reverend raphael warnock, senator warnock, was john lewis' pastor at ebenezer baptist. and so, no, this was not like any other maiden speech you've ever heard before in the senate. it is something, it is really something to have a pastor with that kind of experience and that kind of talent take the floor of the senate, as if it is a pulpit. my dear friend steve benin, who works on this show, who i've worked with now for more than a decade, steve is somebody who watches the congress more closely and with more intense focus on the details than any other living person i know who is not, themselves, a member of the congress. after senator warnock gave this speech today, steve benin wrote to me today to say in his lifetime he has never seen a better maiden speech in the senate. and i am going to play some of it for you now. you probably saw quotes from it. you may have heard that it happened. you should actually see some of it, but i think it's an amazing thing to see, but it's also the kind of moment that can potentially move things, that could move the proverbial needle. i

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and with me now is senator raphael warnock of the great state of georgia. tor warnock, i want to congratulate you on that address that you gave on the senate floor. it was quite good. i'm assigning it to my class to have them listen because it was very thorough. let's talk first about your meeting today with president biden and vice president harris. can you give us a little bit of a readout on it? what did you talk about? what was top of mind? obviously the violence in atlanta being a part of it. >> well, thank you so very much, joy. it's always a pleasure to be with you. it's always an honor to spend time with the president of the united states and the vice president of the united states. they initially planned this trip because georgia made all the difference in what's happening in our country right now, our ability to get real things done for real people. but certainly the violence visited upon the asian community is top of mind for all of us. they are in our hearts and in our prayers. you know, it's a great thing that the vice president of the united st

king, stand up against voter suppression right now. >> senator raphael warnock last night speaking from the jail where a georgia state representative was taken after being arrested outside the signing ceremony where the biggest voter suppression bill in a century was being signed. senator warnock joins us live next. stay with us. k joins us live next stay with us our kids aren't so great at hiding. gee, i wonder where the kids are? but we found out their clothes hide a lot. turns out we can't even see 70% of the dirt that's trapped in their clothes. which concerned us, especially with their sensitive skin. that's why we always look for new tide hygienic clean free. it goes deep into fabrics, to remove the visible and invisible dirt. and, it's designed for sensitive skin. hey! what's that? it's got to be tide hygienic clean free. need a change of scenery? kayak searches hundreds of travel sites for flights with no change fees. so you can book a great deal now, and always change later. kayak. search one and done. why choose proven quality sleep from sleep number? because a good night's re

amy: in his first speech from the senate floor, georgia democrat senator reverend raphael warnock condemns republican voter suppression efforts as "jim crow in new clothes." we will air his moving address by the first black democrat elected to the senate from a former confederate state. then we speak to heather mcghee, author of "the sum of us: what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together hardcover." dashcam prosper togethe" >> the story of my journey across the country. talking to americans of all backgrounds revealed to me the biggest impediment to our progress as a nation is the zero-sum ia that progress or people of color have to come at white folks expense. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. president biden and vice president kamala harris are meeting with local asian american leaders in atlanta today in the wake of tuesday's mass shooting in which a white man killed eight people, six of them women of asian descent. harris is the first asian american and the first woman vice president. a

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joining me is democratic senator reverend raphael warnock. thank you for joining me this morning. i want to put up that picture of governor brian kemp signing this law in a room full of white men. here's what he had to say shortly before that ceremony. >> we are actually expanding the right to vote in georgia. now, you are not hearing that from the other side. that's what the truth is. we're securing the vote. i think most people want that, whether they're american, democrat or somewhere in between. everybody wants the confidence in the elections. i believe that's what we are doing in georgia. >> what's your response to that, sir? >> he knows better. and, unfortunately, georgia has a long history of voter suppression. when i say a long history, i mean in recent years. and certainly it is ramped up with this bill that he signed into law the other night, as you pointed out in the presence of all white men and on the other side for a state legislature, state legislator, elected by her people to represent them. she was lightly knocking on the door and was arrested and charged with two

