before that vote, the republican state party chair, the republican national party chair, and, of course, the head of the republican party, the president of the united states, all weighed in and told both of those republicans on that canvassing board that they needed to vote against certification, they needed to refuse to admit that joe biden had been the legitimate winner of the election in michigan. and one of those republicans went along! he didn't vote to certify biden as the winner in michigan. the other one, however, told the president no. that young republican lawyer, aaron van langevelde. he was the only republican on that board who stood up to the president and to the chair of the national republican party and the chair of the state party. he sat and sort of spoke quietly on zoom, but thereby, stood up and saved democracy. it's a ton of power behind his words and what he did. he joined the two democrats on the board and voted to certify the legitimate results of the election in michigan, thereby, putting the final nail in the coffin in the president's scheme to pressure michigan

committee, the national republican senatorial committee and the national republican congressionalmittee, trump advisor told the hill president trump remains committed to the republican party but does not give anyone permission to use his likeness without approval. mr trump is vowing to campaign against republican senator from alaska, lisa markovsky in a statement to politico today, trump said he will not be endorsing endorsing her in the 2020 midterm elections, calling her a quote disloyal and very bad. senator murkowski has been a long time critic of the former president. she was one of seven republican senators who voted to convict him in last month's impeachment trial. brickowski was also the only one of seven to face reelection in 2022. a number of immigrants crossing the u. s border with mexico is up sharply over last year, and many of them are children without their parents. as fox is lucas tomlinson reports u. s officials are considering housing some of them at a military base in virginia. border agents, the chain nearly 100,000 migrants of the southern border last month, i

president will now take on the reins as the president of the national republicans and yet also. thank you very much that was journalist in dar es salaam. thank you. to the netherlands now where conservative prime minister mark is claiming an overwhelming victory in elections there this will make his 4th term in office exit polls indicate his center right democracy party increased its share of seats winning just under a quarter of the vote in need to form a coalition with at least 2 other parties the election was effectively a referendum on the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic more than 16000 people have died related to the virus. our correspondent barbara basal is covering that election for us barbara exit polls suggest prime minister mark protests party has won again any surprises in this election. there are some surprises but not the one the big one in this little round tower you see here in the back of me that is his office and my crew to as expected doesn't even have to shift his files he can stay just right in place mark routine has made the running once ag

the national republican congressional committee and the national republican senate committee.those groups could use those images to vote for people who voted to impeach him. >> let's bring in carlos durr bellow. trump has been reluctant to offer support to the party establishment especially after losing the election and getting impeached for a second time. the republican party hoping the take back the house and senate last year using his name. you tweeted, and i guess sarcastically saying i wonder if this means donald trump only cares for himself. >> this is another reminder for republicans, many of whom refused to learn this lesson that donald trump really only cares about himself. he doesn't care about the republican party. he doesn't care about republican majorities. he only cares about his political figure, his power, the amount of attention he gets, and this is unprecedented for a former republican president to say the party is not allowed to use me in any way for its benefit. this is something that george w. bush, ronald reagan, would have never thought of doing because

then you have this spat with the republican national committee where the president's legal team sent rs to republican committees saying stop using the president -- former president's name and his image to raise money. and the republican national committee is shooting back saying we're just going to continue doing what we're doing and exercising our first amendment right. and what's so interesting about that, hallie, as you know, is the chairwoman of the rnc is hand-picked by former president trump. so this is something that as we see this civil war within the party play out in coming days and weeks and months is just going to continue. >> carol lee live in d.c. thank you. >>> when we come back what the georgia senate just did that could make it harder for voters of color to cast their ballots. >>> and later we will take you overseas to one country that has successfully tackled covid. so what can the u.s. learn from what iceland is doing? it's coming up. m what ilacend is doing? it's coming up some say this is my greatest challenge. governments in record debt; inflation rising, currenc

acting president who will now take on the reins as the president of the national republican stance and also. thank you very much that was charles isaac in dar es salaam. it's catch up on some of the other stories in the pandemic right now europe's medical regulator is set to give its verdict today on the safety of the astra zeneca vaccine after several nations suspended its use over blood clot fear this study published in the lancet medical journal shows the majority of people who have head coach at 19 are protected from getting it again for at least 6 months and japan will not extend a state of emergency in the tokyo area when it expires on sunday but officials are warning against complacency. italy is holding its 1st annual day of mourning for victims of the code 19 pandemic prime minister mario draghi will attend a ceremony in the city of baghdad which became the epicenter of the coronavirus help right this time last year as the death toll soared beyond anything the world had seen at that point he. visited baghdad and sent us this report. countless memories with many of the people l

