in arizona and florida they'll be kicking people off the absentee voting list, in arizona, iowa, florida kentucky utah they'll be expanding voter purges, kicking people off the voter rolls entirely. in florida, arkansas, new hampshire in wyoming there is harsher, stricter narrow voter i.d. requirements. and yes, in florida and georgia they're banning water or any food or snacks for anyone in line no matter how long the line gets, no matter how hot it is that the, no matter how old the waiting voter is. 18 different states, 30 different voter restrictions law and counting, those are past, those are laws. and the effort to find a way to stop it, to try to put a floor under voting rights nationwide so no state can restrict voting rights below that nationwide floor to hold them up, that fight still hinges on the for the people act, which has passed the house and it's stuck in the senate, is still stuck in the senate because of uniform republican opposition to it and the hope the republicans are getting in that effort from democratic senator joe manchin. as we've been reporting for the past c

let me put up some of the arizona's great reporting from over the holiday. arizona republican chair kelly ward's pressure campaign with hickman, the gop official who refused to pick up trump's call, began in earnest on november 7th as votes were still being counted. ward complained election observers were unable to see. after hickman pressed for specifics ward responded, quote, we need you to stop the counting. days later on november 13th, she wrote, we want you guys to do the right thing, prove to millions of arizona voters that the maricopa vote is legit. don't try to simply tell us that the recorder and elections department say it's fine. prove it to arizona and to america. you have all the power you need to make it happen. the pressure campaign is clearly coming from the ex-president. i think he bragged about it. i think he flew some of the officials from michigan in, and it really does sort of undergird the point that save for a handful of local election officials, a lot of them republicans, we could have had a very different outcome in november. >> yea

this is not new in arizona, either. i mean, we have seen accusations, false accusations in a lot of different places for a while. the reality is that, as we continue to improve our systems and protect the voters of arizona, and expand the way that people vote, the access they have, some people will be afraid of what's happen. it's the fear in the far right, the fear in some extremists, that fear is manifesting into this willingness to believe just about anything for comfort. it's too bad, because americans, particularly arizonaarizonaens, not a fearful bunch. most of what has been spouted out is just not true, and it's unfortunate. >> you used your twitter feed to stay away from the rally yesterday, but as you are campaigning around the state, you're talking to people who still choose to follow trump. do you discover they have genuine concerns? or are they more part of this trumpian fan base? >> there's genuine concerns. donald trump was the president of the united states for a kermit. >> a lot of the interactions i've

joining us is arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, also a candidate for governor in arizona. madam secretary, first, is there no recourse to regain possession of these ballots so that they're not moved again and potentially tampered with? >> well, the recourse would be between the maricopa county and the senate, who has ordered this audit. but, really, you know, this is exactly why we have been fighting against this from the get-go. these are not experts. they're making this up as they go along. it is not a real audit. they don't know what they're doing and they're not taking their role right now as custodian of these ballots and equipment seriously. that's very clear from everything we've seen. >> and, in fact, your ability to do your job is being hampered by -- i want to read from the npr reporting on this. arizona republicans stripped some election power from democratic secretary of state, arizona republicans have stripped the secretary of state's office, currently held by a democrat, of the right to defend the state's election laws in court or choose not to. the change en

lesko of arizona. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from arizona. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. desaulnier will vote no on the lesko amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from missouri seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. graves of the state of missouri, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. graves will vote aye on amendment number 29. the speaker pro

they just upheld your law there in arizona. how far will your case go, do you think, as precedent as other states raise this issue? >> well, i'm very proud of the fact that i personally order that case brnovich vs. the dnc. the department of justice the left is trying to take on undermine election measures. the state court said ensure the integrity of their elections and confidence in their results. the left is cherry picking states. they don't go amp states connect cut, new york, all that's northeast states that actually have more restrictive laws arizona does. so, really, todd, they are being so hypocritical and i want electric actually inconsistent. if the democrats want to do something about voter and franchising more voters go after democratic strongholds with more restrictive rules and less early voting than states like arizona? jillian: well, to the point that you just made, go ahead and take a listen to what democratic panelists have to say about this. >> now you are forcing minorities to decide whether or not they are

