that s the civil rights act that had been filibusters by segregationist for 54 straight days. but in the end, their efforts to stop it failed. they signed. it in the civil rights act of 1964 banned segregation. in public facilities, also in private facilities to which the public had access. and the segregationist at the time, screamed bloody murder. it s unconstitutional, you can t tell private entities what s to do. actually yes, yes you can. in the summer of 1964, president johnson made that law of the land. then the following summer. july 1965, lbj, actually went out on the road this time for an unusual signing ceremony. he went to missouri. two presidential s librarian to sign into law the bill that created medicare. and medicaid. he went to truman s presidential library, because it had been president truman her first proposed the u.s. government should commit to providing health coverage to all elderly people in the country. truman could not get it done while he was pr
hello, i m brianna keilar alongside jim sciutto who s in for john berman this morning on this new day, and there s a troubling rise in coronavirus cases and deaths in the u.s. what dr. fauci says is the key to finally getting out of this pandemic. well, the rush to take an unproven covid treatment led to more disinformation. a media fact check just ahead. a republican congressman who tried to travel to aversion and is accused of threatening ambassador staff says the biden administration is falsely claiming credit for getting an american family to safely. he ll join us live. costars the wire, remembering actor, michael k. williams after his sudden death in new york. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, it is tuesday, september 7th and covid cases are spiking at an alarming rate right now. nearly 18 months to the day after a pandemic was officially declared. there are signs that we may have hit a plateau, at least for now. there are
can this is a reasonable question to ask. i wonder how you defend that point. sure, this was raised by a group of doctors in texas, one of the states that is seeing very heavy use of their i.c.u. beds, about the role of the vaccination should play. it shouldn t be ever the only factor, but it should be one factor because we know that if you re unvaccinated, the chance of severe infection and death is higher, that that is one of the ingredients in making triage decisions. but even when they published this idea of maybe considering vaccination status as one of the factors, there was a lot of blowback, including from other doctors and care givers about what it would do to the doctor/patient relationship if you started having asking patients as they come to the hospital to give them your status as a reason to treat them or not. fair enough. i mean, listen, the data is clear. vaccination saves lives, keeps you out of those hospital beds. but the fact is in health care, for
battle plan? i ll talk to former texas state legislator wendy davis who filibustered. and plus we ll look at the gop frontrunner to replace gavin newsom oig. and a man who has argued against vaccines for young people, faced sexual harassment and domestic violence allegations and once made the case for slave owners being the ones who should get reparations. more on larry elder, the man who could save newsom. plus an amazing new interview with sydney powell. not sure that she s ever been asked this before. do you have hear yourself and think thatit sounds ridiculous? no, i know myself very well. i ve been in me a long time. and that is just one of the rival moments from a new documentary about right wing media and the big election lie. more on that coming up. but we begin with texas republicans enacting one of the strictest anti-abortion laws. one of the most well-known acts of democratic resistance came in the summer 2013. when then state senator wendy davis filibust
vaccines for young people, faced sexual harassment and domestic violence allegations, and once made the case for slave owners being the ones who should get reparations. more on larry elder, the man who could save newsom. plus an amazing interview with sidney powell. she has been assailed over her lawsuit, but not sure she as ever been asked this before. do you hear yourself and think it sounds ridiculous? no. i know myself very well. i have been in me a long time. i have been in me a long time. that s one the virtual moments about a documentary about right-wing media and the big election lie. more on that as well. we begin with the fight over abortion rights. texas republicans enacted one of the strictest laws after years of push back from democrats. in the summer of 2013, then-state senator wendy davis filibustered for 11 hours to stall the vote on a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. despite delaying the vote the bill passed and way signed by rick pe