conrad ginsburg of a store faces the same fears. he bought brand new skew quick meant to sell and rent out so this year has been tough. this is just sort of this season we spent about $200000.00 in heroes inventory alone so that's not counting the money we spent on renovation or construction or anything else and each day the season doesn't start it becomes less and less likely that we will be able to sell the items we may end up with a complete loss. for lost there. conrad a ginsburg has been running the ski school for 25 years normally he can keep up to 180 seasonal workers busy at a time. or how are things now during the pandemic shift. it's tough thing so there's a lot at stake what can i say. living long we've been working all our lives please turn it off. turn it off please we have even seen or heard from for years we'll see if we ever receive financial assistance from the state for now we're just getting by on chipping away at our pension funds very heavily see is the only way for us to pay our bills. a ton in her the 1st day

honoring ruth bader ginsburg just days before her birthday, and during women's history month, a seven-foote unveiled for the trailblazer. and cbs' steve hartman goes "on the road" to introduce us to this year's most-unlikely grammy nominee. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on a busy friday night. and we are going to begin tonight with some breaking news. this is a political bombshell. new york's influential and embattled governor, andrew cuomo, has just lost the support of two of the country's most- powerful democrats. as we are coming on the air, we just learned that senate majority leader chuck schumer of new york, along with that state's other senator, kirsten gillibrand, is calling on the governor to resign. cuomo is the head of the national governors' association and the leader of one of the country's largest states, and he became an international celebrity for his handling of the coronavirus crisis. but after accusations of mismanagement and a s

the borough will make march 15th, this coming monday, as ruth bader ginsburg day. into the weekend tune in to the latest episode of stanley tucci explores italy. from the art, the food, the culture, there is nowhere else quite like it. please tune in sunday night, 9:00 eastern and pacific. that's it for me. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. let's go to washington. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >> well tomorrow could "the lead." i'm jake tapper. last hour president joe biden celebrated the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill called the american rescue plan. that is now law, ensuring millions of suffering americans help has arrived, he said sxl think of the millions of people going to sleep at night staring at the ceiling thinking, my god, what am i going to do tomorrow? i lost my health care. i don't have a job. unemployment runs out. i'm behind in my mortgage. what are we going to

[silence] a look now at books that are being published this week leat justice ruth bader ginsburg and clerk amanda tyler chronicle the justices legal career in justice, justice that will shall pursue and ladies relationship with president johnson and in this is the fire, cnn don lemmon offered his thoughts how to address racism in america also being published this week, alex lookings at the impacts of amazon in fulfillment. columbia law professor jamal greene argues our constitutional rights should be mediated by legislatures and juries and not by judges in how rights went wrong. and in already toast, kate washington describes her experience caring for her ill husband and efforts of other unpaid caregivers. find these titles this coming week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors on booktv on c-span2. this is c-span now online store at c-span shop dog to check out the new c-span products with 117 st congress in session we're taking preorders if the congressional directory and purchase help support c-span nonprofit operations. shop today at c-span shop.org. during a

use the search function to look for douglas ginsburg or the title of his book, voices of our republicday on in depth, a live conversation with author elizabeth kohlberg, staff writer for the new yorker. the most recent book is under a white sky. the nature of the future. her other books include the pulitzer prize-winning the six extinction and field notes from a catastrophe. joint and the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets for elizabeth kohlberg. sunday at noon eastern on book tvs in depth. on cspan2. and before the program be sure to visit c-span shop.org to get your copies of elizabeth's book. mech hi everyone thank you so much for tuning in today. i am care about their senior editor at mother jones. i'm sure you can all relate i am reeling from the last week of news. as we watched in horror as our democracy came under attack, it was easy to forget the coronavirus is still raging with 4000 new cases every day. but these two events are related in one really important way. the people who stormed the capitol live in an alternate reality. their belie