"an audit of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in arizona in the 2020 election. we are concerned about your company's role in this highly unusual effort given cyberninjas' lack of experience. reports the company engaged in sloppy and insecure practices that compromised the integrity of ballots and voting equipment and were questioned by the u.s. justice department. and evidence that you and aol individuals funding the audit have sought to advance the big lie of debunked voter fraud allegations about the 2020 presidential election. americans' right to vote is protected by the constitution. it is the cornerstone of our democratic system of government. the committee seeks to determine whether the privately funded audit conducted by your company in arizona protects the right to vote or is instead an effort to promote baseless conspiracy theories, undermine confidence in america's elections and reverse the results of a free and fair election for partisan gain." what do you really mean? the so-called audit in arizona in which the republicans in the state legislature hi

i've been talking about arizona and pennsylvania. but you know this well. this kind of nonsense is actually going on in michigan as well. >> it most unfortunately is. our legislature has been considering legislation for the last few months. there's been efforts to have similar activities to what's going on in arizona. they have not been successful to date. those efforts have been unsuccessful. there has been no evidence of any kind of conspiracy or falsehood. there are definitively just by many of the other states trying to make it harder in this state. i fear that they may be successful before it ends. >> i get the motivations are sinister, the problem i'm seeing is i'm talking to republicans, mainstream normal republicans who i don't think are subject to conspiracy theories who say the goal here is to make voting safer and more accessible. it's the language the arizona republicans are using, it's the language that the law firm representing pennsylvania republicans are using, that this is men to improve and make voting more robust. in michigan, you have a

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now there are no good options for this audit here in arizona. it was -- first of all, it was unnecessary. our republican county board of supervisors, which is 4-1 republican conducted two audits using election assistance commission approved companies, bipartisan commission, non-partisan professional companies two audits confirmed we had a fair election here in maricopa county. it was no purpose to begin with but since it's been a conclusion in search of evidence and now that no evidence of fraud or error has been detected, they've taken to inventing statistics and facts made up out of thin air about more ballots received than requested, which of course is thoroughly debunked. there is no good resolution for this. when i started, there is no good that can come out of this. >> here is the thing, when this audit and, you know, i put the quotes around it, when this is done, whatever it's done, it been going on and on and still goes on and on and there is an outcome and what chris said is powerful. you can go off the cliff or jump off the train going

it is corruption for the democrats without the open and a complete lie now first off the arizona gop had a historic victory in the supreme court. [applause] so think god with election security lives in arizona so hopefullyha which is all we expect to fight tooth and nail for local control that we have to be reunited as conservatives and republicans to make sure every election is free and fair and we win. this is a complete lie from biden on down if you have any election reform we are racist and trying to oppress voters it is a complete lie. we have to stand up and say democrats are lying. voter id is not racist. it is common sense. [applause] preventing ballot harvesting is not racist it is common sense. preventing illegal immigrants from voting is not racist it ist common sense that your direct corrupt politicians act to make sure in a free and fair election we will when. [applause] >> our goal is maximum participation in zero fried not a thousand dollars here but zero fried democrats cultivating they don't like racist. the filibuster is racist. right? even though biden many used it

on and off flooding conditions in arizona throughout next seven days. on my forecast in san francisco, 60s coming back next several days. morning fog, afternoon sunshine. >> and through the inland valleys, low 80s, then 90s sunday and also on monday. gold medal winning, i think the next two days in that forecast. >> for sure. >>> the start of the new school year is right around the corn corner for many students. we'll show you how you can contribute to students in need. >>> nbc bay area and telemundo has partnered to get backpacks with school supplies to students in need. >> chris chmura shows us. >> reporter: the hallways are empty, but not for long. kid also flood the campus in t, eager for the homecoming. but it's bittersweet. she says 94% of her students are economically disadvantaged. their families live paycheck to paycheck. in a normal year, getting students the basic school supplies is hard. during the pandemic even tougher. >> there's a need for support. >> reporter: family giving tree says cambridge isn't alone. hundreds of thousands of kids a

