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he just announced on telegram to his followers he put $3.3 million into it, way more than the arizona senate put into it which was 150,000. so this is someone very invested in this audit. he comes out with this movie saying that he has proof of election fraud, meanwhile i didn't see that proof presented in this movie. and then i'm watching it and they're showing the film crew walking through the cage with the ballots. meanwhile the journalists who tried to get access to the auditor up in the coliseum, not in the nosebleeds but close to it, trying to watch what's going on, obviously they have chain of custody that they've promised that they'll maintain the security of the ballots. so it was shocking to me to see that they had let someone else besides the workers and whoever they had planned to into those ballot cages. >> so jessica, what do you make of this? this is clearly this one would think highly partisan film crew here with a definite point of view allowed right next to the ballots. how unusual is that? >> this is extremely unusual. i have been covering elections since the very b

in a recent cnn analysis, we have identified at least nine states that have such policies, arkansas, arizona, georgia, iowa, oklahoma, there's south carolina, texas, utah, and vermont. now, this list is constantly updating and changing, but brianna, like you said, these policies go against what the american academy of pediatrics recommends which is that staff and students who are 2 years old and older should wear masks regardless of their vaccination status. now, the cdc says that if you're vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask. there is that difference. dr. anthony fauci, he described the american academy of pediatrics recommendation as being made out of an abundance of caution. here's what he had to say. >> you can understand why the american academy of pediatrics might want to do that. they just want to be extra safe. >> so you see there, he said they're being extra safe. and brianna, with students heading back to school, most of them next month, you can imagine there are a lot of questions among parents and students about how to stay safe. brianna. >> there certainly are. i certainly

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arizona audit could up end biden's victory in the state. in michigan, christina, a republican candidate for secretary of state, is also running on claims that trump won the state even though biden won michigan by more than 154,000 votes. she, too, is calling for an arizona-style audit for her battleground state. joining us now is natasha alford, cnn political analyst and vp of digital content and senior correspondent and also with us is cnn political commentator, scott jennings, a former special assistant to president george w. bush and former senior adviser to senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. great to have you both on this morning. natasha, i wonder what do you think of this echoing trump's false election claim as a strategy for winning? >> well, i think people are doing exactly what has worked for donald trump. right? poll after poll has shown that even with this big lie being proven and disproven that people still believe donald trump is the rightful president. and so in the same way that folks have chosen the media that echos exa

having 25 or 50 members of the national guard from south dakota go to arizona and texas. they are probably wondering just why am i going? and these are people, who are patriotic americans, who have private lives.their own states definitely the situation on the southern border is troubling. 180,000 a month is way too high. president answer to that problem, and it is a problem, is not just simply bringing 25 people or 50 people from south dakota or other parts of our country to do something that they're not sure about. >> secretary johnson, thank you for your time on both topics this morning. >> thank you. >> it's good to see you in person. >> thank you. >>> we now know who will be tasked with investigating the insurrection on january 6. congress. one of the democrats just named to the select committee will join us. >>> and breaking news. the last u.s. troops based at the air base in afghanistan departed overnight. a milestone. cnn is live in afghanistan next. why choose proven quality sleep from sleep number? because every new day starts the night before. "hi everyone" and

according to the arizona republic, trump along with close allies like rudy jewel januariny and kelly ward actually tried to pressure election officials in maricopa county. let's listen to a voice mail that giuliani left for republican mayor bill gates previously obtained by cnn. >> bill, it's rudy giuliani, president trump's lawyer. if you get a chance, would you please give me a call. i have a few things i like to talk over with you. maybe we can get this thing fixed up. i really think it's a shame that republicans sort of were both in in this situation. i think there may be a nice way to resolve this for everybody. >> what do you think about that? >> well, brianna, at the state's united democracy center, bipartisan, which i cochair with former gop governor christie todd wittman, we've tracked very closely these efforts around the country. and it reminds me of the georgia case, which we know is under investigation by georgia fulton county d.a. willis and those words by giuliani, the authorized representative, the attorney of donald trump, suggesting that they can get it fixed up, th

