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cylinders, my friend. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you for joining us at home. happy to have you here. tomorrow democrats in washington will be wearing their sunday best. it is a really big landmark day for them at 9:00 a.m. they'll start the home stretch final debate to pass the american rescue plan. a big covid relief bill that is the first thing the biden administration and the democrats in congress put their shoulders to when they got sworn in just two months ago. and you know, time will tell how this legislation is viewed over the long haul. but just at face...

legislation than anything passed -- anything passed at least the last two democratic presidents. legislatively in terms of its progressive reach, in terms of its reach to make things better for people who need the most help. it is definitely on par with the affordable care act, with obamacare. but this bill, what the senate passed this weekend, what the house will pass tomorrow, what president biden is about to sign, will hit a wider target than the affordable care act ever aimed at. as huge an accomplishment as that was to reform the absolutely broke and broken u.s. health care syst...

Covid, saying latino voters felt left out of the recovery. joining me now is maria theresa kumar, president and ceo of voto latino, also an msnbc contributor. ms. kumar, calls glad to have you join us. before you get to your group's legal actions against texas's suppression law, some democrats are warning a canary in the coal mine with regards to what they view as a lackluster showing from latinx voters in this week's recall election in california. with our own nbc news exit polling suggesting that latino voters sided with newsom and against the recall 60% to 40%. "the new york times" is repor...

Of everybody. >> the whole point of section five was to be preemptive. what was happening before 1965, the courts would strike down suppression laws. and a new suppression law would go in effect. what section five did was the beauty of shifting that burden. the other burden, it's been targeted. that's why it's been upheld. it's supposed to be narrow and deep. >> just as kennedy in the oral argument that we called the mud case in the northwest austin case. he said, i know section five is effective. i know section five works. and i know the other parts of the voting rights act are not a substitu...

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