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the so-called, audit, and arizona in which republicans in the state legislature labeled the script cyber ninjas, which appears to be this guy dug, -- we it's lived for months now at this intersection of clown show ridiculousness, and actual consequential threat to american democracy. because the whole thing is aimed at, essentially, undoing the presidential u.s. result in the state. they are, thereby, undermining americans faith and the credibility in the finality of our election results. but now, based on this letter released by the oversight committee tonight sent to that ups store in florida, we know this fake audit is the subject of a new congressional investigation. the oversight committee wants to know about all the weird stuff that doug logan has been doing to the arizona ballots, like shining ultraviolet light on them, or searching for a bamboo content in the ballots, because there's a conspiracy theory that the ballots were mailed in from asia. and they were overseen by joe gun and his own social media posts about it being rigged against donald trump and trump must have gotten 2

it's still in full swing in arizona. we're expecting them to announce their supposedly scandalous results sometime soon. republicans even now are moving to also do it in wisconsin, also in pennsylvania, also in georgia. even also in oklahoma where trump won anyway by almost 30 points but they're also must of been democratic fraud. and his remarks today, president biden turned toward voting rights advocates have been getting desperate to hear from him. a full-throated call to acts and protect voting rights nationally in washington, which is the only way to stop the state by state devastating attacks on voting rights that republicans are not pursuing all across the country. watch. >> last month, republicans opposed even debating, even considering the for the peoples act. they stand united to protect the sanctity of the vote. we must pass before the people act. it's a national imperative. we must also fight the john lewis voting rights advancement act to restore and expand. restore and expand voting and prevent voter suppre

the court ruled 6-3 to allow arizona to keep stricter voting laws in place. the state will be able to ban ballot harvesting and discard ballots people cast in the wrong precinct. the courts more liberal justices were furious with the decision. justice a lot are kagan issuing a 41 page dissent, arizona as republican governor is praising. >> reporter: we want to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat. if president biden wants to focus on election integrity maybe he should begin in new york city where they are having all kinds of problems. >> reporter: speaking of president biden he was less celebratory and more critical in his reaction saying he was deeply disappointed in the court's ruling and that the court has done severe damage to the voting rights act. the court struck down a california law requiring nonprofit disclose who their donors are. conservative activists are thrilled with the decision saying california was trying to limit free-speech. >> our first amendment rights are more secure now today than they were yesterday going into this decision. that is

the certification stopped when they got to arizona. host: of course when the select committee does meet, which could begin as early as later this month after the july 4 recess, c-span will be your source of covering the select committee. if you are listening on c-span radio, we are asking should republicans serve on this committee? speaker pelosi making the announcement yesterday of her choices of democrats and one republican, liz cheney. she explained the mission and the priority moving forward. speaker pelosi: it is important for you to know what our purpose is for this. that is the findings of the legislation speak to the testimony for the director of the fbi when he basically said there were more deaths on domestic terrorism then from global terrorism in our country. the department of homeland security with concerns that are out there. all of these institutions talking about -- i hate to go there and it's what they had said in terms of white supremacy , anti-semitism, islamophobia. all of these attitudes that have contributed to wh

the whole arizona audit circus was meant to last a few weeks, we are now four months. in the senators say that the new batch of subpoenas that -- they're just gonna keep on looking. this thing is gonna go on forever so that donald trump and his allies can keep pointing to it and say proof of all the fraud is coming, it's just around the corner. and it's spreading. in wisconsin, the republican chair of the assembly elections committee is gathering up for her own arizona audit. she doesn't just won a forensic audit, she wants a cyber forensic audit. we don't know what that is but i'm sure that it is much fancier than the regular audit. this is how a wisconsin we republican made a pilgrimage -- this is on top of the investigation initiated by the republican speaker of the wisconsin assembly who wired some ex cops to dig into the 2020 election results for him under the watchful supervision of a republican former wisconsin supreme court justice who became a stop the steal activist after the election. and there's also the audit of ballots in, wisconsin being carried out by a

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biden ganÓ el estado de arizona. paradÓjicamente el diario the washington post reporta que de todo el dinero de donald trump no ha dedicado nada a pagar ese recuento. esos recuentos tiene la intenciÓn de intimidar a funcionarios y votantes. >> es antidemocrÁtico, se deberÍa ampliar para que el mayor nÚmero de personas tuvieran el acceso al derecho. pablo: arizona tiene frontera con mÉxico y donald trump volviÓ a criticar a la administraciÓn de biden por su polÍtica migratoria. dijo que Él contuvo es inmigraciÓn y que ahora el paÍs estÁ inundado de indocumentados. biden dijo que la polÍtica migratoria de donald trump era inhumanidad y hay hasta ilegal. el ex presidente volviÓ a tomar crÉdito por desarrollar la vacuna contra el covid. la pandemia resurgen todo el paÍs, en especial en estado de gobernadores republicanos. >> si son del partido provida, ahora tienen que fomentar pÚblicamente que se utilice la vacuna. pablo: hay una cosa que los seguidores de donald trump quieren saber, si se postularÁ o

