To help estimate a number. Many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. In 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave africanamericans the right to vote. The white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. We came here to exclude the negro. Nothing short will answer. The mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. One was a poll tax. You had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today s money to vote. The other was a literacy test. Registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. White people always seemed to get the simple questions. Black voters, well, black voters were asked such things as how many bubbles are in a bar of soap? and they were also asked things like how many jellybeans are in this jar? these practices became common across
Forces. And it s being conducted under difficult circumstances. I cannot promise what the final outcome will be. Or that it will be without risk of loss. But as commander in chief i can assure you that i will mobilize every resource necessary. The past week has been heartbreaking. We ve seen gutwrenching images of panicked people acting out of sheer desperation. You know, it s completely understandable. They re frightened, they re sad, uncertain what happens next. I don t think anyone, i don t think any one of us can see these pictures and not feel that pain on a human life. Now we have a mission, a mission to complete in afghanistan. The president there taking stock of days of harrowing scenes outside the airport in kabul including this video of a baby being handed over a wall to a u. S. Marine as well as taliban gunmen firing into the air and resorting to other brutal measures to try and disperse the thousands of people trying desperately to leave the country. While the airlift has l
Ought to be a robust bipartisan process. The senate is working through the weekend again and working closer to passing the sweeping infrastructure bill. House stands adjourned. Texas democrats win a momentary victory, blocking passage of a restrictive new gopled voting bill. This is a victory for texas voters, but we understand the fight continues. How republicans are planning to keep up the pressure on democrats and get the bills passed. I just don t know if we re going to have enough water to get to the end. Extreme drought is plaguing the west, and it is leading to water restrictions. And hardships for farmers. The olympic spirit on full display at the tokyo games. Newsroom starts now. Good morning to you on this saturday, august 7th. I m christi paul. Hey, boris. I m boris sanchez. You are live in the cnn newsroom, and we re grateful to have you. We start with some numbers that are deflating. The u. S. Averaging more than 107,000 new covid19 cases a day. That s a rate we haven t se
There is a way to fast track that. You and i last hour were talking about what senate majority leader chuck schumer said, which is there s an easy way to do this and a hard way to do this. Right now they re moving forward on what schumer would call the hard way to do it, the slower way of doing it. The clock has started, 30 hours of debate, then we re going to see another procedural vote. At any time, all 100 senators could come together and say that they ve decided on a quicker process to move forward on many of these amendments that are still up in the air, and that could go the expedited route, the chuck schumer deemed easier route. Regardless, the senate is staying here in washington, staying in session. The only real clock that they re up against is their own senate recess. It s really a question for some of these senators of how quickly they would like to get back home and start that recess period. At the same time, though, while all of these are happening, some democrat senators
Good evening from new york. I m chris hayes. I want to begin tonight by showing you a moment from this week s cpac conference that says a lot about where we are as a country and the ongoing danger of the current conservative movement. Now, i m going to confess, and you might be thinking the same thing, i was on the impression there was already a cpac this year. Apparently, republicans really wanted to have another one. You know, covid happened and then everyone is in the conference mood. This weekend, there was a second 2021 cpac, short for conservative political action conference. This one in dallas featuring the usual suspects, republican politicians for aspirations for higher office and disgraced expresident donald trump. It was all about what you would expect, i would say, politicians posing falsehoods like the big lie, the 2020 election was stolen from trump. There s a one moment in particular that almost made my heart stop when i saw it. It s this moment that speaks to something