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continues on georgia's passing of a restrictive voting law, fresh reaction from georgia senator raphael warnock on cnn. >>> opening statements, the derek chauvin murder trial begins tomorrow morning in minneapolis. all live in front of television cameras. >>> hello everyone. thank you for joining me. i'm fredicka whitfield. we begin with breaking news. dangerous flooding in the nashville area that has killed four people and left dozens more in need of rescue. some homes were damaged as rivers and creeks overflowed their banks after record rainfall. nashville's fire department says it has helped rescue at least 130 people so far. cnn's martin savage joining me live from nashville with more on this. what have you been seeing, martin? >> reporter: fred, it's been a very long night for the swift water rescue teams that had been working in a lot of neighborhoods. this neighborhood is located to the south of nashville. flash flooding is some of the most treacherous. the water very powerful. this shed came from someone's back yard and has deposited here in the road. this whole area was under water at

raphael warnock was the first to be declared the winner of a senate seat on the election night in georgianot until the next day when chuck schumer was in hiding, because a trump mob attacked the capitol, that we learned that jon ossoff was declared the winner in georgia and that win made chuck schumer the new majority leader of the united states senate. a senator's first speech on the senate floor is a momentous occasion for that senator, but usually not many other people pay attention. new senators take weeks, sometimes months thinking about that first speech before they stand and deliver it. senator warnock was the first of the two new georgia senators scheduled to speak on the senate floor. senator ossoff is not yet scheduled to speak on the senate floor. he is still thinking about that first speech he will deliver. both of georgia's new senators, who decided the control of the senate, will now command the senate's attention whenever they rise to speak. senator warnock began his first senate speech today by acknowledging the tragedy in georgia. >> mr. president, before i begin my forma

first i'm joined by freshman democratic senator raphael warnock whose home state of georgia was the sitethe violence. senator warnock, welcome to "meet the press," sir. >> thank you so much. great to be here with you, chuck. >> i appreciate it. i want to start with something the fbi director said this week. director wray said it does not appear the shooting was racially motivated, so this is now the fbi director, we've heard local law enforcement. are you hearing the same thing from law enforcement that you've been speaking with? >> first of all, let me say that our hearts go out to these families as they are dealing with unspeakable loss. i think it's important that we center the humanity of the victims. i'm hearing a lot about the shooter. these precious lives that have been lost, they're attached to families, connected to people who love them. we need to keep that in mind. i know that -- look, law enforcement will go through the work that they need to do, but we all know hate when we see it. it is tragic that we've been visited with this kind of violence yet again. i'm going to be doi

i want to be clear to your voter wers going to elect and reelect raphael warnock.e. georgia voters know what's going on. they are angry about it and they're going to fight for the right to vote. we're going to hold the senate here in georgia, have no doubt congresswoman williams and i will be sure that happens. secondly they're going to be in court and we're go to use this as evidence to back up congress' efforts on h.r.4. they're criminaling they have racist intent. i agree the power piece on disempowering the secretary of state in the county is bad, but really what this bill is, it's a voter intimidation bill. it's a license to racially profile and challenge voters. coming on the heels of a horrific asian-american targeted hate crime. basically anybody now can challenge voters willy nilly based on the color of their skin or what their last name is and it makes it much easier. but guess what, lawrence. we have lots of lawyers. we have lots of power. we have lots of grass roots advocates. we will walk with voters to make sure their rights are defended, and we will

amy: that is the new georgia senator reverend raphael warnock.e going to gotta break and, to our discussion with the pulitzer prize-winning writer viet thanh nguyen, author of the new book "the committed," a sequel to his pulitzer prize winning book "the sympathizer." we will talk to him about his new book and also about his use of the word "refugees," whether cr're talking about his family coming to this country from vietnam or refugees from honduras and guatemala or el salvador. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. we are spending the hour with the pulitzer-prize winning vietnamese-american writer viet thanh nguyen. his new novel has just been published. it is called "the committed." it is a sequel to his 2015 pulitzer prize-winning novel "the sympathizer." both books share a narrator, a half-vietnamese and half-french communist spy who refers to himself as “a man of two faces and two minds." professor nguyen is the chair of english and professor of english and ame

