stacey: that has been a huge boost.r balance after being locked up at home for more than a year are incredible strong. going forward, sure. we expect to see a moderation of these comps. you can see you -- you cannot see retailers comp 20% forever. the bigger retailers, they will continue to gain share because they have the power to get supply. once again, the bigger names are going to continue to win and the smaller names are going to struggle, particularly getting supply. matt: in terms of the savings we heard about during covid come are those pent-up savings spent off? are consumers going to go through that in the fall? stacey: some of it has been spent, but there is still plenty to go. i think their holiday, we are going to see one of the best back-to-school's we have seen in more than a decade. there are certain categories that continue to be on fire like footwear. this time next year, when we look at comparisons, are we having a different conversation, will retailers over border, go back to their old habits? differ

st stacey, is the delta variant and supply chain effect the back to school season?n stores i will tell you there are s shortages of just about everything particularly toys and footwear before we get to back to school, we are already seeing problems on the shelves that is the biggest challenge right now. also, you know, talking to stores with the delta variant headlines, you are not really seeing a huge slowdown in traffic quite yet. most of the stores are seeing the american consumer resilient and certainly we learned that. i think there will be some volatility as people are getting somewhat fearful of being back in stores and there is controversy in the stores. mask up? don't mask up? back to school is off to a decent start we haven't had one in two years. look for volatility. >> this is an interesting point, stacey if you look at the balance sheet of the american consumer, overall, the numbers show things have gotten better we thought there was going to be a massive drop off in spending as government stimulus checks started to go away we have not seen that yet. th

and i said, no, no, stacey. i said, i need to fly the coup. i need to grow up. marlee matlin's life is full, whether she is working or not. she and her husband, kevin grandalski, have four children, all hearing. do you ever feel isolated in a house with five hearing people? >> i wouldn't say isolated because i'm accustomed to it. growing up it was the same thing. but yet, i always say, what did you say? or what are you talking about? and they tell me. probably the only difference from when i grew up. >> reporter: her son, tyler, heads for college this week. his mom made sure to show him coda before he left. >> s >> every time she would come on, she would look, and m ye doing great, don't worry. >> reporter: marlee matlin may be doing great, but there is still work to do. >> i look forward to more opportunity. and not just me, but for deaf actors, writers, directors, people who work behind the camera. we have a history. we have a culture. we are part of the diverse continuum. so what do i do? i talk about it. i make noise about it. tech and connectivity inveg to

after the break, we'll speak with stacey cunningham, lktaing everything from the ip mark toot vaccineng session. the dow dipped a little in the negative after that weak consumer sentiment number. s&p 500 just above the flatline. a & d having a pretty good run actually over taking disney as the leading stock in the s&p 500. disney responding to the strong earnings report. let's take a look at the laggards at this point there have been some travel-related stuff in there. actually apache, the old apache. norwegian cruise line, as well as best buy and diamond back energy you have the yields compressed after the sentiment. just a little covid concern in the air, even if it's not an acute warning. >> you have all the concerns around delta variant and what that's going to mean in the near term conism isson. you're continuing to see draw downs but not as large as had been anticipated and yet, in the midst of all of this with opec begin beginning to up its production levels and we talk about inflation and how transitory it is, you have biden administration saying opec needs to do more, even as

they partied like it was 1999 in martha's vineyard as biden teases mandates and michelle obama with stacey abrams to change the future of the nation. candace owens on the race baiting and power grabbing. all this right now on sunday morning futures. ♪ ♪ maria: break news the senate is in final minutes agrees of $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill which has been criticized giving 23% for hard infrastructure like ports, bridges and ports. the wall street's journal kim strassel got into the debate on friday writing in the journal this op-ed. this bill is better viewed as step 1 of president biden's new green new deal giving appointees and federal bureaucrats tens of billions with which to remake the economy. why 17gop senators vote to proceed on the baser end of the scale. the bill amounts to happy of spending and some republicans can spend with the best of democrats. let's ask one of those senators who voted yes to this bill. north dakota senator kevin cramer, senator, why are you in favor of this bill, are you betraying the republican base? senator: not at all, maria, thanks for the opportuni