the late justice ruth bader ginsburg and her former clerk and berkeley law professor amanda chronicledher career injustice, justice, thou shall pursue. lady bird johnson, looks of the first latest relationship with president johnson. and in this is the fire, cnn don lemon offices thoughts on how to address racism in america. also been published this week, or public as alec michaelis looks at the economic impact of amazon and fulfillment. columbia law professor jamaal green argues the cost additional rights should be mediated by legislatures and juries. not by judges and how rights went wrong. and an already toast, kate washington describes her experience caring for her ill husband and the other unpaid caregivers predefined these titles this coming week wherever books are sold. watch for many of the authors the near future on book tv, on cspan2. during a virtual program hosted by the reagan presidential library, former appellate judge douglas ginsburg discusses his book on the court and the constitution. here he provides his thoughts on partisanship throughout american history. >> we ar

you were so close with justice ruth bader ginsburg who you were so close for, clerked for her. she wrote in part -- amanda, your comments? >> i think that passage holds up pretty well today. i wrote last summer when we were working on the book that we have out now, and that includes that dissent. it is as powerful today as it was on the day she wrote it. i think it's really unfortunate to see some of the things that are happening and that are now happening, as melissa says, as a result of the fact that we no longer have the preclearance system in place. as justice ginsburg wrote, voting is the avenue to the preservation of all of our other rights. this is one of the most important battlegrounds in our constitutional debates. >> josh and amanda and melissa, thanks so much. right now president biden on defense, amid a surge of migrants at the southern border, in his first formal press conference, pushing back that children are being sent unaccompanied because the president is looked as more passionate. >> i guess i should be flattered that i am a nice guy. 28% increase. does any

. >> ruth bader ginsburg unveiled in brooklyn today. it comes during women's history month. she became a feminist icon for her legal successes in cases that advance women's rights ginsburg died 87 in september after a long battle with cancer. >> still ahead at a high school football is back in the bay area. we're hearing from an east bay coach about how teams will adapt to the restrictions in place 4 games this weekend. plus, despite mounting calls for his resignation over harassment allegations. and now roping new york governor andrew cuomo is refusing to step down tonight, even the white house is weighing in. >> set of new york. the lawmakers are calling the calling for the resignation of governor andrew cuomo as he faces harassment allegations, even more of them are washington correspondent basil john has details. >> late friday, new york senators chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand became the latest to tell fellow democrat new york governor andrew cuomo. but it's time for him to go. they joined a group including new york congressman jerry nadler who said, quote, governo

harris, barack obama had a conversation that was around this topic with ruth bader ginsburg.u suspect that the president is thinking about when justice breyer might hand him that seat? >> he's absolutely thinking about it. i think a lot of people are thinking about it. but, you know, hopefully what we've seen in gender adversity in courts, these things matter. they matter because it's beyond a decision one individual judge can make, it changes the context in the courts. we behave differently with a new set of colleagues, so having a black woman on the supreme court can change how other justices behave on the court. and her appointment now, or three black women being appointed to the courts of appeals, is going to affect not just the cases they're on but the cases that their colleagues hear, for example, or it's not just about their votes on any one case, but their votes and their presence on a panel can affect how their colleague on a panel decides cases and how they vote in cases. so it might be beyond any individual vote they might make in a case. >> so, dahlia, if we look

and with me tonight is cnn legal analyst ben ginsburg, a republican election lawyer who worked on the bush v. gore case and also professor william brooks, a former president of the naacp. gentlemen, great to see you both. i'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this. ben, i want to start with you. president biden says the justice department is, quote, taking a look at this law. at least one lawsuit has already been filed. the accusation democrats are making is that the law is voter suppression. as a republican yourself do you see it that way? >> well, i think there's certainly parts of this law that are very wrong as a matter of principle. voting is the most fundamental right. you went over some of the provisions that take away and are barriers to that fundamental right. getting rid of drop boxes makes no sense, the potential take over by the state legislature, the state board of elections is fraught with peril. and certainly providing food and water to people in line is an attempt to suppress votes. things like the voter i.d. provision gets rid of signature matches, which is

