but i did ask the manager for dan patrick, mr. blakemore, just how they came up with that minimum amount, if i was the only one who had come forward to report. and his response was, well, we were hoping for bigger fish, to cite his exact words. i still don't know what he means by that. to be honest, you know, was he look for a celebrity? was he looking for a big political group? i really don't know what he meant by that. but listen, $25,000, i'll take it. it will go toward a new house for my fiance and i. we're looking to move out to the suburbs. so i'm very grateful. and i'm also grateful that they kept their word, to be honest. >> yeah, remarkable turn of events. eric frank, democratic poll worker from chester county, pennsylvania, who randomly finds himself $25,000 richer because of this weird reward from the texas lieutenant governor. totally strange story. i'm glad to hear about your plans with your fiance. good luck. thanks, eric. >> thank you very much, rachel, i appreciate it. >>> we have much more ahead tonight. stay with

for it in those cases to the attention of dan patrick in texas, john fetterman demand the dan patrick pain the bounty. tweeting things like this hey, governor patrick, it's your counterpart in pennsylvania, i'd like to collect your handsome reward for reporting voter fraud. i got a dude in 40 48 tried to have his dead mom vote for trump. and this continued for a long while, as lieutenant governor fetterman found a second and then third case, again individual, one-off cases, of random republicans trying to vote for dead relatives, or in person a living lens, or cast two votes for trump. you can see that december headline from the houston chronicle, pennsylvania lent lieutenant government veteran relentlessly trolls dan patrick seeking 1 million voter fraud bounty. but through all of this, i will not speak for you, or for governor john fetterman. but i thought that the sparring between the two lieutenant governors would be the end of it, right? there would be no money actually paid out. to my shock, i was wrong because here is the check. drawn on patrick's campaign funds made two young

the spokesman for dan patrick declined to comment the payout.at do you think? you helped get it done. >> i mean, he still needs to make it rain in pennsylvania. we have deceased mothers voting for the former president then the one my colleague paid the handsome reward to returns in sunglasses case that you referred to, who was a living father, voted for his democratic son. so by our calculation, we have four more cases that were convictions. so it would seem so me that there's again, some more rewards that need to be paid out. >> yeah, 100 k by my quick on-air math. yeah. here's the thing, too, that i think is actually brilliant about that. how many votes were cast in pennsylvania? 5 million votes? >> nearly 7 million during the election and that's what is so outrageous about it. is five cases out of nearly 7 million ballots cast, you have a greater chance of actually winning the lottery than encountering genuine voter fraud in pennsylvania during the election. >> this is the point that's actually really important. i think people watching this p

the spokesman for dan patrick declined to comment, the paper of the payout.exas governor of pennsylvania joins me now. well, what do you think? i guess you did it. you helped get it done. >> well, i mean he, still needs to make it rain in pennsylvania. we have a total of five cases, four involve deceased mother's motive for the former president. and then the wind that my colleague peyton handsome roy to was the returns of sunglasses case, a living father voted for his democratic son. by our calculations we have four more cases that were convictions, they all are on probation now. so it would seem to me besides there is some more rewards the need to be paid out. >> yeah 100 k by my quick math. here is a thing to that i think is really brilliantly exposing about this. how many votes do cast in pennsylvania? >> nearly 7 million during that election, and that's what's already just about it. five cases out of almost 7 million ballots cast. you have a greater chance of actually winning the lottery, then encountering genuine voter flood during the election. >> this

governor dan patrick. what is happening here? they caught between a rock and a hard place or was there a way to listen to abbott and not to biden her? >> they should listen to their employees. it's not about politics. it's about liberty. we are the most business friendly state in the country for 10 years. businesses flock to texas for manyerancy want we believe in businesses have the authority over their employees. we are also a liberty loving state for the individual. i have been vaccinated. i believe in vaccinations. over 70% of people over 50 have been vaccinated but 16 to 49 is the big segment of your population. i would never will employees that they have to get a vaccination. the president of the united states mandating this was wrong. he said before he got elected he would not do it. it's none of his business. >> laura: the attack was that abbott is trying to dictate what businesses do. the argument doesn't work because biden is trying todicate what businesses do as well. your point is let freedom ring? >> yes. i have been

dan patrick doesn't. dan patrick goes out of his way, time and time and time again to criticize that diversity and criticize that wholeness that we have as we unify as a community in texas. so if it was some nut on the side of the street saying this kind of stuff, we could pass them by and ignore them, but this is the lieutenant governor of texas. and for your viewers, the lieutenant governor of texas, unlike other lieutenant governors around the country, is incredibly powerful. they are elected separately from the governor, completely separately from the governor, and they run the state senate and legislative branch in austin. so any legislation that goes through, any legislation that's heard or talked about, he is in charge of it. and all of the bad things that have happened, you can put at his doorstep. all of the bad things put right at his doorstep, because he's pushed it throughout the course of this. and to me, he's a living, breathing argument of why he needs to be removed. >> and with that, matth

