Reviewing the damage today, President Biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. Climb change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy. The threat is here. Its not going to get any better. The storms are going to get worse and worse and worse. We have to listen to the scientists and the national security experts. They all tell us this is code red. The nation and the world are in peril. That is not hyperbole, that is a fact. President biden speaking today, again, on this trip to New York and new jersey. What, of course, hes proposing to do on climate is whats in his build back better plan, the big Infrastructure Bill that democrats are trying to pass. One thing to sort of have in mind over the next few days is that by The End of this week, we may not know definitively, but we should have a pretty good idea by The End of this week as to whether or not theyll be able to pass this Infrastructure Bill, as to whether or not President Biden is going to be able to effectuate most of his Policy Agenda for his first term in office. Its an important horizon, i think, to set this week in particular. In politics i learned early on that its a sort of common wisdom in politics and in news about politics that the day after Labor Day, whether or not you are in school, whether or not you have kids in school, the day after Labor Day is the first day of school for everyone. Or the first day of the year even when its not rosh hashanah. The theory is that in an election year, today is the day, the day after Labor Day, that the country actually starts paying attention to who theyre eventually going to vote for, even when its not a national election year. Still, today is the day. The day after Labor Day are when members of Congress Start to head back to washington having gotten an earful from their constituents back home about whatever the outrage of the day is that motivated politics through the summer season. Case in point, 2009. The first August Recess of the obama presidency. You might remember that was distinguished by riproaring, raucous, sometimes crazed, occasional even violent Town Halls and protests all around the country by antiobama republicans, by the new Tea Party Republican Movement all Screaming Bloody Murder about how obamacare was going to destroy the country and they were willing to start a Civil War over it. In The End, obamacare, of course, passed into law and its now just now its the affordable Care Act quietly providing Health Insurance to tens of millions of americans without much fuss, right, and without Hell Mouths opening anywhere that i can see, at least. And looking back at 2009 and the freakout on the right about the affordable Care Act, aka obamacare, it does seem all hyper and over the top. But it was real at the time. It was a remarkable thing to cover in the moment, and the fact remains that huge pushback in 2009, that first time lawmakers had a long break at home in august 2009, the first time they had a long break at home after obama was elected president , that huge pushback, that roiling opposition in their home districts, that Set The Tone for the rapid opposition, the intransigent opposition that obamacare engendered for years after. That was 2009. That was the first August Recess when President Obama was president. Fastforward to now, weve just had the first August Recess of President Biden being president. And this time its not obamacare, this time its not the affordable Care Act thats the proposal on the table, this time its way bigger. This time the new democratic president is proposing a 3. 5 trillion Infrastructure Bill, which is way, way bigger than obamacare was. But its funny, you know . Not really a peep at home. No angry Town Halls about this in the home districts. Actually, not even really a peep from elected republicans about it or from right wing active activists who are supporting them. It turns out President Bidens Infrastructure Bill is really popular. If you want to look at signs of life around this gigantic Infrastructure Bill when members of congress and senators went home for the August Recess, look no further than Senator Bernie sanders of vermont doing supportive rallies for the Infrastructure Bill in places like indiana and iowa. Thousands of people coming out to see him talk about it in indiana and iowa, and his Home State of vermont. Not to protest him and how much they object it but how much they support it. What were seeing around the Infrastructure Bill, including all the climate stuff, its the opposite of the bloody, screaming opposition to obamacare that we saw at this exact point in the obama presidency. Opposition, substantive or otherwise, just isnt materializing on the right against President Bidens major proposals the way it did for President Obama. That, of course, is a problem that democrats have a fix for. Democrats might just decide in the absence of significant pushback on the right, they might just decide they oppose their own agenda themselves. What the Tea Party did to hamstring the agenda of President Obama for years, Democrat Joe Manchin is trying to do to President Bidens agenda now saying he just doesnt want to vote for the Infrastructure Bill, doesnt plan to vote for