That the senates stalled Police Reform Bill may finally start to move. The key player in all of these senate negotiations continuing to be west Virginia Senator Joe manchin. Who along with Senator Amy Klobuchar and other senate democrats is pushing what they hope is a voting Rights Bill that can attract republican support. Who at the very least, withstand their sabotage. All of that tonight on Politics Nation. Along with a special treat, as we take an intimate look at the greatest. Filmmaker Ken Burns joins us tonight to share his new film on the life, strife, and legacy of Mohammad Ali five years after the death of the Peoples Champ. But first, politics. Joining me now, Senator Amy Klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, and chair of the senate rules committee. Senator klobuchar, getting right to why we wanted you with us tonight, what is the status of negotiations on this compromised voting Rights Bill, the freedom to vote act. You know weve rallied, marched, been involved on the front lin
Scientists, and the economists, and the national security experts. They all tell us this is code red. The nation and the world are in peril. Right now, i fear for the world. My 3yearold just about 3yearold grandchild will inherit. By that, i mean the planet itself. In ten days, the hottest summer in recorded history for much of the world will come to an end. But not after thousands have died from extreme heat, or the effects of extreme weather. America has certainly not been spared. The federal announcement coming this weekend that this past summer was our hottest ever documented between the two coasts. As more recordsetting wildfires in california have fed so much smoke into the air that neighboring states have been debilitated. Many of which are suffering under yet another brutal heat wave, the kind that ignited the Pacific Northwest in ways unthought of a year ago. And new York And New Orleans both remain scarred by the same fatal storm. President biden touring the aftermath of trop
Good evening, and welcome to this very, very Special Edition of Politics Nation. Tonights lead, tenth anniversary. Right now im a mix of emotions because in the last in the midst of last Weeks News of every kind, i celebrated my tenth year as the host of this program, Politics Nation with Al Sharpton. And before we begin tonight i just want to thank you, the audience, who has followed me throughout the years and the different time slots. You stayed with me. I assure you that every One Of Us here at Politics Nation strives to bring you the most profound insight we can. Of course, it starts with our guests. And as always, we have a stellar group of voices tonight. The right voices to articulate where our current political life affects us all. Yet understanding that the black community remains the epicenter of our nations oldest and most recent traumas. Case in point, the covid19 pandemic, which continues to generate disparate outcomes for Black Americans. As the biden administration find
People from kabul is going to be hard and painful No Matter when it started, when it began. It would have been true if we had started a month ago or a month from now. There is no way to evacuate this many people without Pain And Loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. Its just a fact. New polling from nbc News Today finds that only one in four americans approve of the president s handling of the afghanistan crisis. With three in five americans of the mind that our nations longest war was ultimately not worth it. And political insiders are questioning just how much of a hit the president has taken on Capitol Hill over afghanistan, even as as even some democratic allies have condemned his response at a time when his party needs all his capital to move forward on voter protections. As the civil Rights Community prepares this week for the national voting Rights March that Martin Luther King iii and i as president of national Action Network will lead to Capitol Hill this coming
Black and Brown Americans who look very much like washington d. C. s nearly 60 majority minority population. Many of them serve on the Capitol Police Force and were beaten with Flag Poles and Fire Extinguishers as well as maysed by the angry, trumpcrazed crowd. They also worked on the Maintenance Crews tasked with the cleaning up the vandalism, trash, and feces left behind by rightwing hooligans. One republican lawmaker would call normal citizens. Many washingtonians found it shocking but not necessarily surprising. After all, President Trump used their fair city as a prop during his most overt turn at dictatorial cosplay casting a crowd of peaceful black matter protesters so he could flaunt a bible in front of a church he had never shown any worship in though it had been the favorite Place Of Worship for dozens of president s who preceded him. Even now republicans stand in the way of d. C. s Thirds Statehood even though the population exceeds that of wyoming and vermont, states with a