Norm Eisen on the media consolidation fight; John Nichols on Trump and the press; the National Popular Vote campaign

Now it's time for your Minnesota moment.

That's news from my hometown of St. Paul that you won't get from Sean Hannity.

Norm, you represent the Minnesota Eight, one of the plaintiffs in what we call the NAACP lawsuit.

And St. Paul is sort of the ground zero for this lawsuit.

And St. Paul was sort of ground zero for this.

It was the aggressive door-to-door enforcement operations in the Southeast Asian neighborhoods of St. Paul.

That is one of the pieces of evidence you cite in this case.

Yes.

Our client in the case is organized labor.

But you are right that the case encompasses this shocking ICE behavior.

John? In the midst of the ice crackdown, I traveled to Minnesota personally on a delegation with NAACP head Derek Johnson and LULAC head Juan Proano to see the horror for myself.

I believe history will record the events in Minnesota the way we talk about Birmingham or Montgomery or Selma when we talk about the civil rights movement.

It woke the country up.

It's not important just for our litigation.

It's historic because it's a pivot point in the democracy movement.

Part of the point of this case is we cannot have that in around or in the run up to election day.

So we're very proud to be litigating a prevention of any repetition of that.

And I think we've got a big coalition.

Trump sometimes says big and beautiful.

Our coalition really is big and beautiful.

It looks like America and we are going to stop this from happening again.

One more thing you mentioned that California has just passed several election protection laws and want to just look at those briefly one bill prohibits the seizure of ballots election records or voting technology before an election.

is certified, that's the official declaration of the winner.

Another makes it a felony for people in positions of authority to direct workers to interfere with the delivery of a mail ballot or its return.

Another of the new California laws prohibits arrests within 200 feet of a polling place on election day, with exceptions for acts related to disrupting the election or crimes against people or property.

Now it's time for your Minnesota moment.

That's news from my hometown of St. Paul that you won't get from Sean Hannity.

Norm, you represent the Minnesota Eight, one of the plaintiffs in what we call the NAACP lawsuit.

And St. Paul is sort of the ground zero for this lawsuit.

And St. Paul was sort of ground zero for this.

It was the aggressive door-to-door enforcement operations in the Southeast Asian neighborhoods of St. Paul.

That is one of the pieces of evidence you cite in this case.

Yes.

Our client in the case is organized labor.

But you are right that the case encompasses this shocking ICE behavior.

John? In the midst of the ice crackdown, I traveled to Minnesota personally on a delegation with NAACP head Derek Johnson and LULAC head Juan Proano to see the horror for myself.

I believe history will record the events in Minnesota the way we talk about Birmingham or Montgomery or Selma when we talk about the civil rights movement.

It woke the country up.

It's not important just for our litigation.

It's historic because it's a pivot point in the democracy movement.

Part of the point of this case is we cannot have that in around or in the run up to election day.

So we're very proud to be litigating a prevention of any repetition of that.

And I think we've got a big coalition.

Trump sometimes says big and beautiful.

Our coalition really is big and beautiful.

It looks like America and we are going to stop this from happening again.

One more thing you mentioned that California has just passed several election protection laws and want to just look at those briefly one bill prohibits the seizure of ballots election records or voting technology before an election.

is certified, that's the official declaration of the winner.

Another makes it a felony for people in positions of authority to direct workers to interfere with the delivery of a mail ballot or its return.

Another of the new California laws prohibits arrests within 200 feet of a polling place on election day, with exceptions for acts related to disrupting the election or crimes against people or property.