it's in basically states like louisiana and south carolina and georgia and florida, the southern states. and if that were to happen, we would see children losing another year of school. i need not tell you what happens to an eighth and ninth grader if they are out of school for two years. we cannot have continued education for our young people, to deliver by them without broadband. broadband to me is to the south today what electricity was in the 20th century. >> thank you so much, congressman, especially those important topics on education and health. i want to turn it over to commissioner stark. millions of americans don't have access to broadband either because it is not available or can't afford it. this is the case for black residents in the rural south. the emergency broadband benefit was developed to help families struggling to afford internet service during the covid-19 endemic, but it is only temporary. can you share your perspectives what lawmakers must address to expand internet to low-income americans? >> thank you, first of all for allowing me to be here today and we're all

in georgia, where the case rate has more than tripled in the past two weeks and schools are about to reopen, one metro atlanta county decided to start offering cash as an incentive. cnn's natasha chen joins me with more. >> reporter: ryan, the bad news is the number of new covid cases have been rising in the state of georgia. the good news is so has the vaccination rate. the seven-day average of new vaccination doses administered is up 85% since three weeks ago. one thing we're seeing that's working today at this site is that incentives work. they're giving out $50 pre-paid debit cards. we've seen lines of cars even before the event started at 8:00 a.m. today they've vaccinated more than 200 people. we talked to the very first person in line who showed up in a wheelchair. he arrived by public transit. i talked to him about the dangers of covid but here he is, talking about what really drove him to get here today. if you are unvaccinated, you're 25 times more likely to end up in the hospital or die from covid. >> right, right. i've been listening to all of that. but really, like i say

we know that in states like georgia that went for democrats not only in the presidential but any those senate races, state houses led by the gop are going to come back with a vengeance and try to silence the very voters who don't vote for their party, and that's why it's important for democrats to step up, pass something that mirrors the for the people act in the substance about combatting partisan gerrymandering. >> as well as dealing with -- in georgia where they're now replacing even some of those that are in those election commissions. >> yes. >> where they can nullify the vote. but i want to quickly address the new evidence against the former president in his attempt to overturn the election. new notes handed over to congress show trump instructing the justice department to lie to the american people, saying, quote, just say the the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. susan, what do these revelations tell you about what trump was trying to do in the days leading up to january 6th? >> he's very consistent. he has been trying to undermine and use our government against ou

i'm joined by georgia's lieutenant governor, jeff duncan. lieutenant governor, great to have you on. elected officials right now are split on whether to offer vaccine payouts to boost rates. we've heard that the white house is considering up to $100 to get people vaccinated. is this something that you and governor kemp would consider statewide? >> well, certainly if you look at the data, we're in the midst of a pretty significant wave that's beginning. and you know, i look back to the lessons learned from the early parts of this pandemic, and you know, those lessons learned were, you know, that -- try to leave the partisan battles to the side to make good decisions. and you know, for me the majority of folks i talk to that are not vaccinated just have a couple of questions. they have some concerns. you know, somebody last night at dinner told me they said, you know, i keep being told to talk to my health care provider. how do i call and ask a question about the vaccine? there is no vehicle for it. the push i'm making is that we try to flood

we also know the situation in georgia where he -- his folks told georgia election officials, find me 11,780 votes. so when you get this pattern over and over, that's evidence to prosecutors that this guy knew that he was doing something wrong and yet he kept doing it. >> could it also though be evidence, paul, of the fact that this former president didn't even know what he was doing, that, in fact, he was just so incredibly naive to believe these lies, right? you think about the phone call the president had with president zelensky that was a topic of the russia investigation in his impeachment trials obviously, and the way in which he talked about investigating hunter biden in that phone call, how these are related and whether or not that evidence can be used either for our against bringing a case against the former president when it comes to these phone calls with doj officials? >> yeah, you know, that's a great point, yasmin. again, i think that when we see this repeated conduct over and over, and it is not just that the president is making this request. it is that government offic

johnson from georgia for five minutes. rep. johnson: thank you to the chairman for holding this meeting and thank you for the witnesses. $5.9 trillion is a significant sum of money. the sum total of relief and job retention measures in the cares act. congress acted decisively during a once in a century pandemic, but our work is far from done. we are obligated to ensure relief aid arrives to the folks who need it most, especially black americans, communities of color, and low income groups. already in poorer health due to being without health care coverage, communities of color were essential workers who disproportionally bore the brunt of sickness, hospitalization and death due to covid 19 and who were exposed throughout the pandemic while enabling us to work from home. they are the people who have too often been underserved and un-served the federal government. your office has found fema's management of disaster relief grants and funds to be inadequate. you reported last year that improving fema's management of these grants wo

