we're live here in atlanta.ht now to us is the center of the campaign political universe. voting rights have become a central issue for georgia democrats who are concerned without federal voting rights protections changes in georgia state law that make voting more difficult could lead to even more laws that make voting more difficult. and obviously give republicans more of an advantage in november. in washington, d.c. senate action on two voting rights bills including one named for georgia's own john lewis is expected to happen later tonight. we think we know the outcomes of these votes, but this morning the leaders of both parties gave impassioned defenses of their position. >> today the senate will need to prevent this factional frenzy from damaging our democracy, damaging the senate, and damaging our republic forever. >> so i urge my colleagues for the sake of our beautiful, wonderful democracy, for the sake of what the founding fathers called this noble experiment, take a stand and do everything, everything,

new mayor for the city of atlanta.ed not to run for re-election in november, after four years in office. she became a national figure, highlighted for her leadership as her city faced many challenges, from racial justice protests, to a global pandemic. >> in her final days, mayor bottoms sat down with cnn's fredricka whitfield for a candid, wide-ranging interview to talk about her legacy. >> as you reflect on your term, what are the high points, what are the low point, what are the areas that you felt like really shape you as a leader? >> oh, there's so many moments. over the last four years, of course, there was the pandemic that we have all endured together, and are still in the middle of a pandemic, and then the protests of last summer. but even before that, at the beginning of my term, we experienced, three months into my swearing in, the largest cyberattack in the history of any city in america. it completely crippled our systems for nearly a year, and there was a very large federal investigation into the last adm

we stand on the grounds that connect clark, atlanta, atlanta university, morehouse college, near spelmanollege, home of generations of advocates, activists, educators and preachers. young people, just like the students here, who have done so much to build a better america. [ applause ] >> we visited the sacred ebenezer baptist church and paused to pray at the crypt of dr. and mrs. king and spent time with their family. and here in the district as was pointed out, represented and reflected the life of bow loved friend john r. lewis voting rights act. >> joining us is nikema williams. also the chair of the georgia democratic party and she holds the congressional seat once held by john r. lewis voting rights act. thank you very much for joining us tonight. why do you believe it was important for atlanta to be the site of today's speech? >> well, thank you for having this conversation, lawrence. i think it's clear to point out that while georgia was also the cradle of the civil rights movement, georgia has also been ground zero for voter suppression and if we look at what happened with all o

from atlanta, this is 40 minutes. vice president harris: good afternoon, atlanta. good afternoon. [applause] vice president harris: good afternoon, atlanta. good afternoon. jillian, thank you for that beautiful introduction and for your leadership. i can't wait to see what you do next. thank you. so last week, one year. yes, please do said. so last week, one year please, it. [laughter] ms. harris: last week, one year after a violent mob breached the united states capitol, the president of the united states and i spoke from its hallowed halls. and we made clear. we swore to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. and we will. we will fight. [applause] [applause] safeguard our democracy. we will fight to secure our most fundamental freedom, the freedom to vote. and that's why we have come to atlanta today, to the cradle of the civil rights movement, to the district that was represented by the great congressman john lewis. [applause] on the eve of the birthday of reverend dr. martin luther king. more than 55 years ago, men, women, and children marched fro

we stand on the grounds to connect clark, atlanta, atlanta university, morehouse college, near spelman college, the home of generation of advocates, educators and preachers. young people like the students here who have done so much to build a better america. [ applause ] we visited the sacred ebenezer baptist church and paused to pray at the crypt of doctor and mrs. king and spend time with their family. and here as was pointed out, represented and reflected the life of beloved friend john lewis. in their lifetimes, time stopped when a bomb blew up the 16th street baptist church in birmingham and murdered four little girls. they stopped when john and many others seeking justice were beaten and bloodied while crossing the bridge at selma named after the grand dragon of the ku klux klan. they stopped. time stopped. they forced the country to confront the hard truths and to act. to act to keep the promise of america alive. the promise that holds that we're all created equal, but more importantly deserve to be treated equally. and from those moments of darkness and despair came light and h

