but thcity below, ron brownstein says, was in a creative churn that would re- shape american society.level, it was just an incredible constellation of talent. t at a deeper level, i think the pop culture that was created mostly in l.a. in the early 1970s was the bridge between ideas that had seemed insurrectionary during the 1960s and the mass american audience, ideas like greater suspicion of authority in business and government, more autonomy for women, changing relations between men and women, changing attitudes about families and sex, and more inclusion of marginalized groups. >> brown: brownstein is a veteran political reporter and analyst at cnn and "the atlantic." in his new book, “rock me on the wat” his focus turns to a particular time and place, and how cultural change interacts with politics. >> during the 1960s, the networks defiantly almost ignored everything that was happening around them. i say in the book that walter cronkite would spend half an hour every night documenting all of the fissures opening in american society, and then cbs and the other two networks would s

the same forces, brownstein writes, were changing the world of film, with movies like "chinatown" andat focused on the underbelly of american life-- its cynicism, corruption, and violence. along the way, he offers compelling individual stories, like that of linda ronstadt >> i think people underestimate how much linda ronstadt was spinning her wheels, how difficult it was for her in the late '60s and '70s. she had a vision in her head of bringing together rock and folk and country and even r&b in a new way, in a way that really didn't have an antecedent on the radio. and all the way through, as she was trying to coalesce and collect and capture the sound, she had to convince men, white men at every step of the way. and there was an awful lot of, don't you worry your pretty little head about it. >> brown: it does need to be said that the period you're talking about is really, this is a white world. you think about popular culture in america today is far more diverse. >> there is no doubt, i think that this early '70s period is when the door cracks open and you being to see, first the p

ron brownstein, always nice to see you.joining me. >> next, are you anxious about vaccine?ld getting what the rollout of the polio overcoming "hesitancy." to stay up-to-date, sign-up up for our newsletter soledad: vaccine hesitancy could slow efforts to end the pandemic. president biden wants 70% of adults to have at least one shot and 160 million americans to be fully vaccinated by july 4. that could be a steep hill to climb, considering how vaccination rates have fallen. the cdc says an average of 2.6 million people were vaccinated each day in the past week. that's down from a peak of 3.4 million shots per day in april. so how do we get past the hesitancy? let's look back at 1952, when 60-thousand children were infected with polio and more than 3000 died. a massive drive to vaccinate children against polio began in 1955. historians say the vaccine had overwhelming public acceptance because americans had a deep respect for science, even with failures in the rollout. some batches of the polio vaccine were defective, causing

so those are the things that i'm worried about. >> ron brownstein, final observation. another brilliant piece in "the atlantic" in which you wrote about what the republicans are up to out on a grassroots level. we'll put it up on the screen. reducing access to mail balloting and early voting, imposing new voter identification requirements, purging voters from registration lists, limiting the use of ballot drop boxes, blocking state court oversight of voting laws an increasing republican state officials' authority to override the decisions of local election officials who are democrats. all that is taking place and you say, hey, democrats, you're running out of time. explain quickly. >> yeah. look, both -- it may be true that both parties view the other as a threat to the country, but only one party is acting on that in a way to systematically reduce access to the ballot and to increase its leverage to try to overturn democratic victories in 2022 and 2024. there is a great deal of anxiety among voting rights groups, civil rights groups, others working in the democracy sp

. >>> let's bring in susan glasser, and ron brownstein. great to see you both. want to have a broader conversation of what it means for this country. we see it happening in texas, in other states so far. it could happened in other states that have voting restrictions in the works. ron, this isn't parties diverging over policy issues. you this one party, let us by clear, republicans fighting against imaginary fantasies about the election being stolen and try the to systematically dismanting or system, while the other party insists that norms and rules will prevail. dodds this as an asymmetric fight? >> absolutely. there's many who believe this is the biggest threat to small-d democracy until we have seen in the civil war, if you look at the dimensions of what's happens. cass indicating throug h . >> and so, yes, i think what you are seeing is for a significant heart of the republican collision, the fear of is eroting is the baseline commitments. we don't fully have language. it's among like what we see in parties like poland, turkey or hungary. and as i wrote thi