let's begin coverage in georgia where new coronavirus cases are up 230% right now. cnn's natasha chen is live dekalb county. one of the new hot spots for covid infections and the surge is already interrupted the start of the new school year at one school, more than 100 kids now in quarantine. bring us up to speed with the latest. >> reporter: right. so the charter school in atlanta started class last tuesday and within a couple of days, they had to inform families of more than 100 students to quarantine and that's because as of friday afternoon, they've had 14 positive cases. that's because they've been actually doing a lot of testing to detect these. employees of theirs required to get tested before the school started and must continue that weekly. students strongly encouraged to test, and so out of about 1900 tests done before tuesday, they detected some positive cases and then a few more after classes started. mostly affected is that sixth grade class. nearly 100 sixth graders in quarantine. eighth graders are the ones having to move classes online because the ei

rights advancement act, and understanding that it is not just about texas but we see it in arizona, in georgia, in florida and in a number of other places. and also, people are encouraged perhaps by the daylight that there is with senator manchin and the possibility of a negotiation to create legislation that's workable and can get enough support to get passed. >> but you're right, it is an incredibly important story which is why we here at msnbc for the last four or five weeks have incessantly been covering it because it has a national domino effect as well. this rally in austin, it is coming as the texas democrats, as you know, left their state. they are trying to block restrictive voting measures, but republicans have certainly been hammering away at them for leaving, including during a congressional hearing this week. do you, julian, have any concerns of the optics of lawmakers fleeing texas? do you think it might dilute the concerns of voter suppression? >> i think the lines have been drawn very, very clearly. the legislators seem to have been doing a good job of informing their own const

reporter: jessica, more than 200 people have come through to get vaccinated at this site in dekalb county, georgia, that's more than county officials expected. that's a good thing. there were people sort of skeptical in line about the vaccine but said it was the money being given out, $50 gift cards that brought them here. america is waking up to a new day of increased covid restrictions, president biden says we're likely to see more as cases of the highly contagious delta variant continue to rise. >> in all probability, by the way, had a good day yesterday, almost a million people got vaccinated, so i am hopeful people are beginning to realize ho how essential it is. >> they show the new rate of vaccinations the highest it has been in weeks. just under half the u.s. population is fully vaccinated. the fda says it is pulling in extra help to get covid-19 vaccines fully approved as quickly as possible to ease minds of those worried about vaccine safety. this comes as we learn more from the cdc about just how dangerous the delta variant is. the agency now says 74% of covid cases in one massachusetts

milbank wrote the half dozen lawmakers, including matt gates of florida, marjorie taylor greene of georgia, made explicit what has been more obvious by the day, they stand with those who attempted a violent coup. and house republican leaders held a news conference blaming january 6th on capitol police and particularly house speaker nancy pelosi. i mean, zerlina, how and why are they defending these people and trying to turn this around on nancy pelosi? >> well, they turn everything around on nancy pelosi. it's always going to be nancy pelosi's fault. before that it was hillary clinton. maybe they throw in aoc. any woman who has a strong opinion and values. the bottom line here is that the threat is still here. i think we have to go back to that point every time possible, because with the republicans elected in congress that, bay, marjorie taylor greene wasn't even in congress and apparently her election results were fine. just donald trump's were wrong. but i think that as long as you have folks like this in the congress that are placating what those insurrectionists, their violence was fo

they are taking the constitution power away from the secretary of state in georgia allowing people to your honor turn elections in texas. guess what, republicans instead of addressing the right to vote they want to turn critical race theory and not understanding or having any impetus of what it is. similar work on critical race theory says that race is a social construct. all of the things that sean just said are not involving critical race theory at all in slightest way and, indeed, critical race theory, ph.d and graduate law school level. red herring they use so they don't have to address voting rights and they don't have to address vaccines, they don't have to address the economic rebound that we are going through. it's a way to distract and divide people along racial lines and we have seen the same-old played many times. alicia: sean, parents across the country showing up in meetings because kids are coming home and hearing things that they are uncomfortable. not just graduate school level. >> middle schools, grade schools and high schools because the teacher unions are coming out

but we begin our coverage in georgia. cases there have exploded in recent days, and health officials say in the last two weeks ago, new cases have risen over 200%. natasha chen is at a vaccination drive in the atlanta area. obviously, there is a big push to get more people vaccinated right now. what are you seeing today? what are you hearing from people who are showing up to get vaccinated? >> reporter: well, jessica, it's clear that incentives actually work. because this is the largest number of people dekalb county has seen at recent vaccination events in the last month or so. that is partially because people are wanting the debit cards that are being given out. $50 debit cards for each person who gets a shot today. the first person in line that we talked to said he definitely came because of that. just now, they told us they reached 200 people vaccinated since this event started at 8:00 a.m. eastern time. we did also talk to some families who brought their young kids here. of course, you have to be 12 or older to get t

