coca-cola hates discrimination. okay. why isn't coca-cola saying anything about phil scott? he's the governor of vermont, a republican, by the way. governor scott declared that vermont would be passing out vaccines on the basis of skin color. vermont wants to check your racial purity before they give you life-saving medicine. that doesn't seem like a good idea, or legal, or ethical, or something that could ever happen in america. is coca-cola okay with that question mike they are. coke hasn't said a word about it. neither has delta, which despite being an airline and not a super pac, has also decided to condemn georgia's elections bill. according to the ceo of delta, people in the black community are upset about the loss, so delta's upset, too. to speak it's about protecting the voices of our people. when i speak to our people, particularly within the black community, we've got a very large black employee base, almost universally they are hurt by the law and the legislation that was enacted, and we need to make certain their voices are heard. we spent a lot of time in the la

this is what they're doing. >> coca-cola, if coca-cola's for h.r. 1, you are the dumbest ceo in the history of america. if h.r. 1 becomes law, ballot harvesting will be the law of the land. states will be c run by the most liberal people in washington. awthere will be federally funded elections. redistricting will be done by liberal democrats. federal election committee. if you think that's a good deal for corporate america or hardworking americans, then you're crazy and you need to be fired. i think they all need to be asked tomorrow, do support h.r. 1 that's now pending before the senate. because if you do, as a corporate ceo, you're destroying your shareholders' ability to thrive and survive. >> laura: i laid out in the angle most of these ceos have no hesitation about bowing down to china with everything they're doing in hong kong, their plans i'm sure in taiwan. what they have done to their own people in china. they have no problem. now they're going to lecture georgia? they think they're not going to deal with the wrath of the american people? give me a break. >> what they are doing i

coca-cola is on deck to report next week and one options trader is saying it will pop. tony what did you see? >> yeah today we saw some fairly unusual flow here for coca-cola, second biggest name in xlp the consumer staple sector now coca-cola does trade fairly actively, about 53,000 contracts today. today more than four times more calls traded than puts one unusual trade we saw across the tape where a trader bought 10,000 contracts of the september 57.5 call options for about 96 cents this trader laid out almost $1 million in premium to bet coca-cola would be above 58.5 by september expiration that's about 9.5% higher than where the stock closed today year-to-date the stock is only up 1 mercedes. up one percent this is a fairly large and aggressive bet that over q2 and q3 that coca-cola is going to take advantage of this recovery. what's interesting, it's only risking 1.7% of the underlying stock value by buying this out of the call action going to september >> tune in for more "options action" 5:30 tomorrow. up next, final trades. ♪♪ ♪♪ hey lily, i need a new

but not just microsoft, you need to cut ties with, this is coca-cola ceo. james quincy, he lined up coca-cola behind hr1 to rig the voting rules in democrat's favor. he said to protect black people's rights, but james quincy targets black people, black kids see twice as many of its ads as white kids, james quincy increased his ad spending 80% linking his product to poor health, he encourages racism in his own company, coca-cola employees told to be less white as part of their diversity training, and europe his coca-cola claims -- continuing to be one of the biggest polluters of our ocean. here is another disgusting two-faced corporate hypocrite, larry fink. chief executive world's largest investment firm. if concerned about efforts that could limit access so ballot for everyone, he is concerned about social justice but not concerned enough to do it in his own company. 3% of his senior leaders are black. 5% of his hus -- u.s. workforce. he is one of the biggest investors in private prison that hurt black people. he has been investing in bomb manufacturers an

look at this senator rand paul says republic is across the country should boycott coca-cola for george's new vote law, that is a fact senator mitch mcconnell says these companies are quite stupid, the debate and critics say these companies criticized george's law but okay with profiting in china for human rights abuses, also tonight we will show you more mistakes we found in the botched 60 minutes story of florida governor desantis and publix supermarket going from bad to worse, we will show you tonight what 60 minutes deliberately left out in the jurors did not see it is so overwhelming that 60 minutes claim governor desantis got to do vaccinations and exchange, it is so incorrect 60 minutes auto corrected story, plus the silence on the biden of administration the democrats. the taxpayer money spent by president biden green energy infrastructure plan will likely go to green energy products made by forced labor in chinese prison camps even cio chief richard and the u.s. solar engine energy warned the biden of administration try has demanded biden's locket but all we hear is crickets. mor

