started transmitting in saturday or saturday in october in wuhan. most think he is wrong. it would be helpful to offer him some data. announcer: this is new day weekend, with victor blackwell and christi paul. a cloudy start over atlanta. good morning to you. we are starting in atlanta and with that shot, because we are starting in georgia this morning and the nationwide response to the new voting restrictions that the governor signed into law there. president biden has joined the outcry now saying the justice department is looking what he called jim crow in the 21st century. they argue it is designed to discourage voter turnout. the president, who won georgia in november with a surge of minority support, did not hold back as he slammed the new restrictions. an atrocity. the idea if you want any indication that it has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency. they passed a law saying you can t provide water for people standing in line while they
something we saw a lot of in the last election, especially in black neighborhoods. and it expands the legislature s power over elections, raising fears that republicans could interfere in predominantly democratic counties. last night governor brian kemp tried to justify the changes this way. listen. after the november election last year, i knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms to our state elections were needed. there was no doubt there were many alarming issues with how the election was handled and those problems understandably led to the crisis of competence in the ballot box here in georgia. from just two years ago when kemp defended the system that elected him governor, saying, quote, we have laws on the books that prevent elections from being stolen from anyone. the crisis of confidence he talks about didn t come from any actual voter fraud because, remember, georgia s ballots were counted three times with the same result. all of this came from donald t
that is an n a state where some voters waited up the eight hours the ballot last year and the law allows the legislature to appoint the chair of the state election board, previously the board chaired by the secretary of state. that s a chief opponent guy s efforts. in a statement georgia democrat and voting rights activist stacey abrams responded. quote when georgia ranks as the worst state for covid vaccination rates, georgia republicans are focused on reviving georgia s dank past and as the fbi continued to round up seditionists who spilled blood to defend a lie about the elections republicans state leaders undermine democracy by giving themselves authority to overturn results they do not like. now more than ever americans must demand federal action to protect rights as we continue to fight against the unconstitutional efforts. president biden also weighing in this afternoon blasting the new law. an atrocity. the idea if you want any indication that it has nothing to do
what happened on that day. we see the images. we also clearly hear the president s words. $15 minimum wage is in the white house proposal. the expectation is it will likely have to be stripped out in order for democrats to be able to pass the package on a simple majority vote. the white house is in a complicated political position. republicans propose to either do nothing or not enough. good saturday morning to you. we are three days to go until the start of the second impeachment trial of donald trump. there is still an awful lot that we don t know about how this week will play out. democrats, the former president s impeachment lawyers, have to soon lock in their legal strategies and there are a lot of outstanding question, how about house impeachment managers present the case against the former president, will witnesses be ki called, how long will the trial last. and we could get some clues this weekend. tell us wherethings stand. reporter: and we don t know a l
pandemic. the biden administration is deploying 1,110 active duty service members, including teams from army, air force, navy, and marines to support five fema covid-19 vaccination centers across the country. the first team set to arrive in california in ten days. the biden white house also says it will soon utilize defense production act in several ways to procure equipment and supplies for pfizer to make additional vaccine, to tap six companies to make 61 million at home covid-19 tests by end of summer, and built factories to produce raw materials needed for nitrile surgical gloves. a billion pairs a month. all of that means jobs. all of that should have been done a year ago. the biden administration also isn t ruling out using defense production act to aid in production of johnson & johnson s one shot vaccine which is currently awaiting emergency use authorization from the fda. that should come any day now. the federal government is set to ship 10.5 million vaccine doses a