she's live at a vaccination site in dekalb county, georgia, with that story. natasha, what kind of incentives are being offered there, and are they working? >> well, boris and christi, this is billed as a back to school vaccination event, so they're giving out backpacks as well as $50 prepaid debit cards. i can tell you, the $50, that is working. because there were people lined up even before this event began. it's been going on for just about two hours now, and they have vaccinated about 100 people. that's definitely more interest than they've been seeing in the past, so something as simple as a gift card could be the trick here. the seven-day average of a new vaccination dose administered, that has also increased just as it has across the country, as you were saying here in georgia. it is 85% higher than it was three weeks ago. that average dose administered to people in the state here. so that is a positive sign. it is a race against time. it is also still a challenge convincing people to come here. we spoke to the first person in line today who actually sh

voting rights legislation passed in 2021, because you simply will not have free and fair elections in georgia or florida or texas, or more than a dozen other states that have already passed voter suppression legislation. so for the sake of our democracy, more than for any one party, we need to get this passed. and we need the president, to bishop barber's point, to make this his number one, undying, unyielding focus. it's the only way lbj got five voting rights act. it's exactly how president biden will get through the 2021 for the people act. let's see this through, put our eyes on the prize, until we win this fight and save our democracy. >> and jonathan. can i ask you a question before you start marching? >> yeah, go ahead. >> listen, listen, as beto said, this is bigger than just this moment. this is about democracy. and the same people that did the physical violent insurrection on january 6th have been leading a political policy insurrection in statehouses. the same people that have blocked living wages and blocked health care and blocked climate change are blocking and suppressing the v

look in georgia. republicans there are taking the first step toward taking over the elections process in fulton county which is home to atlanta, also the state's largest county, also mostly black. what they have done is request a so-called performance review of the top election official in fulton county, loug allowing the republicans to replace the election official with a temporary superintendent of their choosing who would then have full authority over vote counting apology places and staffing. that's the type of covert effort no amount of organizing by activists will be able to defeat. what's happening in texas is an overt attempt to make it difficult for black and brown voters to cast a ballot through restrictive election bills. organizers and religious leaders are tackling those republican led efforts head on. today marks the last leg of a march through texas where voting rights advocates such as beto o'rourke on the reverend dr. william barber led a group of protesters directly to the state capi

with me is hank johnson of georgia. he's a member of the house transportation and infrastructure and judiciary committees. thanks for being with us. how do you see this unfolding? we have bipartisan support for the part of the bill that you would have assumed we had bipartisan support for. the fixing of roads, bridges, public transport. we've got some problems on the much bigger bill that democrats are interested in. >> well, i tell you, thank you for having me this morning, ali. i think the fact that democrats control the house and the senate, though those -- that control is very slight. we do have the ability to deliver for the american people. we already delivered the american rescue plan which lifted our economy from the doldrums of another great recession. and we injected money into this economy which got people back to work, got our children back to school safely or at least gives them a chance of returning to school safely now. and put money into peoples pockets. and made an initial investment to rebuild america.

but in georgia, as an example, just 5.5% of georgia's $522 million intended to go to renters and landlords, because of backlog, and because of the documentation requirements for these renters to prove of their hardships here, just 5.5% of that $522 million has actually made it to renters and landlords and more than half of the states, nbc news has found, less than 10% of that federal funding has made it to renters to help because of the pandemic. which is at the very heart of the argument of those democratic lawmakers to extend that moratorium. this was a situation here that is a crisis that we should be expecting here in these days ahead. eviction notices are already on those doors of individuals here in just this last week. >> absolutely. when you think about, for example, that renter you were talking to whose rent went from $900 to $1,300, seemingly overnight, you can't afford an extra $400 a month, that's crazy, can't afford to move, that's even more expensive. what are you supposed to do? it's a very important issue and we're so glad you're covering it for us, vaughn hillyard, thank y