joining me now to discuss is ben ginsburg and cnn legal analyst.joining. >> thank you for having me. >> so you and other conservatives to your credit, george will and charlie psychs, have called many of the efforts straight up voter suppression, intentional. i wonder, why haven't we heard folks like mitch mcconnell and others call this out and oppose measures like this or are they calculating maybe unseemly but it is in our interest? >> i think that it is a period of great uncertainty amongst traditional conservative republicans. look, the problem that the republican electorate that donald trump is appealing to is shrinking demographically and rather than proposing a whole suite of new policies, the republican party and especially if the laws you mentioned have taken the position that we'll make it harder for those voters who might not vote for republicans to, in fact, cast their ballots and that is a bad place for party to be. >> absolutely. i mean, what does the law say about this? why isn't it illegal to deliberately pass laws that disadvantage

antichoice majority by confirming justices neil gore such and justice kavanaugh to filling ruth bader ginsburg see with justice barrett. there ever was a reason to abolish the filibuster it is to ensure we passed legislation to expand the supreme court so we cannot over cheney on - - overturn roe vs wade and then to state - - but equal access to healthcare in our country but today the republicans are attempting to disrupt hhs with a political pay play to their days at the expense of americans. to rather play politics. and then to beholden to the far right interest groups that the american people sent us here to do. for the past four years. and with those far right policies in november how did american people respond? they voted him out with those interest groups for healthcare and women's rights and that is why i stand on the floor the united states i senate today to say abortion is healthcare. we cannot stand for any more disparities or delays or denials more than ever in this country we need to stand up and raise our voices to restrict access to health services. we have a fight ahead of us t

i think there is a sense that we've all learned a lesson after ruth bader ginsburg who probably couldicans didn't control the senate and might have sort of led to a different turn of events in history, so there is a tremendous amount of anxiety that justice stephen breyer, who is 82, not make the same mistake. >> and professor harris, barack obama had a conversation that was around this topic with ruth bader ginsburg. do you suspect that the president is thinking about when justice breyer might hand him that seat? >> he's absolutely thinking about it. i think a lot of people are thinking about it. but, you know, hopefully what he has this opportunity, he thinks about the broader implications of potentially having an african-american woman on the court. these things matter. they matter because it's beyond a decision one individual judge can make, it changes the context in the courts. we behave differently with a new set of colleagues, so having a black woman on the supreme court can potentially change how other justices behave on the court. and her appointment now, or three black women

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he is the search function to look for douglas ginsburg of the title of his book, voices of our republic. up next on book tv, military historian james carlton nelson recounts the exploits of u.s. army sgt alvin york during the last major military operation of world war i. >> i now have got five books about world war i as been told repeatedly when is trying to publish my first book, books about the army in world war i do not sell anywhere. feels good to prove people wrong a little bit on that. my grandfather got me interested. it is swedish immigrant, drafted sent back to france, he was attached to the first division company infantry. in july 19, he played in the field overnight and live another 75 years. we told the small story about what happened to him. yet in the morning some french colonials were walking around kicking people to see if they're still live for he partly grown, they picked him up in his story just fascinated me. it took me a while to get to the age of maturity right could properly address it as a story in written form. >> he lived to 101? >> he was 101 died in 1993. >>

brooklyn's borough president also proclaimed monday justice ruth bader ginsburg day. september at the age of 87. >>> and join our team of experts on tuesday for "our america: women forward in the workforce." it's a live town hall starting tuesday at 10:00 a.m. on abc7 news news.com or wherever you stream abc7. so tune in for that. >>> let's tune in to find out what the weather is going to be like this weekend. >> i'm hope weerg going to get some nice. saturday is mow the lawn day, sandhya. you said it wasn't going to rain until sunday. it's getting pretty long i noticed today. >> you're going to get every opportunity to mow that lawn. no getting out of it, dan and ama. sunday is when we'll see the wet weather returning to the bay area, which we need, as you all know from our san jose camera, looking at sunshine right now as you will notice over the shark tank the sun is setting. mainly sunny, breezy, and cooler tomorrow. today we had low 70s in our warmest spots. daylight saving time begins sunday morning, so you'll get that extra hour of daylight. and a cold storm ar

