defying federal court orders to state the obvious is a federal fast right now on a short road for any country. and any stay in the deep south, any state that says say succeeded during the civil war is very well aware of that. very well aware of how radical this is. but of course it is even more resident, even more incendiary to do it right now. because governor slavery was not that bad desantis does not look like he is going to go the distance in the republican nominating contest. he is just running a terrible campaign. that is sort of getting worse

and more expensive by the day. seems to be the only person who ever had a prayer of being within shooting distance, proverbial shooting distance forgive me of the republican front runner. i mean the republican party really does poise to renominate it's front runner. to nominate a candidate who is dominating their presidential polling by 20, 30, 40 points. and if nobody can get anywhere near him, if they do we nominate donald trump as their candidate for president, that means the whole campaign for president, the whole election for president of the united states over the course of the next year is going to be in large part a referendum. on this question of whether we follow court orders anymore as a country. whether the legal system binds us, whether it binds all of us. because the likely republican nominee for president, as things are going, the prohibited favorite to be the nominee for president is facing a trial in october.

on a quarter billion dollar civil fraud case brought by the attorney general. and another civil trial in january and defamation claims related to sexual assault allegations against him. and another trial in january on a multi million dollar fraud case related to an alleged pyramid scheme he was involved in. then a criminal trial in march on the new york state hush money charges. then a federal criminal trial in may on his criminal indictment for his handling of classified documents. and meanwhile, we are waiting on who's a potential criminal indictments of him personally, both at the federal level and in the state of georgia related to efforts to overthrow the government and stay in power after he lost reelection. so if that is the personal schedule of the republican party nominee for president, a busy and be the election is going to be about this. it's going to be the referendum question posed both implicitly and explicitly by his

candidacy. do we choose him or do we choose the law. to choose the law. does the law apply to us all? does it protect us all, does it constrain us all or do we want this guy instead? >> all of the myriad of things he has to offer. the sixth and final episode of my new podcast just posted today. it has been six episodes altogether. now we are done, it's been a blast, a ton of work but i'm glad we did. it you can listen to all six of them for free on any podcast app. it is called rachel maddow presents déjà news. and the finale episode, that posted today in part tells the story of a protest and march that happened in america. we need new york city 1935. 1930, five just before world war ii. we need to mussolini was the dictator of fascist italy. he had essentially proclaimed that he was going to send

italian troops to africa. he was going to invade ethiopia. what's going to conquer ethiopia and make it a colony of fascist italy. and there is just this amazing story about how the u.s. and major countries in europe handled the threat from giuliani. how they handled the question of whether or not to defend ethiopia, the question of whether mussolini should be stopped in his efforts to go invade the country and take them over. whether he could be stopped from doing, that what the west powers effectively should do to try to stop him from doing that. if they decided he should not be allowed to do it. it's fascinating. but there is also just this domestic part of it. which feels more and more resident with each passing. black new yorkers at the time lined up and volunteered. effectively enlisting to go fight the fascists. to go stop that invasion.

hundreds of men volunteering to confine the. even if the u.s. military would not. 25,000 new yorkers marched through new york city, demanding the fascists be stopped. another 10,000 new yorkers packed into madison square garden for a huge rally against the fascist. they destroyed a 20 foot effigy of mussolini onstage. 10,000 people there for that. in other episodes of déjà news, we looked at the huge protests erupted very recently in poland. when their new far-right government mounted a conservative takeover of the courts. and then banned abortion. the biggest protests in poland since the fall of communist rule there in 1989. this weekend, thought of that a little bit when we saw new yorkers took over the brooklyn bridge. in solidarity with the huge,

huge protests that are rocking israel at the moment. as we speak, the right-wing government in israel today mounting an effective takeover of the judiciary in that country. which will not only be very convenient for their prime minister who is under criminal indictment, but will also broadly remove the ability of the courts to constrain the government in lots of important ways. not a written constitution, israel has no written constitution the court ability to constrain the government is effectively the only constraint on the government. and if they will get rid of that, while the government will be unconstrained. starting presumably with the prime minister's ability to dismantle the corruption charges that depend against him. whilst he serves as prime minister. tens of thousands of israelis have been protesting for six months now. against these proposals. the government finally pushed through the first of them today. knowing that was likely, tuesday last week, a few hundred protesters set out from the city of tel aviv for a march to the capital of

jerusalem. it is about a 40 mile march. they left tel aviv tuesday. against several hundred people. by the time they got to the outskirts of jerusalem saturday night, their numbers had swelled from a few hundred people to 20,000 people. took them four nights, camping out along the way to get there but during the time, their numbers grew from several hundred to 20,000. and the protests and demonstrations and roadblocks continued there tonight in jerusalem. and tel aviv and all over the country. as demonstrators try to stop the government from taking this huge step away from democratic rule. and limited authority of the country's leader. we are in a moment at home and abroad. where the hard right, the authoritarian nationalist right is aggressively ascendant.