senator raphael warnock, who met with cannon inside jail. the new georgia project, the black voters matter fund, and other groups have sued to stop georgia's voter suppression law, arguing it violates the voting rights act and the first and 14th amendments of the u.s. constitution. at the white house, president biden held his first solo press conference since taking office thursday, where he blasted georgia's republican-led voter suppression efforts. -- suppression law. pres. biden: what i am worried about is how an america cash and american this is. it is sick. this is gigantic what they're trying to do. it cannot be sustained. everything on my car along with my friends in the house and senate to keep that from becoming the law. amy: also at his thursday news conference, president biden said he "can't picture" u.s. troops in afghanistan by next year. biden responded to a question about the may 1 deadline for withdrawal set under the trump administration. pres. biden: the answer is it is going to be hard to meet the may 1 deadline in terms o

raphael warnock who was speaking on nbc's "meet the press" sunday after the shooting in the atlanta areat killed eight people, including six asian-american women. >> this shooter was able to kill all of these folks the same day he purchased a firearm but right now what is our legislature doing? they're busy here in georgia under the goal don't try to prevent people from being able to vote this i've they register. i think that suggests a distortion of values when you can buy a gun and create this much carnage and violence on the same day but if you would exercise your right to vote as an american citizen, the same legislature should be focused on this is busy erecting barriers to that constitutional right. amy: that is rev. warnock, who is one of two new senators from georgia. if you can comment on this and also, we surprised are president biden saying he supports an assault weapons ban? biden, who was the point person's vice president for president obama come after the sandy hook massacre, the killing of all of these six-year-olds, to come up with legislation that would pass and the uima

senator raphael warnock pushed for an upset bill during his senate seat. and he joins me now.ant to ask about the details here, but the first thing i want to ask is every time i talk to people in the u.s. senate i say i fool like i'm talking to a culture from another planet. it's a very strange institution, all sorts of weird traditions that are hard to explain. you're new there. what is it like to go through this? how strange does the institution seem to you or does it not? >> well, it's great to be with you here tonight, chris. we're going, you know, through the sausage making of legislation. but the good news is that after months of waiting -- and when you think about the long period where nothing happened under the previous administration, relief is right around the corner. help is on the way. and we'll be here for a little while, but we are there. and i'm confident that we're going to pass the relief that americans need and deserve in this moment. we're about to pass i think a historic piece of legislation that for one thing will cut child poverty in half. think about tha

as georgia senator reverend raphael warnock explained today. >> if there's one thing that's clear, it's that the georgia election was certainly free of any consequential fraud. we counted the votes not once, not twice, but three times. so, what's the purpose of all of this? they don't like the outcome, and so this is democracy in reverse where politicians have decided that instead of the voters picking their representatives, the representatives have a right to cherry pick their voters. it's un-american. it's antidemocratic. we have to resist it. >> it's important to remember why we are at this point, right? it's largely because of a multi-decade long project to tear apart the legal regime of the voting rights act, which was successful, that project, in large part thanks to chief justice john roberts who famously said, things have changed in the south, when gutting a key provision of the act. that's what they want you to believe as stroke by stroke they make it harder to vote. james clyburn joins me and congresswoman nikema williams of georgia, who occupies the seat formerly held by john

i want you to hear from two georgia democrats, senator raphael warnock and congresswoman nick kima williams. take a listen. >> these are politicians who are trying to hold on to power. that's what this is. it's a power struggle. and they decided that they are going to hold on to power no matter what. >> if this does not take your mind back to the days of the jim crow south, i don't know what is. you are preventing black and brown people and new voters from voting and casting their constitutional right to vote. >> and so the fight moves now to the courts where a federal lawsuit has already been filed by a coalition of voting rights groups to try to stop this new law. it also moves back to washington in the u.s. capitol where lawmakers are saying that what's really needed now to try to stop these kinds of measures across the country is federal legislation such as the john lewis voting rights act, hr1. of course, those measures, unlikely be able to pass unless democrats decide to try to do something about the filibuster, lindsey. >> and i want to ask quickly about former president trump, who w

senate republicans that suggested they would vote for hr1, the for the people act, which makes raphael warnock's position there difficult for democrats when they're talking about getting it past the senate. >> yeah, it's interesting to hear senator warnock say, you know, why are democrats getting all these questions about the filibuster? why aren't republicans getting questions about whether or not they're going to, you know, effectively disenfranchise wide swaths of american voters? so, vaughn, give us a sense, this for the people act, if it's passed in washington, d.c., what does that do to voting laws like the ones in georgia and like the ones that other states are trying to pass? >> reporter: i think one of the points you got to make out of this is that it would ban states from requiring photo identification for mail-in ballots. in georgia this last election you saw more than 1.3 million georgians mail in their ballot and black voters mailed them back at a greater rate than white voters but also it would require the early voting be available by mail to voters, at least two weeks. it would al