. >> ron brownstein is a cnn senior political analyst and a senior editor for "the atlantic." he joins me now from los angeles. great to have you with us as always. >> hi, rosemary. >> so the republican party is in disarray struggling to find its identity but now it's clearly deciding who to keep and who to kick to the curb and liz cheney looks set to be expelled from her leadership post. will that help or hurt the party in the end, essentially making a martyr out of cheney? >> it's an extraordinary moment when a political leader with the name cheney is insufficiently loyal in the minds of much of the house republican and indeed the republican electoral caucus. i actually think this is an important symbolic moment because what it is basically -- we know that roughly 3/4 of republican voters, maybe 80% of republican voters, are perfectly fine with everything donald trump has done since the election, don't blame him for january 6th, don't even necessarily view january 6th as that big a deal, don't think he acted improperly since the election. but there is roughly 20% to 25% of r

john br brownstein, who is the brains behind vaccines.gov and he said maybe this really meant somethinghing different, so for example, at cvs, they're giving away cruises if you get vaccinated or a chance to win a cruise. a chance to win a trip to bermuda. in new orleans, you get a pound of crawfish if you get vaccinated. in ohio, you get to enter the vaximillion lottery and that led to a whopping 45% increase in vaccination rates so as d dr. brownstein was saying, different people need different incentives so throw them all at them. >> i guess they can't hurt. elizabeth cohen, thank you for that reporting and thank you so much for being with me. the news continues next with alisyn and victor. we can not be la te. (brother) there's a road right there. (brother) that's a cat. wait, just hold madi's headpiece. (sister) no. seriously? (brother) his name is whiskers. (bride) what happened to you? whose cat is that? (brother) it's a long story. (sister) oh my gosh. (farmer) whiskers! there you are! (avo) the subaru crosstrek. the adventurous s-u-v for adventurous people. love. it's what make

so with this turning point the precedent set by hermina brownstein or ryan and her extradition what actions then began to to take were taken to hunt down other nazis and collaborators who were living in the united states? while the extradition hearings created quite a sensation in the press started digging up more and more stories about other nazi war criminals who were living in the united states and this caused a public outcry about the government's failure to pursue them. the government had tried in a few cases, but it's record was really dismal before ryan. it had only succeeded in deporting one nazi perpetrator. so in 1978 congresswoman elizabeth holtzman persuaded congress to pass on amendment to the immigration laws that provides that anyone who participated in nazi persecution cannot enter or legally reside in the united states and then she also persuaded the justice department to concentrate all of the responsibilities for nazi cases in a single office 1979 the attorney general created the office of special investigations known as osi and assigned it the mission of investigating. d

. >>> cnn's senior political analyst, ron brownstein joins me from los angeles good tofr you w with us. >> marjorie taylor greene is doubling down on her offensive comparison of mask mandates to the holocaust. why isn't the gop leadership said anything about this and what might the consequences be? >> well, it's pretty revealing that liz cheney was sanctioned for calling out trump's big lie about the election and marjorie taylor greene has preceded unscathed for these offensive comments. two things. first, as i wrote a few months ago the evidence is growing at the extremist wing in the gop, and polling by conservative think tank, a majority of republican voters said it's changing so fast. this is not only rhetorical. this is having real world consequences, as we saw making masking a cultural war, and all 21 states where the highest share of adults have been vaccinated in the u.s. were won by joe biden. 19 of the 21 where the smallest share have been vaccinated were won by donald trump, and making the coronavirus into a cultural war is having serious real world consequences. >> it's a r

democrats believe traditional american pro-democracy values will prevail, but cnn political analyst ron brownstein says that may not be true anymore. >> what you are seeing is for a significant share of the republican coalition, the fear of demographic eclipse is eroding the baseline commitment to democracy. we don't fully have a language or understanding what that means in american politics. it's what we see in parties in countries like poland, turkey, that win an election and use tools that make it difficult for the other side to ever win again. this is as i wrote in "the atlantic" debate among groups concerned about this, about whether president biden himself and senate democratic leaders are showing enough urgency about what's happening. >>> mexico is suffering a wave of political killings in the run-up to their midterm elections next week. more than 80 candidates have been killed in recent months. hundreds of others have been targeted. matt rivers has more on the surge in the political violence. >> reporter: here is abell m morieta, candidate for local office. crime was his number one issue.