and i think it is fair to say as aggressively ascendant as they have been since the 30s. a descendant of mussolini's fascist party is now in power again in italy. the very far right, the racist far-right made a hard run at the french presidency just a couple years ago. the hard right is in place in power in poland as i mentioned where they just banned abortion. and hungry of course in russia. we all thought that they might be empowered by today in spain. but voters they're actually surprised everyone this weekend by turning back their far-right nationalist party and sending them packing. they really thought that they would be in power in spain by today but instead in this weekend's elections they got lacked. hello spring. >> thinking of our own domestic challenges along the lines. running as we are, hard up against these basic questions of whether we are sticking with the rule of law or moving instead towards authoritarian

rule. knowing that our likely nominees for presidency next year are effectively going to be setting up the presidency as a referendum on that guy or the ball. knowing that is what we are hard up against here in this country. looking at our domestic challenges right now. looking at images from our own history. from israel this weekend. it is days like this one it is good to remember that it is not just the authoritarian right that is ascendant as a global trend. it is also resistance to authoritarianism. that can be a global trend. that is a global trend. the fight back is ascendant too. resilience matters. the first sign came down. second one came down to, full of bulls. just like the 31 after that. but the fourth one is built

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seven states sent these fake elector documents to the federal government. it happened in arizona, michigan, wisconsin, nevada, georgia, pennsylvania and new mexico. all states that were won by joe biden. and as you can, see all of the things they sent in looked kind of the same. republican electors in these states signed their names to these forged documents. pretending it was actually trump who won the most votes in the presidential election and that he should receive the states electoral votes instead of biden. but some clearly organized this effort. all the documents sent in these

states followed a similar kind of template. well, last week the attorney general in michigan brought criminal charges against the 16 fake electors from michigan. eight felony counts of trying to overturn election results in michigan. but again, michigan was just one of the states that did this. a version of this scheme was run in seven states. what will happen to the fake electors in the other six states where they tried this exact same thing. in some cases, looking like they were playing out of the exact same sheet of mad libs. well, in two of seven states, pennsylvania and new mexico, we know the fake electors change to the template a bit. they changed the language in their fake documents to include a caveat. which basically said well, we know that we are not the real electors now but we are submitting the documents anyways just in case we become the real electors in the future. those caveat seemed to have been added to shield the fake electors from legal liability.

and in those two states, in pennsylvania and new mexico is possible that has worked. but, there is still four other states. where the circumstances of our sort of are yet to be determined. in nevada, we pretty much know we should not expect charges. the attorney general there has explicitly said he is not planning to bring charges against the six fake electors from his state. but still, that leads to arizona, georgia and wisconsin. in arizona, we know that an investigation, reportedly is ongoing into the perpetrators of the fake electors scheme there. in georgia, the fake electors scheme is apparently a focal point of district attorney fani willis's investigation into activity related efforts to overturn the election that includes actions by the former president himself. the fake electors part of that has had attention for quite

some time. she is granted immunity to at least eight of georgia's 16 fake electors. in exchange for their cooperation in the ongoing investigation. that leaves wisconsin. where the state attorney general has refused to talk about with whether or not he is investigating the fake electors there. now we have reached out to the wisconsin attorney generals office, the office will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any such investigation. telling us tonight quote, attorney general call strongly believes that those who have committed crimes in an effort to unlawfully subvert the outcome of an election should be held accountable. which is great. also very generic. still telling us basically nothing. but among these seven states with which we had fake electors, it is a lot of fake electors right? 16 of them charged in michigan. more of them being investigated as we speak. at least in arizona and georgia. maybe in other places as well.