he was upset when arizona was called by fox for joe biden. you suggest that it was rupert murdoch who ultimately made the decision, the final decision to make that call. you write he got his father on the phone to ask if he wanted to make the early call. his father with a signature grunt added f him. fox disputes this. they say the account is false. fox news media president jay wallace was called into the control room. any other version of the story is wildly inaccurate. >> they just lie. i am rupert murdoch's biographer. i have spent more time with murdoch than any other journalist not in his employ. at this point in my life and career, i know what rupert thinks before he thinks it. there's no question here. i don't suggest this, i know for a fact this is what happened. there is no possibility that rupert murdoch on election night is not calling almost every shot. this is the day of all days for rupert. >> again, i did read the fox statement so people know what fox says about it. you say bill hemmer called the trump campaign to tell them tha

tucson, arizona, that is your claim to fame today. it's raining so hard that it can't soak into the ground that needs it so much. there's two to four more inches over the next couple days. a moderate risk of flash flooding everywhere. when it rains in the mountains, it comes down these dry washes. they're dry most of the year but all of a sudden when it rains on top of the hill, all that water goes down in one single place. the haze is now across parts of nashville and atlanta. that's the smoke from the fires out west and the northeast doing slightly better today. and here are your afternoon highs. john? >> chad, thank you very much. >> you bet. >>> climate change is melting roads and warping critical infrastructure in the u.s. the increasing severe weather is also affecting the biden administration's infrastructure plan as costly climate resilient infrastructure becomes more and more necessary. pete muntean has more on this. >> reporter: john, brianna, the weather is getting more extreme, more often. so the biden administration wants

they're expecting monsoon rains in arizona over the weekend which could cause flash flooding because the ground is so hard and doesn't absorb any more. it's just this knock-on effect, this domino effect. and, yes, tonight i decided to take a look at just one sector of our lives, a very important one to us as we discovered during the pandemic, food, where it comes from, what it costs to air and water and the climate as well. and did you know, if cows were a country, they would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind the u.s. and china. and so there is a boom right now of meat alternatives hoping to maybe sneak some things into your diet that are a little gentler on the planet. you know about beyond burger and impossible burger. they are about to get one huge new competitor, just got $350 million of funding, some of the top-line billionaires you've all heard about. and i decided to go take a look at what they say is a new form of perfect protein that doesn't come from plants or animals. ♪ in the 40 years after the civil war, around 400 million cows, hogs and sheep wer

the suns, the hottest thing in that arizona desert in july right now. devin booker had 31 points in this one, 7 three-pointers. and the bucks played really well, phoenix just shot down any of their hopes from beyond that arc. a playoff franchise record 20 three-pointers. milwaukee's antekun poe scoring a playoff career high 42 points. the rest of the starters scored 43 combined. suns win. series now going to milwaukee for game three on sunday. >>> stanley cup champion lightning will celebrate their second boat parade in tampa on monday, but the big question this time, are the players going to throw the stanley cup from boat to boat. you remember tom brady and the bucks tossing that lombardi trophy they won the super bowl in february. twitter feed giving a warning to brady saying, for your information, it's too heavy to throw, tom. well, brady responds, i don't know. everything feels a bit lighter after some tequila. if tom brady talking tequila shots doesn't say happy friday, i don't know what does. >> everything about that was true. everything about th

it's even more absurd because the audits were done in arizona and found no fraud. so take a step back. look at the results of these audits and recounts and republican-led investigations in eight states. and you'll see there is just no actual evidence of mass voter fraud. there is only the desperate attempt to keep doubt alive, to please donald trump at the expense of our democracy. and if you're still not solved, remember how fast fox news and newsmax backtracked when threatened with lawsuits. bill barr thought trump's claims were -- and look at the top lawyer describing trump's legal team as a joke. that was getting them, quote, laughed out of court because of wishful thinking. if you believe their claims, i'm sorry to say the joke's on you. of course, the real insult is to our democracy. that's a causal real patriots should rush to defend. and that's your reality check. >> john, let me ask you, we've had a number of authors on today about this period. the friday after election day there was not a single white house aide or trump campaign official or pollster who

