the united states will supplier cover. as time went, on both these parts of the plan were to be changed both with the approval and the acquiescence of the cia and the pentagon. but at this point, tell us simply wanted the okay from the president to continue preparations, and he got it. from the state, on operation pluto gets tough parity from the cia. the cia with human exiles, agree on a single lead. they want the united states help. the cubans choose dr. jose miro once castro's prime minister, he has remained neutral in the power struggle among the exiled leaders. now, he comes to new york. he comes to the anti-castro cuba. >> it is first conference the doctor speaks for the first time as president of the new revolutionary council. >> a united cuba. , a real cuba, the cuba of jose marti. >> now cubans are united, they've joined the new coalition reluctantly, they don't like the way that the cia is complimenting -- and they rightly assume that the united states participation ensures the operation success. they don't want

and let every state? is that consistent with how we respect voting rights. >> think you for that question representative. there are two important principles and we have to recognize both of them. states are laboratories of democracy. it's a great thing of our federalist system that states can experiment as they so often do including experimenting with election reforms like same-day registration a number have experimented with proving quite successful to make it more convenient to vote with increasing turnout. on the other hand, there is a competing principal that in the end, congress has to have the authority to regulate congressional elections. that includes regulating to protect the fundamental right to vote the first noteworthy examplee are the enforcement acts that has been written about and has been addressed in testimony of the reconstruction period that is absolutely vital for congress to exercise its authority under the election clause in 14h and 15th amendments and then to protect the voting righ

[laughter] [applause] [indistinct chatter] announcer: the texas state legislature convened a special legislative session to consider gop sponsor voting bills. during the session texas house republicans adopted a motion concerning absentee lawmakers who left the state to block the special session. [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] >> the house will come to order. we came to recess friday. please rise for the honorable scott colin. >> thank you, mr. speaker. let's pray together. father, on a day like today we wonder how we should pray and we are reminded by your scripture that this is the day the lord has made. let us rejoice and be glad in it. today, father, we can rejoice and we can also, as scripture tells us, we can be in continual prayer for those we serve and to those we love. father, we are reminded -- as i am inspired by those in the chamber -- they have faithfully served their constituents in this great state. in your relentless pursuit of us and your faithfulness, even when we are not faithful to you, as you relentlessly pursue us ultimately by sending your son, jesus chri

we have states and every state is equal in the senate. the states kind of take the place of our house of lords in the senate chamber. the british using the green color government and colonies would use it. the american government. the red would kind of be much more that house of lords kind of color. you see red in the early senate in philadelphia. definitely has that kind of look to it that seems a bit on the higher end. the interesting thing about the senate is the are created with more power. the power is a tie to the president in the house of representatives, and they don't have treaties in the united states are with the advice and consent of the senate, approved by the advice and consent of the senate. the senate has to approve the treaties, the house does not the senate does. so there is one power. also and time the president makes an appointment in his cabinet and ambassador, supreme court, of course. those folks would have to come in front of the senate and be approved by the senate or rejected. here in philadelphia, we have our ve

it is a union of nation states. this nation states have kept all their powers. if they don't want to be entangled, they're not in chang and they don't want a single currency. they don't have a single single currency. and there's nothing anyone can do about it. so for, for many years, including in britain, in the last what it seems written, drawing the, the european union has always been a terrain of dispute. but in fact, there was very little the europe union could impose on britain. okay, was go, it's go to syracuse here. i mean, you know, one of the issues, particularly if we can focus on the hungarians in the polls is that they focus a lot on families here. and so you have this kind of odd juxtaposition where, because of demographics for the union, at a whole, they need population growth. but then they would say, the hungarians polls, for example, why don't we just be more friendly to families and have population growth organically, naturally within the european union, instead of importing it. and so, and then the hungarians and poles and others in eastern eu

after state after state. so we are going through a realignment in this country. it is not just an all one direction realignment. different pieces of the electorate moving in opposite directions. >> ft. collins, colorado. this is charles, an independent. good morning. >> caller: my contention about voting is also, gerrymandering. what i've seen, when a politician can make districts that severely favor them, then we get to a point where, okay, i'm a guy and i'm a republican in a 90% district. okay? and i want to speak out against donald trump because i don't believe he's doing something great. well, all trump has to do then is go to that district and yell rino and your career is over. if that district was balanced, then i think we would see more people coming across and be more pragmatic because their jobs aren't on the line. and we come to a better america where the republicans or democrats on either side can speak out. and that's why i'm so adamant about hr and sr-1. i want to see that done. i want to see the

