coming up, believe it or not, we don t get to decide a global pandemic is over just because we feel like it. do you know how many americans are still dying every day from covid-19? i ll break it down for you in 60 seconds. but first, richard lui is here with the headlines. good evening to you, mehdi. some of the stories we re watching for this hour. talks among western government officials. afghan civil society representatives and the taliban are now under way in oslo, amaid a deteriorating humanitarian situation in afghanistan. the closed door meetings will be taking place over the next three days. this trip marks the first time since the taliban took over the country in august that their representatives have held official meetings in europe. in northern california, over 500 residents were told to evacuate their homes in the big sur area as a brush fire straed spread through the mountainous coastal region. the blaze, which started in a rural area in monterey county, has burned
the bill mahers of this world. i m done with covid on a day when three and a half million americans died from covid-19, kids made orphans, babies in hospitals in places like utah. yes, and it s a sad statement of affairs when we have more than 5 million people around the world, dead. and people are saying that they are over covid because they can t socialize. or their life a bit inconvenient. you want to know what privilege looks like a mint? what s that? i said, you want to know what privilege looks like? that s what it looks like. great show mehdi. thank you. enjoy the rest of your evening. and good evening at home. breaking news out of the state
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. we talk a lot on this show about democracy being in peril, and after the week we ve just had, make no mistake, american democracy is certainly in grave danger. but sometimes it feels like we re talking about all of this in an abstract way. so let s talk about specifics tonight. let s look at arizona, a swing state that helped joe biden win the presidency. a state that democrats hadn t won at the presidential level since 1996. a state that in 2020 got two democratic senators for the first time since 1952. so how have arizona s republicans responded to these democratic victories? by trying to make it harder to vote, of course. meet gop state senator kelly townsend, who as chair of the senate committee on government, has broad discretion over which bills get to advance out of that committee and which get to die a slow and painful death. she s behind four of the more than two dozen bills that arizona lawmakers have submitted to make significant changes to the