>>> georgia republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green is comparing americans to be vaccinated to the nazis. here's how we got here. with covid cases up now in 27 states, the biden administration is launching a new door-to-door campaign to try to get more americans vaccinated. congresswoman taylor attacked on twitter and said biden pushing a vaccine not fda approved showing covid is a political control. they don't need your medical brown shirts showing up ordering vaccinations. you can't force people to be part of the human experiment, end quote. the brown shirts played a big role in the rise of hitler and the nazi party in the 1930s as well as the '40s which then led to the holocaust and the genocide of 6 million jews and others. greenes tweet comes after she said this about mask wearing rules at the capitol. >> you know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put on trains and taken to gas chambers in nazi germany and this is exactly the type of abuse

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

strong republican leadership in georgia, the united states will win every one of them. without them, you won't. >> sean: governor, this is your last segment with us. what it means to you to be the conservative governor of texas. >> governor abbott: remember this texas like people like beto o'rourke. [boos] so what we have... what we have instead of texas is a battle for the soul of our economy. are we going to be capitalists or socialist? we have seen the socialist agenda with beto o'rourke, fidel castro and people like that. texas must prevail. we must keep texas capitalism. let me do this one last thing, capitalism. not socialism. more people lifted out of poverty than all the socialist program in the history of the world. [cheers and applause] >> sean: i will say this about texas. and it's so telling. if you take a u-haul from california to texas come about $2500. if you take it from texas back to california, it is about $300. you are doing u-haul a favor. i know texas is very inclusive, but if people come from california and new york to texas, i think it is fair to

you remember this in georgia? >> i just want to find

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are going after georgia instead. they used the filibuster over 200 times during donald trump's presidency and they called the filibuster racist. they demand you wear a mask and to get vaccinated and you socially distance and you follow all the rules while allowing all the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into this country, just processing them without even testing most of them. a third of them when offered the vaccine turned it down. on this program, we are consistent. we condemn violent riots. what happened on january 6th, what happened last summer. whenever it happens, it must be condemned by people of goodwill -- it should be political. we spoke out against the brutal murder of george floyd and of course david dorn and horace lorenzo anderson jr. that said interview i had with his father. unfortunately democrats, their friends in the media, big tech media mob, they don't seem to care about truth, fairness, logic, science, justice. for them it's politics and power, that's all it seems to matter. here wit

this is happening because georgia went blue. republicans understand the numbers are not on their side going forward, nor in the present in those critical states, including texas, which is closer than they would have wanted. they are implementing a plan to restrict voters -- the votes of voters less likely to vote for them. it doesn't matter if you have the best message if your voters don't have access to the ballot box. >> this comes back to the question of using the power you have. this was the lesson of mcconnell and garland and amy coney audac norm. unless you can get manchin and sinema on board for basically majority rule in the senate, 50 votes, to wield the power you have, then you can't wield the power you have. >> maybe we should start lobbying exxonmobile to get them to lobby manchin and sinema. they seem to are more influence. >> can we hire the exxon lobbyist to lobby them? >> that's what the indivisble should do. >> if they believe giving d.c. statehood, getting rid of the filibuster and adding justices would be in t

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even in states like georgia where joe biden just won an election, where they elected two senate democrats. there's no filibuster in the state senate. it's majority rule. but then if you want to protect voting rights at the national level, well, then it takes 50 votes -- 60 votes and those votes are just not there because republicans won't play ball. not only that, think about this craziness. the filibuster as we say often on the show, it's not some sacrosanct non-negotiable principle. it's changed over time. indeed, i covered it changing back in 2013. democrats got rid of it for most presidential nominations because republicans were using the filibuster to make it impossible to fill courts and executive office appointments. that was a big deal. republicans at the time said you'll regret it. and in some ways probably true. donald trump got to confirm a lot of judges. historic judge confirmation rate. but that's just what democracy looks like. that's the way the cookie crumbles. one thing democrats did leave in place back in 2013, right? they said we're getting rid of the filibuster for all