senator raphael warnock says democracy depends on it. >> we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we've got to work on the infrastructure of our country, our roads and our bridges. and we've got to work on the infrastructure of our democracy. >>> and new reaction from the white house on the fate of the filibuster. >> is the filibuster racist? is it wrong? >> as the president said just last week, chris, it's been abused. he's not eager to move with destroying the filibuster. he's eager to get things done for the american people. but he's also not going to stand by and prevent forward-moving progress from happening. >> in just a few minutes hear the exchange as a congresswoman takes on the head of facebook about the head of vaccine misinformation. she was targeted by anti-vaxxers. >>> new controversy regarding the colorado shooting after what congresswoman lauren boebert said about guns and hammers. >>> and why a trump donor holdover is still in charge of the u.s. postal service. >>> but now let's check in with nbc's monica alba at the white house and amanda golden on capitol hill.

it will make it much harder for raphael warnock to win re-election two years from now.t in other states making it harder for other democrats to either win empty seats or retain. we'll have to sit down as a caucus and figure it out if republicans won't come our way, and we're going to test them out of course before we go forward with this. but the bottom line is very simple. we will put our heads together. everything will be on the table, and i will do everything i can to make sure that failure is not an option, that we solve these kinds of problems. >> and senator, let me turn to a new york issue, the albany times union, a newspaper i know you read every day is reporting tonight new information about a new accuser of governor cuomo. you have said up to now that let the investigation take its course. is there anything about these new allegations that is changing your view of this? >> well, everyone of these allegations is really serious, really troubling and needs to be carefully, carefully looked at. i have always said that sexual harassment is just not tolerable in our

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you heard raphael warnock make the case that this is on republicans to seek out and to make sure that voters across this country have access to the ballot box there. at the same time, you see requiring 60 votes to pass a for the people act or pass the john lewis advancement voting rights act here. and that is where this challenge is going to be for democrats. we should note there is a potential that joe manchin and kyrsten sinema could kill the filibuster to pass these sort of measures and in large part because it comes down to the redrawing of district lines. that is happening this year and as part of hr-1, geoff, it would require states to have independent redistricting positions so there would be less gerrymandering taking place and that is why there is the urgency to get these pieces of legislation passed. >> it's a story we'll keep following very closely. vaughn, thanks for that. >>> coming up in the next half hour, andrea hailey joins me to talk about the economic pressure aimed at rolling back georgia's new voting law. >>> now to minneapolis where the world will be watching as

. >>> and senator raphael warnock of georgia used his first floor speech to slam restrictive voting laws pushed by republicans in the wake of his senate runoff win. >> we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we've ever seen since the jim crow era. this is jim crow in new clothes. within 24 hours, elected georgia's first african-american jewish senator, and hours later, the capitol was assaulted. it is a contradiction to say we must protect minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society. colleagues, those senate rules should overrule the integrity of our democracy, and we must find a way to pass voting rights, whether we get rid of the filibuster or not. >> senator warnock received a standing ovation and cheers through the chamber. you can hear it now, when he finished his speech. the senator is going to join "morning joe," just ahead. >>> and that fight over the senate filibuster is raging in the house as well. majority whip congressman jim clyburn rejected defense of the filibuster, calling out

senator sherrod brown says democrats stand together on the package brown in georgia democrat raphael warnock are calling for urgent passage of the bill that also expands the earned income and child tax credit i submit that it's the moral thing to do is the right thing to do brown says the package could pass the senate before the end of the week reporting from washington, i'm kelly meyer. >>still ahead on the kron 00:00am morning news security is on high alert after threats of another possible attack on the u.s. capitol. we have the latest on pool is behind it and why. >>a big story we're following this morning. the u.s. capitol is once again on high alert after law enforcement officials say there are credible threats of a possible attack on the capital washington correspondent alexandra le mon joins us live with the very latest good morning. >>good morning. the fbi and the department of homeland security issued the warning after discovering online threats against the capitol and against lawmakers. the agencies say attacks are possible today or in the coming days. and scalable fence is still