. >>> all right, a statue honoring the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg was unveiled intner designed the statue last year in consultation with ginsburg, who gave her stamp of approval prior to its production. the reveal comes during women's history month and a few days before what would have been the justice's 88th birthday. the statue will be open to the public for viewing by appointment at city point, a development in brooklyn. >>> and i absolutely love this. those getting vaccinated over the weekend at berkshire community college in massachusetts got a very special surprise. renowned cellist yo-yo ma, who lives in the berkshires part-time, gave a surprise concert at the vaccination site. ma received his second dose on saturday at the community college, and while spending 15 minutes in observation, he took out his cello and he played for those wapting. the performance comes one year to the day after he first posted on social media about his project "songs of comfort," sharing a video of himself playing to calm an anxious country as lockdowns began. how cool is that? >>

on voting laws, lawyer ben ginsburg had to say about these efforts. >> i think they are making a mistake any time you put up barriers to people voting in a democracy. both on the policy grounds because it's anti-the way the country should work, but also politically because it paints republicans as truly not wanting people to vote. >> so i hear from what you are saying that you are not generally supportive of this idea of restricting. so we can -- we can move on to your trip to the border. you just came back from the border from mexico. give me a sense of what you saw. how are you seeing the problem down there? >> look, jon. first it's heartbreaking, and when you see -- and it's shocking and what i have been calling for in a respectful way. i try to work in a bipartisan way, is for the president, for the vice president to come down and to see what we saw, to hear what we heard from officials on the front lines. i would disagree with kate on a number of things. there is an open border policy. there is a catch and release policy, and these were changes that the biden administration institut

and debate it openly and constitutionally, as justice ginsburg suggested. they won't because they know that in the nearly half century that passed since the e.r.a. was proposed, the world itself has passed them by. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. mcclintock: i yield back. mrs. fischbach: madam speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from minnesota reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from texas, ms. garcia. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas. ms. garcia: thank you, madam speaker. as a young woman in texas, i marched with hundreds of other women in support of the equal rights amendment. today, i stand with all my colleagues here to affirm or support for women's equality. women are behind some of the nation's greatest achievements. we flew across the atlantic, fought for civil rights, set athletic records, sent men to space, and then went there ourselves. we have forc

the weekend after the untimely death of justice ginsburg, my opponent, through his campaign account, raised $6 million. over 48 hours. that comes to a new tool that we have that i will call dem money. it's doing the same thing. i don't hear anybody on the democrat side saying they want to get rid of those tools. so they're not suggesting a disarmament of both sides. they simply found another way to do exactly the same thing. people providing money to candidates and influencing elections. they've just come up with a more sophisticated broad-based policy that i doubt very seriously they would be willing to abandon because among liberals, they're doing it to the tuna probably 10-20 fold what conservative candidates do. think we are in a time where we do have to recognize that some peoples speech would be muted if you just simply disclosed everything. i've had the protesters out in front of my house before sunrise on two different occasions. dozens of them blocking my driveway. i wonder if they were funded by some dark money groups or by one of these aggregation engines that are not nece

