Take a stand against 76 of what americans think is right. Several republicans and democrats including my first guest tonight, california senator harris spent the weekend making statements and tweeting strong opposition to President Trump ending daca. But in trumps mind, there was the looming headline that appears in breitbart today if the president did nothing about daca, and then, of course, there was the president himself. The candidate who campaigned on ending daca had only this to say when last asked about it on friday. Should d. R. E. A. M. Ers be worried . We love the dreamers. The president would delay a final big decision on daca for six months, an immigration hard
liner told the New York Times hes being pulled in a bunch of Different Directions and because he doesnt have any strong anchor or deep knowledge of the issue, he ends up sort of not knowing what to do. I think the fact that they did nothing to it suggests that they had no idea what to do. That was an assumption that
things like mpp, like julio talked about, that they re gone, right? mpp, it s a hard policy right now to get rid of, because of the courts. now, there s title 42, which as julio was saying, not only has deported thousands and thousands of people, a lot of them and the majority of them are black. they are black immigrants, black families, many of them from haiti who are going back right now, as we speak. there s people going back with covid in those airplanes, right? they are going back to a country that right now doesn t have the ability and the resources to take care of people and yet we re still deporting them back to who knows what, right? to violence, to a lot of harm that they re fleeing from. and so, i hope that even in congress doesn t act, i still have some hope that the build back better, you know, could be brought up to the senate. and that the parliamentarian is ignored. but even if that doesn t happen, the president has to use every tool at his disposal to keep his
free, fair, honest and able to be fully and quickly audited. reporter: using those debunked allegations to post election ballot reviews. lawmakers in 19 states passed 34 restrictive bills in 2021, according to brennan s analysis. brianna an center president michael waldman said it is a sharp uptick driven by trump s rhetoric. the big lie has driven states across the country to enact new laws to make it harder for people to vote. some are worse than others, but they are invariably targeted at black and brown and asian voters. it is the biggest attempt to roll back voting rights since the jim crow era. reporter: senate democrats are insisting their stalled national voting rights legislation is top of the agenda in the new year, but state republican lawmakers are already chugging ahead with voting restrictions. if congress doesn t act, it gives a green light to these
according to brennan s analysis. waldman says that s a sharp uptick in recent years, driven from trump s red rick. the big lie enacted new laws to make it harder for people to vote. somewhere worse than others, but they are invariably targeted at black and brown and asian voters. it s the biggest attempt to rom back voting rights since the jim crowe era. reporter: democrats are insisting their stalled national voting rights legislation is top of the agenda in the new year. but state republican lawmakers are already chugging ahead with voting restrictionss. if congress doesn t act, it gives a green light to these states to restrict the vote to sabotage their own elections and to turn them over to the anti-partisans. reporter: state legislators in missouri, new hampshire, south carolina and arizona filing at least 13 bills for 2022 making it tougher to vote. home of the infamous partisan
away, what comes after are the scary things. do you think that the democrats can hold onto the majority in the house and senate with the rampant voter suppression taking place today, if nothing happens, if congress doesn t act? i think it makes it incredibly difficult to have an elect. if you suppress the votes of people and you put in so many restrictions that they cannot even exercise that fundamental constitutional right that preserves our democracy, then who knows what will happen. i want to say you are absolutely right to point out republicans have opposed us every step of the way. they ve tried everything else they could. they tried to have a president overthrow the election. they tried to they re continuing to go forward with a big lie and sense they didn t win that way, they are now deciding that what they re going to do is suppress votes. now this has been going on for some time. particularly this year. i think we are seeing the