State Legislative Level News Today

lets get to the news. border towns bracing for the end of the policy that lets the u.s. quickly expel migrants. texas is putting up barbed wire and deploying hundreds of national guardsmen in addition to the 1500 troops being sent by biden to do administrative duty. >> bill: the white house says the president would veto a republican border bill thats coming up for a vote in the house. despite the number of migrant encounters under his watch ballooning to nearly 5 million. >> dana: anot...

im simone sanders, and i have something to say. d i have something to say whats a weekend has been. it started with former president trump telling the world the fbi had entered his florida home mar-a-lago. and now, we are getting a look at the search warrant that started at all after the department of justice and sealed it. now that werent told us where agents searched in the home, but it is what they seized in the roughly 20 boxes of government records that she really need to pay atte...

and well have even more projections as soon as we get them in. i tell you them, give you all the information. polls just closed in states across the country, states including ohio and virginia and, yes, kentucky. and there are a number of candidates and issues that are on the path. tonight, all eyes are on the issue of abortion. last, year after roe v. wade was overturned, republicans across the country felt the black clash of a ballot box, especially in states where abortion was liter...

Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gilles...

Trumps party. despite what you may have seen during the 16 hearings, a number of republicans including mike short key, who is featured in those hearings have run around with militias, which again we thought as you mentioned was a dress reversal for january 6th. they have engaged in radical rhetoric about the election being stolen. in fact, mike jerk even at one point said that he thought antifa was responsible for january six. so this type of rhetoric is happening at the state legislative level....

Trump was not fully forthcoming the federal investigators. you should note that nbc news has not seen this document. and a spokesperson for the former president indicated that the times report was based on quote, anonymous searches, and no hard facts. there is so much to break down. and i can get anyone better to explain it on the former director of the cia, john brennan. thank you, mister director for joining us. okay, we just explained all the different types of classified documents that agent...

That is causing this. i think that that is incorrect. i think the reality is everyone has a responsibility here, am i right? >> yeah, absolutely. politicians words do matter especially when it comes to people. whether it is marjorie taylor greene referring to fbi agents as brownshirts, and normalizing this kind of violence in these kinds of threats. i think that it is coming downstream. this is all sort of connected to all of the attacks on institutions that we have seen normalized, starting wit...

Part of the republican base and i think because rowe was the law of the land, they were sort of the insurgents trying to deconstruct the status quo, others trying to defend the taughtis kwo even though it was chipped away in whole womens health and through a variety of means. but that seems like flip now. it seems to me that every democratic lawmaker should be talking about this law whenever they can. like, its a disgusting, despicable, bad-faith piece of garbage that everyone in america should ...

Voting rights act in the preclearance notions. states cant do a lot of the shenanigans either on a state regulatory level, on a state legislative level, without preclearance from the department of justice. that means any substantive procedural change to voting procedures on the state local county municipal level would have to be cleared by the department of justice. my mentor and good friend deval patrick of the civil rights former director of the civil rights division of the department of justi...

Senator blocks democrats from getting anything passed? obama suggested the democrats need to get together, all of them, to fight against what he sees as a uniquely toxic opposition. listen. >> i think we have to worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislative level. and when th...