a statue of late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. there it is. it was unveiled in brooklyn today. course, she became a feminist icon for her success. in many cases advancing women's rights. she died september 18th after a long battle with cancer. she would have turned 88 march 15th this coming monday. march is also women's history month. the 63rd annual grammys are this and a lot of music fans counting down to the big night entertainment. tonight's kevin frazier is breaking down one of the show's biggest prizes. >> kevin katherine harry styles will open the show. let's talk about record of the year. the award that goes to the artists of the year's best song and the competition is categories crazy, especially when you consider beyonce is nominated. >> 2 times. >> he's already got 24 gold statuette and 2 of her 9 nods or for record of the year. one black parade. >> place the reach. but on the other for her savage remix with make the stallion you oh, gee, like she is the standard. so you just feel so great to know that you even made it to where you

the seven-foot-tall bronze statue of ruth bader ginsburg was unveiled today, three days before what would have been the brooklyn native's 88th birthday. justice ginsberg died in september from pancreatic cancer. and "on the road" is next. cbs' steve hartman meets the blues player who could be the grammy's most humble nominee. >> o'donnell: all right, so what comes to mind when you think of the grammy awards-- glitz, glamour, parties? not for one nominee. he's happy right where he is playing the blues. rertman roadt 000 et turns to dust, we found this year's most-unlikely grammy nominee. every day, 73-year-old jimmy duck holmes and his biggest fan welcome customers to jimmy's blue front cafe and juke joint in bentonia, mississippi. graceland it is not. you don't read music. >> nope. >> reporter: you don't write music. >> nope. >> reporter: you don't write lyrics. >> nope. >> reporter: and you're up for a grammy. >> i guess it's a divine thing. i don't know. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: jimmy is the last of the old bentonia blues men, a brand of blues known for its haunting, hypnotic style ♪ monday m

ginsburg.or of the san francisco rec and parks, and he's a national rec and park ranger. thank you for being here. >> hi, chris. thank you for having me. >> i've heard you have an exciting new exhibit that features social distancing and is outside, so it's safer. can you tell us a little bit about it? >> the golden gate 50 anniversary wasn't the celebration that we hoped for, but when life deals you lemons, you hope to make lemonade, and we tried to engage people in the park in different ways. behind me is what we did. it's a public exhibit which has transformed peacock meadows into an enchanted forest of other worldly shapes and lights. it's to close out golden gate park's 150 years and to allow people to have outdoors socially distant fun. >> great. and what are the hours, and when can people go see it, and are there access for wheelchairs and strollers? >> well, it will run until february 27, and the ways are wheelchair accessible. it will close in time to make the city's curfew. we're not s

the artist who created the likeness consulted with ginsburg before her death.re. justice ginsburg was a lifelong champion of women's rights. she died last september. this coming monday would have been her 88th birthday. so deserved. obviously, to have this statue there. perfect song choice, by the way -- >> it was. >> i was noting that. >> such a likeness. >>> last year the big dance was just about to get started when the music suddenly stopped. the pandemic put a quick end to the ncaa tournament. up next, what's being done this year to make sure march is as mad if not even more so as ever. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." ♪ lisasa here, hasas had many y . she's s worked in n retail during thehe holidays.s. as a a barista d during rushsh. anand a nanny y to a couplpe of r rambunctiouous kids. now,w, all that t experience has leled her to a a job that feelsls like homeme. with homome instead,d, you totoo can becocome a careregiver to o older adul, with a c career ththat makes a a differencn. ♪ apply todaday. ♪ during phohotosynthesisis, planants conv

husband was 100% innocent, which is why the most left—wing justice on the us supreme court, ruth bader ginsburglaw to convict him. and that was part of herjudgment. the fact was that when it went down to a lower court, there was a judge of great hostility who managed to reinstate one or two charges. and i think he was, in the end convicted of stealing something like $200,000 by wire fraud — which is a crime which doesn't even exist in most countries. the obstruction ofjustice was complete nonsense. it took place theoretically in canada, and the canadian court said there was no obstruction ofjustice. so, i think you're being — you're slanting things. my husband was entirely innocent. and, were he not, i would not have been there. i am many bad things, i am many horrible things, possibly, you make your own judgments. but one thing i am not is a criminal. when he came out, you built a life with him, but it was a life very different from the life before. and you, again, going back to the concept of enemies and, indeed, maybe vengeance as well, you do dish the dirt on all the people who, after the f