a non state hostile intelligence service is often abetted by state actors like russia. ah. in the same year, we can leeks and russia were involved in an attempt to stabilize another country from just sweat. and i hope to become your president because you don't do the president of all the people of france. if you don't, a president to protect transforms and bibs in the face of the threat of the nationalist genetic oh, your compatriots. manuel mac homes, campaign headquarters. everyone was busy preparing for the 2nd round of the presidential election when suddenly news spread. the in boxes of campaign workers from icons mash party had been it was may, 5th, 201-7730 pm. the me the funds towards the end of the day we starting to get room is on twitter. they say there are things that are going to get released then come the 1st elements that are being talked about. and one moment i see the download link being shared. so i downloaded immediately, i open it, and i see that it's actually e mails from people in the campaign, the, from the record, several 1000 documents and e mails fr

and the state of texas. and that is where we stand united before you here today, in preserving not only the democracy in texas, but the democracy of the u.s. thank you for your time. [applause] and, i would like to, if she has arrived, call up the chair -- the vice chair of the house democratic caucus. in her absence, i would then like to call representative read about -- represent of read about -- call my colleague. >> thank you, thank you all for being here today. i used to live here in washington. i worked, like you, for the press, for pbs, and it is a proud, pleasing moment to be back here with my colleagues, as a member of the texas house. we are here in d.c., our nations capitol, because we want to protect the civil right to vote for millions of texans. we were quite literally forced to move and leave the state of texas. we also know that we are living right now on borrowed time in texas. and we can't stay here indefinitely. to run out the clock, to stop republican anti-voter bills. that is where we ne

the 2 state solution is dead. i think the 2 states that more about boss who has a guest is knocked with international community with international law and negotiate and just let you know work and show how be a nice some compet did we are. that agenda has been destroyed by incident, by israeli actions, because it does not comply with any of its obligation well destroyed by the surely was destroyed by fata and the palestinian authority as well. who kept seeking the 2 state solution, whilst all the settlements were making that that's exactly the point that is that it can just say we are in the middle of the dogs or we negotiated mod, whatever. and at the same time, continue to see more learn more resources, build more settlements, which are going to be i own stature and continuous monitor. i'm getting out a company has the ethnic cleansing plan and gender around and backing up some of changing the elegy on the grounds. all these things thinking that it's ok we will negotiate to an hour later is not the case. that's w

he lasted 11 days as secretary of state. [laughter] my son said, surely, you are better that he was. it can't be the worst. [laughter] but we know what the left is trying to do to human beings that believe in christ in the way that we do. we have seen it. the president called me in january and said, the washington post headline today says you are my most loyal cabinet member. i reminded him they didn't mean that as a compliment. [laughter] look, you are here today talking , about leading with principles over politics. i want to say something i believe is very straightforward that you may not hear from other elected officials -- all of the crises facing our nation today , the big challenges that we are confronted with, are not going to be solved by any politician. it is not the way the lord works. our problem isn't the people affecting change, because we know only christ has the capacity to do that. and he will put principled men and women in those positions but it is he who will make the changes that our nation so richly nee

utah, a republican state. it has served well every citizen of the country to have their voice heard in the direction our country goes and that's what we are fighting for, the division of our constitution. >> from the northstar state the lone star state, thank you very much. >> thursday, nominees for census bureau director and ice assistant secretary testified at a confirmation hearing before the senate homeland security committee. live coverage begins at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span, online on c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> sunday night on q&a just get along with chief engineer of the historic fire vote john jay harvey adams called back into service to aid firefighters following attacks on the twin tires -- twin towers. she tells the story of the community of mariners who came to the rescue of thousands. >> the operation that delivered half a million people safety is an incredible example of the goodness of people. that when you are given the opportunity to help you have the tools and t

there is a huge diaspora in europe and the united states. i would like for us to continue taking more people from those camps now that president biden has raised the refugee cap. part of the long-term effort here has to be working with the diaspora to help it become the force that helps to open their country again at some point in the future. it's a quarter of all syrians, so it is a sizable share of the country. to continue to be very, very tough and punishing on outside powers supporting the syrian regime, including the russians. through instruments like the caesar act. then, sees any opportunity that arises. as you know, timing is everything and the timing may not be right right now, that all kinds of things may happen in the months and years coming that create opportunities for us to seize. i wish i had a better answer and there may be a better answer out there. i would be very open to hearing from people participating today who follows the situation more intently than i do. but that is kind of where i am. gerald: it is a problem and i t

