governments for not acting faster. john, very quickly, what is the one thing we all can do that would make a difference? i would sigh get involved in the political process push to things like clean energy standards, getting countries off of fossil fuels, and requires a shift to cleaner renewables which are safer for public health, don t heat up the planet. like sort of big make roe level changes are what is needed in or to maybe the polluting expensive and incentivize companies to do that. john sutter, thank you very much. everybody should check out your op-ed at cnn.com. thank you. thank you. we re only about a month
campaign, allied organizations. and at the end of the rally, willie nelson will play a concert here. there s a lot of good energy and a lot of good power. jonathan, that s what it s going to take to get the for the people act through. we ve got to give the president and the members of the senate the pour they need to get this done. and that s why we re rallying at the capitol this morning. and you know, bishop barber, i would love to get your reactions, as well. also to the former congressman s op-ed at cnn.com. i believe it was yesterday, making that very that very argument that, you know, you guys out there today with the marchers, you re about getting power for the president to get this done. and you re someone who s organized many, many, many, marches. your perspective right now? yeah, well, more than just marches, direct action. some of this obedience, call-ins. you know, we ve been at this for
days go on. and they ll be able to, you know, start to get the ball rolling, fast. and say, we need to do something now. and i think more importantly, is to listen to the officers that were there, that day, on the ground. because there s this misconception that there was no firearms there. that those people in the crowd had no firearms. there were firearms there. and i m talking about handguns. not just the, you know, general term weapons. i m talking about actual handguns. people had handguns on them. so, you know, this is serious. this is serious stuff. and you can watch jake tapper s full interview with the mother and partner of brian sicknick at cnn.com. all right. want to bring in thomas gift, who is the director of the center on u.s. politics at university college london and he joins us now, from oxford. thanks, so much, for being here. just off the bat, did anything surprise you about the vote? not at all, kim.
down from about 40, 50, to 15 or 20. this is an area we don t see that much traffic anymore because the smugglers know. are there certain times of day you see more trying to get across? they re opportunists, so whenever they feel that the opportunity is there for them to run their narcotics or illegal aliens, they ll do it. you are watching them, but they re also watching you. this is something else that s been very effective for the border patrol to stop illegal migration and narcotics trafficking. this is leftover bits of border wall. so far no one has treated to lo tried their luck at it. you can get an in depth look at the entire length of the u.s.-mexico border at cnn.com. john moore s photographs say the many different ways the border is marked along some 3,200 kilometers or almost 2,000 miles. violence and protests are making life difficult for haiti s hospitals, and they already have plenty of challenges to deal with. that is next. plus, the looming showdown over
needs to happen now. the way to find common humanity to find what it is in our culture driving this fear. if we could try to understand what each other are afraid of, at least that, and how we understand the world, then maybe we could at least begin to come together. you can watch the rest of the interview with jeff ballabon at cnn.com. next, democracy under attack. twitter deletes thousands of automated accounts that were trying to discourage people from voting. barak obama s former cyber czar michael daniel, next. are rising. it s hard to keep up. in washington, one party is calling the shots and the middle class isn t being heard. we need a new congress that will cut taxes for the middle class, ensure coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, and protect social security and medicare. vote for a democratic congress; for an economy that works for everyone.