describing what within the for the people act he can support, it s a sign of progress, but it doesn t go far enough. it gives me further hope and optimism we ll succeed in passing the for the people act, but we need to go further. with republicans including mitch mcconnell signaling they won t support any bill that puts elections in the hands of the federal government, it could be a long road ahead. then there s infrastructure, with a group of bipartisan senators still working out the kinks, progressives are beginning to weigh in on what they like and don t like about the bill. one of the concerns that i do have about the bipartisan bill is how they are going to pay for their proposals. and they re not clear yet. i don t know that they even know yet, but some of the speculation is raising a gas tax, which i don t support. a fee on electric vehicles, privatization of infrastructure. those are proposals that i would not support. we ll dive into the details of both of thos
tennis match and one tennis superstar. thank you for being here, everyone. at this hour, president biden is getting ready to leave the white house. he is going to oklahoma. he is there to commemorate the tulsa race massacre. 100 years ago a white mob attacked a prosperous black neighborhood killing hundreds of men, women, and children n 24 hours, 35 city blocks were destroyed in what is thought to be the single worst event of white supremacist violence against african-americans in our nation s history. the white house says that the president is not only heading there to honor those lives lost in the tragic legacy left behind, but also to announce steps today to try to help close the racial wealth gap. let s go there. abby philip is joining us from tuls ya tulsa. what are we hearing from biden today? today is all about commemorating what was lost 100 years ago during the tulsa race massacre. also, marking what happens in the 100 years since that massacre. which was the d
survive, president biden issues a memorial day warning, his words, democracy itself is in peril. listen here, one of former president trump s cronies gives a green light for a military coup. i want to know why what happened in myanmar can t happen here? no reason. it should happen, no reason, that s right. that was the former trump national security adviser michael flynn, a retired three star general offering words that border on sedition. general flynn now says he didn t mean it, or he sometimes says he didn t even say it. you just heard him right there, you heard him say, sure, to copying the myanmar model, basic claims of fraud followed by the military forcibly seizing power from the democratically elected government. and joining us from the new york times julie brittany shepherd of yahoo news and jackie kucinich. first day of three people at the table. many people would roll their eyes and say, so what, that is why on memorial day president biden said this. de
calling an audit, which could overturn the results of the election. i fully support the audit in arizona. we want transparency and answers for the american people. what are the democrats so afraid of? the voters in arizona and the state senate in arizona pursued this audit. i fully support it. transparency is a good thing. we need to fix these election security issues going into the future. now, for the record, this really has nothing to do with election security. there were no widespread security issues, no widespread voter fraud, at least not according to the republicans. again, republicans who run the state s largest county where the audit in arizona is being held. and not according to the secretary of state katie hobbs who runs elections and told us last night that observers of the audit are concerned because, quote, there s not consistency in how they re putting things together and they re seeing, quote, procedures changed midstream. she s not the only one concerned.
lawyer that he was the target of russian spies. that s the same rudy giuliani who spent years digging up dirt in ukraine to smear joe biden and his son, hunter, with dubious claims of impropriety. the story first broke in the washington post, which reports that the fbi told giuliani that he was the target of a russian influence operation, aimed at circulating falsehoods intended to damage president biden politically, ahead of last year s election. the concern among u.s. intelligence was that giuliani was being manipulated by the russian government. however, the post notes that giuliani appears to have brazenly disregarded such fears. even after he knew he was the target of russian spies, he still traveled abroad to meet with a kgb-trained ukraine lawmaker, an individual named andre dearcatch. and it later turned out that dearcatch actually was an active russian agent. that s according to the treasury department, which sanctioned derkach in september 2020 for foreign interfe