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he was a sports columnist for the atlanta journal constitution for 25 years and his new article in "forbes" is titled, thank you, baseball, for yanking all-star game out of atlanta. terrence, thank you for joining us. i want to start with this because i know you were good friends with hank aaron. he called atlanta home. is this what he would have wanted? >> amara, i'm so glad you asked that question because i've just been burning inside, disgusted at something that was said yesterday, what these politicians are saying are disgusting in general from the republican side of it. but the worst was kelly loeffler, the former u.s. senator from georgia, who used to be a part owner of the atlanta dream, she said this was an insult to hank aaron, pulling the game out of atlanta. it's totally the opposite. hank would have been the first person in line to get rid of this thing. outside of his family, nobody talked to hank more than me as a journalist. and hank aaron, along with jackie robinson, were the two biggest advocates in baseball history when it came to civil rights. and jackie robinson was an

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

tia mitch, washington correspondent for "the atlanta journal constitution." laura, here is how senator bernie sanders described biden's new information plan this morning. take a listen. >> roads and bridges and tunnels are infrastructure. but i think many of us see a crisis in human infrastructure, when a working class family can't find good quality, affordable childcare, that's human infrastructure. >> lauren, you've reported on this new plan. how is biden expanding what has traditionally been thought of as infrastructure with this plan? >> so they put it into two categories. you've got traditional infrastructure, as they've said, roads, bridges. these are aspects that do need fixing. we are ranked 13th in the world for infrastructure. so they are really making the case for physical infrastructure. but there's also human infrastructure, which gets at our health care system, our system of caring for disabled and elderly americans, our schools, aspects that are very, very important to our economy, democrats will argue, and to the people who -- you know, to the

it turns out the big paper in atlanta "the atlanta journal constitution" reported that the law would ban voting after 5:00. the paper's reporters apparently hadn't read the law. they had to append this correction to their piece which effectively was the same as admitting they were repeating talking point without doing any research which is what they were doing. here it is, quote: a previous version of this story said the new law would limit voting hours on election day in georgia polling places are open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and if you are in line by 7:00 p.m. you are allowed to cast your ballot. nothing in the new law changes those rules, end quote. that's the truth. finally appended to a lie. now, joe biden got his research on that bill from reporters who did no research. see how that works? today at the white house press briefing one reporter did ask an interesting question why is joe biden on television demands a boycott of an american state while not demandings a boycott of china? after all, the biden administration just declared that china was committing genocide against

the fact is, georgia opened up its voting and the atlanta journal constitution put forth an incredible correction this week in which it basically said none of the things in this bill curtail voting. in fact, it kind of expands voting. my question is -- howie: that's pretty much in dispute. i want to get one more thing. >> hold on. lastly had, they're -- they're literally talking about this piece of legislation. what were they reading on the frontend that made them write the lie in the first place. talking points from a democrat party. these leftists in the mainstream media lap up whatever democrats say and post it and a week later they're coming out with corrections. that's a problem. now it's already engrained into the american people's mind. they did that on purpose. this bill is not racist. the people at coke, delta, the people on the left know it but they continue to push it forward because what they want is to make everything in the legislature racist that republicans want so eventually they can get rid of the filibuster which they also say is racist even though democrats used it

the atlanta journal constitution described a scene that showed how personal things had gotten. quote, moments after gaveling the legislative session to an end early thursday, house speaker stood before a bank of tv cameras and admitted something that many lifelong georgians would never say publicly. he purposely cracked open a pepsi. it won't be a surprise if either company doesn't have a seat at the table when it comes to policy decisions going forward. i mean, currently the two most famous companies in georgia, does the hypocrisy of these snowflake brigade know no bounds. they lecture us for being too thin skins, on the need for free speech, so why this ridiculously hostile response to the delta ceo's freedom of speech? they're probably not going to be happy that other corporate leaders are also exercising their right to free speak, like tim cook who said today american history is the story of expanding the right to vote to all citizens and black people in particular have had to march, struggle, and even give their lives for more than a century to defend that right. gosh, i w

