clearly is that president biden does believe that we have a commitment to defend taiwan because it s something he s said not once, not twice, but multiple times. and so, you know, i think the confusion, the ambiguity is no longer a problem. president biden has said, yes, we re willing to do this. but the ambiguity comes from his own administration repeatedly walking back what he s having to say. i do think there s some confusion that s being created by how the administration is handling what appears to be a very clear message again and again from the president. let s dig in a little more about that, especially what you said about china because china is slamming biden s comments. i mean the u.s. has had a policy, a strategic your word ambiguity over taiwan for decades. are there big geopolitical risks in brian breaking precedent like this, susan? yeah. i mean, look, absolutely. first of all, the quality of a deterrent is only as good as your willingness to follow through on it.
because of the cruelty of the republicans in this state doing anything necessary to restrict access to the ballot. we can t even provide water for people in 90-plus degree heat in the south. let s talk about stacey abrams. she had this to stay about voter suppression in your state. listen. we have to remember that voter suppression isn t about stopping every voter. it s about blocking and impeding those voters who are considered inconvenient. the moral equivalent of saying that voter turnout defuses or disproves voter suppression is like saying more people getting in the water means there are no sharks. we know voter suppression is alive and well in virginia and we re going to continue to fight back. stacey abrams and president biden both liken it to jim crow. have black voters been di disenfranchised, or are you expecting to see that in the fall? i think we re looking at
black voters, minority voters, because what we ve done is built a multiracial coalition of voters to elect candidates of our choice. so that is the impact that the gop wanted to see. they wanted to break up this multiracial coalition. we saw it in the way they drew these new congressional lines to break up gwinnett county and congressional district 6 where lucy macbeth was running. we had a black woman representing a district that was once held by newt gingrich, and they made sure they did everything in their power to redraw the lines so we couldn t build the multiracial coalitions that we ve been doing on the ground to make the gains we ve made here in georgia. so, yes, what they re doing, they re looking at it at every angle from gerrymandering to voter suppression. and we re going to continue to organize towards november to make sure we get people the information that they need so they can cast their ballots and we can get them counted. congresswoman, thank you so much. appreciate
black americans thought it would make white americans more concerned about racial discrimination by police. today, only 30% of black americans feel that way. why is that? well, because there just hasn t been a significant attempt to make racial justice the kind of priority it deserves to be. lip service? biden can talk about funding versus defunding. it was never about that false dichotomy. it was about making sure black people are no longer murdered in the way that they are, bueaut brutalized in the way they are, any american citizen brutalized or murdered. what happened to the george floyd bill? what happened to the voting rights bill? let s be honest and candid about that. we re talking about democrats. we re not talking about neofascists like trump. with neofascists like trump, we re never surprised.
military commitment is the united states willing to sustain in terms of actually fighting with or on behalf of taiwan? you heard the defense secretary lloyd austin today say, well, we re willing to provide weapons, trying to make this comparable to, say, what the united states is doing in ukraine. but remember that in ukraine, biden was adamant that there would be no u.s. troops on the ground, and he has stuck to that even though he has increased and increased and increased the level of weapons and support that he s willing to offer to ukraine. so this is something very different than he s saying about china. but, again, the question is, is our deterrent effective? it depends on what we re willing to do to follow through on those words. david, look, the former president was very good at playing too a domestic audience, right, playing to his audience here? domestically, people might actually like this kind of plain speaking from biden. frankly, you know, we could probably use more of