elizabeth hira is an attorney at the brennan center for justice's democracy program.r congressional staffer who helped to craft the original iteration of the for the people act. lead author of a new report on the legislation titled "equity for the people." we welcome you both to democracy now! first, elizabeth hira, can you explain what happened? it was not a vote on the content of the for the people act. this was a procedural vote. it was 50/50. explain why harris presides but does not vote and why you need to get to 60 just to happen discussion. >> tha you for having me. that is a great question to start off with. there is reporting yesterday about how this was that this -- stunning defeat and in of the bill but that is not accurate. this was only the beginning. yesterday's vote was not a vote on the merits of the bill but to open debate on the bill. the practice, usually there is a discussion you have to vote to have in the next thing you do is vote on the content of the bill. yesterday's vote was to open debate and we had 50 democrats behi the decision, but the wa

kevin morris on the brennan center from justice, -- of the texas civil-rights project and mr. donald palmer, chair of the u.s. election assistance commission. dr. pettigrew is the director of the data sciences at the university of pennsylvania's program on opinion research and collection studies, and the deputy executive director of the fox leadership program. prior to joining, he received his phd in political science and a masters in statistics from harvard university, and worked at the m.i.t. election data and ryan's lab. very -- election data and science lab. -- is the interim vice president of government affairs at the government conference on civil rights. prior to joining the conference, she served as deputy director as test at the national political advocacy group of the aclu and its counsel for our house judiciary committee. thank you for your work. kevin morris as a quantitative researcher with the brennan center for justices, democracy program, focusing on voting rights and elections. his research focuses on the impact of laws and policies on access to the polls. mr.

john brennan i have known for a long time. he is a great -- was a great public servant, worked for six different presidents. and so i felt it was important to, you know, to make sure that both john brennan and the public understood that i didn't feel it was right for the president to come after john brennan as a private citizen and trto revoke his security clearance. >> you know, you wrote in the washington post about president trump... two weeks before the election, you endorsed joe biden in an opinion editorial in the wall street journal, and you called yourself a... why was your endorsement such a clear decision for you, admiral? >> well, because it is about leership. and my concern was that the president was not showing, not demonstrating the kind of leadership that i have seen throughout my 40 years of being in leadership positions. and i didn't disagree with all of the president's policies. as i said there, you know, i am a pro-life conservative. of course, i also said -- and people tend not to quote the second part of t

john brennan, i knew for a long time. he was a great public servant and worked for six different presidents. and so, i felt it was important to make sure that they understood i did not feel it was right for the president to come after john brennan as a private citizen and try to revoke his security clearance. >> you wrote about trump, "you embarrassed us in the eyes of our children. humiliated us on the world stage and divided us as a nation." and two weeks before the election you endorsed joe biden. you called yourself a pro-life, conservative. why was your endorsement such a clear decision for you? >> because it is about leadership. my concern was that the president was not showing -- not demonstrating the kind of leadership that i have seen throughout my 40 years in leadership positions. i am a pro-life conservative. i also said, but i actually believe that black lives matter. i believe in the first amendment. i believe in other rights. so i wanted to balance it so that the readers understood that i am a conservative.

also joining us is john brennan. and donna edwards joins us. looking for us all three msnbc contributor. carol linnik. you've been covering this. it feels like there's still some revelations here. what stands out to you? >> i absolutely agree there are some chilling revelations here. you know, i was lucky enough to get the first account of the police chief, and even some of this would be news to him. first of all, the intelligence collected by the capitol police and also by the fbi, but by the capitol police two weeks ahead of time at the time, maybe a couple days after the attack, we reported there was a small intelligence paragraph in a long report that warned that the capitol was the target itself. what is new here is the language, the visceral violence of the language. the fact that people were being told to bring guns they planning to draw weapons on officers if they are barred from entering the capitol. and marking tunnels and entrances and exits. third, there was an online discussion about how to bar the exits to track lawmakers. to know

