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Then we get to North Carolina where over 700 people have been arrested in the past 10 weeks in a weekly protest called moral monday. It means using bills to suggest their prolife when in fact they are prohypocrisy. We will look at moral mondays and a move by North Carolina lawmakers to shut down abortion clinics by adding antichoice restrictions to a bill on Motorcycle Safety. Prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on Hunger Strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak...

Then we get to North Carolina where over 700 people have been arrested in the past 10 weeks in a weekly protest called moral monday. It means using bills to suggest their prolife when in fact they are prohypocrisy. We will look at moral mondays and a move by North Carolina lawmakers to shut down abortion clinics by adding antichoice restrictions to a bill on Motorcycle Safety. Prisonersover 12,000 in california enter their fifth day on Hunger Strike to protest solitary confinement, we will speak...

Introduce you, and this is really a fun one, to the southern avenger. A wild and wacky character who thinks poor John Wilkes Booth was misunderstood and happens to work for a United States senator. That is coming up. First tonight, democrats have said enough and are calling attention to one of the most outrageous acts of gop obstructionism which is, of course, saying a lot given the stiff competition in the cat fwoir of outrageous acts of gop obstruction. By refusing to confirm the president s n...

Category of outrageous acts of gop obstruction. By refusing to confirm the president s nominees, republicans have effectively shut down the Supreme Court of labor law in this country. The National Labor relations board. And today 201 house members sent a letter to senator Mitch Mcconnell demanding that the filibuster of nlrb nominations come to an end. Without the nlrb, 80 million private Sector Workers will have nowhere to turn for legal protection. Hardworking americans deserve better than Mit...

Estimates, and 64 protesters who refused to leave the legislative chambers were arrested. that includes janet colm, the president and ceo of planned parenthood of central north carolina, seen here being led away with her hands behind her back. and fresh from her arrest, janet colm, president and ceo of planned parenthood of central north carolina, joins me now. janet, why did you decide to get arrested last night? >> i think it was a combination of several things. i think there were three big th...

To the republican majoritys radical rightward march this session. last nights rally drew 2,000 protesters, according to police estimates, and 64 protesters who refused to leave the legislative chambers were arrested. that includes janet colm, the president and ceo of planned parenthood of central north carolina, seen here being led away with her hands behind her back. and fresh from her arrest, janet colm, president and ceo of planned parenthood of central north carolina, joins me now. janet, wh...

Over the last couple weeks come downo you know, ved out 600 pro-choice people in a matter of hours after they snuck this bill into the sharia law that you mentioned. >> yeah. its been amazing to watch. weve been watching the moral monday protest. weve been watching the bill. i was saying this morning at our meeting the organizer down there is just lighting a small fire, just every week blowing on it. atch whats happening. janet colm from planned parenthood of central north carolina. thank you so...

The thing i think is so encouraging is people are just coming out of the woodwork. weve had thousands of people over the last couple weeks come down to rally on these issues. you know, weve turned out 600 pro-choice people in a matter of hours after they snuck this bill into the sharia law that you mentioned. >> yeah. its been amazing to watch. weve been watching the moral monday protest. weve been watching the bill. i was saying this morning at our meeting the organizer down there is just light...

0 better than mitch mcconnells political stunts. >> a pillar of american justice is if you dont have a remedy then you dont have meaningful rights. >> our republican colleagues treat labor rights as toxic. theyre wrong. >> if you dont have a remedy, you dont have meaningful rights. supreme court of labor law, the nlrb has been inoperable for a year and a half. its really astounding. i mean, think about just turning off the supreme court for a year and a half. all those big decisions that came do...

0 companys actions violated labor law. but that decision was issued by a board with recess appointees. and the d.c. court has cast all of those decisions, all of them issued by the board that featured those recess appointees who were only appointed because republicans refused to confirm anyone else. the d.c. court has cast all of those into legal limbo, meaning kathleen and millions of other workers are out of luck. joining me now is congresswoman linda sanchez, democrat from california. and lar...