you are getting-all-star game tonight that they moved away from georgia. the game should have been played in atlanta as we know. the idea that elected officials are going to run from their job, they were going to get on an airplane, the only thing they wanted to make sure they had was alcohol and no masks. to come to the capitol to play politics. i think their real job is to be back in texas, to do the work, to work on the legislation, and get it passed to make sure more people have the opportunity to vote and that people don't have the opportunity to cheat. >> bret: house minority leader kevin mccarthy. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> bret: up next, women have made enormous progress in afghanistan during u.s. involvement there. so what happens if and when the taliban take over? >> afghanistan is on the brink of humanitarian crisis. this can be avoided. this should be avoided. ♪ ♪ not everybody wants the same thing. that's why i go with liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a bit

watch this. >> some of these voter suppression laws in georgia and other republican states smack of jim crow rearing its ugly head once again. >> president biden: it is the most pernicious thing. this makes jim crow look like jim eagle. this is gigantic what they are trying to do. >> the resurgence of jim crow-style voter suppression measures. >> it is a tsunami threatening democracy. >> a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we've ever seen since the jim crow era. this is jim crow in new clothes. >> sean: ultimately the all-star game was viewed by 8 million people, a historically low number for that game, showing politics in sports aren't going over well with the american people. worst of all, businesses in atlanta including minority-owned businesses, they lost tens and tens of millions of dollars in revenue. why? because of the selfish political actions of the democratic party. one longtime democratic strategist has a few choice words for his own party. take a look. >> -- party of blacks and suburban women. they are not into this. all right? and you know, we

. >> savannah, georgia now has a citywide mask mandate for a month. mask mandates nationwide could be next. >> this is under active consideration. >> white house says of course it is. >> it would be actually surprising and odd if our health and medical experts were not having active discussion about how to best protect the american people. >> peter: it's becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated which has experts wondering why persons who got the shot should be subjected to the same restrictions as those who haven't. >> they have chosen not to get vaccinated at own individual risk. >> vaccines still have not been fully approved by the fda. >> we still have no clear timetable on when we can expect fda licensure of these vaccines for adults and a lot of people say that that is still causing their hesitancy. >> peter: the fda hasn't been a priority for this president. >> why has the president not nominated someone for fda commissioner yet? >> he is certainly eager to nominate someone. >> is he also optimistic about revving up stalled mask vaccination effor

. >> everyone is looking at georgia right now, molly. >> that's right, although this is all over the country these kinds of laws are being considered and passed. frankly the democratic establishment is concerned they have not effectively countered this push. whether you're talking about in congress where the big, you know, what they call democracy reform bill went down, or whether you're talking about in the states where this case sent a clear signal about how the supreme court is going to look at the democratic attempts to litigate these laws. the lawsuits being brought in various states -- in georgia you have the justice department involved. that makes it a different story. even there you have to wonder about how the courts are going to look at attempts to combat these laws using the legal system. if it's not going to happen on capitol hill, if it's not going to happen in the courts, then it has to happen in the political process. it's going to be about -- as averi was saying, using the fact that these laws are unpopular to motivate democratic voters. >> lz, not exactly in line wit

a tornado at a georgia navy beach flipped recreational vehicles upside down and blew one of them into a lake. about 10 people were hospitalized. california democratic governor gavin newsom is asking residents to cut their household water consumption by 15%. newsom is expanding his regional drought state of emergency to cover 50 counties more than 40% of california's population. newsom is facing a recall election in two months. there will be no spectators at the olympics in tokyo. the international olympic committee announced a total ban after japan's prime minister declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus. fans from abroad were banned months ago. a group of house republicans is expressing concerns about the political statements of american olympic athletes. congressional correspondent chad pergram tells us what is forcing the issue. >> olympic trials were a warm-up to see who may stand atop the podium for the u.s., but also a dress rehearsal for potential protests by american athletes. hammer throw specialist gwen berry turned her back on the flag during the national anthem.

