speak tonight to address the convention. in a few minutes president joe biden is expected to take the stage at the naacp convention in las vegas. we will bring that to you live in its entirety. but we begin this program with a quote, it goes like this, quote, what trump offers is an easy escape from the pain to every complex problem he promises a simple solution. he never offers details for how these plans will work because he can t. trump s promises are the needle in america s collective vein. those words were not uttered by a democrat, they were not uttered by any one of the many thoughtful critics of both parties of donald trump in the press, they were uttered by the man who now stands beside donald trump on the 2024 republican ticket as his running mate. j.d. vance is now casting his sharp, unsparing criticism of donald trump, things like calling him a, quote, cynical a-hole or not, quote, america s hitler, as the result of brain washing he was subjected to by the media.
to help estimate a number. many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. in 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave african-americans the right to vote. the white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short will answer. the mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. one was a poll tax. you had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today s money to vote. the other was a literacy test. registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. white people always seemed to get the simple questions. black voters, well, black voters were asked such things as how many bubbles are in a bar of soap? and they were also asked things like how many jellybeans are in this jar? these practices became com
out, we need to sort this out fast. absolutely. do me a favor, i want to talk to you about a lot of stuff, i know you re being asked to pull triple duty, i appreciate your sticking around, my friend. welcome to ayman. tonight, will they or won t they? with constant roadblocks clogging up the senate, is time running out? plus the supreme court this month effectively ended roe v. wade. justice amy coney barrett wants you to know that the supreme court is not a bunch of partisan hacks. okay. and it looked like a big win for equal pay when the u.s. soccer federation announced it s offering the women s and men s national teams identical contracts. so why is the u.s. women s national team players association calling this move a pr stunt? let s get started. all right. our top story tonight, voting rights. with republicans doubling down on their attempt to restrict the right to vote, senate democrats introduce new federal voting rights legislation this week. but its ch
pr stunt? let s get started. all right our top story tonight voting rights. with republicans doubling down on their attempt to restrict the right to vote. senate democrats introduced new federal voting rights legislation this week. but its chances of passage remain dim. as roadblocks continue to play the upper chamber. that s inside democratic senator amy klobuchar, from highlighting the importance of the legislation this morning, in an apparent strike here on msnbc, watch. our job is senators right now, yes we have a lot to. do economically. but it is the oath we take. to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. we need federal voting rights to do that. all right so klobuchar is one of the sponsors for the freedom to vote act. let s take a look at what s in this new bill. automatic voted registration, an online registration, making election day a holiday, uniform early voting, and perhaps most importantly, a provision that will prevent state election sub
children, perhaps close to halloween. next steps, pfizer and its partner, biontech, will apply to the fda in coming days to get their vaccine authorized for use in children. the new york times underscoring the urgent need for a safe and effective vaccine for kids asap writing this, quote, children now account for one in five new cases, when the highly contagious delta variant has sent more children into hospitals and icus in the past few weeks than at any time other time in the pandemic. it s coming at a complicated moment for kids in schools with classrooms all across this country shutting down or having to revert once again to remote learning just days or weeks into the new school year. doctors in alaska, idaho, and montana are facing what the washington post describes as agonizing ethical questions, forced to ration care for some of its sickest patients as hospitals surpass capacity due to covid surges. the state of alabama revealing their grimmest of statistics, that