we stand on the grounds that connect clark atlanta, atlanta university, morehouse college, near spelmane home of generations of advocates. activists, educators, preachers. young people just like the students here. who have done so much to build a better america. we visited the sacred church to pause, to pray, to miss tournaments just king. spent time with their family. here is the district has pointed out, representative, and reflected the life of beloved friend john lewis. >> joining us now is georgia congresswoman, and kate williams, also the chair of the georgia democratic party. holds the congressional seat once held by john lewis. thank you very much for joining us tonight. you have the right down to atlanta on air force one with the president and vice president. why do you believe it was important for atlanta to be the site of today's speech? >> thank you for having this conversation lawrence. i think that it is clear to point out that, while georgia was also the cradle of the civil rights movement, georgia has also been ground zero for voter suppression. and if we look at what ha

>> i think it's very tough to take a look at a place like atlanta and atlanta metro.er-evolving. i'm not just saying the last three or four years politically. in the last three to five years, it looks so different here. pick a suburban community, a suburban county in atlanta metro. >> is it 30 points in 12 years? >> how about cobb county, the land of newt gingrich, now flirting with going blue. this is unheard of. i find it interesting when national figures, democrats, come to town and do the traditional choreography of going to the hbcus, the king crypt, and not going to the suburbs. going to the suburbs is a place that would rattle the cages of the republicans here because they have an opportunity to make serious inroads here which will of course lead them in a different direction as far as what we've seen with the governor's race. >> is stacey abrams a little more immune from that disappointment among those that care about voting rights because they don't view her as disappointing them, they view it as washington? >> i think she's had so much success nationally and

the metro atlanta area has been hit particularly hard. f the nine counties, fulton, lennox, forsyth, dekalb, henry, clayton have nearly half the states active voters but only 38% of the polling places, according to the analysis. as a result, the average number of voters packed into eachun polling location in those counties grew by nearly 40% from about 2600 in 2012 to more than 3600 per polling place as of october 9. in addition, a last-minute push which open more than 90 polling places just weeks before the november election has left many voters uncertain about where to vote or how long they might have to wait to cast a ballot. the growth and registered voters has outstripped the number of available polling places in both neighborhoods, but the lines to vote have been longer in black areas because black voters are more likely than whites to cast their p ballots in person on election day, and they are more reluctant to vote by mail, according to u.s. census data and recent studies. georgia public broadcasting propublica found that about t

the remaining city of atlanta would be 27% white, and 61% black.ing it's not fair to frame this discussion along racial lines, says the simple pact is, the city of atlanta has failed to protect the residents of buckhead. back to you. >> john: as you point out, a lot of money at stake. mike, thank you. >> sandra: bring in bill white, c.e.o., buckhead city committee pushing for the split with atlanta, mike did a great job. we have spoken before, bill, you made it clear what you want to see happen. you want to secede from atlanta, crime is too high, buckhead city you want to prevail. criticism about what it means for the lack of diversity for the new buckhead city, if splits off from atlanta. >> thank you, sandra, and mike did a great job and thank you to fox news also for portraying the actual statistics that a.p.d., our own atlanta police leadership is saying violent crime is down. 6-year-old, a 6-month-old named grayson is taken from us, one of god's children, violent crime is not down, so they are playing a shell game on statistics, but to your qu

. >> we're live in atlanta. president biden making his case for voting rights legislation and maybe breaking the filibuster to do it. one person noticeably accent from today's event, georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." steve harrigan is in atlanta with more. steve? >> charles, we're minutes from the president speaking and then the president speaking here at the consortium of historical black colleges. before he boarded air force one, he emphasized how crucial the issue of voting rights is for the country. >> this is one of those defining moments. it is. people will be judged where were they before and where were they after the vote. it's that consequential. so the risk is making sure people understand just how important this is. >> there's two voting rights bills right now stalled in the senate. as far as that goes, some republicans have been critical of those bills including governor kemp who says this is a federal attempt to unconstitutiona

