i believe that joe biden, our president, recognizes the importance of the voting rights act. he recognizes how important an unfetterred right to vote is. he s lived through a lot, he s seen a lot, he was back there during the days of the old segregationists in the senate, and some folks want to go back to those times where you can sit down and work out a deal with those guys. but we are dealing with a different set of opponents this time. they are more i mean their game is a little bit more complicated than the old segregationist and they re playing from the old segregationist playbook but it s a jim crow 2.0 situation. so joe biden has to understand the fact that back in 1965 when the voting rights act was
the question is whose side are we on and who are we going to help? which is why monday i asked the president to make internet access in cuba a priority. yesterday as a follow up, i detailed we spoke to the companies that did it. they did it in puerto rico. there s a way to use federal facilities in key west and guantanamo bay on the island to provide using the helium balloons the ability to get unfetterred internet access to the people on the ground so they can communication with the world and talk to themselves and take action and begin to build a new country. sandra: senator, highlights what is on our screen. angela merkel, the german chancellor is arriving at the white house right now where she will have a bilateral meeting with president biden. we re told on the agenda is climate change, the covid pandemic and obviously a range of foreign policy issues. as we see merkel arrive at the white house, senator, what would you suggest should be the top
covid-19 pandemic and they call for an unfetterred investigation into the virus origins. rich edson reports. there s more pressure on china s government to allow an independent investigation to how this pandemic began. anthony blinken spoke this morning with china s top diplomat. blinken pushed a transparent study into china in covid s origins. china these said it s absurd. in england, the g-7 nations will request the world health organization lead a new investigation into the origins of covid-19. that s according to bloomberg. next week, leaders from the united states and european union will meet in brussels. reuters said we call for progress on a transparent,
mitch mcconnell to drop sanctions on a russian oligarch. as soon as mcconnell did that, vitter came back to mcconnell s office to let him know that the oligarch s firm was going to write a $200 million check to a new enterprise in mcconnell s home state of kentucky. right after that, mitch mcconnell suddenly discovered, hey, david vitter s wife s judicial nall nation hadn t gone through after all and he pulled it out of the circular file and rushed it through and now wendy vitter is going to be on a federal bench until the end of her working life. so i mean that s how they have used this power. they have had some doozies with great unfetterred power comes wild irresponsibility, always and ever. but this next document i m about to show you, this is something i have it here, don t i? yeah. this document. this is something that i never expected to have to read as part of my day job. it is a law review article that
today house ways and means committee chairman richard neal sued treasury secretary steven mnuchin and charles rettig to force them to obey the federal law that requires them to hand over any tax return filed with the irs to the chairmen of the ways and means committee, in this case the tax returns that the chairman is seeking are donald trump s. chairman neal s lawsuit says the treasury secretary and the irs commissioner have been illegally refusing to hand over the trump tax returns. the lawsuit says section 6103-f requires in mandatory terms that treasury shall furnish the committee with any requested tax return information, enacted in 1924 in the wake of congressional attempts to investigate wrongdoing, section 6103-f was designed to provide the committee with unfetterred access to tax returns necessary