reverend william barber, thank you for taking this time. you are on the road.f the poor people's campaign and president of repairers of the breach. we will link to the letter you and reverend liz will harris wrote to kamala harris published in "the nation, titled "vp harris, maybe you were elected for such a time as this." next up, hr1. at a time when republicans are pushing more than two hud 50 state laws to restrict voting access. we will speak with new york congressmember mondaire jones. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "so long" by aretha franklin. her birthday is march 25. she would have been 79. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the house of representatives has proved the most sweeping voting rights legislation in decades. the for the people act, also known as house resolution 1, passed wednesday by a vote of a 220 to 210 with every republican opposi the bil the legiation isim at improvg voter restrationnd acce to voti, ending paisan andacial gerranderingforcing e dilosure of dark mey donor ineasing plic

bishop william barber, jennifer bates, thank you. that's tonight's "reidout."hat it's a homicide, it's murder. you can believe your eyes. >> tonight, floyd family attorney benjamin crump on opening arguments and the defense position that the crowd was to blame. >> there is a growing crowd causing the officers to divert their attention from the care of mr. floyd. >> then, dnc chair jaime harrison on the new state trying to bother handing out of water at voting lines. senator tammy duckworth on her new memoir, on anti-asian hatred, and the

amy: the reverend william barber, co-founder of the poor people's campaign, also address the protesttlanta. >> let us not forget, white supremacists are not just against black people, but humanity itself. let us remember that white supremacist is a form of self worship and idolatry. and whenever it is pushed and promulgated by presidents and politicians and preachers come in can cause strange justification for the taking of life this world has ever seen. white supremacy is promulgated, he will try to justify taking black lives, taking brown lives, taking indigenous life, taking indian life, taking asian life, taking muslim life, palestinian life, and gay lives. what supremacist is a life taker. amy: as we continue to look at the mess shootings in atlanta, the spike in hate crimes targeting asian americans and the broader issues, we are joined by the pulitzer prize-winning vietnamese-american writer viet thanh nguyen. his new novel "the committed," a sequel to his best-selling book "the sympathizer." his other books include "the refugees" and the displaced: refugee writers on refugee

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but she coming together with william barber, sister thea harris, coming together with all citizens ofto push back this white supremacist backlash coming at us. >> don't forget latosha brown, too, black voters matter, who has traveled around in an r.v. registering people to vote and educating them about their power at the polls as well. >> absolutely. >> dr. west, we have seen, you know, what senator ron johnson is saying, that he would have been scared if it was black lives matter or antifa protesters there on january 6th. but the insurrectionists, he was, you know, he wasn't worried about them. we had senator tim scott saying that woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. can you put these comments into context of our history and where we are now? >> well, he becomes one of the voices as part of the white supremacist backlash. but i'm not worried about him. i mean i give him the weight of a mosquito on the behind of a rhinoceros. i'm talking about the strong voices that we have. i'm talking about the strong, moral, spiritual forces and figures that we need to be in order to respon

. >> i'm joined by william barber, your group, the poor people's campaign is taking ax with virtual andrgia from becoming law? >> well today is seven years 263 days, 2781 days since the gutting of the voting rights act and the refusal to fix the voting rights act. and not just in georgia, but over 30 states over 1,000 people are being covid safe, delivering what we call stand against voter suppression, stand for moral agenda. to state capitols and to governors and to the legislatures and to the congressional delegation. what we understand there is a direct connection between the racist, eliist class trying to under mine black, brown, and native american people from coming together to reshape the political scene, and also not providing living wages. and we must understand the connection between the two. so we're going to be protesting. we're going to be fighting hard, we're looking at all ways to join up legally and otherwise. but what is one of the most entrenched ugly things about this is the current 200 bills are not just resisting new passages of engagement, but it's retro-aggressive

i know my bishop, william barber, is heading to your church to preach.now you're preaching this weekend. there's probably a lot on your plate sermonwise. what's going to be your sermon this weekend? >> well, reverend barber is preaching at my church so i get a sunday off but it's the 135th anniversary. for 135 years our church has been bearing witness to god's love and i'm proud to speak from where dr. king preached where he helped us understand that the call and the quest for civil rights is a moral issue. what i hope to do is to center those kinds of issues in my work in the united states senate. >> well, i think the ancestor spirits of john lewis and dr. king are smiling on those efforts. senator raphael warnock, thank you very much, sir. appreciate you spending some time with us this evening. >>> still ahead, investigators in new york and georgia are gearing up for one of most legal showdowns in history. will the florida man become the first american president to face criminal charges? we're back after this. after th. the epson ecotank. no more buyin

. >> so reverend william barber use the phrase interlocking, that poverty and racism are interlocking evils and when things interlock, they make each other stronger. you could say the same fog certificationism, discrimination against people with mental illness, educational inequity. there are all sorts of oppression is a team sport with men players working together -- with many players working together. an example. wealth discrepancies. there's a huge racial wealth discrepancy. so how do most middle class people in the united states gain wealth? home ownership. and we know there have been policies, deliberate policies that keep people of color from owning homes, including redlining, which we think of as historical but in 2019 there was a major redlining case in connecticut with a consent degree so so settleling. ways that neighborhood are appraised in value reflects who lives there. all sorts of things making it harder for people of color to gain wealth and that's one example. we could go into sexism and wages. every form of oppression co plan brates with the other and i will also say

