Relief efforts. Theres a lot of people that are frustrated out there and i can certainly appreciate that and we felt that when we were on the Road Yesterday but also told them that this is unprecedented what we are dealing with. Previously the worst Storm Georgia had ever dealt with. We dont need people in washington doing things, we need people here doing things and this Community Show that. Sandra Brandnew Top of the hour. We now know at least 200 are dead. Holmes upended and homes unrecognizable. Any moment now President Biden will be getting an update in florida as he continues his tour of the hardesthit areas. Our thoughts are with all of those affected by this. It is brutal for so many. Hello and welcome everyone. I am Sandra Smith in New York. John our houtz go out. Im John Roberts in washington and this is america reports. Today marks a week since Hurricane Calin made landfall. Survivors are isolated by catastrophic flooding and they are desperately flooding Stomach Pleading fo
Two candidates, theyre dueling economic messages and the former president s claims about the two attempts on his life and iran, plus the very latest on Hurricane Helene now forecast to reach category four heading for the Florida Panhandle good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, keeping them honest with politics specifically the brand of it, which runs on falsehoods and fear. And frankly, racism the latest example, louisiana republican Congressman Clay higgins, this guy, now it doesnt have much of a record of accomplishment in the house, but today, hes certainly got noticed this is what he posted on social media, quoting the congressman now, lol, these haitians are wild, eating pets, voodoo, Nastyas Country in the western hemisphere, colts slapstick gangsters, but if they dont feel all sophisticated now filing charges against our president and vp, all these thugs better get their Mind Right and their out of our country before january 20. So a couple of things to unpack he
To go in just hours. Thanks for joining us. Ac360 starts now tonight on 360, it started with the former president, but now the ugliness is coming from inside the house. How one congressman amplified hateful campaign against haitian immigrants would top republicans are saying in his defense and what the chair of the congressional black caucus plans to do about it, keeping them honest also tonight, the two candidates, they re dueling economic messages and the former president s claims about the two attempts on his life and iran plus the very latest on hurricane helene now forecast to reach category four heading for the florida panhandle. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, keeping them honest with politics specifically the brand of it, which runs on falsehoods in fear, and frankly racism. The latest example, louisiana republican congressman clay higgins, this guy, now it doesn t have much of a record of accomplishment in the house, but today, he s certainly got noticed
news. i think that doesn t exist anymore. that s not true. like my mom and dad s generation. my mom and dad don t use social media. they watch their local news for sure. sure they watch their local news but they also watch you. not enough. they watch cable news. they listen to talk radio. they subscribe to a newspaper or don t. they look at twitter. they share stories on facebook. in local markets where there are no local newspapers they are vanishing. most local markets have no local newspapers. you re right. the landscape changes over time. where are people getting these multiple sources of news you re saying? from the internet. there are lots of people who don t use the internet. my mom and dad don t use it. your mom and dad don t use the internet? i would like to see this fact checked. my mom doesn t have a cell phone and she doesn t use the internet. do you think the fcc is going to approve this? i don t know because donald trump is a lot more act
directly back to jim crow and the legacy of slavery and it became sort of acceptable to restrict the franchise. and, that s not who we are. that shouldn t be who we are. that s not when america works best, so i hope that people pay a lot of attention to making sure that everybody has a chance to vote. make it easier, not harder. this whole notion of voting fraud this is something that is constantly has been disproved, this is fake news. the notion that there are a whole bunch of people out there who are going out there and not eligible to vote and want to vote. we have the opposite problem. we have a whole bunch of people who are eligible to vote who don t vote and so the idea we put in place the idea of a whole bunch of barriers doesn t work,