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trump is waging a war on voting the likes of which we haven't seen from the oval office in years more on that with greg palast in just a moment and as hurricane erma the most powerful atlantic storm ever rumbles its way toward the u.s. are republicans finally ready to admit that climate change is real and find out tonight along liberal rubble which are also and good. although donald trump has been mostly unsuccessful in getting his reactionary agenda through congress is a ministration is still doing serious damage to the fabric of our democracy at the executive level it is running roughshod over environmental protections gutting regulations that keep the banks hers in check and defending voter suppression id laws in court and now thanks in part to the tribe just. department one of the most racist and discriminatory of those voters suppression laws texas' is about to go

into effect joining me now is greg palast puffin foundation fellow an investigative reporting filmmaker and creator of the new brilliant new documentary the best democracy money can buy tale of billionaires and ballot bandits greg welcome back. glad to be with you tom it's great to see you so first of gregg what can you tell us about what happened in texas one of means both for texas self and for voting rights in the united states as a whole. well of the voters of color got gunned down at the not ok corral we had a federal judge who said that the texas i.d. law was discriminatory on its face look and made latino's and african-americans who don't drive don't have licenses those very difficult for them to get id to vote and you know no one's actually said that they ever found any case of someone a lying about their identity in texas so this is to prevent all this law was

written a crime that doesn't exist but there's lots of real victims of the crime those who are hit by the hundreds of thousands with this obligation to come up with an i.d. so a texas did after the first version of the id law was thrown out for example you could use your gun license but you couldn't use your student i.d. they allowed a few more i. elements you know utility bills etc the problem was is that it remained absolutely measurably discriminatory against latinos and african-americans if you let them vote of course texas is no longer than a red state it goes democratic blue they panicked here's the big change so now a court of appeals has now said that they may allow the texas voter i.d. law to go through they're going to hear the law but they're staying the stay of the prior judge if you can understand that double negative it means that texas can can ruhr ahead with this new voter id law for now. the real change came because the

justice department has now which attacked the original idea law switched sides and so now it's the kind of in justice department and it is come out on the side of the state of texas and the republican. they're saying well no problem with the discriminatory id law so the big change once again is that our own justice department which is supposed to stop this type of nonsense this type of discrimination in fact became suddenly became the lawyers for the discriminators it's it's a horrific change coming out of jeff beauregard sessions justice department and we're going to see it beyond texas i'm afraid this is a real real dangerous trend though it absolutely is under jeff sessions the d.o.j. has actually begun defending these voter suppression id laws in court as you just pointed out how concerned should we be about lasting damage to voter rights because of the efforts of those in the situation. oh well it's lasting damage because it's

simple if you play games with the voter rolls and you play games with the right to vote you get to elect the congress that wasn't really elected by the people and therefore you know the gains will continue on again you know texas why in the world is texas a red state there is there you know if you if you allowed everyone to vote it would be hard to imagine that every american citizen to vote be hard to imagine that it could be a red state so they have to use all this gimmickry all this vicious jim crow era tactics no question about it to stop black and especially the latino population of texas to vote but beyond that this will happen all over the nation they're going to be we're going into right now we have a non elected president the you know we at least we agree that he didn't win the popular vote well congress is supposed to be the representation of that popular vote and once they fix that. we're in trouble you know absolutely so the south

dakota secretary of state shantelle krebs recently orchestrated a voter purge in her state that resulted in about a three percent cut in voters mostly democrats from having the voter registration in invalidated she's also running for congress. number one is this as unprecedented as it sounds the secretary of state you know knocks a whole bunch of democratic voters out and then runs for office in that in that district and well actually start with that one. i wish it were unprecedented this is become kind of a republican you know a hit song that they play over and over again in the six district of georgia where i was investigating the special election in back in june karen handel who had been secretary of state wiped out voters in the six congressional district voters she didn't like voters of color especially korean american voters and then ran in that

district and won by just a smidgen accounted for completely by her purge operation and as you know if you don't like voters you want to run a congressional district will just x. out the voters you don't like but this goes way back to katherine harris. of the secretary of state of florida under jeb bush as if you remember she wiped out tens of thousands of black folk off the voter rolls that helped george bush in fact it made george bush president the united states but it also made katherine harris a congresswoman in sarasota that was a massive wipeout of black voters in the tampa sarasota areas and then she ran for congress and took the seat so this is an old game that the republicans are playing you do a jim crow job on the voter rolls and then you run in that district that you've just bleached whiter than white it's dangerous stuff and once again we go back to your first story if we don't have a justice department which is acting as the cop on the beat for voting rights

