. >>> then, former attorney general eric holder and attorney mark elias on the voting rights fight on the senate floor. as the president marks his first year in office, why he is a raising alarms over what could happen in europe. >> consequential thing that happened in the world in terms of war and peace since world war ii. >> lieutenant colonel alexander vindman on russia aggression in ukraine. "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we have late breaking developments regard regarding a trove of white house documents that the ex-president has been trying to block the release of. in a huge rebuke to donald trump, the supreme court has rejected trump's attempt to block the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection from accessing those documents from trump's time in the white house. this evening the committee was set to receive a tiny handful of documents, four pages. but in light of this decision that happened 90 minutes ago the committee will have access to all of the hundreds of pages of documents it requested. that's not the only big ne

let me ask you this sir, do you know who mark elias is? >> yes, i do. >> okay. why don't you tell your people that mark elias was paid by the clintons through the perkens law firm to hire people in gps to cook up the steel docier, he's single person done more to under mine american elections. you want confidence in american elections, talk about that. >> well, mark elias can defend himself, he's an election lawyer who brought a lot of successful cases defending voting rights. you know, i think that the caller made the point that he's an election official and he did not see fraud and just like him, we've had very secure elections in the rest of the country and this myth of misconduct is being used to pass partisan laws to make it harder for some people to vote and not for other people. it's a dangerous moment. and again, we need to make sure that our election gives the people the real voice and makes sure that we have a free and fair election, that reflects the country that we actually live in and not be dazzled by rumors and actually look at what's happening. i

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a fighting these in the courts and that's good enough. >> i think if you talk to mark elias as i'm suree will tell you and said publicly with this concerted effort across the country to suppress the vote that litigation is not enough. you have a case where, say, in montana where they had same day registration for 15 years flipped the switch and people that used it in the last election will go to the polls and show it disappeared. in georgia raphael warnock, the victory 70,000 people registered to vote during the runoff period and limited the run off period and stopped the registration of people during that month. these are things going on state by state by state and yeah, you can litigate and we have incredible arguments to be made but basically what we want to put in place so that you can vote regardless of your zip codes, federal minimum standards upheld repeatedly by the way the ability of congress to do this under the constitution that says a congress can make roll through the rules regarding federal elections. that's what we're trying to do here. it's about guaranteeing the right t

elias. nationally recognized -- mark, they've been going for a while. they have been debating, as the senate is designed to do. where -- how are you feeling right now watching this? >> look, i wouldn't be being honest with you if i didn't tell you that i am saddened, that it appears that this bill is not going to pass. the times that i came on your show and said, how essential this bill was, i wasn't saying that because i thought it was a nice thing. i was saying it because our democracy needs it. so, i appreciate all the senators having an opportunity to say their piece, but at the end of the day, tomorrow morning, voters are going to wake up around the country, and face an onslaught of voter suppression. congress will not have helped. >> you will -- you mentioned yesterday -- senator joe manchin. we should be precise here, imagine is on board with this legislation, on the merits, all 50 democratic senators are. he is not on board with changing the filibuster rules, to make it -- you can decide whether that's the distinction of a difference. when asked

mark elias is actually polluting the possibility of already using an obscure civil war era law to disqualify any republican candidate who questions 2020 election results. but this would require establishing such individual support and actual insurrection. good luck with that. so ballot harvesting, vote by mail come early voting, no voter i.d. requirements, pelosi and the hard left are pushing all of it. touting it as come up course, democracy enhancing measures. now, in the senate chuck schumer decided the filibuster, which we have already shown you. repeatedly defended in the past is an ancient and probably racist obstruction to democracy. speak with the senate republicans continued to abuse the filibuster to prevent this body from acting and the senate must adapt. before, changing the rules is nothing new. >> laura: nothing new. and if all else fails, democrats can always call on big tech to ramp up censorship machine. >> functioning democracy depends upon an informed and educated citizenry, that was thomas jefferson in social media, i think, one of the culprits i represent silicon valley.

ali, you is talked to mark elias who have had success in this area and they should continue along thosen of this. there's a corporate development, perhaps and republicans in state levels are not paying attention, but they might pay attention to big business and the more pressure that they apply in this debate, the better. i don't think the door is closed necessarily on congress. i think we saw this week that voting rights fell short, but at the same time we saw 48 votes and democrats came awfully close and they could actually make some gains in the 2022 elections despite the odds that are against that. >> all right. that's some stuff. ari, what's your sense of it. what can and should be done right now? >> i think steve laid it out very well. i'll emphasize one of his points which is a mass mobilization for democracy at the state and local level. we saw so many people get involved in 2020 to become poll workers, to become election officials and to have people have their votes counted and some of that is still going on and a lot of people went back to their lives and the problem is the in

. >>> then, former attorney general eric holder and attorney mark elias on the voting rights fight onrst year in office, why he is a raising alarms over what could happen in europe. >> consequential thing that happened in the world in terms of war and peace since world war ii. >> lieutenant colonel alexander vindman on russia

. >> the most convenient thing about that is that mark elias who is fighting all these cases, does notth that. marc elias is one of the strong proponents of this bill, because he knew that this would maybe die in court. a few days ago, and said that congress needed to add to the justice department the power it needed to go to court and fight these voter suppression measures. what's really -- about these arguments is that the filibuster has been changed again and again and again. by mitch mcconnell know, changing the filibuster to help put three republican appointees on the supreme court with just 51 court votes. so it's not just to change the filibuster rules as some sacred rate that came from the founders, because the filibuster did not exist for the first 17 years of congress. arguably, it was kind of by accident, and rewrite by -- of all people. so it is really such a chain -- it is really such a shame that history has been -- in this way. >> we're coming to a commercial break in this live conversation, when we come back more to my point what joe biden said today. this is not over.