i have to tell you, the 181 homicides in atlanta are all tough and what is going on, atlanta has becomeradise. i hate to say it, i love this city. the city is not responsive. that same chief was the chief under mayor two times ago, he's back again. and i have to tell you the police have quit in record numbers after mayor bottoms fired the five officers last year, this is sacred bond between the police and citizens and when the bond is broken and we demoralize the police and victimize their activities, they stop working for us. they are willing to give their life, you just reported two police in new york. these young men work for 25, 40,000 a year to be shot in the face and killed so they can protect us. we don't respect them and love them and pay them and welcome them and bring them into the community, they don't feel a sense to put the smack down on this terrible crime. buckhead is leading filed for divorce, two bills in the georgia state senate. we thank the governor, majority leader butch miller and david rawlson. they will put us on the ballot. not sending city to at lanta issue but

we stand on the grounds that collect clark, atlanta, atlanta university, morehouse college, spelman college, the generation of advocates, activists, preachers, young people just like the students here who have done so much to build a better america. [applause] we visited the sacred ebenezer baptist church and stopped to pray at the crypt of dr. and mrs. king and spent time with their family. and the district that was represented and reflected, a life of a beloved friend, john lewis. in their lifetimes, time stopped when a bomb blew up the 16th street baptist church in birmingham and murdered four little girls. they stopped when john and many others seeking justice were beaten and bloodied while crossing the bridge at selma, named after the grand dragon of the ku -- ku klux klan. they confronted the hard truths and the act to keep the promise of america alive, the promise that we're all created equal but more importantly, deserve to be treated equally. and from those moments of darkness and despair came light and hope. democrats, republicans, independents, worked to pass the voting rights ac

of atlanta in georgia. simon jones has this. killed in - city of atlanta in georgia. simon jones has this. killed in what - jones has this. killed in what officers are describing as a random and senseless act. matthew wilson was in bed last sunday beside his girlfriend, pictured in this image released by police. he was hit in the head with a bullet fired from a neighbouring block of flats. he had 'ust arrived neighbouring block of flats. he had just arrived in _ neighbouring block of flats. he had just arrived in the _ neighbouring block of flats. he had just arrived in the atlanta - neighbouring block of flats. he had just arrived in the atlanta area - neighbouring block of flats. he had just arrived in the atlanta area to l just arrived in the atlanta area to visit his girlfriend. they were laying down for bed that night when they heard the gunfire erupted and what appears right now, a straight bullet entered the exterior wall to their apartment and struck. this is a very tragic incident. 0ur victim of so

he had just arrived in the atlanta area to visit his - in the atlanta area to visit his girlfriend.pted. and what appears right now, a stray bullet entered the exterior wall to their apartment and struck him. this is a very tragic incident. our victim of someone who was completely innocent. had no involvement whatsoever with the individuals that were involved in the reckless discharging of their firearms. ., . ., ., , , firearms. police have initially been recalled to the _ firearms. police have initially been recalled to the area _ firearms. police have initially been recalled to the area following - recalled to the area following reports that shots were being fired into the air. they then received a second call from matthew wilson's girlfriend saying he had been hit. in a brief statement, the foreign office here in london said it was supporting the family of a british man following his death in the united states. it added that it was in contact with the authorities over there. matthew wilson was a former phd student at the university of exeter. is he was a much loved member of our

we stand on the grounds in atlanta, atlanta university, morehouse college, the home of generations ofocates, activists, preachers, young people, who have done so much to build a better america. [applause] we have visited the sacred ebenezer bassett church and pause to pray. we spent time with the martin luther king family. we reflected a life of beloved friend john lewis. in their lifetimes, time stopped when a bubble up the 16th street -- bomb blew up the 16th street baptist church. they stopped when john and many others seeking justice were beaten and bloodied while crossing the bridge at selma, named after the grand dragon of the ku klux klan. stopped, time stopped. they forced the country to confront the hard truths and to act to keep the promise of america alive. the promise that holds that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally. from those moments of darkness and despair came light and hope. democrats, republicans and independents worked to pass the civil rights act and voting rights legislation. each successive generation continues that ongoing work. but the

but instead push to enter biden into the stinking swamp and dishonest divisive, biden's ranch in atlantamaturely go down as the most disgraceful speech in any president has made. in labeling anyone who disagrees with him, domestic enemy. >> a democracy against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> hopefully he explained to you to be with with his domestic enemy. >> he wants to be the son to doctor king or george wallace, you want to be on the side of john or bill you want to be the side of abraham lincoln or jefferson davis. steve: apparently that demagoguery was written by this man, john meacham who pops up on msnbc all the time claiming his story as a historian funny how the autocratic leaders are treating their opponents as enemy of the states with raging propaganda with their fascism and principal, john meacham the author of the ranch in atlanta, just like a documentary filmmaker. biden and the democrats in the propaganda like john meacham are using the tactic only authoritarian tyrant through the ages manufacture crisis in order to justify a crackdown. the trying to convince people e