according to the brennan center for justice at new york university law school, as of march 2021 there have been 361 bills with restricted voting provisions introduced in 47 states as part of this year's of state legislative sessions, and those numbers have certainly grown since then. many of these bills seek to -- excuse me. many of these bills seek to make absentee voting or voter registration harder, reduce early voting, impose stricter voter id requirements, undermine the power of local election officials. in the absence of an effective preclearance provision it is unsurprising that discriminatory measures continue to erode our democracy, undermining the voting rights of racial and language minorities and eroding our democracy. the way forward for congress to address this latest form of discrimination and voter suppression is clear. a fully updated and improved voting rights act. congress must create a new coverage formula to restore the acts preclearance regime and strengthen its other provisions to improve our ability to combat discriminatory voter suppression. our witnesses toda

neil degrasse tyson and the former director under president obama, john brennan and happy asteroid day. >> thank you. mr. brennan, as someone who used to be responsible for the nation's highest secrets as well as national security planning, why do you say that the evidence supports at least keeping open the prospect of intelligent life out there? >> well, i don't think i said there is any evidence at all of alien life. what i said is a lot of these phenomenon have been observed including by navy pilots are unexplained. i don't think there is any way we can exclude the possibility of certain types of explanations. in any career when i looked at those videos and saw documents and red witness reports, i never saw evidence of that alien life. as donald rumsfeld said many times, sadly he passed away today, the absence of evidence, in this large expansive of universe that we can't exclude the possibility that there is some form of life some where else that we can't understand and cannot detect yet. i have no earthly idea whether or not such life exists. >> earthly being such a key modifier.

it pull, brennan has more. the aim, of course, is to break the link to unusually for a health zachary mat hancock rose to become a household name thanks in large part to the covert pandemic. while he stood out embarrassed johnson's cabinet as a minister influential in setting government policy and broadcasting daily briefings to the nation by some exciting new data. so on it was uniquely embarrassing for hancock to find himself in breach of social distancing rules for conducting an affair with an aide at work. it was also a wider context caught up with him in his resignation letter to prime minister bar . as johnson, the hancock apologized to his family for putting them through this and said, the last thing i would want is my private life to distract attention from the single minded focus that is leading us out of this crisis. i understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made but you have made. and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them. and that's why i've got to

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pull, brennan, i'll just era kingston. you can still ahead an order. there are massive chemical 5 and the us forces evacuation is being called an environmental nightmare. hong kong hold the annual dragon boat festival. despite corona virus restrictions, ah, ah, i once again was st. invalid storms recently across c, think south southeast corner of the us. they still rumbling away, but they are in the process of getting pulled out of the way. the main story from much of north america is that have been looking at temperature as well up into the 30s for many reco breaking heat, actually quickly down towards the southwest corner of phoenix at around $47.00 celsius, up to the northwest. that's a little more like it cooler where to start. he just slide its way through here. it will cool off a little as we go on through the next day or so. central and eastern part still plenty warm enough. we got some showers now in the process of pulling away from the eastern seaboard, still looking pretty disturbed through tuesday, across at eastern side of canada. white guy

brennan rightly makes about the different point of protected speech.stion on whether the fbi should have been more active in passing this stuff along. by the way, trying to get to the bottom of this and looking at the complicated questions here is one reason why to be nice to have a 9/11-style commission. >> chris wray did talk about the fbi and how it deals with ransomware attacks. he said the fbi doesn't make private companies pay ransom. jbs, the meat processing company, we now know paid $11 million in ransom, and they're telling these corporations not to do it, or if they do, let the federal government know. that's not happening practically. >> some of them, unfortunately, have decided to pay the ransomware. i think director wray rightly said these companies should be reaching out as early as possible whenever they're going to be hacked. working with the fbi to see what can be done that would, in fact, be able to address the issue without having to pay ransom. but i do think that the continued payments of these ransoms are just encouraging other gr

pull, brennan, i'll just hear hong kong pro democracy newspaper. the apple daily is reported. they stopping both its print and online operations by wednesday, most of its employees are said to have resigned. the company's assets have been frozen by authorities under hong kong, controversial national security law, leaving it unable to pay staff or cover expenses. 2 executives were charged off to police rates on the news during the last weeks. grab a break on the news when we come back. vaccination island, brazil launch is a mass inoculation drive near rio de janeiro as part of the largest study. also, india office max seems to all adults free of charge, but problems remain and there are concerns about a 3rd corona virus waive and you'll sports to spanish gulf. don't run, bounces back, covert and we'll be with open up coming up with pizza a little later. ah hello, that's more sunshine across the middle east. as per usual, i'm pleased to say they shall wind has just east off. so not quite says blow as it has been recently with the lifted dustin side but lots of hazy sunshine. rig