this hour we have reporters in germany and arizona covering that crisis, in oregon and d.c. covering the infrastructure debate, and in mississippi and california covering the dangerous spread of coronavirus. in fact, that is where we will start. nbc's allison barber is outside a hospital in jackson, mississippi, where they are starting to see a rise in children hospitalized with covid. las vegas an indoor mask mandate is back in america's second largest city and i want to bring in dylan byers and dr. patel. let's start in mississippi, one of the least vaccinated states in our country and now children make up 7% of icu covid patients statewide there. what are you hearing from folks on the ground about the crisis? >> reporter: yeah, the numbers are rising here. they're rising quickly. that's what's giving a lot of doctors concern is the rate at which they're seeing these numbers really start to pick up. we are outside of a children's hospital. it's part of a larger medical system. one of the largest in this state. they say they have seen hospitalizations pick up across all age

that was part of the arizona republic's online post. >> it's rudy giuliani. i was very happy to see that there's going to be forensic audit of the machines and i really wanted to talk to you about it a bit. the president wanted me to give you a call. all right? thank you. give me a call back. i would really appreciate it. thank you. >> hey, clint. it' it's kelly ward. i just talked to president trump and he's -- he would like me to talk to you. and also, see if he needs to give you a call to discuss what's happening on the ground in maricopa. give me a call back, when you can. thanks. bye. >> so, who is clint? clint hickman, at the time, was the chair of the board of supervisors in maricopa county. a republican. he says he never returned those calls, or ones from the white house switchboard operator, with requests to call back former-president trump. and i want to give you the timeframe of when these calls were made, in relation to that call that the then-president made to georgia's secretary of state, brad raffensperger, the infamous find-me-votes call. that

and as we speak they're continuing their insane audit in arizona, where they've hired a firm that has zero background or expertise in elections >> the privatized republican recount of the 2020 presidential election results in arizona's most populous county, maricopa county, is now entering its second week. here's what it looks like from inside the lovely veterans memorial coliseum in phoenix, where this sort of dangerous and farcical enterprise is being undertaken by the republican controlled arizona state senate. who used their power to subpoena more than 2 million ballots just from this county, just from a democratic county. and then they handed them over to a private security firm called cyber ninjas that has no experience in elections and whose ceo, through his now deleted twitter account, extensively retweeted lies about joe biden stealing the election. >> seth: that's their name, the cyber ninjas that sounds like the name of a bowling team at a child's birthday party if you just told me the name without any context, i'd guess cyber ninjas was some sort of hot now toy you have to

let's find out what this means not just for arizona, but also for the rest of the country. fox news chief legal correspond, anchor of "fox news @ night," shannon bream joins us this evening. good evening, shannon. >> good evening, bret. the court wrapped up its term today with two contentious 6-3 decisions along ideological lines as the public pressure on justice breyer to retire heats up. >> at the national debate over state election laws rages, the supreme court upheld two key provisions of arizona's election framework. opponents say it's aimed at suppressing minority voters. arizona discards ballots when voters cast them in the wrong precinct and bands ballot harvesting or allowing a third-party to collect and deliver someone else's vote. the majority found that neither violated section two of the voting rights act and that the ballot harvesting ban "was not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose." in her dissent, justice kagan took aim at the majority, accusing them of rewriting the law "in order to weaken a statute that stands as a minute to america's greatness

experience inng arizona will be normal for other regions iner the country. 's there are some great lessons to be learned. so first of all our buildings are built that this is a hot climate all built a central air and then to understand we have to provide for comfort but also the structures as well looking at public transit we make sure it is shaded or will be shaded. the infrastructure is already there for some extent and normal way we approach it is very normal so with playgrounds you have the covering to protect from extreme heat so my advice is other municipalities learn from what we done in the region toeg address it. that said we have a long way to go in arizona to make sure we are keeping people safe. the other areas the government could be helpful is to formulate these regional working groups not to be in that competitiveve environment so working with cross purposes those areas within wine region that political will of heat. thank you. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman for five minutes. >> i have no questions and i yield my time. >> thank you you

