draconian voting restrictions. texas just advanced a bill that among other things would make it a felony, you heard that right, a felony for an official to give a voter an absentee ballot application if they didn t request one. as of march 24th they ve introduced 360 voter restriction bills in 47 states. in many states these restrictions will specifically be hard on black voters. look, i want to make this clear. this is not just in response to the 2020 election and the big lie. the voting rights of black americans have been under attack since the 15th amendment was passed, even if lawmakers don t explicitly spell it out, we see you. jamel boulie of the new york times wrote this about the jim crow era. there was no statute that said black people cannot vote. instead, southern lawmakers spun a web of restrictions and regulations meant to catch most blacks as well as many whites and keep them out of the electorate. and in a throwback to that time a writer for the conservative
income families to pay no more than 7% of their income on child care for kids under five. it also provides paid family and medical leave. it would make two years of community college free and provide $200 billion for universal pre-k and extend or make permanent several key parts of democrats covid rescue plan including that expanded child tax credit, affordable tax subsidies. the presidents wants to finance this by hiking taxes on the wealthy in an economy that is working poorly for millions of americans. cnn s kaitlan collins has more from the white house. reporter: christine, we know that president biden has spent weeks preparing for this speech, going over it with his aides and his speech writers and policymakers, talk being what he really wants to be in this and what s important as he looks back and reflects on his first 100 days in office, that s that mile marker he s going to reach on thursday, but also looking at what he wants to do going forward. so that s really go
incident, and we re hoping to do that. we re now 35 seconds away from launch. this is going to be this is of course blue origin. this is a jeff bezos company. we know that richard branson and elon musk have got projects like this. this is blue origin, jeff bezos s company. let s watch this launch. seven, six, five, four, main engine star . as long as i live, this is never going to get old for me. i can watch launches all the time. this is picture perfect so far. we are, i believe, still awaiting separation, but so far this has gone very well. you saw a drone shot of it, this allowed us to take the takeoff. you see the con trails behind it. this is a view down to earth from the rocket. this is only going to be a ten-minute flight, and they re four minutes into it now. so far going very well, and we hope that continues. it is a little bit of a hope on a day that is filled with tragedy. so at least we got something that we can be happy about today. but we are of course un
the cutting room floor. there is free community college, lower prescription drug prices and paid family leave, which a majority of americans currently do not having a says to. joining me now, congresswoman joyce beaty of ohio, chair of the congressional black caucus and congressman jimmy gomez, madam chair, i will start with you on this one. i have heard you speak glowingly about this bill. so i know how you feel good about it. there are things we enumerated and opened up the show. i want to know your response to people who do feel disappointed, particularly paid family leave and the price of lower prescription drugs, which will be heavily felt particularly the black and latino constituencies in this country. what is your message to them this morning? while we made progress, $400 billion for child care and pre-k. as you mentioned, the $550 billion when we think of our fight for environmental justice. but what i will say to them is, it doesn t mean that we stop fighting to g
minute. plus, migrants being used by republican governors to send a message to democrats and the president. but what about the men, women, and children caught in the middle? we ll talk about their plight coming up. in ukraine, president zelenskyy said his soldiers are poised to recapture more grouped in the south and east. but he also told reuters he doesn t see the war ending any time soon. former ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, will join us. and take a look out of puerto rico s southern coast. hurricane fiona pounded the island, leaving 1 million people without power. the governor says there is damage that is, quote, catastrophic. and we begin with hurricane fiona s impact. the category 1 storm is currently passing over the then can republic after ripping through puerto rico on saturday. today most of the 1.4 million residents remain without power. luma energy has so far restored power to 100,000 customers. officials say it could be days before power is fully re