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All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once ...

Favor of even allowing debate on the legislation. Put another way, all 50 republican senators voted no. While states are back home working hard to suppress the vote or certain votes, should we say, theres not a republican in the senate who wants to even allow a debate on this topic. An angry Majority Leader spoke moments after the vote was announced. Senate republicans have signed their names in the ledger of history alongside donald trump, the big lie, and Voter Suppression. Today, every single...

Southern senators in the sixties who defended states rights. This vote, im ashamed to say, is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. In an unusual move, Vice President harris presided over the senate during tonights vote afterward chief vowed democrats will continue pushing for federal Voting Rights legislation. When were talking about the right to vote, it is not a republican concern or a democratic concern it isnt an american c...

Aggregate, all these places did something praiseworthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mailin voting and early voting and adding drop boxes for ballots right . Theres Public Health concern. You dont want everyone crowding in on election day so people found ways to just make it easier to vote so you wouldnt have that. And the results are clear. It worked. Turnout was the highest it had been in 120 years. Nearly 67 of eligible voters...

10 15pm on the 13th Of August on sunday, those two men were standing outside the nightclub, in south london, they were approached police say by a man who attacked them with a knife before running away. Both men are in their 20s or 30s, they were taken to hospital for treatment and have since been discharged, there has been no officers, officers are following up leads, they are crucial in the Ongoing Investigation what they described as a homophobic attack of the two men. We will of course have m...

this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. >> its decision time in the bitter cold heartland. >> iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. >> this starts here. >> there is no way iowa is voting against trump. >> the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. >> are you ready? >> will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step clos...

reportedly got lost looking for the clinic. thats when they got caught in the crosshairs of a cartel shoot-out. authorities think that they were mistaken for a rival gang. mexico says ones suspect has been arrested and they are looking for others. responsible. the two americans who survived are finally back in the u.s. being treated at a texas hospital. republicans say its a tipping point and its time to take down the cartels. >> i want to introduce legislation to make certain mexican ...

hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. im fredricka whitfield. we begin with california facing a severe weather threat yet again right now. 25 million people are under flood watches. some areas saw more than six times the normal rainfall in just the last two weeks. todays storms raising concerns for more flooding and possibly landslides. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the storm for us. also cnns natasha chen is in fairfax, california, where we begin with you. wha...

>> yeah. i mean, one thing to say that you have to remember china is very different from japan because there are so many chinese. they dont have to be as productive as we are to become the worlds largest economy. so by some measures they already are. but they are also having a lot of problems. the chinese model, it really does seem to be coming apart at the seams right now. and the u.s., look, america has been, at least it is a very -- i think our openness, our openness to different pe...

today and the concert series brought to us by our friends. welcome to the center square today. >> good morning to both of you. im pumped up and ready to go! >> and you are heading to west point after this. >> i am headed to west point. >> you havent had any free food on friday, have you? >> theres never food on your set! this the first time. >> on a our summer concert series,weves boisterous son, out on the veranda. what are you making for the crowd today? >> we are making you guys som...