Now, a ceremony to honor members of congress and their staffs for their actions off the floor of congress and services for constituents. Hosted by the Congressional Management Foundation, this is just over one hour. Brad hello and welcome everyone to the sixth annual democracy awards. My name is brad fitch, i am so happy to welcome you here on such a beautiful morning. It is so exciting to be here for another one of our awards ceremonies to recognize the best in congress. I am grateful for the founder of the democracy awards, the Bridge Alliance. They are a Diverse Coalition of organizations committed to revitalizing Democratic Practice in america. It is kind of like a trade association for democracy reform. You will hear more about it when debbie lynn comes to the stage. The vision for the democracy awards are simple and based on the Congressional Management Foundations 47 year history of working with u. S. Congress. This award actually goes to the office and the members. Because we r
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in watershington. we are two weeks out and tonight a one-night only event in a pivotal senate race, john fetterman versus mehmet oz on the debate stage sgl. plus, progressives push president biden to push russia to end the ukraine war. and diary excerpt. a broken promise from a supreme court justice. a new book digs into the life of senator ted kennedy. up first, the midterms. we count your votes two weeks from today. already upwards of 9 million ballots cast across 40 states. big debates tonight remind us the consequences are enormous and many of the key races are remarkably close. 36 governors races. always important but all the more so because of the new politics of abortion rights. all 435 house seats up. republicans now confident they will seize the speaker s gavel from nancy pelosi. and 35 senate contests including a race that s absolutely crucial. john fetterman and mehmet oz square off. it is their one and only
america can have quite a big impact on the balance of power here in washington, d.c. you know, many eyes are on new hampshire and of course, this question. who will take on incumbent democratic senator maggie hasan in the general? will it be don bulldock, who pushed trump s election lies or state senate president chuck morse who was the backing of establishment republicans. we re also closely watching a battle between two trumpers in new hampshire s first congressional district, both matt mowers and carolyn levitt. they both worked in the trump administration. now, levitt actually backs trump s stolen election claims. according to a new analysis from 538, about 60% of americans will have an election denier on the ballot this fall. that s quite a number. and an estimated 118 election deniers in house races and eight election doubters have at least a 95% chance of winning. what a range, first of all, and the idea of all of the ways we can essentially have a synonymous way of th
welcome to the show i m mehdi hassan. you know you can tell the case of the classified documents at mar-a-lago it s serious. donald trump isn t doing interviews. not lucky used to. and it s absent, one trump boxes all over right-wing media. showing he can explain this calmly. should he can explain take down the heat about the face trump using his message to the dartmouth. it starts and hence with russia. ukraine impeachment. one karat at the hillary clinton email investigation scandal. the hunter biden laptop. we have the same winds for pete operation by the democrats or the radical left in the media. same correct we are government gangsters, the same agents that were involved in russia gate they want to hide the corruption of the fbi and doj. but the deep state does is they fight back by attacking has personally. public enemy number one has always been donald trump. this is what the mar-a-lago rate was about. this farcical raid operation of the doj and the fbi as part of a
If theres any umbrellas people arent using all right. Thanks, everybody for being here. We appreciate it. We wanted to make sure we kept the rain until this morning. Thank you for being here in this weather and thank you for joining us today to talk about something thats very, very important. Im mark pocan, chair of the equality caucus, the largest caucus in congress, at 195 members dedicated to advancing lgbtq equaltism im glad to be joined by other leaders to mark todays day of no silence. Now we used to have a day of silence. In past years students would go silent in the classroom for a full day in protest of the harassment, bullying and discrimination that queer students faced. This year is different. This year we cant be silent. In 2024, antiequality extremist republicans have continued to unleash an avalanche of attacks against our community, including by introducing more than 475 antiequality bills across state legislatures and extremists in the house of representatives have int