Includes universal vote by mail, more Polling Places and protections against Election Meddling among many other things. And in a rare move, Vice President harris presided over the senate vote. Just goes to show that it is important to democrats. The bill was cosponsored by every democratic senator except joe manchin who did vote yes to at least start debate on the bill. That gave the democrats a united front but little to show for their efforts on a key priority. This vote im ashamed to say is further evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights and it is an endefensible position for any senator. So what now . Cnn has learned that democrats have georgia on their minds, pushing new legislation and spotlighting gop efforts at the state level to make it harder to vote after the growth of mailin voting this 2020. Mean team
Statues last night, former president ulysses s. Grant. It comes amid growing debate of the legacies of historic figures. Christie smith joins us live with more from golden gate park. Reporter the city says the crew came out here and worked through the night after the statues were pulled down. I want to step aside so you can see what it looks like out here. Basically just the pedestals remain here and at another location. Now, today people keep coming by to see what happened. City crews removed spray paint from pedestals. I think that those should have been taken down a long, long time ago. Reporter statues of Francis Scott key, ulysses s. Grant are gone. We obtained video of the monuments being pulled down. Last night hundreds of people showed up and bottles were thrown at officers. Established missions and accused. Scott key composed the star spangled banner and was known to have owned slaves. And grant, the 18th president , had a history with both. Havent seen any representation of o
Jeffrey dahmer combined. A very personal message from jeopardys alex trebek about the new challenges hes facing in his battle against cancer. Plus, agus nato caught on camera sends residents fleeing for safety a busy tuesday ahead early today starts right now good to be with you this morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. A pivotal figure in the ukraine scandal will Face Congress today as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump ambassador to the European Union gordon sunlandt l position befo house committees meanwhile, President Trump is railing against democrats after the emergence of a second whistleblower nbcs tracie potts is in d. C. With the latest. And, tracie, on top of all of this, the house has also issued another round of subpoenas reporter right, phillip. They want more evidence from th, from the secretary of defense about whether or not there was an attempt to withhold aid from ukraine in exchange for investigating joe biden. Now, sunland, who you just
Yesterday at his home in plains, georgia. Hes taken to a nearby hospital for observation, said to be in pretty good spirits and looking forward to recovering at home. The former president is 95 years old. This is the second such fall that hes had in recent weeks. Well update you as soon as we get any updates. Gas prices aretarting to ease somewhat around much of the nation, but as you might expect, bay area prices are still among the highest anywhere. Governor gavin newsom is asking his attorney general to investigate why. Today in the bays kris sanchez joining us live in san jose with those details. Kris . Reporter good morning. We know that we pay more in taxes for our gas than almost anybody in the nation but what governor gavin newsom wants to know is if folks are paying even more than that because the industry is overcharging, and fixing prices. In a letter to attorney general becerra, there is no identifiable evidence to justify these premium prices. If Oil Companies are engaging
Right there, thats the motel where doctor king was staying. The one up there by my finger mark. Right and my dad in patterson went down the next day bring money for the children who had been jailed during the marches. And they went to the site and also stated that motel so. Where it had beenbombed. Martin luther king, a ie friend of the family . What they did, as a family, is we started doing jazz concerts and our first concert was also to raise money, it was in june and then we went up, at the house, at our house, yes and my brothers and i sold hotdogs and sodas and we turned in 1000 after our first gas sponsor and we had a second one after the march in washington and we had gone to the market as a family. That was our first time as a family actually participating in the Larger Movement. And it was just an amazing experience because this is what we were asking for. We would ask dad can we go with you to birmingham and he said no, ill figure this out and he figured it out by bringing u