taking matters into his own hands and urging supporters to his save america pac instead of the republican nationalee writing, quote, no more money for rinos, standing for republicans in name only. they do nothing but hurt the republican party and our great voting base. they will never lead to us greatness. so let's discuss. ayesha, what does he want here? >> influence and whoever controls the purse strings is the one who has the influence over the party. president trump, former president trump, let's be clear, trump has always been one who didn't want others making money off of his name. and he's also someone who is always, you know, looking at everything in a very transactional way. ie, he -- if you use his name, you owe him. he doesn't want anyone to be able to profit off of the trump name who is not sufficiently loyal to him. but if you are running the republican party or some of these republican committees, you may be looking at things other than just loyalty to former president trump, and trump wants payback for those who voted against him when it came to impeachment. >> gloria, if you're one

that is, it was supported by democrats, independents, and republicans across this nation. one group that was out of step were republican elected officials in washington. they were the ones unanimously opposed for their own political reasons. the same thing is true on the wealth tax. the best polls i've seen show that the wealth tax is popular across america. and that means democrats, independents, and republicans. the question is, these guys in washington, who are elected officials, who are republicans, and they want to veto. why do they want to veto everything that comes through? they know there were good things in the american rescue plan. shoot, some of them tweeted about the good things, even though they voted against them. they know why the wealth tax is popular. the 99% paid 72% of their total wealth in taxes last year. the top paid 1%. but they're in the politics game of trying to set to veto everything that joe biden wants to do, just like they did to barack obama. we're not going to permit this. this goes right back to your question about the filibuster. i'm glad t

national attention led to pressure on georgia republicans trying to make it harder for people to voteng national backlash including from the state's biggest companies the party is back down on proposals to end sunday voting and no-excuse absentee voting. two representatives one heads special committee on election integrity says the bill proposing to eliminate no absentee and know voting on sunday will not pass. voters in the state are looking at obstacles just exercising their constitutional right to vote. proposed bill requiring more absentee voteder i.d. limiting ballot drop boxes and restrict absentee ballot application mails. these bills are designed to limit equal access to voting and in the end 23069er voter purges. on one hand some of this was led by pressure by groups like yours to have georgia-based major corporations put pressure on republican candidates. the georgia chamber of commerce, i want to quote an article in forbes talks about. saying in a statement, support accessible and secure voting upholding election transparency you not worth the paper it was written on. talk

were telling him his likeness was being used to raise money, not so much about the rnc, the national republicanthat are trying to elect republicans to the house, to the senate and other outside groups, and we know that when the president hears about raising money or trying to elect people who have challenged him in the utmost way, for example, on impeachment, let's say a liz cheney, that he flies off the ha handle, and that that was the genesis of this. what was really interesting, brianna, is the response from the rnc in particular was cloaked in all kinds of saccharine language about how they respect him and how well he gets along with the rnc chairwoman. he said it is the right to use a likeness of a public figure, and we're going to continue to do that. >> it's going to be interesting to see how this works out. how do you see it playing out? >> we'll see. it does put such a spotlight, or it's the latest spotlight, i should say, on the idea that he is somebody who helps bring in money, he helps bring in votes among the core republicans. and that is what they need to do right now. they're try

they will do that if they can beat back the recall it really pushes national republicans in statewide republicans back on their heels because there's a gubernatorial election next year in 2022, however, there's a number of wild cards here there's a lot of things that can happen and it hasn't gone smoothly so celebrity the race everything topsy-turvy of course that happened in 2003 with arnold schwarzenegger. but if things start to return to normal and the vaccines get on track this delivery happens kids are back in school that helps the incumbent and that would come at some role if you will and push for gavin newsome to be back to recall stay in office run for reelection, so the potential for here for boom for him is there the question is what does that look like for all the wild cards that are out there too. >>david are kind of running out of time, but quickly the governor of course avoid talking about the referendum understandably but are there indications that he and his staff are worried should they be yeah, i mean certainly got a quietly raise money independent expenditures that

