To the whole story. I m anderson cooper. We are less than seven months away from the next presidential election. But even now, four years after joe biden won, there are a number of down from supporters who dispute those results. And that s not all they dispute. The january 6 attack was an insurrection dispute. The idea of separation of church and state in america. Some even dispute that the last super bowl was played honestly, and they blamed taylor swift for rigging the outcome over the next hour, cnn s donie o sullivan dives and those who are trying to battle them. [music playing] donnie o sullivan: this event today is at a church but [laughs] not entirely clear what kind of church it really is. One of the guest speakers there today is a man by the name of derrick evans. He spent three months in prison for his role in the attack on the us capitol, and now he s running for congress. [rain pattering] (singing) for the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] supporter: tha
Cofounder of the black voter matters organization, and shes here with us today to talk about the black voter and the 2020 elections. Louisiana dash shah latasha, good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Vo host first, tell us what the black Voters Matter Fund is. Guest the organization started in 2016 because we wanted to shift the dynamics around how we were hearing the National Media talk about black voters. More importantly, we wanted to build more power in our communities so we could have more influence on policies impacting us. So we started the back Voters Matter Fund because what we felt is that in order to really have a robust democracy, you have to have an edge gauged electorate. And engaged electorate. And we would do work to engage voters on the ground level, on the local level so that they should shape policies and representation for their communities. Host so wt did your organizing approach look like this year . What didin you do out on t ground to get mor black voters
For women, and why . Find it where you get your podcasts. Host we are back with Latasha Brown to talk about the black voter and the 2020 election. It morning. Guest good morning. Host tell us what the black Voters Matter Fund is. Organization an that was started in 2016 to shift the dynamics around. We wanted to build power and our communities so we could have influence on impact on policies. Because whate fund we felt is that in order to really have a robust democracy, you have to have an engaged electorate. We would engage voters on the local level to shift the policies for the communities. Host what did your organizing approach look like this year . What did you do on the ground to get more black voters to register and to show up and vote . Guest we did not start this year. We started in 2016. We think that what happens is oftentimes in the black community you see people come around election time. Its like if you have a friend that only calls when they want something, youre not exci
We have learned from past crises, the risk is not doing too much, the risk is not doing enough. We heard from the president there just moments after the latest briefing from his new Covid Health Care team. The encouraging news from that briefing is there is a third vaccine now on the horizon. Dr. Anthony fauci says the data on this Johnson Johnson single dose vaccine is encouraging. Dr. Fauci says americans should not be skeptical of a reported 56 effective rate. Getting shots in arms is taking on even greater urgency now because of the growing number of variants or mutations. Dr. Fauci says it will require onthefly adjustments to keep up with the new mutations. The briefings are Night And Day from the previous administration. Science dominates. This was interesting, too. A clear effort by the Democratic White House to include republican governors as it prays states that are doing a better job of getting vaccines off the shelf and into their residents. I want to call out seven states t
Provide an update on emergency efforts. Here live coverage tuesday at three, cspan cspan. Org, or on the cspan radio app. On thanksgiving afternoon, President Trump held an event with troops overseas. He spoke with reporters about the results at his legal efforts to overturn the. This is 25 minutes overturn them. This is 25 minutes. Know whatp we dont his last. If you look at what is going on, there finding tremendous discrepancies in the votes. Nobody believes those numbers. Those numbers are incorrect numbers. A lot of numbers have been reported as incorrect. You are going to see things that are going to be shocking to people. If you look at the numbers in michigan and pennsylvania and five foot votes. I cant say what is first and last, if this is the first one or the last one or is this the first one of his second term. We will see what happens. No one was to see the fraud this has come to represent. We are looking at things that are so bad in georgia, they dont want to show signatu