in areas with low vaccination rates. i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. let us begin tonight with two stories that say a lot about who we are as a country and where we might be going. in charlottesville, virginia, crews removed three statues today. among them were monuments to confederate generals robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. charlottesville had planned to remove them nearly four years ago. white supremacists and neo-nazis marched in protest and that led to violent clashes that turned deadly. it was one of america s first looks at extremism during donald trump s presidency. meanwhile in austin, texas, we re monitoring a special session of the state legislature that began this morning and continues into the night. it s happening right now. it is the next phase in the republican party s push for new rules on voting. texas has become a battleground state in the fight for voting rights. according to the brennan center for justice, nearly every state has introduc
to violent clashes that turned deadly. it was one of america s first looks at extremism during donald trump s presidency. meanwhile in austin, texas, we re monitoring a special session of the state legislature that began this morning and continues into the night. it s happening right now. it is the next phase in the republican party s push for new rules on voting. texas has become a battleground state in the fight for voting rights. according to the brennan center for justice, nearly every state has introduced restrictive bills. more than 380 bills in all across the country. this is largely driven by the former president s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. those claims led to another outburst of extremist violence at the capitol on january 6th. the bills under consideration tonight in texas are house bill 3 and senate bill 1. they re similar to legislation that got blocked in may. democrats staged a late-night walkout forcing the legislature to adjourn before the bil
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general segues resigned abruptly on the day of the elects in 2018 and the president appointed me that die be acting term general to bridge the gap between jeff session and bill barr. host: how did you become jeff session chief of staff. i only met jeff sessions opposite before i was selected to be his chief of staff. he i interviewed with him and talked to him many times but it was mutual friend, both in the white house and at the federal body that recommended know them and his people, and we bonded quickly over college football and our love for good barbecue. it was a match made in heaven. host: one over to things you say but mr. sessions recowsal from the russia investigation that it was personal and fact driven. guest: i wasn t there when he did the analysis. he took over in february of 2017 after he was confirmed and after the new administration came in, but having done sort of my own analysis it took five weeks for me and my staff and the department of justic
posted by the mayor and city corporations and as large a company to partake as we have ever seen in this town on any occasion. so in that moment march that to adjust to the constitution to the president and vice president and congress and then to our illustrious neighbor. he truly had retired from public service the responses one that i think about often the wish that can exceed that to see the country happy and i can entertain no doubt that if all of us back to the part of good citizens. he included himself in that equation. he to was a citizen. but that came with rights and duties particularly the duty to maintain the constitution support the laws and guard our independence as we will see he took those very seriously he does not retire from public service so much as take a different approach. tonight we can hear about a wonderful book i had the chance to read it in prepublication which i actually read at my vacation home over christmas break and i was daunted how good thi