he should have been in washington getting things done, rather than being here in atlanta. talking about getting things done. alan fischer reporting live from atlanta. allen, many facts. look at our weather update next on al jazeera. then the u. k. government is accused of holding more party is during the height of a corona, virus lockdown, and humble noodle becomes the latest korean trend to spread globally joining the popular k drama k pop and k movies. ah, there's been a lot of lake effect snow in the northeast, the u. s. where it's particularly cold or to which shows it. obviously it might say t new york's minus 6 with wind chillies, particularly cold, but the cold is disappearing. so by wednesday it's out of the way. so the picture then is improving what i think it will feel less cold, it'll actually be less cold. the snow is going to fall in eastern canada, a far north east of the u. s. but leaving behind fairly sunny weather, toronto goes to about plus one degree on the other side of the continent. it's washington and to some degree, british columbia as he once again

president biden is visiting ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. the president just paid tribute at king's burial site which is near the church in atlanta. speaking of reverend dr. martin luther king. the city is the backdrop to what's being called the president's most urgent plea yet for voting rights. soon he will push for two federal laws that would standardize elections. it's an effort to combat a slew of new laws put into place by republican state legislatures to restrict voting in response to the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. >> this is one of those defining moments, it really is. people are going to be judged. where were they before, where were they after the vote. history is going to judge you. it's that consequential. >> 19 states have already passed 34 laws that limit voting hours, remove ballot drop boxes or take power away from nonpartisan local election officials. some states center already installed trump loyalists into important election oversight roles. several georgia voting rights groups are skipping the president's speec

it's the nicest place in atlanta by far.a huge percentage of the city's tax revenue but the people who run atlanta hate buckhead. a they envy buckhead and they want to destroy it. they have allowed crime to run rampant through the neighborhood. e people are regularly assaulted at the mall so the people who live in buckhead have had enough of it. they aren't getting anything out of their relationship with atlanta so they want to leave the city and form buckhead city and we're rooting for them. bill is c.e.o. of the buckhead city committee, which we think is of national importance. thanks for coming on. >> the city of atlanta just elected andre dickens resoundingly. buckhead once again had no say in the matter. they wanted someoneic else. he seems like a nice man but his policies including his plan to rezone all of buckhead would decimate our beautiful community.y. with atlanta now ranked number two in homicides nationally, we can't afford to wait around, especially since he voted to defund the police. so this buckhead city, a

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that's why he's coming to atlanta in the last seven months.telling the american people in simple language why the john lewis voting rights bill is so important. why our democracy is at stake. i think the inability to sort of message why the voting rights movement is so -- voting rights bill is so important, it's really allowed not just senator sinema and manchin, but other folks in the party who have been obstructionists to appear as moderates. people will say, this is a partisan votie ing rights bill. it is not a partisan voting rights bill. it shows how far to the right the republican party has moved. but they've successfully moved so far to the right that the new center is really a reactionary political center, which is why these dpragrassroots groups hav criticized the president coming to atlanta. >> what does this portend for the biden presidency writ large? he himself said he won the nomination and presidency because of black voters. if you have the co-founder of plaqu black voters matter saying on our air, don't come here and talk to us

biden spoke in atlanta. pres.biden: i believe our threat to democracy is so grave, we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. debate them. vote. let the majority prevail. if that your minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this. amy: biden spoke in atlanta after he and vice president kamala harris laid a wreath at martin luther king jr.'s crypt and visited the historic ebenezer baptist church where mlk was pastor. during his speech, biden made references to king's struggle to secure voting rights. pres. biden: will you stand against voter suppression? yes or no? that is the question i will answer. will you stand against election subversion, yes or no? will you stand for democracy, yes or no? there is one thing every senator come every american should remember. history has never been kind to those who have sided with voter suppression over voters rights. it will be less kind for those who side with election subversion. so isk ever

