we know the pandemic is far from over. we don t mean to ignore it. but this week was dominated by three different stories. all, with high stakes. voting rights. immigration. and gun control. first, voting. in georgia, tensions remain high over voting restrictions. today, hundreds of people gathered to protest an overhaul of the state s election rules. on thursday, governor brian kemp signed the republican-led bill into law. it sets new rules for absentee voting, and bans giving food or water to voters, who are in line near a polling station. civil-rights groups have already filed lawsuits, challenging this law. democratic state representative, bee nguyen, will join us in just a moment. as for immigration, yesterday, congressional democrats and republicans took dueling trips to the border. the influx of people seeking asylum shows no signs of slowing down. congressman joaquin castro of texas led a democratic delegation to a facility in carrizo springs. the lawmakers seemed sat
all, with high stakes. voting rights. immigration. and gun control. first, voting. in georgia, tensions remain high over voting restrictions. today, hundreds of people gathered to protest an overhaul of the state s election rules. on thursday, governor brian kemp signed the republican-led bill into law. it sets new rules for absentee voting, and bans giving food or water to voters, who are in line near a polling station. civil-rights groups have already filed lawsuits, challenging this law. democratic state representative, bee nguyen, will join us in just a moment. as for immigration, yesterday, congressional democrats and republicans took dueling trips to the border. the influx of people seeking asylum shows no signs of slowing down. congressman joaquin castro of texas led a democratic delegation to a facility in carrizo springs. that s about 30 miles from the mexican border. the lawmakers seemed satisfy with the conditions they saw. about four hours south of them, in the ri
all? was this all just bluff? when you say was it a bluff? just to be clear, you are saying your best defense would be that he was lying about the documents. possibly and president biden signing the debt ceiling deal into law, and inca drama that had the country on the brink of default. passing this budget agreement was critical. mistakes could not have been higher. if we failed to reach an agreement on the budget, there would ve been extreme voices threatening to take america for the first time in over 247 year history, and default on our national debt. nothing, nothing would have been more irresponsible. later this hour, i m gonna speak to congressman jimmy gomez who voted no on the debt ceiling bill. all of that, plus, let s put on a show. i want you all to know that i m not a man anymore. are you saying you are a lady not a woman, either. a group of teens who had a play with an lgbtq twist on the robinhood story, canceled by their school, r
severe road damage as well. the california national guard is now on the scene in santa cruz to support emergency services. for some residents, the rising water is simply too much. we can t live like this. how do you live like this? how do i have my kids here? how do i have my elderly mother live here where i carry her out of the house? cnn s mike valerio and cnn meteorologist brit rits are tracking the latest. reporter: this is the heart of the flood rescue response effort. if you look around us, the area is inundated. as you mentioned at the top of the show, it is flooded because we have this levy upstream that failed around midnight local time, so as the front quickly comes through, that water is dumped around us. what we ve been seeing since we moved positions from the berry farm we talked to you last time until now, national guard troops have been coming up and down the central drag for several hours now rescuing people. you can just see the extent of the water. and
democracy, will all be decided today. the candidates have made their final closing arguments to rally an american public that is at once anxious, angry, and exhausted. are you ready to win this election? i m sick of talking about american decline. i think it s time we started to do something about it. please send me to washington, d.c. we re winning this. we ain t talking about no runoff. we re winning this. i believe in democracy. i certainly believe in a free and fair election. this is a transformative election. it s going to send a loud message to washington. we ve always done democracy better than anywhere else. and we are not going to stop now. y all ready to close this thing out? today we stand united as one voice. and i feel thean a massive vict shocks the world. i m ready for it. are you? well, now it s up to the voters. with millions heading out to cast their ballots today, we re keeping an extraordinarily close eye on the voting process nationwid