President lyndon b. Johnson signed the Voting Rights act into law. Removing legal barriers for black voters, johnson not only made a quality at the ballot box of reality for everyone but he also ensured this nations laws matched its revered ideals. And yeah, its over the ensuing indicates protections under the act have been chipped away. Most notably after the 2013 Supreme Court decision in shelby v. Holder which made it easier for states to pass restrictive voting laws. Still, the outcome of our elections and our democracy held firm. Until january six 2020 line. An angry red violent mob stormed the capitol driven by one terrified goal. Overturn a free and Fair Election. They were motivated by the lives of one. Dan donald j trump. The new twice impeached thrice indicted for now former president of the United States. That dark day expose just how fragile american democracy, our democracy, really is. But, trump is now finally facing accountability for trying to illegally stated. Power th
90%. joining us now, wall street journal reporter cameron mcwhirter who has written by willis, interviewed her last month. cameron, thank you for taking the time. d.a. willis has not been doing a whole lot of interviews lately, but you talked to her in july. what impression did you take away? she is out to win. that is that s the main thing i got. she s a workaholic. and admittedly so. and she is hyperobsessed with preparation. so she walked this investigation took two and a half years. and she walked in to she presented almost 100 page indictment, very sprawling, very broad, involving a lot of people, a lot of actors, 19 people indicted including former president trump, but she has definitely done her homework and their staff has done their homework. it is going to be the battle
Trump was going to be needed that indictments. i know the government sees it as a foregone conclusion. i do see it is more likely than not. are you think that we do have to prepare ourselves it is possible that there is star-studded names on that indictments and donald trump might not be one of them. i do think that as i said, it is more likely than not but i do not want to approach this as donald trump being the only name it is going to be in the indictments. i think that fani willis is going to lay as a very sprawling, very intricate and detailed rico case against the number of different conspiracies. and donald trump may not be one of. them but prepare for us to see this, like us, that pulling up this week. but by next week. you won t make a prediction, but then you say something they got my ears to perk up. one, don t be surprised if donald trump is not indicted by fani willis. the fulton county d.a.. but, too there could be other
A trolley bus conductor was killed. ukrainian military success has surprised their friends and their enemies, but the russians have not turned anything like their full force on this capital city yet. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kyiv. i m joined now by the former us ambassador to ukraine between 2006 and 2009: bill taylor. he s now vice president, russia and europe, at the us institute of peace. thank you forjoining us. jeremy bowen was making a point that that cheered, and you would know this better than most it is a very big city, very sprawling, difficult to take over, probably infinitely harder to keep containing, presumably the attraction of some sort of ceasefire of some
That s why they interviewed him. them theed to know about his conversation with the russian ambassador, and they say that as a result of this interview that they don t believe he faces i mean, i m told by a couple of sources they don t believe he faces any legal jeopardy. in other words, one possible problem for him would be if he lied to fbi agents, the people i talked to say they don t get the impression that that is a problem. you used a description on the fbi s russian investigation that i ve never heard before, it s very big and very sprawling. yes. that to me seems should be a blaring headline. i mean, that s surprising to me because james comey doesn t even confirm that there is an investigation in public. to the russian of the russian elections? i don t know whether that s the case or not. he s very careful and what he confirms, doesn t give off a hint on this. it s looking at the russian hacking, which they publicly disclosed. we know they re doing that s a