tonight -- rupaul founder of voting rights organization, fair fight, stacey abrams.ria bamford featuring the 8g band with elijah wood. ♪ [ cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. how is everybody doing tonight [ cheers and applause that's fantastic in that case, let's get to the news federal prosecutors yesterday, recommended that former trump adviser, roger stone, be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison for lying to congress. then today, the department of justice issued a statement calling for much less prison time for stone and trump said that he had the right to tell the justice department what to do. then all four prosecutors in the stone case resigned in protest and then, trump called for the military to pursue legal action against lieutenant colonel alexander vindman for testifying against him in the impeachment trial. and senate republicans blocked three bills to prevent foreign interference in our elections. and lindsey graham and don junior showed up on "fox news" in matching t

please join me as we welcome to our school, our speaker for the evening, leader stacey abrams. [applause] ms. abrams: thank you. i would say you look good, but i can see almost nothing. [laughter] ms. abrams: but you feel good, so thank you. much for the honor of being here today. to speak about not only the legacy of dr. king, but the future of his dream. my favorite speech by dr. king is not the i have a dream speech. my favorite speech was when he delivered on mother's day in 1966 in south carolina. it was a speech called "march on ballot boxes." yes,s a speech that said, we achieved a specific goal of getting the right to vote after centuries of trying. 15th and 16th amendment was made real through the voting rights act of 1965. and yet, the power was not real. the capacity to change our lives was not real unless we marched on ballot boxes. boxes was aballot phrase i did not learn until a few years ago. i havebeen an ethos lived with most of my life. i am the daughter of two civil rights activists. their names will appear in almost no history books because they were teenager

can we get another round of applause for stacey abrams. [applause] it's a true honor to be here tonight in your company and in your presence. my name is david wall rice, i'm a professor of psychology at morehouse and director of the institute for social justice so this is a great time we get to spend with one another to be in dialogue. it also is a time, however, to do a little bit of housekeeping for us to collect cards with questions from audience. so if if youou have questions, u are given cards when you came in. in. if you can fill the outcome if you care to put your name on it, don't hesitate to do that and we will go through many of the cards, as many as we can get to, and ask governor abrams those questions. [laughing] so one of the things i want to start with, your soul cold-blooded, i mean you are so awesome, you really are awesome. [applause] added to think that needs to be said because your comportment is one oftentimes matter of fact. but no doubt you are she wrote antihero and i want to read, i loved your book out of want to r

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the stacey abrams. how do people react when they find out you're a writer? >> they are surprised.n who have fascinating lives and are not that good at dating. and so, slightly au autobioographyical. >> reporter: why is that? >> i never saw women in the books that look the like me. i wanted to write and see myself as the characters. >> reporter: as the industry works on its own fairytale ending, for some there will always be forbidden love. what would be the happy ending if you were doing a political romance novel? >> it would be a woman who runs for governor who finds herself falling in love with probably a consultant on the team. >> reporter: what about from a different political party? >> oh. >> reporter: plot twist? >> i can probably make that work but someone would have to convert. >> morgan, i'm going to speak for america. when i saw you walking with selena montgomery, i said, that's stacey abrams who ran for governor of georgia and as you said, a rising star. i had no idea. >> yeah. she's written several novels. it tells you, people love love. everyone wants their happy endi

>> all of stacey abrams' remarks can be seen at 8 p.m. eastern time tonight. on c-span. >> follow campaign 2020 to nevada this weekend. easternat 11 :00 p.m. democratic presidential candidates joe biden, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, tom steyer, bernie sanders, and elizabeth warren speak for clark county democrats. on sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern joe biden, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, and tom steyer speak at a form on infrastructure. watch on-demand at c-span.org and listen on the go on the c-span radio app. >> steven mnuchin testified before the senate finance committee on president trump's 2021 budget request to congress. the secretary file questions about the administrations proposal. as well as economic growth and the impact of the tax cuts and job that jobs act. -- jobs act. todaym pleased to be here to discuss the budget. trump's economic freedom agenda is working. reform andegulatory trade deals are improving the lives of hard-working americans. unemployment remains historically low. and it is at or near all-time lows for african-americans, hispanic

[applause] stacey abrams is a "new york times" best-selling author, serial entrepreneur, nonprofit