that's their job they have a civil rights and voting rights division if they're not acting as the cop on the beat we're going to see an acceleration of this game. basically designed the voter rolls. to win your election and that's done on the g.o.p. side and it's racist and you know it's undemocratic greg in the most deepest sense the two thousand to help america vote act specified for the first time the everybody was entitle to a ballot even if it didn't get counted and of the people where the you know when they presented themselves to vote if their name wasn't on the roll or if they were contesting that their name should have been on the roll but wasn't that they would be given a provisional ballot what you call placebo ballots that almost never get counted it seems given that i mean that's two thousand and two that was fifteen years ago it seems that one way to look for the signature of a voter purge would be to look to see if there's been

a substantial increase the number of provisional ballots there is the number of people who show up to vote and are told you know you're on the list and that but they say but i should be so give me a damn ballot i'll vote provisionally so you know any are there any states that publish those you know year to year those provisional ballot numbers and did we see for example in the last election in the twenty sixteen election did we see an explosion in provisional ballots in wisconsin michigan ohio pennsylvania indiana the states where they've been really really aggressive about whacking people off the list or are those numbers top secret. well being go tom by the way you should be investigative reporter i'm going to hire you that's exactly right we look for that explosion that number in two thousand and sixteen the official count of provisional ballots was two point seven million that means two point seven million americans showed up at the polls and they said oh your name's not here you can't vote you don't have the right idea whatever here fill out this ballot buddy and

don't complain we'll count it later no they don't officially more than a million of those ballots were never counted now the two point seven number is way low because a lot of jurisdictions as you say have gone top secret and don't report and guess what the new administration and the current republican congress has cut out the funding to even collect those numbers so you don't even know how many ballots get thrown in the dumpster this is a big big problem and sixteen it did explode almost three million ballots officially placebo. was a number like i'm thirty thousand and four do you know. in two thousand and four i think we're looking about one point six million so it's grown substantially and remember that fewer and fewer districts are actually reporting because they found out there's no you know if you're if you got a lot of provisional ballots they just don't mention it to anyone and no one will investigate and now we again once again if we don't have a justice department which is investigating that business all we can you know

there's little we can do except kind of overwhelm them at the polls and when you get that provisional ballot please please raise hell and say no i want to ballot ballot and ask for a lection judge on site to make an adjudication to allow to vote that's a little bit of vote hygiene to keep the elections clean there you go greg palast you're the best thanks so much for being with us tonight. you're very welcome coming up ignore all the talk about law and order when it comes to immigration republicans just really care about one thing making america white again explain why in tonight's along the rumble which also are in ted goodman right after the break.

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differ publicans were honest which they're generally not they come right out the net when it comes right down to it their immigration plan is really just let's make america white again what's wrong. well they've had their eyes on lover all our charles our economist and president of the market is two and ted goodman a reporter at the daily caller news foundation thank you both for being with us and thank you so even as donald trump says he will revisit his doc a decision if congress can't come up with an alternative the white house itself is saying that dreamers should prepare for deportation according to the

administration's official talking points quote the department of homeland security urges dr recipients to use the time remaining on their work authorizations to prepare for and arrange their departure from the united states and of quote many dreamers will now have to live in the shadows something iowa king congressman steve king is totally fine with we should all these kids go. they they came here to live in the shadows and more not denying them that opportunity to live in the shadows. if these eight hundred thousand young dreamers were predominately white instead of people of color in my opinion there's no way they'd be treated as callously why don't republicans just come right out and admit that their immigration policy is to take us back to pre nine hundred sixty six back to the to the johnson policy of nine hundred twenty four the first immigration law that said that when immigration happens it has to it cannot mess with the racial balance of the united states i

mean this was our law from one hundred twenty four to one hundred sixty six this is the thing that pat buchanan wrote a book about all of this republicans have been calling for a return to this tallness year's resolution of the for the president did yesterday in my opinion. in my opinion it's the facts right the president said yesterday this needs a constitutional fix his lawyers this is something the republicans been arguing for years right that the way the prep previous president had billed this this situation was on call. a way to say that the monorail exact and the words joined her walker bush both did executive actions around immigration both of them doesn't make it right right it does it doesn't make it clear it doesn't make it legislating buys a great iraq yeah it does it's something that i stood up against when windows president did it by pen i stood up against those presidents when they were taking action i believe you probably did as well the fact is we don't want a president we don't want a regime that legislates by pid this is something that realistically i'm not

