that was georgia senator rafael warnock responding to the new voting regulations that georgia governore outcome of warnock's fight to keep his senate seat next year. the new regulations effectively turn control of elections over to the state legislature, allowing lawmakers to appoint the chair of the state election board. a board that now controls county elections as well as statewide contests. it places restrictions on vote by mail, ballot dropout and early voting, moves that will have an impact on minority voters. for more on this, i'm joined by a georgia democrat, state senator jen jordan. thank you so much for joining us today. we really appreciate it. i actually want to start with the incident we saw last night where one of your colleagues was arrested simply for knocking on the door, the governor's door as he was live streaming the event of him signing this book. senator warnock said he met with her. she's a constituent of his at the church where he preaches. you can see her being handcuffed. this is an elected official. what was your reaction? do you think would you have been tr

bigger than any senate rule. >> thank you all so much. >> there you have it, georgia senator rafael warnockverend warnock revealing that the state rep who was arrested for knocking on governor kemp's door, a parishioner of his. senator warnock we heard there trying to essentially reframe, perhaps, the debate, suggesting maybe it should not be about talking about the filibuster but talking about voting rights instead. he pointed out that folks have been voting like this in georgia for years and now all of a sudden there's a problem with it. i want to bring in our chief white house correspondent kristin welker for a moment. president biden holding that first news conference on thursday. took a number of questions about the crisis at the border. but he was also asked about this. he was asked about the filibuster debate. he was asked about the legislation signed into law in georgia. what did the president say? >> reporter: i think, craig, that the president was most animated yesterday during his first press conference when he was asked about voting rights. he called efforts to deprive people of

. >>> plus a warning from rafael warnock telling rachel maddow, efforts to suppress voters will not stop in georgia. >> if you think this is something happening down in georgia, you are misapprehending the moment that we're living in. if you think that this is something happening to black voters, you still don't quite clearly understand. this is a defining moment for the american democracy. if this is happening in the state capitol in georgia it will not take long to visit a state capital to you. this after voting rights advocates are calling for a boycott of georgia-based corporations, coca-cola and delta air lines to speak out against the law. moments ago, georgia governor brian kemp spoke at a news conference, this one on the tornado coverage and he did not mention the new voting restrictions. in just a moment, a live report from georgia and also ahead at 12:30, my panel responds to one of the most provably false statements donald trump has ever made. then at 1:00 p.m. robert gibbs looks at president biden's news conference and why it's a victory for the white house against critics an

i will speak to rafael warnock and a keep williams next. >>> president bind works on america's allies. >> we need alliances now as much and maybe even more than ever. >> as tensions with russia and china grow, how will the u.s. push back on escalating threats? secretary of state tony blinken joins me exclusively. fi final stretch? >> i believe we can do it. >> top doctors on the pandemic, chief medical correspondent for cnn dr. sanjay gupta ahead. >>> hello, i'm dana bash in washington. where the state of the union is ready for renewal. after the momentum of his first weeks in office. president biden is facing national crises, immigration, gun control and voting rights. the reality of the sweeping change he wants. this week, the assault. on thursday, they will make it more difficult for thousands of georgians to vote. they require a new voter requirement, several for absentee ballots and power es state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of local dropboxes and makes it a crime to give voters in line food or water. the first press conference since taking offic

folks who already have or will soon have 1400 dollars in your pockets, you can thank senators rafael warnock and senator jon ossoff. what does that mean? it means 85% of the households in america will get that money, here in georgia means 88% of all adults, 88% of the children in the state, will get that $1400 as well. just added up. two parents, two kids, bernie -- each will get $1400. trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage, keep food on the table and that is not all. there is something called a child tax credit. what that means is that you get a tax credit for every child you have. the american rescue plan expands that credit. it means that families of over 2 million children in georgia will be eligible for an increase and that child tax credit of $1600 a year per child and it is going to be delivered on a regular basis so starting this summer, families of young kids will get $300 a month per child. this is going to left 177,000 children in georgia out of poverty. the rescue plan reduces costs under the affordable care act. so for a family of four earning $90,000 per year, the insura