>> you always hear the name stacey abrams, to have a stacey abrams unify black and white in the partyhey said, no, race is not the primary focus. they want someone right on the issues, who has the right politics, who is able and willing ready to go after donald trump. they want people who support medicare for all. you hear folks saying they're caring foir their aging parents, health care is a big issue, ron bishop woods, his son was murdered on january 1st. he cares deeply about those issues. race is secondary to being right on the issues, joy. >> you always do such a great job. thank you for doing this for the show. we'll have you do a lot more over the campaign season. thank you, my friend. really appreciate you. >>> still to come, who won the week. iowa edition. more "a.m. joy" next. i'm your mother in law. and i like to question your every move. like this left turn. it's the next one. you always drive this slow? how did you make someone i love? that must be why you're always so late. i do not speed. and that's saving me cash with drivewise. my son, he did say that you were the saf

to whom is he giving it, stacey abrams, to young black men, women, all across the country he's helped women in an organization that you may know about be their own bosses, buy into companies and also minorities. he should have said that. he should have said, listen, you're telling me i'm an arrogant man who doesn't do things right. let me tell you what i've done and people can make up their mind. i think people should make up their mind about him too. i'm not a shell. i'm telling you what i think about him and what i think about his past. guys, make up your mind and gals, you get in there too. >> sam donaldson, thank you, sir. >> don, thanks for having me on. >>> hours away from the nevada caucus and sanders could be gaining ground on biden with black voters, is biden's big lead with black voters at risk? $9.95 at my age? $9.95? no way. $9.95? that's impossible. hi, i'm jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you're age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month. okay, jonathan, i'm listenin

[applause] >> stacey abrams ran for georgia and promotes018 political activism. she recently discussed the possibility of being the democratic presidential nominee's running mate. 2019 i hadmarch of lunch with this guy named joe biden. i've had lunch and dinner with a lot of under -- other candidates, following that wonderful lunch with the vice president speculation began about the running has his vice president. he did not ask, i did not answer. unusualt this very question about whether i would want to be vice president long before we had candidates for the office. runhe time i said, do not for second place in a primary. you listen to the second half of my conversation, is i would be honored to stand in service with the nominee of our party. if that nominee decides that they would like for me to serve as the running mate and potential he asked vice president, i would be honored to do so. [applause] >> all of stacey abrams' remarks can be seen at 8 p.m. eastern time tonight. on c-span. >> follow campaign 2020 to nevada this weekend. easternat 11 :00 p.m. democra

[applause] >> tonight on c-span, stacey abrams discusses voting rights for you can see her remarks beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> brian mccarthy spoke at the national press club in washington, d.c.. he talks about a free press and readiness and reform. this is one hour. this is one hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club, the leading organization for journalists. my name is michael

remarksf stacey abrams can be seen at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight on c-span. follow campaign 2020 to nevada this weekend. p.m.ht live at 11:00 eastern, joe biden, pete buttigieg, senator amy klobuchar, tom steyer, bernie sanders, and elizabeth warren speak before clark county democrats. joe biden, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, and tom steyer speak at a forum on infrastructure at 5:00 on friday. on the freee go c-span radio app. scented debate on a war powers resolution introduced by tim kaine that would -- senate debate on a war powers resolution introduced by tim kaine that would limit the presidents war powers. resolution, which is pending before the senate. before i address the resolution, i want to acknowledge the combat deaths of javier guterrez and sergeant rodriguez, they were both 28-year-olds killed last week in afghanistan. while the incident is still under investigation, it appears they were killed by a member of the afghan security forces or someone posing as a member of the afghan security forces. this is a security force that the u.s. has armed,

going to come down voter suppression versus voter turnout which is why you have somebody like a stacey abrams doing verified action, trying to run up the score as much as she can, register as many people to offset the things we're seeing with some of these secretaries of state. >> the thing is who's doing anything about that? the problem is you know that republicans are counting on two tiers of voter suppression. their own in states where they control who gets to register to vote. and russia's. and essentially what you saw the other day was republicans encourage russia to please help keep donald trump -- >> they're also counting on learned apathy. people just give up. they're really counting on that. and that works in both if you think the russians are monkey wrenching our system and if you just go to the polls and wait for 5 1/2 hours and find out you can't vote but you really can but the person behind the desk tells you you cannot and then you go home and don't vote. that's the other thing that's going on. i think that the democratic candidates have been good on this issue but they're good