it's a good reminder that in all of these investigations we are following around particularly the efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, it's not just former president donald trump who is in the crosshairs. for example, in special counsel jack smith's classified documents case, charges of course have already been brought against trump. and his staff are walt nauta. but we also have reporting that another trump organization employee has been told there the target of that investigation could face additional criminal charges. again, so yet another person could be charged in the classified documents case. a person has been warned of charges, effectively giving a target letter in the case. and while we have yet to see charges in the january 6th case, and they overturning election part of the case, one of the statutes reportedly listed in the target letter trump has received on that is conspiracy. and if there is one thing we know about conspiracy charges,

it is that a person cannot conspire alone. are there more names to drop? who would that be through the lucky progress of this case. joining us now is chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official. jeff, great to see you my friend. thank you for being here. my pleasure rachel, thanks for having me. >> in the trump adjacent investigations, obviously there is a lot of moving parts. a lot of people, potentially with legal liability besides trump himself. we have seen that come to fruition in terms of charges brought against a codefendant in a classified documents case already. how are you thinking about trump's potential codefendants. or people being charged with similar crimes alongside him. in terms of how that affects the way that these cases are going to proceed? >> great question. let's just talk about the mar-a-lago classified documents case for a minute. because we have a codefendant. we have a coconspirator. and in some ways, it makes

sense. if the government believes in good faith that more than one person committed a crime. then you ought to charge more than one person. however, the disparity between mr. trump and mr. nauta is significant. one was the former president, one is a relatively low level aid. and the problem the government will face at trial with the defendants is that there will be two teams of defense council. they will have to opening statements. they will have to closing arguments. and every single government witness will be cross-examined twice. and that can create noise and confusion in a courtroom. and for a jury. so i do not know it is necessarily an easy decision. i do not mean to say that it's a wrong decision. but i don't know it's necessarily an easy decision to indict other people with mr. trump and try them jointly. >> if trump is charged with conspiracy, and again we should say that we have reporting of what is in his target letter,

if we had definitive knowledge of what was in the target letter, there's no guarantee that what is in the target letter is indicative that charges will be brought or that the charges that will be brought are those that are related to the statutes mentioned in the target. i have to give all the caveats. but with all of those caveats, if trump is charged with conspiracy, there is no guarantee his conspiracy, his conspirators, people conspired with would be charged under the state indictment. or indeed charged at all, right? >> that is exactly right. one could be an unindicted coconspirator. in fact, if you think back to michael cohen's charges in the southern district of new york. cohen of course, mr. trump's former personal lawyer. in that indictment, we learned about an unindicted coconspirator. individual one, is how the government described that person in the indictment. and that turned out to be mr. trump himself. charging a case as a conspiracy confers on the governments certain evidentiary advantages.

i will not bore you with those now. so it makes sense often to charge a conspiracy. and often when you charge a conspiracy, you have multiple defendants at trial. but to your point of rachel, you are right. you do not have to. you can have unindicted coconspirators. that are flagged by the grand jury. and mentioned in the indictment but not sitting next to the defendant, perhaps mr. trump at his own criminal trial. >> trump, i have to ask you, i cannot let you go without asking one last question which is the question on everybody's mind this week. which is what our expectations reasonably between the relationship of the report a target letter and any indictment, any concealment of indictment against trump if one is in fact coming. another great question while i was a federal prosecutor, i would occasionally send out target letters. i would never send out a target letter to somebody that i did not intend to indict.

they are not lost, or not games, they're not make believe. so here is what you ought to expect if mr. trump really did receive a target letter, and he will be charged with federal crimes. if he really received a target letter, that will happen relatively soon. now, to your points earlier, your caveats are wise. target letters are not contracts. and the government could change its mind, not in my experience, that would be unusual. what you should expect is a federal indictment of mr. trump and a federal indictment soon. >> chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official, great to have you here as always, thank you. >> my pleasure. we have much more ahead here tonight, stay with us. >> us. >> makes sense! oh, i see what you did there! - what? - what? i don't get it. hehe. >> woman: why did we choose safelite? >> vo: for us, driving around is the only way we can get our baby

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checklist of noncompliance. there was never any intent to comply with that court order. never. there is also never intend to comply with the voting rights act. >> i was alabama state a lawmaker chris england. speaking on friday. democrat lodging one final objection as alabama republicans defy in order from the united states supreme court to fix a problem addict congressional map. , aspen the supreme court found album in violation of the voting rights act. and alabama wanton for voters

is. black republicans in the legislature currently constructed the states congressional districts so only one of seven congressional districts in the state's majority black. that was too racially discriminatory, even for this hard right conservative united states supreme court. and so the court ordered alabama to redraw the line. so that black voters would make up the majority of the or something quite close to it in two congressional districts, not just one too that, alabama republicans just basically said no. we won't do it. they did draw new lines for new districts but at the new lines do not include anything like a new majority black district. so, what does this mean? >> the sort of best-case, terrible scenario here is that alabama republicans are trying to stretch this out as long as possible. to try to give themselves another shot at holding a another election with illegal racially discriminatory maps that favor republicans.