. >> synagogues are being defaced from alaska to arizona. >> and sadly it is a reality. we've seen the rise across america. >> reporter: yes incidents spiked around the war in may. >> it's never been about the conflict. >> >> reporter: okay, what does the data say. >> they've pointed to israel palestinian conflict and the tropes of anti-semitism. >> reporter: american je wefs are suffering hate from many sides. >> jewish americans could feel, how do i say this right, they could feel squeezed. >> reporter: stones were thrown through synagogue windows in new york in april. a young black man was arrested. some see this man as fuelling an anti-semitism in the black community. >> and i'm here to separate the good jews from the satanic jews. yes, yes, yes. >> reporter: but say the social scientists, one group is still the biggest issue. >> we see high rates of anti-semitic attitudes on the far right. >> >> reporter: and on the left, it is the man accused of shooting up a synagogue in san diego in 2019 was just 19 at the time. >> it spread apart in the aiming position right at

at least eight school districts from vermont to arizona miami, houston, hillsboro county are keeping it optional. >> monitor hog is vaccinated, who's not, that is just fraught with error. universal masking works. we know it works. >> this one, i love it because it has crowns. >> reporter: uncertainty is all that certain for the gards, who considered entering audrey into the vaccine trial. they say they're bracing for the worst case scenario. >> i tell my husband he can no longer work because he needs to run at-home school. audrey comes home and then i am our single breadwinner for this family of four. >> reporter: gwinnett county public schools tells me they will be taking mitigation measures, including social distancing. the students, when able to, they'll be disinfecting areas pretty frequently and have quarantine protocols in place in case a student faculty member. governor kemp signed an executive order in may which basically restricts the usage of masks in schools but does not go far enough in outright banning them. we should also mention nine out of the 20 largest school distri

arizona congressman andy biggs tweeting, it's none of the government's business knowing who has or hasn't been vaccinated. joining me now is health and human services secretary xavier becerra who is helping in this effort to get americans vaccinated. sir, thank you so much for being with us. i wonder if you can answer that criticism. it's none of the government's business knowing who has or has president been vaccinated. what do you say? >> brianna, perhaps we should point out that the federal government has spent trillions of dollars to keep americans alive during this pandemic. so it is absolutely the government's business. it is taxpayers' business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting covid. and helping reopen the economy. and so it is our business to try to make sure americans can prosper, americans can freely associate, and knocking on a door has never been against the law. you don't have to answer, but we hope you do. because if you haven't been vaccinated, we can help dispel some of the rumors you heard and hopefully get you vaccinated. >> th

look what happened in arizona over the weekend. 4 to 6 inches of rainfall in phoenix and tucson and flash flooding. now, this isn't really the area that we need the rain. that's up here. and they didn't see a drop. but that may change over to this week and into the coming next week. some rainfall this week, this is the entire week's worth of rain fall that the computer thinks. then next week we have a green circle over the west and above normal chance of precip especially in the areas where the fires are. so, some good news there. temperatures are still hot. not going to give firefighters any relief there. temperatures 100 to 105 right over these fires. but then the cool air does work its way into the inner mountain west helping things especially with that rain fall, cooler air, not as much wind. we will absolutely take it over the next couple of weeks. the firefighters can use a little bit of help. the next hour of "new day" starts right now. ♪ >>> hello, i'm brianna keilar alongside john berman on this "new day." mask mandates back on the table in some u.s. cities as coronavirus cases

. >> reporter: in tucson, arizona, two people are dead and several others injured after a shooting sunday afternoon. among the victims, an emt worker who was shot in the head. >> this is a really horrific incident with many unknowns at this time that's going to involve a lengthy and complex investigation. >> reporter: now, in con tech, the murder rate in 2020 nationwide was high but still 40% below what it was in the 80s and '90s when murders peaked am the united states. that's little comfort to cityie seeing record surges in gun violence. here in chicago, we're slightly under where we were last year when it comes to homicides. but when you look at prepandemic levels, we are still up more than 45% in murders and up around 60% in shootings, again, compared to those prepandemic levels, brianna. >> whatever the level is, it's headed in the wrong direction and cities are trying to get their arms around this problem. omar, thank you so much. live to you from chicago. >>> there is an american gymnast who has tested positive for covid just days before the summer games. we do not know the identit

i'm sure you saw that alexandria ocasio-cortez tore into kyrsten sinema, arizona senator who said she is not on board with the other bill, which is a $3 plus trillion bill that democrats want to push forward using the budget process. how are you going to navigate this chasm in your party? >> well, we're going to keep working and talking to members. what we're going to do with the infrastructure bill is remind people the historic investment. remind people of the racial equity that's embedded throughout this bill. and then we will make the case very hard. and then members and i used to be one will have to make a hard decision whether you want to leave 10 million people with lead service lines going to their homes? do you want to leave 400,000 homes lead service lines going to children? we have to make sure that we're focussed on the issue and delivering results. i think that when we do that, we will navigate this. look, legislating is a messy, ugly process. it's the sausage-making process. most is not done out in the public to the extent it is, we know that that's the process and we'll