>> and representative andrew clyde of georgia who compared the january 6th attack as a normal visit was pressed at a rules committee meeting later in the day. let's watch. >> okay. >> watching the tv footage of those who entered the capitol and walked through statuary hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stantions and ropes and if you didn't know the tv footage was a normal tourist visit. those are your words. >> and i stand by that exact statement as i said it. >> and that went on for about five minutes with congressman raskin pressing him how can you believe that after what the officers said, what you saw with your own eyes and he kept not responding, basically. just standing by his statement saying that he was being misquoted, and that was clearly jamie raskin, quoting exactly what he said. >> this was an attack done in the open. every american turns on the television occasionally saw this attack as it happened. so his -- his character is in realtomb refuted by what every american can see, and that's why we need to call other actors to hear what happened. that

listen, i live in georgia, the community of buckhead is trying to become the city of buckhead because they don't feel safe with atlanta pd being the only way to protect themselves. that is a big problem and it is not something just specific to georgia, so now we are further dividing ourselves in urban areas because people want to be safe and if the cities will keep them safe, they will keep themselves safe. it's not the america we want. it's not the america anybody wants. >> jason: larry, we've been watching videos of people streaming out of walgreens or target and stuff like that, they just brazenly go in, grab stuff and go out. there is no consequence and they know there is no consequence. they don't even run anymore. they just open up the door of the vehicle and stroll away. >> surprise surprise, when you make it easier for criminals to not get caught, not be convicted, not be incarcerated, crime goes up. regarding the order made by the texas governor, he's going to be called racist but never mind the generations of hispanics that live in texas, generations of hispanics that have l

we don't have to outsource e e anything. >> reporter: in columbus, georgia, remember golden's cast iron, 219 workers turning to making butten bells because so many americans were looking for them. after our report -- >> hey, david. >> reporter: the team telling us business is booming. weekly orders up 350%. >> since the segment aired last we covered in orders. >> made in america! woo! >> orders up 350%. we love it. i'm david muir. good night. >>> building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc7 news. >>> masking indoors is now the official recommendation for all californians, whether you have been vaccinated or not. the state department of public health made that announcement today. several bay area counties already made the same recommendation and the cdc made yesterday. thank you for joining us, i am larry beil. >> you are watching us here on abc7 news at 4:00, hulu live, and wherever you stream. >> the mask recommendation focused on where community spread is high and we have crunched the number on where things stand in bay area counties. abc7 news reporter

in the interim, remember, between the election and the georgia runoffs, which were the day before january 6th. they all sort of went along with it because they wanted to placate him because they had an election to win. but there is always another one coming and so the justification for that is always present. and so, there will always be present to accede to the lies, until there is some sort of definitive defeat or they win. and we stop having elections or ones that matter, anyway. so tomorrow, the bipartisan commission investigating the insurrection kicks off. and again, the politics around this commission are a perfect microcosm of the moment. back in may, democrats and republicans worked out a bipartisan compromise to form an independent commission. we had chairman thompson on the show to talk about it. and the house approved it. and 35 republicans joined democrats to vote in favor. that's a good-big majority. 252-175. that's a healthy, bipartisan majority. but then, it died in the senate where it, also, got more than 50 votes with a bunch of republicans voting for it. but a senate-re

there is also an i don't know going criminal investigation of which he is the center in georgia. i mean, like tomorrow is day one of a whole new saga in his life that i think is going to make him an unpredictable figure and i think is going to -- i think it's going to be something we all need to be very open minded about in terms of how it will change the news on a day-to-day basis. >> defendant trump officially begins tomorrow. it will be the company trump that becomes a criminal defendant, but, you know, that's what you get when you name the company after yourself. so the question becomes any other uses of the word trump in future indictments, that will be the big question tomorrow night. >> exactly, exactly. thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, this is actually why i never thought he would run for president. what will happen at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow in manhattan is exactly why i thought he would never, ever run for president. based on the kind of businessman donald trump appeared to be, always appeared to be, described by marco rubio when he was running against donal

