welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. and tonight we re less than a month, 27 days, away from one of the weirdest and least predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what s happening now and ending on election day, november 8th, is not typical. it s not. as of now it s not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. no. it s more like a sharknado. now, typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins, feeling good because things are bad. with high inflation and fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power right now, that s democrats responsible and accountable. because phrases are up almost everywhere you look. life is more expensive. by which of course i mean life cereal, wheat and processed wheat products up more than 20% year-to-year. and as humpty hump might say, straight butter baby, by which butter is up 30% august to august. an
Floor. That is simply what this rule vote was. And yet they still couldnt get it over the finish line right now. Now what we are hearing from the Speakers Office is that there is a hope that they might be able to go back to the House Rules Committee restructure this rule and create some kind of harmony among republicans to actually get this debate started on the floor. But again, they are up against a deadline as intelligence officials are making clear that they our very concerned about fisa not being reauthorized by the april 19 deadline, arguing that the impact on their ability to collect intelligence would be severe at a time when there are so many threats happening. Against the United States at the same time. Now, there is a big question right now about what johnsons future holds, what his speakership holds given that threat for Marjorie Taylor greene and republicans are just frustrated with the level of tumbled and chaos that they are experiencing day to day working in their jobs.
these two cases up for comparison and come to some pretty awful conclusions about the state of justice in florida. joining me now at the table, jelani cobb, associate professor of history, director of the institute for african-american studies at the university of connecticut. barry shack, civil rights attorney, co-founder and co-director of the innocence project. and joining me from jacksonville is congresswoman corrine brown, democrat from florida. congresswoman, i ll begin with you and ask you why you ve paid such careful attention to this case. what about this case has captured your imagination and precipitated your advocacy? first of all, let me just tell you that sanford, florida, is also in my district and my heart is just so heavy for the martin family. you need to know that. and i contacted the justice department as soon as this incident happened along with the congressional black caucus and asked them to investigate. now, the case in jacksonville, melissa alexander has a ma
comparison and come to some pretty awful conclusions about the state of justice in florida. joining me now at the table, jelani cobb, associate professor of history, director of the institute for african-american studies at the university of connecticut. barry shack, civil rights attorney, co-founder and co-director of the innocence project. and joining me from jacksonville is congresswoman corrine brown, democrat from florida. congresswoman, i ll begin with you and ask you why you ve paid such careful attention to this case. what about this case has captured your imagination and precipitated your advocacy? first of all, let me just tell you that sanford, florida, is also in my district and my heart is just so heavy for the martin family. you need to know that. and i contacted the justice department as soon as this incident happened along with the congressional black caucus and asked them to investigate. now, the case in jacksonville, melissa alexander has a master s degree. never ha
convicted her. it s hard in the wake of the zimmerman verdict not to put these two cases up for comparison and come to some pretty awful conclusions about the state of justice in florida. joining me now at the table, jehlani cobb, associate professor of history, director of the institute for african-american studies at the university of connecticut. barry shack, civil rights attorney, co-founder and co-director of the innocence project. and joining me from jacksonville is congresswoman corrine brown, democrat from florida. congresswoman, i ll begin with you and ask you why you ve paid such careful attention to this case. what about this case has captured your imagination and precipitated your advocacy? first of all, let me just tell you that sanford, florida, is also in my district and my heart is just so heavy for the martin family. you need to know that. and i contacted the justice department as soon as this incident happened along with the congressional black caucus and asked them