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became one of the foot soldiers in one of the moment dangerous movements in america. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started.nt if you have been following the news at all this week you ve likely seen a lot of headlines like these. alarming updates about the spread, of the omicron variant of covid-19. cases detected in new york, d.c., california, georgia. headlines and breaking news flying so fast at you that it s enough to actually make you scared. now, listen. some scientists think that omicron may become the dominant strain of covid-19. so if a case of omicron hasn t been announced in your area yet, it s probably just a matter of time before it does. now, i m not trying to make light of the situation. it s just the truth. that s why i need everyone watching this program tonight to do two things for me. take a deep breath. pump the brakes a little bit. because even with all the scary news about omicron the basic message remains the same. wear masks in public, especially ....
about her life in the spotlight and her advice to democrats dealing with some tough elections outcome. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. who all right, so we begin tonight with a question does the republican party trust elections, it s pure and simple in new jersey, what was expected to be a easy reelection for democratic governor phil murphy, turned out to be a tight race. republican candidate jack ciattarelli, is also digging in his heels refusing to concede, despite the fact that murphy has a clear majority of more than 60,000 votes as of this hour. in the run up to the election in virginia the republican candidate, glenn youngkin, repeatedly called for audits of election machines. and former president trump, said he was ready to yell fraud if the race was even close. then on tuesday youngkin secured a slim victory in the virginia governor s race. and miraculously, lo and behold, those results were immediately accepted remember those calls for audit? suddenly n ....
dateline. a young mother disappeared one her husband said she went for a run and never came home. the puzzling case happened in a safe, suburban neighborhood where crime is unexpected. but sometimes there are secrets hidden behind closed it all seemed like such a bad this doesn t happen in our happy little world. reporter: it was a saturday morning in july. the happy little world suburb of raleigh, north carolina, called cary, a place where a young family would aspire to if you were someone like hanna pritchard, for example. there s always lots of friend making going on through someone you meet. lots of cookouts and family functions. reporter: like the one in the neighborhood the night before. so hanna would have heard party stories that saturday morning from her friend nancy cooper. would because nancy didn t show up. i hadn t heard from her maybe by like 10:00, i called her house. brad answered and he said, she went for a run. reporter: nancy was an athlet ....
frenzy is on their way across the country, i am following the very latest development in texas where they re inching closer to approving new maps that could determine the partisan makeup of that state for the next decade. we re going to have more on that in just a moment. but first, to truly understand this capes up this moment. you are really going to have to go back to 2013. not too long ago. that s when the supreme court in a five court decision, gutted the voting rights act. striking down a key section of that 1965 law. known as the preclearance requirement, it required certain states with the history of voter suppression, to get federal approval before implementing changes in their electoral policy. including redistricting. now the point was to ensure that these changes did not discriminate against protected minorities, before they became laws in their states. chief justice, who authored that majority opinion, declare that the requirement was no longer needed becau ....
intrigued trump, who asked the director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe to look into it. now it all adds fuel to the fire of what we already know about our former president. he was upset with conspiracy theories and was willing to use any means necessary to keep power within his grip. we know this. trump idolized authoritarianism. and he was obsessed with status. you remember when the former president visited france for the bastille day, in the parade. he was so enamored by the festivities that he decided he wanted to hold one for himself in washington. trump demanded the pentagon get to work in organizing and military show force, and advisers worked overtime to try and tell trump that this was not a good idea. he estimated price tag for getting tanks rolled down pennsylvania avenue just to appease the president, $90 million. luckily for american taxpayers in the streets of d.c.. that plan was shelved. it s just one of the laundry list of confounding experien ....