nearly two-thirds of the country have higher cases including georgia where some are skeptical on how effective the new mask will be. >> i just feel like i can breathe air. >> reporter: from imposing mask orders many states have high transmit rates so in effect, new guidance will be more of a recommendation than a mandate. in another swift reversal, the cdc is advising everyone in k through 12 schools to wear masks indoors, even teens who are vaccinate. >> to hear that means we're executing in the right direction. >> reporter: dr. lisa harrington is the superintendent of atlanta schools who just days ago announced her district would adopt an indoor mask mandate. what do you say with parents who say, look, the government is not going to tell us what to do. >> we heard the voices. and we honor and recognize that. we have a responsibility for all students. a household has a responsibility for those within it. >> reporter: across the country, a patchwork of three biggest districts new york and chicago and florida will require masks. andrea is so confused she's decided to home school her d

a baseball game moves out of georgia over a lie. >> thank you very much for being here. these demonstrations and social virtue signaling that does nothing to improve people's lives. it's theatre and everything else that we need to change to work like quality and fairness is out the window. thank you very much for joining me. tonight whoever is in charge at the biden white house announced plans to coordinate with big tech to ban social media accounts accused of spreading covid disinformation. the administration's own messaging on covid hasn't been pristine. a few weeks ago joe announced a policy of facts or masks. now that policy could be changing to vaccine and masks. and breaking tonight the biden justice department is dropping its investigation into the covid nursing home outbreak in new york and all other blue states. a tweet earlier today: joining us is laura trump and medical contributors. part of the covid reaction and our fear has been the number of people who have died. then we look at some of the experiences and the numbers and we wonder what numbers are right.

i asked him, we didn't know at that point about what the court would do but what's happening in georgia these tightening laws, here is part of what he said. >> all over the world, we've always, ever since the carter center was founded tried to promote maximum involvement among the involvement of the people itself and making sure the votes were count id accurately. all those things were going by the board because of the republican state legislature, who have taken the position that trump has espoused. >> woodruff: and he's saying in other words, the changes, his own cancer center which has monitored elections all over the world was called on to from monitor siations in georgia. you now have a situation what the united states used to happen in the rest of the world is happening here david. >> brooks: earlier in the year i canead ron chernow's fabulous biography. it's hard to read that history and not look at what's happening today. if you are a legislature of any matter you do not want to be ton side of disparate outcomes along racial grounds. it is just abhorrent. i guess would i disagre

so people who are not directly affected by this, as you in georgia were in, or people in texas were, until everybody understands this is a front and all voting rights. we are not activating the rest of the population how do we get the rest of the world to understand this is not a black urban problem, a black voters of the self problem, this is a democracy problem. >> i think there's a number of things that we have to do, we have to be honest and what's happened in georgia this is widespread all across the nation, and while black voters and brown voters have been targeted, anybody in the most dredges laws come up, the truth of the matter is that it is going to impact all voters. that's every single one of us. anytime, one of these that we have to help people understand, is that anytime a political party be the libertarian the green the republican doesn't matter, anytime a political party abuses that power to really be in their authority to actually take laws in place, so that whoever does not vote for them, they can punish, or they can prevent them from voting or making more difficult

or -- remember when the secretary of state of georgia when president trump called him and taped the call and said i want you to find 11,000 votes that's what i need. he was a republican, but said no, they took away his power in the legislation. that's authoritarian in its implications. and the only solution is federal action. it's a great clash between these states rushing forward all over the country but congress has the power legally and constitutionally to do something about it. the question is, does it have the political will. >> the secretary of state in georgia held the line there. brad raffensperger held theline somebody installed there won't. >> absolutely. that's why a lot of us call for this national march in washington august 28th. which is 58 years to the day of the father's i have a dream speech, the march on voting rights, because when you look at the fact, this will be an ongoing onslaught, which is why you need federal legislation. because the census taken last year will go intoic. they will use the same state legislative houses changing voting laws to gerrymander an

this time the georgia congressman couldn't walk away without answering. >> i want to ask you this. they were asked the question by several of our colleagues, including ms. cheney, about statements that you made saying that the january 6th violent insurrection against congress was akin to a normal tourist visit. and those officers said they weren't tourists, they were terrorists. do you stand by your statement that they were tourists? >> i would like you to quote my exact statement. not your interpretation of my statement. >> okay. watching the tv footage of those who entered the capitol and walked through statuary hall show people in an orderly fashion staying between the

