continues our coverage. good afternoon, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. new video of the violence during the january 6 insurrection as well as new revelations about the potential inside help rioters may have gotten. also new reporting on how far the gop s war on voting rights is going. a tale of weather extremes. flooding in louisiana after a tropical cyclone hits and texas and the west are baking in the sun. all that and marking juneteenth today following ceremonies around the country. later this hour, talking to miss juneteenth 2020. but we do want to begin with that new video and new details about the ongoing investigation into the january of
thing this terrorist was right about is that american jews were welcoming refugees. we had celebrated the first ever refugee shabbat. and this was to show solidarity and love for refugees because american jews realize that there would not be an american jewish community but for those times when america opened its doors to refugees, including to jared kushner s grandparents. mark hetfield, thank you so much. thank you, don. thanks for watching. cnn s special report democracy in peril: the war on voting rights begins in just a few minutes. many people living with diabetes
supposedly inaccessible due to construction. here s what she saw. this is three days ago. does this building look completely blocked off to you, unable to be accessed? and by the way, maddow s producer also learned that there are a number of events that are scheduled at the civic center between now and election day and right after. what s going on here? yeah, i think that kansas state officials are going to have some explaining to do. if you re going to close a polling site this close to an election you have to accommodate people either through buses or some kind of accommodation to make it easy on them. springing this on them at the last minute just doesn t pass the smell test, especially considering the building looks fine there and there are events there. i don t know. and we have to i ve got to go. thank you. great conversation. we ll see you guys soon. don t miss cnn s special report democracy in peril: the war on voting rights tomorrow night at 11:00 eastern. thanks f
language to date, he called out republicans for waging a war on voting rights. some of them have not been shy about saying that they re doing this for partisan reasons. it is wrong to change our election rules just because of the politics. it is wrong to make citizens wait five, six, seven hours just to vote. it s wrong to make a senior citizen who no longer has a driver s license jump stloug hoops and have to pay money just to exercise the rights she has cherished for a lifetime. america did not stand up and did not march and sacrifice to gain the right to vote for ourselves and others only to see it denied to their kids and their grandchildren. it is wrong, but that hasn t stopped lawmakers in 1 states from introducing bills to scale back voting rights. in key swing states, they re pushing strict voter id laws. they re limiting early voting. they re even making it more harder to register people to vote. the president called this effort