after coca-cola caved to left wing boycotts threats on demands to denounce the new at u.s. state voter law but drinks giant finds itself under boycott attack this time from the other side of the political divide. warm welcome to you and a very good morning good 10 am here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me to care. now a former u.s. intelligence analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's targeted drone assassination program daniel hale pleaded guilty to transmitting and retaining national defense information last week his case comes amid growing public concern over the civilian death toll from u.s. drone attacks. i have to tell you when he called me a few hours ago he was surprisingly upbeat and optimistic and he he remarked about how much press this issue has been getting since he decided to plead guilty so in the end i think that he thinks that this is been worth it that americans know more about the drone program now than 8 they did 6 months ago or a year ago and even though he's likely going to go to

coca-cola is drank in texas too and they are trying to pass these bills as well. they are important and local groups have been making that direct request to these companies including companies that switched their position trood to understand the importance of seeking a federal solution we are playing whack a moel across a variety of states we are seeing these things proposed in texas and florida and states across the country. these are corporations willing to stand up against anti-lgbtq legislation which is vitally important. they have spoken out on climate change, on gun violence. now we need them to speak out on this issue, this race issue and it is a democracy issue. i have really been distressed over the last few weeks, concerned that the business plan of many american corporations appears to be agnostic about democracy. when you deny citizens the ability to vote and punish them for turning out in record numbers, then you are engaged in anti-democratic actions. that's the space where corporations in my view are compelled to speak because they benefit from our

but coca-cola is silent on that. >> it's sickening. the world is not paying enough attention to what's going on in china. the human rights situation is the worst it has been in 4 some years. i was in the operating room when they were forcibly aboargt and sterilizing women under the one-child policy. now they are forcibly sterilizing uighur women. we have churches being turned into brainwashing centers. they call them civilization centers. thing wears are being arrested and harvested for their organs. it's like human ay nice. but you actually sell it on the open market for $125,000. we have the destruction of culture in tibetan the destruction of hong kong democracy. there is no freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of movement. it's a high-tech digital dictatorship. now we have the unleashing of the pandemic on the world. how the leader of the free world could spend 2 hours on the phone with xi jinping and not bring up the virus is beyond me. dan: china is the world's largest surveillance state. but the tactics are emulated b

delta and coca cola are now speaking out against the restrictions -- but is it too late? we will talk to cliff albright of black voters matter about the fight to preserve voting rights across the country. then to oregon governor kate brown on her efforts to expand vote by mail -- a practice used in oregon for decades. >> two mons after we saw the turnout in the 2020 election republicans are trying to rewrite history by rolling back -- and expanding vote by mail. it is on democratic, it is un-american. and i am taking action. >> plus we look at the political and health crisis in brazil. we will speak to celso amorim who served as brazil's foreign minister under luiz inÁcio lula da silva. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow. org, the war and peace report. -- the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. in minnesota, the police supervisor of derek chauvin testified thursday that there was no justification for the former minneapolis officer to keep his knee on the neck of george floyd for over nine minutes. sergeant david ploeger is one of -- was

delta and coca-cola have already begun that process. again, we cannot support those who do not support us in our efforts to be able to exercise our right to vote. this boycott is not anything that we want to do. the only way that we will boycott, if it is something that we have to comedo. but i'm confident that coca-cola, delta and some of the other companies will see the light and come on board. >> in an act of retaliation against delta, georgia house of representatives voted to revoke a nearly $35 million tax credit for the airline. the bill did not move forward in the state senate. what is your message to corporations who see backlash from gop lawmakers? >> i think that that is why coca-cola and delta didn't speak out before. in 2018, there is legislature to do the same thing. it is a way of threatening corporations to say if you speak out against what we're trying to do, we'll punish you. i want the corporations to know if they do the right thing, you will have the people standing behind them and i also believe that you will see the