they want to make black americans in georgia stand in long voting lines, without any access to water, because that kind of cruelty is the point. that is why donald trump thinks. some people do or deserve that for daring to vote, and daring to vote against him. when you find republicans who are troubled by donald trump's cruelty, but still voted for him, they talk about the things they agree with trump on like, tax cuts, or supreme court justices isn't bad. they invariably say something like, trump did a lot of good things. exactly what donald trump said about adolf hitler. leading off our discussion tonight, is adam serwer author of the cruelty is the point. also with us jelani cobb professor of university have journalism at columbia and an analyst. so jelani cobb i want to begin with you, the people have been following donald trump four years, and following his cruelty, they will, on both sides of this, not be surprised to hear him quoted as saying that he admires hitler for a lot of good things, he says. >> yeah, it is an extraordinary statement. on the other hand, we did not a priv

we're seeing that in georgia and all across in nation. to the extent the texas democrats had to flee from their homes to go to d.c. to stop this voter suppression, i think that's a demonstration of how intense this fight is that we're in right now. while we're seeing this direct subscription, it's not going to stop. this is not something that's not going to go away, that we can out-organize, out-litigation, we're going to have to have federal legislation to make sure we have protective voting rights and really unravel a lot of the damage that republicans are doing right now. >> let's look at the states enacting restrictive laws right now. these are states voting, enacting voting rights laws. you've got a second map here, states that are actually efforting these audits like pennsylvania and michigan where they may not get much traction but they are trying. latosha, until people not directly affected by this as you in georgia were or people in texas were, until everybody understands this is an affront on all voting rights, we're not activat

but one of the things, one of our leaders in florida -- not florida, excuse me, georgia, helen butler, she sits on a board, lives in athens, georgia, been active on her local board of election for years it's something you try to keep nonpartisan or some cases bipartisan. that bill passed in georgia also allowed for them to take people like helen butler off the board of elections so you can put lackies in with control of the count. so these laws go at the heart of how election administration takes place. we know as african-americans we have had to have federal interventions. and we know if we can't win in the courts we have to have legislation. with my colleagues who are the sharpest legal minds out there, broke it down how we had to fight for our vote when the courts weren't there for us, we had to have legislation passed. you can go as far back as the 1800s. it was laid out, as a matter of fact, yesterday. we have to have it, it's not an option. our democracy is at peril. it's not just what's going to happen to african-americans. it's the whole idea of what our democracy is built upo

and we look back at what happened in georgia, people came out talking about the georgia bill being jim crow 2.0. in the light of day. you had people like nate comb at "the new york times," saying no, it made voting more accessible. there are troubling parts of the bill but it wasn't as bad as first advertised. let's talk about the texas voting bill. do you consider that to be a dangerous piece of legislation? is there any piece of that legislation, like the georgia bill, that actually takes the rights away from local election officials and puts it in the hands of the republican legislature? >> when you look at what republicans are trying to do here in texas, it's all tied into hundreds of pieces of legislation across the country, whether we're talking about georgia, arizona, other states, and i see it as trying to push back on a changing texas, the demographics of texas have been changing for a while, everybody knows that. in 2018, republicans lost 12 state house seats, lost two congressional seats, lost two state senate seats. and this is an attempt to try to make sure that they stay

. >> because those groups, hispanics, for instance, in houston or african-americans in georgia tend to use the dropboxes more. it's not like in the law, but it's looking at the ways that they use it. kaitlan, let me ask you. president biden today called on congress to pass the john lewis voting rights act and the more expansive for the people act. as of right now, democrats in the senate don't have the votes. they don't even have all the democrats in the senate. so what power does biden really have here as long as he's pushing these two pieces of legislation and not something, for example, that can get 50 or even 60 votes? >> well, yeah. those two pieces of legislation are not going anywhere right now. they have no viable path forward because there is that unified republican opposition, not even all the democrats are on board with that. so the question of what pushing for that actually does really remains to be seen because that has been a question posed to the white house time and time again where they have said we don't want to just see these calls for this, we actually want to see c