the Infrastructure Bill. Climate be damned and all the rest of it, too. Despite how popular it is, even among his own voters. Its just worth keeping that in mind over the course of the next few days. We shall see. I think by The End of this week, we should know a lot more as to whether or not its going to happen. And, of course, its happening at the same time that a lot of other things are on the boil. On covid, the administration is making some new moves as well. The President Today directing that 600 payments should be made to individual farmworkers and people who work in Meat Packing plants to compensate them for the extraordinary risk and thank them for the extraordinary service they provided the country during the covid pandemic. Earlier agricultural Aid And Food Supply Chain Aid had basically gone to the owners of those businesses, not to the lowlevel workers. Biden had said 600 there are checks should go to lowlevel workers in those fields. As of this week were back up to a steady stream of more than 1500 deaths every day from covid, which is impossible to swallow. And some states, states with lower vaccination rates, are having it even harder than others, harder than the rest of the country. In the great state of idaho today, State Officials announced a decision they made quietly yesterday, which is that hospitals in the northern part of that state, hospitals in the northern part of idaho will now move to whats called Crisis Standards of care. Crisis standards of care means they effectively agree that the states hospitals are going to have to start Rationing Care now. Theyre not going to be able to give Everyone Optimum Treatment because the numbers are so overwhelming for covid hospitalizations. This is something that idaho feared they might have to do last year during what Everybody Thought was the worst of the covid search. They never had to do it before now, but now that policy is in effect in northern and north central idaho. The day after tomorrow, President Biden is due to make another address to the country on the issue of covid, particularly on the issue of Vaccination Boosters and more. Were starting to see signals that the plan for Booster Shots being made available later this month, that may be in flux. The details of that should be more clear as well over the course of this week as we head toward that president ial address which we believe will be on thursday. So, i mean, just as it was before the holiday weekend, there is just a ton going on. Lots of major news developing still every day, sort of relentlessly. But i want to start tonight, this proverbial first day of school with the story of a Charming Bar in the great state of massachusetts. There is a bar in cambridge, massachusetts called Grendalls Den. I have never been, but it looks great. It looks like my kind of place. This year marks the 50th year in business for Grendalls Den. Its amazing to hit that achievement, especially this year which is challenging for bars and restaurants everywhere. They had to figure out how to celebrate. They reportedly put together an lp, a vinyl record, all recording songs from the Year Grendall was founded, from 1971. Thats very cool. You can buy a Grendalls Den onesie for your baby. You can buy a collapsible Grendels Den Bowl for your dog. For 4 you can buy a grendelss. It wasnt until they were open for a few years that they decided they wanted to open their current Basement Location as a proper bar. And in order to open as a bar, they had to apply to the city for a stateregulated Liquor License. And thats where Todays Gift to you comes from, because back then if you walked out the Back Door of Grendels Den, the next building you would encounter across the alley, little Courtyard Thing there, was a church, the Holy Cross Catholic Church. That church has since moved out to the suburbs. I think where the church was is now a petes coffee. I dont know, its all changed over the years. So they applied to be a bar and their door across the Back Alley was a door to a church. That was really, really important. Because a Massachusetts State Law at the time gave churches the right and the opportunity to veto any Liquor License application for any business that was near to them. And even today, 50 years after they were founded, as theyre celebrating their 50th Anniversary of being in business with the collapsible Doggie Bowl and all the rest ofit, even today Grendels Den has a site supporting their case on their website. Its the same place where you can buy the shot glasses and the onesies and everything else. They have a link for that citation to that Court Case because theyre very proud of that case. Because they won that case. Massachusetts law said the state, the government, had the power to give or withhold a license to serve liquor, which you need in order to operate a bar. But massachusetts then delegated effectively that power to a private entity, to churches. The Holy Cross armenian Catholic Church used that power to say that Grendels Den could not have a Liquor License. Grendels den sued. They got a really good, somewhat famous lawyer to argue their side all the way up to the Supreme Court of the united states. And in 1982, in fact, in an 81 decision