i did say to the ceo of coca-cola people drink coca-cola in texas, too, and texas is setting about trying to pass some of these bills as well. but hr1 and hr4 are critically important. local groups are have been make that request to these companies to understand the importance of seeking a federal solution we are playing whack-a-mole across a variety of states we are seeing these laws proposed in florida and texas and michigan and states around the country. and so we really need that federal legislation. it's going to be a test to see whether corporations are willing to stand up. these are corporations willing to stand up against anti-lbgtq q legislation, which is vitally important. they have spoken out on climate change they have spoken out on gun australia. now we need them to speak out on this race issue. it's a democracy issue and i have been really distressed over the last few weeks, concerned that the business plan of many american corporations appears to be agnostic about democracy when you try to deny citizens the ability to vote and participate in the political process and punish

you need to decide whether atlanta needs the coca-cola company. there were no cries of cancel culture or left wing ideology. they saw the city on the wrong side of history and acted. two hours after that meeting, every ticket to the dinner was told and nearly 1600 people attended. today the corporate world is taking action. they are condemning restriction voter laws. on friday maine baseball announced they will move the game out of atlanta because of the new voter restrictions. the republican governor was outraged by this the decision blaming liberal cancel culture. but it is not cancel culture to respond to democracy weakening legislation. stopping people from voting, well, that is actually cancel culture. and once again, coca-cola along with other major corporations based in georgia have been called on to do the right thing. and in a historic open letter, 72 black executives called on all corporations, no matter their locations to oppose the voting restrictions. let's make clear why all of this is happening. this is happening because of activist

if coca-cola only wants to operate in democrat states and only democrats drink coca-cola, god love them. we'll see half the country quicks drinking coca-cola and quits using delta. republican businesses don't get involved in politics because it hurts the bottom line to make half the country unhappy. elizabeth: it doesn't just irritate half the country, meaning republicans. it irritates people who know the facts about the law. people in georgia can vote up to a month early. voting by mail-in ballots. no excuse absentee ballots t irritates everybody that knows about the law. >> when i lived in new york state overwhelmingly controlled by democrats always has been, in new york state i have to have an excuse to vote absentee ballot. until two years ago, there was none, zero early voting in new york state. new york still has less early society than georgia. the misunderstanding the what georgia did. the way the press rolled with it, quoted biden and stacey abrams and quoted jim crow 2.0 or jim crow on steroids, bad reporting, joe biden calling it jim crow added up to economic boycotts and thr

man, that's fantastic for coca-cola. and i know he doesn't want to extrapolate so maybe the lazy people just simply have to say, all right, i'm going to use his guidance forget his guidance. he's, this is on fire. this stock should be higher, carl good numbers >> also, jim, some comments about inflation, a lot of plastic comments, oj, aluminum, they say manageable this year, but there will be a challenge in 2022. >> well, why do they let all of those aluminum, david, the aluminum can companies were all allowed to merge, what was that about. >> i do not know >> you don't know? >> no, i don't have an answer for you. >> you don't think it was right? you don't have an answer. >> i don't necessarily, i haven't done enough work on the situation in terms of consolidation amongst the aluminum makers. >> there it is, carl there it is. >> i will tell you that commodity prices as carl points out continue to go higher. >> i'm aware of it. >> the chinese are suddenly getting serious about air pollution. and they've cut back how much

as well as all voters' rights. >> and while coca-cola and delta eventually did the right thing, they are still under pressure for their delayed response. today, standing in front of the weld of coca-cola, a group of faith and community leaders announced a national boycott of those two companies as well as home depot for their failure to speak up before the legislation was passed. state republicans are also furious at delta and coca-cola for what they claim is a partisan and ill informed attack on the law. last night, republicans in georgia's house of representatives outrageously passed a bill stripping delta of a multi-million dollar tax break before the measure stalled out in the senate. 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 th