will turn out in huge numbers into thousands would you do because what they saw in georgia . host: that was william. this is tim in california. republican line. caller: best major candidate. kal em tim kalem. host: basil in ohio, independent line. caller: i am a 90-year-old person. i served in the korean war as a medic. a lot of experiences i've had. for me, the american public has to wake up. if you're concerned about your country, you have to become involved. you can't listen to other people tell you about what politics is. you have to be involved. however, the democratic party is no longer the democratic party. it has become the socialist communist party. republican party has become a bunch of wimps. it's up to the american public to become strong and to. i'm all for two term limits. host: as an independent, how do you get involved? caller: sometimes calling talk shows like this. sometimes going to the council meetings. the lead grounds within the city and where you live and in the county. host: as far as, what is the biggest issue where you live? caller: well north homest

we start this morning in dekalb county, georgia. natasha chen joins us live. it's where many experts are encouraging people to roll up their sleeves by offering incentives, right, natasha? >> reporter: yeah, boris. they're giving out prepaid gift cards today in hopes more people will come to this spot at a mall and get the shot especially as school districts in this area sometimes a bit early to make up for lost instruction time during the pandemic. in many places across the country, georgia is seeing a rising 7-day average new covid cases and that has a lot of people concerned. >> america's waking up to a new day of increased covid restrictions and president biden said we're likely to see more as cases of the highly contagious delta virus spreads. >> almost 1 million people got vaccinated yesterday. >> cdc data shows the rate of new vaccinations is the highest it's been in weeks. just under half the u.s. population is fully vaccinated. the u.s. is pulling in extra help to get it approved as quickly as possible to ease the minds of those worried about vaccine

we've seen these happen across the country, places like florida, places like georgia. here this morning it's in austin, texas. this morning we're going to see thousands of people show up. we're going to hear from beto o'rourke and bishop william barber and country legend willie nelson lending his voice to the cause. it feels like momentum is shifting in their direction. they feel like they have a leg up, when democrats come back, things will be different. our hill team is reporting that it's going to be a little bit of a scaled down approach if they have legislation come out of all of this. it's going to be focused voting access, same-day voting and voting registration. as you mentioned, guys, it's been hot out here, hot for the past 19 days. there are immediate availabilities happening every day. here's what one protester had to say about how it's too important to stay home. >> they're growing up in a state where it's already difficult to vote for too many of us. they understand the importance of, you know, making sure that we work to protect the vote, making sure tha

i have studied the texas bill, i have studied the georgia voting bill that has been in the news a lot. i think the liberal, mainstream media has mischaracterized both bills significantly mischaracterized both bills. both bills look to me like it would make it easier to vote and harder to cheat, which is what every law abiding legal american voter should want. with that, madam chair, i would like to yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from texas, mr. fallon. >> the gentleman from texas is recognized. >> i just want to clarify something. i just want to make sure. ms. thompson, was there a meeting held before the special session that took about a half a day that involved republicans and democrats trying to work out this bill? ms. thompson: there was. >> did you attend that meeting? ms. thompson: i did. >> ok. there is a special committee that was appointed to hear this bill, and are you on that committee? chairman and them are -- chairman andy muir talked about the concern that representative collier had about the mail-in ballots you used 20 years ago, your social security numb

mark kelly will not be helped by kamala harris and neither is senator warnock in georgia. >> this is the kind of weird thing we have right now. you have president biden whose governing like he's bernie sanders but he's not bernie sanders. there is no enthusiasm for him and kamala harris equally uninteresting but if you govern like you are bernie sanders go for broke. president biden should get rid of kamala harris and go with aoc, somebody who is interesting and will take the hits for governing like a crazy socialist so you might as well get the good benefit of that if you are going to take the bad as well. >> who would be hot if kamala harris lets democrats down and they feel their numbers are bad who would be -- who is up next? >> that is the truth, if aoc and Élan omar and the squad that is in the news all the time, making the splash or the big democrats other than them? can't think of any attorney sanders will run again because why not, the same people we've been talking about would be the challengers. brian: it has been a struggle to keep up the biden administration changing it

put coercive pressure on vice president mike pence to reject electoral college votes from arizona, georgia and pennsylvania, to proclaim a power no vice president ever exercised and doesn't exist in the constitution. and mike pence refused to do it. do you know what? they trashed the place and they entered and wounded 140 police officers. now we have representatives from a major political party in texas representing african americans, mexican americans, white people, native americans, who are coming forward to say the voting rights are subjected to a gauntlet, an obstacle course. they say this is a up form of voter suppression. i was delighted to your my friend that it pained him -- to hear my friend that it pained him, mr. fallon, to hear about voter suppression inflicted on african-americans. but at some point apparently, it all ended and what you have come to washington to talk about is apparently just a figment of your imagination. so we can't trust the african-american community or hispanic community or native american community or voting rights lawyers about this. we are supposed to,