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

of far more inclusive in georgia, far more accessible for voting in georgia. the state of georgia, their new law, that mandates 17 days of in person early voting. that's accessibility. delaware has 0 in person early voting. in georgia, anybody without any reason can vote absentee. in delaware you must meet specific requirements. you need to give a reason. in georgia they have drop boxes for absentee ballots. they are available at county election offices all throughout the state. delaware has no drop boxes for absentee ballots.ff both states, interestingly, require voter i.d. but delaware is run by democrats and it's joe biden's home state and he hasn't lifted a finger in the 5,000 years he's represented that state to make voting more accessible. as a mattero fact, the state of delaware is one of the most restrictive states in terms of voting accessibility. ivi've been saying this. this is important. this needs to be donety this ye, before 2022 andd the important midterms. five things that i think every american of goodwill would want for our elections, to ensu

in georgia, anyone can vote absentee, you are right. in delaware, no. you got to give them an excuse that meets a specific report. in georgia, drop boxes for absentee ballots are available at county election offices a all over the state. it's mandated. delaware has zero drop boxes for absentee ballots. both states require voter i.d. joe never lifted a finger to make voting more accessible and delaware and it's not just delaware. wisconsin requires voter i.d., rhode island requires photo i.d. hawaii you actually have your date of birth and address. residents who don't vote regularly can be automatically canceled from the voter rolls. minnesota, voters must meet certain requirements in order to vote absentee unlike georgia. none of these deep blue states are facing a lawsuit from this now emboldened and weaponized day of joe biden, not one. clearly the leftist theory over georgia has nothing to do with civil rights. it's beyond hyperbole and destructive, they are playing the race card. this is the worst challenge to our democracy since the civil war. real

audits, recounts that were conducted in arizona, wisconsin, georgia it was recounted three times. it is clear, for those who challenge the results and questioned the integrity of the election, no other election has ever been held under such scrutiny, such high standards. the big lie is just that, a big lie. [applause] >> >> the president repeatedly focus on what he called elections subversion. the most dangerous threat to the integrity of our elections in our history. >> it's not about who gets to vote, or making it easier for voters to vote. it's about who gets to count the vote. who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all. it is about moving from independent election administrators, who work for the people, to polarize state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. to me, this is simple. this is election subversion. it is the most dangerous threat to voting in the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. >> leading off our discussion tonight are texas state legislature alex dominguez and julie johnson, both attended the meeting w

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

it's great that georgia is investigating him for potential violation of georgia state election laws. but he's a federal problem. he's committed federal crimes against the united states. and we need a federal solution. that looks like an indictment from the department of justice. >> i mean, 600,000 people are dead because of this guy, let's just be clear about that. david kay johnston, glenn kirchner, thank you so much for your time tonight. >>> coming up, joe biden's big populist punch at corporate power, that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. savor your summer with lincoln. what makes new salonpas arthritis gel so good for arthritis pain? summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. salonpas contains the most prescribed topical pain relief ingredient. it's clinically proven, reduces inflammation and comes in original prescription strength. salonpas. it's good medicine. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuri

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, "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 of reasons to fight just keeps on growing. today this was the headline in the "atlanta journal-constitution" -- "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 senators sup

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have now confirmed it was an ef-2 tornado flipping trailers at a naval submarine base in kings bay, georgia. at least nine people hurt. and the other storms hitting late today, even before elsa. the images here in new york city tonight. major flooding on the major deegan expressway. police using barrier trucks to rescue stranded drivers. this tropical storm expected to hit new york city tomorrow morning. 50 million people all along the coast at risk of flood flashing. so, let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee leading us off again tonight with the latest track. good evening, ginger. >> reporter: good evening to you, david. i do think flash flooding will be the main threat for everyone going through tonight. however, elsa has caused a tornado in ever state that it has touched. so, we need to start with the imminent threat of tornado watches that extend through virginia, into the delmarva peninsula. maryland and delaware, you're next. now, i want to take you through the timing because you hav hhi . tonight, it will move into the jersey shore. the overnight hours. long branch, seabr