when stacey abrams endorsed a mansion compromise as the stacey abrams he's trying to do is put a black face on this and the response was, he's a nice guy. so it was exactly this language. a lot of people are experiencing welcome, fliptop talk about this. >> i had a thought about that -- if you e out, that's why i take notes. so it's a move that white people make to say i am more down than you are, i know more than you do and i've read your book so now i am more confident you and unwind to call you out, i've been studying this for three months and i'm going to tell robin d'angelo how wrong he is. sometimes i'll go to youtube and i'll see a five reasons why robn d'angelo is wrong. the top one kobe she says all white people are racist, can you believe that? what i want to ask pretty much every white person to do is take ait moment define for yourself what is the criteria by which you would grant that somebody is racist? what is theci criteria? i don't think many white people have thought deeply about that. if you are astounded that i wouldd say all white people are racist then tell me wha

stacey abrams lost. all that hurts voter confidence. what we've tried to do with this is make election management easier for election officials. also, help voters restore confidence that has been hit by both sides of the aisle. >> apparently it hasn't done that. let me get to some of our audience questions. this is a question for you. were there any early indicators of character that people could've identified to help inform their evaluation of people lying about the 2020 election? voters could have clued into it before 2020. what would those have been? you have spoken about the criticality of good character. >> well, i tend to speak with a calm demeanor, a quiet voice, and i'm careful for the words that i use. someone in high office should always do that. i don't think we need to objective five people. i spent time in the general assembly. i was there for two years. i sat next to democrats on my left and my right. we would have conversations. we had respectful conversations. i want to make sure that we always have those conversations.

missouri describe before the people act and senator manchin, his version his response to them was stacey abrams endorsed joe mansions compromise described as stacey abrams bill and someone said obviously what is trying to do isck put a black face on this in the response, he's a nice guy and it's exactly this language talk about a lot of folks are experiencing this today talk about how woke. >> i had a thought about that. >> that's where i take notes it's a move that white people make to show i'm more dumb than you are on no more about this than you do i read your book and now i feel i'm more down than you and i'll call you out and i've been studying this for three months and i'm going to tell robin d'angelo how wrong she is so i just got that. sometimes i'll go to youtube and five reasons why robin d'angelo was wrong and she says all right people are racist, can you believe that. what i want to ask pretty much every white person to do is to take a moment and defined for yourself what is the criteria by which he would grant by which somebody is racist. what is the criteria. i don't think

150 years ago from some big brain sewer to looking at the big map and how that's relevant today. stacey. well, our upcoming guest, dan collins tweeted something that blew my mind and it fits into a lot of what the cause report has been talking about for the past while the past decade. and you know, that whole region of the world of this, the cities trap, the silk road, china, china, emerging, and all the problems happening in afghanistan, the middle east, that certain area of the world. we're going to look at something called that i just learned about. but i'm going to read you the wikipedia because it's really interesting in light of what's happening with the u. s. poll losing an afghanistan . and then around announcing that they say that they're joining their officially going to be accepted. and the shanghai cooperation organization, which i have not been in the previous 2 times. they applied, so the geographical pivot. and this was introduced by sir, how ford john mack hinder. ok, ma kinder. he was an english geographer, academic and politician who is regarded as one of the founding

stacey it from the east bay too. looking back out. >> for the sunset. sun sets going to be really need are going to see some beautiful oranges and reds in the atmospheres. the particulates from all the pollutants outside from the smoke really going make for some fantastic colors. but we're likely going to see that again for tomorrow. here's the latest smoke forecast model and show you overnight tonight. again, another offshore wind developing tonight likely to bring more that smoke back into the bay area. of course, we already have an active fire in the north bay to. so those combined more smoke on the way red flag warnings up for tonight. not as extreme as last night. we're talking gusts, maybe 30, maybe 35 miles per hour humidity, not as dry instead of 10 to 15%. talking 20 to about 30%. that said, very dry conditions and the drought that active fires out there as well. and lake county and you've got red flag warnings up until 11 o'clock in the morning tomorrow. the winds are going to whip throughout the night tonight. you'll see him pick up again. yo

the financial survival guide. stacey, let's learn about be allowed. let's say i'm a strike and you're, i'm greece based off the site wall street prod. thank you for helping with the choice that fell out that way. the historic images from the night just gone and car ball is the last us plane leaves up in the hands of the very people washington promised to over throw 20 years ago. despite the chaos, the casualties and growing calls for the us defense secretary to resign. the by did ministration continues to praise the outcome of americans along the small while foreign nations race to get the last of their people out of cobble hundreds of ass guns, they, once employed have been left without protection. coming up, we speak to one fuller interpreter who worked for the british embassy, who says the you case betrayed their local stuff, is betrayed. i will put them in a very good way. i had a more than my car. we didn't know the big picture. last week's deadly suicide bought me in cobble highlights, renewed, severe threat posed by islamic state are to meet on