. >> and choice, is this information relevant to what's happening down in georgia in the investigation that the fulton county criminal probe into that phone call in which trump tried to put russian georgia secretary raffensperger to, i think it was fine me 1000 thousand votes? >> so jonathan the interplay between those two events is pretty interesting, and let me talk about one way that it might be significant. prosecutors worry a lot about moving a detentions intent, what's he just saying stop for was that actually a cohesive plan to overturn the results of an election. something that makes it more likely that it was intentional rather than an accident or a stumbling was that if there's evidence of repeated conduct, it's actually admissible evidence that you could put in an insane giorgio word to indict, they could likely offer evidence of other similar related courses of conduct like this pressure that trump wanted to bear on the justice department to show that it wasn't a mistake, it wasn't unintentional but there was an intentional effort to subvert the election in georgia. >> cong

i am very grateful for senator raphael warnock of georgia who i think has been instrumental in bringing the party together, including senator manchin. it's really good news. it's a sign of progress. frankly, it's a sign that would bishop barber the poor people campaign and others who are willing to take direct nonviolent action across the country, what they're doing is actually working it's bringing the parties to the table, they're feeling the pressure and they know that they need to move forward. i would argue, and agree fully with bishop barber, that as important as the physical infrastructure of our country is, if we do not save the infrastructure of our democracy, protect the right to vote and guaranteed field for elections going forward we will lose it forever and nothing else is possible. raising the minimum wage. expanding access to health care, confronting climate change, legalizing illegal immigrants in this country. all these things only become when we bring people in the voting places, so that their voices are heard. i hope that senator warnock and others who believe in this

. >> and joyce, is the information relevant to what is happening in georgia, the fulton county criminal probe into a phone call in which trump tried to pressure the georgia secretary of state, find me 10,780 votes? >> so jonathan, the interplay between the two events is pretty interesting. let me talk about one way it might be significant. prosecutors have a hard time so prove intent. was there a plan to overturn the results of a legitimate election? and something that makes it more likely it was intentional rather than an accident, if there is evidence of a repeated course of conduct, and it's actually admissible evidence, say georgia were to indict, prosecutors would offer evidence of other similar related courses of conduct, like the pressure that jump bore on the justice department, but an intentional effort to subvert the election in georgia. >> congressman swalwell, considering you have been an impeachment manager, and devised questions to ask witnesses, what kinds of questions should investigators be asking now? >> at this point, tries to understand what trump and those around hi

they have a couple of races, georgia and arizona in particular where she could help and she was popular. mark kelly is not going to be helped by kamala harris and neither is senator warnock in georgia. >> this is the weird thing we have right now, joe biden is governing like he's bernie sanders but he's not bernie sanders, there is no enthusiasm for him. then you have kamala harris who is equally uninteresting or equally unenthusiastic but if you're going to govern like your bernie sanders, why not just go for broke? joe biden should get rid of kamala harris and go with aoc, go with somebody who is at least interesting. you're already going to take the hits for governing like a crazy socialist so you may as well get the good benefit of that if you're going to take all the bad as well. >> aoc, are you kidding? >> brian: if kamala harris lets democrats down and they feel like their numbers are two bad, who would be up next? >> that's the truth, aoc, ilhan omar, that whole squad in the news all the time, really making a splash. for the big democrats right now other than them was mike berni

that rolls back voter suppression, in texas, in georgia, in florida, and so many other places. and it opens up our elections to every-eligible voter. that -- that's not a democratic-party position, nor a republican-party position. that should be an american-democracy position. and that's why we're marching and that's why we want folks to join us in austin, tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. in front of the capitol. we'll be joined by impacted people and willie nelson, who will be giving one of his first concerts since the pandemic there. so, big day, tomorrow, in austin. >> reverend dr. barber, you -- i think, in the last few weeks, you've been arrested at least a couple of times. doesn't scare you. doesn't scare the texas representatives, who are under threat of arrest. they have done nothing criminal. but the -- the governor has implied that they could be arrested. that's what the summer actions turning out to be. people marching, people putting their bodies on the line. doing what they have to do to remind people that this is the kind of energy that is required. very reminiscent of the --

so he also gets wrapped up in, if you remember, the fights between president trump and the state of georgia over the count. and he has to navigate doj's you know essentially staying out as best they can from that fight. so he keeps touching these very complicated, very tricky issues. i think you are right, the notes are taken for a reason. they were taken because he feels there need to be some kind of record that this is going on. and importantly, he needs to preserve as much what trump said, which is what we are focusing on. i think from the justice department's view, they need to preserve what they said and they did. that very important, you can see, in rosen's public and praft statements. >> yes. devlin barrett, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> donald trump's request for the justice department to sigh the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me sounds a lot like his request the ukrainian president said in his first impeachment who said, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. he was more desperate to misstate his q. because these were his people. daniel goldman serv