that is the best case terrible scenario. the worst-case terrible scenario is that alabama republicans are just deciding they do not recognize the authority of the federal government in federal court. and that of course brings back all sorts of bad memories of what alabama is capable of. but what we are about to have a presidential election in which the essential question is likely to be whether or not we as a country follow the law, whether the law applies to everyone. this is a particularly incendiary move by alabama republicans. one alabama democrats like the state rep chris england have been raising the alarm about. >> one thing i always say about alabama, it continues to be the place where the dead buried a living. where we are haunted by ghosts of the past. and every time we get to a critical juncture. where are angels could lead us,

we refuse and we say we dare defend our rights. , joining us now is chris england. a democratic member of the alabama house of representatives. representative england, i appreciate you making time to be here tonight, thank you. >> thank you for having me. i'm going to ask you about those two scenarios i just mentioned there. do you think that the alabama republicans are just sort of playing for time and knowing that they will lose this but they are dragging it out as long as possible? what do you think that they really are making an attempt to resist or nullify this federal court order? >> i think it is a host of things, i bear minimum an attempt to protect the status quo. at the worst of it all, an attempt to buy time to use the political map for two more years. the other part of it is, i think it is an extension of the work that was done to limit

violence the voting rights act. to maybe now using this noncompliance map to go back to the supreme court and hopefully convince the justices that we are all conservatives here. there was a bone. finish the voting rights act as well. >> so if the supreme court was already willing in the shelby county case, to gut the voting rights act by getting rid of section five, section two still exists. you think that maybe they are doing this basically to tee up a case that would throw out the rest of the bring our tax. that was second to. >> i don't doubt it, i think, you it's a long strategy that ultimately buys them either time, or makes another argument to go after them to. but on the other hand, it also throws the entire map to one or two people, a special master will draw it, and you basically

sure your constitutional responsibilities to respect the constitution. and use it as collateral damage for a political cause. and it was driven by people who do not live here. if you remember, i don't know if you've heard this or not, but the speaker of the house, mccarthy, called the map and told him he's interested in keeping his majority. but i think that alabama citizens are probably more interested in keeping two -- and following the law. >> kevin mccarthy encouraging this, encouraging the defiance of the federal courts in order to eke out more illegally defined republican districts, obviously that's disturbing national implications, but also saying that court orders don't matter, that the federal courts are going to stand up and test the states. they have an option to disobey those orders. i wonder, representative, what has been the reaction among

alabama voters, among your constituents, among black voters in alabama in general as this flight has played out the way that it has. >> disappointment, discussed, but not surprised. this interesting context here, that many african americans who occupy elected spaces in alabama are representing districts that are majority, minority, and they were created by court orders. from lawsuits that were filed years ago, in the district itself, it was a district created by a lawsuit in the court, and interestingly enough, not only is the black voting age population the newly created second congressional district 39%, but the seventh congressional district was created by a court order for that specific purpose of the average american, saw its black

voting age population of the snow map go from 55% to 50. which is just another outright slap in the face if you are considering the fate, and the history that alabama shares with the rest of the country in terms of courts, and the federal government having to force alabama to do the right thing in situations like this. so, it is not surprised, but still disappointment in the fact that alabama once again is in this crucial threshold, and failed to do the right thing. >> alabama state representative, chris, thank you for joining us tonight. i know this is not over. we would love to have you back. as this fight keeps playing out. >> anytime, i've got a lot more to say. >> good, all, right we will have you back sir. and we will be right back. stay with us! with us being me. keep being you... and ask your healthcare provider about the number one prescribed h-i-v treatment, biktarvy.

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it for me tonight. now, it is time for the last word with a great lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i hope you are staying near your indictment phone this week, the special hotline -- >> i keep losing it. it's weird -- it's on silent. [laughter] >> all right, i get it. i know what you are up to. well, we might, we might see it at some point during this week. >> do you have special, lawrence back phone information about some timing that i don't have? >> i just have public comments by andrew weissmann. that's all i go by. he is suggesting, that this week is a strong possibi