policing. meanwhile, the pandemic continues. you know the statsz. we ve been losing north of 2,000 soul as day. most estimates are 95% or so of the patients in icu beds are unvaccinated in the hardest hit states. today during the virtual global summit on the virus, the president announced the u.s. will donate half a billion doses of the pfizer vaccine to other countries around the world. with that, let s bring in our stellar starting line wednesday night, veteran journalist and author, chief white house correspondent for the the new york times and former democratic senator from the great state of new jersey and eugene robinson, pulitzer columnist for the the washington post we ll start with your beat. what do we know about these meetings today, how they went and the fix joe biden finds himself in presently?
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godly principles, because those principles work. we need more christians in politics. i want to encourage christians to run for political level. i m not just talking about a christian at the presidential level, i m talking about at all levels of government. we need, again, godly principles. why do we need more christians holding office? because it s the biblical principles that work. people that follow those biblical principles. we re a nation of all faiths. we are. but god s principles work. you know i m a strong catholic and i love pope francis, but when you say god s principles work, i believe you, but i also know that sometimes praying oftentimes praying isn t enough. we need action. god gave us gifts that s why i m going to all 50 states. that s action. i m going to all 50 statsz to do just that, to take action. so, will you pray for more christian politicians? i don t understand. no, first of all, if you go back to the bible to nehemiah,
themselves to be in public usually they aren t. the statsz you re talking about from the cdc and the u.s. department of health and human services a 2002 study. let s go back now, i want to go back to josh duggar. he said my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling. i understood that if i continued down this wrong road i would end up ruining my life. i sought forgiveness from those i had wronged and asked christ to forgive me and come into my life. i know you re a religious woman but does that make you angry that he only mentions himself? no. the media is focusing so much on josh duggar and how did they handle this?
well, as you mentioned earlier, there are certain states that are covered by section five of the voting rights act. those states have a different set of parameters they have to meet. pennsylvania is not one of those statsz, but pennsylvania is covered under section two of the voting rights act. the entire country is. so the department of justice has the ability to look at those states and to insure that they are indeed meeting all of the laws and that they are not discriminating in any way against any individuals with respect to voting. so given that, pennsylvania does indeed have to meet those requirements under section two and they have to insure there s no disparate impact impacting any of the voters in the states and the voters are treated equally. you have studied this extensi extensively. is there a case to be made that these laws over time would disproportionately affect minority voters or other groups?