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his decision to lift covid restrictions in connecticut. "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. as the biden administration, the democratic congress, and the country as a whole try to claw our way out of an unprecedented set of national crises, the republican party coast to coast has found its mission for the year 2021 -- make it harder for americans to vote. right now we're on track to see the largest rescue bill in recent memory signed into law by president biden this week. it would provide direct relief to americans, billions for vaccination progr...

elections going all the way back to 1992, republicans are laser focused on restricting voting access. brennan center's tracking all the state bills aimed at restricting access to the polls. their list includes 253 bills introduced, prefiled or carried over this year in 43 states. in georgia, of course, already notorious for having absurdly long lines to vote with residents waiting up to 11 hours to cast their ballots last fall, republican governor brian kemp has waged a long battle to make the voting process even more difficult. in his previous role as georgia's secretary of state, h...

He's live from kathmandu. the relief aid is coming in. you rightly point out this is a small airport. you can only have big planes there at one time. are they doing a better job of smoothing out logistics to get aid to this earthquake-ravaged country? >> reporter: you're exactly right, christine, there are countless challenges getting help to remote places in nepal. it start tess airport where it's not a big airport to handle all the medical aid and supplies coming in. they're only trickling in not coming in fast enough to help everybody at once. not even a fraction of people at once. kathmand...

Mary, to you first. you represent victims of negligence by transportation companies, including the airlines. when you look at this new information that we have now about narrowing the focus, giving new coordinates, what do you make of this? >> i'm hoping it's two things. i'm hoping these unnamed countries that have provided additional information have radar coverage to give us better information and i hope over the days we've gotten little bits of data that they have been cleaning out the white noise, if you will, smoothing out the data so we can refine in the points. if that's why the informa...

Place. >> why then are you allowing people to keep these substandard plans for a couple more years to get it past the midterm election? >> no. the fact of the matter is, is that we are working to implement the affordable care act so that millions of americans can have the benefits of quality affordable health insurance. >> the president calls it smoothing out, another big change in obamacare. another delay. this as ezekiel immanuel, one of the architects of abomb that care, the affordable care act writes this: quote in the short-term the aca, affordable care act has been a political disaster f...