coca-cola, delta. you had the black executives writing to other businesses, airlines and other companies across the country. you mentioned salesforce at the front end of it and a then saw major league baseball. what more do you foresee happening for republicans in georgia and in arizona and in iowa and in michigan and across this country to say we are going to lose business, like north carolina did, with the transgender bathroom business, or like indiana did under mike pence, with gay marriage? >> you know, there's a couple things. let's just say in georgia they got to field this deal. one, we want the businesses to actually talk about repealing this bill. we want to make sure our state is economically thrive and it won't be able to continuing under this banner of jim crow and looking as it's a backwards state. number one we need the state of georgia to repeal it. two, we need hr-1 and hr-4 to both be passed. corporate america needs to stand behind making sure we fight unequivocally for voting rights a

if places like coca-cola have no problem sponsoring major global sporting events like the olympics where uighurs are being killed in genocidal concentration camps but how do you square that apple? tim party. >> there is absolutely no consistency here. there is consistency it's really sad. you have got big businesses sucking up to whoever is in power. whether it's the chinese government are the democrats but that's the best way to read this read seven major league baseball when after georgia they do not name one thing wrong with the bill.

companies like delta and coca-cola have diverse workforces. delta is 46% people of color. to your point earlier about pressure coming internally from some of these businesses, especially when you think about their employees of color who are asking, what's my workplace standing for? what is it about? would they want to not say something about loss that could potentially be harmful to employees? i think that's a very powerful message. very powerful pressure. amy: 30 seconds or so left. we've heard some of the state legislatures threaten to retaliate against some companies, saying they will get rid of tax breaks. one leader said, don't bite the hand that feeds you. do you think that they can follow through on that? did you hear my question? >> yeah. look, the companies are clearly deciding that this is -- this is worth doing. you talk about uopularity of billionaires. these big iconic american brands are pretty popular with the american public and well trusted. the companies have realized that they have the power to step -- that the boundaries in american politics. amy: we ha

atlanta based companies coca-cola and delta speak out against the new voting laws. the coca-cola does not support this legislation as it makes it harder for people to vote. delta ceo. i need to make it crystal clear the final bill is unacceptable and does not match delta's values. georgia governor brian kemp joins us now. we've been talking about this bill, governor. yesterday they were making it crystal clear the myths about this bill are not true and i have to ask how did your office let this spiral so out of control that this misperception has been allowed to persist? >> well, dana, thanks for having me on and i hope you won't blame our office for playing into the narrative that the mainstream media is doing because a lot of political activists, one of them my former opponent. when the president of the united states says something you know a lot of people pay attention. but what joe biden needs to do is look at the side-by-side of georgia and delaware. trying to get major league baseball to pull the game out of georgia, which is ridiculous. if you look at these c

i mean, just the threat of a boycott got coca-cola to back a voting rights group. think about that. that means with just a little more pressure we can probably convince coke to put cocaine back in their drinks! but i guess i'm not surprised they gave in because a lot of these companies aren't exactly in a great position to negotiate. well, you can't boycott delta aerials. what are you going to do, fly a different airline? ( laughter ) uh -- yeah. oh, well, when you put it that way, uh, i guess we'll put out a statement. now, here's the problem for these corporations -- anytime they try to make one side of an issue happy, people on the upopposite side are going to get pissed off, which is exactly what happened next. >> georgia based companies are facing backlash from republicans after expressing their dissatisfaction with that state's new voting law. now delta aerials and coca-cola have found themselves in a heated fight with kv brian kemp after delta's c.e.o. ed bastian condemned the restrictive bill, republicans in georgia's legislatures are looking at taxes on the company as retri

col coca-cola is synonymous with georgia. i have been asking them to stand against these provisions we felt it was important for the business community to stand up and it is true that they were behind the scenes, hoping they could make the bill better, i think, and i think actually at the end, they think that what they did, at least they thought what they did was sufficient, that there were some terrible provisions that were removed from the bill. but the bill that passed is still terrible and their failure to speak as themselves, as georgia corporations, they were beginning to feel the heat and when these ceos came out this morning, these are heavy hitters, rachel. these are not people who are silly, who are fly by night, these are men and women that when they call, you take the call and business leaders across the country know that. they know these names. so, when this came out this morning, a full page ad, a-7 in "the new york times" and you saw the ceos on cnbc and the other channels that people in finance watch in the mo

