Spotlight on Dr. Melody Campbell, "Imaging Proteins to Understand Their Function". Dr. Campbell is an expert in using cryogenic electron microscopy, or cryo-EM, a microscopy technique that allows scientists study the structure of proteins without first crystallizing them.
white house press secretary jen psaki holding her briefing. and then pentagon press secretary john kirby. i ll be joined by one of the top lawmakers later in the show. and oh, by the way, the possibility of new cdc guidance with the briefing on that starting on that front as we speak. we re watching all of it. we ve got teams on every angle on all these stories. let me start with justice correspondent pete williams, kristen welker, ali vitali, amy howell, legal analyst tali weinstein and ceo of the national coalition of black civic participation, melody campbell. good to see you all. thank you. pete, we ve got to start with you here. we have the pick. it is now official as we saw live on msnbc just within the last hour. talk us through the process and where it goes from here. well, she ll now begin that process of meeting with
Cryogenic electron microscopy represents a revolutionary improvement in our ability to see biological molecules. Since its early development in the 70s it has become an important tool for understanding life at the tiniest scales.
with me now, melody campbell, president and ceo of the national coalition on black civic participation and ari berman, author of give us the ballot. thank you very much for coming to the reidout. ari, let me start with you. you re not surprised by this brennan center report at all, are you? i m not surprised by it, jonathan, because i ve been tracking these numbers all year. in fact i ve been tracking these numbers for a decade. it just keeps getting worse and worse. every month it seems like another state or another batch of states have passed new voter suppression laws. this is now the greatest rollback of voting rights since the end of reconstruction. we are seeing all across the country republicans weaponize trump s big lie to make it harder to vote. they haven t produced any evidence of voter fraud but there s been a whole lot of evidence of voter suppression that has taken place since the