authored by the chief justice, the united states Supreme Court sided with the bar, they sided with Grendels Den. Nothing against the church, of course, but the Supreme Court ruled that massachusetts had crossed into unconstitutional territory when it, quote, delegated to private nongovernmental entities a power normally invested in agencies of government. The court said by doing that, the law substituted the churchs own views, whatever they may be and regardless of what theyre based on, the church substituted the churchs own motivations to act, quote, for the Reason Decision Making of a public legislative body acting on evidence and guided bystanders on issues with significant economic and political implications. In other words, nobody has got a right to have a Liquor License. That was not what was at issue here. What was at issue here was that the government, the state, cant let some random church, a school, some Oth Precedent from 1982, that decision. That professor who took it to the united states and won named Lawrence Tribe has sort of set off a Flare Warning that the Texas Abortion Ban that the u. S. Supreme court let pass into law last week, he said thats basically the Grendels Den case all over again. He said, as with the massachusetts liquor law, the Texas Abortion Law delegates quintessentially governmental power to private parties. But this time its a state delegating authority to, as he puts it, quote, literally anyone on earth with an objection to abortion, giving that individual or organization the unilateral and unfettered power to inflict punishment on whoever assists a woman in terminating a pregnancy. Lawrence tribe said that Supreme Court precedent he pursued and won in 1982, the way he won that case for that bar in cambridge can be the undoing of the texas now, how exactly it has to go for that strategy to work, who has to bring the lawsuit and when and against whom, that itself is obviously very important to this as a strategy. Logically its also really interesting even to those of us who arent lawyers. Were going to speak to Lawrence Tribe about that in just a moment. Since the Texas Abortion Ban was allowed to go into law last week, weve been keeping an eye on neighboring states around texas, even neighboring very Red States like oklahoma, for example, where clinics that still offer abortion services already say they are filling up with a flood of patients from texas. Weve been watching activist groups and womens Networks Pt Plans into action to help women and fund women beyond State Lines out of texas so they can have it done legally before those states start to ban it, too. Half a dozen states are moving to copy Texass Law and Ban Abortion in those states as well, but texas as of now is the only state who have banned abortion, so women in texas who need an abortion have to leave the state somehow in order to get one. Weve been watching that sort of delicate and somewhat panicked maneuvering by Texas Women and people who support them to try to get around the structures of this new law, this reality where its illegal to get an abortion now. In the midst of that today, though, watching all those developments was a bit of a bull from the blue to get Todays News from across texas other state line. From across Texas Border to the south. Because today the Supreme Court of mexico ruled that it is unconstitutional to Ban Abortion any longer in that country. Some states In Mexico allow for legal abortion, some do not, but the Supreme Court Ruling Today In Mexico struck down one states abortion ban, and the ruling is expected to be binding on all states in the country. In other words, mexico just got its roe v. Wade today, just a few days after the republicanappointed majority on our Supreme Court got rid of the protections of roe in the united states of america. Its like our two countries passed each other at the threshold, right . One country leaving the century going backwards, the other one on its way in. Nobody is quite sure what the biden administration is going to do, or what they can do, especially as Red States, republicancontrolled states, Gear Up To Xerox the Texas Bill and put their own bans in place. President biden did pledge a whole of Government Approach to try to protect womens constitutional rights. Attorney general Merrick Garland said yesterday the doj is reviewing its options, but nobody knows quite sure what theyll do. Professor Lawrence Tribe has some pointed advice there as well. Joining us now is professor Lawrence Tribe who cowrote an oped in the Boston Globe Today about the Supreme Courts 1982 decision in the Grendels Den case. He argued that and won. He argues today it could upend texas new abortion law. Professor tribe is an emeritus at a Texas Law school. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me, rachel. Could you tell me if i screwed up any of that meaningfully . You got did just right. You brought back wonderful memories and you got all of it right. The whole case arose because of this arbitrary power that was given to a private entity. It happened to be a church. But the issue is the same, whether its a church or not. Theres all these cases in which the Supreme Court has said you cannot give governmental power over peoples lives or liberty to private bodies that have no public accountability. And the Supreme Court has said in 1925 in the unanimous decision by justice holmes that the Attorney General of the united states, even without a statute, has authority to go to court to represent the united states against any state which interferes with Interstate Commerce or in this case perhaps international commerce to mexico or to New Mexico within the country or that violates Human Rights pursuant to a treaty in order to get injunctive relief. I know the Attorney General is looking closely at all of his options. He also has optioned under the Ku Klux Klan Act to bring criminal proceedings against Bounty Hunters who are basically engaged in the kind of Vigilante Justice that led to the enactment of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1971, so it is curious that this little restaurant in Harvard Square could become a landmark in the path to womens rights, Human Rights and the Rule Of Law which is being turned upside down by the state of texas. I think a lot of people looking at this from the outside, from outside the legal system, is sort of lamenting this abrupt change from 50 years of established precedent in the court and what we thought were our constitutional rights. I think there is some appeal or some i dont know, some easiness to the idea that the Justice Department could swoop in here and sort of save this constitutional right, that the government, the administration, could move in to act. But one of the ways youre describing the vulnerability of this law would involve bringing lawsuits by people who effectively were targeted by this Texas Law, and that would be handled as a civil matter . Well, the individuals who were targeted, then the clinics that are taken out of business could bring lawsuits under the civil equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan Act, which is 42 u. S. Code sections 1983 and 1985. Those are the sections they could bring suits to basically get a multitude, multiple of whatever bounties are being claimed against them so that what we need, since this Texas Law operates by Chilling Abortion helpers and abortion providers, frightening them out of business, what they can do is say, you sue us for 10,000 or 10 million, because there is No Limit put on the statute, and well sue you for double that. Do you want to try . I think a lot of the people who would waltz into Court And Exercise this impermissibly delegated power over abortion will think twice several times. Interestingly, the point about the Grendels Den case and all of this talk about private power, is that even a justice who doesnt believe in roe v. Wade, who doesnt think there is a basic right to abortion would have to confront all these precedents that say even if what youre doing is not something thats especially protected by the constitution like Serving Liquor with the meal that you are serving people, even then your livelihood cannot be put at the mercy of a private party who is delegated unbridled authority. So we now have many fronts on which this law can be challenged, and i think the Attorney General has been doing a serious job of investigating the best way to proceed. Do you have confidence in Merrick Garlands commitment to find a way to challenge these laws . Very much. Ive known him for years. He was my student. I know a lot of people would like him to move more quickly. I get impatient myself sometimes and i havent been easy on him, but i do have confidence that hes looking very hard at the best possible way for the united States Government to proceed and protect both women and the Rule Of Law. And im looking forward to whatever hes going to do. Sir, thank you very much for your time tonight and helping us understand. Thank you, rachel. Weve got much more to get to tonight. Stay with us. Weve got much mort to Tonight Stay with us just two pills for all day pain relief. Aleve it, and see whats possible. Tech every customer has their own safelite story. This couple was on a camping trip. When their windshield got a chip. They drove to safelite for a sameday repair. And with their insurance, it was no cost to them. Woman really . Tech thats service you can trust. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. If you have this. Consider adding this. 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Theres new reporting out of the State Of Georgia that the criminal investigation there into former President Donald Trump appears to be steaming ahead. As you know, a State Prosecutor in georgia, in fulton county, georgia, the District Attorney there, has been investigating whether former President Trump broke State Laws by trying to interfere in the State Election in georgia. Its an election that revolves around trumps Phone Call in january in which he pressured Georgias Secretary of state to find extra votes for trump and thereby overturn bidens electoral victory in the state. The Daily Beast is reporting that prosecutor has interviewed at least four officials in Georgias Secretary of states office. Investigators have shown a particular interest not just in the Phone Call from trump but also in a similar earlier call from republican