justices issuing a ruling on arizona's voting restrictions. how the decision could effect challenges to other voting laws across the country. >>> news tonight about the massive fireworks explosion during a police sting. more than a dozen people hurt. homes, businesses and cars damaged. >>> the fourth of july getaway under way tonight. gas prices at their highest level of the year and climbing. >>> and the former astronaut trainee and aviation pioneer, after a 60-year wait and at the age of 82, she's about to become the oldest person ever to fly into space. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us on this thursday night. i'm linsey davis, in for david. we begin with the new legal jeopardy for the trump organization and its chief financial officer, accused of compensating top executives off the books to avoid paying taxes in what prosecutors call a sweeping and audacious illegal payment scheme over 15 years. cfo allen weisselberg, one of the trump organization's longest serving and most loyal employee s, a stunning sight as he arrived

grijalva of arizona will vote yea on h.r. 1664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. underwood: as the member designated by mr. rush of illinois, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.r. 1664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from connecticut seek recognition? mrs. hayes: as the member designated by ms. wilson of florida, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that ms. wilson will vote yes on h.r. 1664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by congresswoman grace meng, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that congresswoman meng will vote yea on h.r. 1664. as the member designated by congressman horsford, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that congressman horsford will vote yea on h.r. 1664. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated b

the arizona republic reports hickman's phone rang about 8:30 p.m. on new year's eve while he was on a date with his wife and friends in north central phoenix. he didn't recognize the number carrying washington d.c.'s area code and let it go to voice mail. hickman quickly listened to the message. the white house switchboard wanted him to call back so he could talk to the president he called in an interview with the arizona republic. hickman did not return the call and later deleted the voice mail. trump encouraged him to find enough votes to reverse trump's narrow loss there. hickman recalled listening to the leaked audio of that hour-long phone call after "the washington post" and other media outlets published the recording. i was horrified, hickman said. that same night at 9:22 p.m. approaching midnight in washington, his phone buzzed again. it was the same area code. he let it go to voice mail again. here is that voicemail from the white house operator on january 3rd. >> hello, sir, this is the white house operator. i was calling to let you know t

that's something arizona's attorney general argued. >> we want to make sure everyone has want ability to err exercise their franchise but we want to make sure everyone has confidence in the process and they repect the results and that's what these laws are designed to do. >> reporter: liberal justices said the decision undermines the voting rights act because laws like arizona's can be a barrier. president biden said he was deeply upon disappointed in the decision and called on congress to pass new legislation. legislation. at the same time, his justice department is suing one statement, georgia, saying its new voting law intentionally discriminates against black voters. the decision today may make that lawsuits more difficult, and as states pass more restrictive voting laws the message from the justices is clear. >> this is another cipe from the supreme court that these are going to be quintessential political: left to the political branches of the state and it's going to be increasingly difficult to challenge them in court. >> reporter: now, on this last day of the supreme court's t

in arizona, they opened their doors with no mask regulations in place decision up to parents. jennifer lewis' sixth grader kellan is too young to be vaccinated and lives in a multi-generational household. she decided he will wear a mask in school. so you wish there was a mask mandate in place? >> i do. yeah, i wish there was. >> i don't want to get sick and bring it home to my mom and my grandma. >> reporter: arizona seeing a rise in daily infections. in maricopa county alone, daily cases have increased nearly 75% in the last week. the state among eight where lawmakers have banned districts from enforcing mandatory mask wearing, despite urging from the american academy of pediatrics. still, families like the o'briens say they welcome being able to make their own decisions about their first grader addison. >> if we're asked to wear masks, great. if we don't have to wear masks, great. and as long as everybody's okay with that, we're okay with that. >> reporter: and, david, arizona's governor also banning school districts from mandating quarantine for potentially exposed students