. >> democratic senator rafael warnock used his first speech on senate floor to talk about voting rights and the state of democracy. senator warnock had a special runoff election back in january becoming first black senator to represent state of georgia. >> mr. president, before i begin my formal remarks, i want to pause to condemn the hatred and violence that took eight precious lives last night in metropolitan, atlanta. i agree with georgia with americans, people of love all across the world. this unspeakable violence visited largely upon the asian community is one that causes all of us to recommit ourselves to the way of peace. and enangted peace that present these kinds of tragedies from happening in the first place we pray for these families. mr. president, i rise hear today as a proud american. and as one of the newest members of the senate in all of the journey that has brought me to these hallowed halls within abiding sense of reverence and gratitude, for the faith and sacrifices of ancestor who is paved the way. i am a proud son of the great state of georgia. bosh and raised in

host: rafael warnock ties in the filibuster and voting rights saying "it is a contradiction to say we must protect minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect one or two rights in our society." from ohio, democrats like. -- democrats line. caller: good morning. i believe the filibuster needs to be eliminated -- if there are important issues going on, for example with the gun things and the mass shootings going on, i think that can unite the democrats to eliminate this thing. it seems like things keep happening. there are a lot of important issues the country needs to get on the right track like infrastructure, the economy, jobs, climate change and many more issues. too many things have been installed to get to 60 votes. the history of the filibuster is that it was used to get rid of black power in the south when jim crow was starting. it is really a racist mechanism to have the southern wife -- southern white holding power. they are introducing voting restrictions in many state legislatures. i think it is so blatant that even independence -- independents and democrats, we

folks on the other side would do the right thing and stand for voting rights. >> so you hear rafael warnock putting nu own us on, and especially warnock who is up for reelection in two years and that could hurt the democratic majority that they hurt by a very slim margin. >> 100%. amanda, thank you for that. so there's georia, everyone. 42 more states are considering laws to tighten voting. joyce vance, current university of alabama law professor and one of our esteemed msnbc contributors. you spent a lot of your career working to expand voting rights. we have georgia this week, talk about that and what happens if these other 42 that have constricting voting in their states. >> we have elections in all of the different states and they're governed as we are acutely aware by different laws and different rules in every state. so what we see as so many of the pieces that you just played for the audience touches upon is this notion of moving the goalposts and republicans didn't expect to lose in 2020 and now those state legislatures are changing the rules and hope they can win in 2022 and moving

i will speak to rafael warnock and a keep williams next. >>> president bind works on america's alliesthan ever. >> as tensions with russia and china grow, ho

but you know what, what was interesting senator rafael warnock who came in that senate run-off in georgia that gave the demoats the majority -- a governing majority inongress, you know, was asked today, you know, where hetood about filibuster reform? he attempted to refrain that conversation saying really, this shouldn't be a question about whether democrats are onboard with the filibuster reform but whether republicans are onboard with voting rights an expanding the electorate and they should be asked where they stand on voting rights and democracy as opposed to where democrats stand on the filibuster. that was an interesting way to frame this knowing that many americans are in favor of more people voting not less. peter: so the president talked about the talking filibuster, sort of the mr. smith goes to washington of washington, but would that change things? would it help biden get through if the threshold is 60 in order to cut off debate? sahil: it's an excellent question, peter. there are ways you can structure a talking filibuster that can empower the majority. for instance, if you c

and there was no indications of fraud at all in the election of rafael warnock.it illegal providing food and water for those standing in long lines. let's focus on getting rid of the long lines. it seems like a big lie and we can't have the big lie become the policy of the country through these state legislatures and their actions. we need naegs nalg standards. and that's why president biden said yesterday that that was a requirement. we need to move forward on that, failure is not an option. >> thank you, appreciate your time. we have overnight developments at the suez canal. suez canal ♪ a pair of jeans that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. plaque psoriasis, the burning, itching. the pain. with tremfya®, adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis can uncover clearer skin and improve symptoms at 16 weeks. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptom

listen to rafael warnock, who's election to the senate benefitted from the had heavy turn thought 2020 what is the purpose behind all of this? so, so, you are literally going to make public policy based on a lie? based on the feeling that some people have that things didn't turn out the way they should have turned on out? is that how we make public policy now? i thought we did it based on facts and data. >> republican efforts just like georgia's are in fact under way in more than 40 state legislatures across the country. all of them are acting on donald trump's nonstop lie that the 2020 election was stolen. trump immediately praised the new georgia law, of course, but la meanted it did not happen sooner. cnn's sarah murray looks at the boundaries that it has created for the states' voters. sgroo brian kemp signing a dramatic overhaul of the state's election laws. the first gop victory in restricting access in a major battleground state. >> after the november election last year, i knew like so many of you that significant reforms to the our state elections were needed. >> reporter: the

