The New York Times published its first article on the pentagon papers. Reflecting on the significance of the history it created, the New York Times writing today, quote, the lies revealed in the papers were of a generational scale. And for much of the American Public it seeded a suspicion of government that is even more widespread today. Remember a few years later came watergate, a scandal that forced a president to resign and raised even more distrust in government. And now, along with a republican assault on Voting Rights, we are learning more about efforts to dig up dirt on Congressional Democrats and others by Donald TrumpsDepartment Of Justice. We have learned the current doj is revealing the ordeal. But today this New York Times article, trump subpoenaed apple about an account that belonged to don mcgahn. Apple was barred from telling mcgahn about it. Apple has not responded to the times. An attorney for mcgahn and the doj declined to comment. The Senate Majority leader wants answers. What has happened here are finger prints of a dictatorship, not a democracy. No one likes the idea that if a president s mad he can just go forth with setting personal phone data on perceived enemies. When it comes to sowing doubt, they are trying to convince voters that the 2020 election was stolen. It has led to death threats. Threats to take a life based on a lie, and that lay continues on, as reuters writes, trumps incendiary rhetoric could go to the 2022 midterm and 2024 vote. The threats, according to the Associated Press now leading local election workers to quit, raising concerns that partisans could step in to replace them. The attacks on Voting Rights are frankly hard to combat due to a lack of federal protections made possible by the supreme courts 2013 decision. Almost immediately after the ruling, republicanled stating began passing voter id laws. A voting case could be decided as early as tomorrow. Meric garland called often the passage of a bill named for john lewis. Joining us to discuss tomorrows rally, reverend dr. Liz harris. Thank you for being with us. I want to start with tomorrows Moral March On Manchin in West Virginia. What is the strategy behind the march . Well, thank you so much for having me and for being interested in these issues. The Poor Peoples Campaign is organized in more than 40 states across the country. The West Virginia coordinating committee invited the whole country in to West Virginia to stand with impacted leaders. Lowwageworkers, mineworkers, veterans from across West Virginia to hold a moral march to senator manchins office in charleston, West Virginia, calling out the senator, that he has the power, along with other colleagues in the senate to make sure that we do pass a Voting Rights act. We reinstate preclearance, that we make sure that we defend this democracy and raise wages and defend health care and all the things at that are connected to Voting Rights. So tomorrow at 5 00 eastern time, leaders from West Virginia will lead a march in charleston, West Virginia, calling on senator manchin to use his power to make sure that we do good. I want to play some sound from an activist in West Virginia, demanding action. Take a listen. Ive watched my senator sayin, talkin about compromise. And i wonder, what reality is he in . Does he think, is he that delusional . Or does he think we are that stupid . You got to have somebody to compromise to compromise. How long can manchin continue to hold out on this idea of compromise without actually delivering . Well, i think what were haeing from our lead errs in West Virginia, that thats is no time to wait for compromise, what has been compromised is the lives of the 350,000 people in West Virginia who are making less than a living wage, and what were hearing is that peoples lives are being compromised as we wait for folks to come together and push forward policies. The vast majority, the super majority of americans and West Virginians believe in, including and especially voting righting. So, so, so people in West Virginia are crying that the time is up, and its time now to pass all the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights act and caring for the 140 Million People in this country who are poor or one emergency away from desperate poverty. Reverend theo wallace, thank you for joining us. Attorney general Meric Garland announced he will double the staff in the dojs Civil Rights Division dedicated to protecting the right to vote. Garland will also review newlypass The State Laws aimed at restricting Ballot Access to meet the challenge of the current moment, we must rededicate the resources of the Department Of Justice to a critical part of its original mission. And forcing federal law to protect the franchise for all voters. We are scrutinizing new laws that seek to curb voter access and where we see violations, we will not hesitate to act. Joining me now, msnbc contributor joyce vance, a professor at the alabama stool school of law. Is this move alone enough to protect free and Fair Elections . I think the essential its a good first step. What really needs to happen here is restoration of the Voting Rights act, but Attorney General garland has done something i dont think weve ever seen before. Hes committed to fully using all of the statutory resources he has, provisions that are rarely used to fight back against voter suppression, to deal with these postelection audits that violate the law, to make registration easier for all americans. It was a very impressive strategic move by the Attorney General, and it will do a lot of good. Since you are out of alabama, i want to talk about the 2013 Voting Rights act. He wants them to pass the john lewis voting act. Talk about why this piece is essential. So this is the provision of the Voting Rights act called preclearance. And let me give you an example ive actually dealt with. Say you get to be a couple weeks out from an election and all of a sudden a state or municipality starts closing Polling Places in the majorityminority neighborhood, making it much more difficult for people in that neighborhood to go out and vote. Maybe its justified by