ginsburg. he's the director of the san francisco rec and parks, and he's a national rec and park ranger. thank you for being here. >> hi, chris. thank you for having me. >> i've heard you have an exciting new exhibit that features social distancing and is outside, so it's safer. can you tell us a little bit about it? >> the golden gate 50 anniversary wasn't the celebration that we hoped for, but when life deals you lemons, you hope to make lemonade, and we tried to engage people in the park in different ways. behind me is what we did. it's a public exhibit which has transformed peacock meadows into an enchanted forest of other worldly shapes and lights. it's to close out golden gate park's 150 years and to allow people to have outdoors socially distant fun. >> great. and what are the hours, and when can people go see it, and are there access for wheelchairs and strollers? >> well, it will run until february 27, and the ways are wheelchair accessible. it will close in time to make the city's cur

affiliated with black lives matter and their kids book collection features kamala harris, and ruth bader ginsburg written by obama, biden clinton donors shocking all makes sense when you follow the money. the national education association the nea after de-emphasizing dr. seuss is pushing more progressive books to young students wow listen to this. julianne is a mermaid is about a little boy who cross dresses. the prince and the dress maker is another book about cross dressing. american eyes rebel without a green card is about an illegal immigrant from iran. we are here to stay voices of undocumented young adults is also about illegal immigrants. so i'm fiend with having a wide range of authors and issues. but not at the expense of wonderful authors like dr. seuss. and not for partisan political and doctrine all of this seems to be about destroying cultural and historical frames of reference. wiping the slate clean and building a liberal culture that they control entirely and profit from, of course. we give into the liberal mob because they're annoying. we don't feel like listening to them whine,

if democrats want to test 24eshed follow justice ginsburg's guideance and start the process over. just as our founders intended. i urge my colleagues to oppose this legislation and madam speaker, i also would like to set the record straight when it comes to the violence against women act or vawa. my amendment was removed. in a partisan fashion. from vawa this congress. stripping vital sex trafficking funding for victims, for children. this has always been included and it was stripped out and not allowed in the amendment process. also not allowed was my prenda amendment that would have stopped sex selection. sex selection in the womb. taking the lives of young girls. i urge opposition to this legislation and to all -- i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. mrs. torres: my colleagues across the aisle are not supportive of provisions to protect lgbtq plus individuals in this bill. the lgbtqpls members are affected by violence. abusers are not -- legislators who oppose equality are trying to turn this into a deba

he used ruth bader ginsburg as an example for refusing to retire during obama's presidency when democratsfacebook launching a new tool to connect people to covid-19 vaccines. jillian: good morning. >> reporter: facebook his partner with boston children's hospital to let users find out where and when they can get their covid vaccines. mark zuckerberg says this will bring 50 million people closer to getting vaccinated. that will help identify places nearby for people to find vaccines, show hours of operation, provide links for facebook users to make appointments and appearing facebook news feeds. chief innovation officer john brownstein said the hospital is thrilled to join forces with facebook and said improving vaccine access in equity will be a critical step in achieving herd immunity. the tool is first launching in the united states but appears in 71 languages. facebook plans to expand the tool to other countries when vaccines become more readily available. this comes after facebook rules out a plan just last month to take on misinformation about vaccines on the platform. facebook alrea

most outrageouses way with the theft of the united states supreme court with regard to scalia and ginsburg nomination. so t would be crazy for people to not do something strong and make sure voting rights are protected out of a fear of what mitch mcconnell will do in the future. >> you said today republicans and democrats don't agree on the problem, let alone the solution, when it comes to critical topics. it will prevent legislation on these issues from passing. the old way the senate worked has broken down,to the extent it ever did work. you just don't have gangs of six coming together and horse trading and they get some legislation that can pass 90/10, except for the omnebus bill. >> john mccain were able to start off a democrat and a republican and we'd have one democrat and one republican and we did that in context of the filibuster but the filibuster was in our way. it didn't promote bipartisanship. so, the idea this works is absurd because people don't even have to talk and even worse, it's become partisan. the founders of this country did not believe in political parties. they call