u. S. Senator lindsey graham. Georgias Republican Secretary of state has said Senator Graham called and told him he should use his power as Secretary Of State to throw out a number of Absentee Ballots in georgia in order to hand the electoral votes to trump. They are correlating with the Investigation Committee that is investigating the January 6 insurrection in the capitol, adding that any documents that turn up in that investigation could be useful to their State Prosecution back home in georgia. That potential criminal prosecution against Donald Trump and his allies moving forward in georgia, there are developments now in the new York State of investigation into the former president s business. It was two months ago when the Business Run by former President Trump and his family got criminally indicted. New York Prosecutors indicted the Trump Organization itself and its longtime cfo Allen Weisselberg. Charged him with a yearslong multidollar tax fraud scheme. Mr. Weisselberg himself and the Trump Organization has pled guilty in that case, the case is ongoing. Since those initial indictments, lots of breath has been expended, lots of ink has been spilled as to whether that was the extent of the case, whether there would be superseding indictments with more charges on those defendants, whether there would be other defendants indicted on other charges related to the initial alleged Tax Scheme or related to something else. Well, now we know, or at least we know that its still going. The prosecutors who brought those charges against the Trump Organization and its cfo, they have been continuing to work that case and they apparently have more to give. The Wall Street Journal was first to report that the special Grand Jury thats been Hearing Evidence in the trump case, the Grand Jury that handed down the previous criminal indictments, last week they decided they needed to hear from yet more witnesses. Even before the first indictments, the Wall Street Journal and also cnn had reported that somebody else from the Trump Organization, a guy with a name you wont forget, had reported that he was under scrutiny by prosecutors, that he had been advised to get his own attorney, that prosecutors were potentially seeking his cooperation. I said you will not forget his name. You will not forget his name. His name is matthew calamari, which is actually a beautiful name and you wont forget it. It gets ahold of you and wont let go. You might succeed in pulling one of its little arms off, but then theres seven other little arms that grab you and hug you. Little tentacles that stick right now. Matthew Calamari Sr. Started as a Donald Trump bodyguard. He eventually was named Trump Organizations ceo, chief operating officer. Hes the one under scrutiny just like Allen Weissenberg was. He is now named as a security director. It was mr. Squids the younger subpoenaed to give testimony to the Grand Jury last week. Grand jury testimony is secret. We can never know what happens behind those closed doors, but as a general matter in New York, getting a subpoena to testify before the Grand Jury means you dont have a choice. You must appear. You are compelled to testify. But you also get a form of limited immunity for anything criminal that you cop to during that testimony. Again, as a general matter, if you are being subpoenaed to testify to the Grand Jury, yes, you have to testify, but you yourself are probably not getting indicted. They probably want your testimony to contribute to a potential indictment of Someone Else. Well, now mr. Calamari jr. Has provided that testimony. The New York times reported that mr. Squids mr. Calamari appeared in front of the Grand Jury late last week on thursday of last week. His lawyers say he was immunized and testified truthfully. Again, it is probably not a bad sign for mr. Calamari jr. Who gave the testimony, but its potentially a bad sign for Someone Else who he was asked to testify about. In addition to tha calamari appetizer, cnn reports that the top officer under Allen Weisselberg named Jeff Mcconnell was asked to testify before the Grand Jury last Cconney Reporte testified already in front of the cfo. Now hes been called in again. He did reportedly give that testimony to the Grand Jury, again, end of last week. You know, subpoenas are neither indictments nor are they sure signs that more indictments are coming. But they are a sure sign that the prosecutors are still at work and not done here. They really seem to have their tentacles attached to this thing. Their little grabby arms just clinging and clinging and not letting go. So many arms. Do you know they have hard little beaks, too . Watch this space. , too . Watch this space feel the clarity of nondrowsy claritin. And 24hour relief from symptoms caused by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. 