correspondent shouted jelani and social media editor thanks to you both. over 80 indian and international galleries will show at this year's india art fair with previews beginning today it is considered the premier place to showcase south asian art and has been running for more than a decade. right up to the last minute there hammering rushing around and hanging pictures. exhibitors worldwide are joining this year's india art fair the biggest of its kind in south asia. among those putting on the finishing touches on photo artist ravi agarwal and his gallery owner in the past 12 years the india art fair has helped contemporary artists like ravi find international recognition the art world in europe for example has a very long written history and a very long period of being accepted in society artists wall with somebody who just did something they were not very important part of it's only now that the expression have been found finding worth in terms of being recognized. primarily explores environmental issues the transformation of landscapes in one small se

we're clearing for 11,000 americans. >>> i'm joined by jelani cobb.>> good, thank you. >> what is happening here in a story that is many years in the making, the unwinding of a decades-long war on drugs? >> i war on drugs? >> i mean there are a lot of reasons why this is significant. one is just the number. you hear pardons for 11,000 people. that's not something that happens any day for any reason. so it's that part of it attention grabbing. but the other part of it we've had conversations about the war on drugs. that don't think we actually have a clear gauge on what exactly it is. and the war on drugs was never one thing. it was multiple layers of it. there's a federal layer of it, a municipal layer of it, a statewide layer, the prosecutorial part, the police enforcement part of it. so we've seen some progress in the last few years around sentencing disparities for powdered cocaine and crack cocaine, we've seen the first step act and all these things happening on a federal level. but it's a really important to see what happens on the state level, w

jelani williams is new york city's public advocate, thanks so much for coming on. we've talked many times and i've often heard you say every civil law's does this. but no civilized nation does what you're proposing. canada doesn't allow the so why should we? >> i would consider america one of the civilized nations and noncitizens have been voting in this country for a longer time. then they haven't. we are trying to restore a right onto people who are here legally and pay taxes, it sounds like a group of folks that conservatives are always trying to protect. >> let me ask, this is truly a political ploy to increase your power, which is the point of the left in the first place. if it's not, prove it to me. if you're willing to give them the constitutional right to vote, will you give them the constitutional right to carry a firearm? >> let's be clear, they will not be able to vote in state and federal elections. this will be for municipal and. >> please don't dodge the question. >> you are great at inserting things but i want to stay focused, it seems like you're no

msnbc analyst and contributors, jelani cobb, a writer for the new yorker.secutor, chuck rosenberg, michael steele who used to run the republican national committee in a different era. you wouldn't run it right now, i don't think. >> no. >> a little context. joining our coverage as well is kasie hunt of course host of kasie d.c. i invite you to listen in as we begin the analysis and then we'll go to some of your reporting because michael steele, this is what you know all about. >> yeah. >> this is taking a party which from afar everyone says, well, that party has one view, they disagree on everything. they want to block witnesses. then all of a sudden last night, it's not so simple. >> yes. but then no. yes, it's not so simple because you have three senators who have now come out and stated or started to state their intentions that they want to see more witnesses, but here's the part not so much that. and that is at the end of the day there will be no more witnesses added to this conversation. this is pretty much over. i mean, i think we need to wrap our hea