atic national committee and republican national committee offices.100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to that person's identity. >>> bay area activists are leading a new lawsuit against a company whose technology is used by law enforcement agencies across the nation. clearview ai uses so-called scraping technology. it collects billions of online images for data base which private and government agencies can tap into for a fee. local immigrants rights groups claim the technology is used without consent and violate's people's rights. the suit claims racial bias because it misidentifies people of color. clearview says its software complies with the law and protected by the first amendment. the ceo says independent studies show no racial bias. >>> no carryover for california ical edd system which experienced a shutdown yesterday for about an hour. all systems crashed included unemployment assistance. >>> we've got new details an on the happiest place on earth. just got happier news. disneyland theme parks will reopen next month. iable

republican party, that's not going anywhere at all. >> eugene, you just spoke with the head of the national republicanonal committee about what he sees as trump's role in these upcoming primaries. what did he have to say? >> his whole job is to keep -- on trying to get the republican majority, but he is the first republican leader to say publicly to president trump, we don't really want you to engage in these primaries. president trump is going to -- has already waged war on these ten people who voted to impeach him. and it would not be help ful, ad he would like him to stay out of it. that's not something we've heard from someone like kevin mckarth. >> i pence's op-ed calls for them to vote for had hr-1. pence's stance, vice president pence describes the stance like this. quote, it proves -- i'm sorry, fox. i'm reading this incorrectly. fox describes pence's stance as this. it proves -- vice rather, vice says, quote, it proves as pence looks to stay relevant in the modern republican party with an eye on potential 2024 presidential run, he's willing to play footsie with the elements of the party that

national. and we cannot have republicans calling the shot.more comfortable to fight off that then questions about, why did you declare the state of emergency is? how have you been disturbing vaccines? is it working or is it not? the other thing is, and you know about 2003 because you are doing a documentary on it. one of the key things he has to do is keep another democrat out of the race. of a democrat enters the race, then all the sudden it is not about the republicans and that changes everything. >> it is so interesting to look at these parables from 2003 until now and looking back at the old video and footage from that time, you can see davis at the time doing what newsom is doing. just brushing it off. these are right wing extremists. this is looney tunes. these groups. and and look what happened then. granted, there are differences as well in the sense that the democrats are different. california -- it was not implausible at the time for republican to become the governor and win a race like that. but you are seeing this strategy play ou

national republican groups are offering guidance to state lawmakers as they draft laws to restrict ballotoots activists to key battleground states and raising millions of dollars to block democrats from establishing national standards for voting rights. the republican-controlled house in georgia is expected to vote today on a number of changes that would make it harder to vote and a set of election bills to restrict voting was also introduced in michigan on wednesday. >>> democrats taking action to expand who can vote. late last night washington state's senate passed a bill to automatically restore voting rights to people as soon as they're released from prison including those on pa real or probation. the measure goes to democrat i can it governor jay inslee for his signature. virginia's governor ralph authorize that many took a similar step last week. ♪ in boxing or any other business, one day, you're gonna take a hit you didn't see coming. do you stay down? or do you get up? [announcer] and this fight is a long way from over, leonard is coming back. ♪ ♪ if these beautiful idaho potato r

for example, the federal, national republican leadership with its nra allies has continually and continues to stoke animosities and grievances as a way to hold on to and wield power. and let us note that a lot of democrats fall in line right behind them. now everybody knows it's no secret that a lot of this has to do with sheer money. there's a lot of money to be made. in the sell of guns and ammunition. a lot of money is paid to lobbyist and to have politicians vote the way they vote. this is in contrast to the country as a whole. poll after poll shows a rather sizable majority of americans in favor of having, say, a delay in when you can buy a gun. a three-day delay. or a two-day delay. you buy it, you pick it up two or three days later, together with background checks. this is very popular. but year after year, decade after decade, it doesn't get put into law. what is needed is a common sense approach. if you can get the politicians out of this, i'm convinced americans of good will on various sides of this issue. would get together for some common sense things. you have to have a driver

but what you're seeing is that actually one of the lawyers for the republican national committee said argument when justice barrett asked him why the republican national committee is in this case, he said, well, look, politics is a zero sum game. >> actually, i don't -- i'm sorry to interrupt. we have exchange. >> okay, so take a listen to it. arizona rnc here in keeping, say, the out of precinct voter ballot disqualification rules on the books? >> because it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to democrats. politics is a zero sum game, and every extra vote they get through unlawful interpretation of section 2 hurts us. it's the difference between winning an election 50-49 and losing -- >> thank you, my time is up. >> nina, go ahead. >> it was a fairly stark reminder about what this is all about. and i -- i have been struck this week by such a change in our politics over the last 10 to 15 years. up until then, in the modern era, the 1950s, late '50s through -- through, actually, the beginning of the 21st century, up until, you know, up until 2005, 2010, voting rights acts a