a supporter of rolling back doc i'm a supporter of the dreamers i think that your mischaracterization of the right is why the left is going to lose the next election again but this is where trump maybe only trump could do it maybe only nixon you go to china maybe only because a liberal is not going to roll back legislation by pin on dhaka but i hope we do come out with a better stronger doc at the end of dreamers can stay here and make america great and this is why people supported president trump and twenty sixteen they saw a person a lot of the people end up voting for him suffer some that would transcend partisan politics this is someone's going to get republicans and democrats into a room and say hey let's get something hashed out here put politics aside let's do the right thing yeah he said he was going to protect social security medicare and medicaid then he proposed to cut social security and medicaid he said he was going to he was going to do a blow up the trade deals now he's rewriting nafta oh no he was sort of all out of

nafta you know the book was president is that he said. that he says i don't like to go right through every the list of all of his campaign promises and he has broken virtually in all of president obama ran one hundred million dollars in ads against senator mccain saying that senator mccain proposes to raise taxes on health insurance and then what did he do when he passed the health insurance bill raise taxes on health insurance that i mean you want all you know good. two thousand and eight election well you know i mean you're just saying that a campaign a campaign promise it is what you can say how much is the trust made a year and a half ago that he's not only not keeping he's actually do in the let's talk about good policies and bad policies litigating what was said on the campaign trail version good policy and bad policy is again why the left is going to lose the next election. while the left may or may not lose the next election but it's got nothing to do with whether or not donald trump is lying to his base you need to talk about would call it what you did bad call it what the international won't be true i mean

you have a democratic party today that is just so off the wall with their talking points the democratic party talking about you know we it's crazy that we have one point two trillion dollars in student loan debt when in the history of the united states student loan debt up until about twenty years ago wasn't even a thing it's you know the democrats are you talking about people should have access to health part of the paint anyone who simply is calling for a stronger border you know they want to protect our borders and have a sovereign country all the sudden those folks are racists and bigots right in colorado so you can have almost like a stronger border being i why do you want to stronger border to keep to keep people out that shouldn't be here so why do people who shouldn't be here come here because this is america this is a land of opportunity why did they not come here before one thousand nine hundred six who we had no immigration problem before one thousand nine hundred sixty every haven't had every year racial to have before ninety six ever and we sure this country we know we basically did not i mean even in the fifty's and sixty's you had

the brasero program that eisenhower tried to you know where people would come in during the summer they do the picking in the fall and they go back to mexico these interests i mean although i don't know if it was about the prado you're missing the point entirely is rather this is our problem that you're listening to the point entirely come here because they are they have been for a job well and the reason that they come here to get a job is because somebody is only offer it to a sure thing and it was ronald reagan. prosecuting employers this is when it all began we didn't have eleven million people in this country illegally in one thousand nine hundred six we had maybe a million maybe and most of them went home during you know after the picking season when reagan stopped prosecuting white wealthy employers for hiring people who are not here illegally those employers i mean to this day you're going to vote yes. in mexico you guys isn't it was meant from congress on immigration your mirror you're making a good point there but the pain that so it's there for it was that president reagan

did the right thing or you do get the government to go out of her weight you think the government should go after employers in sindh people reaction yeah this is the last they're going to do a reagan did the wrong thing and. go after him you got to go let me finish the friggin thought here the whole so as to the reason why i asked why the reason why i said you know the border wall is a very frontier border wall is not the way to stop illegal immigration the way that because people are going to come as long as there's a job offer to them the way to stop illegal immigration is to go back to enforcing the law that we were doing before one thousand nine hundred six where employers go to jail not the immigrants and when there's no and this is this is run these are the lower classes not letting them are a sense so your whole set up with the right wants to make america why to get your solution is that the left wants to make america white again look the guy what i'm saying there is no the right is let me finish we let you finish the rights the

right system here the right policy is to let the car to me work again and it doesn't matter whether you're white whether you're brown whether you're black i'm saying is that. is what trump and the republicans are doing is they're racial wise in this whole thing racially wise trumps racial as in this you know the lexicons or there are good owners and rapists and murderers it's a variation all of them killers and recall you says it was the same kind of soda. the language that i used to hear in the media this is the same stuff that we used to have wallace alone here lacked all of the same group of people that you just said is a problem and needs to be sent back by letting the government sue employers and go after employers that's what you say no i said that they would they would leave. ok big big lever there sitting backward there's no difference in that. there is actually no difference you're still i should want to say this issue to the greens there's i don't care whether medical bills are all ok so your you made a policy what i was saying why your wall is a stupid idea ok that's fine what it is as long as people get

