this is the kaiser report i wonder what we're going to talk about today let's find out talk to stacey stacey what are we talking about today well we're talking about ponzi schemes because there's been a big ponzi scheme that was. you know unveiled last week in america out of hollywood of all places and so i'm just looking at the psychology of this and how ponzi schemes continue to operate whether on an individual scale or all the way up to the central bank level.

this is the kaiser report i wonder what we're going to talk about today let's find out talk with stacey stacey what are we talking about today well we're talking about ponzi schemes because there's been a big ponzi scheme that was. you know unveiled last week in america out of hollywood of all places and so i'm just looking at the psychology of this and how ponzi schemes continue to operate whether on an individual scale or all the way up to the central bank level and here was the 1st tweet i saw in my stream the day that this broke last week mid week and is blowing my mind that this quad say rand was able to raise 2 $127000000.00 from investors for a scam production company when there are literally hundreds of real indie producers struggling to get real movies made how are investors this stupid this was an actor called zack avery 34 who was arrested last week and in fact the ponzi scheme was 690000000 but he managed to you know he was paying off previous investors with new investors so he managed to get away with 227000000 that he failed to pay back but if you look at that headline of like he

this is the kaiser report i wonder what we're going to talk about today let's find out talk to stacey stacey what are we talking about today well we're talking about ponzi schemes because there's been a big ponzi scheme that was. you know unveiled last week in america out of hollywood of all places and so i'm just looking at the psychology of this and how ponzi schemes continue to operate whether on an individual scale or all the way up to the central bank level and here was the 1st tweet i saw in my stream the day that this broke last week mid week and is blowing my mind that this quad say rand was able to raise 2 $127000000.00 from investors for a scam production company when there are literally hundreds of real indie producers struggling to get real movies made how are investors this stupid this was an actor called zack avery 34 who was arrested last week and in fact the ponzi scheme was 690000000 but he managed to you know he was paying off previous investors with new investors so he managed to get away with 227000000 that he failed to pay back but if you look at that headline of like he

stacey abrams. is he blaming stacey abrams of course the president also bears some blame. will: absolutely. rachel: he encouraged it. will: he repeated the lies that stacey abrams began and picked up so readily. pete: somebody put ton a card and he read it. rachel: susan rice did. will: we turn now to a few additional headlines starting with this fox news alert. overnight three people are killed and four others are injured in a shooting in north carolina at a house party. police say the shooting happened inside a wilmington home, an investigation is underway to identify the suspects. no arrests have been made and the motive remains unclear. we will keep you updated on this developing story throughout the morning. and a fox news exclusive the pictures show the moments after cbp rescued these two migrant girls dropped over the border wall by a smuggler. cbp says the 3 and 5-year-olds are okay and are being processed in el paso. border patrol is projecting

stacey abrams. stacey abrams and the two senators from georgia both spoke out yesterday and said they were disappointed major league baseball did this, but they understood, because they understand the economic impact that it has, notjust on the team but all the people involved in the community around. yes, it does, but at the end of the day staceylaw was very discriminatory. at the end of the day it all comes down to money and major league baseball is going to make sure they are taking care of their fans and what the players want. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: the former crown prince ofjordan says he's been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics of the government. christians celebrate easter, but for the second year running covid means services have to be scaled back. a state of emergency has been declared in florida overfears that as much as 600 million gallons of toxic wastewater could flood into the tampa bay area. there's been a major leak at a large reservoir at a former phosphate mine. the reservoir holds water containing phosphorus and nitrogen. attempts to plug the hole on friday were unsuccessful. officials have ordered more than 300 homes to be evacuated and have closed a nearby highway. a little earlier, we heard from the manatee county administrator. you've got an immense volume

stacey abrams. stacey abrams and the two senators from georgia both spoke out yesterday and said they were disappointed major league baseball did this, but they understood, because they understand the economic impact that it has, notjust on the team but all the people involved in the community around. yes, it does, but at the end of the day stacey discriminatory. at the end of the day it all comes down to money and major league baseball is going to make sure they are taking care of their fans and what the players want. a state of emergency has been declared in florida overfears that up to 600 million gallons of toxic wastewater could flood into tampa bay area. there's been a partial breach of the retention pond holding the water at bay. officials have ordered more than 300 homes to be evacuated. prime minister boyko borisov and his centre—right party are hoping to secure a fourth term in office when people vote today in elections in bulgaria. the poll is going ahead despite the pandemic, in which 10,000 people have been hospitalised, and with one of the highest mortality rates in europe. there's been a stunning procession through the streets of cairo. the mummified remains of 22 ancient egyptian rulers were being transferred to a brand new national museum of egyptian civilisation. 18 kings and four queens were carried through t

stacey abrams. stacey abrams and the two senators from georgia both spoke out yesterday and said they were disappointed major league baseball did this, but they understood, because they understand the economic impact that it has, notjust on the team but all the people involved in the community around. yes, it does, but at the end of the day staceyecause this law was very discriminatory. at the end of the day, it all comes down to money and major league baseball is going to make sure they are taking care of their fans and what the players want. this is bbc news — the latest headlines: the former crown prince ofjordan says he's been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics of the government. christians celebrate easter, but for the second year running covid means services have to be scaled back. to myanmar now, where ten ethnic rebel groups have thrown their support behind people protesting against the military�*s usurpation of power. this comes as the military launched further airstrikes in myanmar�*s eastern karen state, killing 12 civilians according ot the karen national union which controls large parts of the state. it accused the ruling military junta of pushing myanmar towards all—out civil war. another armed group, the kachin independence army, has urged disaffected soldiers to join them. we spoke to po

reporter stacey bivins good to see you stacey biden spoke about what he calls a blue collar blueprint to rebuild america what will that look like well what he says it will focus more on rewarding work and not just wealth and so he mentioned in the speech that there were about $55.00 major companies in the united states that paid no federal income tax and so he wants to change and he also wants to focus on people so as he said the bottom up so. focusing on the on the poor and the middle class and letting things grow from there economically so it's definitely a pivot away from ronald reagan. view of trickle down economics so it looks like jobs for more people and people who won't be left behind he mentioned people who feel like the who are afraid about the turn of the country and that they feel like they won't have a job many of these jobs you won't need a college education for and he's saying millions of jobs will be made through this program so it's interesting well that of course is raising expectations among americans to the president talked about his intention to tax the rich to ra

stacey abrams for hypocrisy on this. watch this. >> stacey abrams, by the way, stacey abrams was in new jersey, my state, praising phil murphys week for voting law where new jersey early voting is nine days half of what georgia is. she is on tv in new jersey. i saw it myself saying this is one of the greatest voting expansion bills we've ever seen but this is jim crow? i'm sorry, george, doesn't make any sense. elizabeth: yeah. what did you think of that? >> christie's statements were right on, hit nail on the head. patently unfair the way they're painting georgia's voting law. we're improving access, not only the days of voting, the methods of voting, talking about voter suppression. this is not voter suppression. nothing remotely similar to voter suppression. we have dropboxes. we have absentee ballots. we have early voting. we still have mail-in ballots. all those things. voter i.d. is free and we're still voting on sundays. all those things are maintained in this bill. elizabeth: that is interesting what you're saying but we still have, the media and the democrats really trying to paint this as quote, racist. you know, b

stacey abrams never supported the boycott. this is the white washing of truth. it's occurring -- i can understand why staceywants to change her mind. the collusion of "usa today" and the role of the fact checkers is an important part of this propaganda operation. >> laura: tonight we are hearing that it hunter biden will be a guest speaker at tulane university to talk about media polarization. [laughing]. i can't believe this. "usa today"'s actions will be they be polarizing? >> well, look, i think he is going to be for it. he will be strongly for media polarization. frankly, the cover-up of his scandals helped his father in the election. that was a conscious effort. the media had a story. a story that was huge and they just said, hey, we can ignore this. they did. that's why no one believes a damn thing they say. >> laura: over-subscribed class? >> if there were classes on the drug trade and how to take down foreign governments or nepotism, there are subjects that hunter biden is set to teach. >> laura: we talked about how unhinged joy reid was last week. "the last bite" planes the next chapter. green gras

about the all-star game that the governor was talking about stacey abrams, that mlb listened to stacey abrams. actually, no, mlb did not listen staceyams wanted the mlb game to stay in atlanta, asked mlb to keep it in atlanta. the same thing with john ossoff and ralph warnock. they all said, please, don't take this game out of atlanta. let's have the spotlight on this voting law by having the all-star game here. it's a better opportunity and don't hurt people in this city. a lot of people in georgia wish they had listened to stacey abrams and the two democratic senators. adrienne elrod, let's talk about the provision that i think causes most concerns to most people who do see this as a power grabby republicans. and that is, where you're allowing the state legislature to take over and step in for the secretary of state. and step in for local election officials. i know you and i and so many people remember what was happening in michigan, where that young republican election official that kept getting intimidated and knocked around, because they wanted him to cheat. and he refused to cheat. and they couldn't step in. the same thing hap

cover of his own book with a drink that is about odd brand as a kids dislike a toasted stacey abrams and him and stacey abrams are on the same side because what he saying the idea that there might be power outside of me the idea that power might come from thee bottom up as opposed to the top-down that ise because i'm in line to the presidency that you're not part olof district one in the hunger games, you're not part of the capital and you have your own of people who you go talk tonight to go through caesar, the character in the movie, the idea that you can do the surrounding that i don't get to dictate to you, it offends him which is exactly why we need more of that, this again was made government of the people by the people and for the people, not for you, this is not about you and your cobol and your cartel,a it is not about you it is about the people that you represent or at least you're supposed to. >> were gonna go to texas, you are on with steve. >> i totally agree with you about dr. fauci and i want to remind everyone he said the aids virus was positively going to gy to the heterosexual communi

stacey abrams and lebron james. stacey abrams herself and lebron james did meet with senior mlb officials to advocate that the league denounced new voting laws and the commissioner believed the least political solution as this pressure was mounting would be to just get out of town, say something marginally, positive -- negative about the law itself because major league baseball believed that that -- the days leading up to the all-star game and the game itself would have been a huge political debate and even hr-1, the new legislation by the house designed to nationalize elections. james did not return a call for comment. staceys' p.r. person pushed back hard on this. saying we didn't want them to move out of atlanta. we wanted them to support our efforts to overturn the law. here's a statement from the -- her spokesman. in a single one-on-one conversation with an mlb advisinger, she urged them to keep it in georgia and speak out against the law. people said close to manfred said with that pressure is what is behind him moving out. he believed the last political decision was to get out of town and to try to focus back on the game. he made a few missteps if you talk to major league officials. he could have left town without endorsing stacey abrams' efforts to overturn the voting law, this is baseball getting involved in one of the most thorny political issues we've seen in a long time. that's going on in georgia with this voting law, which has taken national implications given its coming on the heels of the passage of hr-1 in the house. baseball is in the middle of it. listen to people that are close to bob ma