information on us and trying to fat we have from others who will so call that conscience and shad stacey with when we kill civilians. and then put in the official report that they weren't children, for example, they were go. that is a war crime. it's really a war on through not just with the government that war with its own people. ah, rounding up the biggest stories in the past 7 days. this is the weekly here on aut international live from moscow. and welcome. while starting this, our classes have erupted in central phelan. thousands of coven skeptics gathered to protest long running restrictions with police, detaining new slings, 100 demonstrators. it's only a day since city need is bound such riley's over the risk of spreading the disease . the me. ah, the most people have been arrested in berlin to be after a demonstration against my to some of the standards in case it's harder protesters to try and believe we would, catherine the multiple from to in the west in capital berlin bear raleigh was not authorized by police, actually, it wasn't only one of the values that they were trying

landlords like stacey johnson cosby in kansas city need the money too. getting that money? >> well, it's coming slowly. so there are some people, if you can find where to apply, how to apply, because the process is really cumbersome, and then once it is applied, it's the four to six-week turnaround to find out if a caseworker has been assigned. >> reporter: the cdc's moratorium is designed in part to allow more time for that distribution. and the biden administration is pushing for states to simplify their application process. this latest move by the cdc is likely going to face legal challenges right away. in june, the supreme court indicated without an act of congress, it was unlikely to uphold an eviction moratorium. lester? >> stephanie ruhle, thank you. >>> president biden is pledging $100 million in humanitarian aid to lebanon as the country marks one year since more than 200 people died in a catastrophic explosion. our molly hunter is in beirut tonight. >> reporter: one year after the devastating beirut port explosion, the lebanese are fighting bac

ago, 150 years ago from some big brain sewer looking at the big map and how that's relevant today. stacey. well, our upcoming guest, dan collins tweeted something that blew my mind and it fits into a lot of what the cause report has been talking about for the past while the past decade. and you know, that whole region of the world of the 2 cities trap, the silk road, china, china, emerging, and all the problems happening in afghanistan, the middle east, that certain area of the world. and we're going to look at something called that i just learned about. but i'm going to read you the wikipedia because it's really interesting in light of what's happening with the u. s. poet losing an afghanistan . and then around announcing that they say that they're joining their officially going to be accepted and the shanghai cooperation organization, which they have not been and the previous 2 times they applied. so the geographical pivot.

see, we're looking at the big map and how that's relevant today. stacey. well, our upcoming guess, dan collins tweeted something that blew my mind and it fits into a lot of what the cause report has been talking about for the past while the past decade. and you know, that whole region of the world of this, the cities trap, the silk road, china, china, emerging, and all the problems happening in afghanistan, the middle east, that certain area of the world. and we're going to look at something called that i just learned about.

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oh the the next financial survival guide. stacey, let's learn about say aloud. let's say i'm a joy and you're great grief on banks of the site. walk 3 prod. thank you for helping with joy. 6 that's right, last way when i was the wrong, the why don't i just don't the rules. yes, to see out the thing because the after an engagement equal betrayal, when so many find themselves world far as we choose to look for common ground, the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest. while you see in this, these techniques is the state devising message to end essentially destroy personality of an individual lifetime. means this is how one doctors, theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state. that was the foundations of the method of psychological interrogation, psychological torture, disseminated within the us intelligence community, and worldwide among allies for the next 30 years. been to the victim, say they still with the consequences today. the everybody on jo

the kaiser report with may max guys are in stacey everett want to think, i guess 1000 mccloud of gold money dot com. and to like sign via the me i when i would show the wrong when old free just don't. i mean you yes. to fill out the thing because the attitude and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart and we choose to look for common ground, the ah, one of the desperate afghans who clung to us military pain, taken off from cobbled phil. he'll deal on his phone, his paint is unknown, but others went on to plunge to baton about briefs the meat off just how abrupt promising that it be. no refund on the afghans who walks before and all of these are forgiven. lockson's reveals that telephone commander gave a victory experience from cobbles, presidential policy, but is a detainee one kind of bank. i welcome to the news on here on.

