being overly cautious, particularly when it comes to air travel. we re learning about what into the decision by the cdc. joining me now is jeremy diamond at the house with much more on this. what are you learning? reporter: well it appears that the cdc did consider the possibility of changing these travel restrictions, but ultimately decided not to do that. two federal health officials telling kaitlan collins that the possibility of changing travel recommendations was discussed but there was never really any real momentum behind the idea of changing those travel restrictions right now. but right now really is the operative word here because these are interim guidelines by the cdc. and the cdc director rashiel walensky made that very clear yesterday as she announced the new guidelines. we saw new guidelines here in terms of how individuals who have been vaccinated could interact with one another as well as others in low risk settings in terms of removing masks but they did n
Suppressing the Black vote is more or less a habit in the United States, especially down South. But, at least in some cases, we’re seeing the courts actually do something about it.
destiny within it. that s what s under assault. and all of us as americans, as americans, have to stand up and fight for that which is precious and rare in the history of human kind, democracy. i was struck by reading today about an event that happened this weekend in georgia. a bunch of different groups including the georgia naacp and black voters matter, met in coffee county at the ame church in coffee county which of course is one of the locations that has become famous because of the indictment of former president trump and his co-defendants, coffee county is one of the places where people who shouldn t have had access to voting machines and tabulating machines nevertheless were given access and all of the sensitive data from those machines was uploaded onto the internet and downloaded all over the world. people met in coffee county this weekend to talk about the damage done to their democracy in coffee county and to try to
i believe that it is the political enactment of a spiritual idea, this notion that each of us has within us a spark of the divine, therefore we ought to have a voice in the direction of the country and our destiny within it. that s what s under assault. and all of us as americans, as americans, have to stand up and fight for that which is precious and rare in the history of human kind, democracy. i was struck by reading today about an event that happened this weekend in georgia. a bunch of different groups including the georgia naacp and black voters matter, met in coffee county at the ame church in coffee county which of course is one of the locations that has become famous because of the indictment of former president trump and his co-defendants, coffee county is one of the places where people who shouldn t have had access to voting machines and tabulating machines nevertheless were given access and all of the sensitive data from those machines was uploaded onto the internet and
usually you see them happening in the south, in the bible belt, in states that were formerly slave-owning states. that is why so many people, including the georgia naacp, says there is a racist element to why we have runoff elections as a total. when you look at the voting that would happen in the 1870s, the reconstruction era after slavery when black men were allowed to vote, you have to think about the mind-set of those powerful white men who were in the south at that time. they re used to owning people who look like me. so now some of those people with brown skin are able to vote. how can you continue to control them? well, some would argue by a runoff system. if you had four or five people running for an election, if you didn t get 50% of the vote plus 1, then you had to go to a runoff, so the top two candidates will face off again weeks later. so you dilute that black power. if you have one black candidate and then three or four other white candidates, all those