they are already more auteur than gwen berry paid the event was held in georgia and sponsored by usa track and field. sure they're doing it short sprint here but they're arty pooping and peeing on themselves like the marathon runners. i actually heard what had these athletes has been juicing. mostly apple but sometimes cranberry. there's a huge controversy this year end why the kids took a knee for bob black sheep. some of these girls have been trading their whole lives for this. unfortunately they all end up losing to a 30-year-old to identified as a 2-year-old. then second-place winner invited them all back to party at her crib. shaken and stirred, topic number two. let's go to australia shall we? for a little bit of unconventional jewelry, guys were there's a jeweler there creating custom necklaces and rings from the teeth of dead loved ones. perhaps you like a fine toothed comb. these are the works of jackie williams who integrates the remands of the dead into commemorative accessories. [laughter] what a great way to stay in touch with your families routes. jackie surrounds the t

might the state of georgia be the first one to indict him because they've got the goods on a recorded phone call where he said i need somebody to find me 11,780 votes that fell off the back of a truck somewhere so i could be declared, wrongfully, the winner of the georgia election. the state investigations are important. and they must conducted. but we need him to be held accountable for violating the laws of the united states as president of the united states. >> eli, so many moving pieces, where are you keeping your eye? >> same as glenn. we need federal prosecutors, stepping up to the plate. but i completely agree. the funny thing about the conversations that we're talking about with the doj, he's already on record of doing it in georgia. and the georgia case for attempted election fraud is to me the most straightforward like do not pass go, go directly to jail offense that we have on the table right now. >> all right. thank you both so much. >>> up next, the house's adjourned without finding a way to extend the moratorium on evictions which expires tomorrow. cori bush and alexandr

street has joined a number of cases where these laws have been struck down in places like arkansas and georgia. many are still being passed. ny are still on the books. you have these legal efforts moving forward to target ben & jerry's as a test case to intimidate and suppress other companies or individuals who might want to say we want to find a way to push back against what is happening in the occupied territories. amy: i want to bring omar back into the conversation and get your response with human rights watch. axios had a very interesting piece on this maximum pressure campaign. they wrote, on july 22, the israeli foreign ministry sent a diplomatic cable ordering them to start a pressure campaign against ben & jerry's and unilever in order to convince them to negotiate. israeli diplomats were instructed to encourage demonstrations against ben & jerry's and unilever offices and put pressure on distributors for both companies. the foreign ministry asked the diplomats to ask for public statements condemning the companies and push for public protests. the diplomats were instructed to echo tho

in georgia it is about to come true. republicans are moving closer to taking control of elections in the state's most populous county. we will dig deeper into that story next. >>> plus, would we rather end the pandemic or stay loyal to our political tribes regardless of the number of lives that will be lost? for republicans the answer increasingly seems to be curtain number two. >>> infrastructure week was the butt of jokes for four long years under the ex-president. maybe that's why he has tried and fail to sabotage this president's successful bipartisan infrastructure deal. "deadline: white house" continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. e. ike i'm just wasting time. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. oh. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interests. and it learns with you, so as you become smarter, so do its recommendations. so it's like my streaming service. well except now you're binge learning. see how you can become a

here in georgia just 5.5% of the $522 million pot here allocated to georgia has actually made it to the renters, and that moratorium ends tomorrow. those eviction notices are already on the front doors of folks. i want everybody to hear the voice of sierra green. you will see her here with her three kids. the three kids each of them going to school monday. this last week, she got the notice, and she appeared at the hearing and we talked with her afterwards and she could be evicted at any moment. take a listen. >> reporter: you said that you turned in the documentation? >> yes, i turned in the documents. >> reporter: what have you heard? >> at this moment, i have not heard anything. >> reporter: so you could be evicted at any moment? >> yes. >> reporter: where would you go? >> i don't know, to be honest. i mean, the only option is a hotel. >> reporter: and that is why we cannot underscore, geoff, and i know that you understand that the nature of the crisis that we face on the streets in the weeks ahead, and it is not sierra green and her three kids, and we are talking about upwards to 3.

