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chairman schiff introducing formally new sweeping legislation to deal with exactly this. my reason for being here is as simple as the title: protecting our democracy act. it shouldn t matter who the president of the united states is. we should want that president not to be able to abuse that office to enrich themselves. we should want them to maintain independence from the justice department, not use it as their own private law firm, not use it to go after their adversaries. the plan here is not partisan as emphasized. the legislation would have rules to limit how presidents use or, again, potentially abuse pardon power. deal with the deadlines that might prevent otherwise prosecution of rogue presidents. that s obviously a look at the legal presidency of trump. and to enforce the ban on presidents who aren t allowed to enrich themselves. also ideas to better protect doj independence. this is all part of congress broader efforts at accountability, deal with what ....
the implications are enormous, notjust in texas but across the us, and it points to a wider phenomenon. ideological conservatives are using state activism to confront federal power. my guest is texas republican state senator bryan hughes. has a new front opened up in america s culture wars? bryan hughes in austin, texas, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, senator hughes. let me ask you a very simple question, is the era of roe versus wade that famous supreme court decision which essentially enshrined the right of a woman to have an abortion in the us is that era over in texas? we believe the end may be in sight. you know, for the last 30 years, the supreme court has been chipping away at that opinion and giving the states more authority to protect innocent human lives. so, this is not the end of roe versus wade, but the end may be in sight. we hope it is. this texas legislation, which you were one of the archite ....
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, decertify the election. that is the demand coming from none other than the former president, donald trump, and it comes in a new letter to georgia s secretary of state, brad raffensperger. the secretary is outfront exclusively tonight to respond for the first time to trump s new attempt to overturn the results of the election nearly 11 months after the election. so trump claims in his letter that there is a new report of invalid ballots and says, quote, i would respectfully request that your department check this and, if true, along with many other claims of voter fraud and voter irregularities, start the process of decertifying the election or whatever the correct legal remedy is and announce the true winner. that letter was sent three days ago. the election results and been certified and audits again and again and the true winner is still joe biden. trump did not win 321 days ago in georgia, and there has been zero evi ....
mostly haitian illegal immigrants crammed under a bridge in south texas last week. and they are still there right now. things are so bad it s not just republicans sounding the alarm as obama s dhs secretary jeh johnson, well, he is also crying uncle. we have to get control of our borders. 200,000 a month is a lot of people. dhs just released the numbers for august, it s 200,000. august is typically a month where it s very low. and those kinds of numbers and the images you just showed your audience saps the ability. it overwhelms the ability of ths, the border patrol, ice,. pete: overwhelmed. unable to ignore the crisis any longer the white house sent current homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas down to texas with a shall we say weak message for these illegal immigrants. we are very concerned the haitians who are taking this irregular migration path are receiving false information that the border is open or the temporary protected status is available. i w ....
vaccination. it s a ray of hope for millions of american families and a common sense approach to travel as we stair down what looks more and more like a bifercated country. we re sure pasting the devastating flu of 1918 and driven by the tragedy unfolding in largely unvaccinated states like mississippi which currently has the highest covid death rate per capita in the country and if it were a zone country, miss mississippi would be tied for second. republican governor tate reeves tried to down play his own incompetence. as you know, unfortunately, fatalities is a lagging indicator when it comes to the virus, it is a lagging indicator and so timing has as much to do with that statistic that you used as anything else. the president will try to believe the delta variant is only affecting republicans in the united states. that is not true. that is not a fact. move around the country and you re going to see fatalities rise in other states. we believe in personal responsi ....