"atlanta journal-constitution" poll found nearly 3/4 of voters want additional voter i.d., including 55% of liberals and 2/3 of blacks. we have senator marco rubio saying delta air lines your hypocrisy is stunning because you're still working with china still oppressing muslim uyghurs, numerous people in population. companies like delta air lines, coca-cola. the state of georgia is moving to rescind a tax break for delta air lines, is that true? are you going to do that to other companies. >> that was a movement in the georgia legislature last night and the session has ended so that a moot point. i would ask the ceos, mr. chenault, mr. frazier, ed bastion, mr. quincy look at other states that they're doing business in or where they reside and compare the amount of -- we have 17 days of in-person early voting in georgia. we increased more opportunities on the weekend. we have no excuse absentee voting by mail. some of those states and folks i just mentioned, they're living, doing business in states that you have to have an excuse to vote. so i think if people compare georgia to any ot

"the atlanta journal constitution" did an analysis this week and found the reason why the state vaccination rate looked better than the national numbers we are seeing is the state is using a smaller population estimate when calculate are their vaccination rate. this is something we found in our own reporting when looking at albert county, georgia, where the cdc said only around 8% of the population there is vaccinated but the state data says that number is 23%. >> priscilla, thank you. >>> let's head from georgia at the low end of vaccination rates to west virginia, with one of the highest. joining us now, republican governor jim justice. governor, you have been on top of this, ahead of this vaccine rollout since the beginning and now you have changed strategies, offering a $100 savings bond to young adults who get vaccinated. how is that working? >> stephanie, we're just in our infancy on this. i would tell everyone, there's no silver bullet here. when it really boils right down to it, what west virginia did, we got way out ahead of this thing, led the nation in every way. every single sta

today the atlanta mayor issues an executive order to try to combat sb-202, the atlanta journal reports, the order will enact efforts. earlier on this network, the mayor explained what that means. >> the rules of the game have changed and it's so important this people understand the parameters we are now forced to operate in in the state of georgia. we send water bills to thousands of customers, residential and business customers not just in atlanta but in surrounding areas. we are going to educate people on how you can get the i.d. you need to register to vote, what are the new rules on absentee ballots and just provide as much information as we can to help counter what's being done at the state level. >> back with us tonight, former obama campaign manager and senior campaign manager to president obama. he's on the board of directors@obama foundation. good evening to both of you. david, on one hand, atlanta is just one piece of georgia. on the other hand, democrats winning the nine counties around atlanta have been sort of the biggest pickup in terms of democrat, votes in georgia. so t

we are joined now by greg to discuss, he is a political reporter for the atlanta journal constitution. and eric mitchell, sports analyst and president of life foot media. greg, we will start with you. and you write the georgia house speaker recently admitted what no georgian would ever conceive of. he cracked open a pepsi. you also write georgia house republicans voted to strip delta of its tax break. of course, that later stalled in the senate. but is it enough to cause them to backtrack, or maybe scare others from speaking out? >> that's the goal for -- for these republican supporters of this law is to send, kind of, a shot across the ballot. these -- these major-atlanta that get incentives like delta does, and so republicans the last day of the session just a few days ago in the georgia capitol wanted to send that message to republican law -- to delta, to coke, and to other companies that are still on the sidelines. basically, not to come out against this legislation. or else, they could risk -- risk some blow back from state lawmakers. >> next thing you know, they will bring back

atlantic atlanta journal had positive story. and i was confident that my election, certainly put a small lot on the fact that know who basically martin luther king had laid the groundwork and then the sacrifice for something like this to happen. i think if it had to happen, chapel hill was the place that it should happen. and i'm obviously very delighted that i was the person who is in the middle of that. oklahoma university law professor lindsay robertson discusses the decisions issued by the us supreme court in cases involving the cherokee nation, especially the role of chief justice john marshall. virginia museum of history and culture preservation virginia and the university of oklahoma center for the study of american indian law and policy co-hosted this event. good morning. i'm elizabeth kostelny and it's my great honor to serve as the ceo of preservation, virginia and to introduce our next speaker. lindsay robertson is the author of conquest by law that explores the subject that brings us here today. as we conceptualize t

