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it's not just georgia. it's happening in a number of states. 253. >> georgia, arizona, 250 laws and county. >> if you lost in ruby red states or states that were previously red, that is your fault. that's because you're selling the wrong thing. that's because you're not doing it right. and so, you're right, if we go back to that, it is going back to jim crow. this is jim crow part 2. crim 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 guaranteed they are going to 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 them elected. >> at the same time they're coaxing people along with this momentum of people out to get you, they're out to destroy -- >> white grievance, that's what it is. >> i have to tell you, this is really frightening things. 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 you get to decide it state by state, you have systematic disenfranchisement all over. >> all over the country. >> by the way, what i want to keep fighting more and more, i don't like to fight too soon because it's like you kind of blow -- >> you like to fight. >> i like to fight. i do the job to fight, fight the good fight. i don't always win, but i always fight it. you know when filibuster was brought in, right? jim crow. >> jim crow. >> they wanted a disproportionate voice so they could fight against any progress they didn't like. >> listen, during reconstruction black people started to gain political office. they were elected to political office. >> amazing what happens when you let people be free. >> right. the white folks who didn't like it said, no, we can't have that. so they started creating all of these laws, the resurgence of the kkk. we have to really -- we have to own up to it. that's what happened. so you're right, that is what's happening again. people are afraid, as you saw with this insurrection, as you see with the whole fake the election was stolen. people are afraid of the changing demographics of this country. it's inevitable. it's inevitable. they are fighting a losing battle. what they're trying to do is because america is going to be 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. and so thus the importance of not just waiting for a national election, presidential election to get involved in politics to go cast your ballot. you have to do it in the off years. you have to pay attention to your local legislatures, what they're doing. your local official, your council people. all of that. you have to make sure that 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, municipal court judges, districting, all of that. >> yeah. >> and the big thing is -- >> what? >> when people -- the redrawing of the districts. >> yeah, redistricting. it's a big deal. one of the things that hr 1 does, even if you're a party in power, you still have to have balance on the people who pick the districts. of course, they don't like that. the sell we have to be careful about because, you know, the right is really crafty and good and they use their media operatives well. here's what they'll say. here's why you can't trust the media. look at lemon and cuomo. that's what they're saying america is, we're racist, we're bad. no, it's an "and." america can give you great things and not great things. there is racism in the country and are there are people who are better than racism. >> they're saying it because that's what they are. by no means are we saying the entire country is racist. what we're saying is they are doing is empowering the minority who are racist in this country. they're using the minority of racists in this country to keep them in power. they're pooling the wool over those people's eyes to keep them in power, therefore disenfranchising the people majority of the people in this country who would like us to, what? continue to strive for a more perfect union, not a perfect union, but a more perfect union, all of us together. but they realize in order for them to hang onto power, what they must do to peddle what they are selling that they have to disenfranchise the majority of good people in this country. let's be clear about that. i'm glad you corrected -- >> are you looking down your nose at me right now? >> of course i am. look at me. [ laughter ] >> don't forget now. remember. >> 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. >> i love you. >> i love you, too. let's continue to have these conversations. >> always. >> i love you the mostest of everybody. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. so, this is big. a huge win for is president joe biden tonight. huge win. stick around because we have jen psaki. jen psaki is here to answer 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 a 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. >> so, we are told that the president watched the vote in the roosevelt room with vice president clarikamala harris. picture right there. as he prepares his first primetime address to the nation tomorrow marking the one year anniversary of the pandemic, the poll shows the 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 through 12 back in the classroom. parents, wouldn't you 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 enthralled to a disgraced twice impeached former president. 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 onto power. we just discussed that. a never before heard call, the second trying to push a georgia official to find nonexistent fraud to yooverturn the electio pushing his big lie. the call obtained by "the wall street journal." >> yes, something's hang there and it's something bad happened. i hope you stop -- i hope you go back two years as opposed to just checking, you know, one against the other because that would be sort of a secretive check. if you go back two years, and if you can get to fulton, you're going to find things that are going to be unbelievable, the dishonesty that we've heard. >> 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. it's amazing sometimes the distance and 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? we're going to hear more from that call a little later in the broadcast. stick around. while joe biden is about to sign a bill, the party of no is trying to 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 matter had in this last election. i know it's a group that doesn't like the old-fashioned family. disturbed that we have another program here in which there is an increase in the marriage penalty. >> come on. doesn't like the old-fashioned family. what does that mean -- 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 rightout -- saying it right out loud, saying it right out loud. when people show you who they are, huh? he thinks he can throw it in as an aside, black lives matter, 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 our 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, 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 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 record. you know why? they were considered property. god, oh! 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 foxx 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. >> do you want to explain who these woke supremacists are? because i looked really carefully and i didn't -- hang on before we go to the video. i haven't seen any woke supremacist -- i've never seen a woke supremacist lynching anybody. never saw a woke supremacist denying anybody access to housing or job or education or voting rights. never saw any woke supremacist enslaving anybody. never saw any woke supremacist trying to keep people from marrying amongst different races. come on, tim scott! i didn't see any woke supremacist storming the blanking capitol or the woke supremacists attacking police. where are the woke supremacists hunting police officers in the halls of the capitol and beating them with blue lives matter signs with white supremacist insignia on their shirts and carrying white supremacist paraphernalia? 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 where the woke supremacist carrying confederate battle flag in the nation's capitol, tim scott? tim! tim! i had to, i know you don't want me to yell, but 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's calling that reparations. >> if you're a farmer, your loan will be forgiven up to 120% of your loan, not 20%, 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? why are people doing this? lindsey graham, why are you doing this? it's not helpful to the country. seeing democratic leader clyburn slamming graham for that. >> he ought to be ashamed of himself. he knows the history of this country and he knows what happened to black farmers. lindsey ought to be ashamed. >> and what do you say to lindsey graham, or whoever 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. whew. 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 piers 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 her if she read the weather report. >> 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 u.k. >> it 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 part of it. >> so that's their experience, according to them. 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 a british patricia goddard. she said people 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. and i, i have so often had -- i've been lectured by white people about what racism is. >> lectured by white people 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. 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 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 are trying to make this a better country, who are struggling, who are trying to get along, different races and ethnicities and backgrounds and all over. they're 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 a woke supremacist? come on. we don't need catchy words and catchy buzz phrases about woke supremacist 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 bipartisan ship. and stop doing the people of this country, the people you're supposed to serve, stop doing them dirty. get it right. there is a massive covid relief bill, it has passed. now comes the hard part. making sure that those checks get in americans' hands. the jobless benefits get out, the funds are there for kids to get back into school. i'm going to talk to the press secretary jen psaki about what it will take. >> tomorrow night i'm going to primetime 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. the harry's razor is not the same ♪ because some of us are not the same ♪ our close shave comes from our 5 german-engineered blades designed to start sharp and stay sharp. and we never upcharge you for high quality. so for those of us who don't want just the same, harry's razors are here. harry's. not the same. available in store and at harrys.com. this is an important segment i'm about to do now. i have jen psaki, white house spokesperson. let me preface it so i can tell you what we're doing. president biden is set to sign the landmark covid relief bill friday. house democrats are voting to pass the massive $1.9 trillion rescue package this afternoon, and no, not one -- how many republicans voted? 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