>> i'm excited about the president's visit to atlanta today.t is a recognition about how important the fight for our voting is in this moment. and i think it's also a recognition of how critical ordinary citizens, georgia voters, activists and organizers have been to making the biden/harris administration our reality and how critical we are going to be in passing anything, any of the priorities on the biden/harris agenda. >> your statement says you'll work on passing a plan that passes both halls of congress. do you believe that's possible? >> absolutely. and that's why we're calling for it. and not only is it possible, it's absolutely necessary. what path forward do we have on passing anything, build back better, the sort of expansion of the definition of infrastructure, like, we don't have any a chance on self-governing, on choosing elected officials who will co-govern with the people and who will actually get things done, if we cannot ensure that the will of the people is reflected in the results of our elections. and if the republican party

speaking of atlanta, speaking of blue dot atlanta. making the case in part for how republicans, until quite recently, unanimously, all but unanimously supported voting rights in the voting rights act. people like john thurman, had an extended -- anti-civil rights icon. who in the end, supported the voting rights act. and this is something that republicans needed to do in massive margins in the past. both an indictment of republicans and also of democrats who might need to do it is to be done, to get things passed. i want to put your reflections on how the partisanship around this issue has calcified in a way that we might have never seen before. >> i think mates the case, right. there is many of us. cherish the worker done. i think i mentioned that a few times in the presidential debate. stage, the point is that right now, they are not clinging on this right now. even though, i think that is why he felt it was important, making the case in the past. democracy triumphs. more important than a divide between us. right now, because of the

she reside for us in atlanta, georgia, and i was listening to that speech. what else did the president have to say? well, this is joe biden getting serious about voting reform. people often see that he's talked about bill back better the infrastructure, much more than he's talked about this key promise to a large constituency that helped him when the presidency. and that is black voters are concerned that they are right to cast votes are being impacted by the changes in law, in 19 states, the make it much more difficult for people to cast their vote. now of course, there are 2 bills in front of the senate, both of passed the house, but they can't get it passed because 50 republican senator see they won't vote for it. so joe biden said that he would like to see the end of the filibuster, which means that you don't need 60 votes to get those pastor even to get to avoid, to vote on these. but no, he said that if they get a simple majority, he would take that, that's a big step for job, right. he wasn't in that position at all before because he was concerned tha

you are in atlanta where the children's health care system is already overwhelmed. so what are health officials saying today? >> yeah, well, fredricka, they are basically saying that we are moving in the absolute wrong direction when it comes to covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. when we are talking about pediatrics, kids, minors who are 17 and younger. if we take a look at the numbers of just the shear amount of cases, i mean, compare the numbers in less than a month's time. we saw what was a record low in november and now we're reaching up to those peak levels for our seven-day averages for cases among kids and hospitalizations also moving in the absolute wrong direction with a dramatic increase. now, we know that omicron isn't as severe as delta, but that doesn't mean that our children are not still ending up in the hospital with some of those intense cases of dealing with covid-19. we're seeing this all across atlanta, though, with our pediatrics and with adults, some six major hospitals in the atlanta area, the metro area, all came together and released a joi

because when we talk about this, we just talked about atlanta there.having summer-like temperatures here, and now all of a sudden you're telling me there's going to be the chance of snow. >> yeah, that's the weather whiplash that we highlight on a daily basis. i have covered many of stlthese events through the course of 2021. in fact, the first event i'm going to discuss, hurricane ida. i was on the coastline of louisiana when this storm struck as that powerful category 4. actually, re-sclandscaping this powerful coastline as this powerful storm moved inland. it wasn't just the damage that it brought to the gulf coast states, it impacted over 22 states across the eastern u.s. that reported 500 flood reports, 21 confirmed tornados and severe wind reports, as well. we can't forget about what happened in new york city. the flash flooding that took place there, with the remnants of ida. and almost paradoxically, we had on the west coast of the u.s., the entire portion of northern and central california, basically burning. we had the kelder fire, one of man

choose the app that fits your investing style. ♪ >>> the atlanta public school system has been doing schools reopening in person with new testing guidelines for staff and students. staff tested twice a week, and students, with parental consent also tested twice a week. lisa herring joins me now, atlanta public school superintendant, i guess i would start with the testing question because this has been, now every school's different, different efforts under way to get kids back in the classroom. how many parents have consented to testing for their kids and do you feel like that number needs to increase in order to successfully do this? >> oh, so thank you for the opportunity to speak to this. we have approximately 50,000 scholars here in atlanta public schools, at last check, we were tipping above, close to 20,000 consent forms. that's not full capacity for the district at large, and so we continue to make those consent forms available. it's a critical part of the process, it allows for us to be able to return face-to-face, after the last four days of having been virtual. so we continu