there's the ruth baders ginsburg issue. >> i had the privilege of being justice briar law clerk. he's careful. he's moderate. he's about trying to make the system work for all americans. i guess i find this conversation a little distasteful that's playing out in the newspaper op-eds. he's an incredibly public minded person. i don't think the articles will matter one bit. he'll decide when he wants to. i think the important point is let's not think about the supreme court right now. we'll get there. let's think about the circuit courts because that's where trump did so much damage and where history has done damage. we never had a native american nominee to the circuit courts ever in our history. there are fabulous ones. biden is doing the right thing today and he will continue to do it which is diversify the judiciary. >> let's talk a bit about some of these nominees. i happen to no katangee brown jackson. i think she's wonderful. i knew her in college. she made it to the top three. they were the top three choices for the scotus and president obama chose garland. there's a lot of

i want to go to ben ginsburg and ben jellas, he's also the former president and ceo of the naacp. to understand, picking people out because oh, you can't vote and you didn't vote on the before election so you are losing this one. are they makiing mistakes by pushing these? >> i think they are. it is bad as a matter of policies and politics. policies because this is a democracy. every legal voter ought to be allowed to vote and you should not put up barriers to people voting. voters take up notice of people who get into their way of voting. republicans instead of proposing solutions to make their lives better, they're trying to stop the emerging groups in the electorate from voting. >> ben jellas, just look at that screen that tom put up in georgia. in days of the legislation being considered would become ban voting days. you had 40,000 of african-american votes of georgia. if those new rules applied, biden would not have won. do you agree with those words? >> certainly. it is a dark contrast. we saw virginia today, governor northam issuing an executive order. the reason is a lifet

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those waiting on paper checks and prebader ginsburg debit cards are set to get those before the end of the month. the covid vaccine rollout, the cdc reported nearly 3 million doses were administered. one in five americans has now received at least one dose of the vaccine. >> but is the progress at risk? some health officials are keeping up their warnings about variants.. they see states ease restrictions, and pandemic levels just as the spring break kicks off. >> it is like the surge of before. they don't want to see recent history repeat itself. cnn's natasha chin reports from miami beach. >> reporter: the u.s. is vaccinating people every day. lower hospitalizations and lower cases, but lower only relative to a few months ago. late last week there were three consecutive days of more than 50,000 new cases and 1500 new deaths reported each day. and it's coming as states continue to loosen restrictions and in some cases lift mask mandates. >> boy, is that the wrong time to do that. we have this slightly troubling, maybe more than slightly troubling variant b.1.1.7. and we know it's more

joining me now is cnn election analyst long time republican attorney ben ginsburg, i've been chompingbit to have a discussion with you about this. it shows where my excite comes from. in september, you wrote an op-ed that you said after decades of looking for illegal votes, there is no widespread fraud. elections are now rigged. so in layman's terms then, what are the state bills about? >> the state bills are about trying to put in protections for fraud that doesn't exist. but what is behind the bills is a really unfortunate development for the republican party, which is a fear among legislators that the makeups of their states are changing. and many of the bills would appear to put barriers in the way where republicans seem to be afraid that they won't vote for them. and it comes as republicans have gotten short on policy ideas and that would be the right way to appeal to them. >> because as you look at it, is there any way of thinking about this other than republicans thinking they win when less people vote? >> well i'm not sure that is how all of them are looking at it. there are a

