shad white is state auditor for the state of mississippi. mr. roberts knodell is the director of the missouri department of social services. ms. kristi putnam is a secretary of the arkansas department of human services and doctor aisha nyandoro is the ceo of supreme court opportunities in jackson, mississippi. welcome to you all. mr. carter i will never recognize you for five minutes to deliver your opening statement. >> chairman lahood, ranking member davis and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify a potential reforms to the tanf program specifically, and on a broader statement in general. my name is clarence carter and i currently serve as commissioner of the tennessee department of human services in the administration of governor building. tendency of my last stop in a 32 year career in the administration of public safety net programs and agencies at the federal, state and local levels of government. during that career i've had the blessing and good fortune of serving two presidents, four governors and the mayo

and you know, mississippi, oh,w.now, commissioner, carter, you're not on the committee but i thought i would loohat you guys do. and i don't my time to run out because i have a question. you guyingse 37% of your -- 41% of basic assistance. versus 1% versus 1% on other services. now i just i'm sorry that you he was a -- quarterback for wisconsin i was a fan -- [laughter] all i'ms this is just started. i've had communities that have spent money on infrastructure like i said -- for apartments. brett favre is just o of them. he's not all of them now i do have a question for,,k# andoro. just these nonassistance spending a toic here today. shog about in terms of solving poverty? you mentioned a few things like your project.ld tax credit which cut poverty in half. and then the earned income tax creditty which in wisconsin you know i was one that negotiated at least uses some of the dollars to earn the tax credit what would you say i have 20s lo you. >> all i need is five we need to figure out how to give moneys more money s

mississippi attorney general and this is from mississippi today. a nonprofit news organization which was actually first to bring the headline the mississippi general wants to make it available to mississippi. mississippi has banned abortion. there's no abortion clinic left to mississippi. if you live in mississippi, and we need to get an abortion you will need to figure out how to get yourself out of mississippi and into a state where you can legally get one. but the republicans and state governor in mississippi say that they will effectively follow you out of the state by virtue of the fact that you are a mississippi resident, sorry. they now claim the right to seize your medical records from a clinic in new york. or in illinois. or wherever else you go. they claim the right to follow you there and take your private medical records from their for their own law enforcement purposes. and i just showed you headlines from mississippi kentucky tennessee arkansas and georgia. but it is actually 19 different states of republican officials going for the s

mississippi authorities. mississippi has banned abortion. there is no abortion clinic lef in mississippi. if you live in mississippi and you need to get an abortion, you will need to figure out how to e get yourself out of mississippi into a state where you can legally get one. but the republicans and state government in mississippi say they will effectively follow you out of the state by virtue of the fact that you are a mississippi resident, sorry, they now claim the right to seize your medical records from like a clinic in new york or in illinois or wherever else you r go. they claim the right to follow you there and take your medicala records there for their own law enforcement purposes.er and i just showed you headlines from mississippi, kentucky, tennessee, arkansas, georgia.is but it is actually 19 different statesal where republican officials are going through this now. 19 -- republican attorney generals in 19 states have signed onto a letter to the biden administration saying they want the right to g

today, this court tells the mississippi supreme court that it has called our bluff.lling to do what is necessary to defend its own precedent. in 2023, the supreme court -- and the precedent it set, that 2019 decision in flowers was hailed for sending a message to the lower courts to be vigilant about racial bias in the criminal justice system. but now? as justice so to this on your sotomayor puts it, as this court refused to intervene, a black and we put to death in the state of mississippi based on the decision of a jury that was plausibly selected based on race. that is a tragedy. and that does it for us tonight, alex is gonna be back here tomorrow. i will see you this weekend on my show american voices, 6 to 8 pm eastern. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> hey, alicia. we are going to continue the discussion of the supreme court in this hour. this supreme court has entered a face unlike any that i have seen in my lifetime. we are gonna be discussing it in this hour. >> in this hour and for years to come as a suspec

he wanted to hold mississippi and alabama and georgia and all of it. and he was unwilling, i think to compromise enough on that to make a real difference. when when johnson is essentially begging him to get over there to bring reinforcements and so forth. now, i think the more complicated question is had johnson got his wishes, had said, all right, general, whatever you say, do it, would that have changed the outcome in atlanta? i don't know that it would. but at the same time, certainly there is, i think, a tremendous disparity between generals in the army of, tennessee, and in the leadership in richmond. and i don't know that it's ever fully. can i just add briefly to that in. no way do i want to diminish the symbolic and logistical devastation that the fall of atlanta imposed on confederate fortunes. but one thing that we should say about both johnson and hood in the in the immediate preceding of atlanta's fall and then after atlanta film, what's the one thing that's preserved? it's the army tennessee and that that's critical to keep in mind as long