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here in atlanta, we could see almost 250,000 travelers on sunday alone. whit? >> and those challenges still to come for days ahead. elwyn, thank you. >>> tonight president biden celebrating the new year in delaware. the president speaking for the first time about his call with russian president vladimir putin yesterday. he says he told putin the u.s. will not tolerate any further escalation by russia regarding ukraine. >> i made it clear to president putin that if he makes any more moves, goes into ukraine, we will have severe sanctions. we will increase our presence in europe with our nato allies, and it will be a heavy price to pay for it. >> the president and first lady also asked about the passing of betty white. president biden calling it "a shame." jill biden echoing the thoughts of many, asking, who didn't love betty white? >>> and tonight, amid the difficult headlines, the world is celebrating the new year. australia with a massive fireworks display at the sydney harbor bridge and sydney opera house. fireworks shooting from the rooftops, filling the sky

nbc's blaine alexander is at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. gary is at a voting rights march led by activists in washington d.c. and sahil is on capitol hill for us. blaine, i'll start with you there. vice president harris set to deliver a speech any moment now to the church where you are. what can we expect to hear from vice president harris? >> well, good morning to you. we're expecting to hear that speech virtually. as you said, any moment she's going to be speaking from washington. but of course, it will be telecast at the ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. i don't know if you can hear and see over my shoulder. we're listening to senator warnock, the senator from georgia. he's also the pastor here at ebenezer baptist church. he's been pastor here for more than a dozen years or so. and what he's talking about right now is just as you mentioned, voting rights. we know that reverend warnock, other top democrats from the state of georgia, stacey abrams and the king family both here in georgia and there in d.c., are really using this day essen

cleveland and atlanta starting the new year with remote learning. chicago and boston staying with in-person learning, with massachusetts distributing more than 227,000 rapid tests to staff. and here in new york city tonight, the largest school system in the country, they were open today, handing out masks and ramping up testing. dr. ashish jha standing by to answer your questions. but we're going to begin tonight with abc's trevor ault, leading us off right here in new york. >> reporter tonight, millions of students starting the new year back in the classroom with covid cases exploding. today, the fda authorizing pfizer booster shots for 12 to 15-year-olds. and regulators now recommending everybody 12 and up originally vaccinated with pfizer get their booster after five months instead of six. >> it's more important now than ever for all teens to go out there and get all three of their vaccinations. >> reporter: america's now averaging 400,000 cases a day, up a staggering 200% in the past two weeks. school districts like atlanta, cleveland, and milwa

joining us now from atlanta is cnn's nadia romero. and all over the country are overwhelmed with covid patients and they are looking for some relief. how's it going down there, nadia? >> reporter: yeah, well, jim, it's not good news here for six metro atlanta hospitals that all joined together for a press conference to sound the alarm, and this is the second time they've come together to do this in just the past few months. talking about those covid-19 hospitalizations and how they're just being overrun with patients, and they say the majority of those being hospihos hospitalized you guessed it, the unvaccinated. listen to one doctor talking about what they're dealing with right now. >> we are running about 110% capacity right now. we have no capacity left at the hospital. zp . >> reporter: so that doctor says they're dealing with wall to wall stretchers, so that so that in the atlanta area they're turning away ambulances because they just can't take anyone on. treeio of studies talking about how beneficial it is to not just get vacci