i gave law enforcement agents an unprecedented insight into criminal activity as pull brennan explains. the global police rates have included the italian mafia, asian crime syndicates, drug cartels, and illegal motorcycle gangs. more than 800 arrests in 16 different countries, the criminal gangs felt that that communications were encrypted and secure. what they didn't know with the devices called anom, had been developed by the f, b i in collaboration with australian and european police. the criminals using these devices, believe they were secretly planning crimes far beneath the radar of law enforcement . but in reality, the criminals were not underneath the radar. they were on it. criminal gangs today rely on secure digital communication on the plan was a real slow burner. the 1st handful of compromise unknown devices were quietly supplied to criminals in australia around 18 months ago. and built up a solid reputation among the criminal underworld. then when law enforcement knocked out the rival encroach athens guy e z c networks earlier this year, more than 12 thousands of the compr

thank you for that poll brennan lie for us there in london. now earlier we spoke to matt warren, who's the director of the r m i. t university center for cybersecurity research and innovation. he says, criminal gangs will now adopt and use other forms of communication in their activities. the issue is with any operation, it has to come to, to an ent and, and the fact you know, with the sheer statistics in terms of the commonality that was stopped. it got to an extent that you know, the, the, the scheme operation had to end one of the other problems is that criminal gangs was so, you know, looking at other technologies. so it could very well be, but you know, some of those criminal gangs who actually move into other ways of communication. so law enforcement felt this was the white time in order to, you know, make those the west on the, on the global level before those criminal gangs were moving into other forms of technology or whatever to other sort of apps that there was so use. and when you talk about criminal gangs, you to about organizatio

this report is from pull brennan. the rick dark chamber in stock home was packed full for the momentous vote and electronic balance which took less than 20 seconds to confirm the outcome. stephanie lawson is the 1st swedish premier ever to lose a confidence as la fan sat impassively on the front row as his coalition disintegrated before his eyes. the stuff beneath then threw up lawfern is a former union boss famed for his negotiating skills and since and inconclusive election in 2018. lawful social democrats have governed in a minority coalition with the green, while still needing the support of smaller parties to get that through parliament. but his government proposals to reform sweden's, strict rent control system, proved to be a red line for the left party. who warned that they would bring down the government unless the proposals were withdrawn. the how you to not some of the some move only the polity. we kept our word said no, she dug into the left party leader. so often now has one week to decide whether to call

pull brennan al jazeera crypto fans something shiny, a new to get all excited about. feathery is auction house is putting a flawless $100.00 carat diamond up for sale, which can be bought using crypto currencies. the pen shape diamond is expected to fetch up to $15000000.00, which is about $477.00. bitcoin at the moment anyway. ah, 30 minutes past midnight gmc updating it top stories. counting is well underway and he threw up his twice delay general election. the prime minister smith is hoping to hold on to power and what is his 1st real electro.

pull brennan has paris from the air is a spectacular sight. a birds eye view along the river sane towards the eiffel tower or soaring high over the triumph. then above the famous domes of the secretary basilica. these views made accessible thanks to modern camera drones. but since january the 1st paris is professional, drone operators have been locked in a bitter battle with the cities police the prefecture, which is refusing to grant permissions to fly. franklin sent me your 5 a ration stearns down around 15000 euros in earnings last. i'm not the only one who has seen operations refused. we are essentially being banned from booking and abuse of power. so some operators are struggling quite a lot financially. this is really affecting it's affecting hormones. so systematic, most of the routes of this dispute go back to 2020 with legal rulings on civil liberties grounds preventing french police from using their own drones to monitor public protests and gatherings. many believe the parish police chief did a lot more, is now taking revenge if it i

in the end that it was the charge of hypocrisy, which finally led to his demise, poor brennan al jazeera. and we're actually government is planning to open more than $500.00 you mosques, and says the $1000000000.00 project is essential stock of what it calls extremism. and to bring accurate information about islam to the public. but as time of your childhood report from savari, critics accused the government of politicizing religion. the plan for this mag mark project was initiated in 2017 before the last general election. it's reportedly one of the largest enterprises off its kind in the world. the majority of the mosque and bangladesh are privately owned, with limited government oversight. but some analysts say the real aim of the $1000000000.00 mark project could be political. obviously a slope of street anyway. so lately there is a strategy for reform, mosques were previously used for various extremist teaching as well as for radicalization and a plan to make as non controversial. i am confident such a plan will be foiled through proper teaching. and these mosques, the newly construc

