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-- plus deepening legal roles with the former president, as amanda alvin bragg turns the screws on trumps former cfo. and later, our conversation with abortion providers here in new york as they prepare for the possible and of mifepristone, and another southern state passes a strict ban on most procedures. plus, the dreamers take on desantis in florida state capital, we will speak with two of them, they went to tallahassee to confront lawmakers face to face and more. this is american v...

♪♪ hi, its 4:00 in new york. president joe biden is set tonight to weigh in on the issue that is foundational to every other issue and debate we have in this country, democracy and the threats that loom over our democracy more than a year and a half after the ex-president tried to halt the peaceful transfer of power. its an issue that would not be an issue if it were not for the fact that one of our countrys political parties turned its back on democracy and decided to harness th...

exposes about something really bad that was going on at the cdc, the centers for disease control. the cdc over decades, over generations, built a reputation for excellence and solid science that made it really the international gold standard for public health. cdc science, cdc advice, cdc guidelines are unparalleled worldwide in terms of their influence, their authority, the respect with which they are treated and followed. it is a part of the u.s. government that we can righteously an...

really bad that was going on at the cdc, the centers for disease control. the cdc, over decades, over generations, built a reputation for excellence and solid science that made it really the international gold standard for public health. cdc science, cdc advice, cdc guidelines are unparalleled worldwide in terms of their influence, their authority, the respect with which they are treated and followed. it is a part of the u.s. government that we can righteously and uncomplicatedly be re...

People who made those promises during the campaigns and then voted to override the governors veto last week. i just know in my heart that this is not something that is popular with the people of our state. and even though we are against a big mountain with the gerrymandering that we have. i think still that continuing to put this at the forefront of our campaigns in 2024, we have a really important group of people as well. so we are gonna continue to talk about it but its definitely a winning is...

Cycle. there are candidates for public office out there wearing bulletproof vests on the campaign trail and trying to disclose them because they are worried about being attacked. this is extremely serious. we all know whats driving it. you noted at the top of the problem, its conspiracy theories like we have seen drive other terrorist movements. one group of academics showed the political stress index right now in the united states is at the highest levels it has been since the civil war. doing ...

New year as a prime objective. that includes the electoral count act, which is a little more obscure than some of the other democracy reforms, but is a ridiculous ticking time bomb. its like -- its like someone coming to your house and going down to the basement and being like, oh, your boilers about to explode. thats basically what happened in the last election with the electoral count act. we went down there, oh, no ones looked at this in 150 years. yeah, this is going to blow and up take the ...

That might be able to forestall some of the worst case scenarios. strengthen democracy. do you agree with the critics that look at with the senate is doing and so you are not doing enough? >> we are totally not doing enough. on the other hand, youve got a local da in fulton county georgia who was doing her job of doing a proper investigation. youve got this litigation by the department of justice, which if they are energetic and aggressive in the discovery phase, they could find out quite a lot....

Job of doing a proper investigation. youve got this litigation by the department of justice which if theyre energetic and aggressive, particularly in the discovery phase they could find out quite a lot. weve got our investigations going in the judiciary committee in the senate. so theres more to be done on the investigative side and more to be discovered i think through courts and through investigators. so while we are kind of blocked up with trying to find a way procedurally forward around repu...

Change anything. he is not going to go to the republicans. i actually would like to see lisa murkowski think about becoming an american independent. if theres one senator in the senate who has been dissed and treated badly by the party of which he or she is a part, it would be lisa murkowski, but shes not moving, and i doubt very much that angus king will move. hes getting some leverage here, and hell use it to his advantage, and hes sending a signal to the progressives in the house and senate. ...