there's a faction of people egged on by donald trump who want to delegitimize votes in swing states like arizona and pennsylvania to try to undermine the election. what we saw from november to january was a concentrated effort by kpoins, lawyers and activists to undermine, overturn and desertfy elections. i mean, this is bigger than the republican party. and i wish people would really get their heads screw on straight. because if we don't have elections, we don't have parties. we don't have democracy. i don't care about 22 and 2024. i care about 2020 because that sets the stage for everything to come. >> listen, i want to change subjects slightly here. i'm a big soccer fan. i know this sounds like i'm really changing subjects but not quite. big soccer fan. one of my favorite team is the u.s. women's national team and they had a tough start at the olympics. they lost their first game against sweden. they did win their second here. but after the loss, the former president that we've been speaking of seemed to try to, you know, get people at one of his rallies to boo them. listen. >> wokism makes y

then it's going to fall to joe manchin, to kyrsten sinema, the senator from arizona, let's give bipartisanship -- if it falls apart, there's going to be tremendous pressure on them to play as part of the team and not bring down the agenda of this new democratic president. are they willing to do that? i think the white house doubts it. but they can't know for sure. >> john harwood, thank you very much for being with us this morning. >>> let's bring in cnn contributor, dr. abdul el-sayed, and former adviser to the pete buttigieg campaign, and former obama pollster, joel beninson, you have a warning for democrats about being greedy, too greedy in their commands. explain this position. >> well, what i said is that you want to push your agenda as far as you can without losing support of voters in the middle. and what i mean by that is, you know, we don't have a majority of people on the left or on the right, so to be successful, you've got to persuade centrist voters, a lot of them in swing states. president biden did a good job of this with his campaign in 2020, and i think the infrastructure bill

his documents, his records, his texts, because he was at the center of dealing with georgia and with arizona, with the campaign people, harassing the justice department to do things. of course being involved in the rally on january 6th. and then being in touch with members of congress. imagine that information trail and all of that that is going to lead to mark meadows. the american people are going to hear that. and i think donald trump is going to hear a lot of things that if he looked at any of these books he's going to realize a lots of people close to him are leaking out very unflattering things about him and his closest staff and i think it's a lot of his closest staff who are leaking out, hey, we tried to tell the guy there was no case here. >> we will see what this investigation uncovers and how quickly it can uncover it. but you were there right the middle of things yesterday. we really appreciate you former congresswoman barbara comstock joining us this morning. >> thank you. >>> this morning, nearly two thirds of u.s. counties have high or substantial transmission of covid-19. and

. >> michael last night, when you were hosting here on cnn, you had a conversation with an arizona election official that was contacted or attempted to be contacted during, you know, the whole big lie run up by both trump and giuliani. i want to listen to part of that conversation. >> it wasn't stone walling. we weren't in litigation at all of these points. i wanted to make sure that i was not having conversations outside of that, whatever needed to be said needed to be said in a courtroom in front of a judge or a jury. >> he knew. he knew it was wrong when they were trying to reach out to him. that's what that says to me, michael. >> john, brianna, this is really interesting. clint hickman is this fellow's name, and he was a maricopa county supervisor, a trump supporters. it's not as if he were a detractor. what's most significant to me is he was supportive of donald trump, had met him on the tarmac. he had even gotten one of those campaign rally shout outs, but he's in a position now of authority relative to counting the ballots, and on two occasions when the white house operator reaches

he does seem to be taking pages right out of the arizona playbook. in arizona, the republican state senate leader used her subpoena power to force the board of elections to turn over ballots. this pennsylvania state senator also runs a committee that theoretically has subpoena power. in arizona, the state senate fronted $150,000 to pay for their so-called audit. the rest of the funding for it is coming from sources that nobody involved will disclose. this pennsylvania state senator is also trying to secure funding for an audit and has sought advice from a law firm about how to go about using money from a private non-profit organization to pay for vendors, consultants and anyone else. in arizona, all the republicans involved in the so-called audit have been claiming that it's not about overturning the 2020 election. it's about restoring integrity to the state's elections. right on cue in pennsylvania, a law firm tapped by the republican state senator said in a letter that the purpose of such an audit would be to -- hope you are sitting down -- develop