to look into the results in his state. the infamous call where trump said he only needed to find about 11,000 votes. that same night the republican elections official in arizona got another voicemail. >> this is a white house operator. i was calling to let you know that the president's available to take your call if your free. >> the official told the arizona republic he presumed trump would try to pressure him. so he never returned that call. this new reporting is the latest to detail a multi-state effort by trump and his allies to undermine the results of the 2020 election, the same effort to led to a so-called audit that's been going on in maricopa county in arizona since april. run by the cyber ninjas. now the republican playbook on how to overturn the 2020 election is turning a new page, this time in pennsylvania. the associated press is reporting today that republicans in the pennsylvania state senate might be planning their own audit of the 2020 election in their state. that effort is led by republican state senator

as i said in april, the united states did what we wanted to do in afghanistan. to get the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and delivered justice to osama bin laden. and to degrade the terrorist threat from becoming afghanistan from becoming a terrorist base. we achieved those objectives. that is why we went. we did not go to afghanistan to nation build. it is the right and the responsibility of the afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country. together, with our nato allies and partners, we have trained and equipped over -- nearly 300,000 current serving members of the afghan security force. and many beyond that to our no longer serving. after that, hundreds of thousands more afghan national defense security forces trained over the last two decades. we provided our afghan partners with all the tools, trained equipment, of any modern military. we provided advanced weaponry. we are going to continue to provide funding and equipment and will ensure they have the capacity to maintain their air force. most critically, as i stres

sponsored in the eyes of the united states. the fact that they're happening on russian soil matters. here's what the u. s. president joe biden had to say about his telephone call at his latest conversation with latimer when we're already coming from historical, even though it's not, not sponsored by mistake, expect an action enough information to act. now you remember perhaps back in geneva that job wide and put together a list of 16 critical infrastructure areas. good. he said cannot be targeted. many people kind of criticize that and said a why did you tell them what was so critical and be really shouldn't anything be off limits. and so that's the argument now that there's been another cyber attack is but job widens, meeting. it seems to have gone to waste has fallen on deaf ears, and they're looking in the united states for tougher action from joe by the what the white house press secretary said in the last couple of hours is look joe biden pledge that he would engage with blood were put and diplomatically, that's what this

many counties and other states across the country have made some similar announcements regarding state employees. but this req when it comes to health care workers. governor newsom says california is the first state to implement a vaccine verification system for public and private healthcare workers. no one won't lose their job if they refuse the vaccinenated, ty will be required to test for covid 19 in a hospital setting those workers will test twice a week and a smaller, less vulnerable setting, say like a doctor's or dentist's office. those workers will test only once a week. governor newsom says this announcement is a result of the growing threat of covid-19 delta variant, which is now accounting for 80% of california's new infections. he says misinformation about the vaccine is preventing people from getting their shots and the state wants to end that. exhausted by the ron johnson's and the tucker carlson's were exhausted by the margie taylor greens were exhausted by the right wing echo chamber that has been perpetuating misinformation around the vaccine, and its advocacy and safe

the united states secretary of state takes up the next topic, calling for action to meet the threat of growing red influence in cuba. the reaction to the debate was explosive. in cuba, castro defiant. proclaimed friendship with the soviet union and communist china. the oas took action against dominican strongman rule. even as cuba threatened to walk out, president eisenhower in his press conference recalled common ties and interests and left open the door for an easing of tensions. >> by no means do i want to admit or charge that this situation is irretrievable. cuba has been one of our finest friends. we are the ones that have conducted the war. when they got in trouble, we had an occupation. we set them on their feet and set them free. we have had a long history of friendly relationships. we tried to keep our hands out of their internal political affairs. we have not tried to throw out someone we didn't like. i would think that the very welfare of the american -- of the cuban people demand some kind of composition of the difficulties between the american states, including our own on

he's exile to the united states. he's a news paper man and uses his platform as a journalist to popularize his pro-slavery views, and this was confounding to northerners abolitionists the rest of the world who already associate slavery as an opposition to values of self-government and freedom and rights, of course, so what mitchell does is by making his pro-slavery case. he says there's an there is an alternate case to be made that these deluded self-comparisons that white southerners are making are not yet quite outside the bounds of the way that nationalism was understood and the 19th century and mitchell actually does then go on to directly draw the same comparison that native born white southerners were as well. he was quite out spoken in claiming that it was the confederacy that fought for the same he had fought for maryland so again, we from our perspective certainly recognize that he was not correct in this that the confederacy was fighting against value such as freedom and inequality and natural rights, but m