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. >> stacey abrams brantford georgia governor -- ran for georgia governor in 2018. she discusses the possibility of being the democratic presidential nominee's running mate. >> had lunch with this guy named joe biden. had lunch and dinner with a lot of other candidates. following that wonderful lunch with the vice president, speculation began about me running has his vice president. he did not ask. i did not answer. i got this very unusual question about whether i would want to be vice president long before we had candidates for the office. you do not run for second place in a primary. to stand inonored service with the nominee of our party. if that nominee decides they would like for me to serve as their running mate and as vice president of the united states, i would be honored to do so. [cheers and applause] >> stacey abrams remarks to be seen at it :00 p.m. eastern tonight on c-span. p.m. eastern tonight on c-span. tonight, live at 11:00 p.m. eastern, joe biden, pete buttigieg, senator amy klobuchar, tom steyer, senator bernie sanders, and senator elizabeth warr

visit ncicap.org] >> next, stacey abrams talks about political activism and voting rights. after that, ivanka trump dissipates and a woman's initiative forum. then presidential candidate michael blumberg campaigns in virginia -- bloomberg campaigns in virginia. follow campaign 2020 to nevada this weekend. 11 p.m., joee at biden, pete buttigieg, senator amy klobuchar, tom steyer, senator bernie sanders and senator elizabeth warren speak before clark county democrats. on sunday, live at 5 p.m., joe biden, pete buttigieg, senator amy klobuchar, and tom steyer speak at a forum on infrastructure. live coverage on c-span. demand and listen on the go on the c-span radio this weekend, newsmaker interviews to rector of the congressional budget office. he talks about the budget, debt and other spending issues, the same weight president trump sent his budget proposal to congress. anday at 10 a crack a.m. four: 30 a.m. eastern on the free c-span radio app and watch online on c-span.org. >> former candidate for georgia governor stacy abrams talks about political activism and voting righ

we saw the effects of voter suppression and georgia with stacey abrams and 2020 in florida not beingmented and desantis continuing to block the implementation of that. not because he cares of what's going on but he wants to stop minorities from voting. he wants to stop them having their full citizenships. people like you march for it and they die so that we have the right to vote. you see republicans stopping voters from being able to participate in the process. >> reena, explain something to me that i can't figure out and that's president trump said he's going to have a commission on voter fraud and he's claiming so much voter fraud, what happens to that commission and what did they find out? >> oh, that commission was like everything else, lips service from the president. >> oh, you mean he didn't do it? >> are we surprised? >> here is the strategy of the white house' employees. the president tends to speak out on his rear end. on one hand he says russia had nothing to do with anything then he faints complete ignorance when people show him what's happening with other parts of the c

saturday, former georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams discusses political activism and voting rights. you can see her remarks beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> senator elizabeth warren took her campaign to arlington, virginia. she talked about the economy, campaign finance law, and the green new deal. >> so i'm here today to ask you two things. the first one is to ask you to get in this fight with me to help build an america that doesn't just work for the rich and powerful, but works for everyone. [applause] sen. warren: and second, i'm here to ask for your vote. [applause] sen. warren: here's the deal. i got your back, you can count on me, i will count on you. [applause] sen. warren: now, this has been some presidential primary already. we have been going at this for about a year. some people got in a little later than others. michael bloomberg came in. on the billionaire plan. just by yourself a nomination. i want to point out that a video just came out yesterday. michael bloomberg is saying that the 2008 financial crash was caused because the banks were n't permitted to di