let's get more on this with stacey difference from our u.s. political team stacey the pace in the u.s. has been incredible what explains it well the main thing is that there is ownership finally of trying to fight coven instead of putting the onus on the states to get shots in people's arms joe biden's ministration has worked in order to take control and use that infrastructure that already exists so he can use an old act from the korean war to defense protection act i mean production act in order to help businesses like pharmacy pharmaceutical companies. produce more quickly and get them out and so that's the speed and when i talk about infrastructure one of the ways that this has become very assessable to people is that. the vaccine the vaccines are available at pharmacies now so people are used to going to their pharmacies anyway for the flu shot the staff is used to giving shots and also people who don't have insurance or that their insurance isn't big enough for what they need a newly go to to these pharmacies anyway and get help so it's beneficial in that way

stacey abrams: yes. we are only the fourth estate in the nation to require voters -- rep. kennedy: what else? stacey abrams: it eliminates 300 hours of dropbox availability. rep. kennedy: what else? stacey abrams: it bans nearly all out of precinct votes. rep. kennedy: ok. stacey abrams: if you are in line for four hours and are not there between 5 a.m. and 7 p.m. -- rep. kennedy: what else? is that everything? stacey abrams: no sir. it restricts the hours of operation. under the guise of sitting a standardized timeline and makes it optional for counties that may not want to see expanded access to the right to vote, they can limit their hours instead of the hours being from seven to seven now from nine to five, which may have an effect on voters who cannot vote during business hours during early voting. it limits the --. rep. kennedy: let me approach this another way. in the state decides to require a voter to prove who the voter says he is or she is. you consider that racist? stacey abrams: not at all, sir. voter identification --. rep. kennedy: you're ok with that? how about ballot harvesting. earlier you were talking about letting elders -- i'm not talking about that. i am talking ab

stacey abrams is helping to change the country. >> stacey abrams is a og huddler. back when she was in my hometown of atlanta, georgia, and she saw a group of -- she referred to them as secretaries with all this brilliant-legal knowledge that just weren't getting paid. she essentially said to the city, hey, we need to do something about this. and she huddled with these women to get them more training when she had access to power. and then, of course, they had -- they got higher salaries. cut to, she is the house-minority leader in georgia. and what do you have to do? you learn how to fund raise. and so, she has this, sort of, jedi-fundraising skill. and so, more recently, as we were all covering the election. and you see how women, and specifically, black women, really lshowed up to help flip georgia and then, of course, the senate runoffs in january. staceyd all of her wealth with a lot of other women group, women of color, the narrative in our culture likes to pit ibm women against one another. but, no, we need to be like the stacey abrams of the world and we need to huddle. >> you are one of the bravest people i know because you are leaving a comfortable spot. people love you. and you are doing a brave thing, and you're going out to con ter t cop conquer the world and do different things. >> i hope i am going to conquer the world. keep telling me that. i love you, don lemon. and we got to keep our huddle al alive because i don't totally know what i am doing next. i just know i have been so emboldened by all these various women who i have had the privilege of interviewing just in my career at cnn and, of course, you know, in this book. and i cannot be the behravest, boldest version of myself. so i am off. i am doing my backflip off the high dive. i will be texting you every single new year's eve. or maybe, i will be, like, shri slinking

stacey abrams. good to have you on. stacey abrams testified before senate judiciary. she tried to have it both ways. she admitted she supported boycotts of the georgia vote law but then she appeared to deny she supported that. what was reaction to your testimony? >> staceys penned an op-ed for "usa today" two days before major league baseball pulled the all-star game out of city of atlanta. the first two words she used, boycotts work. words matter and actions have consequences. her accomplice, rafael warnock admitted he signed on to a email that spread misinformation and lies about georgia's integrity election act two weeks before baseball pulled out on this. they can't pull back on this. they were complicit, insisting major league baseball to pull the all-star game out of georgia. their words, their actions, had consequences. unfortunately those consequences ended up penalizing, harming, hard-working georgians and small misses to the tune of $100 million to our economy. who will it impact the most? hard-working georgians, small business, many minority small businesses, many people they were supposedly trying to help they are hurting. they should be held accountable for this. elizabeth: you talk to americans, folks out there, they say stop racism, cut i

leading coverage of this let's listen to chris christie go after democrat stacey abrams for hypocrisy on this. watch this. >> staceywas in new jersey in my state praising phil murphy this week for a voting law were new jersey early voting is nine days, half of what georgia is, yet she is on tv in new jersey, i saw it myself say this is one of the greatest voting expansions was ever seen but this is jim crow. liz: what did you think of that. >> chris christie statements were right on he hit the nail on the head, it is unfair, the way their painting vote is georgia's voting law we are improving access not only the days of voting and the methods of voting and voter suppression, this is not voter suppression is nothing remotely to voter suppression we still have the dropbox and boabsentee ballots an early voting, we still have mailing ballots, all of those things and voter id is still free and were still voting on sundays. all those things are maintained in this bill. liz: that is interesting what you said but we still have the media and the democrats really trying to paint this as racist, when you look at the details

stacey abrams is helping to change the country. >> stacey abrams is an og huddler. way back when she was the deputy city attorney in my hometown of atlanta, georgia, and she saw a group of -- she referred to them as secretaries with like all this brilliant, you know, legal knowledge, and they just weren't getting paid. she essentially said to the city we need to do something about this, and she huddled with these women to get them more training once she had access to power. then of course they got higher salaries. cut to she's the house minority leader in georgia, and what do you have to do? you learn how to fund-raise. she has this sort of jedi fund-raising skill. more recently as we were all covering the election and you see how women and specifically black women really showed up to help flip georgia and then of course the senate runoffs in january, staceylly shared the wealth from all of her fund-raising with a lot of other women, a lot of other women groups, women of color. the narrative in our culture likes to pit women against one another, but we need to be like the stacey abrams of the world and we need to huddle. >> you're one of the bravest people i know because you're leaving a comfortable spot. people love you. and you're doing a brave thing and you're going out to conquer the world and do different things. how are you feeling? >> i hope i'm going to conquer the world. keep telling me that. i love you, don lemon, and we got to keep our huddle alive baby because i don't totally know what i'm doing next. i just know i have been so emboldened by these various women who i've had the privilege of interviewing just even in my career at cnn and of course in this book. i cannot be the bravest, boldest version of myself and hold space with these women, so i am off. i'm doing my back flip off the high dive. i'll be texting you every sing

stacey abrams -- let me just say, i agree with stacey abrams here. i agree with ralph warknock here. the people that are hurt are the working class people of atlanta, georgia. and that's why major league baseball moved too quickly. they should have listened to staceyy have have invited stacey abrams in. they should have invited raph warknock in. instead of being swept away by some social media mob. if they talked to stacey abrams, be in a lot better position than they are, willie. >> yeah. let's be clear, this is not a defense of the law in georgia. mika is absolutely right. the entire law is based on a lie that we need to tighten up our elections, elections that court after court after court after election security official and federal election official said was the most secure in the history of our country. so it's a lie that we needed to make our elections tighter and more efficient. the truth is, though, that this is hurting eugene scott. a lot of people as say see abrams said wish we could focus on the legislation and not pull the game out of a town that really needed this money, needed this injection of support for people around atlanta who had been looking forward to this game for some time. we're talking about two things here. a bad law bu