. >> i want to ask you, the head of the national republican congressional committee told politico he nt president trump to try to primary you or liz cheney or other house republicans who voted to impeach him. the nrcc finance chair went as far to say that they'll help your campaign and the campaigns of other republicans who supported impeachment. have you heard from the nrcc? >> this is something that we've been obviously monitoring very carefully and closely because, you know, there may be calls for unity in some quarters, but when -- when that call is only coming from one side it's hard to move forward as a united party. >> but just to be clear, has the nrcc reached out to you to say we'll support you? we're going to help you? >> we are members of the nrcc. we are dues-paying members and we of course, expect that the organizations that we are a part of wouldn't abandon us in a moment of need. >> the senate is set to vote on president biden's $1.9 billion covid relief deal and you're proposing an alternative plan that includes $2400 checks to some americans. why do you think your way

i spoke with florida senator and chairman of the national republican senatorial committee rick scott regain the senate majority in 2022. here's system of that conversation. 2022, sir, 50-50 senate, a lot of republicans want to know how you take back the majority, what's your vision. >> we're going to talk about the issues. if you look at the american public, they're not into what the biden administration's pushing. they didn't talk about opening the borders when they ranch they didn't talk about closing the schools, they didn't talk about letting men participate in women's sports. they didn't talk about these things. they didn't talk about spending money without even talking to republicans. looked at this bill they just passed. i mean, they wouldn't even negotiate anything with us. it was one way, their way or the highway. so they said we're not even going to listen to you, and we're going to spend money like crazy. that's what they did. if we focus on the issues, focus on the economy, on education and law enforcement -- and, understand, we're going to, i am all in for capitalism, an

you know, we witnessed national republicans bullying brian kemp, our governor, bullying secretary raffenspergerorgia's secretary of state. and you know, i remember folks saying, giving them congratulations, patting them on the back for defending our elections. and defending our democracy. and so their silence in this moment, again, is deafening, and it's peculiar. we also watched while the lieutenant governor of our state, jeff duncan, refused to preside over the vote for a senate bill 241, giving us sort of another indication that there is a huge split between sort of trump supporting republicans who are continuing to push the big lie and other members of the republican party. but their silence is insufficient. this is the moment, this moment calls for nothing less than a full throated condemnation of these ridiculous attacks on our elections. >> ten times justice kagan presented, ten times more likely than white voters or black voters to vote on sunday. the proposition is easy. do you want to have the label of having brought back jim crow? because that's how you'll be remembered if you are fo

for democrats to go and have the wins like they had in georgia this past fall this is what national republicans want this is what statewide republicans what they know they have trouble getting minority voters a new rising electorate you americans to vote for their policies and so therefore what can they do they have to suppress the vote a process right from reston virginia rina shah thank you thank you all now the company that supplied most of the electronic voting machines for the last presidential election is suing fox news for defamation hosts and guests on the channel repeatedly accused demean in voting systems of helping to rig the election so joe biden could beat donald trump dominion is now fighting a $1600000.00 defamation lawsuit its machines for use in 28 of the 50 states including most of the key swing states staying in the u.s. and at least 6 people have been killed after a series of tornadoes tore through some southern states the storms began in alabama before moving across parts of georgia on friday entire neighborhoods have been destroyed and tens of thousands of people are witho

he was another republican at the national level that was completely demonized and destroyed and distortedat is what they do to republicans at the national level. >> you talk about what you learn from karl rove, what have you learned from former president trump? about the tactic of shaming to try to destroy your political opponent. >> you all -- because you know we have flaws, and you have to hang out with me to see me maybe use amortization and use. -- words i should not use. we all get that. most of us are probably people of faith. church was packed today, congratulations. the protestant service was packed. the shabbat dinner, packed. faith matters here. we were raised with this idea of humility and an understanding that we make mistakes so that when we make a mistake and -- jumps on us, what is the first thing we are taught to do? apologize. you once said something that was wrong one time, donald trump taught us know, they are not trying to correct the record. they are trying to cancel you. stand up for what you mean when you say things. so they don't -- so they don't scare you off the