stacey abrams questioned the results in georgia. hillary clinton questioned the results in 2016. i actually think the loss of voter trust is one of the few bipartisan things going on in this country. we are trying to actively restore that trust. to look at the bills that have been passed by states like arizona, like iowa, florida, georgia, texas, one day. that are working on testing packages that would make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. organizations like mine will have the opportunity to take that policy back to voters and do exactly what the caller is talking about. show where the changes have been made to secure the boat and hopefully restore some of the integrity in the balance. it is safe, secure, and not going to be overcome by fraudsters. with us this morning. host: texas, democrats, good morning. caller: good morning, jessica. what i wanted to talk about was what you just talked about. you'll republican cities taken me, who is a black man, out of being able to vote. that is what you are doing. we had to vote in 1965 and i joined the military in 1968 because i was

my cars are stacey herbert like to thank our gas gun by grier of gold, switzerland dot com, a ball thing service. until next time, by the me. look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except when the shorter the conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is to great truck rather than fear i would take on various jobs with artificial intelligence. real. somebody with a robot must protect its own existence with the new gold rushes underway, and gunner thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the goldfields, hoping to strike it. rich children are torn between gold and education. my family was very poor. i thought i was doing my best to get back to school, which still will have the strongest appeal the accusations of excessive force level than berlin police are true. viral video shows officer throwing an elderly woman to the grand jury, a protest, a play shooting and says, demonstrates themselves though, for me

even though her name is stacey. she's not related to me. but it turns out the big box stores are an even worse deal for cities and towns worse than any one, even their opponents one's thought. so in the eighty's and ninety's, the way they got around local regulations and got cities and towns to embrace them, was that they said you would have a huge tax revenue come in. well, now that the data is in all these decades later, they took all the incentives. they took the money to build the infrastructure, to build the building, to build the, the access roads, to that they took the city and town money for that. but the bottom line was actually another story max, there are 2 big costs. big box stores are expensive in terms of the public services . they require mainly police and road costs. and 2nd, big box stores cause the value of downtown and other commercial buildings to drop a few years after a walmart or lowe's opened, the end result for the cities finances might be break even or worse, when you accounted for these losses and cost right here

the kaiser report with re max guys are in stacey everett want to think, i guess 1000 mccloud of gold money dot com. and to like sign via the me . ah ah know. when i would show the wrong one, i'll just don't need you to fill out this thing because the after an engagement equals the trail, when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for common ground. now we have e cigarettes. i just heard that it was a healthy alternative to figure out how do we trust tobacco companies with their message that these new products are actually going to reduce? are these, these are making the tobacco tours? the one of the desperate asked hands, he clung on to a minute to pane takes not from cobble pools, but appeal on his phone. his fate is unknown, but tom went on to plunge the taliban grief the mead offered theatre a power promising that had no we're guns off down who was so far an amused off, but given process reveal one of the kind of bond commanders who gave victory features from the gun capital presidential palace spent years as the detainees one tunnel. ok. i bring you the stories a

. >> that was stacey johnson cosby voicing her concerns to us last hour on behalf of the realtors andratorium. jillian: next guest warns our country is heading towards totalitarian type government. dr. ben carson, thanks for being here. what is your biggest concern? >> well, my concern is we are a country that is of, for and by the people. and the reason that people came here in the first place is because they didn't the heavy foot of government on their neck. now we have a situation where the government is itself into everything, including the relationships between, you know, renters and landlords. and when the moratorium was put in place, we had a very different situation than we have right now we didn't have a vaccine. it was really a uncharted water and the last thing we wanted was people out there with this disease raging. the disease is largely under control now. there are loss lot of jobs available for people. we don't want to create a permanent underclass that is dependent upon the government and the fact that the supreme court has ruled this is beyond the purview of the execu

no list of live baiting -- stacey abrams. she denied ever holding such a position. most recently, pennsylvania gov. tom wolf states a spectacular foot plop of his own. suddenly declaring his open to changing the states voter id laws, less than three weeks after vetoing a piece of updating legislation that included voter id provisions, called the voting rights protection act, brought forward by the general assembly. what today's race baiters have in common? two things, timing and polling. because of the political necessity of getting federal legislation through 50-50 senate, following west virginia senator mansions -- mansion -- congressman clyburn, stacey abrams and others on the left had to cast aside their false voter id is racist -- >> >> the gentleman's time has expired. i will give time to wrap up. >> second, the polling is shifted despite six months of attacks. american people still support access and integrity measures which continue, even in this hearing to be called voter suppression. i will write my time up. i look forward to discussing the subject further

