this is happening because georgia went blue. republicans understand the numbers are not on their side going forward, nor in the present in those critical states, including texas, which is closer than they would have wanted. they are implementing a plan to restrict voters -- the votes of voters less likely to vote for them. it doesn't matter if you have the best message if your voters don't have access to the ballot box. >> this comes back to the question of using the power you have. this was the lesson of mcconnell and garland and amy coney audac norm. unless you can get manchin and sinema on board for basically majority rule in the senate, 50 votes, to wield the power you have, then you can't wield the power you have. >> maybe we should start lobbying exxonmobile to get them to lobby manchin and sinema. they seem to are more influence. >> can we hire the exxon lobbyist to lobby them? >> that's what the indivisble should do. >> if they believe giving d.c. statehood, getting rid of the filibuster and adding justices would be in t

. >> when georgia was enacted its voter suppression law couple of months ago. i was in a lot of these conversations where people said the law on his face, and i had to remind them that exactly what you said the poll taxes also facially neutral, the literacy test was facially neutral, they knew with the result of it would be. remember the grandfather closet said that you could vote in places like oklahoma if your grandfather was able to vote in 1850, facially neutral, but whose grandparents were able to vote in 1850, black people? no. the idea that this disparate impact kind of happens is so outrageous. and more importantly, chris, this was explicitly referred to in the senate report. it has been recognized by congress that these are the kinds of laws, these facially disparate laws that were supposed to be attacked by section two. and so essentially with the majority does is ignore congress, again. first ignored congress by ignoring the records that were accumulated and now they've gone all the way back to ignore congress in an acting to voting rights act in the

and it focus specifically on georgia's absurdly new voting law. jagger's man james clyburn, is the number three ranking democrat in. the house he endorsed biden, when it seemed like biden's campaign might be. flaying that endorsement helped him with south carolina, essentially the nomination after that. he's advocated the president, and senate democrats work behind the seems to carve out an exception to the filibuster, to pass voting rights protection. he joins me now. first i wonder if you agree of my read of the prioritization right now. of the legislative agenda. of this democratic administration right now. >> i think you've got it right. i'm not sure you had a raid on the subject matter. to me voting is the top priority. whatever we're talking about in politics. that means it'll be voted on first. voting remains the top priority with us. all the other things are secondary if we can't get people to the polls. >> part of this comes back to the map in the senate, reconciliation, i think you've been very compelling on the idea that they're already

to honor him with the likeness that the state of georgia is going to send up here to the capitol. all of that and all john lewis ever really wanted out life was for people, who looked like him, to have unfettered access to what makes this country what it is. and it would be a shame for us to go through all of these machinations and not pass the john r. lewis voter registration and education act -- advancement act. that's what we need to be doing. that's what john lewis would want, more than anything else. and i would hope that, with everything else, we would do that. but see, i do remember. that six months after that march over the edmund pettus bridge, which was, back then, the march 1965. august. august 6th. lyndon johnson signed the 1965 voting rights act. it was kind of interesting. less than a year later, he was unceremoniously ousted. and so, these kinds of things i am used to but i would hope that we're a better body than that here, in the congress. >> i want to thank you for coming on tonight, congressman. i want to sort of put a pin in and say next time you come on, i wou

even in states like georgia where joe biden just won an election. where they elected to senate democrats. there is no filibuster in the senate, its majority rule. but then if you want to protect voting rights at the national role, then it takes 50 votes, 60 votes. and those votes are just not there because republicans won't play ball. not only that, but think of this craziness. the filibuster, as we say often on the show, it's not some nonnegotiable principles changing overtime. indeed, i covered it changing back in 2013. democrats got rid of it for most presidential nominations because republicans were using the filibuster to make it impossible to fill courts and office appointments. that was a big deal. republicans at the time said, you will regret it. and in some ways, probably true. donald trump got to confer a lot of judges. historic judge confirmation rate. but that's just what democracy looks like. that's the way the cookie crumbles. one thing democrats did leave in place back in 2013, right, they said we're getting rid of the filibuster for

not only that, you are going to lose places like georgia and arizona that were hard, hard fought and barely won. >> final question for you on some late-breaking news today. a federal district judge in your state of texas, appointee of george w. bush, has essentially ruled that the daca protections issued by the obama administration, all the way back i believe in 2012, are essentially unlawful. he has not suspended daca per se, but he has issued, i understand, an injunction for any further applications. this is for people who are brought to the united states as children, as minors, who can apply for sort of protected status. it is not full citizenship, but it does give them a sort of path to citizenship. i have to imagine it is brutal for all of the folks subject to this because it just creates more tension, pressure and uncertainty. your reaction to that ruling? >> it is a gut punch. it just creates that uncertainty, that feeling in the stomach for so many families who have somebody on daca. as you said, it doesn't affect people currently on daca but it does put a pause on new applic

