important state. >> that's how you know you're not selling the right thing is when you can't win by playing fairly, that you have to shape the rules in a way that will help you win, that will -- that will probably guarantee your win. what republicans are doing now around the country -- and kwor georgia i think is ground zero, right? but it's not just georgia. it's happening in a number of states. >> georgia, arizona. >> if you lost in ruby red states or states that were previously red, that was your fault. that's because you're selling the wrong thing. that's because you're not doing it right. you're right. if we go back to that, it is going back to jim crow. it is jim crow part 2. jim crow 2. what it shows more than anything, maybe this is the reason that republicans are so hell bent on talking about dr. seuss and mr. potato head, because one hand is doing one thing and the other hand is doing the thing that is going to get them guarantee that they get elected. and that is going to hurt really black and brown voters. but they don't care because that's what's going to get -- >> well, at the same time they're coaxing people along with this momentum of people are out to get you. they're out to destroy you. >> white grievance. white grievance. that's what it is. >> and you know, i have to tell you, this is really frightening things. this is -- this is more important to me -- look, obviously we're in the middle of a pandemic. obviously you need relief. this is generational. this is right up there with the judges. if these laws pass and you don't have hr-1 which means that you get to decide state by state, you will have systemic disenfranchisement all over this country. >> all over the country. >> and you faux had what -- by the way, why i want to fight with tim kaine and i'm going to fight this more and more and more -- i don't want to fight too soon because you blow your ammo -- >> chris, you like to fight. >> i like to fight. don't always win but i always win it. here's the thing twh filibuster was brought in, this is jim crow. they have awe disproportionate voice so they can fight against any kind of progress they don't like. yes, they were southern democrats. s a lot of this -- during reconstruction black people in this country started to gain some prominence, political office. they were elected to political office -- >> amazing what happens when you let people be free and vote. >> right. >> and know things. >> and then the white folks who didn't like it said, no, we can't have that. they started creating these laws, the resurgence of the kkk. this is the truiste history of s country. we have to own up to it. that's what happens and that is ahaase happening again. people are afraid as you saw with the insurrection, as you saw with the whole fake the election was stolen, people are afraid of the changing demographics of the country, but it's inevitable. they're fighting a losing battle. what they're trying to do -- america is going to be a minority-majority country. what they're trying to do is set themselves up so that even though they are the minority in the future that they will still be able to have power, political power, economic power and so on. so, thus the importance of not just waiting for a national election, a presidential election to get involved in politics, to go cast their ballot, you've got to do it in the off years. you have to pay attention to your local legislatures, what they're doing, your local officials action your council people, all of that. you have to make sure you're engaged locally because it's not just the national level. all those local things affects what happens at the national level. judges, supreme court judges -- >> oh, yeah. >> municipal judges. >> district judges. >> districting, all of that. and the big thing is what? when people -- the redrawing of the districts. >> yeah, districting. >> that is the problem. >> it's a big deal. and one of the things that hr-1 does that even if you're the party in power you still have to have balance on the people who pick the district. of course they don't like that. the sell that very have to be careful about because the right is really crafty and good and they use their media operatives well. they're saying, even something like this tonight. this is why you can't trust the media. look at that lemon and cuomo. look at them saying that's all america is, we're just racist, we're just bad. no, it's an and. america can give you great things and not great things. there's racism in the country and there's people that are better than racism. >> there's truth to what they are saying. by no means are we saying the entire country is racist. we're saying what they're doing is empowering the minority of racists in the country and using the minority of racists in the country to keep them in power. they're pulling the wool over those people's eyes to keep them in power, therefore disenfranchising the people, the majority of the people in this country who would like us to what? continue to strive for a more perfect union. >> right. >> not perfect union, but more perfect union, all of us together. but they realize in order for them to hang on to power, what they must do to pedal what they are selling that they have to disenfranchise the majority of good poem ieople in this kuhn tremendous. let's be clear about that. >> are you looking down your nose at me right now? >> of course i am. look at me. >> listen -- >> don't forget now -- this wasn't my conversation with you last night. you didn't see the t-shirt i had. someone sent me a t-shirt. >> what did it say? >> uppity. >> openly uppity. >> openly uppity. >> i love you d. lemon. >> i love you too. let's continue to have these conversations. >> always. i. >> i love you the mostest of everybody. