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0 tonights last word. the 11th hour with brian williams, starts now. >> good evening once again day 272 of the biden administration, and this evening flags at the white house, lives throughout washington and the u.s. facility throughout the country and around the world are at half staff in honor of colin paul who died this morning, general paul was 84 years old, he died of covid complications while battling both parkinsons and multiple myeloma. we will have more and much more of its life and leg...

Willing to pay for grown adults to score some points in a fight they chose over a fiction. >> if one trans child dies to protect someones damn trophy, this bill is grotesque. >> were not protecting women, were not protecting girls, not tonight, not four years ago when we said we were doing the bathroom bill. its more games, we are playing games with the people we represent. >> you know, democrats argue that this bill isnt necessary and it will cause irreparable harm, what is the republican respo...

Colleagues debating the anti-transbill i mentioned. >> the bill is designed knowing the kids will be harmed. and thats a price that some are willing to pay. for grown adults to score symbolic points in a fight they chose over a fiction. >> if one transchild dies to protect someones damn trophy, this bill is grotesque. >> were not protecting women. were not protecting girls. not tonight, not four years ago when we said we were doing the bathroom bill. its more games. were playing games with the p...

Parents are now at risk of being placed on lists of domestic terrorist by the fbi and doj and the good news is that theres actually a supreme court case in 1968 that said that teachers in public schools have a first amendment protection to be able to speak out on matters of public importance without retaliation. presumably, they know about this case because they use the pretext of leading a student into the hallway at the wrong time as an excuse for retaliating, a teacher that has been teaching ...

Fraud. if he was going to make the public claims anyway and clarks apparent plan was to make the false assertion about the justice department and then use that as pretext to tell republican controlled legislatures that their election results shouldnt be certified. we shall see if jeff clark is disciplined or disbarred by the d.c. bar for having done that. again, he has been referred for potential disciplinary action to the bar association. we shall see if jeff clark responds to the subpoena he j...

He said, quote, immediately following the insurrection on january 6th the republican state legislatures began laying the groundwork for 2022 and 2024. they enacted new voter suppression laws and created false narratives of election irregularities and rallied supporters around the big lie. the goal of these new provisions is to manufacture fraud where none exists. since one of the big problems in all of the sort of bogus republican trumpy election audits and election results investigations is tha...

Harder for people to vote particularly for young voters and minority voters to vote. and essentially manufacturing irregularities where they dont exist. so that they can then use those made up irregularities in 202 #it or 2024 to argue elections shouldnt be certified. and therefore subverted. >> if that is the goal, to approach these problems in a way where you are both making it harder to vote, giving -- making it harder to vote in such a way that gives you evidentiary pretext for calling the w...

By the goal of these new provisions is to manufacture fraud, where none exists. since one of the big problems in all of the sort of bogus republican trumpy election audits, and election results investigations, is that they have been able to find any significant fraud anywhere. what elias is saying is the strategy here is to manufacture it, to make a bunch of new tricky to understand laws, that do you make it harder to vote, and then when people make mistakes, by voting how they have always voted...

Working on, is theyre trying to avoid any accountability for the stuff theyre doing. but there is one little sliver of what i guess youd call, accountability, that seems to have punctured the haze tonight. just as we were getting on the air, that i wanna tell you about. i mentioned jeff clark, justice department official who appears to have, cooked up this scheme with trump. where in the u.s. justice department would declare publicly that the election was corrupt. that serious voter fraud was be...

>> if that is the goal, to approach these problems in a way where you are both making it harder to vote, giving, making it harder to vote in such a way that gives you evidentiary pretext, for calling the whole operation of the election, fraudulent, so that you can subvert the results of the election, if these things are all knitted together, where is the place where you can short-circuit that? where is the place where you can stop that? >> so look, the first thing we need is for congress to pass...