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dan patrick believes in none of those. that is why, i am running for the powerful office of lieutenant governor, of this great state. >> you probably recognize that man. our next guest, as a guest on this network, in this broadcast frequently, after a lifetime in republican politics. and having watched what is happening in his own state of texas, he made a major announcement this, week as you saw, we are pleased to have back with us tonight, matthew dowd. former strategist george w. bush among others. now running as a democrat, to be lieutenant governor of texas. matt, i'm curious, what one event was it. because the list as i put it together here, just some scratchings. the power grid failure. there are aa batteries with more power capacity than the texas power grid. the voting restrictions. the abortion restrictions. and oh yeah, the trump ordered audit of the counties he lost. is there any one of those that major total up more than the others? >> well you could add to it allowing openly carrying handguns without a permit

>> so i actually think dan patrick, the lieutenant governor in this state, is different than many statesn extremely power office. it basically controls all legislation. to me texas is moving. it's moving towards purple. it's moving in that direction. texans are very dissatisfied with the politics of the gop in texas. the governor here is underwater on his approval rating. the lieutenant governor, there's twice as many people that intensely dislike him than intensely like him in this state. i know i have my work ahead of me. i have to turn out democrats. i've got to win independents and i've got to win a small share of republicans and there's many of them who are very disaffected with where the republicans have gone, so i think it's an uphill climb because we're against big money interests, but i actually think texans are ready for a new round of leadership that actually puts common sense and common decency for the common good as the number one goal of any policy decision we make. >> matthew dowd, thanks for coming on. matthew, we'll continue this conversation. >> thanks. >>> i want to mo

about a year ago dan patrick set aside up to a million dollars in cash to try to go after this phantomi did is styled this after a program that everyone is familiar with, crime-stoppers. i'm offering a reward for people who have seen it and report it and leads to a conviction. >> now, i want to be clear. stopping crime is always great. according to anyone in law enforcement. but the issue here was the politics of searching for particular crimes to justify the attacks on elections we've been living through because actual in person voter fraud is very rare. as for the political effort, it backfired. dan patrick now writing his very first check for this ever which is a reminder of how even if you incentivize the hunt for voter fraud, it is quite rare and doesn't tip elections but put out over $2,000 to a poll worker who, when it came down to it, found a republican in pennsylvania trying to illegally vote twice. it is not the partisan outcome that official was seeking. and now joining our conversation is something a little different. this is the individual who received that check eric fran

governor dan patrick and a former nfl player. it's obvious what this outrage is about.a big scene to whip up the vote before 2022. your reaction to this attack on texas? >> it's a very misleading letter. it hurts the players that they say they are trying to help. misleading for this reason. this helps republicans. on the election bill 82% of texans supported a felony for voting harvesting and adding your social security number to mail-in ballots to defeat fraud. 55% of texas support and 47% of blacks. on stopping boys if playing girls sports only 28% oppose it. they want the black players to support joe biden who will increase their taxes. 74% of nfl players are black or nba players. 58% of nfl players are black and 8% of major league baseball players. in california or new york their taxes are over 60%. tell a black player you will only take $3 million home. in texas you keep most of your money. >> laura: i think of prescott and the cowboys and the players who play for texas teams. what kind of position does this put them in? >> 2020 has been a remarkable moment to pull

. >> joining the secretary governor dan patrick and former nfl player burgess owens.is obvious what all this outrage is about, making a big scene to whip up the vote before 2022. your reaction to the latest attack on texas? >> it is a very misleading letter and actually hurts players they say they are trying to help, misleading for this reason. it helps republicans. first of all, on the election bill 82% of texans support a third-degree felony for ballot harvesting, 79% supported adding the last four digits of your social security number to mail in ballots, 59% agree with prohibiting drive in voting or late-night voting. the heartbeat bill, 55% of texans support it, 58% of hispanics and 47% of blacks and the ui elbow about stopping boys from playing girl sports 58% of texans supported, they are totally wrong and everything they said and financially they want black players to support president biden will dramatically increase their taxes on the highest paid black people in america, 74% of nfl players are black or nba players, 58% of nfl players are black and 8% of majo

