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her full response in just a moment. meantime, the committee has a lot more on their hands. a trove of trump white house documents surrounding the attack. the national archives began turning over those records just hours after the supreme court rejected donald trump s claim that they were protected under executive privilege. and that is not all. there is fresh reporting from the washington post about a coordinated effort led by rudy giuliani to overturn the election results in five key states by helping to justify alternate electors that would cast a state s electoral college votes for trump, not biden. one of the reporters on that piece will tell us how far giuliani went and about the trump electors who refused to go along with him. on that same subject of alternate electors, more breaking news, this out of georgia. the fulton county district attorney has now asked for a special grand jury to investigate any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of th ....
cornerstone of american democracy, and, yet, republican governors and state legislatures across the country have spent the last year curbing it, from limiting how you can register to vote and where and when you can vote, to instituting changes that could result in your vote either not being counted or the will of the people being overruled. compounding the precarious state of our democracy is that fewer americans trust the electoral system, and a sizeable majority believes the nation s democracy is in danger of collapse. with voting rights on the line, president biden laid out in stark words the choice facing the senate in a fiery speech in atlanta. what we choose, democracy over autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice. i know where i stand. i will not yield, i will not flinch, i will defend the right to vote our democracy against all enemies, foreign and, yes, domestic. [ applause ] do you want to be on the side of dr. king or george wallace? do you wan ....
president biden makes a push for voting rights. despite ramping up messages to emphasize the need to get rid of the filibuster. president biden went to atlanta on tuesday to talk about voting rights. joe manchin and krysten sinema threw cold water on the plan. let s set side the filibuster for a moment. the american government was created by and for white men. everyone else had to fight for the right to vote. after they won the right, there was push back. recall the jim crow laws and poll taxes and literacy tests and intimidation and violence. it is nice to think that is all in the past. history is a continuum. the design whose aim is not to encourage every qualified voter to vote, but impede those of suspected by where they live and where they are from and how much they make or the color of their skin to vote for one party or another. republicans are trying to prevent democrats from voting, to gain or maintain power. last year, 19 states enacted voter restriction laws ....
they walk right up to the line and they just step ken. good morning, welcome to morning joe, hi willie. what happened? he teased me on facebook, do my ken thing. how are you holding up this morning? he s not good. what am i supposed to do? the yankees won and they lose one. we are talking about the national championship game last night. georgia finally beat alabama. head coach has been resistant and saban won 27 titles. the end of the third quarter and fourth quarter was all the action. really was. alabama. another reason why you could not be too upset if you are an alabama fan. they re not supposed to be there. this was at the end of the game. one of these moments people wake up and look at scores and it looks like it s much a bigger game and bigger blow-out than the game s show. defense of battle in the first half. second half, alabama was up. 18 alabama was up. are you going to show all the bad highlights? this is what happens when you lose. ....
soviet republic has been engulfed in protests this whole week, protests that began as a backlash against high gas prices, but quickly evolved into a revolt against the autocratic regime that has ruled kazakhstan for other 30 years. protesters also stormed the presidential palace and set it on fire. they pulled down a statue of the former dictator who by all accounts still basically runs the country through his hand picked successor. for decades it s been ruled by this one guy, the longest serving ruler of any ex-soviet state. things feel like they will never change, until they suddenly do. you may not have been following this story this week, we ve had quite a bit on our minds here at home, but chances are you recognize this, you recognize this sort of narrative. we ve been observing it in that part of the world for decades now. the people of a former soviet republic rising up against the repressive regime that still governs them. to be clear, the protests in kazakhstan ....