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Streets all over the country, both for and against president jair bolsonaro. so major rallies took place in very important state capitals like rio and sao paulo. so in the main protest in favor of president bolsonaro here in the city of sao paulo, bolsonaro said he only sees three alternatives for his future. the prison, death, or victory in next years presidential election, adding that prison is simply not an option. he also said he will not bow down to the brazilian supreme court, keeping in m...

Lawmakers who they may is fanning the flames trying to make martyrs of those arrested for the january 6th attack referring to them as political prisoners and detainees. >> we want to know how are the detainees being treated. >> former d.c. police chief charles ramsey is concerned about state capitals in other buildings on september 18th. >> i think police across the country, as well as federal agencies across the country need to be very, very aware and protect federal buildings because, as you h...

Do you share those concerns? >> i do, alex. i would say for as much as we hear about september 18th its focus is on state capitals as much as the nations capitol. also remember, for organizational purposes traveling, getting people there. part of the reason january 6th was not bigger, it was just difficult on a middle of a week workday to actually get to washington, d.c. to create such an incident. that is not the state at many state capitals where you have groups that are very organized that un...

But we were doing both. we were both covering the voting bills and the politics around that, but we were also covering the abortion bill back when it passed originally and was signed into law and then in the lead-up to the supreme court ruling. it is really imperative for the ap to continue to be in these state capitals on the ground, particularly with the decline of local news. we think its important for us to continue to amplify whats happening across this country. >> i do think thats one of t...

Emphasize is ap is going to continue to be the worlds preeminent fact-based news agency. i think its critical that we provide facts particularly at a time when there isnt really information out there. >> facts first. one of the unique things i think ap does is against the backdrop of a lot of newspapers across america closing their doors. you have newspapers in every state capital. but my question is given texas being in the news, there was a lot of coverage about the voter suppression bills. th...

September 18th is a vehicle to do that. these are people that are doubling down on it, and weve seen lots of calls for rallies at the federal level, the state level. this is the first one thats gotten a lot of attention for a couple of reasons. one, you have elected officials again like madison cawthorn that are calling for activities in and around september 18th. the next thing is the republicans, at least on their side for the most part, have not pushed this down and said dont exhibit behavior...

Fight, which is the greatest attack? you should not be watering it down. you should be strengthening it for the purpose of this democracy. its not about democrat and republican, ali, as you and i have often talked. this is about the future of this very nation and stopping the political policy insurrection thats going on inside of state capitals now. we stopped the violent one on january 6th. weve got to stop this one thats happening inside these state legislatures now. >> good to see you again a...

We have to be careful with these watered-down bills. what we need is the bill that john lewis wrote with his dying breath. we said we were going to intensify. weve got calls, ali, to come to west virginia, like we did in texas. this is the 100th year anniversary of the blair mountain fight when black and white coal miners fought together. were headed to west virginia now. we cannot turn back on this now. this is too serious. its time for the president to meet with the multi-racial group of clerg...

Businesses and the people that those businesses can employ. >> is the biden white house delivering for you? >> is the biden white house delivering for us? theyre doing the best that they can. its not just the white house. i mean, we have a whole congress and we have 50 state capitals that have input in this system. and theres always in roads and fighting. were looking at the money coming for mass transit and three states are trying to agree on which state gets more and so forth. so, a trillion d...

Where thousands of people gathered to campaign against vaccine passports, face masks and further lockdowns. crowds then marched towards government buildings. meanwhile, in brazil, protesters have again taken to the streets across the country, in support of vaccination and to demand the impeachment of presidentjair bolsonaro. the country is struggling with high numbers of covid deaths. local media reported demonstrations in 13 state capitals, including sao paulo and rio de janeiro. it comes as pu...