and businesses are speaking up about how these new jim crow laws are antithetical to is another side of it, to the other side is when they move out of georgia, the people who need help the most, people making hourly wages sometimes it hurt the most. paul: let s bring in our panel. deputy editorial page editor, senior fellow, jason riley. jason, by now even many honest liberals are saying jim crow charge is false, the georgia law is less restrictive to boating loss and states like new york or delaware so why are biden and the democrats running this kind of campaign against it? i think these are the terms they use to scare supporters to the polls, to keep black voters in particular paranoid, frightened about franchise being in jeopardy so they are willfully misrepresenting what the law says they are throwing around terms like voter suppression jim crow, i think it is embarrassing that they are doing this. the black voter turnout in georgia has been exceeding white voter turno
might be delayed and he may have a hard time getting moderate democrats to back that after the congressional budget office is out with a new report saying raising the minimum wage to $15 will put more put more people out of a job. millions would lose their job from it. 900,000 would be lifted out of poverty and add $154 billion to the deficit over ten years. some senate republicans says it will make stuff more expensive and hurt people they re trying to help. senator chuck grassley pleading this. including this harmful policy in covid relief bill would devastate same business people hurt by the people. others like bernie sanders are not letting that news burst their bubble. sanders say they should do it anyway. the news from the cbo proves his point that they could pass it through budget reconciliation with no republican support and 51 votes. he said this today. the good news from a bird rule perspective, increasing the minimum wage would have an impact on the budget. we coul
constituencies. i was in quite burns district in south carolina and you open this news conference talking about h. i spoke to a number of black voters who fought to get you elected and now they feel as though you are not fighting hard enough for them. and they are priorities. and they told me they see this push on voting rights more as a last-minute p.r. push then it is a legitimate effort to get legislation passed. so what do you say to these black voters who say that you do not have their backs as you promised on the campaign trail? president biden: i ve had their back and i ve had their back my entire career. i ve never not had their backs. i started on the voting rights issue long, long ago when i got involved in politics in the first place. and i think part of the problem is, look, there is significant disagreement in every community on whether or not the timing of assertions made by people has been the most timely way. so, i m sure there are those who are saying that
ukraine. and the other stories we re following this morning, the number of migrants at the southern border hit a 20-year high and new concern about the supply chain and rising consumer prices. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, april 18th. i m jonathan lemire. russian forces continue their offensive in eastern ukraine, stepping up up attacks in kharkiv, and a barrage of russian rockets hit the city center yesterday, setting fire to several apartment buildings and a market. a day earlier, russian missiles hit a community kitchen that was run by chef jose that was being used to feed refugees. four of the staff members were injured in the attack. in the nightly address, president volodymyr zelenskyy called the bombing of kharkiv, quote, nothing but deliberate terror. he also said at least 18 people have been killed and over 100 injured in the fighting in the city in the past days. moscow had given ukrainian fighters until yesterday morning to lay dow
the united states. we await the full force of president biden s response to the drone attack that took the lives of three of our american soldiers. general jack keane says that it is time for the white house to wake up. he explains that in moments. he will join us. first, a chilling new warning from fbi director christopher wray who says that chinese hackers are preparing to wreak havoc all over our infrastructure systems. watch. the prc hackers are targeting our critical infrastructure, our water treatment plants, our electrical grid, our oil and natural gas pipelines. our transportation systems. the ccps dangerous actions, china s multipronged assault on our national and economic security make it the defining threat of our generation. martha: gop senator tom cotton fresh from the hearing where he grilled the ceo of tik tok, some interesting back and forth there. he calls tik tok, the senator does a propaganda machine for china. first to david spunt with the back story f