people forget that rafael warnock has to run again in 2022. they have to run again because they are filling seats that were left vacant. so this is a very immediate kind of challenge. and one that underscores, if democrats are going to try to establish a nationwide floor of voting rules, and stop this voter suppression nationwide. they really need to look at doing it before 2022. between the suppression and the gerrymandering that will be underway in the house, they find it difficult to still hold both chambers in 2022 and the opportunity to act may disappear at that moment. >> senator dianne feinstein now saying she is open to changing the filibuster rules. is this the only way they can stop the voting rights? >> yes. no question. it is at leaf couldn't , at leat conceivable, that they will not allow the filibuster of the voting rights act because he doesn't want to be seen stepping into the shoes ofstrom thurmond from the 50s and 60s, and instead, count on john roberts to overturn it which did he initially with shelby county in 2013. there i

recently elected georgia senator rafael warnock said both parties have an obligation to make sure that minority voices are heard. >> we have to pass voting rights no matter what. the reason why i have insisted that we talk to our republican sisters and brothers on the other side of the aisle is because if we don't do anything else in the senate, we have to stand up for the democracy. the filibuster is about minority rights in the senate. how do you insist on protecting minority rights in the senate but refusing to protect minority rights in the society. >> georgia isn't the only state where it's happening. dozens of states proposed bills aimed at rolling back voting status. i spoke with ron brownstein. >> i think the answer is yes. the explosive element of the georgia law, i think it's a time bomb under the 2024 election, which allows -- gives the state more capacity to go in and basically replace county election boards and you can just imagine a republican-controlled state legislative board in georgia going in and replacing democratic county election boards in fulton. they'll have the

that is senator rafael warnock. first black man elected to the senate of georgia. possible because of overwhelming support of black voters who may be disenfranchised, who may be incapable of electing somebody like warknock. if georgia changes the law. 43 states have bills to restrict voting. the only single step to stopping the wave is to pass a federal law called the for the people act. aka, hr-1 in the house. house resolution 1, s-1 in the senate. what does it do? it expand and creates an automatic right to absentee voting. it expands voting access and, therefore, it forbids you to constrict. now, what is the challenge? the filibuster delays in the senate. why? it requires 60 votes to get to a vote on the bill. that itself democrat's obstacle. but president biden has finally soon the light of a potential way past the problem. look. >> you are going to have to choose between preserving the filibuster and advancing your agenda? >> here's the choice. you have to do what i did back when i got to senate in the old days when we used to be about there. the that is in a

have you and rafael warnock. with y'all but you have sat down with joe manchin. i know you have a relationship with manchin because maybe they need to hear it from african-americans direct to their face. i really don't think they get it. >> senator warnock and have been exchanging texts and phone calls all day. he and i are the same age. we were born four years after the edmond pettus bridge. we know our generation has inherited fruits born from the blood of our ancestors. this is deeply felt before he and i. our entire caucus will hear from us. he chose this subject to speak to. this is the issue. i know my history. change doesn't come from washington. it has to come to washington. it wasn't strong thurman which was racist rant against civil rights. he didn't say i've seen light and the any negro people should have their rights. we had to have struggle, activism and engagement. it was within that time they others were blocking civil rights and blocking voting rights that a pastor who belonged to the church that

georgia senator rafael warnock made the connection in a show of support for the representative arrested in georgia. >> but in the video i saw she was knocking on the door. contrast with folks who staged a violent insurrection on the united states capitol, police officers and others were killed. and i want to know from those who are using the premise of that assault as the basis for a craven takeover of power in georgia, why they are okay with that and somehow the actions of a state legislator knocking on the door of a governor, who is signing a law that impacts her constituents, by her actions are somehow so dangerous and criminal that she got charged with two felonies. >> i want to bring in jackie casinic, the washington bureau chief for the daily beast. with us for this discussion is charles coloradoman jr., a former new york prosecutor and civil rights attorney. all right, charles, let's dig into one of the key provisions that is in in georgia law that would give the republican-controlled state election board the power to replace county election boards. what is -- what is the effect