they were placed outside the democratic national committee and the republican national committee offices. a $100,000 reward is being offered. >>> happening now in minneapolis, jury selection resume this is morning in the trial for one former police officer charged in the death of george floyd. derek chauvin was the officer seen in that video with his knee on the neck of george floyd for eight minutes. they've been hard pressed to find anyone not biased by the extensive media coverage. >>> this saturday marks one year since breonna taylor was killed inside her apartment. her mother and her family's lawyer sat down to talk about the fight that goes beyond even their daughter. >> reporter: the passage of time it's unbearable for tamika palmer. >> i don't know the difference in the days anymore. >> reporter: it's been almost a year since her 26-year-old daughter, breonna taylor, was shot and killed in her own apartment when sheriff's issued a no-knock warrant. walker said he thought it was a home invasion and the officers never announced themselves. none of the three officers involved were c

in a moment we'll speak with florida senator rick scott, head of the national republican senatorial committeeth winning back the senate for the g work p in 2022 -- gop in 2022. but first, mark meredith reports from orlando where conservatives are eagerly awaiting mr. trump's big speech. >> reporter: former president trump is expected to get a hero's welcome when he addresses cpac this afternoon. >> we're not going anywhere. we're trump nation, and we are here to stay. >> reporter: all weekend some of trump's staunchest supporters have called for the 45th president's agenda to remain the republican party's platform. >> let me tell you this right now, donald j. trump ain't going anywhere. >> america first is now positioned to guide our country through the trials and tribulations of the next generation. >> reporter: today trump is not expected to announce plans for a run in 2024, but other potential presidential hopefuls appear to be testing the waters. from rallying behind lifting lockdowns -- >> florida got it right, and the lockdown states got it wrong. [cheers and applause] >> i don't know i

senator rick scott leading the national republican senatorial committee went on yesterday saying the party is united, but certainly we see just from the activities over the last, you know, several weeks that the party sure is not. i want to go back to the straw poll, 68% doesn't seem to be that high, considering that he is the former president. there's still a lot of adulation in the party. there was another poll result that said even if only 68% of those attendees wanted him to run in 2024, 95% of the attendees said they wanted cpac to spread trumpism. republican leaders, the ones who want to come back into power in 2022 are trying to find a way to keep everyone together, to keep the ideas of trump, and to keep his voters in line, but obviously the former president makes it very hard for republican leaders to do that. >> that's interesting. they want trumpism maybe without trump. >> right. >> can you catch us up, what's the status of the covid relief bill? >> so there's big news on that front. actually just over the last several hours in the last day, that senate democratic leaders

instead of helping fight the pandemic, national republicans are coming to fight californians. >> let's political reporter maeve ruston. when you see the governor doing a bunch of national tv interviews, including he'll be on "the lead with jake tapper" later today. when you see that ad, that tells me the governor is a candidate, he understands his opponents are likely going to gain enough signatures to have a recall election and he's at it. >> he is, john, and it's such a shift in strategy from the last couple of months. when the recall effort got going last year he completely ignored it. and then when it picked up steam, particularly over the holidays, when he put in a second set of stay at home orders that angered a lot of people, he would sort of answer questions about the recall by brushing them off and defending his leadership during the pandemic, but now he -- this is a media blitz like nothing that we have seen over the last two days. and what it tells you is that the recall most likely will qualify, and that they know that there's significant risk here. california is one of tho

and the fbi officially confirming those pipe bombs placed at the democratic and republican national committee headquarters could kill. >> these pipe bombs were viable devices that could have been detonated, resulting in serious injury or death. >> reporter: the video offering specific detail on the suspect's movements. at 7:40, the suspect seen walking along this residential street. investigators interested in their somewhat unusual gait. moments later, a person walking a dog passes by. by 7:52, the suspect has made it to the dnc headquarters. the suspect sits on a bench and appears to fumble with that backpack. a bomb is later discovered in the bush adjacent to the bench. at 8:14, the same suspect walking down an alley next to the rnc headquarters. a bomb placed there as well before exiting the area, walking past the capitol hill club. the fbi hinting at a profile as i asks for the public's help. >> since january 5th, you may have noticed changes in someone you know. it could be bragging about what they did while on capitol hill. following this story very closely or exhibiting an unusual emo