in phoenix, arizona. this is thursday last week, it was 112 degrees in phoenix that day. ♪ can't take it no more ♪ ♪ we're fired up ♪ ♪ we're fired up ♪ ♪ can't take it no more ♪ >> fired up, can't take it no more. 112 degrees that day in phoenix. not counting the radiant heat off the tarmac there. that was outside the office of arizona's republican attorney general, mark burn avich. those folks were protesting outside his office because of his role in promoting and defending new voting rights restrictions in arizona, including all the way up to the united states supreme court. also, arizona's new rules about how the state's elections will be conducted in the future, new rules explicitly designed to make sure officials from the democratic party can't play a top role in election administration in arizona anymore, only republicans will be allowed to do that from here on out. of those folks protesting outside attorney general's office in arizona, nine were arrested. it wasn't -- they weren't

today, arizona republicans who are doing their so-called audit in arizona, they gave a briefing on their progress. only two republican senators were there, but they tried to call it a hearing. this was -- this audit that they're doing in arizona, they launched it in april. they said it would take three weeks. it's, of course, now mid-july, and they're still going strong. they made clear today that they're definitely finding all of the fraud they have been fantasizing about, but it's definitely going to take lots more investigation, lots more materials, probably lots more donations from trump supporters nationwide. it looks like they will subpoena more stuff from the county, maricopa county, where they got all these ballots from. the way they were talking about it today, it sounds like they think they have weeks to go, maybe months still to go. it's such a big complex investigation. there's no sign actually that there was anything wrong with the presidential vote in arizona. nothing. there's no sign that there was anything wrong with it. at all. and i'm saying that not just like, because

maricopa county, arizona. the one being run by the cyber ninjas' guy, who is a qanon stop the steal conspiracy theorist. where they have been running through ballots. they have been taking the the ballots and running them under ultra violet light looking for bamboo fibers because maybe the ballots were secretly sent to america from east asia. today, the guy who's been overseeing the audit for the arizona republicans quit. after being locked out. i'm -- that's not a -- i mean, he was actually, physically, locked out of the building where the audit has been taking place. well, that was this morning. he quit. and then, later today, he unquit. so, that's going well. the whole arizona audit circus was supposed to last a few weeks. we are now four months in. the arizona senate republicans, just this week, sent a whole new batch of subpoenas to maricopa county for more stuff that they want to look at. they are just going to keep on looking. this thing is going to go on forever, so that donald trump and his allies can

"the arizona republic" reports tonight that one of the republican state senators in arizona who's been promoting the audit thing in arizona all along, he's now selling t-shirts promoting his cause. the cost of his t-shirts, it's a sliding scale by size. they're $35 to $45 for a t-shirt. wow, order yours today. it's $35 for a small or $45 for a double extra large, which frankly just seems rude. the "washington post" reports tonight former president trump seemed to have found a tidy path through the wreckage to pay his living expenses via this nonsense he continues to stoke. the headline in "the post" tonight, quote trump's pac collected $75 million this year, but so far the group has not put money into pushing for the 2020 tally he touts. it raised about $75 million the first half of this year as he trumpeted the false notion the 2020 election was stolen from him. but the pac has not devoted funds to help finance or push for similar endeavors in other states, according to people familiar with the finances. instead the save america leadership pac, which has few limits on how it can spend

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

in arizona -- this mess in arizona has been one county. this inquisition in arizona and the cyber ninjas, it was supposed to be done in may. now it's june. now it's july. in arizona that was one county and it's been going on since april. in pennsylvania they are starting with these demands to three counties, including philadelphia. and then say after that initial response they'll make the same demands of more counties. maybe they'll be able to keep theirs going on for years. there is no split screen. there are two different worlds. there is a party that is trying to use electoral politics and the democratic process to make policy about problems that the country faces. there is another party that is trying to end the use of electoral politics as an objective way of deciding who has power and how questions get resolved in our country. the two parties are engaged right now in fundamentally different projects. one of them is engaged in the political cogitation around solving problems. the other one is engaged in cogitation about ending democra

"an audit of nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in arizona in the 2020 election. we are concerned about your company's role in this highly unusual effort given cyber ninjas' apparent lack of experience in conducting audis, reports the company engaged in sloppy and insecure practices that compromised the integrity of ballots and voting equipment and were questioned by the u.s. justice department. and evidence that you and aol individuals funding the audit have sought to advance the big lie of debunked voter fraud allegations about the 2020 presidential election. americans' right to vote is aootected by the constitution. it is the cornerstone of our democratic system of government. the committee seeks to determine whether the privately funded audit conducted by your company in arizona protects the right t vote or is instead an effort to promote baseless conspiracy theories, undermine confidence i in america's elections, and reverse the results of a free and fair election for partisan gain." what do you really mean? the so-called audit in arizona in which the republi