about the potential challenge with stacy abrams in 2022 and they're clearly targeting senator rafael warnock to be a solution in search of a problem. there is no threat to election integrity in georgia or in this country. you know, georgia election was certified three times. you know, the secretary of state said the results of that election were accurate on the federal level and it was the safest election in u.s. history and so what we know is that, you know, this is what 21st century voter suppression looks like and people like stacy abrams has said that and the silencing of black women by representative canon in georgia and the punishing of black voters who were part of that expanded electorate with this kind of targeted, you know, strategy in this legislation that is criminalizing, and giving out food and water. just as this is meant to have a chilling effect on black voters, what you may also see is it having a galvanizing effect on voters that stand exactly what this is, and are going to do what they have long been doing in georgia which is making this a battle between voter suppression

today america's first black senator, rafael warnock, tore into his state's new law restricting voting rights. >> our own secretary of state said that the election that was held, this most recent election, was not rife with fraud as some have tried to suggest. so you're literally going to make public policy based on a lie? based on the feeling that some people have that things didn't turn out the way they should have turned out? we counted the votes not once, not twice, but three times. so what's the purpose of all of this? they don't like the outcome, and so this is democracy in reverse. >>> last night while governor brian kemp was signing the bill into law, a georgia state representative was arrested outside of his office. representative park cannon was charged with a felony after knocking on the governor's door during the signing. >> no, you are not representing -- >> she's not under arrest. >> for what? under arrest for what? for trying to see something that our governor is doing? >> cannon and others were protesting what this law now does. it requires a state-issued i.d. to vote b

legislation after record voter turnout led to joe biden beating donald trump in november and democrats rafael warnockand jon ossoff winning runoff elections in january, giving democrats control of the u.s. senate. the georgia bill limits access to absentee ballots, limits weekend early voting hours, curbs ballot drop boxes, among other provisions. on monday, georgia democratic congressmember jasmine clark blasted her republican colleagues. >> men last. women last. never stone. the numbers are clear, hb 531 is textbook voter suppression. this bill reduces, restricts, and limits every single aspect of our elections. and make no mistake, while the suppressive actions of this bill will harm black and brown voters, all voters, including the ones that support your team, will be affected. as we saw in the last election, undermining absentee voting cost from 20,000 votes across the state. add this to the fact this bill was made to placate the same crowd that believed the big lie of voter fraud and they don't trust the meaning voting machines anyway, you will find yourselves in a conundrum. this bill is cutti

. >> that was senator and reverend rafael warnock during his inaugural senate floor speech wednesday,rging passage of the for the people act, a federal voting reform and anticorruption bill. the senator's call to action comes amid a wave of draconian antivoting legislation being pushed by republicans in state houses across the country. yesterday, a day after the heinous shooting spree in atlanta, georgia, georgia republicans introduced a new giant voting omnibus bill that would among other things ban people from giving food and water to voters waiting in line. limit early voting days for larger counties, and add i.d. requirements for absentee ballots. the democrats' current legislation would expand access to voting, outlaw voter purging, and restore the voting rights act. the filibuster makes the passage unlikely. today, politico is reporting white house officials are discussing whether the administration could reform or eliminate the filibuster on only certain issues, including on a major voting rights bill. south carolina senator and number one trump fanboy lindsey graham is having

week's other mass shooting less than a week ago, as i mentioned to senator chris murphy, senator rafael warnock made a point this weekend that hasn't gone unnoticed. >> what is the legislature doing? they're busy in the golden dome in georgia trying to prevent people from voting the same day they register. i think that suggests a distortion in values, when you can buy a gun and create this much carnage and violence on the same day, but if you want to exercise your right to vote as an american citizen, the same legislature that should be focused on this is busy erecting barriers to that constitutional right. >> in georgia you can legally buy a gun and use it to kill someone that same day, but you cannot register to vote and cast your ballot on the same day. it really is an incredible juxtaposition that sums up the republican party in a nutshell. it is a party that's been radicalizing in both directions, both radicalizing on guns and towards a view that any weapon should be able to be purchased by anyone at any time, and, in fact, might be necessary to use against the government ex police -- expl

. >> last night, we had georgia senator rafael warnock on the show here live.hts legislation, and the for the people act, and pushed by the republicans at state level, and we were talking to senator warnock about it last night, republicans in his home state of georgia were at that moment, introducing a 93 page comprehension bill. surprise, sweeping no election bill makes late session appearance. the amount of steam on this is crazy. not just georgia but every state where republicans are in control, they are charging ahead with hundreds of bills to make it harder to vote as quickly as possibility, and they are making the case, how critically important it is, to hold ouch all the new restrictions at the state level, and chuck schumer keeps saying we will get it passed, and failure is not an option. he keeps saying it, failure is not an option, and looking what we can see right now in terms of how the senate works, it seems like failure is not only an option but it's likely going to happen. i mean, the only path to getting voting rifts legislation in the senate is

