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To the extent were not updating, refurbishing and revamping our democratic processes and procedures to meet the needs of the modern moment, then were not going to be successful in making that case to the rest of the world, to china, to russia or anyone else. there is a national security dimension to this today. >> there is a national security dimension to this. united states in a competition of models with autocracy. we are trying to show the world that american democracy and democracy writ larg...

In order to win this argument. our democratic system of government actually has to do stuff thats good for the country. in order to win this argument the world. and that is not necessarily happening right now. kristen national security adviser jake sullivan put it today at the white house briefing. right after president biden had made his call to the president of ukraine. >> question on voting. for the for the people act. if it is not passed, is it a national security issue? >> i would say the b...

Parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy. that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable, even five years ago or a decade ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed, at the state-legislative level. where legislators are basically saying, were going to take away the certification of election processes from civil servants. you know, secretaries of state. people who are just counting ballots. and were going to put it in the hands of partisan legislatures,...

Worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable five years ago or a decade ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislative level where legislators are basically saying were going to take away the certification of e lection processes from civil servants, secretaries of state, people counting ballots and put it in the hands of partisan legislators that may o...

Yeah, so its a partnership between four different land owning organisations and what were trying to do is restore natural processes, were trying to get the forest to go back to its natural tree line, were restoring peatlands thats going to help take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and where weve got rivers that have been altered, were making them more natural by restoring them to their natural channels. excuse my ignorance, to my untrained eye this looks pretty natural to me. why would you...

The past few decades, their numbers have steadily grown. today its estimated there are around 250 breeding pairs across britain. so all the natural processes we talked about, that produces bigger, safer habitats for wildlife to thrive, and the link with ospreys, i suppose, is quite symbolic. the first ospreys to come back to britain came back to loch garten in the 1950s and were hoping that cairngorms connect�*s going to bring back lots more nature as we move forward through the 200 years. but...

Infected other people wouldnt they if they had covid?— if they had covid? thats certainly one possibility. _ if they had covid? thats certainly one possibility. three _ if they had covid? thats certainly one possibility. three of - if they had covid? thats certainly one possibility. three of those i one possibility. three of those miners — one possibility. three of those miners died, three of them were infected — miners died, three of them were infected so — miners died, three of them we...

Boards who can resist political pressure like this. whats your takeaway? >> i think thats exactly the right takeaway. its how important it is to have an apolitical architecture for governing our elections, because the right to vote, of course, is not political. who you vote for is a political choice. but we need to have free and fair elections, and even more importantly, we need to make sure that the american people perceive them as free and fair. so when you have a president or a chief of staff...

The elections coming forward by caring so much about ballot security and ballot integrity and a lot of republicans, tens of millions of republicans say that the rigging of the election happened in 2016 when -- in 2020 when laws were changed about how -- how to control and protect our elections or sometimes, you know, the courts just intervened or rogue election officials changed the processes by which we make sure that ballots are correct and should be counted and this was done through changing ...

Persists in our country as a result of some of those origins. >> this becomes a issue. if youre learning things that are backed up by evidence regardless of what the intent may be, if its turning out the black players are not getting the same compensation as white players and theres more than 2,000 claims and only 6 0600 ha received rewards. >> sure. its invested in the ways and ideas that seem value neutral wind up contributing to and reenshrining racial hierarchies in the society. you go throu...