ron brownstein is here and emily bazalon, staff writer for the "new york times" magazine and fellow atw school. em emily, can we start with you? i want to talk about the supreme court that a 6-3 majority bench. three supported by the president and now they'll hear the case that severely limits roe v. wade. it's what conservatives have been waiting for and trump and mcconnell certainly delivered. >> that's right. i think what you're seeing here is the way in which conservatives decides and rightly so that the supreme court is really important in america life, especially for social issues, abortion, access to firearms, questions about the role of religion in american life. so these three justices appointed by president donald trump joined three other very conservative justices and it seems as if this decision to take this challenge to this mississippi abortion ban could signal major challenges and major changes to access to abortion in the united states. >> the supreme court is also taking up a case of gun rights and may hear a case on affirmative action. are we see how trump's jusdges c

joining me now, senior political analysts, ron brownstein and keers 10 powers., scott. so these liz cheney comments are so extraordinary. this is what they are saying behind closed doors at the republican congress. we can't rebuild the party of the conservative movement on a foundation of lies. we can't embrace the notion the election is stolen. it's a poison in the

joining me now, cnn senior political analysts ron brownstein and kirsten powers, also scott jennings. a former special assistant to president george w. bush. good to see all of you. welcome one and all. scott, i'm going to start with you. so these liz cheney comments are so extraordinary. this is what sources tell our jamie gangel. i quote. we can't rebuild the party of the conservative movement on a foundation of lies. we can't embrace the notion the election is stolen. it's a poison in the bloodstream of our democracy. we can't be a cult of personality. we can't whitewash what happened on january 6th or perpetuate trump's big lie. it is a threat to democracy. what he did on january 6th is a line that cannot be crossed. that is not mincing words. it's wild to think that she is telling the most obvious truths, and she could pay a very heavy price for it. >> yeah. no question about it. i mean what the republican leader kevin mccarthy hopes that she would say is, you know, i've said all i'm going to say about it. i know the cheneys a little bit. they weren't put on this earth to kiss re

joining me now, senior political analysts, ron brownstein and keers 10 powers. and a former special assistant to president george w. bush. good to see all of you. i'll start with you, scott. so these liz cheney comments are so extraordinary. this is what they are saying behind closed doors at the republican congress. we can't rebuild the party of the conservative movement on a foundation of lies. we can't embrace the notion the election is stolen. it's a poison in the blood stream of our democracy west can't be a cult of personality. we can't whitewash what happened on january 6th or perpetuate the big lie. it is a threat to democracy. what he did is a line that cannot be crossed. that's not mincing words. it is wild to think she is telling the most obvious truths and she could pay a very heavy price for it. >> no question about it. the republican leader kevin mccarthy hopes she would say, you know, i've said all i have to say about it. i haven't changed my views but i have to focus on other things. they were not put on this earth to kiss rear ends or eat grass.

that's what voters are telling ron brownstein. >> what we are experiencing since the last election is the serious threat to the underlying corp principles of american democracy, at least since the civil war. >> joining us now, maggie haberman. she's a washington correspondent for "the new york times." maggie, i was asking brianna if he was doing enough there. he says president biden needs to be out there blowing up the filibuster. president biden needs to be out there every day to stop these bills from becoming law in different starts. what more could he realistically do? >> i think he's using essentially the power of the bully pulpit as to who they see it doing to the democracy. the biden white house would argue that the way biden got elected and the way he was able to push through through holding the house in the senate was not making appeals like that, trying to appeal to whatever it is among voters and among othering, it would be more partisan. he did weigh in on the texas bill in the last 48 hours. i think it's worth noting. the question is whether he'll continue to do that. that

