tonight i don t know what measures they re taking. there might be personal security on the island. jesse: more epstein documents released as primetime goes inside pedophile island. you ve heard of smash and grabs. now, crash and grabs. doomsday bunkers for billionaires. what do they know that we don t? plus. you know what jesse watters does every weekend? jesse: 59 years ago today, president lyndon b. johnson declared a war on poverty. his plan? end racial discrimination. he dubbed it the great society. the great society asked not how much, but how good. [applause] not only how to create wealth, but how to use it. not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. jesse: but the great society didn t end poverty, it kept poverty at the exact same level. the first year of the great society, the poverty rate was at 15%. today the poverty rate is at 13%. how many trillions of dollars have we wasted? how many families have been destroyed? how much d
results of a free election. they re working right now, as i speak, in state after state to give power to the elections in americas. they are empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. the president did somewhat soft in that message on friday. take a listen. [inaudible] he did repeat that election deniers and those who fought for the denial are a threat to democracy. it is going every day. join me now is the host of a daily digital show, hashtag rolling martin. this is the cofounder of the black voters matter fund. very excited to have this panel breakdown president biden s speech. i want to kick it off with you, what do you think, the joe biden capture the soul of america on thursday night? i think he did three things. one of, not it was one of his strongest speeches. i think he was able to capture the idea of hope. the last two years have been very difficult for people. having a sense of hope, that and itself he s a really good job. the second thing i t
science guy coming up. and also making the beat debut is one of the few live witnesses from the january 6th committee hearings, an expert who stuck to the fact about donald trump s lies and found telling the truth can become something of an act in the maga universe. all of that is coming up here but our top story right now is about democracy, and i d like to clearly tell you what we re trying to do around here. so let me tell you up front right now this is a little different than our typical start to this news program the beat. right now i m going to try to walk through the broader path of how democracy is in danger even beyond how that point itself has become a kind of rhetorical refrain in washington, a refrain that is also true. so we re going to go through that right now, me and you together, and then turn to a special expert on this a little later. the mid-term elections may occur on one day in november, and we know that, of course, is election day. but these primari
videotapes. thank you as always. the fab simone. i m so proud of you. good evening, welcome to politicsnation. , we lcome to tonight s lead, governing by crisis. relief and revulsion, that s what i m feeling tonight having watched this week s dramatic but successful term federal spending and avoid a government shutdown that was literally just hours away at this time last night. and while i am relieved that those thousands of federal employees will receive their paychecks, i remain revolted by the from house republicans. it nearly crippled america to score political points. president biden echoed this, the same sentiment this afternoon after signing the spending bill into law. saying it was time for congress to stop governing by crisis. enough is enough is enough. this is not that complicated. it has to end. there shouldn t be another crisis. so, the nation can continue to conduct its public business for at least another six weeks. speaker kevin mccarthy may not hold o
there are now just five days for congress to,a vert a shutdown of the federal government. newly elected speaker mike johnson has announce a two-step plan to fund the government and it is running into opposition from democrats and some republicans. cnn s manu raju has the details. speaker mike johnson in his first test as speaker unveiling the plan to keep the government open with just a handful of days before the end of the week deadline, but already facing fire from his right flank who members of the house freedom caucus concerned about the lack of spending cuts. democrats didn t want any spending cuts and would vote against it and it would not have aid to israel and they re criticizing the unconventional approach by johnson and some agencies would be funded until mid-january and others until early-february and this is an unusual approach, but one johnson says can help achieve their legislative objectives. how many folks on the right will push back and try to push him out