make any of these state. , , , , state. yes, because it is affecting _ state. yes, because it is affecting all _ state. yes, because it is affecting all of - state. yes, because it is affecting all of our i state. yes, because it is affecting all of our lives | state. yes, because it is i affecting all of our lives in different ways will stop with rushin different ways will stop with rush in different ways. with agriculture, animals are dying because we are unable to keep them alive. we are also, i have been hearing just being cooked alive on the ocean itself because the temperatures are so high. —— mussels and seafood. with other things, migration, it is making an impact and actually pretty quickly. find actually pretty quickly. and 'ust actually pretty quickly. and just briefly. _ actually pretty quickly. and just briefly, what _ actually pretty quickly. and just briefly, what conclusions are being drawn about this with regards to climate change? i think the main conclusion is that we are seeing the effects of climate change in california and other parts

take a listen, treat it is not a state. it's an act. freedom is not a state. it's and we must act and we will act causes just or visit to the people who are the former. so we got you all, i'm a job, protect our troops and all those who shared watch over the market. so around the country we have republicans. we're proposing laws, they say, say, are aimed at essentially preventing voter fraud. they're requiring new forms of voter identification. they're regulating the polling places. in some places, there have been laws proposed to restrict the handing out of water to those waiting in line to vote, etc. now joe biden, and most democrats see this as basically an attempt by republicans to suppress the voter turnout specifically and constituencies that don't vote for them such as low income folks, african americans and others. now, in response to these proposed rules, we're seeing democrats taking some rather dramatic measures. for example, in texas, the democrats state legislators have left the state in order that there not be a quorum so that the state legislator

gerry: troubling questions about the state of readiness of the u.s. navy for war, facing criticism within its own ranks including too much on cultural and white privilege stuff again, not enough on the core mission of winning battles that seek a new report commissioned by members of congress and based on interviews with 77 current and former navy officers and sailors highlighting concerns that the distracted and handcuffed by bureaucracy shift commanders are micromanaged in a fear of bad publicity more folks the diversity of officers and not enough to work fighting, one lieutenant commented they think my only value is as a black woman if you cut us open will all be the same color. one of the officers of the report retired navy admiral mark montgomery, thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much for having me. gerry: let's start on this issue a hot topic in recent weeks focus of the military seems to have generally diversity and inclusion and let me quote something that you saw on the report one person that is quoting the report seen a retired off

extraordinary action by state legislatures. not just a stunt but people really sort of being as creative as possible in trying to turn back this threat to the country. >> john, i jotted down that section, this forming of a coalition. wrote next to it, new, question mark. they already have that. he had the meeting with the civil rights activists. the all-star game for the mlb was pulled out of georgia because of the voting rights. they got all of these groups. you heard an admission there will not be new legislation. i didn't hear anything new from the president as what this next step will be. >> i do think we should give the president he decided under some pressure but decided to give this speech. the question is will there be follow up. will there be additional speeches. when the president says legislation is not the only tool, that to me, and does not mention the filibuster, does not promise lobby senators to change their mind. this will be settled at the ballot box next year more than settled by any big dramatic vote in the

states would do that, places like new york, deblasio said we are fine, what about the states having a problem? are they going to listen to use this money to combat this? >> the states will use the money in the worst possible way. i don't think they will use it to fund law enforcement because the blue states are controlled by liberals and liberals do not support law enforcement. that has been clear for the past 12 months and we see reaction to that. it is also ironic that the cities with the most stringent gun laws are the cities with the highest rates of crime. red states that are pro-second amendment had the lowest rates of crime. the democrats are not in the right position with respect to law enforcement and are wrong with respect to guns and the american people are realizing this especially the people who live in the cities of blue states hopefully democrats will be held accountable by the voters because we can't continue to see an increase in crime in all of these blue states, it's not sustainable and something hopefully president biden is starting to see is a problem and is try

you hear him talking about the urgent federal efforts to help state after state after state deal with wildfire challenges across the united states right now. we'll continue to track that meeting for news. we want to get back to today's dramatic breaking news from the cdc. i'll put it on the wall. the cdc updating the assessment of the threat of the covid delta variant. as of yesterday, cdc scientists rated the delta variant just like a common cold. as in if you were sick, you were likely to infect two people. the new guidance says it's much more of a threat. if you're sick, meaning infected with delta, you're likely to infect 8 or 9 people on average. think about the math here. infecting two in a common cold. this is like chickenpox. eight or nine people. that means the delta variant is more of a threat. now it's a conversation about what needs to be done to deal with the new science. at that point let's bring in dr. peter hotez from texas children's hospital and the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor school of medicine. yesterday the conversation was this is l