stacey abrams, founder of fair fight. you know, stacey, it is breathtaking to see the breadth and number of laws and ways that republicans are throwing bricks in front of voters. i wonder if when you look at it, as somebody who has been a politician, who has been an elected official, is this more straight-up just sort of racist attempts to reconfigure the electorate or is it more geo tv? part of me thinks that at least some of it the geo tv, an attempt goat their voters to vote at all because their voters no longer believe in the system because they don't always get their way? >> i actually think it is more of an existential panic and cowardice and laziness. weigh they realized in the last election was a confluence of possibilities came into being. communities of color that had largely not fully recognized their power became part of the electorate. young people, who had largely kept themselves at a more diminished capacity, participated in elections. and because of covid, more americans, especially those americans who are the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, understood there were alternatives for participating in elections and they did so. rather than confront and grapple with what it means to have a more engaged and expanded electorate, they are instead working as hard as they can to not only throw up the bricks but also to, to your point, to use this geo tv strategy to create a new boogie man for their own -- you know, for their constituents. but at the same time they're expressing their hostility towards those communities that changed the outcome in 2020 and 2021, and those are largely communities of color. so racial animus is absolutely a part of it. but overall it is an existential crisis and existential panic leading to the tactic that worked well for so many other parties and that's voter suppression. >> what is fascinating is as a country we are trying to modernize everything, right? we made it easier to watch movies, you can just get netflix. we make it easier to do everything. voting was going in that direction. one of my favorite parts of your exchange in the hearing, it was all fascinating with senator kennedy, was when you said they did 15 years of vote-by-mail and thought there was nothing wrong with it, it is convenient until black people used it and they said, oh, we got to get rid of it. let me show you some polling. automatically registering all citizens to vote, 61% of people agree with that. allowing convicted felons to vote after serving their sentence, 70%. requiring government-issued photo id, 76% want that. making voting available for two weeks. those things are popular with most voters. things that are not popular, only a third support want the state to take over county officers. only 30% support a ban giving out food. 72% believe the laws are just about trump. at some point is there a diminishing return in your view to what republicans are doing, where they make it so hard even their own voters get constricted from voting and they start to lose among independents and others who say, you've gone too far? >> i think they are reaching that inflection point. today in arizona we saw the rejection of sb-1485, which had the exact purpose of eliminating their permanent early voting list. it was going to disproportionately harm communities of color, but apparently they realized that their voters are on the list, too, and they risk the likelihood of losing access to voters. but the challenge i see and the reason federal legislation is so necessary is that we don't know what that inflection point is in every single state. as long as states have the ability to engage in voter suppression, to react to communities of color increasing their participation by putting up these barriers, then we are all in danger and our democracy is in danger. >> you know, i think hysteria is not too strong a word to talk about the way republicans seem to feel, right, about electorates of color who demographically are just coming. you know, 5 year olds are already in a majority non--white world. so there is a hysteria, but i wonder if on the democratic side there's not enough kyrsten sinema, like joe manchin say they're not in favor of removing the filibuster to put a federal law in place that would stop this. i wonder if you think that there's not enough urgency on the pro-democracy side at this moment. >> well, i will say that senator sinema cosponsored s-1, which is the for the people act, and senator man chin has signalled he is interesting in and understands the importance of voting rights. he was secretary of state in west virginia. he was governor in west virginia. so i think that there is an understanding. i think that this is a broader conversation about how to make this urgency converted into action, but i do think that where we stand today is a vast difference than where we were in 2016, 2018, when voter suppression was really picking up steam and we were still trying to convince people they could use that language out loud and create change. what we saw happen in georgia in 2020 and again in 2021 has, indeed, led to hysteria from republicans. but the reaction should not be to hold on to power by diminishing the power of citizenship. it should be, let us evaluate our policies and do our best to convince these voters that they can join us. voters of color are just like any other voter. we will pick the people who will represent us best and deliver for our needs. what we have failed to see from republicans is a willingness to confront that reality and adjust accordingly. so instead we are seeing voter suppression, which is the coward's tactic when it comes to winning elections. >> i want to ask you about georgia specifically, because one of the things that i feel that republicans -- i mean 306 bills, part of it feels like they're trying to exhaust the nonwhite electorate, exhaust the liberal white electorate and say, we're just going to exhaust you with throwing so much at you. how exhausted do you feel georgia voters are at this point? they've already essentially delivered an election, you know, to joe biden, two senate seats, and now people are going to go back to them again and say, you want to keep warnock in there? you have to go back again. you want to get rid of margie, the qanon lady green, you have to go back in there again. there's so much on georgia's plate right now. how much exhaustion do you think? also, there might be a governor's race with maybe you in it, my friend. how much exhaustion do you think has kicked in in your home state? >> i think there's resignation. they were -- voters were exhausted in 2018 when we had hours long lines and when we had a secretary of state who with impunity took over -- you know, conduct his own election for governor. we had exhaustion in 2020. we had exhaustion in 2021 as we had to fight over and over again to make certain that votes were cast and counted, after eight-hour lines in june of 2020. but what is so remarkable about georgia's electorate, about voters of color in particular, is that exhaustion has been met with success and victory has a way of reinvigorating you and preparing you to stay in the fight. >> and we've seen, you know, the asian-american community suffer this horrific attack. you know, obviously we've seen ongoing police brutality issues. there are still cases that are open there. these communities are facing these multiple stressors, right? i'm wondering how you think that winds up intersecting as people like you and from fair fighters are coming back and saying to get into the political process? >> one of the most important ways to engage voters, there's absolutely the responsibility of registration, but it is connecting the dots. it is making certain as we saw with these horrific murders that if we do not have the right people in power, then they will not stop men from murdering women of color. if we do not have the right people in power, they will not take action to protect our environment. if we do not have the right people in power, district attorneys will not charge and police officers will be left to immunize themselves from accountability for their actions. what we are seeing happening, especially in georgia, is that people are connecting the dots between, here is why we vote and here is what we get. i fight for voting rights not simply for the act of casting a ballot, but for the act of being able to craft my future, and that can only happen if i'm allowed to participate fully in our elections. that's the message that we carry to every community of color, to every disabled community, to all young people, to any voter who seems marginalized and disadvantaged because we have proven to them in 2020 and 2021 that if we try it, if we work hard enough, it can work. >> staceyso happens to be a nobel peace prize nominee, which i won't embarrass you by making you talk about that. >> thank you. >> but we're going to be looking at how that trajectory goes, too. stacey abrams, you have been doing this a long time, sister. keep it up. thank you very much. really appreciate you spending time with us this evening. >> thanks, joy. >> thank you. >>> up next, a study in contrasts. biden opens a key climate change summit with ambitious new proposals and goals. meanwhile, conservatives are still, like, climate change? 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stacey abrams is pulled testing the impact of words like jim crow or voter suppression in order to raise political donation, but stacey abrams group is blasting back, we have that fight and to illinois democrat governor chicago mayor lori lightfoot got booed out of the chicago white sox games or convoys their anger to the democrat officials who broke their own lockdown rules, also tonight dividing the administration in a baffling move does not increase funding for homeland security in the middle of the historic border crisis as even house democrats say nancy pelosi another top democrat officials stop being a wallet the border go to the border instead of claiming there is no border crisis and chided claim it is trump's faultik that is a 180 democrats don't like, thank you for joining us i'm elizabeth macdonald in "the evening edit" start rightrt now. ♪. let's welcome back to the short acting attorney matthew whitaker, it's great to havek yu back on the daily mail bombshell shocking details the hunter left out of his tell our memoir top forensic experts say yes they did authenticate it is his laptop they include a former fbi veteran agent and has hundreds of thousands of text and e-mails and disturbing graphic photos when used on the story what is your reaction. >> it's good to be with you tonight i think it is disturbing in the first instinct i had how we were told thiss is a nonstory before the election how all the conservatives and republicans were told there is suspicion this can be disinformation over a foreign country and somehow we should ignore this and it's very clear the hunter biden desperately wanted his dad to run for president become president because i was his business and with his dad in the public eye he sits to take advantage of that including publishing this book. liz: critics are saying not only is this harrowing stuff, we just want to warn the viewers is drug addiction is worse than realize in consorting with drug pushers and prostitutes and daily mail reporting he was obsessed with making porn films with prostitutes, that is the text in e-mails and pictures that theyan saw. >> the laptop and the coverage isap disturbing and i'm sure it will come out of the deranged things that hunter biden wasd doing and this is the son of her current president, i'm sure joe biden was desperate to try to get hunter biden to clean up and get sober and i'm sure the entire team was working on hiswe presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020 and were making sure that they were somehow keeping this out of the light of day, it is really sad, drug addiction hurts a lot of families and a lot of communities and in this case this is the son of the president who is doing fairly disturbing things, very recently. liz: and breaking the law, this is criminal stuff, it shows how we blew hundreds of thousands of dollars and he has to ask his father for help he asked asked for three to $20000 for unpaid taxes. it also shows hunter bullying his father, he was begging his father to run for president toat salvage hunter's reputation for redemption and doing things like the daily mail hunter use joe biden as a punching bag and he hadd drug fueled rants in order to get money from joe biden to pay for him and his grandkids bills after hunter drained his own bank account on crack andnd prostitutes. >> it is very troubling when you talk about the acts you talk about the secret service that was protecting him during this period of time and also remember there is a whole idea that he may falsified a record and submitted an application to get a handgun that can be illegal and with a lot of your viewers are concerned about as well as e am that the two seared into tiered where they seem to skate back into whatever they want whether hillary clinton or hunter biden and republicans are targeted and pursued for the smallest charges. i think we have to get the system of justice not only to appear fair but to be fair. liz: the forensic experts say they found no evidence that this was hacked or fabrication by russian or anything else, is a national security here given the hunter biden was traveling so heavily overseas with his father and other trips as well that is a thing as too, joe biden's campaign said this is a bunch of garbage, hunter said the laptop could certainly be his, do you see national security issues here. >> i do, i don't think there's any doubt it's his laptop and his information but at the same time this is a national security issue and it's ang ongoing national security issue if we learned anything during the russian collusion hoax that is that there's compromise materiag that can be used against politicians and this certainly the text messages between the president and his son in addition to all the other information on the laptop could certainly have been used to leverage our relationship or be used against a sitting president and his family and that is very disturbing and i think it is something that presents significant national security issues. liz: matthew whitaker, thank you for joining us, come back soon let's bring in former u.s. attorney brent tolman, this is harrowing for any parent but this is hunter biden he made millions of dollars in business dealings overseas by flying around the world on air force to when his father was vice president getting secret service protection when you saw the story, what did you think. >> are to be with you when i saw the story it was immediately haunting and what i mean by that when this first came out there was a suspicion of what was contained on the laptop, there i was leaks of minor aspects there was an indication that there mao be dealing in drugs and prosecution and the involvement of a firearm, here we have a confirmed and i'm going to tell you your last guest that is correct is a two-tier system in our country right now and are justice system but it's even more stark than what's been outlined, i am confident that had somebody releasing this case early on in an intent to investigate hunter biden will look at decades in federal prison. liz: that is a heavy charge, the other thing, hunter biden has never addressed this big problem at the center of his claims about the story, he signed a receipt for the laptop left at the delaware computer repair shop, his signature is on it, you just brought up two-tier justice, the daily mail reporter on the story brought that up to last night on fox news, let's listen to this, watch. hunter goes to him saying he does not have enough money, he's being dried by the alimony payments, you spending thousands of dollars on prostitutes, crack cocaine and joe biden says can i pay your kids dentist bills, do unique cash and in some ways he's enabling him this is a man who has been very harsh on drug users in the past and he is someone who said george bush senior's policies on drugs was not tough enough in these pushed in his time as senator for stronger sentences on drug uses and people on drug crimes and this is a different approach when it comes to his own son. >> the 94 crime bill in the aftermath of that and senator biden at the time senator was to increase and ramp up mandatory sentences for very modest amounts of crack cocaine, that is why the reporter is accurate, matt whitaker is accurate and i stand by the statement that if somebody wanted to truly investigate this and if he wasn't being protected by powerful politicians of mainly his father and if he wasn't being protected by law enforcement or secret service agents if that occurred having a firearm and possession of crack cocaine or other drugs in modest amounts, right now this is leading people in federal prison for decades. liz: hunter biden went on late night talk shows and he was on last night, let's listen to what he, said admitting the i been in tdark places. >> dino donald trump jr. >> no. >> you've never met him. >> not that i know. >> you say not that i know. >> i've been to rough places. >> it could've been years. >> of course it laid there can be a laptop that was stolen from me and that i was hacked and that it was russian intelligence, it could be that it was stolen from me. liz: the last soundbite with it could be, could become he said certainly could be, he is remembering details for many was little, now is awkward to say definitively that it's his laptop when it's pretty clear that according to experts it is his. >> it is classic deflection technique and all of the potential for this piece of evidence cannot be damning to him and is not his laptop. the bottom line the joke is been on all of us the media has coddled them and there's no accountability and agents have protected him and his father protected him. the reality of his laptop and the signatures verify it in the pictures verify it and those that have uncovered this information have been marginalized and democrats have rallied to cover up what might be one of the more concerning national security but the indictment of the biden family and what's gone on overt the lat many years. liz: good to see you, come back soon. coming up florida congressman byron donald's on watching it again centered a video florida governoror desantis got video ws with medical experts from oxford, stanford and harvard university talking about how strict lockdowns are detrimental to the public. youtube has put up other videos saying the exact same thing. here is the debate is governor desantis getting targeted because of the potential 2024 presidential contender. that story next. walter, did you know geico could save you hundreds on car insurance and a whole lot more? so what are you waiting for? world's strongest man martins licis to help you break down boxes? arrrggh! what am i gonna do to you box? let me “break it down” for you... arrgggh! you're going down! down to the recycling center! >>hey, thanks martins! yeah, you're welcome. geico. switch today and see all the ways you could save. incomparable design makes it beautiful. 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google youtube sensors deleted video florida governor ron desantis talking with medical experts from oxford, stanfordri and harvard, when you saw more tech censorship, what was yourr reaction? >> outrage but not surprised we continuously see this from social media companies they only want out the information they choose to let out it's high time we go in and reform section 230 but it goes a step further to look at the things that justice clarence tom and talked about on monday the social media companies are common carriers and if they're gonna have and be the platform where most americans get the information, share their information and build a model about what americans look like and monetize the model then we need to make sure they carry the information and they're not editors that was never supposed to be there intent section 230 never allowed for them to be these editors and it's time we reform these laws in congress. liz: we hear you loud and clear they have blanket immunity from lawsuits when regular newspapers and other media's do not, they are notyo accountable, what is o weird youtube has other videos saying the exact same thing this video saying, you notice the other thing if the youtube gang, who knows who they are if their public policy experts, doesn't seemed like they are, if they're upset about the talk about masks for children, why not put up a disclaimer and say the w.h.o. says mask for five and under kids you don'td need it, it's bd but for older kids you do, why deleted that's a drastic thing to do is. >> they are not in the business anymore of allowing for open marketplace to flourish, they are in the business of pandering to the left are making billions what americansof look at everyt single day not just americans but people all over the world that is their business model now pandering to the left that is why we should treat them, they are common carriers if you can allow your platform to be used to disseminate information but you are literally using what people view as an ability to monetize and make billions of dollars of advertising then you should be destroying content and only let content flow that is what they should be doing and that needs to be the new standards because they cannot police themselves. liz: we hear you too, the other fight over youtube it's made money and so is facebook been accused of having content that supports terrorist activity, child exploitation, the uk under theresa may was going hard after that so was australia and new zealand but this comes after 60 minutes admitted that it did alter a report that may governor desantis look worse with the publix supermarket vaccination, they left out a lot of facts and pointer media institutes as they were factually wrong political faxes it looks like the t edited to liberty, is he a target, is ron desantis a target for 2024. >> of course he is, he's the most successful governor in our country he is america's governor and he's been right more oftens. than not been any governor in the united states so of course he's a target he's a target for one reason he's a conservative that happens to be a governor improving the conservative principles and following data not pandering to the left actually works and helps all the citizens of florida i am so grateful he's a governor because he let her stay in its rheumatic time so the left can't contend with it he knows the facts are on their site so they're out to destroy him was 60 minutes did is a joke and president trump at the time recorded his entire interview with leslie stahl and didn't let them edit it the way that they did in the piece of governor desantis and my colleagues in congress if you're going to doou the interviews mae sure you recording for yourself so you know what was said on the record and can release itab to e public, this is a tragedy in which you try to do to america's governor. liz: that is really good advice, thank you so much, we love having you on washington examiner- opinion columnist tiaa lowe slamming the mainstream media saying their dishonest and hypocritical, george's top election official even claiming that georgia democrat staceympact of words like jim crow, voter suppression to raise political donation the stacey abrams group is nowbr blasting back, we have the site next. when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org caregiver: sorry about that... no, no. i've been staying at my dad's place because of everything. grandpa: where are we going? caregiver: he's good. yeah, i know, we keep missing each other. i've been working out of my dad's house. doing some reading. i should be working out more. i just feel like i'm drowning. narrator: navigating these times can be tough, but while you care for your loved one, you also need to care for yourself. go to 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and as -- as we have talked about, stacey abrams and other-leading democrats have opposed boycotts. stacey abrams, in particular, said boycotts are not necessary, yet. and she is, instead, urging companies to speak out against legislation in other states that might be pending to -- to stop contributing to republicans who support this legislation. and to support federal-elections overhauls right now. but still, it's a tricky spot for democrats and as you heard, governor kemp is going to do everything he can to pin the blame on them. >> yeah. i mean, we have got similar bills right now, in arizona and florida. arizona. the super bowl is supposed to be there in 2023. miami, they are supposed to have the soccer-world cup in 2026. greg and eric, so happy to have you on, thanks for getting us started. >>> week two of testimony after emotional accounts at the chauvin-murder trial. where do prosecutors go from here? our legal expert will aye weigh in. >>> george floyd's brother, attorney ben crump, join jonathan capehart at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> as we go to break, pope francis right there, the 84

