and author and associate professor at florida university, christina greer.den is expecting to meet with vladimir putin, face to face during the summit in geneva. the president agreeing with putin today saying that the relationship between russia and the u.s. is at a low point. would you expect to see out of this meeting between the two leaders? >> well look, i'm hopeful that president biden is going to lay down some clear markers about what is going to be acceptable and unacceptable in his administration with regards the russia. i think that obviously we know, we won't see a repeat of what we saw in helsinki with the former president siding with putin over our intelligence analysts. but, you know, just not being trump isn't quite good enough. i think he needs to lay clear markers on human rights. lay clear markers when it comes to the cybersecurity and the cyberattacks. that russia has either been actively involved in or at least allowing, emanating from their country and, you know, thinking with human rights and political rights, for people like navalny and

joining me now, al franken, former senator and host of the al franken podcast, and christina greer. senator franken, i have not worked with these people, i don't know these people. but i can't think of an explanation for what manchin and sinema are doing unless it is that they actually prefer that republicans control the process and maybe that republicans control the senate. or they themselves maybe don't plan to run for re-election and are looking forward to their next thing, they're just preparing themselves to be the smoking man on "the x-files" and let the other guy win. do you understand this? >> this is an existential threat to our democracy. what the republicans passed nationwide, and look at arizona. where not only are they suppressing votes, something they traditionally do to try to get people they don't want to vote, to vote. what they're actually doing is trying to give the authority to republican officials in elections. in arizona, they've given the authority to the attorney general, taken it from the secretary of state. that expires in january of 2023, because they don'

. >>> let's bring in christina greer from fordham university, professor of political science. , about what this all is about. i'm going to note that my chick chickadees sent her their "i voted." does this system impart anything positive to the electorate? what's the point? >> it's supposed to give voters more of an option so they don't have to choose someone strategically. they can really vote their preferences. we've seen this work in minneapolis, in san francisco. obviously there's some real opponents. some of the candidates do not believe in ranked-choice voting. eric adams is one of the major opponents. one, this is a democratic town. we have to put an asterisk on that because we've had 20 years of republican mayors. two terms of giuliani and three of bloomberg. bloomberg was a republican, he caucused with george bush and governor pitaki. as you saw in your first picture montage, there was no david din kens. this time we have four african-american candidates. so there's so many options for voters. this is also the first time we're using ranked-choice voting. some people wor

help us understand what went wrong and what it means for ranked choice voting, i'm joined by christina greere's a professor of political science at fordham university. christina, thank you so much for being here. what is going on? why all the confusion? >> new york city voters decided to use rank choice voting for municipal elections. this is a period instead of having winner take all, 40% or more and being declared the victor, this is a system that counts all ballots. eric adams is in the lead, but we still have absentee and affidavit ballots that need to be counted. until all the ballots are counted, we do not know who the mare of new york city will be. it will most likely be another week or two because those absentee ballots have to be post madam speaker by june 22, but they still can come in up until a week later. and, so, the board of elections is just now starting to count over 100,000 absentee ballots that aren't even in the tally that we had on election night. >> reporter: mmm. and why did new york city, the largest city in the united states, why did it implement rank choice voting a

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nick akerman and christina greer, okay, so we're going to start off with this because, look, every single time we hear about new trouble in the trump organization, my immediate skepticism is like, is this going to result in anybody getting in trouble? so, nick, i'll start with you. how is this new place in the investigation? how is mcco initial ney being brought in and now being investigated? how does that change the trump organization? >> i think this really shows how widespread this financial investigation is spreading. it is not just donald trump. it is not just his tax preparer, weisselberg. this goes to all of the financial dealings of the trump organization. so what maybe everyone thought of as a tax investigation really may be more of a widespread investigation into the financial dealings of the trump organization, which includes possible money laundering, possible mortgage fraud, possible bank fraud, possible insurance fraud in addition to any of these tax violations as well as what we discussed on this show relating to witness tampering. so what you might be looking at here at th

joining me now to discuss is tim miller and christina greer. and eugene daniels.ys feel like i have to be the one defending manchin on this network but, look, joe biden got 29% in west virginia, jonathan. 29%. if manchin wasn't there it would be proud boy mcgill cutie trying to overturn the election. look, i mean, i think he needs to find a way to get to yes on some of this stuff. on, obviously, some voting rights in addition to on infrastructure. i think he's working on that. if he doesn't get there by next year, you know, i'll be the one to raise my hand and say, hey, you know, he really missed a huge opportunity. the democrats schumer and them got to work with him. they can't always point to manchin when he is stuck with the red ruby red really insurrectionist electorate. >> you raise a good point, tim. but, professor greer, senator man change, it is what it is? >> it is what it is and he's not changing. he's doubling down. maybe the democrats need to think of a different strategy. if they can't incentivize him to change his mind, maybe think about the republic