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and when you get a big deal. you feel like a big deal. priceline. every trip is a big deal. welcome back, everyone. don lemon tonight. joining me, cnn political correspondent john harwood and democratic strategist joe trippi, now a senior adviser at the lincoln project. john, president biden is focusing on the spike in crime across the country, pushing for more police, more funding for their departments. what are you hearing about this clear step away from the progressive wing of his party? don, what it is is a clear step toward majority opinion in the country. remember, joe biden has never been for defunding the police. he was nominated over a series of more liberal candidates and of course elected president. nancy pelosi, the house speaker, does not support defunding the police, nor does chuck schumer. there is a relatively small group of progressive lawmakers who have adopted that slogan. most of the rest of the party considers it a liability. there is a significant
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congressman matt gaetz. we touched on this story before, but i have never said what i m about to say to you tonight. the feds are eyeing possible obstruction of justice. this stemming from a phone call that a witness had with the maga favorite and republican congressman matt gaetz s ex-girlfriend who patched gaetz into the call. this is a story broken by politico. it has been confirmed by nbc news. we can see how the investigation is moving with this key witness spilling everything to the feds, including what, by definition, sounds like things that some people might not want to get out. meanwhile, gaetz s guilty and convicted association cooperating, talking to the feds under a legal obligation to share anything and everything, whether he wants to or not, whether he thinks it is relevant or not saying, quote, congressman gaetz pursues justice. he does not obstruct it. let me be clear. that is a specific new charge that tells you on the one hand that this is a big and signif
or, you know, this is voter suppression or this is racist, because it is not. okay. had we mitigated earlier, had we actually paused earlier, how much of an impact do you think it would have made? there were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. all of the rest of them in my mind could have been mitigated or decreased substantially. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin tonight in georgia. that s where protesters have been rallying near the state capital, furious over gop governor brian kemp signing a controversial election law. they say it is nothing more than an effort to suppress the black vote after three crucial wins for democrats. the georgia republicans, including some who loudly stood up to president trump, say it means better election security and expanded access to voting. tonight we ll bring you the facts of this new law along with some of the most important voices in the debate. president biden is sl