georgia. our complaint ledges that recently changes to georgia's election laws were enacted with a purpose of denying or abridging the right of black georgians to vote on account of their race or color in violation of section 2 of the voting rights act. several studies show that georgia experienced record voter turnout and participation rates in the 2020 election cycle. approximately 2/3 of eligible voters in the state cast a ballot in the november election, just over the national average. this is cause for celebration. but then in march of 2021, georgia's legislature passed s.v. 202. many of that law's provisions make it harder for people to vote. the complaint aledges that the state enacted those restrictions with the purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color. in a few moments, assistant attorney general clarke will talk in more detail about this case. the united states vs. georgia. i want to thank the staff of the civil rights division's voting section fo

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georgia or the carolinas. it protected the caribbean colonies from the rebelling american colonies and kind of created a little bit of a buffer for them. so that's the story. the most briefest of stories about those two colonies. so what with this one? this is the biggest misconception that i found. everything was happening in the north, everything was won in the north. it is because of the north and everything that happened up there that we are-the only reap we won the war. you can see, and thanks to the musical hamilton, more of this misconception is reaching a modern audience. so let's talk about the fact that the southern theater had as much impact as the northern colonies. the politics of boston and new york, they were just one driving force before the start of the war. you have taverns and town halls in charleston and savannah that are having that same influx of revolutionary ideas. and they're adding fuel to that overall idea of let's start this revolution. the politics in the south are largely controll

georgia let's do it pretty well under royal rule, but the loyalties were divided in the colony of, georgia. but many folks felt that they needed british help to defend against attacks from american indians. you also had savannah which was a pretty well-off port city so they they didn't even send a representative to the first continent continental congress until philadelphia in 1774. now they did end up sending one delegate to the second continental congress. tensions, which was in may of 75 tensions were rising at this point, especially in may around the same time as the second continental congress. there was a seizure of gunpowder from the powder magazine in savannah. so so tensions are really starting to build despite this kind of overall general support of british rule over the colony. it's in the backcountry, which is a common thing in the southern colonies. it's the backcountry and in specifically in georgia around the areas of like augusta. where tensions were really rising because you had still a decent amount of conflicting support depending on which side you were on and it's the b

georgia let's do it pretty well under royal rule, but the loyalties were divided in the colony of, georgia. but many folks felt that they needed british help to defend against attacks from american indians. you also had savannah which was a pretty well-off port city so they they didn't even send a representative to the first continent continental congress until philadelphia in 1774. now they did end up sending one delegate to the second continental congress. tensions at which was in may of 75 tensions were rising at this point, especially in may around the same time as the second continental congress. there was a seizure of gunpowder from the powder magazine in savannah. so so tensions are really starting to build despite this kind of overall general support of a rule over the colony. it's in the backcountry, which is a common thing in the southern colonies. it's the backcountry and it's specifically in georgia around the areas of like augusta. where tensions were really rising because you had still a decent amount of conflicting support depending on which side you were on and it's the bac

it is noxious georgia where this is happening. legislation has been introduced this year in nearly every state to limit access to the ballot box. we do not have time to wait and see what might happen. in georgia come we conducted an election with an undemocratic sb 202 as the law of the land, the next election will be here before we know it. the time to act is now. to anyone who wonders what they would have done during the civil rights movement, now is your time to find out. you're either on the side of democracy or you are not. i look forward to continuing to work with members of this committee and all of those ready to protect our democracy. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentlelady yields back. >> i asked permission to assert a point of order. >> what is the gentleman's point of order? >> man nasty question for -- did congressman owens state for the balance of ms. williams testimony. >> is camera is on -- not on, he may have left. >> i would ask that the gentlemen suspend as a courtesy to the chair so we can discus

tech. -- to certify elections in georgia. in texas, volunteers can be harassed by so-called poll watchers. there is a smorgasbord of provisions in these bills with the intent of making it difficult for certain parts of the electorate to vote. some people don't want some people to vote. that's what this is about. we have been averting in georgia long before this. >> let me tell you this, texas has one of the highest voter turnout in the last election. and our republican appointed to carry estate said that those elections were safe, secure, and successful. so any type of effort -- let me tell you suppression is not always overt. it can be subtle, subtle in the form of empowering partisan poll watchers who get a warning for they can be removed. but the poll workers face immediate criminal sanctions. so we don't even have to say it. we can just tell you the provisions of the bills and you can know for yourself that they are not interested in fairness. they don't want the elections to be free. they want you to cut through a bunch