concerned about russian expansion is. russia has conquered those states in the past. so they fear, thomas, how can i the baltic republics? their sovereignty is threatened by russia as we speak right now. what evidence do you have to prove that? well, we have, for example, the cyber attacks on, as donia during the earlier. in the past decade, we have the lessons of history. we have the fact that russia, the, the, the, the baltic states, of course, your annexation, that's part of their historical. and as those countries closer to russia, do fear it's military power. russia, oh, shouldn't, it shouldn't be anxious about nato expansion to its border. you know, it's either 2 sides of all of these things here. i'm the platitudes here. dmitri, you're the, the russian in the room here. russia wants better relations with you, but it's always conditionality over and over and over again. you must do this, even if you know you must change your behavior therapy in union doesn't have to change its behavior whatsoever. does it go ahead, dimitri? well, of course, i would want to have

this as several states look to enact restrictive voting laws. president biden speaking in philadelphia about the ongoing republican effort to enact restrictive voting rights. >> to deny free and fair elections is the most un-american thing, the most un-democratic and most unpatriotic and sadly not unprecedented. >> reporter: the president saving restricts that in more than 16 states are painful and are aimed at denying women and minorities the right to vote. >> have you no shame? >> reporter: biden calling it 21st century jim crow attacking republicans for leaning on lies that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud calling the effort the most significant test to our democracy since the civil war. >> the confederates back then never breached the capitol as insurrectionists did on january 6th. >> reporter: the senate passing their version. it calls for a ban on 24-hour polling locations and drive-through voting, efforts proving to increase turnout among minority voters. that prompted over 50 democrats to flee the state for washington, d.c. in a

and particularly the united states. they have made ever greater contributions to peace as we saw with egypt in this regional conflict. finally, with the united states, the u.s. administration like all administrations decides that since the priorities for the international agenda -- good luck. when asia's aircraft carriers are shipped out to the middle east outside of afghanistan, it is outside of joey hood's responsibilities in the middle east and the entire appomattox apparatus of the united states dropped most everything else to focus on the gaza cease-fire. this is the nature of the middle east that every administration has experienced. we can dream about doing things that are more important but the middle east is very hard to ignore. i think that is the lesson everyone has gotten. i will stop there. >> before i turned back to you, i just want to remind our viewers to submit their questions via twitter or email them to us. the important role of the united states, a proactive role, particularly to ensure that the ceas

the state in what they are pretending is some great moral crusade. in reality they've just come here to washington to snap selfies, bask in the limelight, and beg senate democrats to take over texas elections. once again this outrage is completely phony. the texas legislature was going to consider bills that would expand the minimum hours of early voting, make even more counties provide 12-hour days of early voting, and make it even easier for voters to fix mistakes on mail-in ballots so their votes would actually count. these bills would apply voter i.d. to mail-in ballots through a simple process that doesn't even require a driver's license number. they'd clean up voter rolls to remove voters who have died or moved away. this is not controversial stuff. it's common sense. more than 80% of texas -- texans support voter i.d. but democrats have pulled out the same chicken little playbook that failed in georgia, the same big lies. yesterday the president of the united states delivered a speech that was set in an alter nat universe -- alternate universe

the business of the people of the state of texas. today in essence we are allowing and coddling people who should be at work in the state of texas , their constitutional duties. yet we are treating them as hometown heroes in washington, d.c. i believe they need to have their constitutional duties performed and be back home. now, mr. chairman, texas has been a pioneer in passing early voting laws that began in 1988 in texas. but i would say to you that texas has used every two years for the legislature to be able to strengthen these laws and to provide feedback and to allow texans the opportunity to vote. i would note that texas allows 17 days more of early voting than delaware, which is where our president is from. texas allows each texan 17 days more than the state of delaware. these bills that we'll be talking about today keep the ability for disabled or elderly persons to vote curb side. that's important to me. i have a disabled son. perhaps my son may or may not want to go inside. he can stay outside and it allows that. we need t