i'm having a conversation with reverend william barber this afternoon at 3:00 about the amazon workers address these kinds of gaps even through multiracial working-class organizing. my question is, will reparations ensure not only equality, but the dismantling of the kind of racialized structures that devalued our lives, our experiences, our property, wages in the first place? this is something that is really important. racialized wage differences are also compounded by gender. how are we going to address that? women of color, black women make less money. how do we deal with other kinds of violence is, sexual violence, reproductive violence? that goes way beyond the loss of operty. i am not saying i am against it, i am just saying, as we move forward, this is just the opening for a larger question. amy: before we end, i want to ask you about the piece that you wrote about dr. cornell west who is leaving harvard and rejoining other the organization after he was denied a 10 year -- tenure. robin: quickly, dr. west shows an enormous integrity by making the decision to leave harvard to go

william barber ii, president of repairs of the breach and the poor people's campaign. sister simone campbell is assistant director for lobby for catholic social justice and the author of "hunger for hope." good to see you both. reverend barber, i'll start with you. the coronavirus crisis has magnified inequalities that have existed for decades. how do we avoid going back to a status quo were poverty was treated as a sidebar issue? >> thank you so much, my dear sister, and my dear sister simone campbell. the pope recently said neo-liberalism and trickle down economics was taking the country back. i know someone who died from how covid hurt the poor and said we need a campaign that 140 million living in poverty before covid, 62 million workers making less than $17 an hour in a country where it takes $20 or more an hour to just have a living wage and 52% or 39% of poor children was wrong, it was caused by an unjust system, and we need policies to change it. this covid relief bill showed that policy creates poverty and policy can change poverty. and what we must do now is

. >>> and later, a conversation with sister simone campbell and william barber about how this relief bill will help the poor and why it shouldn't take a crisis to care. >>> and senator ron johnson says the quiet part out loud, that if democrats had stormed the capitol in january, he probably would have been more scared. >>> and congressman joyce beatty about the case for justice reform. jacob soboroff is here to tell us about his trip to the southern border, where, he wanted to know, have things changed since biden replaced trump. >>> we got breaking news moments ago that dhs will direct fema to help with the recent influx of minor children at the border. >>> grab a tissue, we have a story a moment, a year in the making. we're just getting started on "american voices." that built 5g right, the only one from america's most reliable network. we designed our 5g to make the things you do every day better. with 5g nationwide, millions of people can now work, listen, and stream in verizon 5g quality. and in parts of many cities where people can use massive capacity, we have ultra wideband,

bishop william barber, jennifer bates, thank you. that's tonight's "reidout." "all in" starts now. >> tonight, the derek chauvin murder trial has begun. >> you can believe your eyes that it's a homicide, it's murder. you can believe your eyes. >> tonight, floyd family attorney benjamin crump on opening arguments and the defense position that the crowd was to blame. >> there is a growing crowd causing the officers to divert their attention from the care of mr. floyd. >> then, dnc chair jaime harrison on the new state trying to bother handing out of water at voting lines. senator tammy duckworth on her new memoir, on anti-asian hatred, and the filibuster. >>> plus, how is this guy now the republican fort leader on immigration? and the dire new covid warning from the director of the cdc. >> i'm going to lose the script, and i'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling i have of impending doom. >> all in starts now. >> good evening from washington, d.c. i'm mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. for the past year, we have been inundated with numbers, facts, statistics, h

and co-chair of the poor people's campaign and president of repairers of the breach, reverend william barbertly vice president kamala harris saying, quote, maybe you were elected for such a time as this. good morning to you both. reverend barber, let's start right there. what are you asking vice president harris to do? >> what white and black and brown people in west virginia are asking her to do and schumer to do and democrats to do, the people who have to choose between buying food and paying for their heat, they're saying don't take the relief out of the relief bill. remember that 62 million people in this country were poor and low wealth before we came into covid. so they're saying senator schumer, keep it in the bill. as it came over from the house. vice president harris, override, there's a history of doing this. hue bert humphry challenged the parliamentarian, because he wouldn't give him tax cuts for the wealthy. put it in the bill, override it and see if there's 60 votes in the senate to override the presider, the parliamentarian does not make the rules. the parliamentarian advises.

interestingly enough,■ç williams start offside as a barber, which makes sense-- the only thing with higher is cutting a black man's hair. you don't want to mess that up. dr. williams was a pioneer, and his work opened the door for other black surgeons, like the world-famous neurosurgeon ben carson. dr. carson made a name for himself in the 1980s by separating conjoined twins. and that's what i choose to remember him for. great job on that surgery, dr. carson. finally, we must ness onesmus, a black man who made contributions even while enslaved. during a smallpox outbreak, he taught his master about inoculation practices he had learned in africa. over there, they would take the pus from a sick person's wound and rub it into the open wound of a healthy person. it's nasty, but it works. eventually, the idea caught on, and massachusetts vaccinated its population and stemmed the outbreak. and today, people's mistrust of vaccines is a thing of the past. totally a thing of the past. never to be discussed ever again. well, that's all the the time we have today. i'm roy wood jr. and this has been "

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william basher ii, president of the breach and culture of the poor people's campaign and sister simone campbell, network lobby of the catholic social justice and author. good to see you both. reverend barber, i start with you. the coronavirus crisis has magnified inequalities that have existed for decades. how do we avoid going back to a status quo was treated as a side bar issue? >> thank you so much, my dear sister, simone campbell. for years, for decades it was almost written off. as the pope said, neoliberal liberalism and trickledown economics were taking the country back. i know two pams. one from alabama who died from covid. both of them said we need a campaign that declares that 140 million people lived in poverty before covid. 62 million workers make less than $17 an hour in a country where it takes $20 or more an hour to have a living wage. it was caused by unjust system of neoliberalism. this covid relief bill showed that policy creates pofrd and policy can change poverty. what we need is make permanent in this bill that's temporary and we must press forward to $15 an hour minimum wage, universal health care, infrastructure development. we can do this. ins whether or not we hav