host: joining us from atlanta is greg bluestein, he covers politics for the atlanta journal constitution. thank you for being on c-span. guest: thank you for having me. host: let's talk about the new voting law signed by governor kemp. it would remove the secretary of state from that states election board, shorten the time to request absentee ballots, requiring voter ids for all mail-in ballots, ban food and water distribution within 25 feet of voters, although you are allowed to bring your own as you wait in line. it mandates one drop per county, 23 in the more populous counties. it reduces the number of days allowed for absentee voting from 180 to 78. saturday and sunday voting requires two of them about. it also bans mobile voting centers such as rv's. why was this law put in place? guest: that is the question lawmakers and politicians and voters are grappling with right now in georgia because of the sharp fallout of this package of legislation. republicans say these are needed changes to restore the integrity and confidence in the vote in georgia, and that some of the changes were sp

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. >> the "atlanta journal-constitution." >> hi. i would like to go back to the question about the states that do not yet have the national range, that are below average. should there be different guidance? i am calling from georgia. dr. walensky: i think the general guidance is to ensure people start getting vaccinated. we do know that if you are vaccinated, it is safe to be outdoors without a mask. the general guidance is the more and more people who get vaccinated, the more you will have more people who are safer without masks. so get vaccinated. if you are, it is safe to be outside without a mask. mr. slavitt: next question. >> nbc. >> hi, everyone. thank you so much. firstly, can you address if the risk of being outdoor solo, why do -- so low, why doesn't this apply to everyone? and while rates of vaccine hesitancy are dropping, you still have 4 in 10 americans saying maybe or they will not get the vaccine. how will you deal with that hesitancy? are there any new strategies? mr. slavitt: dr. walensky? dr. walensky: we still bel

and not surprisingly, according to a nonpartisan analysis by the atlanta journal constitution, black and brown voters have been impacted the hardest by many of these changes and are 20% more likely to misvoting in an election because of the long distances they're forced to travel. i'd like to enter this fire fight action report, georgia's enduring racial discrimination in voting and the urgent need to modernize the voting rights act into the record, with your permission. mr. durbin: without objection. mr. ossoff: can you explain why the closure, changing and consolidation of voting locations without d.o.j. preclearance can be so harmful and why the john lewis voting rights advancement act, which again to just remind everybody on this committee, what we're here to discuss, we are talking about restoring section 4 and section 5 of the voting rights act so the department of justice civil rights division will preclear changes to election procedure and law that may have disparate, disproportionate racial impact. why is restoration of the preclearance function so vital to ensuring harm is

. >> in, he covers politics for the atlanta journal constitution. thank you for being on c-span. guest: thank you for having me. host: let's talk about the new voting law signed by governor kemp. it would remove the secretary of state from that states election board, shorten the time to request absentee ballots, requiring voter ids for all mail-in ballots, ban food and water distribution within 25 feet of voters, although you are allowed to bring your own as you wait in line. one drop per county, 23 in the more populous counties. it reduces the number of days allowed for absentee voting from 180 to 78. it also bans mobile voting centers such as rv's. why was this law put in place? guest: that is the question lawmakers and politicians and voters are grappling with right now in georgia because of the sharp fallout of this package of legislation. republicans say these are needed changes to restore the integrity and confidence in the vote in georgia, and that some of the changes were spurred from the 2018 election in georgia, needed political will to be passed. what democrats eagerly

and the atlanta journal-constitution discusses what is in george's new voting law, and the political and economic fallout since its passage. also the pfizer chief medical officer discusses the development of the pfizer vaccine. watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m., monday morning and be sure to the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. ♪ >> coming up monday, on c-span. the u.s. house meets at noon eastern, for pro forma session with no legislative business scheduled. at 1:00 p.m., discussion on supply chain vulnerabilities, hosted by the woodrow wilson center. at 530 p.m., house republican conference chair liz cheney talks about the future of the republican party, and the conservative movement, at georgetown university's institute of politics and public service. on c-span two at 10 a clock am eastern, the trial continues for former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, charged in the death of george floyd. at 3:00 p.m., the u.s. senate returns to continue work on the nomination of polly trenton to beat deputy transportat

host: here is the atlanta journal-constitution. when president joe biden arrived in georgia today, he will be commemorating his first 100 days in office. he will also be taking a victory lap in the state that put his expensive legislative agenda within reach. biden is set up to visit former president jimmy carter in his hometown of planes and headline a driving rally in gwinnett county the day after rolling out a sweeping $1.8 trillion plan to expand access to education and bolster family assistance programs that will be partly financed i higher taxes on the wealthiest americans. that is coming up tonight, that driving rally coming up life tonight. you can follow it live on the c-span app. reporter: i want to keep you updated on the news. the associated press about 10 minutes ago, the number of americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 13,000 last week to 553,000, the lowest level since the pandemic hit last march, and another sign that the economy is recovering. this also from the associated press. the recovery from

there is the headlines from this morning's atlanta journal-constitution. the fallout of mlb's decision to move the all-star game. that is what they dive into. this is what we are diving into in this final segment. the statement from major league baseball commissioner robert manfred. i have decided that fast way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year's all-star game and draft. major league baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all americans and imposes restrictions to about rocks. in 2020 mlb became the first professional sports league to join the civic alliance to help build the future in which everyone participates. we probably used our platform to encourage baseball fans in the communities throughout our country to perform their civic duty and actively participate in the voting process. fair access to voting continues to have our game's unwavering support. commissioner of unwavering -- of baseball. and the reaction from brian kemp. here is what he had to say. >> yesterday major league baseball caved to fear and. -- an

not surprisingly, according to a nonpartisan analysis by the atlanta journal-constitution, blackened brown voters have been impacted the hardest by many of these changes and our 20% more likely to miss voting because of the long distances they are forced to travel. mr. chairman, i would like to enter this into the record with your permission. can you explain why the closure, changing, and consolidation of voting locations without doj preclearance can be so harmful and white john lewis voting rights advancement act, to remind everybody what we are here to discuss, we are discussing restoring section four and five of the voting rights act to preclear changes to election procedure and law that may have disparate racial impact. why is racial -- restoration so vital to ensuring harm is not done by the closing of polling locations like those we have seen in georgia? stacey abrams: we have seen more than 214 polling places close. we have seen a number of consolidations. we have seen a number of shifts. in clayton county we saw at one point -- in macon county, added attempt -- an attempt to

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the value of local journalism and the diversity of diverse it amplifies is more important now than ever as the public has moved to the online marketplaces, the platform through which they receive news coverage. ad revenue is the mother's milk for all news gathering organizations and, unfortunately, for them, that same ad revenue is getting sign offed off by the digital platforms that use their content to attract those same ad dollars. this commit edigital "morning business report" released last companies found that two companies have a dupe police, google and facebook. in particular, the committee found that these two major companies act as gatekeepers and their decisions on how to display content and any changes to their al rimts. it can how does facebook and google directly affect the viability of news publishers by? >> up one of the things we know about news content it's highly encaging. people go to google and facebook project to whet what's happening in the world and they do it the next day after that t. -- very little of the value though is turned to publishers, so at the same tim