Smoothing Out News Today

his decision to lift covid restrictions in connecticut. "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. as the biden administration, the democratic congress, and the country as a whole try to claw our way out of an unprecedented set of national crises, the republican party coast to coast has found its mission for the year 2021 -- make it harder for americans to vote. right now were on track to see the largest rescue bill in recent memory signed into law by pres...

elections going all the way back to 1992, republicans are laser focused on restricting voting access. brennan centers tracking all the state bills aimed at restricting access to the polls. their list includes 253 bills introduced, prefiled or carried over this year in 43 states. in georgia, of course, already notorious for having absurdly long lines to vote with residents waiting up to 11 hours to cast their ballots last fall, republican governor brian kemp has waged a long battle to m...

Hes live from kathmandu. the relief aid is coming in. you rightly point out this is a small airport. you can only have big planes there at one time. are they doing a better job of smoothing out logistics to get aid to this earthquake-ravaged country? >> reporter: youre exactly right, christine, there are countless challenges getting help to remote places in nepal. it start tess airport where its not a big airport to handle all the medical aid and supplies coming in. theyre only trickling in not ...

Mary, to you first. you represent victims of negligence by transportation companies, including the airlines. when you look at this new information that we have now about narrowing the focus, giving new coordinates, what do you make of this? >> im hoping its two things. im hoping these unnamed countries that have provided additional information have radar coverage to give us better information and i hope over the days weve gotten little bits of data that they have been cleaning out the white nois...

Place. >> why then are you allowing people to keep these substandard plans for a couple more years to get it past the midterm election? >> no. the fact of the matter is, is that we are working to implement the affordable care act so that millions of americans can have the benefits of quality affordable health insurance. >> the president calls it smoothing out, another big change in obamacare. another delay. this as ezekiel immanuel, one of the architects of abomb that care, the affordable care a...

Millions of people who are trying to find health insurance or get better health insurance, there are always going to be some smoothing out of the process that has to take place. >> reporter: what the president downplayed as smoothing out was quickly derided by speaker john boehner. >> the truth you is cant fix this law. it needs to be torn out by its roots. >> reporter: even though the white house defended the presidents broken promise if you like your plan you can keep it by saying such individ...

these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? >> no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. >> reporter: what is a rip current? >> its a channel of...

From reports yesterday. anyway, he voted against her nomination for solicitor general. republicans say they will question kagan closely on her lack of experience deciding cases and her liberal politics. afghan president karzai will meet with secretary of state hillary clinton later today. meetings aimed at smoothing out differences. yesterday, he met with president obama. >> im confident that were going to be able to achieve our mission. theres going to be setbacks. theres going to be times that...