. >> senator rafael warnock, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, our next guest sayson of mass obstruction. senator dick durbin joins the conversation. "morning joe" will be right back. conversation "morning joe" will be right back >>> i was honored on a few occasions to stand with my hero and my parishioner, john lewis. i was his pastor. but i'm clear, he was my mentor. on more than one occasion, we boarded buses together after sunday church services as part of our souls to the polls program encouraging the ebenezer church family and communities of faith to participate in the democratic process. now just a few months after congressman lewis's death, there are those in the georgia legislature, some who even dared to praise his name, that are now trying to get rid of sunday souls to the polls, making it a crime for people who pray together to get on a bus together in order to vote together. i think that's wrong. as a matter of fact, i think that a vote is a kind of prayer. for the kind of world we desire for ourselves and for our children. [sfx: thunder rumbles] [sfx:

eugene, today on the floor of the senate, senator rafael warnock gave his first speech on the senatehts. what is the hope, the level of optimism that that legislation could in part push back against what's happening in state legislatures. >> it helps when you're a reverend when you hit that senate floor to give one of those rousing speeches. >> it does. >> the more people i talk to, democrats, they're not very optimistic. because you have this filibuster still happening. you have people like kyrsten sinema, joe manchin who don't seem like they're going to budge on reforming the filibuster, even though president biden talked about yesterday he would be open to allow folks to do the talking filibuster. the key is that doesn't automatically change the votes you need to pass bills. so what i continue, and i wrote about earlier this week in playbook, is that black and brown people, and people who work in this space on voting they're going to concentrate on pushing this idea that this is about the voting rights of black and brown people in this country, protect the filibuster they say or y

you know it because it was georgia senator rafael warnock. he came walking back. his point -- i'll talk about it in the byline after this, where he said basically stop asking me about the filibuster and start asking republicans what are you going to do about voting rights? what is the possibility that senate republicans in the conversation about sr 1, the for the people act, will come to the table with their own version of a voting rights bill that can actually lead to a real conversation between the two parties about what to do to standardize voting in this country? >> i think the odds of that are quite slim, at this point. i mean, i watched the opening day of hearings on the bill in the senate and the distance between republicans and democrats is enormous, at this point. this is a massive bill. i think everybody should understand how much is in this bill. it has to do with voting rights. it has to do with redistricting and dark money and public financing. it's an enormous bill. it's 800 pages. there's all kinds of details in this that peopl

in georgia, senator rafael warnock issued a call for solidarity.eanwhile, a growing chorus of advocates have called for a renewed federal effort to fight gun violence, arguing that, amid rising racism, lax gun laws make it too easy for someone to act on their hate." bob in greensburg, pennsylvania. caller: i do not know if anybody ever brought this up, but we do not live in a democracy. elizabeth warren said a simple majority, we should not have anything more than that. we do not live in a democracy. we live in a representative republic. the senate, the way it is set up, is to protect the rights of the minority in this country so we are not steamrolled by a bunch of yahoos waiting for the next handout. that is how the country was set up. if you go against the filibuster, you go against the founding fathers. host: bob, on that, on -- in the piece from bloomberg we mentioned earlier, how the filibuster came to be. here is the story. "the senate envisioned by the founders was a highly deliberative body that had no mechanism to end debate. senators qui

host: rafael warnock ties in the filibuster and voting rights saying "it is a contradiction to say wet protect minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect one or two rights in our society." from ohio, democrats like. -- democrats line. caller: good morning. i believe the filibuster needs to be eliminated -- if there are important issues going on, for example with the gun things and the mass shootings going on, i think that can unite the democrats to eliminate this thing. it seems like things keep happening. there are a lot of important issues the country needs to get on the right track like infrastructure, the economy, jobs, climate change and many more issues. too many things have been installed to get to 60 votes. the history of the filibuster is that it was used to get rid of black power in the south when jim crow was starting. it is really a racist mechanism to have the southern wife -- southern white holding power. they are introducing voting restrictions in many state legislatures. i think it is so blatant that even independence -- independents and democrats, we can