on my way to school, and the mississippi delta, for two years. that highway is minor marker.e his memory, who couldn't stand to face it. but preserving essential american memories in the face of that kind of energy, in the face of that kind of hate, that is a radical act of freedom and democracy. mamie till knew it best. in united states, black bodies, we've been commerce, contraband, a commodity. we are most importantly, an american story. we are monuments. we are living documents. mamie till mobley left her sons coffin open because she knew there was an american story written there. you know, it can right outside of the textbooks all they want, until they stop writing injustice on our bodies, we will remain a living and unsilencable record. >> the store that you saw is the place where and that tail that encounter in the store with a white woman, who then later made accusations about him that sent those men out to go find him and murder him. there will be a monument there now, that is what they are announcing today at the white house. monuments in mississippi and chicago com

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mostly in mississippi at mississippi institutions. did not know i would wind up at morehouse and that was serendipitous. a lot of my life has been. it is the scholarship allowed me to go from the 10th grade it to morehouse. and that really changed my life. david: you grew up in an all segregated area. i assume you were not going to lunches and dinners with white people at the time? walter: no, no, the only lunches and dinners we came close to was working in the kitchen. my grandmother worked as a domestic and even my mother who worked as an elementary school teacher and principal in the summers sometimes worked as a domestic. we were totally segregated. segregated sounds too mild. it was apartheid life. david: did you worry for your safety and life at times? walter: not constantly. one had to be careful and there were things that you knew you were not to do from a very young age. white women were very dangerous. white men also, but in particular white girls and white women. you had places you did not go. so there were moments of behav

it was the last abortion clinic in mississippi. not just in jackson, mississippi but in the state. it was your lawsuit against the state for eliminating access to abortion that winds up being this case, dobbs versus jackson, mississippi that triggers the end of abortion rights. we're looking at this image that it is now a consignment shop. i drove bill it not long ago and i was shocked when someone told me it was the pink house. i wonder in that moment how you felt when dobbs was gone? >> i felt like we had gone back in time, actually. that's what i felt. and still to this day, that's what i feel. i feel we -- you know, we've let women down. we've -- we've set things back so far. and this is going to take forever to get it back, if that ever happens again. it won't be in our lifetime. that's how i feel at that time. i felt that all the fighting we had done was all in vain, at that moment. you have all types of feelings when that took place. from staff, friends, you know, doctors, escorts, everybody who helped with movement. it was very emotional for everybody. >> yeah. >> when i th

you see i was born in mississippi.y years as a sharecropper focus upon my quota not making history from outhouse to the white house. from a time when we lived in fear to a time when president and vice president gave us this great hope. this is what america means to me. promises made, promises kept. it is been quite ait journey for me from the darkness to the light. when i sit with my family on the night of terror, went emmett till a little boy was taken from us. taken to be tortured and brutally murdered. back then is fear of certain death in the darkest of a thousand midnights. in a pitch black house back and then in the darkness i could never imagine a moment like this. standing in the light of t wisdm grace and deliverance. there is something amazing you feel when you meet president biden. like i did gloomily signed the emmett till anti- lynching bill into law he welcomed intod this place a great power i felt the power of his personal devotion his devotion to justice, to equality, his commitment to keeping the promi

they continue to disenfranchise black voters in mississippi. there was one amendment in that constitution that had a rule, barring people convicted of certain crimes from. voting crimes that black citizens were disproportionately convicted of having committed. flash forward to -- brought a challenge to that law. a challenge that basically wound its way all the way up to the u.s. supreme court. all the way up to today. the conservative majority of the supreme court. the super majority of the supreme court, decided that they would actually not hear the challenge to that law. they decided to allow it to remain on the books. in a blistering dissent, justice ketanji brown jackson quoted one of the authors of that 1890 jim crow law, justice jackson writes the president of the 1890 mississippi constitutional convention said it plain, let us tell the truth if it bursts the bottom of the universe. we came here to exclude the knee grow. nothing short of this will answer. just as johnson goes on to say that constitutional wrongs do not write themselves. w