first time i've seen this video it comes from buildings near the democratic national headquarters and also the republican national headquarters so obviously the f.b.i. have had this for a while one of the 1st things they would have done was check the video you can't tell if it's a man or a woman you can't see a face but they do have distinctive brand name food where the f.b.i. are hoping that someone might be able to identify that or perhaps even the gate that the suspects use no they're also saying look think about january this year was anyone near you buying a couple of backpacks did they express any interest in how would you build a bomb that even go to a hardware store and pick up piping with that be considered unusual all of this as far as the f.b.i. is concerned it could be important now you remember that these 2 devices were found around 1 pm on january the 6th that was just before a big crowd moved towards capitol hill to try and contest the results of the presidential election many people thought at the time that this was a decoys plant that those devices which were attached to timers would go o

>> i think the rnc, republican national committee, and the senate congressional campaign committee chairsut out a statement a couple hours ago, very meek, we want to work with president trump. it's not going to go over well privately, and i'm awaiting public objections by republicans. it's trump's party and they've decided the best thing they can do is kowtow to him and go along with him and not object too much and try to make it work somehow. so again, i'm struck by the fact that people aren't saying this is beyond -- this is an outrage and we've got to liberate ourselves from donald trump. very few republicans are saying that, but it is only a few. >> caroline, do you take it as a given now that we have 50 days' distance into the biden administration, that this former president will be the definition of that party, that he will have controlling influence over that party for the foreseeable future and that way control at least half of our politics going forward? >> brian, i think absolutely i take it as a given. i think, you know, to the degree that some people made a deal with the devil

national republicans are spending an extraordinary amount of money to continue to perpetuate the bigand we are seeing anti-protesting bills. with this attack on sort of the sacred fundamental right and the attack on the first amendment i shutter to think the kind of country we will be. >> same here. thank you so much for coming on this show tonight. it's a big issue for the country, for you and for me and for the show, as i said before. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> to the rest of you watching, thank you -- to the rest of you watching at home, we will be right back here monday through thursday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. now it's time to turn it over to my colleagues, joshua johnson. good evening. >> before you run off, i have to know what is on your mind in the conversation with congressman crenshaw. >> we tried. i don't agree with a lot of what he said and i think there was a lot of -- let's be honest, fact inaccuracies. >> i appreciate you at least talking to somebody that you disagreed with, giving him a chance to engage, which is something that we will discuss later in the

qanon conspiracy theorists, trump supporters and national republicans.nks is right even if it's not popular and. in the end, it ends up that what he stood for became what was right and popular. other leaders in the anti recall group includes state comptroller betty assembly member rob bonta, oakland city council members sheng tao and former u s. congressman mike honda. and at the same time, a group hoping to remove san francisco district attorney chase of bodeen from office can officially start its campaign. the coalition has been cleared by election officials to begin collecting signatures for a recall vote. supporters say the campaign is fueled by public statement or sentiment, rather, that san francisco has been quote overrun by criminals who face no consequences for their actions. he has instilled his theoretical version of criminal justice, which instead is turned our city upside down all the streets, all the businesses here. our homes are all targets. now the group will be required to collect over 51,000 signatures, which is 10% of the city's regis

and former republican national committee communications chairman. garrett, the efforts to get this through debate for an early vote hit a roadblock this morning from congresswoman marjorie kalear greene from georgia, the controversial congresswoman. tell us how that went down. >> yeah, look, these are the procedural tools that can be applied by the minority and in this case it's not terribly surprising. marjorie taylor greene and other republicans have been doing these motions to adjourn on basically every day the house has been in session. not a huge surprise they tried to do so today. but this is the reality in the house. when you're in the minority there is a lot you can do to slow down the process, gum up the works, but very little you can do to stop the majority from passing their priorities. and that's what house democrats intend to do today. hakim jefferies told me yesterday he's 110% confident they've got the votes. they know the democrats are expecting to stick together on this thing and they will ultimately push this bill across the finish

your support for this bill really goes against what so many national republicans are saying about it. mesa is getting mean to your city right now at this stage in the pandemic? >> well, abby, i think it is obviously to those of us that are here on the ground that the pandemic is not over. we don't have money to send back to washington as senator scott was suggesting because we've spent it on providing covid relief to the residents of our community. and that is what is being done in cities across the united states. local government and cities is the primary area where relief is being provided. so we are -- we have spent and will spend this money on food, on addressing the huge food insecurity problems that people are experiencing as part of the pandemic. we'll spend it on devices so our children could participate in online school, we'll spend it on small business grants, on eviction prevention and utility assistance and putting shots in arms. that is where this money is going. it is not going anywhere else. >> why do you think that not one republican senator or either of the congressma