stacey abrams is a convenient boogie woman, so to speak, and it's effective for their base. staceyvist. she's going to be calling for something different than activists on the ground are calling for and we have to report to truth. >> mm-hmm. in a rare display of bipartisan cooperation, kentucky governor andy bashir signed legislation yesterday expanding early voting in the bluegrass state. >> voting is the bedrock of our democracy. and i firmly believe we should be making it easier for kentuckians to vote and participate in the democratic process. this new law is a first step to protect every individual's right to make their voice heard by casting their ballots in a secure and convenient manner on the date and time that works best for them. while some states have stepped in a different direction, i'm really proud of kentucky. >> the pressure provides for three days of no-excuse early in-person voting. it also allows counties to establish voting centers, where any registered voter can cast their ballot, regardless of their precinct. >> so, jonathan lemire, kentucky, obviously, a ver

stacey abrams testifying. things are getting tense already. watch this exchange between staceylaw that speaker jones talked about, is it a racist piece of legislation? >> i think there are components that are indeed racist because they use racial animus to eliminate participation and election. >> you believe the georgia legislature made deliberate attempts to suppress the vote? >> yes. >> harris: why call it that? >> lawrence: because it's working. i have to applaud the republicans were having some type of fight. god knows they need some type of fight. the facts don't matter and that's sad. we know this is a live. "the washington post" did an extensive analysis on it and god knows they are not republicans, they are leftist. it doesn't matter in this case. i'm reminded of hillary clinton where she is clearly pandering to the audience. they look at her and say, most people would say your pandering. she looks back at her and says, is it working? they're getting away because there pandering. what can republicans do? the only way you beat them is if you win them over. right now the