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. so, this is big. huge win for president joe biden tonight. huge win -- and stick around because we have jen psaki. jen psaki's here to answer all of our questions, everything you want to know about this covid relief bill, his top priority, the covid relief bill, nearly $2 trillion worth of aid that americans desperately need right now on its way to his desk for him to sign into law. and he's going to do it on friday. the bill passing without one single republican vote. >> this bill represents historic -- historic -- victory for the american people. i look forward to signing it later this week. everything in the american rescue plan addresses a real need, including investments to fund our entire vaccination effort. >> we are told that the president watched the vote in the roosevelt room with vice president kamala harris -- picture right there. pointing at the screen. they're counting the votes. as he prepares his first prime time address to the nation tomorrow, marking the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, polls show majority of americans support the covid relief bill, including a majority of republicans who support larger tax credits for families. stimulus checks up to $1,400 and funds to get kids in grades k-12 back in the classroom. parents, wouldn't out love that? students, wouldn't you love that? kids, back in the classroom. but -- there's always a but -- the gop doubling down on being obstructionists, the party of no. they're still enthralled to a disgraced, twice-impeached, one-term former president. and today here's what we learned. we learned more about just how far that twice-impeached, one-term former president -- disgraced president -- how far he's willing to go to hang on to power. we just discussed that. a never-before-heard call the second trying to push a georgia official to find non-existent fraud to overturn the election, pushing his big lie. the call obtained by "the wall street journal." >> something happened. something bad happened. i hope you're doing that to stop because if you're -- i hope you're going back two years as opposed to just checking. that would just be sort of a signature check, it didn't mean anything. but if you go back two years and if you can get to fulton you're going to find things that are unbelievable, the dishonesty. >> listen to that. can you believe that? always scheming. always a scheme. always a scheme. can you imagine hearing a call like that from the current administration? can't imagine it, can you? but that's what we lived through. that's what we survived. and it's amazing what some time and some distance, a perspective it gives you on that type of behavior. now it seems like, oh, my gosh, wow, who would do something like that? who would allow something like that? who would allow something like that? you're going to hear more from that call a little bit later on in this broadcast, so stick around. while president joe biden is about to sign a presidency-defining bill, the gop, the party of no, trying to distract and deflect with some really shameful statements about race, like this disgusting claim that black lives matter doesn't like families. >> i know the strength that black lives matters had in this last election. i know it's a group, that it doesn't like the old fashioned family. disturbed that we have another program here in which we're increasing the marriage penalty. >> come on. doesn't like the old fashioned family. what does that mean when you're -- black lives matter was about police brutality and violence and trying to keep family members and loved ones alive. sounds like family values to me. what he said is not even coded racism. that's right nought -- saying it right out loud. saying it right out loud. people show you who they are, huh? he thinks he can just throw it in as an aside about black lives matter, like nothing, the old fashioned family. what does old fashioned mean? huh? what does old fashioned mean? what does that mean? someone ask him that? insulting millions and millions of black families. stacey plaskett not having it, not any of it. >> how dare you -- how dare you -- say that black lives matter, black people do not understand old fashioned families. despite some of the issues, some of the things that you have put forward that i've heard out of your mouth in the oversight committee, in your own district we have been able to keep your families alive for over 400 years. and the assault on our families to not have black lives or not even have black families. how dare you say that we are not interested in families in the black community. that is outrageous. >> it is outrageous. and again, i -- if i have to say this every single night of my life while i'm here, i will. you need to know the history of this country. do you know how many black families were separated during slavery? i've had my ancestry done twice. it is so hard to even find records that go back even two generations sometimes because what? the intentional separation of black families. and no records. you know why? they were considered property. so, it's -- god! ugh! it just angers me sometimes that people can be so ignorant. and then there's tim scott. tim scott is the only black -- the only -- only -- black republican in the senate telling fox news -- of course fox news -- that what he calls woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. >> woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. >> does he want -- do you want to explain who these woke supremacists are? because i looked really carefully and i didn't -- hang on before we go with the video. i haven't seen any woke supremacists. i never saw -- i've never seen a woke supremacist lynching anybody. never saw a woke supremacist denying anybody access to housing or a job or education or voting rights. never seen any woke supremacists enslaving anybody. never saw any woke supremacists trying to keep people from marrying amongst different races. come on, tim scott! i didn't see any woke supremacists storming the blanking capitol. where are the woke supremacists attacking police? where are the woke supremacists hunting people in the halls of the capitol and beating them with blue lives matter signs with white supremacist insignia on their shirts. guess who i saw. guess who police officers were beaten by. guess who wanted to hang the vice president. white supremacists, tim scott! what are you doing! the only black republican with a woke supremacist carrying