that means that national democrats and national republicans will also play a role in the recall effortsf the governor is successful and beating it back. if he is successful in getting a no vote on the question, he comes out even stronger, headed into reelection next year in 2022. ok, so david walk us through what is happening right now. so right now, county registrars air verifying signatures under the law. they've done that every 10 days or so based upon reports, so they're already in a place where they can rapidly report what has happened. there will be some pushback to ask people to have their signatures on the recall petition to come off. but look, you're talking about a number. that would be over half a million, probably seven or 800,000 signatures that would have to come off that would be unlikely and recall proponents put that in there, then you're going to have a call for the what's the joint legislative budget? maybe you'll have the scheduled all of this kind of happens between now and about april 15th april 19th and so about that middle of april will know when it will be the r

powered by republican coalition of anti vaxxers qanon conspiracy theorists, trump supporters and national republicans. he does what he thinks is right even if it's not popular and. in the end, it ends up that what he stood for became what was right and popular. other leaders in the anti recall group includes state comptroller betty assembly member rob bonta, oakland city council member sheng tao and former u s congressman mike honda. now, at the same time, a group hoping to remove san francisco district attorney chase it, bodine from office can officially start its campaign. the coalition has been cleared by election officials to begin collecting signatures for a recall vote. supporters say the campaign is fueled by public sentiment that san francisco has been quote overrun by criminals who. face no consequences for their actions. he has instilled his theoretical version of criminal justice, which instead has turned our city upside down. all the streets. all of businesses here. our homes are all targets. now the group will be required to collect over 51,000 signatures, which is 10% of the city's regi

of anti vaxxers qanon conspiracy theorists, trump supporters and national republicans.he does what he thinks is right even if it's not popular and. in the end, it ends up that what he stood for became what was right and popular. other leaders in the anti recall group includes state comptroller betty yee, assembly member rob bonta, oakland city council member shanked how and former u s congressman mike honda, a new report finds that overtime pay for santa's a police officer's continues to increase in this comes even after the department is hired hundreds of officers in recent years, according to the bay area news drip, the report by the city auditor shows last year overtime pay accounted for 10% of the department's budget. some san jose city council members say that findings are another reason to look into relying on other professionals to respond to incidents happen to do with mental health emergencies and homelessness that would free up time for officers to really focus on patrol duties and back to that breaking news on the peninsula, where it does appear. an explosive

again, whiia while georgia is considered ground zero and national republicans are continuing to spend-- that's the majority of the states in our country, we are seeing anti-voting bills. we are also beginning to see anti-protesting bills. so with this attack on sort the sacred fundamental right to vote, this attack on the first amendment, i shudder to think the kind of country we will be. >> yeah. same here. thank you so much for coming on the show tonight. it is a big issue for the country. for you and me, and for this show, as i said before. appreciate your time. >> thank you, medhi. >> to the rest of you watching at home, we'll be right back here next sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. you can catch me mouns through thursdays at w7 p.m. eastern on the choice, nbc's streaming channel, peacock. now it is time to turn it every to joshua johnson, good evening. >> i have got to know what's on your mind about that conversation with congressman crenshaw? that was pretty hot. did he answer your questions? did you ge out of that what you wanted. >> i don't think i did. but we tried. i think he tr

that money goes to state parties or the republican national committee, instead of trump, himself. and it could even help some of the republicans who voted to impeach trump. so, on friday, attorneys for trump sent cease and desist letters to three republican organizations, asking them to stop using the former president's name and likeness in fund-raising appeals and merchandise. there's just one big problem -- trump's a public figure. public figure can't stop an organization from using their likenesses. if they could, you know, congresswoman ilhan omar, among others, would almost certainly stop republicans from using her to raise money. trump is the biggest name in the gop, by far, and the rnc really is counting on that maga money, and so, it rejected the cease and desist demand from trump to stop using his image. the institutional republican party also really wants to try to keep trump happy, so now they're paying tribute. we learned yesterday the rnc is moving a portion of its spring donor retreat to mar-a-lago and will be paying trump's club for the use of the facilities. that wa