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even making violent threats outside his sons childrens party. six moves in six months. running from herschel walkers violence. >> we are live in georgia where walker is getting an assist from two big names in the republican party. democrats currently have the majority in the senate with the vp as tiebreaker so they need to hold on to everything or make a pick up. they are looking at three other tight races in pennsylvania, north carolina, or ohio. all places where democrats are hoping ...

Search his maralago estate if trump continued to refuse to hand over classified documents. We begin tonight with the first televised hearing in fani willis criminal case against former President Trump in georgia. Im Jason Johnson in tonight for joy reid. The trial will be televised and is coming very soon. Today, we have a taste of whats to come. Fulton county Superior Court judge scott mcafee said he would allow Kenneth Chesebro to sever his case from Sidney Powell. Chesebro and powell are amon...

we begin this slit with breaking news out of iraq. we have to take an updated death toll from last earthquake. more than 2000 people now confirmed dead. another 2000 are hurt after the quake rocked the countrys atlas mountains. officials are reporting extensive damage in cities across the region, including marrakech, a popular tourist destination and unesco world heritage site. nbcs priscilla thompson is following the story for us. what is the latest? >> alicia, it is that death toll w...

With equally bad sequels because this is now the third voting rights bill that senate republicans have blocked and every time we hear its going to lead to a conversation about the filibuster and then nothing changes with the filibuster and therefore democracy is undermines more and more. and every time the vote is blocked, more and more voter se precious laws, gerrymandered, election laws, go through. so what this means for voters, if democrats fail to pass voting rights legislation, it means th...

The state and local level. the majority has the reigns, but they dont have organizations -- >> damon -- yes, go ahead. >> one thing the democrats have gotten right. democrats are very, very good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. one thing that we have got is typically the legal lawyers and processes in place in every state to fight the gerrymandering maps. as soon as they come out, they will be fought in federal courts, federal courts largely stocked by trump and mitch mcconnell. i a...

Seats, even though that creates locked in republicans, were trading republican power for a little black power, and if you dont do that you wont have many african-americans in congress. what do you think of the argument? >> i think you can draw districts in a way that give african-americans and latinos and asian americans representation, and for the first time under the voting districts act while making it fair. and this is a form of election rigging. we shouldnt forget the same politicians drawi...

Senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin is on the phone with us. a couple important notes. neil gorsuch, the newly confirmed supreme court justice, did not take part in this because he doesnt enter into cases already in the middle of being heard. there were two votes here by the justices, the vote on one of the maps, one of the gerrymandering maps, was 8-0, so unanimous there. but on the other, district 12 map, it was 5-3. >> thats right, and this is just a very controversial area in the supreme cou...