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results of a free election. they re working right now, as i speak, in state after state to give power to the elections in americas. they are empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. the president did somewhat soft in that message on friday. take a listen. [inaudible] he did repeat that election deniers and those who fought for the denial are a threat to democracy. it is going every day. join me now is the host of a daily digital show, hashtag rolling martin. this is the cofounder of the black voters matter fund. very excited to have this panel breakdown president biden s speech. i want to kick it off with you, what do you think, the joe biden capture the soul of america on thursday night? i think he did three things. one of, not it was one of his strongest speeches. i think he was able to capture the idea of hope. the last two years have been very difficult for people. having a sense of hope, that and itself he s a really good job. the second thi ....
challenge of taking on desantis in the fall. and the florida senate race now has its final match-up. val demings is facing off against marco rubio. a race the gop believe has it can win easily. but also where democrats have been widely outspending republicans and think that they have a chance to flip the state blue. also big night in new york, two powerful democrats capping off a highly competitive race. cnn projects jerry nadler will unseat carolyn maloney. redistricts forced them into the same districts with the nastier primary races of the year. and pat ryan beating the republican in a swing district. and so let s bring in cnn political analyst jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for t the daily beast. so much to talk about. so jackie, in florida democrat charlie crist won his primary and will face off with governor desantis in november. crist is a former governor of course and former republican. is his past experience and name recognition enough to knock o ....
georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gabriel sterling are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigation was over. on wednesday, doj ramped up the pressure with a letter warning that the delay was holding up criminal cases tied to the insurrection. the committee spent the past week tying trump and his team s actions to that very attack ....
Praising the police in new york for getting those protesters because out of that building. So we will continue to watch that speech or the former president , the lead with jake tapper starts right now Campus Protests are recruiting in violence. The lead starts right now from new york to california and points inbetween protests going beyond just protests, students barricading themselves in buildings confrontations between students and police in some places Vigilante Group showing up, coming up a detailed look at all the chaos plus Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken is in israel, he trying to push a ceasefire as Prime Minister netanyahu i who pledges to attack raffa in gaza regardless of what the us wants. W ....
Alex, good evening. It is a kinetic situation at columbia. We will follow that through the air. Thanks for that coverage. We stay in new york city, where today, donald trump was back in court, where he is facing 34 Felony Counts related to the hush money payments he paid to adult film store star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair, and particularly to keep ms. Daniels quiet up until the 2016 election. The lawyer, keith davidson, took the stand, and we will get to that in just a minute. At the big news out of todays trial happened before any witnesses actually testified. Today, the judge in this case, judge one russian juan merchan, said trump will be allowed to attend his very tall son, behrens barons graduation. The other matter was also somewhat of a win for donald trump. Today, judge merchan found trump in contempt of violating his gag order, ruling he viol ....