the looming and existential threat to our democracy. new laws are being written, not to protect the vote, but to deny it. not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it. not to strengthen and protect our democracy, but because the former president lost instead of looking at election results from 2020 and saying they need new ideas or better ideas to win more votes, the former president and his supporters decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our elections. it is wrong. it is undemocratic. and frankly, it s un-american. and he s taking his voting rights push on the road. the president and vice president harris are heading to georgia on tuesday, to specifically speak about the need for federal voting rights legislation. but several georgia-based voting rights groups are saying the duo should stay home. issuing a statement that reads in part, quote, such an empty gesture, without concrete action, without signs of real tangible work is un
president biden calls it an inflexion point in history. the president addressing the nation on the first anniversary of the january 6th insurrection, and delivering what really could be one of the most important and forceful speeches of his presidency. biden condemned the violence and donald trump s lies that have weighed on his first year in office. the former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. he s done so because he values power over principle. because he sees his own interests as more important than his country s interest. you can t love your country only when you win. i will stand in this breach. i will defend this nation. i will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy. so president biden never mentioned trump by name. though he did use the phrase former president more than a dozen times. trump did fire back calling it all political theater. this as the department of homeland secur
during that siege? were you worried about his safety? no, i heard he was well protected. i heard he was in very good shape. but the chants, that was terrible on the he could have well, the people were very angry. they re saying hang mike pence. it is common sense, john. it is common sense that you re supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? wow. former president trump defending the january 6th rioters who were hunting down then vice president pence. jonathan carl interviewed trump for his new book, which is chalk full of new reporting on the lengths the former president and his allies went, trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. among that new reporting is then white house chief of staff mark meadows, who played a key role in trying to convince pence he had the authority to stop the certification, sending an email to a top aide, for the former vice president, detailing
if she s on the pitch, you stay in the seat. thank you so much. new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, december 9th. i was surprised by the thursday thing. it creeps up on you. one our from now, president biden kicks off a two-day democracy summit at the white house. the virtual meeting that will gather leaders from 110 countries to push back on what the biden administration warned is a global democratic recession. two nations not on the guest list, russia and china. both have attacked the biden summit. they call it hypocritical. we will bring it to you live. new signs of economic recovery fueling a wave of optimism throughout the country. among the reasons here, pay raises are coming down the pike. there s a radical drop in energy prices, jpmorgan made the prediction that 2022 will mark the end of the pandemic. cnn business reporter joining us now on that. hey, matt. reporter: good morn
summits this week. china is one of the least democratic nations in the world. it is not that surprising, but it does come at a moment where he s having conversations with russia about ukraine. taiwan has been invited to this summit and that is a sensitive subject for them. they don t want them on that guest list. it really irritated them when they were invited. i think the guest list is also getting a lot of attention. the question is kind of what was the criteria of who was invited to this. because if you look, pakistan was invited, philippines were invited, but other nations like hungary, a member of the european union, turkey, nato ally, not on the guest list. you talk to the white house, they say the guest list was one of the most challenging aspects of this, of who do you how do you narrow this down and who do you invite, who made the cut who didn t make the cut, because a lot of the nations that didn t weren t happy. singapore not making it, even though you saw the vi