before the pandemic i was in rural randolph county, georgia, over 2 1/2 hours away from alabama. i saw staysee abrams. to install snet service for community members to participate in the online census and get jobs and i stopped in selma, alabama and visited the housing authority to discuss an initiative of bringing free broadband to children in low-income housing, george washington carver homes. and i heard from a mother of three who said her life was transformed by the program and completed her online assignments to get a job. and that is broadband for the people. >> there is a picture about how important broadband subsidy program is. i want to remine our audience members, drop it in the question and answer. i want to turn it over next to former f.c.c. commissioner clyburn. you spent nearly nine years at the federal communication commission working on these issues. how should they be working with i.s.p. and low-income communities get connected to broadband? >> i really want to set the stage as what you do and how you have been incredibly helpful. i see ourselves at this intersec

here in george a just 5.5% of the $522 million dedicated for renters here in georgia has actually made it to these tenants who this week are getting those eviction notices put on to their dear and suddenly this is a hail mary of a pass to congress to pass this moratorium off a few more weeks. i want to let you know of a mom who we talked to, breanna. she gave birth to twins. a week after that she got an eviction on her door. take a look at that conversation. >> i am trying to find assistance to be able to pay it, but as far from now i don't have a plan yet. >> do you have a court date yet for -- >> i have to go up there tomorrow. >> what does that look like to you? >> i don't know. i just hopefully will be able to get assistance. >> they could evict you. >> yeah, they can whenever they feel like it. >> so tomorrow -- are you scared? >> yeah because, you know, i don't know where else i will go with three kids. >> where will you go? >> i don't have a plan of where i will go. >> andrea, you see sitting on those stairs two moms that said they were brought together. sierra who was there wit

. >> you're right here in georgia more than 200,000 alone. the census just earlier this month, their latest data is at 3.6 million americans and renters that say they expect to be evicted here in the next few months. there is billions on the possible for these families and renters to take advantage. hardly any of it has been dolled out to renters. of the $ 522 renters available. i talked to sierra. she replied in april at that relief. she says she is waiting to to find out if she gets that money. millions of families here waiting. >> vaughn, why? why is this happening? what is causing this money to not get to them? >> i just got off the phone this hour with the department of housing here in georgia and i asked that very question. she said ultimately it comes down to individuals who lost their jobs who lost their pandemic, so proving she lost her warehouse job because of conditions around the pandemic, she says he is turned over the documentation. another woman had the job and that business is shuttered. a she doesn't even know how to get ahol

thank you, and i yield back, madam chair. >> the gentleman from georgia is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you again for a number of hearings that we've had regarding elections. would have been nice to have some of these, majority of these hearings before hr1 actually ran its way to the floor and i think that would have been very, very productive. i do want to follow up on something that my good friend mr. davis touched on and mr. cuccinelli reported on and it's what the courts and our founders intended which is the qualification of electors, who can vote. that's something that's clearly been within the federal purview. who can vote. times places and manner were to be literally and for the state. yes, the votings rights act my colleagues have cited are about the elect terse who can vote and that's in the constitution, that's a federal issue, the rest is reserved for the states ap also, something that mr. raskin growth up. the role of social media played in disinformation. maybe that could be why the current president of the united states spread false information about

here in georgia we have numerous large districts that are still keeping their masks optional. gennett is demanding the same. so much so we filed a lawsuit yesterday against our school district. >> dana: maybe give me a couple of examples of what you heard when your kids got home from school last year when they were wearing masks. what was the impact on them? >> you know, my youngest child is born with a cleft lip and has cranial facial abnormalities. we've spent thousands of dollars for her to breathe. for her to pull off her mask and take off her mask saying i can finally breathe. my other daughter is going into fifth grade and explained to me how she feels when people wear masks none of the kids talk. they don't socialize. everybody feels isolated and acts isolated with the mask on. she misses lunch in the cafeteria. our children are sacrificing so much. at the end of the day it comes georgia has received over $4 billion in federal funding and mask mandates for our school districts is tied to that funding. it is not parents that are motivating -- it's not genuine concern tha

senator raphael warnock of georgia who is leading this push in the senate said that voting rights is just as important as everything else the senate is focused on right now, including infrastructure. let's take a listen. >> passing voting rights in my view is the most important thing we can do this congress. now, i know that there are a lot of pressing issues, but the american house is the house built by democracy, and if we don't preserve our democracy, strengthen people's access to it, we will not have done our job. >> reporter: so back to your original question, steph, will it get more support? well, it needs republican support, especially in the senate, ten republicans. it's very difficult to see how that happens. but you can't rule anything out until it's a done deal obviously. >> leigh ann, thank you. now let's head to austin, texas, where the march against voter suppression just resumed about an hour ago. texans have been braving the heat all week ahead of tomorrow's rally at the state capitol. i want to bring in two people who have been leading that march. former texas congre