today this court tells the mississippi supreme court that it has called our bluff.in 2023 the supreme court is ignoring its own work and the precedent it set. that 2019 decision in flowers was hailed for sending a message to lower courts to be vigilant about racial bias in the criminal justice system. but now as justice sotomayor puts it because this court refuses to intervene, a black man will be put to death in the state of mississippi based on the decision of a jury that was plausibly selected based on race. that is a tragedy. and that does it for us tonight. alex is going to be back here tomorrow. i'll see you this weekend on my show "american voices" 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. eastern. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is up next. >>> russian fighter jets confront u.s. drones in syria. it's yet another example of the kremlin getting awfully close to american assets. we'll bring you what the pentagon is saying about it today. plus new details on what drove the department of justice to search donald trump's beach club last year for classified documents. we're getting a

in mississippi's case, that auditor found $37 million in unused funds. what has to go into law to keep that money from being stated? guest: we had an outstanding witness who was the administrative -- the administrator for a program called magnolia trust. it imitated what we had done with the child tax credit where we reduce poverty by 50% over those few months under the biden administration where we had the child tax credit provided on a monthly basis. the magnolia trust provides women with children $1000 in month, $12,000 annually, no strings attached, do with it what you want and incentivizes work because it is not too much to prevent you from getting benefits, medicaid for example. it might reduce the amount ofs -- the amount of snap you get, but it puts you on the path to get a job and trust women to do what they will with it. some people needed for transportation, other people need it because they have a large family. they need it for food. it allows them to make their own decisions about how to spend household funds. may be housing with more rooms

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delta. >> was he excited to go to mississippi?his his first time? >> at first he told me he couldn't go. that didn't set well at all. >> reporter: on their trip, the cousins went to bryant's grocery store, which today iss swallowe by time. but in 1955, it was owned by roy and carolyn bryant. >> when she comes out, he whistles. >> so as soon as he whistled, you knew. >> we took off. we had to realize what it was like to hear that. this black boy whistled at a white woman, 1955 in mississippi. that's a death sentence. >> reporter: days later, armed roy bryant and his brother j.w.milam roused the family at their home. >> i hear them talking. we've got two boys here from chicago. i said, god, we're getting ready to die, shaking like a leaf on a tree. i closed my eyes to be shot, and they didn't shoot me. they came to take emmett. that's what they did. >> reporter: bryant and milam tortured and shot till before dumping his remains in the river. his almost unrecognizable body appeared in black-owned newspapers and magazines across the c

the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. guest: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from the great state of florida, ms. lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida is recognized for two minutes. ms. lee: madam speaker, i am proud to lead h.r. 4470, protecting and securing chemical facilities from terrorist attacks act of 2023. the chemical facilities anti-terrorism standards or cfats program identifies and regulates high-risk chemical facilities to ensure they are protected from terrorist attacks. this program must be re-authorized by july 27 to ensure these standards of protection against cyber and physical risks remain in place. on july 20, the committee on homeland security voted unanimously and on a bipartisan basis to re-authorize cfats and i encourage my colleagues to support this bill. cfats is a regulatory program that is broadly supported by industry. this two-year extension will ensure couldn't neunt and security -- continuity and security, while enabling the cybersecurity and infr

i was born in mississippi. my early years as a sharecropper and was focused upon filling up a nine foot sack. focused upon my quota, not making history, from the outhouse to the white house. from a time when we lived in fear to a time when president and vice president gave us this great hope. kept their promise by delivering, this is what america means to me. promises made, promised kept. it has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light. when i sat with my family on the night of terror, when emmett till was taken from us, taken to be tortured and brutally murdered, back then when i was overwhelmed with terror and fear of certain death in the darkness of a thousand midnights, in a pitch black house on what some have called blackness. i could never imagine a moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance. there's something amazing you feel when you meet president biden, like i did when he signed the anti-lynching bill into law. he welcomed me into this place of great pow

i kept my house in mississippi. one of the things i particularly remember is that i voted for a separate department of education. add cold and my constituents were opposed to that decision. -- i had pulled. i thought that education was being squeezed by what was then the department of health and welfare. i thought we needed to pay more attention to education and maybe try to do a better job of what the federal government should or should not do. i did one of my quarterly newsletters to my constituents and i explained, here is why i voted the way i did. i never had a single complaint. the moral of that story is, if you represent the people, tell them what you are doing. if you are honest with them, usually they will forgive you. but also, the attitude was -- and this is what -- we are a republic, not a democracy. they sent me into washington to do the due diligence, to study issues and work the issues and vote for them. they gave me a lot of leeway to do what i thought was right. if i would have voted enough the wron

