back in 2021, after democrats won both of georgia s run-off elections and with them the u.s. senate majority, georgia republicans fought like hell to prevent that from ever happening again. passing an anti-voter law to make it harder to vote, including during run-offs. once again, a pivotal georgia senate race is heading to a run-off between raphael warnock and herschel walker. there will only be four weeks between the run-off, which means less time to vote early in person and tight windows for ballots. early voting will be barred on one of the saturdays before the final run-off voting day because state law prohibits in-person early voting on saturdays if a holiday is within two days beforehand. those holidays are thanksgiving, but also, get this, a state holiday created to honor confederate general slave holder and racist icon robert e. lee, with voters, especially black
i want to know what we have from the world of twitter. start with this one from lizzo. not one white person cared about a slave holder s crystal flute until a black woman played it. fair. nobody even knew james madison had a crystal flute. no comments. move on. this was on mcconnell. alisyn, it looks like someone is responding to your take on mcconnell s response, maybe a lack thereof. it says i like exactly what alisyn said as a way to react to someone criticizing your house saying i don t think it s right to criticize instead of saying nothing. john, did you just tweet that? my wife has a lot of experience with people criticizing her spouse. i feel for her. i do. from the box office to the ballot box, here is someone criticizing my take i feel on the rock. you all can t be serious about the rock running for the highest office. shake my head. why would you all want someone who himself said, quote, i know nothing about politics to waste our time and run. deems will lose in 2
his history as a slave holder. do you support that decision? well, i think that s up to the locality to decide what they want to do on that. look, there s a lot of there s a lot of people who have no social redeeming value, historically. and there s others who have made serious mistakes in terms of what exists now in terms of what we should be talking about. but have done an awful lot. and so the very thing, for example, i just spoke at the martin luther king dedication and i pointed out that we re right across from the lincoln memorial. well, you know and you talked about and then the jefferson memorial. and what are we doing? i talked about how they said we re unique in all the world nation founded on idea. we hold these truths to be self evident, all men and women are created equal.
assigned assigned in groups of two. they had to know the neighborhood. i remember getting a call, as you ve been to delaware, go down that road as you re heading down to the station, martin luther king boulevard. there s a woman who lived in one of those apartments in the second floor that sort of had an outcroppings, victorian kind of two-story place. and but the cops made sure they had she had their phone number. so, when a drug deal was going down, she pick up the phone and call and say to that police officer with the cell phone that the drug deal is going down. knowing that she would never be fingered. knowing that she would never be the one told it happened. so crime began to drop. they had to know who the local liquor store. they had to know and walk in and shake hands with the local minister. that s community policing. let me try to get in a couple questions from our audience. new york city is removing statue of thomas jefferson from its legislative chamber because of his
reports that haitian gang kidnapped 17 missionaries, including 16 americans, is demanding $1 million each for their release. and cargo gridlock has eased at the port of los angeles. but some 200,000 shipping containers remain parked off of the coast. the huge backlog, there is some ocean traffic as you can see coming just as the demand for retail items is soaring for the holiday season. washington state university s head football coach nick roll ovich fired for refusg to get vaccinated. a seven foot tall statue of thomas jefferson will be removed from the new york city council s chambers. it is the culmination of a two decade effort by council members prompted by jefferson s history as a slave holder. and that s five things to know for your new day. more on these stories all day on cnn and cnn.com. download the five things podcast