nearly $30 million damages to the state. that does not count for the impact of the storm and the impact of the storm had families who lost loved ones and countless other project applications storm and post. governor desantis at the time the damages were going to be almost incalculable. the depletion on the jersey shore is probably going to be the worst we've ever seen. unfortunately, he was correct. natural disasters have life altering consequences which is by members of the committee must work fema has the tools and is prepared as it possibly can be to respond. i understand fema, and this is very important to me, updating the national flood insurance program waiting methodology. the latest system 2.0, the current state one of the goal is to deliver active rates, i am concerned for many of my constituents, they will be forced to pay higher wages for move as a result of not being able to pay. meyer neither of these are viable options especially because of new jersey, as i think you all know, it's just about the highest in the

states like georgia, states like arizona. >> yeah. indeed. representative fischer, you are working with nancy pelosi, the congressional black caucus, hoping for a sit-down with kristen synama. what do you hope to gain? >> we've got to know the positions of the parties. we've heard recently of some discussions regarding with clyburn and his attempt to work on a resolution to carve out the filibuster for voting rights. i agree with him 100%. there should not be a rule or tradition that trumps our u.s. constitution, and our right to vote should come before senate tradition, and this is a now or never moment for our country. this is a now or never moment for our democracy. we need to have one standard when it comes to voting in the united states, and that's the american standard. it is very clear to me there's an attack on democracy. voices are being silenced across this country. the eyes of the nation are on texas. we are here in washington, we are asking everyone to join us in this fight and let's do this together. we are the last folks on this

you couldn't be more correct, their secretary of state state. it's in the blink. and recently announced that the u. s. will provide more than $436000000.00 in additional humanitarian assistance to syrians and the communities that host them. what are your thoughts on this somewhat of a relief package? well that it's how the it's who they want to provide it to. and that is primarily to syrians who are in the live problems area and to bring in humanitarian assistance. they want to do it without approval of the syrian government. and the russians who control the border area, where this assistance would be coming in has not agreed to that. so the, the whole issue of, of, of trying to work something out. i absence the, the syrian government in whose country they, these refugees would reside, is, is problematic, and the united states continues to want to oust aside. in fact, it was during the summer with and biden were asked by not to try to remove aside forcibly. and there was no response. so that's not a good sign. so that suggest to me that they may attempt to, to, to

we are seeing that in state after state after state. we are going to a realignment. this country is not just an one direction realignment. host: fort collins, colorado. charles, an independent. good morning. caller: my contention about voting is gerrymandering. because what i see in gerrymandering, where a politician can make districts that severely favor them, then we get to a point where, ok, i'm a guy, a republican in a 90% district. and i want to vote against donald trump because i don't believe he is doing something great. then everyone that districts yell rhino, and your career is over. to the extent that it was balanced, i think we would see more people coming across the aisle and be more pragmatic because their jobs are not on the line. and we we come to a better america where the republicans or democrats on either side to speak out, and that's why i'm so adamant about hr and sr one. i want to see that done. i want to see citizens -- thank you, charlie. guest: you made one of my points for me, that hr one, i think the mistakes made was because they put everyt

constitution, as a state legislator who left the state basically using a filibuster and going to washington so you can make hr one the law of the land and fight the republicans who are using the filibuster to block hr one, you keep asking " why do we need to change?" the democrats spent two years corrupting the voting laws in states like pennsylvania by having judges and election officials change the rules before the election. when you mail out an extra 50 million mail-in ballots, where do all those ballots go? you want to say there is no proof of fraud. what i have proof of is unconstitutional election. swing states ran an unconstitutional election. this is an disputable. -- on disputable. you-- this is undisputable. you asked why. because the state exercises power to determine how elections will be run. that is the states' responsibility, not the federal government's responsibility. host: if this bill does not pass, what happens next? guest: sure. we are hoping, as you said there will be a need for speed, that congress will feel the need for speed to pass hr1 so we will have uniform elect

so, is the united states heading right back to where it started? the u.s. invaded afghanistan nearly 20 years ago because the taliban were in power, and they hosted osama bin laden, whose group, al qaeda was responsible for 9/11. now one group is fighting hard, the elite afghan commandos. i recently saw them in action, attacking a taliban safe house. what about foreign fighters? extremists? terrorists? we understand that they are starting to come back in once again. >> these people who are coming to create troubles and problems for the world, for the future as they did in 9/11. >> even worse than 9/11. i'm telling you. >> reporter: she is a member of parliament and negotiator with the taliban. extremists tried to assassinate her twice. >> we have been in world. and in war, people don't distribute sweets, they kill each other. so do you think they will kill? they will not go for hostilities? they will. >> reporter: i put that question to a former taliban leader who new bin laden. will afghanistan once again become a base for international terrorist attacks?

