Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181207:08:01:00
I'm chris hayes. in the wake of democrats' historic wins in this year's midterm elections, we are witnessing tonight a full on assault of democracy by defeated republicans across the country. there's an old joke about the definition of chutzpah being a man who -- asks the court for mercy because he's an orphan, something similar is going on. for years they've used the nonexistent threat of voter fraud as a pretense to make it harder for people to vote. even though study after study after study shows that actual in person voter fraud is stew pentously vanishingly rare. that has not stopped repu...