let's get straight to cnn's jeff zeleny in atlanta. jeff, does the president get the stakes of this moment? >> reporter: john, he absolutely does. the of course, he knows the history better than most given his age and the fact he lived through the civil rights era but when he arrives here in atlanta this afternoon he is going to -- to argue that the nation is at a turning point and voting rights is central to going forward as a democracy. of course, he'll be arriving here with vice president harris. they know well the stakes about what the mood is inside the democratic party. yes, there is a boycott, but they are also arriving with the entire georgia democratic delegation, including two democratic senators who won here last year who gave the democrats their slim majority. so the elected officials at least are behind them, but activists as you said want and demand some type of action, so the president is going to lay out why he believes the senate, an institution, of course, he served for more than three decades in, should change its ru

patty zorowitz hails from atlanta, georgia. she has 15 years of experience with the aging and information services unit at the atlanta regional commission. she helps -- [audio problems] >> i want ms. zorowitz to know senator warnock, a member of the committee, will be joining us later and we, all of us, want to hear about the work in your great state. at this point i'll take a bref pause to see if we have fixed some technical issues. chairman, can you hear me? >> chairman, cap you hear me? senator casey: maybe it's better fb everybody that you can't see me. i'm happy to be here even by phone. i apologize for the folkny call difficulties. i can see you all fine and hear you but i cannot get mine to work. let me thank chairman casey for holding this this hearing on financial literacy. it's critical to learn as early in life as possible. as a testament to financial literacy for older american, the committee is working on our annual bipartisan report. as a kid he was raised in a single parent household mired in poverty and blessed

stacey abrams did not show up for that event in atlanta. her state, her issue.ves. stories about a 2024 ticket without biden or harris pop up all over the place. harris is knock mocked for another rough network tv interview. the president stumbles through a teleprompter covid event asking for the testing czars name. the president admits voting rights bill will likely fail, as you just heard as senator sinema from arizona takes to the floor before he arrives on the hill. senator manchin's statement again definitive on the filibuster. senator manchin tells reporters today he hasn't talked to the president since before christmas and there has been no renegation of build back better. the supreme court knocks down the vaccine mandate for private businesses over 100 employees. national security adviser jake sullivan announces no further talks with russia as the russians get more aggressive. north korea launches yet another missile and the pentagon says they are surprised by that capability. dhs announces 104,000 migrants between march and august of last year. only 50,

>> bret: aishah hasnie live in atlanta. thanks.bor relations board and whole foods. the concerns that company's order prohibiting employees from wearing logos or slogans pertaining to the black lives matter movement. correspondent david spunt has specifics tonight from the justice department. >> in a politically charged battle over free speech, whole foods is going head to head with the national labor relations board. after the company in 2020 banned employees from wearing black lives matter masks on the job. >> i expected more from a company that i admire. i think they should let us support any kind of movement that is human rights. >> but there is no indication executives at the amazon owned chain are against the movement. instead,. >> they are following a broader company policy reference a statement to fox news. our dress code policy does not single out any one message or slogan. it is designed to create a workplace and shopping experience focused entirely on excellent service and high quality food. we do not believe we should c

charles watson in atlanta, a thank you.officer has become the first one to be killed there in the line of duty while working on the border protection program operation lone star. the department says 37-year-old special agent anthony salas was involved in a tragic accident on friday night. bill melugin live on the border in la jolla, texas, where the border agents are doing this work. bill? >> reporter: good afternoon to you. tragically, that texas state trooper was killed on the job while he was assist cysting border patrol in apprehending a group of illegal immigrants. this is 37-year-old dps special agent anthonying salas, a former u.s. marine and part of a special operations group with texas dps who embed with border patrol and help them with their board operations. we're told he was in eagle pass, texas, friday night working with border patrol when they were involved in a single-vehicle accident. the details of that have not yet been released, but he died in the hospital yesterday morning. and as you mentioned, he is th

go ahead and atlanta. thank you and that's totally agree with mark. those are the issues that we're concerned about. this is why you have all female panel today because women understand the basis of what's needed. we push out all of the parts of how to at the end of the day, we want to make sure that we have access to quality health care and invitation for our children and be able to afford things at the grocery store. that's what mass us and be able to fuel for our car to get our children, our families where they go from day to day in august because it's really not group of the country. so maybe what we should do is see a ship him and pull down all those people at the top for me and replace the women because we have work to do in america. and we don't have time for the promised it, rory. and if i go to boston here, no, but i mean, that's not the impression you get from watching the national media. i mean, i think we're all in agreement and i'm not going to ask you to repeat what we've already heard here. but then it's just really about culture wars i