it to the white house and then georgia was the state where you had the 2 democratic senators raphael warnock and jon ossoff when their runoff races and come here to the senate which helped give them the votes to get this covid-19 package through. so i think in those 2 places they made promises to get this covid-19 package done and with being put into office into the white house and then with the 2 senators coming capitol hill. they were able to get this package done. so i think it's in a way to showcase that they made this promise of getting not only the the stimulus checks out, but other to help the economy and get people back to work. that they were able to get that through and they'll be touting that message this week at the election cycle continues. 2022 teams like the campaigning never stops no matter what's going on, kelli meyer live in washington, thank you, kelly. >> well, for your health. the united nations population fund says the pandemic has left millions of women without access to birth control researchers say this resulted in almost one and a half million unplanned pregnancies

we'll speak with raphael warnock. plus the latest on immigration -- gun reform efforts in congress. hirono. >>> and in our series "a more perfect union", we'll meet some high school students who started a free online tutoring program during the pandemic. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. .

so i want to be clear to the lawrence o'donnell viewers, we're going to elect and re-elect raphael warnock georgia is competitive. georgia voters know what's going on. they are angry about it. we're going to hold the u.s. senate here in georgia. have no doubt. congresswoman williams and i will be sure that happens. secondly they're going to be in court and we're going to use this as evidence to back up congress's efforts on hr4 to get this state back under preclearance. they're proving to america they have racist intent, trying to criminalize giving water to voters. and that there's going to be the push for s-1. and the worst part of this bill, i agree, the power piece on disempowering the secretary of state in the county is bad, but really what this bill is, it's a voter intimidation bill. it's a license to racially profile and challenge voters. coming on the heels of a horrific asian-american targeted hate crime. basically anybody now can challenge voters willy-nilly based on the color of their skin or what their last name is and it makes it much easier. but guess what, lawrence. we have

if anyone knows the importance of getting a message out on sunday mornings at senator reverend raphael warnock. the georgia democrat using a different pulpit to push back on the new voting bill in georgia signed into law by governor brian kemp this week. >> i'm going to do everything i can pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act and the for the people act so that we can expand democracy rather than contract that the governor is taking us back. we intend to go forward. but in his new role as a senator warnock has to also deal with other issues on sundays like infrastructure. >> all we can walk and chew at the same time. we've got work on the infrastructure of our country, our roads and our bridges and we've got to work on the infrastructure of our democracy. >> once again sunday is proving to be relevant. political events in america. michael shure los angeles. >> opening statements in the trial. a former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin begin later today. chauvin is facing second and 3rd degree murder charges as well as manslaughter for his role in the death of george floyd la

. >> emergency georgia democratic senator raphael warnock calls georgia's newly signed election law democracy in reverse on thursday georgia's republican governor signed a bill that implements new voting restrictions like id requirements for absentee ballots and giving the state more control over county election boards. i think they want they don't like the outcome. and so. >> rather than change the message to try change the rules. know warnock also visited a democratic state representative hours after she was arrested for knocking on the governor's door as he signed the new law. anyone who saw that video. >> what has deeply concerned. white house press secretary jen psaki says president joe biden is not only concerned about the arrest. >> but the law itself is there. >> think people from both democrats here in washington are pushing for the passage of a federal bill to expand voting access republicans call it an unconstitutional power grab an effort that one party. >> the rewrite the rules of our political system. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says the measure would create a quote i

raphael warnock, the senator from georgia, was talking about that earlier this weekend.te has been talking about gun safety reform measures. do you think that will be an aftereffect of this tragic shooting? >> well, we did introduce, my senator michelle, my colleague, and other aapi elected officials did introduce three bills today. one was related to a five-day waiting period when it pertains to purchasing a firearm. the other is a call for language translations when victims are calling 911 for help. aapi language translateder. and then the third piece around culture sensitivity as it pertains to training with law enforcement. so, we are pushing forward those issues. >> georgia state representative bee nguyen, thank you for spending some time with us. >>> when we return, police in miami beach cracking down on large groups of spring breakers who have flocked to the city without masks or social distancing. that is next. cing that is next ♪ ♪ this is my body of proof. proof of less joint pain and clearer skin. proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis... ...with humira. h