voting numbers. Or maybe its the result of racial animus and an effort to suppress those votes. Under preclearance, the state of alabama couldnt do that without getting clearance from either doj or a court in washington, d. C. After the Shelby County case, states and municipalities are now free to make any changes that they want to. They can prune people off of voter rolls, they can close polling place. They can have these Id Requirements that are so restrictive for Voting Rights. So we really need a return to preclearance if were going to keep people, texas is a great example, where the courts found that there was intentional discrimination as some of these new rules were passed. If were going to keep those states out of the business of suppressing the rights of legitimate voters to vote. Heres thing. Restoring the Voting Rights act only really makes the difference it is intended to make if you have a Justice Department that is determined and committed to protecting the vote, bidens doj now has Kristin Clark serving in the departments civil rightstive igs. Hows to this new doj stack up against trumps Justice Department specifically when it comes to protecting blt access . Ive had the privilege of knowing Kristin Clark and working with her on Voting Matters for many years. She is extraordinarily talented. Shes smart, shes dedicated. She gets what use she can put these laws to. So we should all be very comfortable with the people that joe biden has appointed to this important work. Kristins boss, the associate Attorney General, vanita gupta is the former head of the Civil Rights Division. No doubt there is an important commitment here. They are used to working with the civil rights community. And nofrn these cases, doj can litigate some claims and private citizens have to step up and litigate others. So im very encouraged that well see the best use possible made of the laws. That said, none of this should take the burden off of the senate to pass the john lewis Voting Rights act and restore the voting acts right. And of course republicans across the country are emboldened by the big lie, now traveling to Arizona Garland called the abnormal methods popping up to review the 2020 election. What can the doj do to look at that arizona audit . So earlier, during the audit, a letter was actually written bay doj pam carland and pointed out that they might be running afoul of the law with this. The requirement for keeping an intact change of custody of ballots and of the equipment thats used for voting. So you cant just take your Voting Machines and go hand them over to a group called cyber ninjas, and some of the ideas, knocking on the doors of voters and scrutinizing their vote, that could run afoul of provisions that could arguably bleed over to prohibit voter suppression. Doj took a pretty strong stand. My guess is if we see early action by doj it will involve this arizona recount, which is absolutely a travesty of justice and just a perpetuation of the big lie. I dont know that i will ever get over cyber ninjas. Thank you so much. Next, a Biden In Brussels Fort nato summit, then off to meet with putin. New reporting about how he plans to deal with russia. This after departing the g7 in the uk where he was on a mission to reaffirm the world about america. Message heard and shared bit president of france. France. Well go to tel aviv for the breaking news, Benjamin Netanyahu is out as Prime Minister. And the other big stories were following. Richard . 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Senate Majority LeaderChuck Schumer wants Jeff Sessions and william barr to testify on the matter before the judiciary committee. I am joined by ken dalanian. They also obtained records on former White House Council don mcgahn. Nbc news has not matched that reporting, but its quite interesting, and, if true, it shows that it wasnt just democratic members of congress who came under this doj dragnet where they were getting secret gag orders and subpoenas to get the Phone Records of high government officials. Its really unclear what was going on with mcgahn. Obviously, around the time the subpoena would have gone out, donald trump was pressing him to fire robert mueller, and he was resissing. That was going on. There was also an issue with the investigation into former Trump Campaign chairman paul manafort. But the larger and more controversial issue has to do with the democratic lawmakers who were the subject of the subpoena, because its such a rare and unprecedented thing to happen. These members of the Intelligence Committee are trusted with the nations most closelyguarded secrets, and the idea that while they were being briefed on covert action, the Justice Department was secretly obtaining their phone and email records. Its stunning and has a lot of people calling for an investigation. And now there will be one. Many of the officials involved at the highest level of the Surveillance Program are still at the white house now. We should expect resignations. Do you have an idea what is going on at the doj . Yes, theres a real tension here, and it goes beyond donald trump and partisan politics. Carooer Justice Department have long been wanting to investigate leaks. Theyre happy to go after Phone Records and whatever else. We rely on senior members of the government to reign those people in. Apparently that didnt happen in this case, in part because we had a president and attorneys general screaming about leaks and had a hostile relationship with the press and only too happy to let these cases go forward. Interestingly, alicia, i should say that a source close to Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions told us that neither of those men remembers or believes they authorized the subpoena of two democratic members of congress. Weve been talking about that piece of it. What do we know about this prosecutor from new jersey who oversaw the Leak Investigation . You know, certainly not a household name, not someone who had experience in these kinds of National Security and leak cases. But it appears that as in so many members, bill barr wanted to bring somebody in to revive what he