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we know michelle obama is teaming up with stacey abrams with the federal election takeover legislation pelosi says she's confident that democrats will keep the house in 2022. are you expecting a fair and free election for the midterms or are we going to be on lockdown again, mail-in ballots are the standard? congresswoman: republicans need to ensure free and fair election passing election integrity and security laws at the state level and it's the height of hypocrisy when you have the texas state democrats traveling becoming super spreaders of covid and traveling in opposition to a common sense election security bill that would ensure secure integrity of elections in the state of texas. we need to make sure that we are doing this in all states and doing everything that we can to fight against universal mail-in ballot where there's no signature verification and no voter id. i'm concerned and this is why republicans need to speak out. maria: you had a committee chair yesterday warning it was a closed-door meeting for the party and they said that -- he said if the midterms were held today

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which sort of leads the way in snack foods like stacey's pita chips and potato chips and doritos and so forth that's a pretty recession-proof and volatility-proof pick. >> exactly so pepsi has been a real ballast in our portfolio for the better part of a decade you're right, it's that perfect combination of salty snacks and beverages that have really had it in the number one position snackwise globally what we think is so important with pepsi is the ballast you get with the balance sheet and a nice dividend, again, the high quality business but we're also seeing catalysts with their investment over the years now paying off as far as manufacturing capacity but also really if you look at the numbers they just reported, it's interesting to see the most covid hit areaoffs their business, the away from home businesses, are recovering more quickly. and the at-home business is staying strong so that's translating into strong organic growth, double-digit increases in their sales and their beverage business you know, just a business running on all cylinders >> how clever is it, kelly, you hav

she managed stacey abrams' campaign for governor in georgia.ning us tonight. the most frightening part of the georgia law for me has always been any kind of republican change in control of counting the votes. it looks like they are actually taking action in that direction now. >> yes, you're correct, lawrence. this i think is going to be one of those weeks we're going to look back. this is big week in american history. we had a really robust voting rights act introduced yesterday in congress named after my former congressman john lewis here in atlanta. and at the same time we saw the state election board here in georgia take a critical step in moving forward on this fulton county local takeover. so i thought to kind of explain this a bit i would remind folks how we got here, lawrence, which is during the runoff when every political actor was focused on the state of georgia and who would win these two u.s. senate seats, we had rudy giuliani and his band of bumbling brothers show up multiple times to show up in person at these basically voter fra

negotiating tool and the leverage to be able to get anything passed in the senate >> representative stacey plaskett good to see you as always. of the united states virgin islands >> thank you >>. >>> still ahead, we're seeing a surge in covid-19 cases. in the battle against the disease, multiple republican governors line up on the wrong side of the fight against covid. how one local community is fighting back. and putting country first. the power and importance of whistleblowers to a healthy democracy, and why here right matters. retired army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman next, here on msnbc. l alexander vindman next, here on msnbc. ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers don't stand a chance. ♪ that's why we'll stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ with relapsing forms of ms... there's a lot to deal with. not just unpredictable relapses. all these other things too. it can all add up. kesimpta is a once-monthly at-home injection... that may help you put these rms challenges in their place. kesimpta was proven superior at reducing the rate of relapses, ac

. >> stacey abrams voting rights activists in 2010 democratic nominee for governor of georgia recently discussed her suspense novel while justice sleeps seven in the halls of the u.s. supreme court. >> i was on a panel at once and one of the people said either people in this world who get as many times at bat as they want and are those of us who we strike out, we are done. we don't just strike at. we get ejected from the game. that is so often the groups of people i end up working with and i try to serve in my other life as an advocate or a politician. those for whom there are no second chances or at least the notion of a second chance is very remote. you can't risk it. yes, it is entirely possible that avery could have another shot but she is no guarantee and the desperation that follows that is something i felt, that when i finished law school and my family, we were very economically precarious i was the first one with real money, and i could make -- couldn't make mistakes. i couldn't stumble and cost us this one opportunity. amazing siblings would all do well eventually but you don'