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

we watched in georgia what voter registration and education did. it's a combination of what we do at the federal level and what people can do on the ground. we need both in order to do what we need to do this year. >> victoria, same question to you. what should joe biden do, the biden administration do? are they taking all the steps that need to be taken right now? >> i think that the voice of the president, the vice president, and all of the resources available to the white house could really help continue to build that momentum but also help get us across the goal line. i know that joe manchin cares about voting rights. he has talked about it. and so now is the time to act with urgency and to realize that we are about to go off a cliff that will be very hard to come back from. and as elissa mentioned we cannot watch our democracy be taken from us. and the voices of some of the most vulnerable, people of color, the disabled, just completely silenced as we try to face major challenges going forward. we need every voice at the table, that means prot

but later in the afternoon they did meet stacey abrams from the great state of georgia. brian: this is going to be unbelievable. they are going to try to use some of this momentum to jam infrastructure -- voting infrastructure into that reconciliation bill. and to try to federalize this election again because the for the people act fell on its face. rachel: will it be effective? steve: no. the. brian: the parliamentarian will have to step up this has nothing to do with finances can't put this in reconciliation package. they will try to do that and make 8 million illegal immigrants citizens through that same reconciliation bill, which is a magnet for central and south america. come one, come all. rachel: or the wall at this -- d at this point. steve: they can try but that won't fly. brian: i hope you are right. steve: well, we will see. exactly 7:15 here in the east. and jillian joins us with the news. buff the news is the weather. jillian: yes. and severe weather hitting pennsylvania overnight. let's go ahead and start with the fox weather because five people are hurt af

it comes as a small group of senators work on scaled down legislation spearheaded by georgia senator raphael warnock. >> i think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we have to work on the physical infrastructure of our country and the infrastructure of our democracy. it is the responsibility of congress to provide baseline federal standards for voting. >> senate democrats hope to unveil a new bill in the coming days. >>> joining us now, author of the "washington post's" early morning news letter "power up," jacqueline alemany. good morning. thank you for being here. walk us through the new proposal by democrats around is it possible it could sideline the voting that is in the works that seems to have stalled? >> yeah, jon. a small group of senators met on the hill to talk about the back-and-forth of the bipartisan deal revised on thursday. this revised legislation is bill around a framework that senator joe manchin had provided and released earlier this year after he came out against for the people act, which has fallen into the legislative graveyard in the senate after it was

states like georgia decided by 10,000, arizona 12,000, wisconsin one percentage point, pennsylvania michigan very thin. you are talking about donald trump right now. the disconnect between the time to the american public for pushing this because 80% of voters support voter id that you are a citizen here, you live here in this op-ed says it doesn't matter who you are or if you are paying taxes, you can legally prove your here, give anyone and everyone the right to vote. at some point you expect an op-ed from the time saying let's allow all high schoolers to vote on those on death row because that seems to be where this is going. jillian: drugs and alcohol. will: that is why you're at home. todd: you did the 30,000 foot view. let's read part of this piece, quote, washingtonians love to complain about taxation without representation but for me and fellow noncitizens it is a fact that we submit to unquestioning year after year primary after primary presidential election after presidential election. does the offer not understand that would allow every person in the world to vote in our elections

a week ago it was georgia congressman hank johnson. and today it was texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee, arrested in the same place for the same reason. you can see her here being handcuffed in white zip ties. she was later placed inside a police van. she later tweeted this photo of herself in handcuffs. her caption, quote, i will never stop fighting for voting rights. the time is now to move the voting rights bill in the u.s. senate forward. enough is enough. #goodtrouble. the protests and resulting arrests are part of a summer of action on voting rights. and the list of reasons to fight just keeps on growing. today this was the headline in the "atlanta journal-constitution." quote, georgia republicans take first step to fulton elections takeover. fulton county is the largest county in the state, 1/10 of all georgians live there. it's where atlanta is. it voted overwhelmingly for joe biden. it also contains a sizable proportion of the state's black voters. the paper obtained a letter showing that two dozen republican state senator

who controls the counting room, if republicans have had that kind of power, political power in georgia and in other places, arizona, pennsylvania, these key battleground states we ulha had all trumpy successful and stealing the election. a lot of these laws have provision that would make that kind of change. i think it's under the category of, they call it election subversion, that's the new category of negotiation that these voting rights from the senate is all about. i think it's ball game, i think republicans understand that if they control the counting rooms and the counting process that is the way in which they can systematically undermined democracy in the most profound way. we saw it on display on the threat of 2020. and any bill the democrats take up in the senate or in the house or in congress or in these coming months if it doesn't address this issue it misses the point. >> before it was written, it was run before the election, long before we saw these new republican legislative proposals and zerlina, we see that george is already acting on that new law and they're basically