texas lieutenant governor dan patrick's take on the border crisis. >> he needs to focus on securing the border and 50,000 patients who say they have declared war on us and don't care about our national guard. biden needs to pay attention to that. they are the risk, they are the danger to america. >> cbp chief in new my is are putting a surge in middle-class families migrating from south america in describing the last leg of the trip for these more affluent migrants he said they got off the plane and went to a cab or a bus, they literally were driven up and walked up and turned themselves over to us. port officials morning to brace for what you call the mother of all caravans which is expected to leave mexico at the end of this month. agents say they are planning for all possible scenarios based on this information. on the operations of smugglers or movements of migrants and former ice director tom homan will join us in the 5:00 hour talking about leaked documents regarding the mass catch and release numbers under the biden administration. >> he will be pretty fired up about that. thank

let me note the lieutenant governor dan patrick offered a million dollars award for any example, anybodyoday it was reported or yesterday that he paid $25,000 for somebody from pennsylvania who found one example of voter fraud and it was someone voted fraudulently twice for donald trump. >> amazing. don, here we are in 2021, did you ever think you would see this race to be all things trump, two grown man who are willing to do just about anything to get the love of the crowd that loves him? >> no, we started along this path perhaps in 2015 when donald trump descended from the escalator talking about mexicans sending their worst people. i think it was long before that. i remember being shortly out of college, reading books such as "the end of reason" by al gore. i gave a lecture at north carolina to environmental justice students and none of them almost knew who al gore was. congratulations, gentlemen, we are all old. we have long distilled our politics into a cult of celebrity and sound byte and farless of each passing days. i warned democrats and my good friends not to elect matthew mcco

dan patrick in atlanta governor texas, offered 1 million dollars, is yet to pay out a nickel. -- 22,000 hours trying to find fraud, they found six batted dresses, but that's 300 hours per address. 1300 hours per address. by the way, it's getting worse, even after the arizona audit, in the spending last week in texas. trump is giving greg abbott hell that they're not doing an audit in texas, oh and somebody should remind the president's sudden he won texas, and he won a big. >> so, james, to take mark's argument in turn it upside down. if you wanted to fuzz up the results of the 2020 midterms, and the 2024 presidential in advance, you'd launch a nationwide campaign to fuzz up confidence in our electoral system. >> see georgia, five january 2021. he kept on this crooked election so, some republicans didn't show up. it's 30% of the people in this country they don't believe in evolution. we have geology departments, we still have medical schools. i mean, these people who believe this are just chronically stupid, and we have to just paint attention diamond move oven. he is such a buffoon. we

talking about the state of it tonight with evan or dan patrick. great to have you back.eporting is that there is often reports of people coming across. he talked to panamanian officials who said they'd stopped several people with ties to al qaeda who were planning to head north to our border. what you make of the situation question mike >> when you have an open border, anyone can come in and they're coming from all over the world. week keep track of the country they come from. name a country, they are coming here from there. i look at this comparing it to afghanistan and afghanistan the president left the taliban in charge and are border the president is leaving the drug cartels in charge. in afghanistan, americans were left behind. and on the border, americans are being left behind here because he doesn't care about those people who live along the border. and almost all of them are democrats, elected officials, the mayors, they were all crying for help, calling for the state help which we are but they're asking the biden administration to help them in the biden administ

lieutenant governor of texas dan patrick offered 1 million dollar reward for anybody who could find any fraud and not until the last did he offer up the first reward of $25,000 for one person in pennsylvania that found a trump voter, and then three attorney general spent 22,000 men hours trying to find election fraud and found 12 that addresses. that's about 1300 hours per bad addresses. this is simply no systematic election fraud, and almost zero fraud period. they're just a handful of cases that just walked into them, put out the wrong address, and in some cases, looked at the wrong guy and voted for -- >> so eugene let's talk about the other side of this, a lob back you were talking about your column which basically said the democrats are doomed story lined's overall. would you buy a, democrats can't get out of their own way, be democrats can find their own kissed or with their own's and a flashlight. >> both of those are kind of -- but i am still not convinced that democrats are necessarily doomed. number one, they are the only seen pro democracy political party in operation in this