joining us now, cnn legal analyst and republican election lawyer ben ginsburg., ben? how about the fact that now her lawyers, okay, after all the crazy stuff at her press conferences with giuliani about venezuela, about -- i can't even remember the stuff. my brain actually could not ever compute what she was saying so i actually can't keep it, but here's what her lawyer now says. reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process. how about that defense? >> well, it's interesting. you know, truth is the ultimate defense in a libel case so all of a sudden, in this brief, they're saying, pay no attention to this. this was opinion. and not necessarily fact. so they teach in law school that if you don't have the facts in a case, you pound the law. and if you don't have the law, you pound the facts. and if you don't have either the law or the facts you pound the table. this is kind of a table pounder of a brief. >> ben, it also rings familiar to an argument that had be

supreme court where, of course, justice amy coney barrett replaced ruth bader ginsburg, restricting contraception but abortion is firmly in the cross-hairs and each of these states is pushing past what has previously been upheld by this court in hopes that the new composition of the court will give the right what they wanted for generations now, which is to profoundly restrict women's autonomy over their bodies. >> you had women lawmakers of color introducing the each act which guarantees insurance coverage for abortion wherever people live. i wonder how you weigh the efforts to restrict care against the efforts to expand it. >> well, i think it's actually really refreshing to see democrats in the congress take proactive steps to try to expand access to abortion. additionally, during the pandemic there were steps to expand access to telemedicine and medical abortions through medical means. and so folks, i think, understand that their right to decide to do whatever they want with their bodies is at steak. as soon as amy coney barrett was confirmed to the supreme court, essentially folks who had be

i want to go now to ben ginsburg, republican election lawyer for four decades. you heard diane laying out the law, they're require i.d. for absentee voters, misdemean for to serve food or drink or hand out water while they're standing in line voting. are republicans making a mistake with this move? >> i think they are making a mistake. any time you put up barriers to people voting in a democracy. both on policy grounds, because it's anti-the way the country should work. but also politically, because it paints republicans as truly not wanting people to vote. and that turns off a large chunk of the republican base, as well. but there are parts of this bill that are being oversold. the voter i.d. requirements for example, get rid of signature matches, which is a really messy process, and puts in social security numbers or driver's licenses. that's what california, new jersey, and virginia, democratic states use. so parts of this is being overblown. >> i know you have pointed out restricting the amount of time for early voting. restrictions would put them in line wi

way with the theft of the united states supreme court that he did with regard to the scalia and ginsburg. so, it would be crazy for people to not do something strong now and make sure voting rights are protected out of some kind of a fear of what mitch mcconnell would do in the future. >> you wrote about this. you said republicans and democrats do not agree on what the problem is, let alone solutions, when it comes to issues like voting rights, labor rights, immigration. it will prevent legislation on this issue from passing. i think this speaks to a deeper point about the fact there's just the old way the senate worked has broken down to the extent it ever did work. you just don't have gangs of six comes together and horse trading and they get some legislation that can pass 90-10 except on the omnibus bills. but for anything else, it just doesn't happen anymore. >> it's changed. look, john mccain and i were able to start off a republican and democrat and we would add one democrat and one republican. we did that in context of the filibuster, but the filibuster was in our way. it was not

to remake the federal judiciary during his four years and how he was able to replace ruth bader ginsburgood democracy, republicans will exploit with shameless impunity. i urge us to take the long view. this depends entirely on where you sit at the moment. >> i want to pivot to immigration here. jeh, let me start with you. my inboxes have been flooded from republicans who don't want to talk about the covid relief bill anymore. they want to talk about the border. former president trump, kevin mccarthy, several more. this is where republicans are going. is the biden administration ready. is this dhs ready for what's coming at the border? >> yes, i believe they are. ali buy or cass was my secretary. i see administration trying to do the right thing, trying to do the right thing in a humane way. the reality is americans want us to treat those here fairly, but they also want border security. ultimately the answer is what i know biden believes in, which is dealing with the problem in central america through aid and assistance to eradicate the poverty and violence there. >> yamiche, the politics