but with 253 restrictive voting bills introduced in 43 states, georgia's new senator, raphael warnock, says think again. >> if you think that this is something happening down in georgia, you are misapprehending the moment that we're living in. if you think that this is something happening to black voters, you still don't quite clearly understand. this is a defining moment for the american democracy. if this is happening in the state capitol in georgia, it will not take very long for it to visit a state capitol near you. >> joining me now is la tasha brown, co-founder of black voters matter, ari berman for mother jones and the democratic lieutenant governor of the great state of michigan, garland gilcrest. thank you all. ari, i'm going to start wide and start with you. have a listen to what senator cruz had to say about hr-1. >> this bill is the single most dangerous bill this committee has ever considered. this bill is designed to corrupt the election process permanently, and it is a brazen and shameless power grab by democrats. they do this by instituting a bill that will promote wid

georgia's newly elected nator reverend raphael warnock took to the senate floor for his first speech and he highlighted the issue. >> we're witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we've ever seen since the jim crow era. politicians in my home state and all across america in their craven lust for power have lawn atched full-fledged assault on voting rights. they are focused on winning at any cost, even the cost of the democracy itself. rachel: so dan, let's unpack this. why has georgia become such an epicenter as this country addresses both issues of race and democracy? dan: well, a couple of reasons, rachel. one, obviously is the role that georgia played in this election giving the state's electoral votes to joe biden for the first time a democrat winning in many, many years. secondly, having two runoff elections for the senate on the same day, something we've never seen before. and both of those seats going to the democrats which handed democrats control of the senate. but the third issue was the focus on the state by former president tr

senator raphael w rapha rapha raphael warnock is the pastor at her church and was there when they bailed her out. >> what we have seen today is a desperate attempt to lock out and squeeze the people out of their own democracy. >> reporter: those popular outdoor ballot drop boxes available 24/7 can now only be used inside an early voting location and only while it's open. you'll need to provide a license or i.d. number to vote by mail, and it's now a crime in georgia for anyone other than a poll worker to offer food or water to people waiting in the endless lines they often see in the large cities. outside the statehouse black and brown voters are screaming that this is voter suppression. the president today called the new rules jim crow in the 21st century. >> they passed a law saying you can't provide water for people standing in line while they're waiting to vote? you don't need anything else to know this is nothing but punitive designed to keep people from voting. >> let's bring in steve osunsami, joining us from atlanta. steve, georgia's not only leer. states across the country are t

. >> reporter: georgia's freshman center raphael warnock went further. >> this is jim crow redux, in. >> reporter: but republican state senator butch miller says he still hears from constituents concerned about election results. >> we have a lack of confidence in the ballot box and the integrity of the ballot box, and have to restore that. >> reporter: would republicans have done this if donald trump had won in november? >> let me look at my crystal ball. ( laughs ) >> reporter: late today, governor kemp responded to the president saying he and the national news media are determined to destroy the sanctity and security of the ballot box. it's important to remember, mr. biden was the first democratic presidential candidate to win this state since 1992 and the governor faces, what many believe, will be a tough reelection fight next year. margaret. >> brennan: ed o'keefe, thank you. tonight the head of the c.d.c. warns that the trajectory of covid cases and hospitalizations in this country is moving in the wrong direction. we get more now from cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: tonight, wo

to go there and have a drive-in rally with 2 of the georgia senators democrats, jon ossoff and raphael warnock who helped get this package across the finish line. but they said they had a switch that up just in light of the events, but they did touch a little bit on what's happening in the latest on vaccinations. of course he passed the 100 million shots in his first 100 days. he surpassed that today on day 58. but he says more needs to be done. there needs to be more vaccines, more vaccination distribution, more to vaccination centers and more testing. and he also let was letting the american people know that they should let their guard down just yet, although there is some optimism. he said it's not a time for relaxation. thank you so kelli meyer reporting for us live from washington, dc. >> speak to later. >> we'll move it along now talk about our weather forecast as we take a live look outside here from our camera on top of mount tam showing us parts of the north bay. the city of san francisco on the east bay off there in the distance. such a change today and the weather than yesterday and