she joins us now live from atlanta. georgia could tell you the sir car, what did you make of what the president had to say earlier? i think be the need for the voting rights bill. whereas i do agree with voting rights, obviously, i think it's been highly politicized. i think it's largely done to get rid of the filibuster beneath the voting rights. still, i really think should be left up to the state as a republican, when we do not support the voting rights go, if not, because we don't support voting rights, we absolutely support it. we believe that it is best for the state decide what is best for our individual stage. what happens is if the filibuster is eliminated, which they don't have the vote to do so right now, then any party there in power can change the bills for the entire country were just a simple with just a simple majority. but i don't think that's right for you say that it should be decided by the states. but here we have the republican run states currently redrawing voting boundaries in their favor. republ

the district attorney in atlanta investigating the case asked a judge today to convene a special grand jury that will have subpoena power that cannot be defied by anyone named trump or anyone else. that is real prosecutorial subpoena power. we'll have more on the georgia investigation later in this hour. on this day exactly one year ago donald trump's life as a defendant began in ernestt. he was already a civil defendant in a lawsuit that claims donald trump raped her in new york city in the 19 #90s but he was soon on his way to being a criminal defendant with a criminal grand jury investigation in new york city and a criminal investigation of misconduct with georgia's secretary of state. he is still on his way to becoming a criminal defendant. he has not yet become one but seems to be coming closer every day. donald trump used the presidency for four years to avoid being charged with crimes including obstruction of justice in the mueller investigation and he used the presidency to refuse to submit to civil due process in the e. gene carroll case and other civil litigation. that is all

martin luther king and coretta scott king in atlanta.e than a half century after the civil rights icon led nationwide demonstrations and protests that ushered in the landmark 1965 voting rights act and soon the president will make a speech pushing for voting rights legislation. the president is aiming to turn up to heat on congress and urge lawmakers to act. let's bring in now tammy baldwin, democratic senator from wisconsin. she joins us now. senator builaldwin, thank you s much for your time. >> it's a pleasure to join you. >> can we just, at the top, establish that you believe this is urgent, that you think that the senate has to act on voting rights? these conversations usually get into reiterating the urgency without getting to the what, the how and all of that. can we do that? >> absolutely. so, i'll start with that. this is incredibly urgent. last week, we solemnly recognized the anniversary of donald trump's insurrection where his mob tried to overturn the results of an election, to discount the voters' desires, and to steal the

president biden is on his way to atlanta to give a major speech. the pressure he'll put on the senate to scrap the filibuster and what he says about stacey abrams skipping his speech. sta abrams skipping his speech (vo) america's most reliable network is going ultra! with verizon 5g ultra wideband now in many more cities. hey, it's mindy! downloading a movie up to 10 times faster than before. whoa! is that done? (mindy) yep! (vo) verizon is going ultra, so you can too. it's been nearly two years since the pandemic started. our students and teachers tried their best, but as a parent, i can tell you that nearly 18 months of remote learning was really hard. i'm so angry that instead of helping our kids get back in the classroom, the school board focused on renaming schools schools that weren't even open . please recall all three school board members now. for the sake of our kids, we can't wait one more day, never mind a whole year for a fresh start. >>> right now, president biden is on his way to atlanta to deliver a major speech on voting rights. mom

came out swinging, did it again in atlanta. new rhetorical shift.leagues at "washington post" have been reporting on this and determined there's a new strategy in the white house, not to attack trump daily like this but attack him at big, high-profile moments when he thinks there's going to be considerable media attention, such as speech in atlanta, when he might deliver a message beyond those following politics hour by hour. >> chuck schumer is pushing to hold votes soon. when i look at numbers, i don't get it. what does he know? sinema and manchin haven't moved. >> look, as you know, holding vote like that will put manchin and sinema on the record and show voters across the country in their state and otherwise where they stand on the issue and where remaining continued disagreements are within the democratic party. i don't think that schumer thinks this is going to be passed soon or that they'll be convinced by one speech by vice president and vice president. but there's going to be a lot of negotiations going forward. >> but we know where they st