Brand new hour. Good to be with you. I m victor blackwell. And i m alisyn camerota. At this hour in washington the spotlight is on voting rights. The focus is to protect and expand americans right to vote. As you know republican legislatures across the country are passing bills to restrict voting rights. The vice president also warning how dangerous these new laws are. Here s what she said. These laws create obstacle upon obstacle. These laws make it harder for you to vote because they don t want you to vote. And so i will say again your vote matters. Your voice matters. Of course that event discussing voting comes on the same day the governor of texas called a special session to push through a restrictive voting bill. Much more on that in a moment. But first cnn s jeff zeleny is at the white house. Jeff, the white house said today the president plans to deliver a major sweep on voting rights. What do we expect from the meeting that s happening? reporter: we do know president biden mom
America s working families. It s time they get a tax break. So my build back better agenda would extend expanded child care credit that we passed under my american rescue plan. Those with children under the age of 7, you re and depending on your income, and your income taxes, you re going to get a cash payment back. Up until now, guess what. $2,000 to declare a dependant. If you have two children you get $4,000 off a $10,000 tax bill, it s important, but if you don t have enough you don t make enough money to be able to have to owe that kind of tax, you don t get a tax credit. You don t get anything. Well, under this proposal, guess what. You re in a situation where if you have a child under the age of 7 you get back $3,600 in cash. In addition to that, those in that situation are going to start to see that coming in by the end of this month on a monthly basis. It can change the lives of people. Starting next week families will begin to receive one of the largest ever singleyear tax cu
pentagon? something i know a little bit about. i have been in the military for the better part of two decades. i was in the army national guard until last month. we all saw this coming. and now it s here. this just the woke military stuff you have been hearing about. this is not extremism standdown or a social distancing reading list or even a foolish cia recruitment video we have all seen by now. this is worse. this is way worse. this, my friends, is a purge. a purge of the defense department led by a new and now powerful radical leftists. a 1619 project activist, a hard core social distancing democrat. a man who believes all, all trump supporters are racist and extremists. and what must we do to racists? we must define them and then we must purge them. so who is the pentagon s newly meanted maga purge man? well, meet bishop garrison, the new senior adviser to the secretary of defense. his portfolio is diversity, equity and inclusion. but his purview is much wider. never h
crucified has risen as he said. hallelujah. the easter proclamation does not offer a mirage or reveal a magic formula. it does not point to an escape from the difficult situation we re facing. the pandemic is still at its height. while the social and economic crisis remains severe, especially for the poor. nonetheless. this is scandalous, armed conflict has not ended and military arsenals are being strengthened. and this is today s scandal. in the face of or better in the midst of this complex reality the easter proclamation speaks, speaks concisely of the event that gives us hope that does not disappoint. jesus crucified has risen. it speaks to us not about angels or ghosts but about a man, a man of flesh and bone with a face and a name, squeeze sus jesus. the gospel testified jesus crucified under pontius pilate, claiming he was christ, the son of god. on the third day he rose in accordance with the scriptures just as he himself had foretold. he his disciples. the crucified
a bombshell revelation. was she really a bereaved ex- i always loved him. or maybe just a black widow. barbara briton is in the middle. hello and welcome to dateline. for years judy carlson lived in the most painful kind of limbo. her son david had disappeared without a trace. the case went unsolved, sitting cold for more than a decade before rookie detective donna valazquez was assigned to investigate. digging into david s past she untwisted a tale of love gone bad and a grisly family secret. but detectives still needed to know, what motive was at the heart of this crime. here s keith morrison with buried secrets. it s a strange thing that happens among the boggs and marshes here in soft coastal florida. things have a way of coming up, things buried in the ground in the past. or both. it was july 2003. beaches quiet, snowbirds back up north. so no one noticed at first what was starting inland a little in a town called pembroke pines where donna velt velazquez,