arizona could not point to any voter fraud to justify its challenge laws. a study of the 834 million battle cast in elections between 2000 and 2014 found only 35 credible allegations of in-person voter fraud. by contrast there are volume nows examples of proliferating racial discrimination in voting during the same period. in short, this unscrupulous decision disregards the purpose of section two and, it erektsz an indefensiible bury dwrer for plaintiffs simply because a majority of the court fundamentally disagrees with congress's use of its enforcement powers to legislate broadly to protect the right to vote from racial discrimination. it is nothing short of an attempt the rewrite and weaken section two, resulting in incalculable costs to our democracy. since the disabling of section five, section two has been the primary defense between discriminatory vote denial and abridgement n. 2012 alone ldf filed five cases under section two and two more this year. in the first five years following shelby an unprecedented 61 lawsuits were filed under section two. i

council of arizona in 2013. he referred to the broad and comprehensive scope of congress is election clause power. and the remainder of my testimony i will provide background on what this means and in particular, how it has been construed to the supreme court. the elections clause, the text of which met him chairwoman read earlier allows states to describe rules the conduct of congressional elections. only in so far that congress declines to preempt state legislative choices. i was justice scalia explain in arizona versus i cta, this grant of congressional power to congress was insurance against the possibility that states the try to undermine the union by either failing to have procedures for congressional elections or having some are inadequate. the state legislatures otherwise could at any moment annihilated, the federal government by neglecting to provide for a choice of a person to it minister affairs. congress has exercised its broad powers to regulate elections repeatedly through the 1842 portion. post-ci

and as schools in chandler, arizona, right there re-open today, the renewed debate across this country over masks in schools. the american academy of pediatrics, as we reported here, now recommending masks for all children and adults in school even those who are vaccinated to protect everyone.s you'll hear right here tonight, are divided. and the numbers tonight, 186 million americans have received at least one dose of vaccine, 65% of people 12 years and older. abc's whit johnson leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, the coronavirus roaring back in the u.s. daily cases tripling in the last month to more than 35,000 per day. >> this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. >> reporter: and growing concern for unvaccinated kids. more than 23,000 new pediatric cases in the last week. nearly double the number reported at the end of june. in georgia, the family of wyatt gibson says he was a healthy 5-year-old before he contracted covid, strep, and staph. passing away on friday. his father, a sheriff's deputy, writing on facebook, i have lost my best friend. across the country, nearly 22,

ward targeted arizona election officials with a pressure campaign, according to "the arizona republic." but inlike in georgia where the gop secretary of state recorded a call with the president, the keymar -- key maricopa county election official refused to speak to trump. ron brownstein joins us. why are these latest revelations significant to you? >> happy fourth to you and everybody watching. i think there are two real important conclusions that come out of these revelations in arizona. one is that we simply do not know all the ways in which donald trump used and abused his power as president. it just underscores the need for a more comprehensive understanding of what he did in office. and all of the ways in which he may have gone beyond the proper boundaries of the use of presidential power, especially given that he may ask the country to restore it to him again in a little over three years. i was talking to our colleague john dean a couple of weeks ago for a story i was writing. he noted that when nixon left office, we had so much of a better idea of everything that had happened

he found arizona to have had many alternative ways of getting your vote counted. he also said that the disparate impact approach, provisions that can be shown statistically to have a greater impact on minority voters, this impact being the way that fair housing cases and other kinds of discrimination cases are sometimes evaluated, that was not appropriate for this type of case. he thought that the -- she was much more concerned about discriminatory intent than discriminatory impact. he said it was important to look at the context that voting regulations have in the 1980's when the voting rights act was modified to update section two to its current language. keeping in mind what the voting provisions were then, that was a time when people tended to cast votes in person more so than now. it was also a factor to keep in mind. all of those things taken together, he said means that arizona pot regulations are permissible. dissenters took a different view. justice kagan said the totality of circumstances you should be looking at are the totality of certain circumstances

pedro: este aÑo ha sido uno de los mÁs mortales en el desierto de arizona. inmigrantes han logrado sobrevivir gracias a un centro de llamadas al 911 ubicado en una ciudad fronteriza. >> cuando hacen la llamada, la antena receptora de mÉxico agarra la llamada. pedro: este centro de llamadas de emergencia en sonora, mÉxico, es donde mÁs llamadas llegan de migrantes perdidos en el Área del desierto. >> en cuanto obtenemos las coordenadas, las proporcionamos a la patrulla fronteriza para que hagan el rescate. pedro: por lo menos el 70% de las llamadas de emergencia que reciben en este lugar, son de personas que intentan cruzar de manera ilegal a estados unidos. >> llevamos alrededor de 1087 reportes. 1970 personas han sido rescatadas en estados unidos. pedro: ese centro cuenta con sofisticada tecnologÍa para localizar a los inmigrantes. pueden compartir imÁgenes con los agentes migratorios para un rescate exitoso. para tener un mayor conocimiento de lo que ocurre con los migrantes en el desierto, la mayorÍa de estos operadores de mÉxico son capacitados p