and multinationals including coca-cola condemned the us state of georgia over a new voting law but now face the boycotts themselves with supporters of the changes switching to rival pepsi. welcome to you on a very good morning good for 80 m. here in the russian capital and you're watching our international with medicare. and we start in northern ireland which is seeing 3 nights of unrest over post break that disputes. protesters held petrol bombs and bricks and police vehicles lighting fires and setting up roadblocks officers were attacks on the outskirts of the capital. well fast on saturday the disturbances began on friday yeah but host breaks it tradable this imposing border checks on goods moving between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. it was meant to prevent checks between northern ireland and the republic of ireland which remains part of the e.u. officials say that most of the people involved in the township where you are going to be the world view joining in the fire that. human rights activists are crying foul over the case of a former u.s. intelligence analyst who fa

comcast and georgia based companies like coca-cola and delta all issued statements denouncing these voter suppression measures naturally georgia governor brian camp that if it declaring georgians and all americans should fully understand what the m. major league baseball's knee jerk decision means cancel culture invoke political activists are are coming for every aspect of your life sports included. but look for my friends we start paten the m.-l. be. on their backs for their newfound woke mr and stand against injustice. let's keep in mind that since 2015 a.t.m. teague comcast united health group wal-mart and other big businesses have donated a combined $50000000.00 to state republican lawmakers who are currently supporting voter suppression bills across the united states and that according to the consumer advocacy advocacy group public citizen during the 2020 election cycle alone u.s. corporations donated $22000000.00 to republican architects of voter suppression bills that are advancing through state legit state legislatures nationwide and while nobody likes dealing with the spoiled bra

today senate rep canning leader mcmcconnell slammed companies like coca cola and delta for speaking out against the law. >> republicans-- and fly on planes, and drink coca cola too, so what i am saying here is i think this is quite stupid to jump in the middle of a highly controversial issue, particularly when they got their facts wrong. i'm not talking about political contributions. most of them contribute to both sides. they have political action committees, that's fine. it's legal, it's appropriate. i support that. i'm talking about taking a position on a highly incendiary issue like this and punishing a community or a state base you don't like a particular law that passed. i just think it's stupid. >> trevor: now that's my mitch right there. ha ha, look at this mitch, mitch [bleep] keep your mouth shut and hand over the money! whooo. that's literally what bank robbers say. for real, mitch mcconnell does not give a [bleep] man. he just lays out the game for you straight. here's a political opinion for you, cash rules everything around me, moat moat dollar, dollara bill. >> this semly

there's nothing as american as coca-cola, is there? except that is it's chief executive, james quincy who is a british subject reported by "the new york times" to be "managing the crisis from his home in london." uh-huh. just like george iii managed the crisis from his home in london. it would be illegal for james quincy as a british subject to give $100 to joe biden's presidential campaign, but it's not illegal for the masked rings of woke billionaires, foreign and domestic to make airlines, sports and carbonated beverages the propaganda division of the democrat party. take me out of the ball game. you can root, root for the home team, but what is the point? if the home team is schilling for woke totalitarians and the chinese bureau. it's a great pleasure to welcome to our show a guy that i worked with on the radio for many years, james golden, better known to millions as the rush limbaugh's show only mr. snerdly. james, it's great to see you. i was interested to talk to you about this because basically i don't get why an african amer

pressure from companies based in georgia like delta and coca-cola. can you explain? guest: as the pressure mounted from activists, voting rights activists from democrats and other critics of the law, pressure focused on george's major corporations to speak out against these changes. in other states, too, but in georgia, business groups play an outsized role in civic debates. in the last few years, coca-cola, all of these atlanta-based fortune 500 companies have had a seat at the table for major decisions not only involving their bottom line but infrastructure, reputational programs, religious liberty debate, tax hikes, all of those things they have played a seminal role. now you have activists saying voting rights is a fundamental issue for american democracy. where are you on this debate? many of them sidestepped it, many of them still are, mild statements about how they support fairness and integrity at the ballot box. but one week after governor kemp signed this action into law, delta and coca-cola, two of the city's namebrand corporate firms, both come out on the