it is noxious georgia where this is happening. legislation has been introduced this year in nearly every state to limit access to the ballot box. we do not have time to wait and see what might happen. in georgia come we conducted an election with an undemocratic sb 202 as the law of the land, the next election will be here before we know it. the time to act is now. to anyone who wonders what they would have done during the civil rights movement, now is your time to find out. you're either on the side of democracy or you are not. i look forward to continuing to work with members of this committee and all of those ready to protect our democracy. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentle lady yields back. >> madam chair, a point of order, if i may. >> and what is the gentleman's point of order. >> did congressman stick around for the testimony or withdraw from the panel? >> well, his camera is not on, so he may have left. >> if he withdrew from the panel, that's a violation from the committee rules and i would move to strike

you're also a writer yourself of what's it like being a member of the media or a writer in georgia? can you without fear for life, conduct your, your job like those few days with super hard for everyone, especially people also like g p t q i come in and change it for most of the time. going out without strengths or without any people is not faith anymore. if you look like the trends are like you to reading some like everything's or like, i don't know, they wouldn't find any reason to like be q in the 3. we all cared and you're starting to think about leaving our country, especially like you like writers and many other people are from like art or like media because we don't see any future for minority in georgia. but not . this is hard because one of the main taken from people from bar, right, humans or lesbian, gay community is to leave georgia of a good or type in a close. that's a georgia writer and l g b t q activists are thank you so much for joining us and sharing your views with us . we appreciate it. thank. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines a

i understand you're back in georgia now, and, i don't know, it seems to me like you have georgia on your mind. >> you know, georgia has always been on my mind. that's what people don't realize. if they go back and look at anything i have ever said, i'm a product of the state of georgia. anything that happens in georgia, you will see herschel walker has showed up and now something is going on if georgia right now, i don't know what it is, and if i'm the right man for the job, you'll see me step up and say i'm running and that's what i say i'm going to do now but it will be on my timetable, no one else's. >> sean: all right, herschel walker, always good to have you with us. out of new york, crime is even worse than ever out of control. senator lindsey graham reacts later and senator ron johnson will join us. a new report regarding hunter biden's art dealer. the anonymous art selling. yes. guess what country it is. we'll tell you, straight ahead. ? we will tell straight >> sean: tonight more disturbing violence caught on tape in america's democratic run cities and states. over the weekend,

a group of reporters has broken into departmental state of georgia jobs. the john this all reported to have taken the seat of the parliament speaker at demonte a meeting with parliamentarians on the resignation of the government. now this comes in a series of protests by l. g. p. t supporters and opponents. one camera man was found dead off to being beaten by way of anti l g b t actor. well, that's cross live now to martin coolie and russian unless martin always good to have you on. i'm, well, the 1st thing i want to ask you is, what's generally your reaction to the event paying out in georgia now, i mean it's, it's clearly it's, it's a very tense moment. it's a very intense moment indeed because the government is always from young, georgia government, george fragile, because they are very clowns. the rest groups in georgia find it difficult to come together and stay together and agree compromises. so therefore, georgia is facing another garages and the it is a country which is profoundly conservative. and therefore, as you b t march, the pride barge was a

anything that is happening georgia, now something is going on in georgia right now, i don't know what it is and if i am the right man for the job and we will see me step up and say i'm running and that's what i'm going to do but it will be on my timetable and no one else's. >> sean: always great to have you, thank you for being with us. more shocking footage out of new york, crime is even worse than ever out of control, senator lindsey graham reacts, later senator von johnson will join us, a new report tonight regarding hunter biden's art dealer. the anonymous art selling? guess what country it is? we will tell straight ahead. >> sean: tonight, more disturbing violence caught on tape in america's democratic run cities and states. for example over the weekend in new york city right here, an off-duty firefighter was attacked by a violent mob in queens while just out walking their dog. apparently, one of the teams quoted saying fight night. the firefighter was then hit over the head with a glass bottle and that's not all. keep looking at the screen. you see a robber punched and stomped o

