good evening, i m mehdi hasan. let us be clear what happened. a democratic president was elected to office in the midst of a once in a generation crisis, he entered into the white house with a mandate for the american people, a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with eight ambitious legislative agenda. but, a major obstacles hands in his way. a right wing, reactionary supreme court, with very little public legitimacy. sound familiar? this week, the supreme court wrapped up one of its most controversial terms in modern american history, scaling back decades of progress in the matter of near weeks. we ve actually been here before, following a landslide victory 1936, president franklin d. roosevelt was elected to a second term in office. securing what was, at the time, the largest popular vote tally in american history. fdr s victory sold out of not only a personal win, but a decisive victory for his signature legislative agenda, the new deal. despite the progra
operation. this is a great step. and, congratulations to the activists who have been pushing for this. and a congressional and executive-level for a long time. hats off to the biden white house. it s an amazing that appreciating president not call trump didn t do this. it s about time. good news. yes it is. thanks money,. think. thank you. president biden began his address to the nation tonight. on gun violence. with the report on what he found in his visit to uvalde. innocent victims, murdered in the classroom, that had been turned into a killing field. standing there and that small town, like so many other communities across america. i couldn t help but think, they are too many other schools, to many other everyday places, that have become killing fields. battlefields. here in america. tonight, president biden delivered the message to congress, and to the country, that he heard in uvalde. they had one message for all of us. do something. just do somethin
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these key counties in georgia. just a short time ago there was an official in the secretary of state s office who said that the georgia senate races when that we may not have full clarity on by the time we all go to bed tonight. i guess it depends on when you are going to bed tonight. but nonetheless, so you sleep no, it s not allowed, actually, it s part of our job description. but we are learning some new details about fulton county. let s look at fulton county for us because there are actually more than halfway done with counting. we are hearing here that they are expected to be finished by midnight, john and jake, so that could be revealing some information here just in the next half hour. absolutely. very interesting. you look at it and breonna, you can go through the rest. you look at the margin here. 72. this is fulton county. atlanta is by far 159 counties, georgia has a lot of them it s 10% of the population. so, it s your largest atlanta and the suburbs arou
populists. about only chief justice john roberts got over 50%. now, let s compare those figures for the rest of the court there. the three liberals. 66.5% for kagan, 73.7% of the population for sotomayor, and 90% for breyer. to be clear, based on this data we can say definitively that none of the five conservative justices who voted to overturn roe were approved by senators representing a majority of the u.s. population. now, some on the right will say, rather dismissively, who cares? that is not how the system is supposed to work. it supposed to represent states, not the public opinion or the popular vote. which is technically correct. and fine in theory. but, in reality, as these reactionaries on the court to lead a blowtorch to our basic rights, rollback decades of popular laws, policies, and precedents, do you really think that the american public