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Over what happened during the 2020 elections that is driving a lot of these laws in the states but its also nationally, as you know, donald trump is feeding a beast. ill just note one other data point from this poll which i think gets at it which is couple weeks ago there was fantasy talk of donald trump being reinstated in august. people were dismissive of it. we polled voter perceptions about whether something like that would happen. many, many voters thought not. 29% of republicans, 3 out of ...

All right, that is going to do for us tonight. i will see you again tomorrow night. now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. good evening lawrence. >> rachel, you know when i think of you i think of modesty. you are very modest about your perceptions of the way things are in this world so i know its not the kind of thing you do, that thing you did tonight for a second where you said the kind of i told you so about the breakdown. >> i regretted it as soon as i said it. >> the breakd...

Have really come together as the connective tissue, and theres a constant in vladimir putin. president obama was talking about it. putin is a constant that authoritarian base is a constant, but in the u.s. right now, we flip-flop back and forth every four years between what is really a more authoritarian flip to the political right versus a more pluralist democracy to the political left in the united states, and because of that, there is a fault line that runs through the afd in germany, the far...

Indigenous, and people of color, aka bipoc folks overtaking the white folks, aint the kumbaya some people think it would be. but lets talk race. >> race is a construct. people like to say race is a social construct, and we like to speak as if race doesnt matter. but when i think about race, i think about race as a way that society has characterized people really for the purpose of instituting power. >> mm-hmm. >> and to protect privilege. >> dr. yaba play, scholar, activist, author. her book "on...

Level to -- you know, to institute laws that -- and bills that will allow for electoral trickery. and this is how authoritarians maintain themselves in power in places like turkey and belarus. so it is extremely disturbing that they feel that they are liberated to do anything. and i agree that they would probably not accept a democratic candidate anymore, a democratic victor. and this is a huge problem for our future. the right wing authoritarian playbook also depends on creating moments of viol...

>> lets talk race. >> race is a construct, and people say race is a social construct, and we like to speak as if race doesnt matter. but when i think about race, i think of race in a way that society has characterized people really for the purpose of instituting power and to protect privilege. >> reporter: scholar, activist, author, her book "one drop" shifting the lenses on race challenged the narrow perceptions of blackness and the diversity of what it means to be black in america. this is not...

So why did they put that out so early in february? >> well, the letter from dr. dassik that appeared in the lancet with dr. anderson were the two major influences of public perception. they also influenced the perceptions at the national institutes of health and in the state department. everyone with the mainstream media not investigating this story properly just lapsed in the conclusion that this natural emergence. dr. dassik had an acute conflict of interest with the lancet.he chanced the fund...

Can charge for chicken, steak and vegetables and the market will only accept and bear a certain price point based on their perceptions that i can get a burger for this much there, and i can get a steak for this much at this other place, but the reason those prices exist that people are comparing to is because of the tip credit. its because lower minimum wage is allowed. we as a country need to get rid of the tip credit. we need to be paying our people more and the reality is restaurants need to ...

To 14. >> two rounds of ppp and now the government rescue fund. thats over $28 billion for restaurants. thats very positive news for the industry, while at the same time were hearing from restaurants across the country. they simply cannot afford to bring workers back. is the issue that they are not paying workers enough and this is a chance to change how we pay restaurant workers, and if you cant pay workers a living wage then maybe you dont have a viable business. >> im going to say yes to a lo...

Which is trustworthy, even lovable. well, its hard to be lovable when youre constantly attacking others, so could this mean the reining in of the wolf warrior diplomats? one line in what he said especially stood out when he said that the partys leadership needed to get a grip on the tone of communications with the outside world. well, anyone who follows chinas diplomats on, say, twitter will see that their offerings are often anything but diplomatic in tone. so what now? well, its possible that ...