as did beverley's friend stacey and brand. at being real estate ancients themself, they thought maybe they had gone with the potential buyers to show them other houses. >> we went to the two vacant houses that were beverley's listings, and went and chalked the lot boxes and read them to see if anyone had open them. nobody had opened. am >> hours ticked by, and emily's friend denise couldn't sleep. so she called her phone. >> there was an email from brenda, i could still see the words that said, it's with a very heavy heart that i let you know that we can't find beverley. she went to show a house, she is missing. i still can read that, and feel the same pain. >> police and beverley's family gathered at the property, trying to figure out where she was. >> how is your dad handling everything? >> i feel he was hard to read. he would sneak away from time to time, you know, collect his thoughts. >> then, around 1 am -- >> all of a sudden, band, bam, bam through pictures. the officer said come here, beverley texted me. >> word that b

women in particular like stacey abrams, latosha brown, deb law scott, all of whom you have met on this in 2020. democrats could sense it. they leaned on it. so one would assume after all of that, the democratic lawmakers would spare no effort to protect that constituency from the numerous injustices that routinely come their way. a thank you of sorts for showing up when the country, when democracy itself, in fact, needed them. but that's not exactly how it's going. according to the brennan center for justice, 18 states have enacted 30 laws this year that restrict voting in american states, and most of those laws disproportionately suppress the vote of people of color and others who live on the margins. that's bad news for black voters. the good news is that fighting for voting rights is not new for them. they have waged a centuries-long battle. that's why when you have seen acts of civil disobedience from black lawmakers and activists like joyce beatty and sheila jackson lee, the reverend jesse jackson jr., and our friend dr. william barber, who have all willingly been taken away in ha

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stacey, what's up? call the next item, please. >> clerk: line item 1, general public comment. at this time, speakers may address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or personnel. to provide public comment, dial 415-655-0001, enter meeting i.d. 146-777-2250. then pound and pound again. if you would like to make public comment, please press star, three now, and president cohen, we have a number of public comments. >> president cohen: oh, that's so exciting. bring them on. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> my name is susan buckman. i live in district 5 and work with a core team of disparities in the black community. we are an all volunteer grassroots organization working for justice in san francisco policing since 2015. on june 9, we were one of several community voices invited to make recommendations to the police station in how to ensure more just poli

like earlier this year, stacey abrams claimed that a simple voter i.d. law will be jim crow 2.0, but once the absurdity of that caught up with her, she looked so ridiculous she tried to deny ever having claimed it. nothing epitomizes than that than the slur from congresswoman ross. she completed three ultra-liberal judges in the fourth circuit who said when the north carolina legislature enacted voter i.d. and other reforms in 2013 that targeted african-americans with surgical precision. media quoted that phrase over 7,500 times according to google but few know the three junction who -- judges who stated that were appellate judges, the trial judge found in a painstaking 400-page analysis that the legislature's bill was not diskrim naer so -- discriminatory so the three appellate judges abused their power. few know how the three appellate judges became the final word. that a state attorney general sabotaged the appeal to prevent an upcoming appeal. that a.g. abused his power. when the details are known -- can i have 30 seconds? mr. johnson: i yield the ge

come on, stacey.

stacey abrams has sought to eye dress the first half of that.let me read this from the "ajc" which had great reporting on this. georgia now has one of the highest voter registration rates in the nation with 95% of its citizens over 18 years old signed up to vote according to federal election data released last week. that's the good news, rev. the bad news is that the georgia law, it also undoes the referee. it undoes the non-partisan election officials who count the vote, and there's already shenanigans underway in fulton county with republicans putting in motion a process to take over the largest democratic county in the state. >> it is absolute nullification. when martin luther king made that speech "i have a dream" he talked about in the position of nullification. in his own state they are actually doing it by state law to be able to nullify and remove a county that would be able to decide its own votes and impose who they want and, therefore, nullify the outcome of the vote even if you have a huge turnout. this is as frightening as it can ge

you know, matt dowd, nick's reporting animated a lot of our coverage and obviously the activism of stacey on the ground informed it. there was an outcry when this law was passed. major league baseball, which was really reluctant to get into politics, moved the all-star game to another state. now that the law is going into effects, we see ominous it really is to go through and do a review in a state whose vote count was audited three times exactly in the one spot that donald trump was obsessed with. he raised fulton county 14 times in that call with raffensperger in january of this year. why has the heat and the pressure and the attention moved off of what is happening in georgia? >> well, i think that's a great question, and specifically let's talk about brad raffensperger. he showed himself to be a person of integrity in the midst of that election, seemingly. i don't know him. seemingly a decent person that was going to stand up for the principles that we did push back on the republicans, but the republican pressure and the republican base pressure to put in place vote impediments and al