. >> sandra: "the atlanta journal-constitution" had to issue with correction as they set about that georgia voting law so we await the senator joining us at the top of the hour. >> john: a lot of people took things from the early version and never bothered to amend it with the final version. if >> sandra: a fema program meant to keep people safe during the pandemic is getting extended. this despite the growing number of people getting backdated across the country, look at how much this is costing taxpayers. >> john: plus, multitrillion dollar spending plan raising red flags for deficit who wonder if all of that cash really will go to roads and bridges. we will break down the president's plan with larry kudlow coming up next. >> just being charitable about 15% of this bill is addressed to infrastructure. the rest is climate subsidies and social welfare stances. there may be something in here from murder hornets for all that i know. at novartis, our goal is to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. if you're taking cosentyx and your insurance or coverage changes or you need help paying

journal, that have called into question the accuracy. a lot of joe biden's remarks about this , including the washington post, giving him four pinnochios for misrepresent ing it but on and on it goes. where do you see other companies going and responding to this? >> well you know, corporations don't want to get involved in politics. it's not healthy for their bottom line, remember michael jordan's old line that even republicans buy sneakers. that being said, they are clearly feeling pressure from their customers, and they are responding to that. this reminds me of the debate over hb-2 in north carolina back in 2016, the bill that banned trans people from the bathroom of their gender identity. the ncaa pulled tournaments out of north carolina and a bunch of corporations publicly pressured the state reverse that law, which they eventually did. now, georgia governor brian kemp has been less willing, i suppose , to rollback this bill, the speaker of the state house came out with a pretty angry statement as well, and frankly, it works in thei

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

also with us for this discussion, we have political reporter for the atlanta journal constitution, greg bluestein. and greg had told us that he was on vacation and didn't have a suit. and i said, greg, this ain't "nightline." i wear a sweater like 85% of the time. so thank you, gregg, we really appreciate you taking the time out from your vacation. it means a lot to us. representative thomas, let's start with you and i'll start with the big question that a lot of democratic officials are being asked right now, and that is, do you support major league baseball's decision to move the all-star game out of atlanta? >> yes, i do support the decision. i wish that it would have came before the bill was passed into law, of course. >> we see a lot of different businesses speaking out right now, but we wish that they would have spoke before they put the pen to signing that bill into law. >> i'm sure you've seen a lot of comparisons where georgia's new voting law compares favorably to new york state to new jersey when it come to early voting, when it comes to no-excuse absentee voting. what's your

. >> what did the voters of georgia say "the atlanta journal constitution" asked voter i.d. end of january 75% of those actually polled supported an, in fact, two out of every three black voters support it and 90% of people making under $25,000 right, the two very groups that supposedly stacey abrams is all worried about support voter i.d. so, there is no reason why the mlb should have pulled out. we deserve an apology and quite frankly we ask the mlb to reverse their decision. >> exactly. ainsley: maybe they will. pga is sticking by their guns they are staying. >> good for them. >> thank you ashley, good morning. ainsley: you are welcome. coming up with migrant facilities overrun and border patrol overworked, the pentagon is now approving a third military base to house migrant children. congressman darrell issa is begging cbp officers not to quit their jobs. he going to join us next. before nexium 24hr, anna could only imagine a comfortable night's sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts

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

"the atlanta journal constitution," 63% of african-americans think you should have an i.d. this is about gaslighting and fear among entering for hr 1. i'm tell you guys, this is about getting rid of the filibuster and passing hr-1 and that power grab. pete: political power, you are absolutely right. congressman and colonel michael waltz, thank you so much for being here. >> happy easter to all of you god bless. rachel: you too, take care. pete on this easter eve turn now to a few additional headlines. bowling green has fraternity with six conduct violations related to student hazing deaths. sophomore died days days after being hazed fraternity event last month. the fraternity is under interim suspension as officials continue to investigate. and dr. fauci pushes back after he was challenged on his claim that we may need to wear masks in 2021. >> come on, let's get serious about this. that was taken totally out of context. >> you don't think that's right. you don't think should have masks in 2022. >> we don't know and i'm not saying they will. pete: fauci initially made the c

