it s offensive, i guess. also we have we saw somebody set up a fake donald trump account. this person, brian whelan, saying he was able to verify a fake donald trump in less than two beers, but really getting at the point there he was able to do this quite quickly. and, finally, just over the past day or so, twitter has given a blue check verified mark to jesus christ, with the handle there @jesus. as you can see, things are getting a bit confusing at twitter under elon musk. we have been joking about it, but there could be serious consequences to these fake accounts. you see easy it was to make those accounts. think about in terms of emergencies or natural disasters, even politics calling elections. you know, we rely so much on
this later and punt it down the road. we have been in enough discussions for enough months that we all know what the stakes are. every democrat is a supporter of both the john lewis bill and the freedom to vote act. so there s uniformity there. so far when we put these bills up, we get zero republican help except for lisa murkowski on the lewis act. with the stakes so high right now after the attack on the capitol to disenfranchise 80 million people and after the effort of state legislatures to disenfranchise people, democrats have to fight to protect people s right to vote and the accuracy of calling elections. so, we need to vote on it and i m confident we re going to. so to be clear, senator, unless there is some change of heart from two of your democratic colleagues who are key to this issue here of whether or not to change the senate rules. if senator schumer does bring this to the floor monday, it s going to fail. are you comfortable with that? you still think that s the right
a closer look at services like amazon to alexa smart speakers that may be listening to your every word. i m calling assman thanks for joining us sudan s military chief has stepped down just one day after he was sworn in as the country s new leader that s after pro-democracy demonstrators again flooded khartoum streets in rejection of the new military regime or test leaders oppose the military s stated plan to rule the country for two years before calling elections. i what even made his announcement on state t.v. a day after ousting president omar al bashir the defense minister is stepping down as head of sudan s military transition council and naming a general as his successor this comes after demonstrators took to the streets of
participation. the other thing, chuck, that s really interesting about it. if you want your opponent s 2nd place votes, it tends to make you more civil. you don t want to dump on your opponent with negative ads because you want their voters to give you the 2nd place. that s a kind of hidden benefit that we will watch play out over the next ten years. one more hidden benefit. if we do extrapolate this out to our presidential campaigns all over the country, it will make exit polls useless for calling elections, which is a good thing. instead, exit polls will be actually used for what they should be done for, which is, why did people vote the way they voted? anyway, senator angus king. thank you. chuck, from somebody who knows, happy independence day. fair enough. up ahead, can independents break the mid-terms? we ll discuss that next. hi, i m currently deployed to kandahar afghanistan.
sweeping a sea of blue at the time. well, let s not forget he was also a two-term governor of california. ronald reagan, recall that night, that was the beginning of a new form of calling elections because we had such great exit polls that we could make the call because whatever happened west of the mississippi river was not going to change the results that night. ronald reagan was being elected in a landslide that night, and it was a stunning moment. on the senate side, great lines. gaylord nelson. it was an enormously important moment in american politics, and, again, that was a time when no one knew quite what to expect. huge differences that he governed the state of california two terms. he was a man that put together a brilliant staff in the white house, picking james baker to