georgia's ra fell warnock at a senate hearing in georgia. senate democrats today took their push for voting rights legislation to the state that was ground zero for voting restrictions inspired by donald trump's big lie of a stolen election, hearing from people affected by georgia's sweeping new voting law. as "the new york times" reports, their real aim is to sway a debate more than 500 miles away in washington where democrats are trying to revive a stalled elections overhaul in the senate to make it easier to vote and offset many of the changes republicans have pushed through in states like georgia. joining us now is blit cal reporter for the atlanta constitution. good to see you, greg. i will start with you. you were at the hearings today. what was the energy like in the room? i know republicans didn't even attend, but was it people mostly giving testimonials, was it people giving suggestions for improvement? what did we actually hear at the hearings today in atlanta? >> yeah, as you mentioned republicans essentially boycotted the hearing

the big lies, the fake outrage, failed in georgia. the big lies and fake outrage failed here in the senate and they'll fail in texas. the big lies and fake outrage are totally failing to persuade the american people. americans want to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat. americans know that having widespread and accessible voting along with voter i.d. isn't an attack on democracy. it's the definition of democracy. so, look, i understand the democrats may be growing nervous about the 2022 elections. i can see why. liberal policies are overspending, overborrowing, and hurting our economy. they're destabilizing the middle east, weakening our southern border, and increasing violent crime across our country. but, mr. president, the solution is not to keep lying to the american people about the health, the health of our democracy. the answer is not this desperate craving for an unprecedented partisan takeover so washington democrats can appoint themselves the board of elections for every country and state. the longer these fake hysterics

get georgia right.com. look at this ad. >> tonight's all star game was supposed be to in atlanta but democrats lied about our election law. >> it's racist. it's jim crow. >> some people don't want some people to vote. >> what do you think about the possibility that baseball moved their all star game out of atlanta? >> i support that. >> are you tired of democrats pushing politics? >> sean: and the baseball commissioner is called out for staying in the locker room. take a look. >> commissioner manfred moved the all star game from atlanta. why is he making baseball political? because of his terrible record. viewership way down. ticket prices way up. sketchy deals in china. manfred has been so bad that ted cruz and bernie sanders agree. they should pay taxes like everyone else. major league baseball serve your customers and not woke politicians. >> sean: he is radio talk show host and the director of research. here we have georgia's new law. it's far less restrictive and more inclusive with more access ability

senator hearing that was uprooted from washington and moved to georgia and held in georgia instead. this is the first time the rules committee and the senate has held a field hearing in 20 years. but senator klobuchar decided that the issue of voting rights was worth hitting the road for. to go understand in person what's new republican installed voting restrictions mean on the ground in states where they're being enacted. so the committee, at least the democrats on the committee who showed up, republicans didn't show up for this. but democrats on the committee heard testimony from georgia voters an election officials including helen butler who you just heard from their. she served on the board of elections on her rural county in georgia for more than ten years, until this year when a provision in georgia's restrictive new voting law allowed local republican officials to remove her from the board this month so they could take full partisan republican control over her counties election administration. helen butler called the takeover of local elections boards the most egregious part

i live in this county. 159 counties in georgia. there is a reason why republicans are only investigating one. out of all the other counties that had problems on election day, no other county is being investigated and at risk of being taken over by a republican pair a gram. it's only fulton county. they are afraid to say what we all know is true out loud -- that, is too many people that look like me showed up to vote and fulton county. now they want to do something about that. what we also know, when you look across the board and how we've made changes in fulton county, in june, we had our primary elections. the fulton county board of -- commissioners came in to see what happened on election day. they came in got things together for the november election. give people more access to get the lines, down they made sure they had more poll workers. you know what the state did? they passed espy 2:02 to say you can't do mobile voting units. we will not do all these drop boxes to reduce the waiting in line. the republicans are still to blam