>> i actually just interviewed stacey abrams is someone who has her eye on the white house and being candidate in 2024. so on both sides, people are readying themselves. >>> hope to see you tomorrow. watch us on saturday at the south carolina primary. we'll be counting votes all afternoon. have a good afternoon. to pay for bites of this... ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to. ore-ida. win at mealtime. non-drowsy claritin cool mint chewables. feel the clarity of new the only allergy product with relief of your worst symptoms, including itchy throat. plus an immediate blast of cooling sensation. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. hi with the world'se first invisible trailer. invisible trailer? and it's not the trailer right next to us? this guy? you don't believe me? hop in. good lookin' pickup, i will say that. oh wow. silverado offers an optional technology package with up to 15 different views - including one enhanced view that makes your trailer appear invisible. wow. - that's pretty sweet. - that's cool. oooohh! that's awesome. where'd the trailer g

even stacey abrams. could they agree on policy? lots to consider there. >> lots of question marks and lots of time to talk about that, too. we might not know for months. we'll talk about that more on the show. thank you both for being on and being with us. we appreciate it. back to something we were talking about at the top of the show. the dow was down 400 points. it's now down 900 points. that's just over the course of 34 minutes since we've been on the air. a drop of 3%. we're in correction territory, all connected to coronavirus. back to dominic chu. a specific reason why markets are reacting this way. we're seeing this across dow, s&p, all the markets reacting this way. >> it's a major market charge. we were talking about on your show, we are now -- this is precipitous but not far away from record highs. it was pa week or two ago depending which major index you want to look at, dow, s&p, nasdaq, we were at record highs. how quickly this happened. for the better part of a year, the market seemed to do nothing but go up incremen

. >> people are stage whispering behind me "stacey abrams." who was whispering? were you whispering? all right, may i join you guys? do you think the democratic party is at a political disadvantage -- we try to be factual and straightforward. if it's just two white people on the ticket. is that a concern of yours? >> listen, yeah, i'm always concerned when it's only white people in the room. but what i want to say to democratic voters is that i think that it is unfair that the burden of electability always falls on marginalized communities and that we can't say, for instance, if i do not stand for bloomberg and i say to the democratic party that i expect more than an apology because it's not -- stop and frisk for us is not just a policy, it has bodies attached to it. and you would like me to overlook that to vote blue no matter who, which my people have historically done election after election. i think marginalized communities have been fighting injustice that preceded trump for very many centuries. >> do you think trump is a cause or a sympt

he also gave $5 million to the voting rights organization run by stacey abrams in georgia that is lookingvoter suppression. so he's been doing things that african-americans find to be an ally and find him to be an ally in some ways. but i think they're going to be -- his opponents will remind people that he was the mayor who liked stop-and-frisk and talked about red lining in the way that he did. >> dan balz, when i was talking to james clyburn yesterday, the african-american vote is 60% of the democratic primary vote. he made it clear he's not endorsing yet. he's not stepped in. although his grandson -- i think it's his grandson is working for joe biden. but this is really high noon, if you will, to mix metaphors for joe biden. he has to win south carolina. it's been said if he doesn't win, it could mean the end of his campaign. >> well, i think that's right. the only hesitation i have in saying that's exactly right is we've seen some odd things happen in this campaign already. you saw amy klobuchar run fifth in the state next to her home state and suddenly -- >> fair point. >> -- come b

[applause] >> tonight on c-span, stacey abrams discusses voting rights for you can see her remarks beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> brian mccarthy spoke at the national press club in washington, d.c.. he talks about a free press and readiness and reform. this is one hour. this is one hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club, the leading organization for journalists. my name is michael friedman and i am the 113th president at the press club. residence atst in the university of maryland, global campus. we have an excellent program ahead. we invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter. live.the #npc for our c-span and public radio viewers and listeners, please be aware in the audience today are members of the general public. any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily from the working press. let's begin by introducing our head table. we ask that you hold your applause until the head table guests have been announced. beginning to my far left. john o'shea, colonel, retired. and member of american legion post 20 based here at the national press club

need one of the other senators, assuming one of them doesn't actually become the nominee or even stacey abramse fact hillary clinton would become nominee, i think it's pretty close to zero. >> harris: as i mentioned, appearing to take a swipe at bernie sanders. let's watch. >> you've got to be responsible for what you say, and what you say you're going to do. we need to rebuild trust and our fellow americans and in our institutions. if you promise the moon and you can't deliver the moon, that's going to be one more indicator of how, you know, we just can't trust each other. >> harris: what is the fixation on bernie sanders? >> [laughs] i think there's a lot of relitigating of the 2016 campaign, even the current president seems to relive it for some reason. senator sanders has a very strong base -- >> harris: well, he won. go ahead. >> he did win come i understand. my point is he should maybe move on and consider governing as opposed to relitigating. my point of never clinton is the same. she also win on this case over bernie sanders and she should probably consider on from that. sanders has a