texas state representative senfronia thompson. joining me now, senator jeff merkley of oregon, one of the senators working on that new voting rights legislation. senator, people have been pretty hush-hush about what's going to be in this proposed legislation. can you give us a sense of what it is going to look like, how it might be different than the for the people act? >> oh, the details have to be worked out, but there are four main sections in the for the people act. one is on dark money. one is on ethics. one is stopping gerrymandering. and one is protecting the ballot box. and i think we're going to end up with a bill that's strong in all four areas. >> what about a voting i.d. mandate? >> well, voting i.d. is one of the questions that we're bringing everybody together. we're meeting. our staffs are meeting. we're holding conversations. clearly there are different practices in different states that people feel wedded to. in the state of california they use signatures as a very effective instrument at the polling place. in ore

as governor abbott said, it belongs to state legislatures to make the decisions for each state. that's the appropriate process in the democratic system that we have. chris: all right, panel. we have to take a break here. we'll see you later in the program. up next, we go live to afghanistan as u.s. forces pull out and the taliban makes gains and we'll speak with a top pentagon official about the end of the u.s. mission. chris: after 20 years, 2400 american military deaths and $4 trillion, u.s. troops are leaving afghanistan. and they're leaving behind a fractured afghan government, a surging enemy and an uncertain future. in a moment, we'll speak with pentagon press secretary john kirby about what it means for u.s. national security. but first, let's turn to greg palkot in kabul with the latest on the situation on the ground there, greg. >> reporter: we have been back on the ground here in afghanistan for three days now and there has been no let-up in fighting. new reports today of clashes between the taliban and afghan government forces in the very important southern afghan cit

the united states has used sanctions to good affect. not as an end in themselves, but as a means to an end. an opportunity, a lever to press governments around the world to do the right thing. and in this cas, protecting the rights of lgbtqi plus communities is the right thing. if we see a government that is systemically allowing discrimination or worse yet, that is systemically endorsing discrimination, persecution, violence against this community, we'll be prepared to act. >> from here, from the podium behind you, you regularly talk about instances where the lgbtqi plus community is being harmed in some way around the world. why is it important to you to do that? >> i recognize that every time i get behind that podium, i'm not speaking for myself. i'm not offering personal opinions. i'm speaking on behalf of the united states government. i'm speaking on behalf of the state department. i'm speaking on behalf of president biden. i'm speaking on behalf of this administration. but i also recognize there is important symbolism and meaning

many states have this. it requires states to have a target for how much of electricity is produced by non-carbon sources. that's in the bill right now, right? >> that is in the bill and that's going to stay in the bill. >> okay. now here's the thing and i know, i know you hate to talk parliamentary stuff -- >> as a matter of fact i do, you're right. >> okay. okay. so -- but the clean energy standard is a great example, right? key policy, really good policy. i personally am very happy to see it in the bill. i've been focused on this. can that go through reconciliation? >> well, the way -- it can go and, look, we are dealing with -- i won't bore everybody with senate rules, reconciliation and the berg rules but we are going to achieve the goals that the president has brought forth in terms of the reduction of carbon so we're going to do it in the best way that we can do it and among many other provisions. we're going to be talking about moving aggressively in transportation. moving towards electric transporta

i love my state as much as anything in the world. not quite as much of my family, but not far behind but i would do anything for my state of west virginia it's been so good to me, the opportunities, i had a chance to serve as governor for two terms, secretary of state before that, i know this process very well. these are good people in the bottom line is they have changed. i told the democratic party what had happened to people like west virginians or people that come from rural areas, all of a sudden find themselves not good enough, not clean enough, not green enough and not smart enough. well, i'm sorry, these are the same good west virginians and independent republicans that we've always been. they just started voting differently for that reason, and they still send me back to represent them and i do the best i possibly can. i know them. they don't know me as the democrat -- joe the democrat, they know me as joe. >> bret: you've been successful as a democrat west virginia. last thing quickly, will congress ever care about the nati

