spokesperson, the president told blinken there should be an 88 cease-fire between israel and hamas, and that humanitarian aid must be allowed into gaza. state department officials say secretary blinken made it clear in this meeting that the u.s. has a quote, commitment to the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance, and resumption of essential services in gaza, and made clear that palestinians must not be forcibly displaced, and quote. blinken s visit came right after another israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in central gaza early this morning, which killed at least 47 people and wounded dozens more, according to the health ministry and gaza. this brings the death toll in gaza up to more than 9700 since october the 7th. 4800 of those dead are believed to be children, though nbc is unable to independently verify those numbers. the attack came as israel said it would press on with its offensive in gaza, despite appeals from the united states and other nations for a pa
races. don t allow any of these districts to go unchallenged. these gerrymandered office holders love when there s no opposition. they have a monopoly on the whole conversation. a lot of states are seeing intense purging of voters. get yourself involved in registering voters. every day they re purging voters. we need to be registering voters back on the rolls. i look at 30 steps everyone can take to fight back. if we don t fight back, as you mentioned, jim crow is a parallel, if we don t fight back, relentless efforts to attack democracy succeed so we have to fight back right now. david, what do you say to those who argue that there are a number of democratic-controlled state houses that are involved in their own partisan gerrymandering? they ll point to maryland and new mexico, for example. i say gerrymandering is bad wherever it happens. it erodes democracy. it s happening more in republican areas than democratic areas. this is one reason the federal
about character. and character will end up showing when you actually are in office. reporter: now, at no point during obama s speech did he mention his successor, former president donald trump, but mcauliffe, the democratic candidate here, certainly did. repeatedly hitting trump and tying him to glenn youngkin. at one point saying that yo youngkin, his opponent is just donald trump in khakis. this event was not necessarily about persuasion. many of the people here had already voted or intend to vote for mcauliffe on the november 2nd election. this is more about turnout. this is a city that obama won overwhelmingly in 2008 and 2012, and that is why he is here, urging voters, some of whom are very tired with politics, something he himself admitted he was tired as well, urging them to come out and vote, because this election, as he said, is just too important. dan merica, cnn, richmond. but on his end, youngkin is largely trying not to nationalize the race. as eva mccann reports, his
georgia, my home state, i think those have been wildly exaggerated, the effect of those. and i think there s a lot of hyperbole going on so i don t think necessarily democracy is at risk through some of those laws right now, but that doesn t mean that there aren t efforts under way that we need to be cautious of, particularly as we ve seen in georgia, you have people running for secretary of state running on the concept that the election was stolen. so those are the things that i m worried about. ron brownstein, final observation. another brilliant piece in the atlantic in which you wrote about what the republicans are up to out on a grassroots level. we ll put it up on the screen. reducing access to mail balloting and early voting, imposing new voter identification requirements, purging voters from registration lists, limiting the use of ballot drop boxes, blocking state court oversight of voting laws, and increasing republican state officials authority to override the decisions
georgia, my home state, i think those have been wildly exaggerated, the effect of those. i think there s a lot of hyperbole going on so i don t think necessarily democracy is at risk through some of those laws right now, but that doesn t mean that there aren t efforts under way we need to be cautious of, particularly as we ve seen in georgia, you have people running for secretary of state running on the concept that the election was stolen. so those are the things that i m worried about. ron brownstein, final observation. another brilliant piece in the atlantic in which you wrote about what the republicans are up to out on a grassroots level. we ll put it up on the screen. reducing access to mail balloting and early voting, imposing new voter identification requirements, purging voters from registration lists, limiting the use of ballot drop boxes, blocking state court oversight of voting laws an increasing republican state officials authority to override the decisions of local el