he found arizona to have had many alternative ways of getting your vote counted. he also said that the disparate impact approach, provisions that can be shown statistically to have a greater impact on minority voters, this impact being the way that fair housing cases and other kinds of discrimination cases are sometimes evaluated, that was not appropriate for this type of case. he thought that the -- she was much more concerned about discriminatory intent than discriminatory impact. he said it was important to look at the context that voting regulations have in the 1980's when the voting rights act was modified to update section two to its current language. keeping in mind what the voting provisions were then, that was a time when people tended to cast votes in person more so than now. it was also a factor to keep in mind. all of those things taken together, he said means that arizona pot regulations are permissible. dissenters took a different view. justice kagan said the totality of circumstances you should be looking at are the totality of certain circumstances

it's not in arizona. it's not in california. the border is in every town in america. >> driven in part by president biden's promise to legalize america's undocumented population to betort will 8,000 migrants in june. >> it is quickly approaching a million for the year. and untrack to the highest in history. >> biden administration still says the border is closed. it eliminates any sense of credibility. either president biden or his administration has about anything under the president's more compassionate policy, most children and families will receive shelter and the notice to appear in court some time in the future. >> i don't see anything right now that shows any sign of slowing things down. >> if you want to come to the united states of america illegally all you have to do is present yourself anywhere along the border entry point you will get processed in with no issues whatsoever. >> officials multiple red states toured the border yesterday. >> there is a total free for all. and every single american should be beyond outrag

joining me is arizona congressman ruben. congressman, donald trump praising the arizona state senate for its audit of the election in maricopa county. >> i think the result will be so outrageous. you have already seen some of them come that they will go many steps further. is every one here fully understands the 2020 election was a total disgrace. it was the most corrupt. >> i'm curious what surprises you more. that is he is still singing his same old tired song or that the crowd is cheering so much? what kind of message is it all sending? >> the message is number one, donald trump is a loser. he's a sore loser. you have to be a pretty bad politician in order for you to lose as an incumbent president and he's not accepting that. unfortunately, i think his cult following is still dealing with that. secondly, it tells you this republican party is not a party of ideas. it's now a person, a cult of personality. they are just going to follow his lies all the way until the end. it's not working. last night, if anything, he lost mo

in arizona and thank you very much for being here. blake, what's at stake? blake: thank you, maria. everything is at stake in the 2022 and 2024 election. i really think if republicans don't win these elections, we lose the country forever because if you look around, the left and the democrats, they've taken control of almost every major institution in our country and they're very close to controlling it all and so if they win, they tell us what they are going to do, they will pass hr1 and federalize elections so no republican can ever win again and add new states to our union just so they can add more senators and control everything, so i really think the future of this country hangs in the balance. that's what's at stake in 2022. maria: yeah, speaking of elections, i want to ask you about the audit going on in arizona as well as your plan to rein in monopolies, we are rein in monopolies, we are taking with blake turns out deb's constipation with belly pain was actually ibs-c giving her grief. so she talked to her doctor because she w

this is rudy giuliani essentially saying the exact same thing in arizona. and what this tells me, victor, is this was part of a coordinated effort by donald trump and rudy giuliani to interfere with and overturn the election results in those two states and potentially elsewhere. these are crimes. let's be clear. it's a federal crime. it's a georgia crime, an arizona crime to try to convince an official to count votes that were not actually cast or not to count votes that were actually cast. this is serious stuff. we know the d.a. in georgia is investigating, and now we have to see whether the authorities, the prosecutors in arizona do the same thing. i think they ought to. >> the more we -- the more evidence that comes out and the more we hear about this pressure campaign to overturn donald trump's election loss, you realize the intestinal fortitude and steel spine it took for these local election officials to not return the call of the president of the united states or his attorney. and by the way, now, as we know, there are all of these laws in all of the

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