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and we see how platform power interacts with state power. with that complementary interaction with one another you have one chapter titled profit over people where it is clear the profit motive is central that youe. also talk about state actors and with those capitalist economy and not the way so this is a big question. answer however you think is appropriate but can you speak to your experience how do they interact how does that nexus work itself out coming to controlling and policing speech on the internet quick. >> i'm glad you mentioned and copyright we've always had a very strong team working on copyright but i do think that copyright that debate does set up the struggles and it has been both a blessing to learn from the history and the focus that has gone there has not expanded to other parts of the world from the broader debate. so the best way for me to answer this question to my personal history, i talk about this aok lot in the book but i first encountered internet censorship on my own living in morocco my first night there and wen

in texas is one of the states will have a comprehensive database. menus that to study the issues and then in part two after tort reform is enacted and then in part three but it's only one state. so national mall died on - - data studies some of the same questions we studied in part two and then part four is summary and conclusions i want the real issue that physicians are concerned with. marked by sudden and dramatic increases of malpractice and this is the percentage increase every major medical practice ensure at the beginning of the latest malpractice crisis. and you can see a dramatic increase talking 100 percent increase over a relatively short period of time and that causes real problems and then they go up by 100 percent so this is an average it could be higher for high risk specialties with the number that paid claims and paid to resolve those claims. and with a large paid claims per capita in this vertical line in 2003 there are some complexity to it national bindings and nine economic damages and all places very few go to trial that they a

order the wayward democrats back to the state capitol. >> once they step back into the state of texas they will be arrested and brought to the texas capitol and we will be conducting business. >> reporter: critics are signaling out new i.d. requirements for mail-in voting and 24-hour and drive-in voting. texas democrats can't stop the changes and are looking to washington where kong yes is wrestling with national voting rights legislation >> we are so hopeful that congress will hear us and step up to the plate to do something that they may only have the power to do. >> the big lie is just that, a big lie. >> reporter: it comes as president biden issued his most forceful warning about new voting restrictions passed in at least 17 states. >> the denialof full and free fair elections is the most unamerican thing that any of us can imagine, the most undemocratic, the most unpatriotic and sadly not unprecedented. >> reporter: the president has been facing increasing democratic pressure to be more vocal about voting rights since his party doesn't have enough votes to pass voting rights prot

and then with that two state solution. so first of all with more and more friends. >> before i asked the final question that may take a moment to think the organizers of today's event. the club membership director and the club executive director with the documentary filmmakers. and to discuss the new pbs documentary please join us and then to speak of the air force's mission in the ever-changing national security environment. now for the last question. you have spent what is something everyone should know? and then to be one-sided and to relay on anything with that general in support and then try to make yourself by the other party. that you can learn and it doesn't have any value first of all. and for example in speaking to the un staff and this leadership style and those from the higher ground to lower ground. and this is a corruption so that is absolutely necessary and then even to the buildings and everything but it doesn't use that type of force but however you shouldn't let them use the power in negotiations. and wit

the state requirement goes into effect in early august. the governor said that the vaccinations will rep bring down the numbers as the delta variant continues to spread. in san francisco. justin andrews. >>> time for a look at the other top stories. >> the fda has requested moderna and pfizer to expand their trial this is a precaution to gather more information about rare side effects including heart inflammation that turned up in vaccinated people under the age of 30. moderna as said it'll expand its trial. >>> oakland police launching an investigation after former united states senator barbara boxern was robbed and assaulted. it happened in the middle of the day on third and harrison. >>> an investigation in to the deadly attack at the nation's capitol is underway. republicans have called for a boycott but at least two gop lawmakers will take part. >>> city leaders will discuss and vote on a new budget. a proposed two year, $26 billion plan includes more money for police and pandemic recovery, housing and early education. we will go live

does the united states government do it? absolutely. of course, it acts that political parties of many different countries. does french intelligence drive intelligence, rushing intelligence, hack political parties in order to collect intelligence? yes, did they heck the dnc has at least one state act act that he and see if you read very carefully they say it's been hacked many times over the last 2 years. and also say that the dmc security is like swiss cheese, the d n. i the directive national tyson i states several months ago said that both are in to either republicans and dmc were being attacked by a range of actors from philosophical opponents to states engage in espionage. now the head of the d and i, james, who's responsible for all us intelligence agencies. he's the boss of the boss of the see if anyone knows what us intelligence agencies knows, know, think he knows. and on friday, he had to come out and say that there's a lot of media hype of innovation that they have no idea as to what motivation is, even if they didn't know wh

new cases are trending up in 49 states. that rise pressuring many cities and states to enact new mask mandates. on monday, st. louis, missouri, will enforce indoor mask mandate in public settings, but the state's attorney general, eric schmidt, plans to file suit to try to stop it. the fda and cdc are said to be exploring multiple options for a third covid-19 dose, a vaccine, but only for immuno compromised people if needed. this even as vaccination rates in the u.s. remain low. polo sandoval is looking into all this. florida is one of the states seeing the most dramatic increases in new covid cases