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all the focus now is on georgia, and we will go from there. my main goal for doing this it's to just continue to get people state by state to help us, to put pressure on the republicans, and our colleagues, to get this done. this is a concerted effort that people like reverend warnock, and he is someone who, in his own words, he decided to put his speech on the florida voting rights. as he summed it up better than i have in the whole interview, some people don't want some people to vote. that's what this is about. >> senator amy klobuchar, chair of the senate rules committee. thank you for joining us. we always appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> and coming up, mad bombers for trump. two men were accused in federal court today of plotting to bomb democratic headquarters in the hope of starting a war, for donald trump. that is next. rump that is next (realtor) the previous owners left in a hurry, so the house comes with everything you see. follow me. ♪ (realtor) so, any questions? (wife) we'll take it! (realtor) great. (vo) it will haun

then in march of 2021, georgia's legislature passed a law. many of that law's provisions make it harder for people to vote. the complaint alleges the state enacted those restrictions with the purpose of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color. host: mr. george terwilliger, what do you think about the case dd -- the drg has to make? -- ddo g has to make? -- v doj -- the doj has to make? guest: that will be played out in court. the central premise of the department's case and what the attorney general stated is that the georgia legislature acted with a discriminatory intent. i think that is going to be very difficult to prove under the relevant jurisprudence. i think others have questioned, legitimately, and i think this will be an issue if what the georgia legislature did actually made it harder to vote. georgia has a very liberal, open voting process in terms of the number of days that voting by mail and other means is possible. and so forth. as the supreme court said in the arizona case, placing certain requirement

warnock will tell you, in georgia. that this is going on all over the country, to the point that we now have since the beginning of the year, the two laws to restrict voting that have been enacted in 14 states, with the texas senate passage of sb one yesterday, a total of 32 bills to roll back the right to vote have passed at least one chamber of the legislature. so when people ask us why we have put forward the for the people act, which is the first bill to be introduced in the senate, authored by senator markley and supported by the senate rules committee, why we lead with this bill. it's because we could see this coming. most political parties in the past, when they lose an election, what do they do? they think how can i change my policies, how can i change my candidate? what did they do? they said how can we stop people from voting who voted before. we all know the history of texas, which you are about to hear, but this was a state -- one of my best examples as they had one valid dropbox in tarrant county of -- a c

in georgia to block georgia's flu restrictions. not to mention those passed in 16 other republican-controlled states just since the 2020 election. that sailed, there is still no clear path to getting that voting rights legislation through the united states senate. at least it doesn't appear that way tonight. but joining us now is somebody who knows better than we do. she's the chair of the rules committee in the senate. minnesota senior senator amy klobuchar. senator, it's great to see you. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, rachel. >> so the rules committee does have responsibility for things related to federal elections. lots of rules committee chairs in the past have sort of ignored that part of the purview, ignored that part of the committee's remit and focused on other things that are like administrative things for the senate. you've decided to max out basically what the committee can do in terms of that part of its purview. tell us how that led to this decision today, this remarkable decision, for the first time in

of georgia to sign or join. now, by ross moves andres, and he is a member of the european parliament for the german green party. he's also been vocal in his support for the pride march in tbilisi. it's good to have you on the program with me tonight. i'd like to draw our viewers attention to what you posted earlier today on twitter. your tweet today said this, this is simply not acceptable fund ally and joseph burrell should call the georgia authorities to protect the tbilisi pride to protest for equality and human rights is a fundamental right if georgia wants to be a european partner, they should act hash tag tbilisi pride, $21.00. are you expecting the european union to do something here? well, 1st of all, let me say, thanks for having me and it's good that you are taking this up in your program. we what we could see today and simply see at the price is quite helpful and painful, not just for me, but for the old l t t i community across the whole world. and from my perspective, this is not just junction issue

i mean, let's go to georgia in budapest. well, georgia, russia always seems to be in the news one way or another. but it's an, it isn't a very different way. this time. vladimir putin, the russian president, penned to very, very long article, a very studied article. i would say about the relationship that russia has with ukraine. now it's a, it's that the kremlin dot r u website. it's in english, ukrainian, and of course, russian. it is a vocal enormous outcry and discussion and obviously criticism here. why did he write this article? what's it about and who was directed to go ahead? well, i think the reason he wrote the article is that he is very concerned about the recent development of the, particularly since my diamond 2014, mainly the use of ukraine as a battering ram against russia. and there's no sign of a bating, whoever is in the white house is continued to be used. and he wants to place in historic context this has gone on for quite a long time, russia and ukraine, the russians in the ukrainian people all want peop