stacey abrams is poll testing the impact of words like, quote, jim crow or voter suppression in order to raise political donations. but stacey abrams' group is blasting back. we've got that fight. and to illinois, democrat governor pritzker, chicago mayor lori lightfoot, they got booed at a chicago white sox game, the crowd voicing their anger over everything from rising, skyrocketing crime to these democrat officials who broke their own lockdown rules. also tonight the biden administration in a baffling move, it did not increase funding for homeland security in the middle of an historic border crisis as even house democrats say house speaker nancy pelosi and other officials, stop being awol at the border, go to the border. instead of claiming there is no border crisis, then try to claim it's trump's fault. that's a 180 even democrats don't like. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening ed different" starts right now. ♪♪ elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show former acting attorney general matthew whitaker. sir, it's great to have you back on. the daily mail bombshell, shocking details that hunter left out of his tell-all memoir, top forensics experts say that, yes, they did authenticate that it is his laptop. they include a former fbi veteran agent. so it's got hundreds of thousands of texts and e-mails and really disturbing, graphic photos. when you saw the story, what was your reaction? >> well, liz, it's good to be with you tonight. the first instinct i had was just how we were told this was such of a nonstory before the election, how all the conservatives and republicans were told that, you know, there's suspicion that this could be disinformation from a foreign country and, you know, that i somehow we should ignore this. and it's very clear now that, you know, hunter biden desperately wanted his tad to run for president -- dad to run for president because that was his business with his dad in the public eye with. obviously, he sits to take advantage of that including publishing this book. elizabeth: well, you know, critics are saying not only is this harrowing stuff and it's graphic, we just want to warn the viewers, it shows that hunter's drug addiction is even worse than realized. it shows him consorting with drug pushers and prostitutes. daily mail reporting he, quote, appeared on is accessed with making porn films with prostitutes. that's according to the texts and e-mails, pictureses they saw. >> yeah. this laptop and the coverage of it it is disturbing, and i'm sure it's going to continue to come out, the deranged things that hunter biden was doing. and remember, this is the son of our current president. and i'm sure joe biden was desperate to try to get hunter biden to clean up and get sober, and i'm sure the entire team that was working on his presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020 were making sure that they were somehow keeping this out of, out of the light of day. you know, it's just, it's really sad. drug addiction, you know, hurts a lot of families and a lot of communities, and in this case this is the son of the president who was doing some fairly disturbing things very recently. elizabeth: and possible breaking the law. you know, this could be criminal stuff. you know, it shows how he blew hundreds of thousands of dollars on drugs, prostitutes and more. and he has to ask his father for help. hunter biden faced $320,000 of unpaid taxes. he could are gone to prison for that. but it also shows munter bullying -- hunter bullying his father. begging his father to run for president to sallage hunter's own reputation and hunter used, quote, joe biden as a punching bag. he had drug-fueled rants in order to get money from joe biden to pay for him and his grandkids' bills after he drained his own bank accounts on crack and prostitutes. >> yeah, it's very troubling. the potentially illegal acts, there's mention of potentially the secret service was presenting him during this period of time. and then also remember, there's this whole idea that he may have falsified a record and submitted an application to get a handgun that could potentially be illegal. and i think it points to really what a lot of your viewers are concerned about as well as i am, and that is the two-tiered system of justice where politically powerful democrats seem to escape odds whether it's hillary clinton or hunter biden, and republicans are targeted and incessantty pursued for the -- incessantly pursued. we've got to get this system of justice to not only appear fair, but to be fair. elizabeth elizabeth the forensic perts said they found no evidence this was hacked or fabricated by russians or anyone else. are there national security issues here, you know, given that, you know, hunter biden was traveling so heavily overseas with his father and else, you know, other trips as well? you know, that's the thing too because, you know, joe biden's campaign, joe biden said this is a bunch of garbage, this laptop. hunter said the laptop, quote, could certainly be his. do you see national security issues here? >> i do. first of all, i don't think there's any doubt that this is his laptop if his information. but at the same time, i think this is a national security issue, and i think it's an ongoing national security issue. if we learned anything during the russian collusion hoax, that is that there's compromising material that can be used against politicians, and this certainly, you know, these text messages between the president and his son in addition to all the other information on this laptop the could certainly have been used to leverage a relationship or be used against a sitting president and his family. and that's, you know, very disturbing. and i think it is something that presents significant national security issues. elizabeth: matthew whitaker, thanks for joining us. come back soon. >>> let's bring in former u.s. attorney breath tolman. -- brent tolman. this is harrowing for any parent if, but this is hunter biden. he made millions of dollars in business dealings overseas by flying around the world on air force two when his father was vice president and getting secret service protection. when you saw the story, what did you think? >> liz, great to be with you. i'll tell you, when i saw the story, it was immediately haunting. and what i mean by that is when this first came out, there was, you knowing or the suspicion of what was contained on the laptop. there was leaks of minor aspects of it. there was an indication that there may be dealing in drugs and prostitution and the involvement of the firearm. here though we had it confirmed, and i'm going to tell you, you know, your last guest, matt's absolutely correct, there's a two-tiered system in our country right now, in our justice system. but it's even more stark than i think what has been outlined. i am confident that had somebody really seen this case early on and there was an intent to investigate it, hunter biden would be looking at decades in federal prison. elizabeth: oh, wow. that's a heavy charge. okay. the other thing, too, hunter biden has never addressed this big problem at the center of his claims about the story. he signed a receipt for the laptop left at the delaware computer repair shop. his signature is on it. so he's never talked about that. and, you know, you just brought up two-tier thed justice. the daily mail reporter on this story brought that up too last night on fox news. let's listen to this, watch. >> hunter goes to him saying that he doesn't have enough money, that, you know, he's being bled dry by these alimony payments when, in fact, he's spending thousands of dollars on prostitutes, on crack cocaine. and joe biden says can i pay your kids edentist bills -- kids ' dentist bills, to you need cash. and this is a man, joe biden, who has been very, very harsh on drug users in the past. he's someone who said george bush sr.'s policies on drugs were not tough enough. and he pushed in his time as a senator for stronger sentences on drug users and people involved in truck crimes. seems to be that he has a different approach when it comes to his own son. elizabeth: what do you think? >> the '94 crime bill and the aftermath of that crime bill and the effort of senator biden at the time senator was to increase and ramp up mandatory minimum sentences for very modest amounts of crack cocaine. that's why the reporter is accurate, matt whitaker's accurate, and i stand by the statement that if somebody wanted to truly investigate this, if he wasn't being protected by powerful politicians -- namely, his father -- if he wasn't being protected by law enforcement or secret service agents if that, in fact, occurred, having a firearm and having possession of crack cocaine or other drugs in modest amounts right now is landing people in federal prison for decades. elizabeth: got it. you know, hunter biden went on late night talk shows. he was on last night. let's listen to what he said about being -- admitting, yeah, i've been in pretty rough places. watch this. >> do you know donald trump jr.? >> no. >> you never met him. >> not that i know of. not that i know of -- [laughter] i've been in some pretty rough places. >> it could have been yours. >> of course, certainly. there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. it could be that it was the russian intelligence, it could be that it was the stolen from me. elizabeth: okay, you know, that last sound bite with the could be, could be, he said certainly could be, you know, brett, he's remembering details from when he was little, and now he can't -- he's not going to say definitively, yeah, it's his laptop when it's pretty clear it's his, right in what do you think? >> yeah, it's classic deflection technique to, you know, articulate what, you know, all the potential for this piece of evidence to really not be, you know, damning to him and it's not his laptop. bottom line is the joke has really been on all of us. the media has coddled him. there's been no accountability. you know, agents have protected them, his father's protected him. the reality is the signature verifies it, the pictures verify it. those that have uncovered this information have been marginalized, and democrats have rallied to actually cover up what might be one of the more concerning not just for national security, but indictments of the biden family and what has gone on over the last many years. elizabeth: brett tolman, good to see you. come back soon. >> great to see you, liz. elizabeth: coming up, florida congressman byron donalds on how youtube is botching it again, censoring a video of florida governor desantis. that video was with medical experts from oxford, stanford and harvard university talking about how strict lockdowns are detrimental to the public. youtube has put up other videos saying the exact same thing. so here's the debate, is governor desantis getting targeted because he's a potential 2024 presidential contender? 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>> outrage but, again, not surprised. we continuously have seen this from the social media companies. they only want out the information they choose to let out, and it's high time that we go in and reform section 230 but even go a step further. it's hard to look at some of the -- start to look at some of the things that these social media companies are akin to common carriers, and if they're going to have a platform where most americans get their information, share their information and, frankly, if they're going to build a model about what americans look like and monetize that model, then we need to make sure they actually carry the information and they're not editors. that was never supposed to be their intent. section 230 never allowed for them to be these editors, and it's time we reform these laws in congress. elizabeth: we hear you loud and clear because a they've got blanket immunity from lawsuits when newspapers and other media don't. so they're not accountable, right? you know what's so weird? youtube has other videos saying the exact same thing this video was saying. now, sir, if the youtube gang, they're not -- if they're public policy experts, doesn't seem like they are, if they're upset about the talk about masks for children, why not put up a disclaimer saying the w.h.o. says masks for 5 and under kids, you don't need it, it's bad. you know what i mean? why delete it? that's such a dallaser thing to do. >> -- drastic thing to do. >> because they're not in the business of allowing for a open marketplace. they're in the business of pandering to the left and of making billions of dollars off of what americans look at every single day. not just more than, but people all over the world. that's their business model now. they are band paering to the left. and that's why i'm saying we should treat them how, frankly, ma bell was treated, how verizon and at&t are treated. if you are going to allow your platform to be used to disseminate information but you are literally using the, what people view as an ability to monetize and to make billions of dollars in advertising, then you shouldn't be destroying content. you should only be letting content flow. that is what they should be doing, and they simply can't police themselves. elizabeth: yeah or we hear you. the other fight over youtube is it's made money, and facebook has been accused of having accounts that support terrorist activity, child exploitation. the u.k. under theresa may, they were really going hard after that. but, you know, this comes after "60 minutes" admitted it did, yes, alter a report that made governor desantis look worse with the publix supermarket coverage. politifact looks like they edited it deliberately. is he a target? is ron desantis a target because he may run in 2024? >> of course he is. ron desantis is the most successful governor in our country. he's america's governor. he's been right more often than not than any other governor in the united states. so, of course, he's a target. he's a target for one very simple reason, he's a conservative who also happens to be a governor and is proving that conservative principles and actually following data and not pandering to the left actually works. but it helps all the citizens of florida. i'm so grateful he's our governor because he's led our state in such a traumatic time. the left can't contend with it. they know the facts are on his side, so so they're out to destroy him. what "60 minutes" did was a travesty. that's why president trump recorded his entire interview with lesley stahl and didn't let them edit the way they did. and if you're going to do these interviews, make sure you're recording it for yourself so you can release it to the public because this is a travesty, what they're trying to do to america's governor. elizabeth: that's really good advice, congressman. smart stuff. 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and it's clear when you've got someone like stacey abrams even writing that in "usa today." and let's get to staceyo led the voting drive in georgia to both turn the state blue and to help raphael warnock and jon ossoff win the senate seats. she, from what i understand, was -- she was having conversations with manfred before this ruling came down. this is what's puzzling to me. she was having considerations with manfred, and then she -- conversations with manfred, and then she attacks the position. i don't -- like i said, ashley, there are pieces here that need to be put together. it's a fascinating back story. it's highly political. and i will say one thing, if there's one lesson to be learned here, it's that these businessmen probably shouldn't get this deep involved in sort of very touchy, hot button political issues because rob manfred, know him pretty well. he's a nice guy, good businessman, but he just doesn't understand these broader forces at work here. and major league baseball knows that they're in deep, deep trouble right now because of this with their fan base. ashley, back to you. ashl

i've been speaking with stacey abrams' pr person all dayed to. he's pushing back hard that stacey but to endorse efforts to knock down the georgia voting rights law here is a comment from him. in a single one-on-one conversation with mlb senior adviser she, abrams, urged him to keep the all-star game in georgia and to speak out against the law when they do. i can tell you that people on the other side, the mlb side, believe that she wanted a lot more or for them to get more political in supporting various voting rights including, possibly if, h.r. 1, and the quickest solution from the mlb's side was let's just get out of town. abrams is saying, no, we just wanted him to support our effort. it's still odd that, you know, baseball becomes, you know, a lightning rod for georgia voting law. so many fans, i just can't believe they're having this conversation right obviously. atlanta not having the all-star game costing the city, as much as $100 million. back to you, ashley. ashley: i think baseball misread the whole thing. charlie gasparino, fascinating stuff, more on behind the curtai

stacey abrams is here with me now to discuss. she is the founder of fair fight action. stacey, thank you so much. you really took senator kennedy to school there. you have called the new wave of restrictive voting bills jim crow in a suit and tie. so what did you think his line of questioning was about? what did you think of it? >> i tried to approach every question as an attempt to gain new and good information. but i think his intent likely was to demonstrate that we had no cause and that our language was hyperbolic. but what i hope i demonstrated is that we are indeed talking about severe restrictions on access to the right to vote that are directly targeted at the behaviors that led people of color to having an outsized impact on elections in georgia and around the country and that any attempt to limit those behaviors because of how they were used and because of who used them is indeed a redux of jim crow because that's how jim crow worked when it came to voting rights. >> i should have said, as we say, he wasn't ready and he got an earful there. this week there's a report from nevada's republican secretary of state, and it found no evidence to support the gop's claim of widespread election fraud there. it's another blow to that big lie, the big trump lie, but are the claims about fraud just a fig leaf to justify voting restrictions? >> absolutely. this is about their -- and let's be clear. this is about republican cowardice. they could either put forward an ideology and a set of plans that would benefit more voters and thereby encourage more voters to support their candidates, or they can restrict access to the right to vote, targeting those who are the least likely to support them, and in this case that means communities of color. and that is what jim crow attempted to do. that is what cowards do, and this is a lazy way to win elections. >> yeah. let's talk about some other things going on. daunte wright's funeral was just two days after derek chauvin was found guilty of murdering george floyd. what has it been like for you seeing these incidents of police violence still happening almost every day around the country? >> as an absolute, it is a tragedy, and it is an affront to who we intend to be as a nation. it is a moment of accountability that we see in the derek chauvin trial that gets eradicated hours later. and sadly what i think we have to contend with -- and this goes back to the underlying reason that i fight so hard for voting rights, is that if we want more justice, if we want more accountability, if we want change, then we have to have a voice in determining who gets to decide who's in charge. that's what voting is. voting isn't just about casting a ballot. it is about creating the change you want to see by electing leaders and representatives who speak aloud your dreams. and if we can't have a voice, then our dreams are often shuttered and unfortunately our lives are endangered. >> i asked you about these incidents and voting rights, right, because i want to know do you think policing -- police reform and voting rights -- do you think they're the pillars of the modern struggle for civil rights? >> i think they absolutely are. in fact, one of the things that we're doing now, because we want people to see these connected dots, we're asking people to tell their voting stories at myvotingstory.com because one of our opportunities is to link up what happens when we live our everyday lives, when you are confronted by police brutality or simply by the negligence of a system that does not see you as valuable. when we have to have conversations about who is murdered in the streets as a 16-year-old regardless of what ma'khia bryant may have been doing. there is no justification for taking her life without attempting some form of intervention, and we are watching this happen again and again. in fact, i think it was npr that pointed out that from the moment of the chauvin trial starting until the day of the verdict, someone died in police custody every single day. that is a tragedy that should not happen in a democratized society, but we can only change that if we change how voting happens and who gets to participate in our elections. >> the florida governor, ron desantis, signing a controversial pro-law enforcement law supposedly meant to crack down on riots. oklahoma passing a law that could protect drivers who run over protesters. are these an assault on another key right under the first amendment to protest? >> not only is it an assault, it is a statement. we are being told by the gop in its current form that they do not intend to hear from us, they do not intend to protect us, and they do not intend to allow us to protest their failure to serve us. and by treating americans in this way, by saying that our value as citizens is diminished simply because of what we want and who we are, they are telling us what we need to know about their intentions as leaders. and my hope is that we don't allow their partisanship to diminish our citizenship. >> stacey abrams, always a pleasure. thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> a small town in texas grappling with racism after students at a school started a slave auction of classmates in a snapchat group. now other residents are coming forward with more shocking experiences. >>> tonight a predominantly white town in north texas and its school district confronting open racism after a group of ninth graders apparently thinking it was funny held a so-called slave auction of some of their black classmates on snapchat. you heard it correctly. a slave auction. ed lavandera has the story. >> i'm one of the young men who was targeted in the slave trade snapchat group. >> reporter: chris johnson is a ninth grader in the town of aledo, texas, west of fort worth. he and a fellow black classmate were the targets of racist social media posts that brought him to this moment, speaking to the town's school board. >> it was not a game. i have lived here my whole life and know most of the kids and parents here. >

