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You this week, theyve marched for 30 miles and now a big rally is planned outside the state capitol there, its all to protest gop backed voting restrictions and ask for the federal government to step in and do something. >> msnbc reporter gary germbalk is in austin. its a 27 mile march, what are they hoping to get done. >> reporter: willie nelson sings on the road again, that leads to austin, texas today at the state capitol where thousands are expected to attend a voting rights rally here, goin...

Set to expire. nancy pelosi saying that this is a moral imperative, simple and necessary to respect the dignity of those who have suffered so much. youve got some finger pointing with democrats on the the hill saying the white house should do more. that maybe they could still do it on their own. they should have asked us to act earlier. senior administration official tells me there is no gray area frp the supreme court couldnt do anything. and if the house could pass it and the senate will take ...

I think the vaccine mandates or requirements are imperative to increasing the numbers of vak sun ated people. >> i think the requirement language is more important than the mandate language. there should be some options for people who dont want to get vaccinated. but we should try to make it as inconvenient as possible for them. daily testing, you know, other mitigation strategies should be employed. and we also just have to make sure were remembering the equity considerations. people of color i...

The party of law enforcement and not only that, accuse democrats of being anti law enforcement. it is a democratic-led committee that will be hearing directly from these officers, celebrating them and their role in trying to defend that capitol complex. the politics of this of course are going to be complicated. youre not going to hear criticism of republicans toward those capitol police officers, but the single biggest imperative for speaker pelosi and her appointees especially the democratic a...

Killing cass soleimani. the question is whether souleymanes killing made america safe or not. it just invited more trouble rather than de-escalate tensions. >> the incoming iran nan president ibrahim raisi is a hardliner and has been accused of mass murder. can america work with this are iranian president as he takes office? >> i think what other human rights organizations have laid out is very clear and not surprising to say the least that our goal in negotiating with iran never stemmed from a ...

Of donald trump. but what im talking about are a huge swath of americans that are not watching fox, that are busy trying to figure out if they can afford to retire, or if their mother is being taken care of in the nursing home, and they are not paying as close attention now. what im hoping is once those people, once this starts hitting the airwaves on once it starts coming up on social media we will pull back in the tens upon millions of americans that know it was bad but maybe dont know how bad...

Direction so if anything this makes it each more imperative to reach a diplomatic outcome that would curb irans nuclear ambition and make sure its not going to seek a bomb and then we can try to negotiate to solve the other problems. it wont be easy. it will take time. diplomacy is the answer. its certainly not war as you laid out at the outset. >> and just -- well, thats good to heart. finally and briefly i want to ask about the pegasus spywear report out this week saying the emiratis and sawed...

Even more imperative to reach a diplomatic outcome that would curb irans nuclear ambition and make sure its not going to seek a bomb and then we can try to negotiate to solve the other problems. it wont be easy. it will take time. diplomacy is the answer. its certainly not war as you laid out at the outset. >> and just -- well, thats good to heart. finally and briefly i want to ask about the pegasus spyware reporting story out this week, including allegations that the saudis and others were spyi...

Covid-19. his station put up this statement, quote. phil would like for his listeners know that while he has never been an anti-vaxxer, he regrets not being more vehemently pro-vaccine. he looks forward to being able to more vigorously advocate that position as soon as he is back on the air, which we all hope will be soon. which brings us back to that column that says this, quote, so, please, republican politicians, keep shouting from the roof tops about the imperative of getting vaccinated. but...

Infrastructure? >> i think that weve seen signs in the past two weeks, and especially since this texas court ruling that the white house is very infested in getting citizenship passed. there is both a moral imperative here, an economic imperative here and a political imperative here. republicans understand and know that there is support for these proposals across the political spectrum. 70% to 80% of americans support citizenship for d.r.e.a.m.ers, for essential workers, force farmers, for tps h...