the confederate battle flag in the nation's capital, tim scott. tim! tim, i have to -- i know you don't want me to yell, but this is out -- this is ridiculous. you are gaslighting people. you are giving people misinformation. what are you doing, brother? what are you doing? what are you doing? you're not helping. and then there's lindsey graham. of course lindsey graham. $5 million -- $5 million in aid to black farmers in the covid relief bill. he is calling that reparations. >> if you're a farmer, your loan will be forgiven up to 120% of your loan -- not 100%, but 120% of your loan -- if you're socially disadvantaged. if you're african-american, some other minority. but if you're white person, if you're a white woman, no forgiveness as reparations. >> this is 2021. please tell me we're not going to fall for this. why are we allowing people to do this? and why are people doing this? lindsey graham, why are you doing this? it's not helpful to the country. senior democratic leader james clyburn slamming graham for that. >> he ought to be ashamed of himself. he knows the history in this country, and he knows what has happened to black farmers. lindsey ought to be ashamed. >> and what do you say to lindsey graham or whoever who says this is a form of reparations? >> well, i think you ought to go back and maybe go to church, get in touch with his christianity. >> thank you, congressman clyburn. thank you, thank you, thank you. with all of that, there is the growing uproar over meghan and harry's revelations in the interview with oprah, meghan making a formal complaint today against pierce morgan who left his morning tv job after repeatedly saying things like this. >> i don't believe a word she says, meghan markle. i wouldn't believe it if she read the weather report. >> it seems like a lot of people are more upset that she spoke out than they are about what she said, about her mental health and about racism. so, let's remember exactly what meghan and harry said. they said that a member of the royal family expressed concerns about how dark their unborn baby's skin would be. and they said that racism was a part of the reason that they left the uk. >> there was a conversation with you -- >> with harry. >> -- about how dark your baby is going to be? >> potentially and what that would mean or look like. >> did you leave the country because of racism? >> it was a large -- it was a large part of it. >> so, that's their experience, according to them, okay? that's -- that's their experience. that's what they say. and let's remember, even the queen in her statement did not deny what meghan and harry said. she didn't deny the existence of racism. how could she? how could she? think about it. it was there from the very beginning. it is still there today. i talked to patricia god dard last night, and she told me a lot of people in the uk just don't get the idea of systemic racism. >> they don't use the term "systemic racism" in britain because it goes over 90% of people's heads . in england, racism is someone coming up to you in the street calling you the n-word and punching you to the floor. i have so often -- i've been lectured by white people about what racism is. >> lectured by white people about what racism is. that's it in a nutshell. people who deny the existence of systemic racism because they can't accept that they're part of that system. and again, make it clear, not talking about all white people. if you fit into this category, then it's you. if you don't then i'm not talking about you. people who think it's all about whether you're a liberal or conservative, it's not as if racism is aligned with your politics. it shouldn't be. it can be. but it's not just a matter of right or left. it's inherent bias. it's systemic. that's why we need to talk about it. and anybody who still thinks that privilege insulates black people, anybody who refuses to believe the stress of racism or the stress of a pandemic could affect your mental health, listen to the former first lady michelle obama. >> depression is understandable in these circumstances during these times. you know, and to think that somehow we can just continue to rise above all of the shock and the trauma and the upheaval that we have been experiencing without feeling it in that way is just unrealistic. >> so, let me just say, you know, every night i try to use this platform for good and for honesty. and i don't mean to get so upset. but sometimes it's so enraging when you look at what the people who are supposed to be leading the country, their actions and what they're doing and what they're focusing on and what they choose to say and do. and i think about all the people i meet every single day who were trying to make this a better country who are struggling, who are trying to get along different races and ethnicities and backgrounds all over, and who are just trying to do their thing every day. and the people at the top are not serving them. or as we say, doing them dirty. some talk about woke supremacists. come on. we don't need catchy words and catchy buzz phrases about woke supremacists versus white supremacists. people need help. people need to come together. people need an america that works. kids back in school. they don't need people going on state tv and coming up with little catchy things so they can stay in office and stay in power. serve the people of this country. get together some bipartisanship and stop doing the people of this country, the people you're supposed to serve -- stop doing them dirty. get it right. there is the massive covid relief bill. it has passed. now comes the hard part, making sure that those checks get in american's hands, that the jobless benefits get out, the funds are there for kids to get back in school. i'm going to talk to the press secretary jen psaki about what it will take. >> tomorrow night i'm going to in prime time address the american people and talk about what we've been through as a nation this past year. but more importantly i'm going to talk about what comes next. what if you could have the perspective to see more? 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