the changes that are being proposed in texas, the changes that have already been adopted in georgia, impacts us all. and we have to have a new sense of urgency for the senate to act. if we're going to get an infrastructure deal, we need to have a deal to protect the rights of voters. our election infrastructure needs a deal. we need a new deal in america to insure our constitution is upheld, the right to vote is protected, and we push back against all these individuals who are seeking to placate an egomaniac who is no longer in office. >> yeah, and so as you announce a new push to safeguard americans' voting rights, what specific concrete issues and actions do you think need to be taken, and how can you help pave the way for that with this push? >> the senate must, they must, adopt legislation before they go on recess, and no later than the middle of september to protect our right to vote, to restore section 2 from encroachment that the supreme court just had to make sure they're drawing the political boundaries, redistricting. this will be the first time since 1970 we will have a re

. >> from texas to georgia, arizona to alabama, the fight over fighting rights is intensifying. all across the nation, republican state lawmakers proposing or passing legislation that critics say makes it more difficult for americans to vote including including requiring uniform id, prohibits people from passing out water to those waiting in line to vote. >> here in pennsylvania, a battleground state in 2020, the issue of election reform i is -- after widespread claims of election fraud. >> claims that are unfounded with no evidence the election outcome would change. republican state senator david argo is charging ahead any way with hopes of more restrictions. >> if you have a more restrictive time to vote, if you can't vote at night or you need to apply to vote way earlier than some people, what's the matter with that? >> i think our goal and you have heard it in other states as well to make it easier to vote but harder to cheat. and so i really, really push back hard with those folks that think that this is some kind of a threat to democracy. i think it is never been easy to v

. >> nevertheless, the president of a georgia teacher's union says public health officials should be clearer and more consistent in their messaging. >> i would like to see students it roll out a comprehensive plan stick to it and then tell the public why they're changing. beginning to confuse the public. >> federal health officials say vaccination is key to ending the pandemic. but the fda has yet to approve a vaccine for children under the age of 12. and only 30% of youth, ages 12 through 17 have been vaccinated. trace? >> trace: jonathan serrie live for us. jonathan? you can find nearby vaccinations by going to vaccines dot above. now we move tonight french connection. we are learning new details of how the french officials who designed and built the now infamous wuhan lab in china were abruptly removed. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the latest tonight from the pentagon. >> u.s. and french officials sounded alarm bells about security at the wuhan institute of virology as early as 2009 according to state department cables. >> it's a critical piece of data that

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said, quote, we are truly heartbroken to hear about the senseless murder that took place yesterday in georgia that took the life of pga member gene siller. a gofundme page has been set up for siller's family. he leaves behind a wife and two young children. >> it didn't hit me until later that this happened at our country club. i still can't believe it. >> reporter: devastating when you see the flowers out there, pamela. they believe family members stopped by in the last hour and a half and placed the flowers there. i was standing there watching them. it seemed like they were talking to one of the investigators from the police department. we've been asking police all day for more information about this case. obviously it's so bizarre. so far they haven't really responded yet with additional information because clearly they're working this case very hard. we're still trying to get down to the bottom of it. as soon as we have more information, pamela, we'll bring it to you. >> still so troubling because the suspect is still on the loose. thanks so much, ryan. >>> that shocking scene on the golf

ukraine, georgia, the other countries in western europe where they are trying to have the same impact and make sure we're supporting them as well, so there is a message to the people of eastern europe who are trying to get rid of russia and the dictatorship and the authoritarianism that that represents, who want freedom, that the united states is going to stick with them. >> jeanne shaheen, sviatlana tsikhanouskaya, thank you for being with us this morning. >>> the olympics haven't even started and they already have an asterisk attached. i don't know, i kind of saw this coming. but tell us. >> i love the olympics. i always watch the olympics. i'll watch the olympics again this year, but wow. they're trying to hold the olympics in the middle of a pandemic in a mostly unvaccinated country, bringing athletes from around the world, many countries where there is not the levels of vaccination that we have even in this country. and already you're seeing u.s. athletes like coco goff, the tennis star, had to pull out because of the covid diagnosis, the alternates for the gymnastics team are in