, commercials and documentaries, but without a compromise soon, the skies will remain empty. poll brennan, i'll just 0. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, prominent chairs are president manuel could it has been released. softer is really forces arrested her and occupied jerusalem on sunday. so these fire stun grenades, dispersed protesters outside for the station calling for.

pull brennan, i'll jazeera the. let's bring our guests into the show now that we have joining us from boston, glen call, former deputy national intelligence office of the trends national threat and the national intelligence council. in cardiff, michael levy professor of criminology at cardiff university and in alexandria, virginia offer rise a former u. s. department of justice prosecutor, welcome to wal if i could start with glen. so this is quite an innovative and creative approach is almost like something out of a movie. how did it all come about? well, i don't know the, the, the details of this specific operation. but although it's, it is creative and i'm happy to be able to talk for once about a real triumph and dramatic success of the f. b. i. law enforcement, intelligence, and international cooperation. it's not an unusual operation. in many ways. i have worked closely with the bureau for, for decades, and they can do simply spectacular work. law enforcement is what they do. the agency tends to find fault wit

, commercials and documentaries, but without a compromise soon, the skies will remain empty. poll brennan, i'll just 0. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories, the u. s. is donating $750000.00 corona via fax seems to taiwan after the island accused china of hindering the surface to secure doses. a delegation of 3 american senators made the announcement during a meeting with taiwan president, sighing when faced the us for what she calls lifesaving jobs. as the island struggles going to contain a recent.

pull brennan, al jazeera. the united nations has boosted security in a large refugee camp and begin a faster violence worsens in the south region. thousands of fled their homes after a rising number of attacks this year with many taking refuge in the go to boot camp near dory. charlotte, bill us has our report in the northeast corner of speaking of far so near the borders of new year. and molly lies the good of a refugee camp. this is home 411000 refugees. actress angelina jolie. are you in ambassador fluid by helicopter to highlight world refugee day? she's been marking the day like this between 2 years. the keenest also is part of this, a hail with chad molly and this year the region is in crisis with growing violence, displacing more than $2000000.00 people. a milestone passed for the 1st time this year. the way the international community tried to address this conflict and insecurities is broken into the rank, it is unequal is built on inherited privilege. it is subject to the whim of political leaders and

. >> and thinking back to clinton and with justice brennan in the 19 nineties and the president withthe eulogy and he made a joke about the role of the media and the fact justice brennan had an opinion in "the new york times" o'sullivan and 64 so the media can say whatever they want about public officials. >> that was a number of years. >> you both endure the slings and areas on - - arrows of media criticism. so how do you deal with that? any thoughts of where we are now particularly with social media quick. >> i think the vast majority of people involved in the whole process including me are capable and honest and they want to present the story as they see it to be true. i regret the fact that in the book we have developed a tribal warfare and everybody automatically assumes that rights for a particular publication is right or left or someplace else and that we will not always consider exactly what the issue is and what is important and what we could do to make it better if that is the case. the complete lack of trust and credibility that has developed around what is presented is ve

kevin morris of the brennan center for justice, mimi marziani of the texas civil rights project and mr. donald palmer who is the chair of the u.s. election assistance commission. let me first talk about dr. pedigrew, dr. pedigrew is the director of the data sciences at the university of pennsylvania's program on opinion research and election studies and the deputy executive director of the fox leadership program. prior to joining penn dr. pedigrew received his ph.d. in political science and a masters in statistics from harvard university and worked at the m.i.t. election data and science lab. very impressive resumÉ. thank you for joining us. ms. mccurdy is the interim executive vice president of government affairs at the leadership conference on civil and human rights, prior to joining the leadership conference ms. mccurdy served as deputy political director at the national political advocacy department of the aclu and council for our house judiciary committee. thank you for your work over the years. kevin morris is a quantitative researcher with the brennan center for justices, democr

