Fighting, petitioning the u. S. Senate to eliminate the Filibuster Threat that continues to block any federal voting Rights Legislation. And because of the senates inaction, they have to face the threat of arrest issued by their own governor. As leaders of the congressional black Caucus And Voting rights activists have already been arrested for protest in solidarity. In a larger national sense, it dramatizes the point we who have lived under threat have always made, which is that without the teeth of federal legislative action, minority voters are at the mercy of conservative State Lawmakers. So it fits that Deep Red Texas is now at the center of this upheaval in which the states black and brown democrats literally had to leave in order to protect the definitive right of our democracy. That was on my mind during president Bidens Speech this week as he condemned this flood of Voter Restrictions as unamerican. But to the frustration of myself and others in the fight, he said nothing abou
Im michael holmes. This is cnn newsroom. First to germany where the Death Toll has jumped to at least 81 in dangerous Flash Flooding in the western part of the country. In one district alone, 1300 people are assumed missing. Some regions receiving more than a Months Worth of rain in just 24 hours. At least 12 people have died in belgium, meteorologists describing it as the heaviest rainfall in a century. Nina Dos Santos is tracking developments. Weeks and weeks of rain. What is the impact of the floods . Reporter thats right, michael, the impact as you see is loss of life, severe devastation to a number of buildings, infrastructure is being blown up. Across one part of the three stricken regions of germany, one of the most populous regions, were seeing some of the Telephone Lines having been cut off, Hundreds Of Thousands without power, indeed running water and basic supplies. It is a pretty dramatic situation and in one part of the vehicle stricken part of the country, authorities rec
Also my personal conversation with a group of asianamerican Community Leaders amid a Terrifying Spike in antiasian violence in this country. You want to hear what they have to say. Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is sunday, may 16th. Im ali velshi. The worst and deadliest violence in years in the israeli Palestinian Conflict continues this morning. Overnight the Israeli Defense Forces released this footage of a new strike conducted on the residence of a Hamas Leader In Gaza in addition to tunnel systems In Gaza as well. The idf says Air Strikes hit Hamas Intelligence Headquarters which they say was located adjacent to a kindergarten. The Gaza Ministry of health reports at least 33 people were killed and multiple buildings destroyed in new air Strikes Today. Doctors without borders also reports that an israeli strike caused damage to one of its clinics In Gaza although the organization says No One inside the clinic was injured. Were learning more about that israeli Air Strike Yester
up next. tonight on the reidout and like any mom, i m going to do a pivot out of nowhere into a shockingly violent story about sex trafficking. and rest assured, every detail about it is real, except the year, where it took place, and who was president when it happened. snl turns to scarlett johansson to mock alabama senator katie britt s wildly misleading screed on immigration. but the truth is, immigration reform has failed again and again because of the right-wing echo chamber from rush limbaugh to donald trump. meanwhile, donald trump is again lavishing praise on his autocratic role models because he really, really, really wants that kind of power for himself. but we begin tonight with a big lie. no, not the big lie. another lie. something that we heard in senator katie britt s response to president biden s state of the union address last week. now, you remember during the alabama senator s rather odd remarks, there was this moment when things got really, real
hi, laura. i m surprised he forgot about that moment. because we are still wondering what the heck happened in helsinki. a lot has gone on since then. you think? how much time you got? kaitlan, thank you so much for a good evening, everyone. i am lara coates. did donald trump privately admit that he lost the election? tonight, we are running the special counsel that very question to his inner circle. trump setting a cappella with jared kushner, hope hicks, they have not testified before the grand jury. in jack smith s investigation to overturn the election. and by asking a question, it might show that prosecutors are interested in something in particular, whether trump acted with a corrupt intent? what he knew, when he knew it? and how he was acting on it? now kushner, according to the new york times, testified that he believed that trump truly believed the election was stolen. now, i should note of course, that that contradicts what other witnesses have claimed, includin