a job you know come in here on a tourist what is it of those that are in support i would want to hear what i would say i support the wall to anybody who supported the wall i say number one you're messing with an ecologically sensitive area and number two you're going to stop people from coming in over vast majority of the people in this country illegally did not come over the wall because they all right through the forest and you're a came in on the tourist visas they came in on student visas i understand i could. think is just stupid i completely completely agree with you that the wall is stupid but the fact is you started off the segment by calling the trump policies and republicans racist yet wanted america has made america why again because it has all the text of the vast majority of the wall does it do that the wall doesn't stop that no it doesn't but the reason they're calling for it is so here's the law let's say you know here's a here's an obstacle for those growing we're going to stop it oh if i do add color brown on it and i'm saying to the republicans what. you're saying trying to come up with a dumb idea but then you're also jumping to that like oh they're racist and yeah

and off for a while saddling he's selling how do you make that jump from the right you're saying is a dumb idea with this what i have said and he's going to sell around it he's selling it with racial language with we've been here in this kind of racialized language since the since the beginning god probably forever but you know going back to refer madness in the twenty's you know those black people are going to rape your women if they smoke some pot i mean it's just a step step by step and trump coming down and saying you know they're rapists they're murderers and so i guess are good people it's the exact same stuff but anyway i've said my piece you've said your piece let's move along to the next topic hurricane irma which is now ripping through the caribbean islands and on track to slam into south florida is the single most powerful an external ever on record experts say it will take years maybe even. decades to clean up the destruction from this monster hurricane all of this of course comes a little after a week after hurricane harvey drenched houston and coastal texas with a record breaking rainfall if we don't do something about climate change within the next couple of decades there are going to be many many many more hurricanes harveys

and hurricane irma's so what's going to be there we're going to do cap and cap and trade or a carbon tax cap and trade is working well in europe it's working well and california is working well with six reasons reason number two the tax reason number two the left is going to lose the next election this is bad math bad science again every time science comes out and says something the left doesn't like they reject it so we have made your pardon we have no coming out with a paper just before these hurricanes hit saying that we're in a record all that we had something hasn't hit at this level since what two thousand and five and that no a coming out with their research and same we're actually has nothing to do with climate change but didn't we hit we had to well you just said two major hurricanes and now it's climate change so i mean this is look we're as or there is a risk in slightly of never seeing these are we in these instances today and said every time it's come along i would say this is a strong hurricane the people in florida need to get out of its way but every time

and this is again why white people tend to stay in the zones because we tend to say all so but why should you have nine states with a cap and trade system in the united states plus california's ten states it's working here in the united states cap and trade successfully eliminated sulfur dioxide we ended our problem with as a grain should we do cap and trade or should we do a carbon tax make it we shouldn't shouldn't you sure they have all exxon mobil and these other and i am not here to deny it climate change or any of that but we can not. put ourselves at such a disadvantage trying to meet these lofty such a disadvantage china has a carbon tax my point being when we come to a solution here we have to make sure that the entire world is working to. other on this issue i'm i'm not here to to most of the nice most of the most i mean it's all the countries in the world either have a either have a carbon tax have a cap and trade system or have some sort of a bad tax that they're applying to carbon products to diminish their use i mean were that were the village idiots in this regard i don't think so this is something

where it's you can allow the fifty states to make up their own decisions you can allow the governors to decide how they want to run the economies in their states you know i mean this is worked out real well for sam brownback didn't well no i mean that this is that's the way that it's supposed to work is oh i already got i read a choice it didn't work this is something that you're going to be able to you look at our great california's doing well it california california that the best economy in the country it's interesting they have extended themselves on a lot a lot of government programs they are they are using the mortgage interest rate at the. detriment of the people in illinois so i mean california is doing a lot of what they're doing based on big government programs they've done a very good job of getting what you've got to have big government programs in order to deal with big corporations i mean you've got these fossil fuel companies these are multi-billion dollar corporations they have the ability to wipe out local

governments to to roll over all this and yet how many states if you just say have implemented cap and trade and you also had sarah pailin up in alaska that went after big oil and now in the left attacked her as soon as she was put on the ticket charles you were trying to thank you both for being with us tonight and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active you're on my. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those. what's your biggest fear a little bit on the hayride when celeste medical boards say if you have a mess of things the best quarterback. let's point the topic that doesn't belong in

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evening friends we start tonight with category five hurricane irma and it's a monster. erma has become more of the strongest storms ever recorded in the atlantic ocean with winds up to one hundred eighty five miles per hour and they're not backing down the storm is plummeting puerto rico as we speak and is expected to make landfall in florida on sunday for more on preparations across the state of florida in the region we go live tonight to marina port in miami marina had mandatory evacuations of the florida keys went into effect at seven pm this evening all residents are being explicitly instructed to leave the area and meanwhile individuals with special needs began evacuating from miami this morning city officials are advising residents in a few other counties like broward to leave but so far orders are voluntary mandatory evacuations of low lying areas arcs.