>> WELCOME BACK TO THE WEEKEND PRIME TIME. WE BEGIN THIS HOUR WITH A SHOWDOWN IN THE OLD WEST AND THE REDISTRICTING FIGHT THAT BEGAN IN TEXAS AND HAS NOW SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. THE TEXAS HOUSE IS SET TO RECONVENE TOMORROW AFTER SEVERAL FAILED ATTEMPTS AT REACHING A QUORUM.ONE WEEK INTO A WALKOUT BY STATE DEMOCRATS. AND IT ALL COMES AS WE'VE SEEN TOP TEXAS REPUBLICANS TRY EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK TO FORCE THE DEMOCRATS BACK TO THE LONE STAR. STATE SENATOR JOHN CORNYN HAS CALLED ON THE FBI TO HELP TRAC ...

With many of the Texas Democrats now hunkering down in Illinois, that state's governor, Democrat JB Pritsker, is accusing President Trump of trying to undermine democracy with his redistricting push. >> Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is again violate the Voting Rights Act. What's even rarer is to do it at the behest of the president of the United States who's clearly attempting to and says that he deserves to have five more seats.He's wrong and he's attempting to change the game because agai ...

The Texas State House is now adjourned until Monday as the Democrats boycott is putting a wrench in the GOP's redistricting plans. Right now, Democrats who fled Texas are facing a growing number of threats from Republican leadership aimed at forcing their return. Members of the state's minority party say they have no plans to back down.It is an outrageous power grab to try to appease Trump. And our breaking quorum is truly that. It is a stop on the clock.We're not just fighting for for our families in Texas ...

We begin with the Texas Democrats who are facing a full-blown retaliation campaign after fleeing the state to block a Trumpbacked redistricting plan. Governor Greg Abbott is asking the Texas Supreme Court to expel the House Democratic leader from office. Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit demanding that 13 House Democrats be declared vacant from their seats.Plus, Senator John Cornin says the FBI has signed off on his request to deploy federal agents to help locate the missing lawmakers. Governo ...

I think this is this is the boss level. This is the endgame of where we are in America. Um this is the final move to see whether we we keep our democracy or not.Um if everyone is allowed to do this, if every state does this um every time a president changes or politics change, we'll continue to just throw everything red or blue each time. And if if they keep doing that, there's no more democracy left because politicians won't care who elects them. Um they'll just do whatever they want.That's not good for Am ...

This is what oligarchy feels like. Not someday, right now. We know that a better world is possible.And we are willing to do something about it. >> If we stand together, we can defeat Trumpism. We can defeat authoritarianism. We can defeat oligarchy. We can create a new nation.Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Okaziocortez have drawn tens of thousands of people to their fighting oligarchy rallies across blue and red states. In fact, Senator Sanders is kicking off new rallies in West Virgini ...

As we mark 200 days since Donald Trump began his second term, we want to consider a very powerful message from our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. Our next guest, historian John Nichum, picked this quote for us from Lincoln's annual address to Congress back in 1862. Quote, "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. Li ...

Republican Senator John Cornin of Texas says the FBI has approved his request for federal law enforcement to help locate Texas Democratic senators that left the state to block GOP redistricting efforts. An administration official told NBC News earlier this week that there were no plans to use federal agents to arrest lawmakers that had left Texas. The official said Governor Greg Abbott quote can handle his own state.A federal law enforcement official familiar with the situation told NBC News that as of yest ...

John Meum joins us now. He's the author of Then There Was Light, Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. John, you've written that and obviously so much more. But I wanted you to join us tonight and think about President Trump's first 200 days because that's where we are tonight. And I want you to think about Abraham Lincoln, someone who I know you have studied, written about, and consider to be one of our greatest presidents. What made you pick that particular quote? those words >> because Lincoln puts ...

Neither Texas nor uh the FBI at the federal level have the ability to arrest these Texas Democrats who are breaking quorum. They just don't. Uh there is no legal precedent for that.There's no law on the books that would allow them to do that. Uh so, as you know, I've been saying uh you know, they're all allowed to visit Chicago or Illinois, but uh they won't be taking anybody home with them. Today, the Republican Senator John Cornin of Texas announced that the FBI agreed to help locate the Democratic Texas ...