the brennan center does an excellent job of tracking. >> thank you. my time has expired and i yield back. >> thank you so much. we will try ms. fischbach again. >> can you hear me now? >> yeah, great job. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for your patience. i appreciate it. the internet is always a challenge. now i am on my phone using my phone today. thank you again. i wanted to ask a couple of questions, if i could. in your opinion, do you think that states have used the shelby county decision to institute measures that allow voter suppression or did states wait until after this decision to institute changes to voting practices that would have previously been blocked by the regime? >> that is correct, congresswoman. in section five of the voting section, i represent a couple of jurisdictions. section five was effective, but what it did as well as -- what it did was increase regulation and made minor changes to voting laws. there really is no surprise that following shelby, there was a flood of laws that people had either delayed or h

january highs, dee >> meanwhile, carl, jeff bezos just after he stepped down as ceo of amazon, morgan brennane a bit, but what does this mean >> that's right, deirdre it's literal rocket ship emojis. announcing that next month, july 20th, that is the 52nd anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing, the first human steps on the moon. that is the day that blue origin is targeting this first crewed space flight past the edge of space that bezos says he's going to be odd, joined by his brother mark also by the winning bidder since last month, and that cull minute yates in a day of final bidding, this upcoming saturday the current highest offer on the website is $2.8 million, 143 countries, but we're going to see where that number lands this weekend for that first trip, and of course it comes, when we're talking about july 20th, deirdre, it's coming 16 days after bezos' final day as ceo before he hands those reins over to andy jaffe. >> my question is, does it mean that jeff bezos is going to physically beat elon musk to space. spacex is going to be doing the civilian flight at the earliest, inspir

. >> i'm thinking back to again bill clinton and i went to the funeral of justice william brennan away in the bill clinton the unity. he actually made a little joke about the role of the media and the fact that justice brennan had written the opinion in new york times versus sullivan from 1964 with claudia to say whatever theywant a . >> i've been getting that for a number of years . >> both endured the slings and arrows of media criticism in both your families so you are now the? >> let me say i think the majority of the goals in bold journalistic process, media large are very capable, honest, folks who want to try to present the story as they see it to be true. i regret the fact and i talk about this a bit in the book that we developed a sort of a tribal warfare everybody automatically assumes that somebody writing for a more right or in some way selling and were not always going to consider what the issue is and what's important and what we can do to make itbetter if that's the case . the complete lack of trust, credibility that has developed around what is presented by those who ar

regulations in the nation. 14 states now have enacted 22 laws, making it harder to vote, according to the brennanr. there are 61 additional bills moving through 18 state legislatures. republicans, state lawmakers say those rules are needed because voters have lost trust in elections, but that lost of trust is being whipped up by disinformation. it's disinformation about conspiracy theories like those supported by qanon and voter fraud, and the biggest concerning piece, the big lie, pushed by supporters of donald trump that he won the 2020 election even though president joe biden overwhelmingly won the popular vote and the electoral college and now new reporting that even the person who started those lies, donald trump, is saying that he would be back in office. we'll have more on that in just a second. >> house democrats are now trying to figure out their options to investigate the most serious domestic attack on the capitol since the civil war. that's after senate republicans blocked the creation of an independent bipartisan commission to examine the origin of that day's violence. this is an exa

eastern morgan brennan is on china's ambitions in space >> 3, 2, 1, ignition, liveoff. >> reporter: a as of today, china seems to be winning that particular race. >> reporter: america has cooperatewood russia in space since the end of the cold war. as the former head of nasa explains, with china it's different. >> they are deliberately and aggressively pursuing a very robust space agenda. >> reporter: tonight's launch is the country's first crewed fight in herely five years, sending three astronauts to the space station it's building, as it seems to become a make power in the space by 2030. >> under president xi, it's become an issue of national power. space is important forle mill tar command and control, missile tracking, independence naviand a half navigation. >> translator: wove working and will continue to work with china, which applies to all kinds of programs, including exploring deep space i think there is nothing but positive information here. frankly i don't see any contradictions here. >> reporter: the milestones are immunitying lath month china became the second country to