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Another three were filed today immediately upon Governor Abbott signing the bill into law. One of those lawsuits was from veteran voting Rights Lawyer Mark elias, who is a busy man right now. He is suing six other states during this wave of restrictions on Voting Laws. Mark elias lawsuits strictly cut right to the point. This latest on behalf of texas nonprofits is no exception. It says, in part, quote, the Lejs Layer enacted Sb 1 not to preserve Election Integrity or combat election fraud. After all, the states own election officials have acknowledged that elections in texas are already secure but rather to stem the growing tied of Minority Voter Participation by weaponizing the false, repeatedly debunked accusations of widespread Voter Fraud advanced by supporters of former President Donald Trump during the 2020 president ial election. The Attorney General and members of its delegation tried and failed to overturn the president ial election results and disenfranchise millions of voters in other states. Joining us now is mark elias, democratic voting Rights Attorney. Mr. Elias, thank you for being here. I know youre busy as always. Thanks for having me. Each time one of these laws has passed, and each time you have recently filed a lawsuit to try to stop it, i have asked you if you think there is a remedy for these laws in the courts. And youve been pretty clear here repeatedly in the past that the best remedy would be for congress to pass a new law, something like the for the people act, to bolster Voting Rights in federal sought in a way that states cant deviate from. Does texas passing this Law Change that calculation at all, or are we still in the same place we were . If anything, it just illustrates the problem, which is that, as you point out, this is now the seventh state since the Big Lie and the violent attempted coup on January 6. This is the seventh state that has passed an Omnibus Law to make voting harder. Yes, we can keep going to court in state after state after state, and we are, because we believe these laws violate the constitution and the voting Rights Act, but boy, it would sure be better if congress would pass the for the people act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and put in place a structure that would simply shut down these terrible suppression efforts. In terms of texas in the news right now, obviously the Texas Abortion Ban being allowed to go into effect last week by the Supreme Court continues to be a huge new story in the country. The Texas Governor making news on that today with bizarre comments about how his plan for rape victims being forced to bear their Rapists Child under the new law is Something Hell take care of because hes going to eliminate rape in texas. Texas is sort of positioned in the vanguard on social issues and divisive issues is something that feels both sort of perfectly illustrated by this Voting Law and also, like this Voting Law, is just one thing among many. I have to ask you if there is anything specific about this Texas Law that makes it either easier or harder to challenge in court. Weve all been following the abortion Laws Journey through the Supreme Court and back and the way texas republicans were able to basically scheme that one in such a way that it could avoid federal scrutiny in the courts. Yeah, so i think there are a couple things about this law that make it particularly vulnerable. The first is texas cant claim, like some other states do, that it has expansive Voting Rights. Its one of the hardest states already to register to vote and to vote. So were starting off of a baseline which is pretty restrictive to begin with. Number two, you have the State Officials in texas saying that there was no evidence of fraud in their state. So theres no reason for the law. And the third, which is really one of the pieces of this law that makes it so dangerous and so different is the allowance and the incitement, almost, for partisan Poll Watchers to go to the polls and have free range in the watching up close how voters vote, and any time election officials try to rein them in, they face the risk themselves of criminal prosecution. So those are some of the reasons why this Texas Law is uniquely bad, not to mention that it targets harris county. And i think those things will play prominently in the court lawsuits. In terms of the Poll Watchers issue you just mentioned, i feel like observing fights over Voting Rights, even election disputes over the years, i feel like this issue of having partisan Poll Watchers at Polling Sites has led to incredible charges that voters are intimidated bipartisan Poll Watchers as theyre constituted now. The Texas Law signed today would empower them to have access to more parts of the Voting Process that they dont already have access to . It would, and it would also restrict the ability of the election officials to sort of control the space. We count on the fact that on Election Day we want a bubble around the Voting Locations themselves which is why states have bans, for example, on electioneering in the polls. We want to make sure the Election Workers at the polls have the ability to keep attention at bay and keep the voting lines moving. What texas has done is put in place a regime that removals the ability of the election officials to do that and really invites bad behavior on the part of partisan poll watching officials. And we know from history when thats done, it is inevitably republicans who are targeting black and brown voters. So i expect well see that in texas and were going