going to come down voter suppression versus voter turnout which is why you have somebody like a stacey abrams doing verified action, trying to run up the score as much as she can, register as many people to offset the things we're seeing with some of these secretaries of state. >> the thing is who's doing anything about that? the problem is you know that republicans are counting on two tiers of voter suppression. their own in states where they control who gets to register to vote. and russia's. and essentially wa you saw the other day was republicans encourage russia to please help keep donald trump -- >> they're also counting on learned apathy. people just give up. they're really counting on that. and that works in both if you think the russians are monkey wrenching our system and if you just go to the polls and wait for 5 1/2 hours and find out you can't vote but you really-k but the person behind the desk tells you you krnths then you go home and don't vote. that's the other thing that's going on. i think that the democratic candidates have been good on this issue but they're good going fo

. >> former candidate for georgia governor stacey abrams talks about political and because him and voting rights in front of a student audience in atlanta. this is about one hour. >> good evening. major hereor english at morehouse college. i have the esteemed honor of introducing our 2020 king lecture speaker, leader stacy abrams. [applause] stacy abrams is a new york times best-selling author, serial entrepreneur all, nonprofit ceo and political reader.

>> we entered into a partnership with stacey abram and her organization fair fight to emphasize the issuesect people of color and lgbtq communities. we will get a lot more information about the ways in which we are seeing their vote suppressed. but separately, we also need to make sure that voters are informed about registering, but also making sure that after they register that their votes are still being counted. it is one thing to register toet involvement we also need to make sure the votes are counted. we are making sure all voters are educated about the process, that they understand absentee balloting, provisional balloting. those are going to be very important to making sure their votes are actually counted. being registered to vote is just step one. we also need to make sure all of these votes are counted and we are doing that work all over the country. >> alphonso thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> i want to ask you, because, you know, part of what we have been hearing now for week is this question about black voters of faith and whether or not they will have an issue wit

tonight -- rupaul founder of voting rights organization, fair fight, stacey abrams.nded that former trump adviser, roger stone, be

and to get them off the books to move voting sites like they did in georgia, which i think cost stacey abramsng the governor. we need to deal with those fundamentals. a people movement from the ground is needed but the people must have their right to vote protected so they can vote in november. >> and did, in your interview with michael bloomberg, did he indicate that that's something that he's willing to spend money or that he is spending money on? >> he says he's going to spend money regardless of whether he's the nominee, and a lot of it will have to be for voter protection, he's talked about that. we'll see what happens when we see who the nominee is, but that's what he said, and i think we ought to raise the same thing to steyer who's a billionaire, and to every other one that is running. at the end of the day, everything that we have fought for in the civil rights movement, even before i was involved, and i've been involved since i was a teenager, is at stake in november, and we've got to really play this hand that has been dealt with us particularly by the u.s. senate now, like we know

kemp is a republican who went on to narrowly win the election over stacey abrams for governor, who was vying to become the first black woman governor in the united states. the race was marred by widespread allegations of voter suppression carried out by kemp. in one email, kemp used a laughing-from-crying emoji to reply to a press release by a lawmaker who warned georgia had canceled a half-million voter registrations in a purge that systematically targeted democrats. in another email, kemp praised campaign officials for blunting an article on voter suppression in "the atlanta journal-constitution," writing -- "good work, this story is so complex folks will not make it all the way through it." the veterans administration's inspector general is probing allegations that v.a. secretary robert wilkie sought damaging information to smear the reputation of a senior veteran'' affairs policy advisor after she reported she was sexually assaulted at a v.a. hospital in washington, d.c. andrea goldstein, a staff member of the women veterans task force of the house veterans committee, reported last

