kids leaving pediatric wards overwhelmed and we ll tell you what s behind the spike and what kinds of things parentses can to keep their kids safe. russia targeting civilian infrastructure. we will take you live to ukraine for the latest on these new attacks. as the midterms get closer president biden is out pushing his new agenda. one of the talkers, the student loan forgiveness program and there s one problem. it is on pause. what happens now? there are new rules from the irs that could mean more money in your pocket. we ll tell you about changes being made to tax brackets and what it could mean for your paycheck. it is the weekend, saturday, october 22nd, we are so grateful that you are spending part of it with us. we are learning a lot about each other including a hand licking saga. amara, you want to bring us up to speed? i should not be putting my taught or blast because she might be watching so boris, i m going to put it on you. yes, she likes to lick her
voting rights legislation. senator warnock s whose state was at the center of calls by trump was on the floor. watch. we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crow era. this is jim crow in new clothes. since the january election, some 250 voter suppression bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country from georgia to arizona, from new hampshire to florida. using the big lie of voter fraud as a pretext for voter suppression. the same big lie that led to a violent insurrection on this very capitol. the day after my election. make no mistake. this is democracy in reverse. rather than voters being able to pick the politicians, the politicians are trying to cherry pick their voters. i say this cannot stand. the legislation the senator is promoting there takes direct aim at institutional barriers to voting and create national standards for voter registration. according to dem
elections. a voting rights expert we talked to called this a political ploy. the danger, as i see it is it s that it is intimidating and it is voter suppressions and designed and targeted at a lower income voters who also disproportionately tend to be men and women of color. for ron miller he wants nothing to do with the election process anymore after the arrest. i want him to drop the charges on me and just leave me alone. our thanks to leila santiago for that story of which we have an update. at least one florida man charged with illegally casting his ballot in 2020 had those charges dismissed. there was a judge in miami that says the prosecutor in the case did not have jurisdiction over the alleged offense. we want to dig deeper now on this issue. neil volt, the deputy director of the florida rights restoration coalition joins us this morning. his group is working with attorneys to review these cases and potentially help some of
senate and for congress. latasha, i can sort of figure out how you might hold lawmakers accountable, but you mentioned holding corporate america accountable and responsible as well. i m wondering what you might be planning? well, listen, corporate america has also been supporting these voter suppressions. we are going to call them out. here it is we know that democracy is good for business. if we don t have a democratic nation right, if we don t have free and fair elections, there s no need of sitting and having a, quote, about on martin luther king holiday to come out with these statements and not stand for what it is that he believed in. all we re asking is that we have free and fair elections by making sure that we have access to the ballot. there are corporations that are actually supporting those who are standing in the way and we re going to hold them account. we re consumers and workers but at the end of the day what we re saying is, we are serious about this issue and we re
watching on where we are right now with voter suppressions being used across the country in certain states. thank you for having me on. across the country we saw right after a historic turnout in our presidential elections, we saw bills crisscross the nation that aim to roll back advances in voting rights and aim to make it more difficult for americans to have the freedom of access to the ballot box. we saw over 420 bills crisscross this nation, and many states already passed legislation but it starts to roll back access to the ballot box. it s very clear what these laws intend to do, which is to disproportionately affect young people, to disproportionately affect communities of color and make it so politicians were afraid of the public that they are supposed to be serving can make it so that they can stay in power instead of listening to their constituents and have a