i want to bring in now john brennan and senior national security intelligence analyst. it is great to see you onset. >> good morning. >> this is the first we have heard from you since the developments started coming in. we're now in about two minutes entering what we think is hour two of the larger group meeting. we talked about who is in the room. what is your assessment of what we have seen so far? >> i think it is going according to schedule. >> that's all we really know, right? >> yes, and i think it is important that president biden have the opportunity to sit down with him, look him in the eye, and talk about what his expectations are and what red lines are. i think the first 90 minutes he wanted it to be a small group so he could lay down clear signals. now it is being expanded to other experts in the room. i think it is important for president bide ton let vladimir putin know that in response to some of the very provocative actions, president biden is willing to risk escalation. i think that is one of the things that has been absent to date. you look at ukraine,

. >> according to the brennan center for justice as of mid-may , 22 restrictive laws have passed at least 14 states. on saturday, former president donald trump will resume his signature rallies. the first stop outside of cleveland ohio is part of a summer revenge tour. -- against republicans. it will be one of the biggest platforms for president trump who remains barred from social media. republicans like mike dewine are skipping the event. matt hancock is apologizing for breaching pandemic rules after being pictured embracing a senior aide but says he will not resign from the government. 's apology came after the sun newspaper published two photos of him with a woman. in a statement, hancock says he knows he let people down but remains focused on getting the country out of the pandemic. global news, 24 hours a day on air, on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is numbered -- this is bloomberg. ♪ >> welcome to bloomberg: markets . >> welcome both our bloomberg and bnn audiences. these are the top stor

joining me now is christine brennan sports columnist for "usa today" and cnn sports analyst and cnn chieffrey toobin. the ncaa makes billions of dollars a year. what will be the immediate impact of this ruling for college athletes? and how much of those billions in revenue are they actually likely to see? >> we would maybe want to check back in about 20 or 30 years and see where this goes. i do believe this is a signal for the future in terms of athletes having the opportunity to make some money on their name, image, and likeness. i don't know we'll ever get to the point of paying athletes. of course if you pay the football players you intoed to play the field hockey players. there is something called title 9 which celebrates its 49th anniversary on wednesday the law that opened the floodgates for women and girls to play sports so you have to be very aware we're not just paying the men but also the women. i do think obviously the legal issue is there but right now this is about lap tops and internships. this is a very narrow look at a huge issue in college sports, the issue in college spo

. >> according to the brennan center for justice as of mid-may , 22 restrictive laws have passed at least. on saturday, former president donald trump will resume his signature rallies. the first stop outside of cleveland ohio is part of a

, commercials and documentaries, but without a compromise soon, the skies will remain empty. poll brennan, al jazeera. ah, hello again. i'm fully back with the headlines on al jazeera. i'll just hear journalist you barbara dairy has left hospital where she has been receiving treatment for injuries suffered during her rest by israeli forces. she is revealed, she sustained a fracture in her left hand and bruising during the incident. she was detained while covering a demonstration and occupied these true. let her dr. it has the meters where did divine has now left the hospital, but she has sustained the fracture in her left left arm and also ruses elsewhere in her body. now you've heard her in her own words saying that she was actually beaten in the car as it was taking her to the police station. she did complain. last night to her lawyer was she was still inside the police station that she had a lot of pain in the left side and her left arm. obviously, that would turn out to be a fracture. the u. s. is donating 750000 covered 900 vaccines to taiwan after the island, the keys china of hinde

joining me is zoe brennan cohen.because britney spears is a cultural icon but also about the control. there are lots of people who find themselves subjected to a conservatorship. can you explain exactly how it works? >> sure, thank you for having me. the conservatorship or a guardianship in other states, it takes rights from one person and gives those rights to another person who is a conservator or guardian. it's a nearly complete deprivation of the person's rights to make decisions to the mundane, to very difficult decisions, medical decisions, how the person spends their money. who they see. who they don't see. you know, how they live their lives. so, it's a really extreme and invasive intervention. and as you said, it's actually quite widespread. often, conservatorships and guardianships are impositioned as a matter of course with people with disabilities in a way that's very problematic. >> about that, in the specific case of britney spears, we don't know why she needs a conservatorship. over the last 14 years s