2020 election. that official is my guest. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight, we have breaking news. president biden, tonight, defending his administration s response to the surge in cases from omicron and the testing shortage seen across the country. in a new interview with abc news, the president saying when asked saying this when asked if the long lines and lack of testing is a failure. no, i don t think it s failure. i think it s you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i have ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. i mean, excuse me, 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but um, the answer is, yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering a half a billion bills two months ago, before covid hit here. president biden misspeaking there, when he was talking about
voting rights restrictions enacted over the course of this year in republican-controlled states, all these laws coast to coast making it harder to vote, easier for republicans to control elections and their outcomes. one of the most insidious such laws was passed by republicans in georgia. there s a reason there was a big national controversy this year over the voting rights restrictions passed in georgia. in that big new package of restrictive voting laws that they passed in that state, republicans included a new mechanism that allows republicans to take over all the local elections boards that actually control how elections are run in georgia. and how election results are counted. this is something we ve been covering as it has happened, as it has rolled out across that state. and the effect thus far is stark. because when republicans take for themselves the power to remake all the county election boards in a state, what that looks like in practice, democrats, particularly
to control elections and their outcomes. one of the most insidious such laws was passed by republicans in georgia. there s a reason there was a big national controversy this year over the voting rights restrictions passed in georgia. in that big new package of restrictive voting laws that they passed in that state, republicans included a new mechanism that allows republicans to take over all the local elections boards that actually control how elections are run in georgia. and how election results are counted. this is something we ve been covering as it has happened, as it has rolled out across that state. and the effect thus far is stark. because when republicans take for themselves the power to remake all the county election boards in a state, what that looks like in practice, democrats, particularly black democrats, getting thrown out, getting purged off of county elections boards, and them getting replaced with white republicans. what does that look like in terms of the e
tonight. i don t do my friends like that, so till if you tell me it s a g, you re going to get a thousand dollars. jesse: jay 2 and the fanny willis hearing, meet fanny s daddy. it s a black thing, okay. we have a corrupt judge who ruled against me before he got the case. jesse: the judge filthy ruling against the trump organization. we are citizens, we are not the politics, are people. jesse: finally biden visits east palestine. plus major boy jesse watters. jesse: fox news alert, a judge in new york is ordering donald trump to pay over $350 million in fines. and banning the former president from running a business in the state of new york for the next three years. this case was decided by a single judge, judge and garon, a strange guy, but not as strange as these charges. and they were brought by new york to her attorney general letitia james who campaigned on fighting trump, not crime. and visited the biden white house three times, the woman brought a c