so he also gets wrapped up in, if you remember, the fights between president trump and the state of georgia over the count. and he has to navigate doj's you know essentially staying out as best they can from that fight. so he keeps touching these very complicated, very tricky issues. i think you are right, the notes are taken for a reason. they were taken because he feels there need to be some kind of record that this is going on. and importantly, he needs to preserve as much what trump said, which is what we are focusing on. i think from the justice department's view, they need to preserve what they said and they did. that very important, you can see, in rosen's public and praft statements. >> yes. devlin barrett, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> donald trump's request for the justice department to sigh the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me sounds a lot like his request the ukrainian president said in his first impeachment who said, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. he was more desperate to misstate his q. because these were his people. daniel goldman serv

he spoke at a stop the steal rally december 12th in georgia he was in the white house conspiring with donald trump. so i would like the community to investigate those things. i don't want jim jordan investigating himself. i don't want a 9/11 truther investigating 9/11. i don't want people who are pro-insurrection investigating an insurrection. >> all of that is very well said. banks was on this republican study committee trip to the boarder where there was someone inside the capitol on the day of the riot who was along with them and pictures were taken. this is fairly fresh in people's minds. it points to the difficulty that i'm watching whether you look at corporate america with its donations, it's hard for people to maintain the line that was erected about that vote and the violation and taboo of the vote and resist the pull of getting back to normal and maintain that day after day. >> yeah. that's exactly what the republicans who are perpetuating this lie and who are rewriting the narrative of what happened on january 6th are counting on. they know the more it's normalized, the mor

ahmaud arbery, the young man who was murdered in georgia, essentially by safe control, had his case set swept underneath the rug by prosecutors who refused to move forward. a subsequent prosecutor said that was wrong and i'm going to make this right. under today's ruling, that second prosecutor would not have been allowed to prosecute his colors for murder, which was an extreme injustice as we've said here. >> yeah, the point here is that castor puts out a press release, which is to use your term katie, the only written record. we're all talking about lawyers who peeper everything, that's what they do. the only retired record is this press release which i think the prosecutors and others have argued essentially, is a representation of an act of prosecutorial discretion. and today's point, does that buy in future offices? is that act some ironclad deal which then cannot be taken back by a future prosecutor. i guess the question also is, was the mistake on the part of prosecutors here entering civil testimony, even if they got the trial judge to say it was okay? >> no, because he could ha

testifying today about a truly ridiculous press conference held by representatives marjorie taylor greene of georgia, mat gaetz of florida, lumy gohmert of texas. congressman gaetz and his cohorts held their stunt event outside the department of justice in support of the mob that stormed the capitol. when a small group of protesters showed up, they managed to shut the whole thing down after only a few minutes led by a person seemingly very interested in mat gaetz's criminal investigation. >> they owe the people of this country the answers to the questions. >> we got to go. we need to end it. >> thank you. for those of you that really care about due process, thank you. >> the left shot us down. they hate free speech. they hate free speech. >> are you a pedophile? are you a pedophile, congressman? congressman, are you a pedophile? are you a pedophile, congressman gaetz? are you a pedophile? a pedophile? , rollerball design. because with the right pain reliever... life opens up. aleve it, and see what's possible. mission control, we are go for launch. ♪♪ t-minus two minutes and counting. ♪♪ um,

on the far left is republican congressman andrew clyde of georgia. you can see the sheer panic on the man's face. he is bracing himself on the wall as a security officer, gun drawn, protects his life. in the months that followed he infamously changed his tune about that day at a hearing about security lapses that may have allowed the attack to happen he compared the scene on january 6th to, quote, normal tourist visit. of course, that's a ludicrous characterization. everyone not under donald trump's thumb knows that. that's offensive to people there that day and lived through the terror of it. that includes democratic congressman jamie raskin. last night raskin confronted clyde at a rules committee meeting clearly feel that business could not just go on as usual with those comments still hanging in the air. >> did you have an opportunity to see officers hodges and fanone and dunn testify today or sergeant gonnel? >> mr. raskin, let's stick to the amendment as -- >> well, i'm getting to the amendment. if you don't like the question, say you can take t

republicans, even the ones that turned against him later, in the interim, between the election and the georgia runoffs which was the day before january six, they all sort of went along with it because they wanted to placate him because they had an election to win. but of course, the nature of elections is that there's always another one coming and so the justification for that is always present. and so there will always be reason to accede to the lies until there's some sort of definitive defeat or they win. and we stop having elections or ones that matter, anyway. so, tomorrow, the bipartisan commission investigating the insurrection kicks off. and again the politics around this commission are a perfect microcosm of the moment. back in may, democrats and republicans worked out a bipartisan compromise to form an independent commission. we had chairman thompson on the show to talk about it. and the house approved it, and 35 republicans joined democrats to vote in favor. that's a good big majority. 252 to 175, that's a healthy bipartisan majority. but then it died in the senate where also it got