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Of it. you have joined us regularly to keep us up to speed. we appreciate your reporting. betsy woodruff swan a national correspondent for politico, also an msnbc contributor. joining me is the democratic congressman, juaquin castro of text. served as a house manager in donald trumps impeachment trial. warm welcome to you. its very good to see you again this week. this week has been remarkable, between the release of these ar archives that have shocking information that you heard us just talking...

Beyond efforts to suppression democratic influence. fueled by the big lie this effort picks up where last years insurrection left off by systematically taking over every aspect of the voting process end quote. ari berman joins me now, a senior reporter for the mother jones and the author of "give us the ballot the modern struggle for voting rights in america", and steve, the editor of the maddow blog, and the author of the impos tors, how republicans quit governing and seized american politics. ...

Volunteering in campaigns. were not that far from electing a majority in congress that will protect american democracy, so we also need a political solution come is for people to actually believe in voting rights. its amazing to me that joe manchin and kyrsten sinema voted against his own bill. how did joe manchin oppose his own bill so we need 50 democrats in the senate to do whatever it takes to pass voting rights and not just give lip service to it. >> steve, the historian john meacham said t...

May say this isnt worth my time or i have to get back to work. this is how it happens. this is how democracy unfolds. good to see you this morning for all the wrong reasons. democratic congressman juaquin castro of texas. the situation on the ukraine border intensifies, experts are saying a russian invasion seems not just likely but imminent. admiral james breaks this down. after the break we will head to ukraine for a report on the ground from nbcs correspondent richard engel. ground from nbc...

Times up on voting rights legislation, least for now, after democrats failed to change the filibuster rules and pass two comprehensive bills this week. thats a problem in many ways, but particularly because those bills were safety nets for democracy in peril, and now republican states can continue their deliberate pursuit to undermine democracy on a state by state basis. without those partisan senate bills, gerrymandering, voter intimidation, and intense voter suppression can persist, so much so...

Democracy, and there are a number of things that can be done. steve bannon, who is not me, has increasing face strategy and advocates should emulate that as much as possible. number two, i think there is an outside litigation strategy. ali, you is talked to mark elias who have had success in this area and they should continue along those lines and its an important dimension of this. theres a corporate development, perhaps and republicans in state levels are not paying attention, but they might p...

Democracy. the freedom to vote act would have gone a long way to stop these efforts. doesnt seem like these are going to pass now. we need a different strategy, and it starts with defending democracy at the state and local level where republicans are taking it aim. >> doesnt that start with citizens understanding and internalizing this threat. weve got a few problems, one is republicans are saying this is a power grab, theyre actually saying the opposite of what ari is saying. the democrats are ...