. >> trump's claims about voter fraud were sort of the big lie before the big lie, ron brownstein, this has been going on so long. trump never produced any evidence, any proof that any of the voter fraud claims are true, yet the lies live to this day. in an interview with the "daily beast," you say you talked to civil rights groups and voting groups about types of new restrictions, said, they're worried about what's unfolding in red states and worried how the biden white house and leadership are responding to it. there's a gap widening between the magnitude of the threat and intensity of response. what do the groups want to do, ron? >> i think the magnitude of the threat is that many see what's unfolding as greatest threat to underlying principles of democracy since the civil war, maybe at any point in our history. as we said, the house passed comprehensive legislation that would establish a national floor of voting rights, guarantee americans access to on demand absentee balloting, certain amount of days of early voting, but that's now stuck in the senate. every senate democrat except

and the director, carrie brownstein was like, "i think we should get a choreographer just so you guysright when i could join them, they were done. and then it was just me, and a a professional choreographer in a huge room. and it was like, do the electric slide [ light laughter ] and it was the most intimate, raw, nightmarish panic i've ever felt in my entire life. and suddenly i found myself being like, "what is the grapevine? what is a little shimmy? like, i'm raw terror looking into this man's eyes >> jimmy: i've done this a a million times. like, "is this the electric slide? >> so then, i think because of that, he was like, "this woman doesn't know the electric slide. she needs extra help." i would say for 20 minutes, i quietly did the electric slide for a professional choreographer. probably ten times in a row. solo electric slide. it will chill you to your -- [ cheers and applause but i survived >> jimmy: you survived >> it looked great on camera oh, wow. >> jimmy: you filmed the show in and around portland gosh >> yeah, it's the best >> jimmy: that's a cool place. >> and it's s

ron brownstein is a cnn senior political analyst and senior editor at "the atlantic." you. your thoughts on all of that. >> yeah, look, i think what we are seeing across the board is a spasm or even a convulsion in red america in pc lash to the democratic victories that gave them unified control of the federal government in washington. as you noted half a dozen states have passed laws that would ban abortion by no more than six weeks, sometimes completely. we're seeing the permitless -- a permitless carry bills allowing people to carry weapons without any permit. the bills limiting the ability of transgender kids to play in high school sports or even to access medical care and, of course, the wave of voter suppression bills that are passion all of this combined with the point that you mentioned in texas increased efforts by republicans who run these red states bayed on their dominance of rural areas to override decisions being made in their increasingly blue metros like houston and dallas and san antonio and austin, and in all of these ways you're seeing red states ver

years later, lincoln is calling on frederick bellus -- frederick douglass to embark upon a john brownstein. norther -- a john brown's scheme. douglas planned this john brown's scheme. a few weeks later, though, general sherman was victorious in atlanta and began his march to the sea that transformed northern opinion and essentially clench lincoln's reelection. so that scheme never went into practice. the third and final meeting was during lincoln's inaugural address. frederick douglass was invited to the address and the reception. he had essentially a front-row seat. he sat right in front of lincoln. lincoln saw douglas when he gave his address. douglas went to the reception at the white house in the wake of the inaugural address in march of 1865. the war was virtually over. there were almost 200,000 black troops marching throughout the south. douglass was initially barred from entering the white house because blacks were not allowed to enter. douglas says, there must be some mistake. he sends his card in and lincoln admits in. when lincoln sees frederick douglass he is with a group of whi

you know, ron brownstein wrote a great piece in "the atlantic" and said president biden needs a field one there, vice president kamala harris. i had a panel on earlier saying the society has to put pressure on the private sector. vice president harris will be reaching out to the private sector. i'm curious where she stands on how to, you know, bring some of these voter suppression bills to a halt and what her message will be to the private sector who supports some of these candidates and does business in some of these states. >> both the president and vice president have been meeting with members of congress, republicans in particular, about this particular piece of legislation, about moving it forward and how we get across the finish line. she's been -- both the president and the vice president have been proponents of ensuring that people have the right to vote. you know, as the president has said, when it comes to issues like the filibuster, that something has to give and something has to change, especially when we're talking about something as elemental to our democracy as the righ