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Elections. >> democrats say a number of red states passed restrictive voting laws this year. critics call it an effort to nationalize elections would create an automatic voter registration system. ban photo i.d. requirements. create nonpartisan redistricting commission and combat state efforts to roll back the pandemic voting practices. chuck schumer is even threatening to force a vote to carve out the ill-conceived filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation with just 50 votes as opposed to 60. at least two senate democrats and all republicans stand in his way. >> most americans und...

Structure, increasingly what you're going to see on the right, and you're seeing this in some states like wyoming, it's just straight up state efforts, subsidies, to keep dirty fuel going, even past the point at which the market has totally rejected it. this, i think is showing us what's to come. kate aronoff great reporting, thank you so much for coming in. that is "all in" on this wednesday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, and thanks at home for joining us this hour. we've got a lot of news to cover. there's a lot of interesting stuff going on. this is one of...

Extremely powerful speech in philadelphia, well received, and has done nothing else publicly. congressman, is there more happening that we don't see? is his involvement greater than that? >> certainly, the white house has had a number of conversations with members. i won't get into those private conversations. suffice to say, i think the president has made very clear his belief that republicans in various state legislatures across the country are really crossing red lines in terms of implementing very subversive pieces of legislation that undermine the fundamental right to vote and he has been...

At getting ports open as soon as we can. that's a pretty significant source of economics in the region. >> let's talk about the immediate concern which is are there people out there whose lives are endangered. how do we save them. how do you coordinate with local, with state efforts, and where do you tend to focus and be most successful, at being able to use your resources? >> we start, this this is an ongoing process. we work every day of the year, with our local partners, in normal search and rescue operations, we do an environmental cleanups. we built these relationships over years and year...

Civilians that are stranded. we have ships that are offshore following the storm. we're gonna provide command control platforms for ships, as the storm moves, or the harbor -- we have report assessments. and there are buoys -- [inaudible] and then finally we're gonna let the ports open as soon as we can. that is a very significant source. >> let's talk about the immediate concern, which is, are the people out there whose lives are in danger, and how do we save? them how to coordinate with local, state efforts, and where