you grew up in mississippi when it was very segregated. what was it like growing up in mississippi in the 1940's and '50s? dr. massey: my mother was a schoolteacher, my uncle was a schoolteacher. i did hello i wanted to be, but i didn't want to be a schoolteacher. i knew i would probably go to college because coming in mississippi in the that those days, my family went off to college. i didn't know i would wind up at morehouse. it was winning the scholarship that allowed me to go from the 10th grade to morehouse and that really changed my life. david: weaponizing getting areas. i assume you were not going the ledges and dinners with whites. at that time. dr. massey: no, the only lunches and dinners we came close to his working in the kitchen. even my mother who worked as an elementary school teacher and principal in the summers sometimes work. we were in a totally segregated -- segregated sounds too mild. it was apartheid-like. david: january for your safety and life at times -- and you worried for your safety and life at times? dr. massey

i was born in mississippi.pent my early years as a sharecropper and was focused on filling every sack. focused upon my quota, not making history, from the out house to the white house. from a time when we lived in fear to a time president and vice president gave us this great hope. kept their promise by delivering, this is what america means to me. promises made, promises kept. it has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light. when i sit with my family on the night of terror, when emmett till was taken from us, taken to be tortured and brutally murdered, back then, in the darkness of a thousand midnights, in a pitch black house on what some have called dark. back then in the darkness, i could never imagine a moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom. there's something amazing you feel when you meet president biden. like i did when he signed the emmett till antilynching bill into law. he welcomed me to this place with great power. i felt the power of his personal devotion, his devotion t

the first one was put up in 2008.e it was in glendora, mississippi, it is a tiny little town in mississippi, it's less than 200 people. it was right on the bank of the tallahatchie river, there had ban steam boat landing ther on the bank of the river. a bustling spot a lot of coming and going. a sight of commerce, there were roads and buildings of course bu around there because of the steam boat landing but in the 1890s, a tornado came and wiped out that steam boat landing on r the river bank, and they never rebuilt it. and so all that's left at that spot to this day is just kind of a wide spot, just kind of a clearing, a break in the a vegetation through which you can get down to the river.wn that is where they put the sign up in 2008. but as soon as they put it up, somebody came in and tore it down. this was the posts that it was standing on. you can see it's been cut off. they tore it down. they cut it off its posts. they threw the sign if the river. it didn't last there six months before somebody destroyed it. after that first sign got torn down, they put up a second one, another one ju

[laughter] i am too humbled by this honor, see, i was born in mississippi.s as a sharecropper and was focused on fulfilling -- focus upon my quota of not making history from the outhouse to the white house. from a time when we live in fear to a time when president and vice president gave us this great hope. kept their promise by deliverin delivering, this is what america needs to be promises made, promises kept. it has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light, when i set with my family on the night of terror when emmett till was taken from us, taken to be tortured, brutally murdered. back then when -- with terror and fear of certain death in the darkness of a thousand midnight in the pitch black house where some have called -- back then in the darkness i could never imagine a moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance. there's something amazing you fear when you meet president biden, like i did when he signed the emmett till antilynching into law. he welcomed me into this place of great power i felt the power o

the 14-year-old was tortured, murdered, body dumped in a river in mississippi after a white shopkeeperat he whistled at her. no one was ever arrested. the monument will also be dedicated to emmett till's mother who campaigned for justice. it will cover three separate sites in two site -- states. one in chicago, illinois he was from. and two sites in mississippi, one where his body was found in another site at the courthouse where his killers were acquitted in 1955. they later confessed to the murder. earlier i spoke with deborah watts, the cofounder of the emmett till legacy foundation. deborah, thank you for joining us in our studio. what does the emmett till and made me till national monument mean to you? >> that the story, the name, the sacrifices, the nature in which he was murdered, that that story will be told. that those places that are being preserved will be protected. they are a part of the journey from the life and legacy of emmett till and his mother. it's so important that our american history has this piece and moment in time as one that we can all remember. so it's a sad

in the small town in mississippi, a white woman accused till, who was 14, of whistling at her. a few days later the woman's husband and another man kidnapped till from his bed. they tortured and murdered him. his mother demanded an open casket viewing so the world could see what happened. the gruesome photos published from his funeral fueled the civil rights movement. the woman who accused till admitted years later that much of her story was simply made up, but no one was ever brought to justice. >> we can't just choose to learn what we want to know. we have to learn what we should know. we should know about our country, the good, the bad, the truth of who we are as a nation. >> the monuments will be placed in mississippi and illinois. the mississippi monument will have two sites where till's body was discovered and where his murderers stood trial. the illinois monument will be the church where his funeral was held. >>> one bay area city's response to covid led to one of the lowest city death rates in the united states. that city, san francisco. in 2022 the u.s. had a covid dea