stacey abrams who ran for governor. she is very much opposed to law but even stacey abrams is, says she is opposed to any kind of boycotts going on in georgia. if they're listening to here talk about why the georgia law is bad, why aren't they listening to her talking about why boycotting is bad? >> i don't know. they should and she shoved h should have done more. our united states senators and elected officials. who is being harmed by this? you named it at the top of the show. the people being harmed disproportionately people of color. of folks that would work at the game. folks that own small businesses and restaurants around the stadium. these same folks they're purporting to want to help, they're disproportionately harming. she should do more as well as our united states senators, rafael warnock and jon ossoff. david: has either commissioner manfred or any other people involved in boycotts, have any of them contacted you? did you receive a phone call from either commissioner manfred or any of his assistants? >> we didn't. and i will tell you, david, we would be happy to sit down and talk. we would be happy to talk to

stacey abrams as well. yesterday georgia secretary of state basically said stacey abrams probably poll-tested word "jim crow jumped on cancel culture bandwagon, this has got to stop, this cancel culture the extremists want to attack anybody they don't agree with. >> i agree with you maria, and the problem is got to start with people like me and you willing to say this is not the law quit calling me a racist discrimination when you are not reading the bill you tomb times conservatives sat back we let people say things about us, we don't do it we got to step up the companies got to understand that we are customers, too. maria: quick, why did georgia feel the need to come up with a new law for voting? >> well it -- what it is when you look at previous election the determination of absentee ballots things that we had what this simply did like all states do let sincere voters legal vote count -- about taking care making sure every legal vote couldn'ts and all they did was actually again mar think about this expanded voting hours codified, drop boxes did not do away with -- no excuse -- absentee voting absentee b

stacey abrams is calling for companies and leagues to hold off on boycotts for now. what is your argument against that? >> well, i definitely understand where stacey abrams is coming from, and obviously, given her role in getting georgia to become a blue state, i can't go unnoticed or certainly can't be dismissed. however, i would love to enter into evidence what the track record has been in sports already. in 1991, as i point out in my column, the nfl announced it was moving the super bowl out of arizona because arizona refused to make dr. martin luther king jr.'s holiday a paid holiday. just recently, the nba decided to move the all-star game out of charlotte because of the controversial quote/unquote bathroom bill. so throughout history, we have seen instances where sports has chosen to get involved in very specific cases. so that people can understand the gravity of what is happening. we're talking about a game. one game. i mean, i wasn't calling for the braves to relocate, for the dream, the atlanta dream, the wnba team to relocate or for the hawks to relocate, but i think this would be a powerful symbolic gesture to show georgia legislators,