senator raphael warnock is up again in 2022. democrats want to hold onto that seed. from our viewers, gestapo in washington says the covid-19 pandemic has affected my family, especially my father. he got it october 2 and it hit him hard. he suffered severe symptoms and ended up in the hospital for two days, plus work for six weeks due to severe body pain, that includes my mother since she does not drive and got sick as well. unfortunately they did not qualify for stimulus checks when the government since they are a document. in this, i was hospitalized in the icu. i was almost intubated and i was a very high chance for mentality. the pandemic almost took white -- mortality. the pandemic almost of my life. host: if you would like to send in text, please include your name and city, 202-748-8903. we would love to hear what the last year of your life has been like. we will continue taking your calls. we will show you president biden's speech once again, then we will come back and take even more calls. let's hear from malachi in pompano beach, california. good evening. ca

and so, what's the purpose behind all of this. >> so, as you heard from raphael war warnock, this isn issue that he's confused about in the state. but senator chuck schumer has committed to make this a priority, this voting issue at the state shelf. but as we always run into when it comes to the senate there is not 60 votes to be able to pass this legislation in the senate right now as it stands. they need 60 votes to break this filibuster that we return to over again and again. and republicans have said that this legislation is a democratic power grab which is why they won't get behind this legislation. but bottom line is what's happening at the state level will have a massive impact on elections going forward, which is buy senate democrats have made this a priority. >> daniella diaz, thank you so much. appreciate the report. >>> cnn political analyst julian zeller is with us, he's the author of "burning down the house". jul juliey julian, thank you for beg here. i want to start off with something she just talked about. we know that the governor both defended this election and now w

this was his first speech as senator raphael warnock, and senator warnock of georgia joins us now.s morning. i'll start with the personal. i just want to know what it was like to make that speech in the position that you are in. historic position. >> well, good morning, mika. it is great to be with you. i must tell you that to have the people of georgia to stand up in the way that they did in december -- in november and in january, 5 million voter and 4.5 million georgian voters turned out in a runoff to send me and my brother ossoff to the united states senate is the honor of my life. when i was born in georgia, georgia was represented by richard b. russell and herman e. talmadge, arch segregationists who were unabashed advocates of civil rights and voting rights, but because americans stood up, i sit in the seat where herman e. talmadge sat. this is america, we've had to stand up for our democracy before and we have to stand up for it right now. voting rights is preservative of all rights and that's what my speech was about. >> so how important is it for you that your fellow demo

senator raphael warnock, new senator from georgia, is up for reelection in 2022. and also, why the networks cover these primetime addresses is because presidents request time. and most often, they grant that request. they, however, lose millions of dollars. how much? according to a report in 2009, look at this, fox decided not to cover president obama's east room news conference in april after estimating it would cost them $6 million in ad revenue and that in february, it moved a shout to accommodate a similar event. executives at the top for broadcast networks estimated that in june, the first three obama press conferences cost them a total of $30 million. at the same time, it can be profitable to not broadcast a speech when other networks do. the premiere of "the newlywed game" through massive audience in 1966 when abc rented against secretary of defense robert mcnamara's vietnam testimony. and c-span's american history tv tweeted today, throughout history, presidents have spoken directly to the american people on a range of topics, take a look at the compilatio

. >> reporter: senator raphael warnock, one of the newly elected senators from georgia is talking about a filibuster which requires 50 votes on legislation. he's among those urging bide on the push for a federal law to protect voting rights. >> this is democracy in reverse. it's un-american, anti-democratic. >> reporter: the president has vowed to do everything in his power. stripped away in 2013 when the supreme court invalidated key provisions of the voting rights act. arriving in delaware where he's spending the weekend at home, biden noted right now there are not enough votes in the senate even among democrats to change the filibuster rules. >> right now that doesn't exist. that doesn't exist. so, you know, look. the only thing i've been relatively good at in my long career in the senate is figuring out when to move and when not to move. you've got to have the vote. >> reporter: on voting laws, all roads lead back to trump who is not only still lying about the election outcome, but making false claims about the jan 6th attack on the u.s. capitol, trying to rewrite history. >> some w