as election writer mark elias wrote this week, 10 months from the 2022 midterms, it is up to senate democratsone or let republicans use the filibuster, if these two voting rights bills fail, our democracy will suffer and never recover. associate under president obama, cofounder of protect democracy, dedicated to fighting efforts to undermine democracy, and board chair of color of change, largest only racial justice organization, and author of the sum of us, what racism costs everyone and how we prosper together. let me start with you, heather, how are you thinking about these next 10 months? towards these midterms which take on these kind of existenial weight that no midterm election i think i ever encountered before i felt took on. >> it does, because it feels like because of the baked-in counter majoritarian weight and structure of the u.s. senate combined with the rules that republicans a the the state level have put into gerrymandering the house and to suppress the vote, we have a situation where we are looking at a question of do we have a pro democracy, not a democratic party, a pro dem

senator manchin has said there really isn't a problem out there and that mark elias and the voters whothings in court, these republican -- actions by republican legislators they can just fight it in court and of course they will win and there won't be any problems. manchin is insisting that no voters, no voters are going to be harmed in any way by what's happening out there now. >> the most inconvenient thing about that is that marc elias, who is fating all these cases, does not agree with that. marc elias was one of the strongest supporters of this bill because he knew all this work couldn't be done in court. merrick garland, the attorney general, got up before the country a few days ago and said that congress needed to act to give the justice department the power it needed to go to court to fight some of these voter suppression measures. and what's really disturbing about these arguments is that the filibuster, as amy klobuchar pointed out, has been changed again and again and again. mitch mcconnell changed the filibuster to help put three republican appointees on the supreme court w

and when he talks about mark elias, what happened in ohio for example, that's because of a state courtthat the federal level we don't have any protections against gerrymandering. we tried to put it into the freedom to vote act and that's in senator manchin's bill but he doesn't want to pass it. >> going pack to the subtle changes, and you were talking about the fact 50% of mail-in ballot applications in which county are being rejected? >> it depends. we're talking about 40 or 50, but we're talking about bear county depending on the time we're seeing enormous, enormous rejection rates which are leading to tens of thousands of folks being rejected. >> and i'm bringing this up again because i'm wondering let's say i'm one of those people in bear county in texas and my mail-in application is rejected, what recourse do i have to fight that rejection? do i have any under texas law? >> well, you really have to rely on the county elections official to try and work with you to find a way to make it be accepted. and, again, it's already very difficult to vote by mail in texas. you have to be 65

>>> and mark elias on a surprise court victory for democrats. "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. today two of the people facing seditious conspiracy charges in connection with the attack at the capitol on january 6th appeared in court for the first time. 63-year-old edward vallejo answered questions from a judge remotely from an arizona jail and 56-year-old elmer stewart rhodes u appeared in plano, texas. they are among 11 members of the far-right extremeist group the oath keepers. they are facing the most serious charges we have seen the department of justice bring in the wake and related to the insurrection. as we are learning more about these defendants and their plans and actions leading up to the 6th, it's clear they were not hiding their intentions. just days after the 2020 election, rhodes, the founder and leader of the oath keepers, told conspiracy theorist alex jones he was positioning his members around the capitol. >> we have men already stationed outside d.c. as a nuclear option and in case th

do you know who mark elias is? guest: yes i do. you tell your people that mark elias was paid by the clintons for a law firm to cook up the dossier. he has done a single person -- he is done more as a single person to undermine congress in elections. if you want confidence, why don't we talk about that? host: the final minute here. guest: mark said himself, his electrical -- election lawyers brought a lot of successful cases for voting rights. i think that the caller made a point that he is in logical -- an election official and he did not see fraud. we have very secure elections and the rest of the country, and we dismiss misconduct. it is a myth that is used to pass laws to make it harder for some people to vote. not for other people. the dangerous moment that again, we need to make sure we give the people a real voice, and we make sure that we have a free and fair election that reflects the country that we actually live in. not be dazzled by rumors and actually look at what is happening. i think there is a lot of challenge, and

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and i think today marked, hopefully, an intensification of that battle over the soul of america. >> mac eliasspecific efforts in places like georgia and texas to make it harder to vote and to change and recast who the referees are who counts our votes. today's message from president biden was broader and it was hopefully to enlist more folks on that battlefield with you. is it -- do we still have time? i mean, did you hear it the way i heard it, and is there still -- can it still be saved? >> we still have time, but the clock is ticking closer and closer to midnight. and as i listen to the prayer vigil, i reflected back on the vigil, if you recall, that jc watts spoke at on september 12th, i think it was, 2001. and at that point, both democrats and republicans rallied around the republican president. we rallied against a common understanding that we needed to protect democracy. and so, as dark as things might have been, at those moments, and as scary as things were at those moments, it felt like, as someone born in new york and at the time living in washington, d.c., it felt like all america

and mark elias in court and struck down in ohio struck down gerrymandering, things are happening, okay. we act like we're going to obstruct people from voting, that's not going to happen. >> [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> this week, the senate is considering voting rights legislation that's already been passed by the house. the measure would restore certain provisions of the 1965 voting rights act. and also, create new federal mandates for early voting, ballot drop boxes and vote by mail. the vote to limit debate is expected tomorrow without the support of 10 republicans, the bill is likely to be blocked in the senate. in response, senate democrats are planning to proceed with a vote to change the filibuster rule by a simple majority despite stated opposition by two members of their party. chuck schumer spoke shortly after democrats met behind closed doors on capitol hill. >> [inaudible conversations]