they are going to the state of georgia to make the point that this is a concerted effort from people to limit the right to vote but also a concerted effort in this place to protect the right to vote. i'll turn it over to the chief author of the for the people act and then we will hear from the rest of us, not all of us. >> president johnson declared that the right to vote is the most powerful instrument ever cleared or devised by man to break down injustice. and who would have imagined that here in the year 2021, we would be still in this fight to defend the right to vote. we thought that the voting rights act of 1965 had put this to rest. that all of america said that we understand the foundation, the pulsating heart of a democracy is the ability of people to vote in fair and free elections but today, republicans in texas are not standing, they are not standing for freedom and the right to vote. they are working to tear down that ability and here we are surrounded by texan freedom fighters, defenders of the constitution, believers in the foundation of our republic who are doing ever

anything else is leading them into perilous conflict in georgia and the same? what does it prove to be in ukraine? i mean, it's never been thoughtfully explained. has been you, you can want to have more transparent senior government. you want to have a government that respects rights, basic rights that are expected around the world. but you have, but to have that you have to be anti russian. it never made any sense to me whatsoever. want to change gears a little bit. you know, you said you focused on europe and i think you're absolutely right. but not mistaken fema russians. good relations with japan, south korea, philippines, l. street. i mean they, there are no issues there, it's only in europe. ok. but then again, when you shifted to the east, there's a top prosy versus democracy argument called class. i think that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. it's only focused on europe at this point in time. go ahead humor . well, the night the states use the same argument against china. i mean it's, it's terrible. in the last few decades, china has been many in ties

the big lies, the fake outrage, failed in georgia. the big lies and fake outrage failed here in the senate. and they'll fail in texas. the big lies and fake outrage are totally failing to persuade the american people. the americans want to make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat. americans know that having widespread and accessible voting along with voter i.d. isn't an attack on democracy, it's the definition of democracy. so look, i understand the democrats may be growing nervous about the 2022 elections. i can see why. liberal policies are overspending, overborrowing and hurting our economy. they're destabilizing the middle east, weakening our southern border and increasing violent crime across our country. but, mr. president, the solution is not to keep lying to the american people about the health, the health of our democracy. the answer is not this desperate craving for an unprecedented partisan takeover so washington democrats can appoint themselves the board of elections for every county and state. the longer these ferrick hyst

without the new georgia voting bill we wouldn't know about any of this but tonight, atlanta, georgia, is not the only place facing scrutiny. an election audit in maricopa county in arizona is happening and it's also trying out pretty shocking results. according to the arizona senate president karen phan, the company is hired by the legislature to review the real election results and came up with a different number of ballots that maricopa county officials. tonight, we don't know of the exact discrepancy as the audit is now ongoing but this has to be concerning, concerning development for anyone that wants integrity and elections. the integrity of our elections, competence and election results is paramount to the survival of our great republic. i often cite several measures that all sites should adopt. chain of custody, integrity, voter rolls. updated for every election and most states haveve statutory language and partisan observers are allowed to watch the vote count from all political sides. they should watch the count from start to finish. audits and investigations also play an imp

you know, let me give you the example of georgia nationalists. they decided that this is the moment to take the land from the minority just from their projects, from their seconds. they're terrible. first president gums have tried to do it and she failed. and i must, it was that the west change because the west had the gods to condemn gums or they didn't make one when they found mr. so i should be back by or within a go to a short break break. we'll continue our discussion and some real new stay with our ah ah, i just want to go through, i'm john that a little about money laundering person to ask you to see this and this is a good start. well, we have our 3 banks all set up here. maybe something in europe, something in america, something overseas. in the cayman islands, you never know all these banks are complicit in their club piper. so we just have to be mccall. hey, i'm ready to do some. there is my laundry. okay, let's see how we did. well, we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for safety. oh, beautiful jewelry. and how about like the aut

of georgia. and i definitely are to join now by ross moves andres, and he is a member of the european parliament for the german green party. he's also been vocal in his support for the pride march in tbilisi. it's good to have you on the program with me tonight. i'd like to draw our viewers attention to what you posted earlier today on twitter. your tweet today said this, this is simply not acceptable fund ally and joseph burrell should call the georgia authorities to protect the tbilisi pride to protest for equality and human rights as a fundamental right. if georgia wants to be a european partner, they should act hash tag, tbilisi pride, $21.00. are you expecting the european union to do something here? well, 1st of all, let me say at thanks for having me and it's good that you are taking this up in your program. we what we could see today and simply see at the price is quite hurtful and painful, not just for me, but for the o. l t t i community across the whole world. and from my perspective,

