Cousins would exert exercise that kind of loyalty because his relationship with them and their relationship with him is entirely transactional. So and conditional. Tensions rising within the republican party as liz cheney defies kevin mccarthy and joins the democratled investigation into the january 6th riot. The possible fallout and why she says she did it. Plus i have plenty of games left in me to compete in. And i have plenty of talent that backs me up because of everything i do comes to me naturally. An olympic dream cut short for r for a track sensation as she tests positive for marijuana. A debate over what some consider to be outdated and even racist policies. Good morning, it s saturday, july 3rd. I m dara brown live from msnbc headquarters in new york. We have a team of reporters and analysts following the latest for you right now. We begin first in surfside, florida, where 22 people are now confirmed dead, and another 126 missing. After a bad week of bad weather impacting sea
it proved immediately polarizing. republican governor kemp quoted, said the bill was another step toward ensuring our elections are secure, accessible and fair. that is not how the other sees it. president biden called it un-american. sick. stacey abrams likened it reinstating jim crow. by thursday evening, a lawsuit challenging the new law had already been filed by a trio of voting right groups. georgia bill is the most prominent of many pieces of legislation that republicans have initiated all across the country. per today s the new york times in more than 24 states, republican-led legislatures are advancing bills in a broad political effort that is the most aggressive attack on the right to vote since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. joining me to discuss is greg bluesteen, a reporting for the atlanta journal-constitution. this is a solution in search of a problem, right? there was not fraud documented in georgia that would justify this whole change? exactly r
answer? no, no. but i mean i don t know how much detail you want about immigration. do you agree? yes. if not, why not abolish it if it s a relic of the jim crow era. successful art of politics is the art of the impossible. you have the right code for your credit card, you know, what was your dog s name? okay. hang on. sorry. oh,. brian: he had a list and he had notes. thankfully, it wasn t just dead air and stumbling. the president fielded questions from the press on a number of hot button topics for more than an hour. unfortunately he ran out of time to call on fox news own peter doocy. i guess peter will have to wait another 64 days. he is going to make peter a bigger story when he finally gets a question. the two big themes the american border crisis and will we take which will take up with steven miller in just a moment. and ending that filibuster which will never go away, it seems. the president telling republicans to get in line with his radical agenda o
predawn attack. the target, an apartment building hundreds of miles from the front lines. and abortion rights advocates score victories in the unlikeliest of places, attempts to impose new bans fall short in a pair of red states. are they one-offs or warning signs for the republican party? we start with federal prosecutors poring over hours of new testimony from vice president mike pence. one of the few people with firsthand knowledge about former president trump s efforts to block certification of the 2020 election. pence s testimony came less than a day after a judge rejected trump s last ditch effort to block it. i want to bring in nbc s ryan reilly who s been covering all of the developments for us. also nbc s vaughn hillyard with the former president and his supporters in manchester, new hampshire, brendan buck who served as an aide to republican house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and an msnbc political analyst, and carol lamb is a federal former rather for
for too long marijuana possession has been used as a weapon against underserved community. whenever you look at the challenge that we face with crime in our society, it is the wrong signal, 30 days before the election. the pardons are about marijuana. expunging criminal records for people out of jail. no one is left serving time in federal prison solely for marijuana possession right now. but this is also about much more than marijuana. as some critics did seed on old tropes that stigmatize, sean hannitiy attacking as a hail mary jane. and you just heard that from a republican governor, mr. hutchinson, linking personal marijuana use to what he sees as general crime in society. that is actually the whole point, though. marijuana is no longer a crime at all in much of our society across 19 states here. some liberal. some less so. and the scare tactics about pot as a dangerous drug on par with heroin or crack have truly lost their punch in today s society. you know we re div