lieutenant governor of texas dan patrick a republican way back when he offered to pay up big time ifoter fraud was found. last year. he just handed out his first reward. he paid out $25,000 to this guy on the screen. this guy is a progressive poll worker in pennsylvania. guess what he showed. evidence of a republican trying to vote twice. he told ari melber that that voter stuck out like a sore thumb. >> i never for the a face. a name but he had a baseball cap and black ray ban sunglasses on. i looked up and i was beside myself because we just had a full conversation about how it wasn't okay to do this. it was illegal. >> real voter fraud found by a progressive poll worker in pennsylvania and a lieutenant governor of texas had to pay him 25 grand. i'm going to leave that there. >>> the virginia's governor race neck and neck. terry mcauliffe sweating this out. steve kornacki will be at the big board to break it down. ch n, some say that it can't fit in one ad. i say... ...we're talking a new all-american club, deli-style oven-roasted turkey and... oh, that's the new steak & cheese. oh

dan patrick of texas offered a million dollars for any example of voter fraud.find fraud and found six bad addresses which figure that out. it's 300 hours per address if -- 1300 hours per address. so by the way it is getting worse. after the arizona aud yit, i spent a week in texas. trump is giving greg abbott hell they don't do an audit in texas and somebody should remind the president he won texas and won it big! >> so james, to take mark's argument and turn it upside down if you wanted to fuss up the results of the 2020 midterms and the 2024 presidential in advance, you would launch a nationwide campaign to fuzz up confidence in the electoral system. >> crooked election. so some people say, republicans didn't show up so look. it's 30% of the people in the country that don't believe in evolution. we have geology departments and medical schools. these people that believe this are just chronically stupid and have to move on. paul gosar's relatives came paned against him. we got to get going and to president and son to manchin and the -- everybody else to hammer

matthew's going to raise money all over the country because people all over america think that dan patrick fully nationalized and next year, beto o'rourke is running against greg abbott and maybe matthew dowd is running against dan patrick. the stakes are going to be sky high. i don't think we'll have seen anything like that it, what's going to happen next year in texas where it will have the flavor and intensity of a presidential campaign, i think, and that is the way, ultimately, if accountability is going to come that cecile is talking about, that's the path to it. making people realize that there's that much on the line. >> neal, i want to come back to you and give you the last word on -- i want to understand what the united states supreme court thinks of an opinion. as cecile said, it's extraordinary. it's a rebuke of the scheme. i think whatever the politics of the supreme court are, they're usually smart. how do they fall for that and are they capable of feeling shame? >> absolutely, they are. whether they will is, you know, remains to be seen. so, justice alito defended what the su

just one week after the 2020 election, lieutenant governor dan patrick said he would pay a bounty toud. last week he put his money where his mouth is, paying $25,000 to a progressive poll worker who turned in a republican for voting twice. in nevada, republican voter's story was all over the airways and was highlighted by the nevada republican party after he claims someone stole his deceased wife's ballot on last year's election. that mystery has been served. on thursday, the nevada attorney general announcing he is facing two counts of voter fraud, claiming he forged his wife's signature in order to vote. there was never robust evidence of rampant fraud, just anecdotal examples, that were used to imply widespread illegality. as the gop's false push on voter fraud continues, senate republicans blocked a sweeping voting rights bill for the third time this year. yesterday former president obama weighing in while stumping for terry mcauliffe. >> instead of spreading misinformation and disinformation about the last election, we should be trying to strengthen our democracy and make it eas

the people that are pushing this and the person i'm running against, dan patrick, is the main architectthis. the governor signed it but the main architect was the lieutenant governor of this who's done all of these things, but in the end, the question is, do women have a constitutional right to make the decisions over their own body? the republicans in texas say no. and the majority of texans say yes. so i think politically, it's bad news for the republicans. >> we're going to continue to follow this and this panel is sticking with me, because next, we are digging deeper. the january 6th commission issues new subpoenas and reveals what it will do if witnessed fail to comply. >>> plus, a report from haiti taking us inside the dire situation facing the people there, especially for those the u.s. has deported back to the island. r those the u.s. has deported back to the island ♪ ♪ mom! mom! every day can be extraordinary with rich, creamy, delicious fage total yogurt. want your clothes to smell freshly washed all day without heavy perfumes? extraordinary with rich, try new downy light in-w

site and while texas has its cast of characters, i guess we'll call them out there, greg abbott, dan patricke lone star state has become. his name is allen west, the former congressman from florida who called for the impeachment of president barack obama and is challenging greg abbott for the gop nomination for governor. he was hospitalized with covid-19 this weekend after attending a crowded fund-raiser. it's his actions after being hospitalized that's been getting attention and coverage. west who is unvaccinated and has been a mjor opponent launched a tweet storm in which he condemned vaccine mandates and promoted controversial treatments including admitting he has taken hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. we wish mr. west and his wife the best. we hope they get better from covid. this is from the washington post. west said he and his wife who is vaccinated have received treatment with antibodies a move a number of people argue with his remarks against vaccine. antibodies are created in the laboratory to mimic the human immune system. the biden administration announced it reached an agreeme