the doj is picking on georgia. they are not looking at what they do in new york or new jersey or delaware. we have more opportunities, more days of early voting than any of those states. >> there's a reality of this. before georgia passed anything, they bought the domain name jim crow 2.0. they were basing a lot of the stuff on what was originally introduced, which was unnecessary. the reality is that they would raise money off of this whatever was passed. they were going to say it's terrible and oppressive. they filed the motion to dismiss yesterday. the filing of the law, they filed the lawsuit three days after the act failed. this is about fundraising and politics. every side keeps escalating this and politicizing it. somebody has been saying, we have to stop weaponizing this. >> both sides are doing it. is it doing serious damage to americans confidence in their electoral system? >> it has damaged confidence. it goes back to bush v gore. it got ramped up in 2016 when president trump won. they said it was russia

we believe that the main enemy, for the future of georgia government and georgia not charged. they are feeding those by rights movements which have every election time. every major political parties are making common public statements. they know that the best way to collect well so yeah i.

mlb moved the game because of georgia's new voting laws. noah pran ski went to atlanta to see if the move did anything to effect the voting rights conversation. >> reporter: the braves not being able to host the all-star game this year. how did that emotionally feel? >> it's whole bunch of things it didn't do. and once it hit that national narrative, it was like an out of control freight train and couldn't stop it. >> brent raffensperger has a thing about setting the record straight. >> president trump did not carry the state of georgia. what he said was not correct. >> reporter: but the georgia republican is pushing back against democrats this time in a claim his state's new election law will suppress votes. the outrage back in march led the all star came from georgia to colorado. >> deciding there will be no absentee ballots under rigid circumstances, this is gigantic. >> it was an example of people not checking out and actually reading the bill. and they listened to the national media that was telling people one thing, but that's not exa

we here in georgia have an outreach arm called team agriculture georgia that's specifically aimed to provide outreach to beginning and underserved producers in the state and convenes various arms of usda, from nrcs to rural development to f.f.a. to engage all of them collectively and provide direct outreach. i think some of the challenges with that are certainly funding. it's not just adding additional work to folks on the ground in a are already working really hard and really dedicating funding to, you know, ensure that outreach is effective. of course, this past year has been really difficult for the in-person engagement. those opportunities are really invaluable. mr. lawson: thank you. madam chair, before i yield back, i'll share the almanac with you because it might be before your time. [laughter] chair plaskett: i am not even going to respond to you. [laughter] thank you so much, mr. lawson. ms. cooper, may i ask, the program you talked about in georgia that assists underserved areas, is that an organization that was created by the state or by farmers themselves? and how is that

regulations that left georgia with more flexible early voting and more flexible absentee voting then many in new york. they were insanely called jim crow two point now. what nonsense. -- jim crow 2.0, what nonsense. democrats are starting a moral panic that was complete and totally false. it was a shameless ever to manufacture an air of crisis that helped democrats ram their takeover goes through the congress. the senate rejected all of the bad ideas. the made up outrage had to be cranked up even higher. even higher. this week, state legislators from texas decided to grab some beer, hop on a private plane and flee the state in what they are pretending is some great moral crusade. in reality, they have just come to snap so please, bask in the limelight and tell senate democrats to take our elections. this outrage is completely phony. the texas legislature was going to consider bills that would expand the minimum hours of early voting. making them provide 12 hour days of early voting and making it even easier for voters to fix mistakes on mail-in ballots so their votes would actually c

without the new georgia voting bill, we wouldn't know about any of this but tonight, atlanta, georgia, is not the only place facing scrutiny. an election audit in maricopa county in arizona is happening. it's also turning up the shocking results. according to the arizona senate president, "companies hired by the legislature to review the election results came up with a different number of ballots then maricopa county officials." tonight we don't know the exact discrepancy, as the audit is now ongoing. but this has to be concerning ag development for everybody that wants integrity and elections. integrity of our elections, confidence in election results, it is paramount to the survival of our great republic. i often cite several measures that all states should adopt. voter identification, signature verification, chain of custody integrity, voter rolls being updated for every election, and most states have statutory language that partisan observers be allowed to watch of the vote count, all political sides, they should watch the count from start to finish. audits and investigations also