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[applause] stacey abrams is a "new york times" best-selling author, serial entrepreneur all, nonprofit ceo and political reader. -- and political leader. after serving for it 11 years in the georgia house of representatives, serving as

democratic party prides itself on access to voting as an issue that they talk about, and you know, stacey abramsthis and making sure that every vote is counted, and this is like in the bread and the butter and the dna of the democratic party, and so it is not, and i understand why the biden campaign is saying that for its own political purposes -- >> well, explain that why they are doing that. >> well, if they think that they did not do well, they don't want to be in the news psyche toll be doing so well, and they escape that because there are no results and now trying to raise questions, but we should separate out they are doing something for their own political purposes a flnd is, as a legitimate question of the party to say in a verifiable way that these are accurate votes. >> and as we talked about before, david, the caucuses are the most transparent way to have a political contest like this. dana bash and i were at des moines 47 last night. we know, and everybody in that room knows the final vote totals, and who made the threshold of viability, and who didn't and who won, and in that one pr

that was voting rights advocate stacey abrams telling viewers and voters that iowa and new hampshiret represent the entirety of america. the 65 delegates apportioned from those two states come from a pool of nearly all white voters. in fact according to recent census data, iowa is 90% white, new hampshire's population is even more disproportionate with more than 93% identifying as white. with the nevada caucuses four days away, all that is about to change. the candidates will take their messages to states that are dramatically more diverse and representative of the party as a whole. nevada the most diverse state so far is 29% latino or hispanic, 10% black, 10% by the way asian american. south carolina, which is set to vote on february 29th is 27% black and 6% latino or hispanic. while these -- while those voters will have their voices heard this saturday in nevada, according to a new poll out today, one candidate is leading the pack by double digits. we'll get to that next. you're watching "hardball." zemp♪ (announcer) once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes

. >> former candidate for georgia governor stacey abrams talks about political activism and voting rightstudent audience at morehouse college in atlanta. >> good evening. major hereor english at morehouse college. i have the esteemed honor of introducing our 2020 king lecture speaker, leader stacy abrams. [applause] stacy abrams is a new york times best-selling author, serial entrepreneur all, nonprofit ceo and political reader. after serving for it 11 years in the georgia house of representatives, serving as 2018 sheleader in became the democratic nominee for governor of georgia, when she won more votes than any other democrat in the state's history. to join herte gubernatorial campaign as an intern. i saw firsthand the strength and power of collective voices. leader abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial company -- nominee for a major party in the u.s. after witnessing the gross mismanagement by the secretary of state's office, leader abrams everyd every -- ensured voter had a voice. i was inspired to join the fight for fair election as a campus manager for the mor

[applause] remarksf stacey abrams can be seen at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight on c-span.low campaign 2020 to nevada this weekend. p.m.ht live at 11:00 eastern, joe biden, pete buttigieg, senator amy klobuchar, tom steyer, bernie sanders, and elizabeth warren speak before clark county democrats. joe biden, pete buttigieg, amy klobuchar, and tom steyer speak at a forum on infrastructure at 5:00 on friday. on the freee go c-span radio app. scented debate on a war powers resolution introduced by tim kaine that would -- senate

my friend stacey abrams would be governor of georgia right now if it was not for the voting violations. [applause] there is no doubt about that. she once said this, just because you have not gone to church for a while, or synagogue or mosque, you don't lose your right to worship under the constitution. just because you don't go to meetings like this at 8:00 in the morning, and maybe not everybody is here, you don't lose your right to assemble . and just because you haven't gone and voted in every single election, you should not have to show up at the voting booth and find out you lose your rights to to vote. but that is exactly what voting are, and that is why, as president, i will stop the voting purges. that is my bill right now to get rid of that. to get rid of gerrymandering and automatically register every kid in this country when they turn 18 to vote. the last thing i will say is this. my background is not donald trump's background. it is not one of privilege like . like so many in this community, it is one of resilience. my grandpa is a miner. he worked 1500 feet underground. hi

to vote so we don't continue voter purges like we saw in georgia where six or thousand people, stacey abrams reminds us they were driven off the rolls, creating an unfair election in that state. >> if i could pick up on where he left off and say there is also nothing worse than unmet expectations. the reality of what you have just described, i can tell you what a significant portion of the population of this country heard when you said -- when the commerce and said what he said was like, that's the problem burden that is what we have got to get at. we have got to get at how people hear and perceive and read the narratives that are out there. because right now, we are all creating our own. my tribe is better than your tribe. what you just said is an offense to my tribe. instead of saying, where is their linkage where we can begin to move to some level of common ground to address some of these issues. it's not like we done this before. we forget, in the midst of the impeachment of bill clinton, bill clinton and newt gingrich reformed welfare, balanced the nation's budget, got a whole host of v

