politicsnation with al sharpton. before we begin tonight, i just want to thank you, the audience, who has followed me throughout the years, and the different time slots. you stayed with me. i assure you that every one of us here at politicsnation strives to bring you the most profound insight that we can. of course, it starts with our guests. as always, we have a stellar group of voices tonight, the right voices, to articulate where our current political life affects us all, yet understanding that the black community remains the epicenter of our nation s oldest and most recent traumas, case in point t covid 19 pandemic, which continues to generate disparate outcome for black people, even amid the plague that no socializing american can escape this labor day weekend as the biden administration finds itself beset with a crisis of every kind, the backlash of the covid surge and afghanistan s collapse reflected in president biden s approval ratings while his signature infrast
good evening, and welcome to this very, very special edition of politics nation. tonight s lead, tenth anniversary. right now i m a mix of emotions because in the last in the midst of last week s news of every kind, i celebrated my tenth year as the host of this program, politics nation with al sharpton. and before we begin tonight i just want to thank you, the audience, who has followed me throughout the years and the different time slots. you stayed with me. i assure you that every one of us here at politics nation strives to bring you the most profound insight we can. of course, it starts with our guests. and as always, we have a stellar group of voices tonight. the right voices to articulate where our current political life affects us all. yet understanding that the black community remains the epicenter of our nation s oldest and most recent traumas. case in point, the covid-19 pandemic, which continues to generate disparate outcomes for black americans. as the bi
christen cinema who want nothing to do with the $3.5 trillion spending plan. we ll have the latest on the dpoerkss in moments. first, the united states has crossed a brand new jaw dropping threshold. covid-19 has now killed some 700,000 americans. to put that in perspective, that s the entire population of washington d.c., or detroit, michigan. a potential new weapon in the fight. the first pill that has been shown to treat the virus. i also have a very special conversation with two people working to ensure that everyone can get vaccinated. initial nun anne adina porter. just 2 % of people in low income countries have received a single vaccine dose so far. we re going to dig into that in a moment. we re going to start on the hill on this friday. let s get to our team of reporters. garrett haake back with us. white house respondent mike memoli, anna palmer, founder of punch bowl news and msnbc contributor. big thanks to all of you. before we start this conversation, i want to
czar, they consist of a real reaction today congressman gosar wants a trump biden rematch by year s end talking about arizona s fraud-it as a good start. that is what this gaslighting exercise is about, a starch to solidify the norm of challenging but really steeling future elections. the cyber ninja report found that biden defeated trump by more votes than the original count and yet, that very finding now has trump republicans doubling down on their election lies with arizona gop chair and big lie minon kelly ward because arizona tax have not been wasted enough what this report said never mattered so long as the performance of speculation aired of trump media, so long as it kept the big lie alive and it is very much alive. similar sham partisan recounts are now happening in pennsylvania, wisconsin, and texas. your vote questioned your decision threatened while changing election laws make it harder for democrats to win and easier for them to challenge the results each time th
case. elizabeth mattered. she i had gotten a call saying, you ll never believe this. sayin you re like, this is it. it was just a picture, shut up one they on social media back in 2014. it was an early offering on our missing america series. and that bright, open face, the questions that begged for answers. who was elisabeth sullivan? completely brilliant. she was almost an unacknowledged genius. i don t even know how to describe it, it was like this tornado mom that was disheveled, she was fighting, she will talk here in here and go all over the place. they knew her well, these two. and so they knew in october of 2014 something very serious was going on. i had never seen her so nervous. she didn t know what to do. their best friend seem to be on the verge of doing something drastic. she was angry. i don t want to call it frantic, but, you know, it gives you cold sweats. we needed to know. what happened to her? was she alive? was she dead? couldn t know