>> definitely, georgia is probably a majority conservative society. but there are also some people -- no one will tl in georgia a politician, will never say, something like we love putin or the kremlin. they will always hide the sentiment behind anti-western messages. like lgbt rights ruin our tradition, something like that. there is probably some part of society who believe lgbt rights -- [indiscernible] laura: reporting from georgia. britain's prime minister says england is on track to lift the majority of its covert restrictions on july the 19th. mean social distancing and mask wearing will go away. boris johnson says he wants people to make their own decisions on covid. rescue efforts every started following the overnight demolition in miami. explosives were used to bring down the building afr emergency services became concerned about instability. three more bodies have been recovered, bringing the known death toll to 27. more than 100 are still missing. to india, an alarming number of doctors have been attacked by family members in patients who s

we are going to the state of georgia and we are doing that to make the point that this is as concerted effort from people who are trying to limit the right to vote with the bill that passed in georgia but it is also going to be a concerted effort in this place to protect people's right to vote. and with that i'm honored to turn it over to the chief author of the for the people act, senator merkley and then we will hear from the rest of us, not all of us. >> president johnson declared that the right to vote is the most powerful instrument ever declared or devised by man. in order to break down injustice. and who would imagine that here in the year 2021, we would be still in this fight to defend the right to vote. we thought the voting rights act of 1965 had put this to rest. that all of america said we understand the foundation, the pulsating heart of a democracy is the ability of people to vote in fair and free elections but today the republicans in texas are not standing for justice. they're not standing for their freedom and right to vote . they are working to tear down that ability.

earlier today, i spoke with georgia u.s. senator of georgia, john ossoff about the role social media plays in stoking the fears about the coronavirus vaccine. >> misinformation is dangerous and there's a lot of misinformation is out there. i think politicians should be cautious about demanding certain forms of speech and expression be removed from public platforms. my principle concerns about social media platforms are route r ed in their invasion of privacy. i try to build support across the aisle for a new privacy legislation to ensure that the data of american citizens is not exploited against our will. right now, using these platforms, they learn so much about us, who we are, what we like, where we go, who we spend our time with, that data is exploited and monetized and we lose control of that. i think we need strong privacy legislation at the federal level to protect our privacy. >> you've heard critics of the president's comment saying that the white house should not be interfering with private enterprise. what's your

she's also the chair of the georgia democratic party. congresswoman, first maybe just a little bit of level setting here on what the situation is. there's a county board of elections and there is someone who has the job of managing those elections that the county board appoints, rick baron, is that right? >> the county board of electioning is comprised of democrats and republicans appointed by each county democratic party and republican party and then you have staff that actually run the election system, which are hired and come out of the fulton county board of commissioners' budget. so it's an independent body that is running the election. these are career bureaucrats. these are people who have signed up to protect elections, to administer elections across the board. >> and so one of those people has become a real target of ire of state republicans, rick baron. i want to just give the argument here, the sort of -- the argument that actually fulton county, independent of the big lie and these accusations of fraud which are ridiculous ha

you know, let me give you the example georgia nationalists. they decide that the, this is the moment to take the land from the minority just from their projects, from their seconds. they're terrible. first president gums have tried to do it and she failed. and i must, there was at the west change because the west had the gods to condemn gums that they didn't make one when they found mr. so i should be back with the ah finance guy. when customers go buy, you reduce the price didn't help. well, reduce the lower cutting, but what's good for food market? it's not good for the global economy. ah, is your media a reflection of reality? the in a world transformed what will make you feel safer? type relation or community? are you going the right way or are you being direct? what is truth is breaking in a world corrupted? you need to this end to join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah ah! welcome back across all things considered. peter, this is the home edition and to remind you were discussing some real news. ah, ah, okay, let's go back t

of georgia to sign or join. now by ross moves andries and he is a member of the european parliament for the german green party, he's also been vocal in his support for the pride march in tbilisi. it's good to have you on the program with me tonight. i'd like to draw our viewers attention to what you posted earlier today on twitter. your tweet today said this, this is simply not acceptable fund ally and joseph burrell should call the georgia authorities to protect the tbilisi pride to protest for equality and human rights is a fundamental right if georgia wants to be european partner, they should act hash tag tbilisi pride 21. are you expecting the european union to do something here? well, 1st of all, let me say, thanks for having me and it's good that you are taking this up in your program. we what we could see today and simply see at the price is quite hurtful and painful, not just for me, but for the old l g t i community across the whole world. and from my perspective, this is not just junction issue. it's a

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