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 president. Bu
going to have a lot more on that coming up later in the show. we start tonight with a moment of crisis of our own right here at home. take a look at this map. this is the map tracking community transmission of covid across all 50 states. blue and yellow there on the screen. means low to moderate. orange means substantial, red means high. as you can see in this picture. every single state is red. community transmission of covid is at the highest recorded level in every state in the country as of this night. the u.s. yesterday just reported its highest ever single day record for new covid infections. new cases drawing less of a curve, more of a straight vertical line. new cases in the last two weeks are up by 100 and 26%. the world health organization said today that they are anticipating a quote, tsunami of new cases worldwide over the next few weeks. but so far, thankfully, we have not seen a tsunami of new hospitalizations and deaths along with the spread of omicron. the hos
committee for his role in facing a false slate of electors for donald trump was so committed to the big lie that he said that he would completely purge the voter rules there. i get to appoint the secretary of state of state and that secretary of state will clean up the election logs. you have to re-register and we ll start all over again. what could go wrong? earlier this week in michigan, republicans nominated a trump-endorsed election denier. who has appeared in qanon rallies to be the state s top election official and they nominated another 2020 election denier who sued to overturn michigan s 2020 election results to be their candidate for attorney general. the seemingly relentless march of big lie republican candidates faces its biggest test perhaps in georgia where as we reported earlier this week, trump endorsed election fraud conspiracy theorists. david purdue is running on a platform of lies about the 2020 election in his bid to unseat sitting republican governo
i m yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to get to in the two hours ahead. breaking news out of france in the last hour or so, french president emmanuel macron has defeated far right rival marine le pen. winning a second five year term in a high stakes race with wide-ranging implications. we are live in paris with their reaction. what this means for the global political landscape. go 60 of russia s war in ukraine, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says he is missing meeting face to face with secretary of state antony blinken and lloyd austin in the highest profile visit yet from u.s. leaders to ukraine since the war began. we should mention we don t have a lot of details on this meeting and it has not been officially confirmed by the white house or any other senior level officials as well. meanwhile, russia continuing its aggressive push to take these. rejecting calls for a cease-fire on this orthodox easter sunday. we are live with the very latest latest there. and then
jeffrey clark went behind closed doors after stonewalling the probe. he helped trump protest election results in several states including georgia. there are a lot of questions amid a flurry of activity today. breaking late today, mike pence s documents will be turned over. it comes after two of pence s aides testified. the committee is now investigating trump s direct involvement to seize voting machines. trump paid $1 million to mark meadows non-profit, his former chief of staff. the payment was made just 25 day after the january 6th committee started. congressman swallow calling it hush money, with a new report that trump considered blanket pardons for the rioters before he left office. one member of the january 6th committee is trump tampering with witnesses when he s talking about pardons, dangling them in one of 1/6 defendants? absolutely. when is enough enough? when a mob is hanging hang mike pence, it wasn t enough. when the former president asked brad raffens