What does mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms say now . Ov firing line with margaret ho is made possible in part by. Corporate funding is pvided by. Welcome to iring line, mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Thank you for having me. You are the 60th mayor of the city of atlanta, and your national prile has risen as you have faced more crises in the past several months than many Politicians Face in an entire lifetime. To these fatal sho, both at the hands of police and civilians in your city, to the protests that rocked your city in the wake of the murder of george floyd. You are also considered to be a top v. P. Contenderfo a biden ticket. And so we have a lot but first, i want k to you about what happened more than a week ago when you tweeted this out to the world. How are you feeling no mayor . You know, i feel good. When i look at whats happeningu across thery and theres so much death and sickness, i count myself very fortunate. My husbandnd i dont have Underlying Health conditions, thankfully. So h
county were breeched by a team working on donald trump s bee half. they were led into the office by a trump supporting local official. they were there to look for evidence of election fraud. they made copies of every voting machine hardev drive and every ballot. you have to admit it is brazen move to go breaching election systems in support of his lies literally the day after the election lies sparked the violent assault. but there they were. doing justth that. obviously, we talk a lot p about january 6th. it is worth taking a moment to consider january 5th and january 7th as well. and it s no accident that both those ventsnt that book ended january 6th as big election victory for democrats and possibly criminal election system breach in support of donald trump s s election lies that both of those events happened in the state of georgia. it s a microcosm of everything happening in o american politic. take that election data breech inha coffee county. that incident is part of
win the battle and lose the war. you know? there is a if you discredit or politicize the justice department in the eyes of 60 million americans, you haven t gained that much even if you ve got these classified documents. so that is the balance that i think and i m sure they re thinking about, which is very difficult. because with anybody else you would just say, look. you broke the law or you seem to have broken the law. we have to get these documents back. what strikes me when you say that is the idea of obviously it is a bit of a damned if you do damned if you don t philosophy in having to think about these things but the idea of the battle versus the war one could say something quite similar, fareed, the idea of, you know, vilifying law enforcement and vilifying the agencies whose job it is to help support the enforcement of the law in the long run by doing that if you are a supporter of trump, if you are trump himself, those who are members of congress who believe tha
your powerful providence. empower them to resist the sins that bring dishonor as they seek to live for your glory. lord, unite them to bear the burdens which are laid upon them during these challenge tion days. as they remember their accountability to you, inspire them to be good stewards of your bounty. and, lord, bless ukraine. we pray in your great name. amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c, may 24, 2022. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable raphael g. warnock, a senator from the state of georgia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy,
kemp career and help them win in the primaries. trump opposes kemp because of kemp didn t go along with what trump was saying about the 2020s election and integrity ofe that election in georgia. david perdue senator who lost in 2020 is challengingo brian kem. most people expect paul suggests brian kemp is going to finish first tonight and is going to get over 50 present needs to avoid a runoff. that s the one everyone is watching because the former president put so much of a personal stake in the race and doesn t seem like it sn turning out the waye he wants it to trm a reminder it s 50% plus one vote in georgia welu learned a t about that back in 2020. if that does happen and if brian kemp wins by significant margin what does that say about a donald trump endorsement especially in light of president trump s perhaps mixed record endorsements try to particularly gubernatorial races it doesn t seem like trumpist said the juicy as had another chance of races. trump is issuing e