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joining me now, "wall street journal" columnist kim strassel, editorial board member kyle peterson and dan henninger. so, kyle, you've followed this law from the very beginning. is it voter suppression? >> well, there's a lot in the law, but i would say, no, not really. so something that joe biden keeps saying, he's said it two or three times now, is that they're closing polling places at 5 p.m. just when working people are getting off. that's just not true. the law has some mandatory minimum hours for early voting, 9-5. analysts who have looked at this are saying, essentially, that means places that are shorter than that, that offer less than that right now are going to have to expand, but counties can also offer voting from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. which is plenty for these metropolitan areas. so that's just one example of something that's in the law that is an expansion of voting and is being cast completely the opposite way. paul: well, if i'm not mistaken, this actually liberalizes the state law in terms of a couple of areas like more drop boxes, for example, and time for, and the justifi

because of political pressure because of the left the wall street journal editorial pointing out the debate has become as to a falsehood, propaganda and panic, part of the blame lies with the tart under partisan distortion of democrats and their media echoes and part with ceo of major companies who are uninformed at best or cowardly at worst, joining me now kim straw soul every friday for the wall street journal and on the same subject today. kimberly first of all, the lies coming from the president about the georgia law reducing voter time that is simply not true it's the opposite isn't it. >> exactly has to do with the numberer of days that you can ve on weekends, that is more and also anything from having more poll workers to keep lines lower more drop boxes prior to last year's election georgia didn't allow drop boxes and always codified into law one of the things that is remarkable to me just make the comparison to joe biden's own state in delaware if he's talking about how george's law is jim crow on steroids while delaware doesn't allow half of what georgia allows in terms of

"wall street journal." they are denouncing george's legislation law but have they read it? that is from the editorial. >> look, it is very interesting if you look at it carefully. the left is desperate to have elections that they can rig. and they are going all out. they put out a surge of things like you pointed out. these are plain lies. this isn't complicated. you go to the bill, you look at the bill and you can vote on sunday and light and said you couldn't. you can vote early and they lied and said you couldn't. you can't get water in line, they lied and said you couldn't this tells you h.r. 1 corrupt politicians act nationally and it all out effort to set up this as erickson wrote, designed to ultimately and make the filibuster because they will never pass never pass h.r. 1 while the filibuster is there. i think if people learn what is in h.r. 1, they will be so angry and being totally misled. and i think president biden credibility is in tatters. you read what is staff rates, and he has no idea if it is true. in the case of the georgia build the things that biden sai

the wall street journal him a leaders as woke at week ceos, the journal says the state provides far more days of early voting the new york, offers no excuse absentee ballots unlike delaware. who is really suppressing home. georgia's new law puts limits on truck boxes but also makes him a permanent part of the voting system in 2019 before covid those drop boxes were illegal. welcome to fox news at night. white house correspondent kevin cork starts us art with pressure coming from the president and progressives on these red states. >> a lot of pressure indeed. for all his talk as a candidate about being a unity president it seems aspiration has given way to retribution for mister biden at least that is the way some critics see his treatment of the nation's red blue political and policy divide. >> that is a decision they made, they should listen to doctor fauci, scientists and experts, but i think it is not responsible. >> mister biden with a brush back. aimed at the texas rangers baseball club. it is a mistake for the club to plan to have a full capacity crowd for the rangers home opener a

"the wall street journal" hammering their leaders tonight as woke and weak ceos, referring to george's new law, the journal says the state provides far more days of early voting than new york. it offers no excuse absentee ballots unlike mr. biden's beloved delaware. george's new law puts limits on drop boxes, but as deltas ms. sebastian regrets pointing out, it also makes them part of the permanent voting system. in 2019, those drop boxes were illegal. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night," i'm shannon bream in washington. white house corresponding kevin corke starts us off there tonight with the pressure coming from the president and progressives on these red states. good evening, kevin. >> a lot of pressure indeed. for all this talk as a candidate about being a unity president, it seems at least aspiration has given way to retribution for mr. biden, at least that's how some critics see his treatment of the nation's red, blue, political and policy divide. >> president biden: well, that's a decision they've made. i think it's a mistake, they should listen to dr. fauci and the scienti

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