great seafood restaurant in gulf port, mississippi.an't remember the name of the restaurant but a big old mississippi accent says down in florida they've got those he named four or five fish and down here, and then he rattled off like a dozen fish and that's why the fish has been here. you know what the lesson is a lot of loving going on in the mud. >> your mississippi accent is pretty good do you practice that in the mirror? will: gulf of mexico is dirtier and clears up over by florida and swirls towards texas an we get the worst of it but in that brown water a lot of fish. kayleigh: good accent. good accent. well on to this, ron desantis he says voters tell that i theyt like trump's rhetoric listen to him in iowa. >> i've been around just two days here. number one thing people comp -- come up to me and said trump attacking kim renolds they are not now doing that so if that is not the way we win as republicans. the way you win is to unite republicans, win independents and even win some democrats. >> here's ron desantis attack about ve

spending per prisoner varies drastically between state state from 18000 dollars per prisoner in mississippi, a year. all the way to a $135000.00 per prisoner in wyoming. the average the state spend is $45771.00 her prisoner. and now, what are the major costs of a presence budget goes to the salaries and benefits for correctional officers. the average annual salary for an officer was 534202021. but in high wage states like california new york and massachusetts officers make a double the salary of those in low wage states like mississippi, louisiana, and georgia. another factor that determines present spending is the operational cost of the present facilities. these are higher in states with older prisons that require more upkeep. and in states where there is a relatively large prisoner population. now, alaska tops all of the stays with the highest incarceration rate of $625.00 prisoners per 100000 residents. geographically, the south has a higher prisoner incarceration rates compared to the west or the northeast of america at 424 prisoners 480-0000 residents. and in total, the bureau of just

you see, i was born in mississippi. i spent my early years as a sharecropper focused on filling up a nine foot sack. i was focused on my quota, not missing it -- making history. from the outhouse to the white house. from a time when we lived in fear, to a time when the president and vice president gave us this great honor. this is what america means to me. promise is made. promises kept. it has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light. when i sit with my family on the night of terror when emmett till was taken from us, taken to be tortured, brutally murdered. back then, when i was overwhelmed with terror and fear of certain death in the darkness , in a pitch black house, back then in the darkness, i could never imagine a moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace, and deliverance. there is something amazing you feel when you meet president biden. like i said when he signed the emmett till antilynching bill into law, he welcomed. i felt the power of his personal devotion to justice, to equ

and he's not right for mississippi. and what they thought could happen is what did happen till would have turned 82. >> today, the monument will be located across three sites in mississippi and illinois. >> time now for a look at your tuesday weather. good >> well, here we go again. another day up above 110 degrees in phenix, arizona. it's now day , 25 consecutive days up above 110. it's so bad when people fall, they're getting burnt on the asphalt and that heat's expanding eastward this week. temperatures 5 to 15 degrees above the historical averages. and tuesday afternoon will turn stormy up and down the i 95 corridor. and for accuweather i'm meteorologist mark mancuso. >> coming up a looming problem on the set of jeopardy. >> but first what we've learned about the search at the home of the suspected gilgo beach serial killer. >> and on air emergency, we hear from the espn analyst who collapsed on live tv - did you see that? - whoa, whoa, we scored? - yeah we scored, we're going to the playoffs. - i can't believe i mi

the monument includes three separate sites in mississippi and illinois. he was abducted visiting relatives in mississippi when a white woman accused the 14-year-old of making sexual advances. days later, his body was pulled from a river. two white men were tried on murder charges in an all-white mississippi jury, which acquitted them, and shortly after the two admitted they were guilty of the crime. >>> one bay area city for the first time celebrates lgbtq pride. >> dozens attended yesterday's event at the east palo alto boys and girls club. one event organizer said it was important for pride to be celebrated in their backyard. >> i wanted to start this because i know first hand, as someone who's experienced hate crimes here for being a trans woman, the lack of resources and the lack of the sense of community there is, growing up as a 14-year-old, 15-year-old, i have to take b.a.r.t. and caltrain on the way to city or oakland to find community. >> organizers say this will become an annual event. >>> want to get a look at that forecast. kari mentioned a li