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

and arizona, this mess in arizona has been one county. this inquisition in arizona and the cyber ninjas and the stuff that started in april was supposed to be done in may announced june, july, and supposed to be done last thursday but now it might be august and we're just enjoying ourselves. it's been one county, and it's been going on since april. and pennsylvania, they are starting with these demands to three counties including philadelphia. and then they say, after that initial response, they will make the same demands of more counties. so hey, maybe they'll be able to keep their is going on for years. there is no split screen. there are two different worlds. there is a party that is trying to use electoral politics and the democratic process to make policy about the problems of the country faces. there is another party that is trying to and the use of electoral politics as an objective way of deciding who has power and how questions get resolved in our country. the two parties are engaged right now in fundamentally different politics.

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

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

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this is the headline from the arizona republic today. quote, arizona representatives andy biggs and paul gosar votes to abandon afghan allies. what follows is a scathing editorial indicting these two congressman for being part of a small group of 16 republicans who voted against an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill to try to expedite the process and forgetting afghan translator to help u.s. forces day safety as america ends its longest war. quote, when the u.s. pulled out of vietnam, there were unfortunate, sometimes tragic repercussions for some of the vietnamese who assisted our troops. the idea of the house bill was to not let that happen again. to appreciate loyalty to. demonstrate empathy. to emphasize humanity. the bill before the most unmistakably and indisputably good. in voting, no, congressman gosar and biggs prove themselves to be unmistakably and indisputably the opposite. gosar and biggs are not the only republicans facing bash slash for voting against helping the translators. the veterans group released this ad targeting two d

frankly, could put the final nail in the coffin of the already gutted voting rights act based on an arizona voting case. both of those decisions are expected from the supreme court tomorrow. election reform and voting rights advocates bracing for what's expected to not be great news on either of those fronts, but we shall see. the court has been full of surprises this year. the substance being the last day of the term matters. but tomorrow also matters because it is the last day of the term. and if justice steven briar or any of the other 80-something-year-old justices on the court are going to retire from the court, past precedent would suggest that tomorrow could be the day which we will get that announcement. in the vast majority of modern supreme court retirements, they are announced to either take effect at the end of a supreme court term or they are announced at the close of a supreme court term. so if you are planning on this being the summer in which we get a supreme court vacancy and a senate fight over who to put on the court, we will likely tomorrow is the day we will most likely

my challenge today is not about the good people of arizona. >> stay in recess until the call of the chair. >> we will pause. thank you. >> stand in recess, you can see jon ernst and tom cotton both military veterans looking around, recognizing something is going on. you can see the commotion, people start moving around him. you hear senator leahy presiding at that moment to hit the gavel. he doesn't know why. somebody from his office comes up and says there in the building. holds of his papers, walks away. what's senator lankford was arguing on january 6th after 2 pm that day because the election shouldn't be certified congress shouldn't certified, the state should take another ten days, a commission, a study, audit the results, take another ten days which would basically get as right up against inauguration day itself before the electors would actually be sent up to capitol hill and count it. as he's making that argument, he's getting right to the apex of his argument and then, sorry, sir, here they come! you've got to stop what you're doing and we've got to get out of here, here they co

my challenge today is not about the good people of arizona. >> will stand in recess until the call of the chair. >> we'll pause. thank you. >> stand in recess. you can see aerns and cotton looking around recognizing something is going on. see the commotion and people start moving around him. senator leahy presiding hit the gavel. he doesn't know why. someone from the office comes up and says they're in the building. folds up the papers. walks away. what senator lankford was arguing there on january 6 just after 2:00 p.m. that day was that the election shouldn't be certified. congress shouldn't certify. the states should take another ten days. a study. a commission. study the result. basically get up against inauguration day itself before the electors would be sent to capitol hill and counted. he is getting the apex of the argument and then oops. sorry, sir. here they come. you got to stop what you are doing and we got to get out of here. here they come. who's to say they're not coming for you? hunting the speaker of the house, hunting the vice president, pawing through senators' desks