lieutenant governor dan patrick in texas offering a million dollar reward has yet to pay out a pennye spent 1,300 man hours trying to find fraud. 2,200 man hours trying to find fraud and a does bad addresses. after all of that, not only is there no everyday of systemic fraud, there's no evidence of fraud period. they found after doing their own audit. they found there were more votes, not less for joe biden. but that's the dedication the republicans have to this, and donald trump says it's the most important issue on the ballot. and now it's become the entire purity test for the republican party. i wish the democrats had that same dedication to the truth as the republicans do to a lie. >> donna, i want to give you a chance to respond to that. democrats have so much on their plate. it's not fair but it's the brutal reality of what is on the plate of democrats right now. >> well, i have to say, here's what i think some of what is going on. and it is that given how donald trump, you know, went through every length to try to undermine the election, the election results, we saw that in th

want to bring in texas lieutenant governor dan patrick.stated. there is a catch in all this. mexico has to agree to resume the policy. so what comes of it then? >> well, i think that president biden has come to this decision, bill, not because he wants to because the courts have forced him to and because his polling on the issue depending the poll you see is 25% of americans approve of what he is doing on the border and 75% disapprove. what he needs to do is ask donald trump to come back and negotiate with mexico for him. he obviously cannot negotiate his way out of afghanistan, or mexico found a way to work with president trump to be sure that we kept the mpp, the migrant protection protocols in place and a consistent policy, bill, that helped reduce the flow of people coming to this country illegally. and right now we are looking at over a million people apprehended this year probably another 2 or 3 million have come in illegally and we're totally -- it is out of control on the border and the president by the way, we can't wait until mid

any republican standards are wildly extreme, laws that no texas governor prior to greg abbott and dan patrickour former boss. so it is totally off the rails here. and we could talk later about our friend matthew dowd who is running for lieutenant governor who i saw last night. but it is a crazy time down here. i love texas and texans. and there are a large number of texans who are discombobulated, disconcerted, upset, baffled, angry that their chosen representatives behaving this way that doesn't reflect the vote of the majority of texans. and so you are starting to see them lose support. i wouldn't say crater, but they look vulnerable. and that is all part of the story here. incredibly fascinating and scary. >> part of the reason that they are cratering, and i think that they are, i think that they are held up by these extreme factions, is this extreme excrement isn't popular. overturning 85% of all abortions in texas doesn't have the majority support among republicans. letting kids die by banning mask mandates is not popular and that state had one of the worst covid crises of the delta vari

i think patrick and dan did that for her constituents in that county and my students have had an opportunity this past summer to participate in the filmmakers workshop and i'm hoping in spite of covid going on right now i hope we can return in person and i am hoping for my students to be able to start the process and create a documentary around emmett till and the story of the bayou and also adding miss ms. fannie lou hamer into that discussion as well. this is not just going to be a historical look but a modern-day look. they are to efforts to erase reconciliation and to economic problems today and just giving the students an opportunity to share with the world. >> i want to come back to you dr. parker. what does it mean to you to have the signed? that sign has been on a long journey. what does it mean to you to have the sign here at the national museum of american history? >> lest we forget and i've been a bible scholar. put it on the doors put it everywhere because we do forget and by me coming here to them it inspired me. i'm going to go back home and do some more. i'm bringing somebody

dan, what do you got? >> we got one from patrick.se you had to go see harry styles. we got this note from minnie, back in the day i got up on the gym watching mr. willie and now i have got you. speaking of willie geist, he's joining the marathon this year. i will add one last, a bunch of white house reporters are heading to italy, they're up early, too. we'll hear from congressman hakeem jeffries and chicago mayor lori lightfoot will join us. "morning joe" is just minutes away. is just minutes away introducing new vicks super c and dayquil severe convenience pack . [coughs] dayquil severe for you... and daily vicks super c for me. vicks super c is a daily supplement to help energize and replenish your body with vitamin c and b vitamins. dayquil severe is a max strength medicine for cold and flu relief. it's the daytime, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, power through your day, medicine. someone is feeling better. get your shoes. alright! try the new vicks convenience pack. tv: mount everest, the tallest mountain on the face of th