stacey abrams. >> she can't have it both ways. her position it's hurting all business owners in georgia while she is lining her own pockets. >> for stacey abrams the fight has expanded to texas calling on voters and businesses there to defeat a new election bill. shannon? >> shannon: steve harrigan, thank you. and my colleague, bret baier, is at the masters tonight. he talks with sportscaster jim gray from augusta. bret? >> bret: hey, shannon, greetings from augusta national. it's great to be down here. in augusta georgia for the masters. joining me to talk a little bit about it on "special report" is jim gray, sportscaster, who has covered the masters 30th year? >> yes, sir. >> >> bret: that's pretty amazing. >> it's been great, bret. a great place to be. it's a national park. it's so beautiful and so pristine and the best golfers in the world and there is a tradition here just like jim nantz says unlike any other as the saying goes it's the same golf course. a little lengthened nowadays because of the technology but withstood the test of time. >> bret: this year different because of cody, obviously comes after the masters in november. a few more fans here now but nothing like what we have seen in years past and that changes things. >> it changes the are roar but it is so great to see people back it at an event. can you see the excitement in the people lucky enough to get on the ground here at augusta national. [cheers] >> you can feel it with the guys and the players really like this. they like having that atmosphere. we have seen it for the past few weeks and saw it at the player's championship and now down here in georgia it's starting to open up a little bit. augusta national has let these folks. in you can just feel things coming alive. and it's sparse, but there is enough that the excitement is in the air. >> bret: the story lines here. obviously tiger is not here bryson dechambeau is getting a lot of attention hits it a mile. what else strikes you? >> well, tiger, because dustin johnson won in november in a masters that we hadn't seen played at that time of year and he did it in record 20 under. and what he was able to accomplish was on a golf course which we haven't seen. the golf course is geared to be ready right here at the beginning weeks of spring in april. that was in november so there was a different climate. a different ai don't know if my. everything is much, much different for the golf course and its schedules our last real vivid memory of tiger woods leaving the 18th green after he won after not having won that major in 11 years in 2019 and he hugs charlie and hugs his mom and walks off and there is tremendous joy. now we have that void because of the terrible crash and he is not here so obviously he casts a huge, huge shadow. he is missing and everybody feels his presence not being here wishing him well. so it's kind of wide open now and dechambeau has kind of picked up, if there is such a thing nobody picks up where tiger left off. that little bit of slack he has gotten an awful lot of attention on this driving range from down over here he hit the ball off it while he was practicing. so that's 330 something yards. >> bret: we were both watching him yesterday. this is georgia. this is in the wake, just a week before major league baseball and its actions moving the all-star game. i listened to chairman fred ridley, he really handled it. took every question and addressed it head on and seemed to kind of quell a lot of what was bubbling up. >> he certainly did. he diffused it instead of making it get bigger and inflaming it. i thought it was really well-done with what he had to say. and, you know, that's what should go on. this should go on with those folks who make these decisions and there should be a negotiation. and i thought he hit it exactly right when he said my personal opinion doesn't matter. we want fair elections. we want free elections. we want everybody to have the ability to vote. it is the tenet of our democracy. now you guys got to figure that out so that we can make that so that everybody can participate. >> bret: yeah. so now, it's round one, heading into the weekend. this masters is kind of unique. there is nothing like it. really isn't. >> you know, it's so spectacular here. there is not a prettier place than georgia in the spring. i mean, the azaleas the dogwoods the magnolias, you just see the coming to life and what bobby jones and clifford roberts and what everybody has done on this property they just keep making it better and better every year. there is not a blade of grass that is out of place. and when you have the beautiful weather which we have had, supposed to get a little dicey as the weekend comes here with some rain, and you combine it with these great golfers, this is a bucket list place for anybody who loves sports. if you get an opportunity to come here, do it because it's so memorable it's unforgettable. >> bret: 30 years. good job, man. >> bret, thanks for having me on. appreciate it. >> bret: shannon, look forward to the weekend here. i will be back in d.c. come monday but i'm going to enjoy the sunshine here in augusta. i will send it back up to you. >> shannon: have great time and safe travels. up next, a former national football league player is the accused gunman in a massacre in south carolina. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 31 in denver as a fire official says a smoke explosion blew the roof off a church early this morning. they say no one was inside the odom memorial church of god in christ. at the time more than 60 firefighters responded to that blaze. fox 7 in austin, texas the son of lance armstrong is charged with the sexual assault of a child. over an incident from 2018. 21-year-old luke armstrong is accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. he faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. luke armstrong's attorney says the incident did not occur. big story interior secretary deb haaland is in utah to consider whether to increase or decrease the size of national monuments in the state. the trump administration decided to down size two national monuments in southern utah. ha land is expected to give a report to president biden after she meets at bear's ears national monument. that's a live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ this land 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with severe gunshot wounds. and is fighting hard for his life, according to his cousin. the york county sheriff says it does not appear the gunman took anything from the home but he did leave evidence that led investigators to a immediately identify the suspect as former nfl player philip adams. >> we have no indication right now that there was a doctor-patient relationship between dr. leslie and philip aadams. >> authorities found adams dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gun wound at his parent's nearby home. according to published reports adams had suffered multiple concussions over his five seasons playing in the nfl. whether that contributed to the violence is pure speculation at this point; however, the suspect's father, alonzo adams tells charlotte tv station wcnc quote i can tell you he is a good kid. i think football messed him up. relatives of the victims issued a statement saying because of their strong faith they do not grieve without hope and they said people wanting to honor the victims can do so by helping to stock their local food pantries and public libraries and by donating to camp joy in greenville, south carolina, to help children with special needs, shannon? >> shannon: all right, jonathan. thank you very much. we will keep an eye on that story. a medical expert says george floyd died from a lack of oxygen which caused his brain -- damaged his brain and caused his heart to stop. a lung and critic specialist cre specialist testified today in. dr. tobin said floyd's breathing was too shat low to take in enough oxygen while he was pinned face down with his hands cuffed behind his back for nine and a half minutes. up next, what exactly is infrastructure? that is becoming the topic of a heated semantic battle on capitol hill over president biden's massive spending plan. ♪ i'm just a bill ♪ i'm only a bill ♪ on capitol hill ♪ [sfx: thunder rumbles] [sfx: rainstorm] ♪♪ comfort in the extreme. ♪♪ the lincoln family of luxury suvs. advil 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stretching the definition of infrastructure beyond the traditional limits even economists recognize. one "new york times" it does a bit of violence to the english language the g.o.p. balking at billions to study climate change prepare for future pandemics improve home based care for the elderly and disabled and expand affordable housing stock. roy blunt claiming 70% of the bill defines infrastructure in a way that's never been done before. democratic senator kristin gillibrand on the defense said paid leave is infrastructure. child care is infrastructure. care giving is infrastructure. drawing mockery from staffers and minority leader mitch mcconnell office says we are all infrastructure now and saying this kind of framing is not new, quote: remember the last bill democrats rammed through congress was sold as covid relief until it passed then it suddenly became the greatest antipoverty initiative since lbj or something and their voting rights bill is really a partisan takeover of our entire electoral system. >> whether you have people like senator gillibrand coming out there tweeting that everything is infrastructure hence put a $2 trillion package together with only 7% actually going towards what we know as infrastructure, interest's no way to start. >> speaker nancy pelosi defended the bill's framing saying this generational investment will promote jobs, commerce, security, and the health of the country. >> these things are related. if you are going to build the infrastructure, you have to have workforce development, education,. >> today speaker pelosi says she expects the bill to come in two parts, ones that republicans can get behind and the other dealing with the human component of infrastructure. shannon? >> shannon: jacqui heinrich on the hill, thanks, jacqui. the unauthorized history of taxes those two things were a potent mix in america's early days. and together they almost tore the young country apart. >> so, we start in the early early 1790s when this tax is imposed. the farm farmers out west are furious because it's unfairly putting a higher burden of taxation on them so it's really a battle of the haves versus the have nots. >> if you were a tax collector you could have your tax office vand ridessed and have it burned and one of the worst things that could happen to you you could be tarred and feathered. the first shots of the whiskey rebellion are fired at u.s. marshal david lennox and general john neville. we think to scare them away although some accounts say, of course, from the neville side that they meant to kill them. these were the kind of men though that could have shot the eye out of a squirrel at 100 yards away so if they had meant to kill them they would be dead. >> bret: to alexander hamilton the tax revolt was a rebellion against federal authority itself and it needed to be quashed. >> this was so hamilton could demonstrate to everyone that the federal government was in charge of taxation no longer the states. >> bret: it took george washington himself to quell the rebels. >> george washington actually saddles up. it's the only recorded time in american history that the commander-in-chief actually serves as the commander-in-chief and rides out with his army. >> 12,900 and 50 soldiers came to this area. that's a larger force than washington had ever each commanded in the revolutionary war. bret the whiskey rebellion marked a turning point in american history as the first armed rebellion against the fledgling u.s. government, it proved an important test of how far the federals would go to impose order. it also showed the limits of federal power in the face of a determined populist. >> the main lesson i take away from the whiskey rebellion which i think is still pertinent all the way up into the present day taxes assessed nonuniformly assessed unfairly irritate the people though are taxed. if you start violating the norms of fairness people push back against it and it's perfectly rational that 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wolenski says in a statement on the agency's website confronting the impact of racism will not be easy. the number of americans fully vaccinated against the coronavirus now tops 66 million. the cdc says 112 million have had at least one dose. of the case number for the u.s. is approaching 1 million with 556,000 deaths. the fbi is warning against fake covid-19 vaccination cards being sold online. the fraudulent cards are available on popular web sites and some are even sell for hundreds of dollars. the cdc is call the scam a public health concern. tonight we are learning new details from one of the women accusing new york governor andrew cuomo of sexual misconduct and we are also getting reaction to a story we told you last night about the alleged cover-up of death statistics in nursing homes durings pandemic. correspondent bryan llenas reports tonight from brooklyn. >> to see the facts come out, it's just shocking. >> tonight, outrage from nursing home victims' families over documents obtained by fox news that show since mid april 2020 the cuomo administration was specifically tracking how many residents died of covid-19 in nursing homes and how many residents later died in hospitals. the documents raise new questions about why the state's department of health chose to exclude the hospital deaths from their july 2020 report despite having this data for month. the report said 6400 new yorkers died in nursing homes but the true death toll was 9800 including hospital deaths. the cuomo administration said the hospital deaths weren't made public because they could not verify the data. doh said in part the department spent months reconciling the information received. the duplicating, correcting data entry errors, et cetera, north to understand and report accurate fatality data from multiple sources. but the "new york times" and "wall street journal" report cuomo's top aids purposefully excluded the true death count from the report over fears of political consequences for the governor. meantime, a current aid who says cuomo aggressively sexually groped her is speaking out for the first time. telling the albany times union it was the culmination of two years of grooming. it's the most serious known shower. allegation against cuomo. the state attorney general is investigating all allegations. >> she could analyze it and determine that there is probable cause to bring some sort of a criminal conduct action against the governor. >> the unnamed groping accuser has not filed a criminal complaint against cuomo, though the a.g. could move forward with the case, regardless. shannon? >> shannon: bryan llenas in new york, thank you, bryan. up next the panel on president biden's gun control policy and the latest on the georgia election law backlash. first, beyond or borders tonight, palestinian refugees are welcoming the u.s. announcement that it will renew humanitarian aid marking a break with the trump era. the administration says it will provide $235 million to the palestinians and restart funding for the united nations relief and works agency, which is 5.7 million registered palestinian refugees. northern ireland leaders are calling for calm after another night of rioting. protesters set a hijacked bus on fire and hurled gasoline bombs in belfast. rising tensions over post brexit trade rules for northern ireland. south korea and the u.s. have signed their defense cost-sharing deal in seoul. south korea will increase its contribution by 14% to the cost of hosting some 28,500 u.s. troops for this year. that is the largest annual rise in nearly two decades. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ is the world's longest-lasting, we tested it against our competitor's best battery. 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[applause] they have offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of congress, but they have passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence. enough prayers, time for some action. >> the justice department will make available over $1 billion in funding through over a dozen grant programs that can be used to support evidence-based intervention strategies for reducing gun violence. [applause] >> shannon: let's bring in our panel to talk about the president and the attorney general's statements today. jason riley, "wall street journal" columnist and senior fellow at the manhattan institute. charles lane opinion write are for the "the washington post" and former white house press secretary ari fleischer. great to have all of you with us tonight. jason, i will start with you. what did you make rolled out today very unsurprisingly as often happens with executive orders and issues involving the second amendment immediately we heard from groups who are planning legal challenges to what the president is going to roll out. >> yes, yes. we have seen this -- we have seen this movie before, shannon. the big problem that the biden administration, the democrats have is that gun rights, unlike, say abortion rights are actually part of the constitution. and what that means is that they require acts of congress to pass serious reform. not simply executive action. so the administration can push for redefining what a pistol or a rifle means, what, you know, what constitutes a pistol or a rifle or they can push for, you know, community violence intervention and throw money at that whatever that means. but, at the end of the day, you run into the same problem you always do with this which is that you are only putting more burdens on law abiding gun owners, the criminals don't care what the current laws are and they won't care what the new laws are. you are simply putting more burdens on law abiding people and they are not the problem. >> shannon: and, professor jonathan turley, who is a frequent guest on this show and other programs on forks well well respected. he wrote a piece today talking about this he said much of what so far it appears we are seeing by way of executive action would not prevent most shooting the red flag law the president is talking about is actually something that could have been a problem for hunter biden and the paperwork he filled out detailing his past issues with drug abuse and those kinds of things and applying for a firearm himself. >> well, i don't have an opinion about hunter biden getting a handgun but i do know that red flag laws are actually enjoy quite a bit of bipartisan support. if memory serves, rick scott, the senator from florida, who is a republican, advocated them in the wake of the terrible massacre at marjory douglas high school in his home state. look, this i jason is right, we have seen this movie before and we have also seen the sequel which is none of this stuff will make any difference. i think it's important, nevertheless, that national leadership stand up and speak out and act and show that they care and they notice that notwithstanding the fact that this may be a constitutional right, we are paying a big price for it that it guns are so freely available in this country and dozens of people get slaughtered for no reason every year. >> shannon: ari, this brings up a lot of political realities for president biden in that he has been very comfortable as many presidents are using executive action. as our peter doocy reported earlier, when they talked about it on the campaign trail, then candidate biden talked about the fact that you got get legislation passed. it is not easy but it's really the only thing that has a more force, more teeth to it, more staying power then an executive order which will most certainly be immediately challenged in the courts and could simply be turned back by the next president. >> well, that's exactly right. there's a gulf of difference between legislation and executive order. whenever president trump issued an executive order banning bump stocks which was the way a weapon was modified in the mass shooting in las vegas several years ago. but, what you saw today really was window dressing for the left. the president has to show that he cares. he has to show that he is taking action pause he will have a rebellion of the liberal base that demands gun control legislation. so he came out today and did a series of things that really are mostly innocuous. they don't do much. i think if he can set a federal standard to help states come up with red flag laws, that's perfectly fine. i think if you can ban people from making guns at home or at least force them to comply with all existing registration rules or safety rules, that's fine although the bad guys are never going to do it. but the rest of it is all window dressing. there wasn't really anything of substance there. because the key issue is can legislators lenels late people to stop using ones and if legislation was the answer, we wouldn't have people doing these things. that's why legislation is not the answer. >> shannon: meanwhile, the heated debate over legislation regarding voter rights or federal and local level tips. i want to play something from staceyid about how states and corporations should handle these issues. >> i won't sugar coat. this senate bill 202 is a power grabbing and voter criminalizing suppression bill that is nothing less than jim crow 2.0. here's the thing, black, latino, a.p.i. and native american voters whose votes are the most suppressed under sb 202 are also the most likely to be hurt by potential boycotts of georgia. to our friends across the country, please do not boycott us. >> shannon: jason, that has begun to happen in many ways the all star game leaving to the tune of 90 to $100 million. today the masters is kicking off there in augusta they stayed there in georgia and explained their position. jason, how do the opponents of the state law now balance criticizing it while asking companies and tourists and people to continue frequenting their state? >> well, they have to continue to tell the truth about the law. what's really frustrated me throughout this debate is the woeful distortion of the law. people c

georgia and had a meeting with stacey abrams who was the won who has been pushing the narrative this is jim crow 2.0. when it comes to all these boycotts the democrats own. this staceys is the one who came up wpit with this hypec language to describe this legislation. she is the one who has been leading the charge and lying about what is in the legislation. and joe biden simply amplified it during that interview on espn and jen psaki when she was asked about it multiple times at the white house briefing, she also repeated the lies about what is in this legislation. now, when it comes to the argument that lawrence made about republicans needing to win the people, on the issue of voter i.d., 80% of the country, nobody agrees on anything but 08% of the country according to gallup agrees that voter identification, using it to vote is a valid requirement when it comes to casting your ballot. and so, republicans, i think, are not backing down on this. that's a good thing. they are standing up and saying we are not doing. this i love that milwaukee marco rubiocalled out the commir saying georgia is such a racist awful jim crow 2.0 state i assume you will be giving you have