we know he told the maga faithful to call it quits with coca-cola but did he? today the architect of the former administration muslim ban and family separation policy visited an office and shared this photo. leaving a lot of people asking what is that hiding behind the telephone on the desk? well, what do you think it is? that is our broadcast for this monday night with our thanks for welcome us on behalf of all of my colleagues on the networks of nbc news, good night. networks f nbc news, good night >> tonight on all in, companies call out the voter suppression push as the man who powered the campaign blames they are bullying republicans. >> my advice to the corporate ceos of america is to stay out of politics. >> bernie sanders on the push back of the big lie and shocking, not shocking reporting on how the trump campaign >>> and derek chauvin trial, chief of police testified against the former police officer. >> it is not part of our training, our ethics, our values. >>> and matt gaetz trying to drag just about anyone else into his scandal. >> providing fligh

because, as i said, it was a little late when it comes to what we heard from delta and coca-cola. georgia republicans already passed that bill. it's already a law. and georgia republicans are about as likely to repeal their voting law as i am to get a call from paul manafort. they're not just going to roll that thing back. but texans are on their way to pass their draconian anti-rights voting bill as well, because they can. which is going to put these big powerful, influential companies like coca-cola, like delta airlines, it's going to put them in a position to have to decide what they're going to do next. because just speaking out against bad bills and bad laws in republican-controlled states after those bills become law or when they're inevitably on their way to becoming law, that's not actually going to do anything to readdress voting rights except put your statement on the wrong side of history. if the states keep passing these anti-votes rollbacks, all around the country is senate bill 1, the for the people act, which is a voting -- would set a voting rights floor for the wh

they've dubbed coca-cola woke-a-cola, and they say they're drink pepsi instead. they were going to go with rc cola, until they discovered it stands for "radical communism. the flavor belongs to the proletariat!" leading the charge against these businesses is senate minority leader and guy gleefully not holding the elevator for you, mitch mcconnell. mcconnell threatened punitive legislative action against the protesting corporations, warning that if it continues, it would "invite serious consequences." and to drive the threat home, the c.e.o. of aflac woke up next to a severed duck head. then mcconnell said this: >> my advice to the corporate c.e.o.s of america is to stay out of politics. >> stephen: yes, corporations, mitch mcconnell wants you to stay out of politics, which is why i'm sure any day now, he's going to return "the $4.3 million he's accepted from corporations in the last five years." and i'm being told he's not going to do that and he made an additional statement. >> my warning to corporate america is to stay out of politics. i'm not talking about po

i remember people stay away from coca-cola. now they are telling people to apologize for being white. apologize for being arrogant. apologize for all of these things supposedly that white people are doing, and that's a very racist sort of philosophy. it's woke, sort of critical race theory but it's now infected publicly traded company and when they start saying things like that they are actually going against what their mandate is. their mandate is to maximize profit but now they are turning off 40% of the country who don't really want to be woke up and told that we're horrible people and don't believe that there is horrible racism in our country. it's been getting better generation after generation and yet coca-cola wants to make us all feel like racism is a predominant thing and if you're white you're somehow guilty or evil and that's a crazy philosophy that wants to sell products to all of us. do they not want any republicans to buy coca-cola products? they are heading in that direction. >> laura: watch out. they are poking

complete and total hypocrites. >> apple and coca-cola did not respond. delta declined to comment. >> bill: lydia, nice to see you, from fox business, thank you. >> dana: i love her as having part of the channel net. david perdue on special report last night, he lost by a hair that runoff election. take a listen. >> this bill makes it easier to vote and harder to cheat. it builds integrity in the system who were concerned in november last year and makes it easy for people to vote by 159 counties. so this literally that you hear from the democrats is all about power and raising money for political operations. >> dana: one of the things that happen here this week is that there was some, original, drafting of the bill had some things in there that would have been objectionable to many people. they were not in the final bill. when the final bill came out, it was as if they hadn't stretched out all those things objectionable. now i'm a people making big decisions and talking about boycotting a state like georgia harmful see premises repeated by the president.