>> nina turner, stacey abrams. >> senator harris. >> 57% of african-americans live in the south so youwoman who can galvanized black voters, especially black women voters who are more inclined than any other group to go out and vote. >> joining me is tremayne lee. thank you for doing that. >> of course. >> i have been really interested in hearing what black south bend residents think of mayor pete. what is the most surprising thing you heard from that group of folks? >> surprising, that's tough. mayor pete does enjoy some support from black folks in south bend, primarily city leadership. once you get into the black community, far away from downtown where the city pumped tens of millions of dollars into and then you come out to the neighborhoods that are struggling financially, lack of access to quality health care and all those things, the story of mayor pete becomes more complicated. you think of the struggle of black folks in this country, the way we're policed. think about the killing of eric logan over the summer. there are folks still not over the handling of the case. when you th

jenkins, tell me what you think is the best way to combat these initiatives like georgia to stacey abrams, they first violated the rights of those people attempting to register to vote and then they couldn't get to court fast .nough to stop the purging what are your recommendations on what we should do to combat this agree just behavior? >> one of the things we need to the connections between the economic consequences of any changes in voting laws that have the effect of making it more expensive, costly, or impossible for people to meet those new requirements it is important for us to connect business requirements -- the business of fines, requirements for photos and all , of these businesses that require transportation to remote places, all have racial consequences. and it needs to be sophisticated in our opposition to those things. and one of the things i think is critical is to have in our educational system, the whole business of civics again. -- again so people are aware of the connection between voting in -- and their right. it is alarming to note, that in many, many, many states, t

caller: the last time i voted was for stacey abrams as governor.resident i voted for was president obama and i wouldn't vote for him if he was running again. none of them are right. there's too much people suffering. i can't deal with america. i tried. i'm done. host: what is someone who feels like you to do? >> we tried. we got into the system working hard and getting stressed out. i've never seen a good economy. never ever. i'm done. will here in washington, d.c. on the line for black voters. caller: good morning. i just want to say as a person ,f color here in the district keep them accountable to their track record. i can't forget how many times empty promises are coming. i definitely think it's an opportunity we've had in this country. incarceration rates are going up and i think all the presidential .andidates host: were you listening to the caller before you? caller: yes i was. i know aheartened but lot of people that are in the same situation. i feel very fortunate to come from a family of educated individuals. for the average joe things ar

stacey abrams is the front runner that regard. steve: thank you very much. >> thank you.d big time. >> and what are voters in phoenix saying this morning after president trump's big rally question mark? todd piro is having breakfast with friends. todd? todd: there is so much anger in the world these days. i just like steven's shirt. what does your shirt say. >> huggers going to hug. todd: what a great message. we will talk to more to steven and fellow arizona voters when "fox & friends" returns. ♪ ♪ ♪ president trump warned the drug companies. it's unacceptable that americans pay vastly more than people in other countries, for the exact same drugs. but they aren't listening. they've just raised the prices of over five hundred drugs. president trump supports a bipartisan plan, that would force drug companies to lower prices. but the senate won't act. tell senate leaders to stop drug company price gouging and lower drug prices now. hi with the world'se first invisible trailer. invisible trailer? and it's not the trailer right next to us? this guy? you don't believe me? hop

i remember during my cycle there was a lot of press attention given to the race in georgia and stacey abramsosing. some democratic voters were unable to register because of the name matching. she had written a piece in the new york times where she talked about a man named alejandro and how he was unable to be registered. in my state of maryland iran as an independent and i needed 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot. the government officials, largely democrats, do the exact same thing. we submitted 17,000 signatures. had 11,000 qualified. the 6000 that were eliminated were eliminated for that same name standard that the democrats were complaining about. both parties play these games. gerrymandering is another great example. i am in maryland, arguably the most gerrymandered state in the country. republicans have done plenty of gerrymandering. neither party is innocent. they are both trying to take every advantage they can. it is time we make the system fairer. host: in the book you have several ideas of reforms. i want to share those. one of them is to amend the constitution to put in term