to be prepared to challenge that in court. Marc, last question for you. If this case or some combination of this case and other cases ends up getting to the united states Supreme Court, as we have seen these waves of Voter Restriction laws pass in republicancontrolled states all over the country, do you expect that the Supreme Court would be as hostile to Voting Rights as they have shown themselves to be to abortion rights, and as a lot of people fear they must be given the Way Theyve gutted the voting Rights Act in successive opinions in the last few years . I dont have rosecolored glasses on. I know what it is but we have no choice. When we cut out peoples constitutional rights which the legislatures in iowa, in montana, in kansas, in montana have done, fundamentally it is the job of the state courts in this country to ensure constitutional rights are protected. So were going to litigate these cases assuming that the courts will do the right things, and we will hope for the best. Marc elias, voting Rights Attorney and the founder of democracy dockets, thank you for your time tonight. I know its a busy time. Thank you, rachel. The voting Rights Law signed today by Governor Abbott is already meeting challenges in federal court. Still more to get to tonight. Stay with us. To get to Tonight Stay with us [ heavy breathing ] allergies with nasal congestion overwhelming you . Breathe more freely with powerful claritind. Claritind improves nasal airflow two times more than the leading Allergy Spray at hour one. [ Deep Inhale ] claritind. Get more airflow. For people living with hiv, keep being you. 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She set up an area for Meat Processing on her farm. In california a group of veterans has sent a welcoming committee to the Sacramento Airport to greet every arriving family. In arkansas, volunteers are signing up to buy groceries, do Volunteer Pickups and host families in their homes. After the Pain And Chaos and sheer danger so many of these afghan evacuees endured to get out of their country, it is a heartening thing to see people all over the country, left wing and right Wing And Volunteering their time and money and even their farms Meat Processing capabilities. According to a recent poll in the washington post, the number of americans both democrats and republicans who support the united states taking in afghan refugees as permanent residents, that number is an overwhelming 68 . By a margin of more than two to one, we welcome them, even with some folks in the right wing media trying to demagogue this issue, trying to turn americans hearts cold to these folks. It is not working. Even a majority of republicans support welcoming them here. With the taliban now in charge, the news out of afghanistan continues to be impossible to turn away from, as the afghans who stayed behind, among other things, they keep finding new ways to push back against the taliban. Look at this. This was kabul this morning. Hundreds of afghans flooding the streets to protest the taliban. They chanted for freedom. They declared their support for antiopposition fighters. They demanded equal rights for women. And this is not just happening in kabul. Yesterday on monday this group of women marched through the city of mazarisharif. Violation of womens rights equals violation of Human Rights. We are not going back. The protests in mazarisharif broke up after they were stalked the whole way by the taliban. One of the protesters spoke to the washington post. She said, quote, we were afraid, but at least we defended our rights. Earlier this week the taliban did break up a protest of all women in kabul. They were demanding that women be included in the talibans new government. The women who were there say the taliban used tear gas. Several say they were beaten when the taliban used the butts of their rifles on the crowd. The entire crowd of protesters were women. Back in kabul today, they started confiscating cell phones, deleting pictures and videos they had taken of the march, trying to erase evidence it happened. Taliban fighters walked alongside the protesters and when the protests arrived at the president ial palace, the taliban started Firing Gunshots in the air to disperse the crowd. Some protesters were retortedly detained. These women are not deterred. One young woman who attended the March Today in kabul told the bbc, quote, we command Freedom Of Speech and democracy. She said, quote, i am not afraid of death. More ahead tonight. Stay with us. 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And hundreds of people came, some who were eyewitness attacks, some people who lost loved ones, some who experienced it like other people did. Got them to sit down in front of a camera again this year to tell how their story has continued from then over these past 20 years. Its amazing. All of those powerful stories are now in this new Documentary Coproduced with Nbc News studio. Its called memory box. Its really good. Youve never seen anything like it. Were going to premier it Tomorrow Night at 10 00 p. M. Eastern. Right after the show. Were going to show it commercial free. I just want to give you a Heads Up that you should plan ahead. That documenta