stacey abrams is backtracking and saying i didn't realize it would cost my state $100 million. losing the major league all-star game cost georgia $100 million. stacey abrams is now responsible for that. can you imagine that she wants to represent a state that she cost $100 million contract because of lunacy about the election law that was passed? >> neil: mitch mcconnell said about companies that do this sort of thing that they'll invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for the far left mob to high jack the country from outside the constitutional order. do you agree with that? >> i think the only thing that they will learn from is if people quit using their product. this is across a wide array of things. twitter, facebook, youtube who has taken my speeches down that were given on the senate floor. they don't understand you trying to tell them there being overbearing or that they shouldn't be so woke or they shouldn't be so liberal. just quit using their products. so the thing is, we have about 40 to 45% of the american republican are republicans. if coca-cola wants to be the products, the soda of democrats, that's fine. otherwise they need to stay the heck out of politics. because what they're doing is angering every republican in the country. you know, do you think the republican national convention will want to use delta or want to do anything in association with any of these groups now? so they need to stay out of politics or suffer the repercussions of becoming partisan in their viewpoint. >> neil: as you are probably aware today, senator, the senate parliamentary said you can push these by majority here. what she's saying is that democrats can go ahead and do what they want to do with two infrastructure packages and another to do the same in the next fiscal year. so that would be trillions more spending. part of that are higher taxes. jeff bezos right now is the first prominent ceo to say he's okay with that, to support the president's infrastructure program. others are expected to follow. what will you do if corporate america supports the higher tax element? >> the facts show when you look at economic decisions based on taxes, the higher the corporate tax, the less jobs here and the more jobs shifted overseas. probably a decade or more, there was a whole cottage industry in companies located in lower tax countries. even sweden, you know, the bernie bros and socialists that say they we want to be like sweden. they have to study sweden. it's like like the socialist utopia they think it is. sweden tried a well tax. it failed. they got rid of it. we need to rethink the idea that you can tax your pay to prosperity. more jobs go overseas. look at my town, for example. we make the corvette in bowling green. we had 400 people on the line, good paying jobs. because of the tax cut. general motors got hundreds of millions when we cut the corporate tax. the opposite happens when it goes up. you lose jobs. >> neil: got it. thanks, senator. senator rand paul in washington on these developments. more after this. my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 14 day system. with a painless, onesecond scan i can check my glucose without fingersticks. now i'm managing my diabetes better and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. you can do it without fingersticks, too. ask your doctor for a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. and visit freestyle libre.us to try it for free. ♪ ♪i've got the brains you've got the looks♪ ♪let's make lots of money♪ ♪you've got the brawn♪ ♪i've got the brains♪ ♪let's make lots of♪ ♪uh uh uh♪ ♪oohhh there's a lot of opportunities♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700. saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate click or call to switch today. to prove our aa battery is the world's longest-lasting, we tested it against our competitor's best battery. (meowing) (clicking) and energizer ultimate lithium wins again! energizer, backed by science. matched by no one. >> neil: all right. republicans stymied when the parliamentarian of the senate said that democrats can go ahead and have two packages to pass by simply majority. wouldn't you know, one is the $2 trillion infrastructure measure. a follow up one to that. it allows for a third one in the next year. charlie gasparino has been counting the numbers. he's run out of fingers and toes. what do you think? >> wall street has been counting them, too and running out of their finger and toes. when we talk about the next fiscal year, in november of this year. how all of this spending will be jammed in a few months time. when i talked to my wall street sources that have sources on capitol hill, they have sources inside the biden administration, these are hedge funds, they're trying to calibrate where interest rates and stocks and bonds height be going over the next few months, they're saying with this ruling that you can do three -- pass three budget bills on reconciliation meaning just 51 votes, that they believe there's going to be a historic spending spree. they're trying to calculate -- put that into their models. here's the one thing that could hurt -- end the party early for the biden administration. if you do really get a ramp up in interest rates and interest rates on ten years and 30-year bonds and these are the ponds that you peg these other interest rates on, they have been creeping up. maybe not today. today i looked and they were down a little bit. they're creeping up. if you get a sharp spike in those rates, all bets are off. the markets will turn around and won't be so positive and more negative. you'll have people -- it's going to cost the government more. our budget sets will go up. interest expense will blow up. that is the fire that the biden administration will play with. i'm not saying it's going to happen. people are thinking in the hedge fund business that a good chance it will happen. something that struck me about president biden's remarks on the business stuff. he played the case on how boycotting georgia by the mlb and others could cost people jobs and be counter productive. he said that. he also said that he's not talking much to fed chairman powell, which he might have to do if interest rates go up. back to you, neil. >> neil: thank you, my friend. charlie gasparino following those developments. on infrastructure as we pointed out, jeff bezos said find with him to raise his corporate rate to 28%. we'll see if others follow. stay with us. stay restless with the icon that does the same. the rx crafted by lexus. get 0.9% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350 experience amazing at your lexus dealer. managing type 2 diabetes? 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on it with jardiance. we are committed to making jardiance available and affordable. with our savings card, eligible patients pay as little as $10. still fresh... unstopables in-wash scent booster. downy unstopables. >> it's a very tough decision for a corporation to make. or a group to make. i respect them when they make that judgment, and i support whatever judgment they make. the best way to do what it is for georgia and other states to smarten up. >> neil: all right, so the question was about whether the masters should be relocated elsewhere because they have their selected membership, and whether the ongoing response to voting laws is a sign of things to come in the list of boycott or as it grows and company that have been criticizing exactly what georgia is up to. i apologize we got you on fox news political analyst, and democratic strategists. growing by the day now, and i am just wondering if even the president was trying to dial things back and say, this is harming the very people for whom you are expressing support. what do you think? >> i think that is complex. i do want to push you a little bit, neil, that you referenced earlier in the program that the jim crow relics are a little bit of a stretch and it is not when you have lawmakers who with restrictions and regulations against voters as you see 202 not being able to stand in line. they look ridiculous. >> neil: really with all of this other stuff, but when it is exaggeration as an all out over state of the case to lump it with the jim crow is a stretch. >> listen, boycotting has worked historically but it is important that economic pillars of any society stand with its people. and when companies are doing a george just standing with its customers and also standing with their employees. 202 is not necessary and you have to look at the behavior of these republican lawmakers who are very concerned about the direction georgia is headed and soon. and it's no surprise why they are doing this. it's unethical and un-american. >> neil: we can debate that, by the way. really, he was making exaggerations. but let me just get your sense of where this goes, because the boycott if it grows, and some of those companies that are boycotting could find themselves being boycotted. it sounds like a mutual implosion? >> you know it, neil, i want everyone at the sound of my voice to listen very carefully. for those that say that showing an i.d. to vote is racist or some form of discrimination are lying to you. the mainstream media is lying to you. the politicians and the democratic party, many of them are lying to you and especially joe biden. 59% of african-american support voter ids. a 75% of americans overall support it. 65% of democrats support showing your i.d. how dare you use an issue like this and declare racism. this is not right when there is sincere and systematic issues of racism going on in this country and we are spending our time focusing on someone showing i.d. we should be beyond the it at this particular point. and shame on these 200 companies who are monopolizing our time on this issue when $100 million is being lost they could be invested in the black community today because of this decision. >> neil: but a lot of people protest what is going on by not going to baseball games and the rest. doesn't this boomerang on the very folks who just want to be left alone and stop the political statement? stop politicizing state laws and the rest? >> that would be nice. we have a number of different news outfits. and i would have to push you a little bit. that's not just what po two does, it is marginalized between a large population that so many of the and companies serve and the country is ready to protect. and with voter i.d. -- >> you mention a water bottle and that's racist because a person could not get a water bottle? you did not mention water. >> when you have senator rand come around here and talk about woke acting or jim crow, it's a sign that everyone knows what those words mean. >> joe biden can tell us a -- >> before congress. >> that's right. staceyorked in the past but that might not be the best use of material right now. >> neil: i would love to get to you guys back at a future time, but that's where we take it too far and it does with economic damage with the wrong people at the wrong time based on the wrong place. we will have to keep following this and at the meantime it will do it for us. here comes "the five." ♪ ♪ >> juan: hello, everyone, i am juan williams, along with greg gutfeld, dana perino, -- ♪ ♪ it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." cbs and 60 minutes coming under major fire. it's over a story they did on the governor ron desantis. the program claimed that he gave preferential treatment to the public in the vaccine rollout because they donated to his campaign, but the florida governor hitting back hard against the

ainsley: what are you supposed to believe stacey abrams said not for the boycott brian reported yesterday staceyw other. brian: al sharpton representative and lebron james weighed. in. ainsley: if the commissioner doesn't move. brian: the players were going to boycott. which is unbelievable. ainsley: you made a good point yesterday brian, the players are not decided. all-star game whoever is the best this season. you know what? if those all-star players that were selected don't want to show up? a lot of others would love to play in that game. brian: 47 states are changing thriewls major league commissioner might not be happy with. they will find the three state they will play in rhode island, utah and, i don't know, ohio, perhaps. and they will call it a day. we will see. i don't know how the braves can play. steve: when it comes to big sports organizations they should do exactly what the masters did. stay neutral. ainsley: stay out of politics. 6:29 on the east coast. the president pitched infrastructure plan as investment in the economy the tax hike to fund it could cost nearly a million jobs.

stacey abrams making millions claiming voter suppression and folks like raphael warnock and jon ossoff you won't protect georgia businesses but continued narrative of suppression there is only one group putting suppression and stacey abrams in the democrats, right now they cannot point to a single thing in this bill or worse for them, the president included, they cannot show you voter turnout is going down in georgia, voter turnout is going up in georgia, where is the president's talking point on that. liz: when you stack up the georgia bill with what the laws were before the pandemic, you've got to say what the laws are in new york and some state of delaware is not to point no, the other thing that were seeing now how do you square president biden a week ago calling for baseball to boycott georgia and pull out the all-star game but now president biden says he's worried that moving the masters golf tournament out of georgia might hurt workers in georgia, how do you square that. >> you cannot squirt, that's a problem with this a administration they circle back on everything and cannot square thing. can you imagine the masters anywhere but augustine georgia, kentucky derby anywhere else but churchill, it is just ludicrous for him to say the masters needs to stay here or if the pda decides their business, it's also very telling that the masters not touching the masters and not saying anything about that but moving and letting major league baseball and encourage them to move out of atlanta which is 50% minority to a place in denver that has less than 10% minority population, all tell you one group that has been hurt the minority population and are working class have been hurt in georgia not by the legislature in georgia they have been hurt by stacey raphael warnock and joe biden barack obama, there straight evidence to show that they hurt those populations in georgia not the voter law. liz: congressman doug collins we love having you on come back when you're gonna run for the senate. good to see you thank you for joining us. that's bringing former u.s. attorney guy lewis, it is great to have you want former commissioner of baseball says this is a serious mistake, ballplayers get paid no matter what not minority workers and businesses in georgia, what do you think? >> i looked up and read carefully even what the braves themselves put out, they did not want to move, they disagreed with the league's decision and they indicated it was not our decision, as you said $190 million, who is actually going to hurt, it is going to hurt the people of atlanta who are depending on this, who work hard for this and counting on this and they pick up and move the game out to course filled out in denver. it makes no sense to me especially when you c

stacey abrams. they're raising millions of dollars off the back of this misinformation right now. i commend the masters for keeping things going. companies are going to need a clause that is a staceyk factor. if they get involved in politics, could cost them customers, brand equity and so forth. this is an important learning moment to make sure that we have the right information before we make decisions that hurt georgians, small businesses. 30% of whom are black-owned. >> martha: thanks very much. we're out of time. i want to ask about 2022. hope you come back soon. >> thank you. >> martha: will is here with us from will on whences. good to see you on a wednesday. thanks for being here. i want to start with this from fay vincent. i thought this was very interesting. faye vincent, the former commissioner of baseball spoke out in a big way. he wrote an editorial against rob manfred and the decision that he made here. here's what he had to say. >> martha: what did you think about that and the significance of this office holder calling out the guy that took over after him? >> bravo. beautiful words by the former commissioner of major league baseball, fay vincent. there was a time --