joining me now to talk about this is carol anderson, professor of african-american studies, the author of "white rage, the unspoken truth of our racial divide." professor, it's wonderful to have you and it's striking as we commemorate and mourn john lewis tonight to think about just how unpopular so much of what he did as a young man that is so celebrated now, how unpopular it was at the time broadly throughout the country. >> absolutely. there was a kind of sense that this was disruptive, that it was destabilizing, that it was messing with the way that things were done. and this is where good trouble comes from. it is showing the hidden oppression and the hidden violence of a system that would repress you, that would denigrate you, that would debase you, that would subjugate you and that was the power of nonviolence to get at this asymmetrical power from those who are oppressing to those who are oppressed. >> you know, i think sometimes people confuse nonviolent direct action with things that are just like chill and peaceful. i mean lewis and king and rustin and the theorists of this,

that discussion doctor carol anderson about how voter suppression is destroying our democracy a renowned historian educator and author the professor of african-american studies and the author of white rage. the unspoken truth of our nations divide. a great admirer of her work and explore the legacies of slavery and unequal nation doctor anderson's book chronicles the history of voter suppression in america including all of the current ways the republican party is undermining voter rights. i'm delighted to have you here and to talk about what we can do to fight back on those efforts the most fundamental and sacred rights that we have is the right to vote and this occurs each and every day in our country. thank you again. >> let me ask you a question doctor, you explore the history of voter suppression with the focus on the recent past following the supreme court decision and shall be county can you give our audience a summary of that decision and what it meant? >> it will go down in history the way ferguson as one of the worst decisions ever made by the us supreme court. many of the backg

. >> : : : then, university professor carol anderson chronicles the changes to voting requirements following3 supreme court ruling in shelby versus holder. in later senior advisor for former vice president joe biden 2020 presidential campaign simone sanders offers her thoughts on how americans can use their voices for change. >> next author in american enterprise institute scholar you yuval levin talks about the political divide in the country today. he is the author of the great debate, the fractured republic, and a time to build. this in-depth interview is two hours. >> author yuval levin here on the june 7, 2020, what is your assessment of the united states? >> thank you for having me, that's a broad question open with and it's a challenging one, were living in a moment of crisis and that's hard to deny, we've been through a spring that has been dominated by a public health crisis that is very much with us, we are facing now a social crisis that is as old as our country in some ways, the struggle for racial equality and for human

festival congresswoman barbara lee discussed voter suppression with emory university professor carol anderson has a portion of that talk. >> the victory all that rain down on obama the obstruction the hatred was intense. you see this policy wise. i see with the legislators and governors is them going after those folks in this community. just like the mississippi plan at this one doesn't get in this one will pacific that is right the way purges work, the way that jeremy and her and works. the way that as you describe black and brown precincts will they will have fewer operational missions voting machines and fewer poll workers. you will get winds that will stretch for hours. where as basically in white communities you get in get out. what we know from working class communities, demographically black voters often are. brown voters most often are. but we don't have the combination of time and money which so when you have to stand in line for five to seven hours to vote you have lost a day of pay. >> to watch the rest of this program visit our website booktv.org. >> next at c-span's book tv pulit

. >> carol anderson, who i always love talking with and listening to and reading, thank you for making time tonight. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" on this monday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts with ali velshi in for rachel. thank you for filling in for me last week. i appreciate it. >> you have been on quite a tear so i'm glad to see you back and refreshed. good to see you, my friend. >> you too. >> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has a well deserved night off. we've got a lot to get to after what's been another very busy day. with coronavirus cases exploding across the country, we learned today that yet another trump administration official has tested positive for covid-19. trump national security advisor, robert o'brien, is now the highest ranking white house official yet to be infected. with the virus continuing to spread unchecked, even at the highest levels of our government, it is no wonder that we're still dealing with the economic fallout from this pandemic. nearly 30 million americans are still unemployed. their supplemental unemployment

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and then emory university professor carol anderson chronicles the changes to voting requirements followingthe 2013 supreme court ruling in shelby beholder. later senior advisor for former vice president joe biden 2020 presidential campaign simone sanders offers her thoughts on how americans can use their voices for change. enjoy book tv on c-span2. >> binge watch book tv this. saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. eastern settle in and watch several hours of your favorite authors. saturday we are featuring commentator, author and founder of national review william f buckley, author of over 50 books, including up from liberalism, flying high and the reagan i knew and watch saturday july 18 as a feature journalist and author album gladwell come up binge watch tv all summer on c-span2. >> next, fbi director christopher rae talks about china's influence in the u.s. through hacking, data collection and the theft of intellectual property. he describes how the fbi is working

and then emory university professor carol anderson chronicles the changes to the voting requirements.nd later a senior advisor for former vice president joe biden 2020 presidential campaign, offers her thoughts and how americans use our voices for change. enjoy book tv, on "c-span2". sunday night on cumin day, journalist aaron smith talks about the history of voting in the united states british and the issues surrounding voting today. in her book thank you for voting. >> they have had a massive impact on voting rights and there isn't any voting rights advocate or attorney doesn't see it is just a ground shaking impact. and while of course the discriminatory rights are still illegal there's not federal oversight and determination all that the kind of stopgap for the need federal approval to make voting changes. watch sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. next a look at scams, profiteering in conspiracy theories during the coronavirus pandemic. medical experts, victims of disinformation

anderson. there is the return of test cricket. you say supposed to be happening and i think the person we need to talk to right now is our carol.” into the weekend as well. i would settled down into the weekend as well. iwould imagine settled down into the weekend as well. i would imagine in southampton todayit well. i would imagine in southampton today it would look rather like it does from this weather watcher 's picture taken in london earlier this morning. lifted other end of the country, completely different. a cold start with just some frosting parts of the highland but look at the blue skies, a lot of dry weather with just a few showers. you can see all the cloud crossed england and wales and even through northern ireland. it will melt away at times in northern ireland and clear skies as we push further north. huge difference in temperatures. below freezing in the north and plus 15 as we pushed down towards the south coast. that is what it is like at the moment. we have all this cloud and also the rain weaving across southern areas. later on, more rain will come in across wales. that will be heavy rain and that will push