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state prosecution overseeing state voting laws is going to be extremely important in how elections are run from here on out. but the federal charges do not give the side eye to them, boris because they're very significant. but if he is the president he could pooh-pooh that and do away with it. >> no sideeye for me. >> no side eye. >> we should also note a slew of georgia officials from the governor, lieutenant governor, the secretary of state have all said that the elections there were fair and free and there was no supposed -- >> and these are republicans too. >> precisely. precisely. so on to the question of mark mead oelz, meadows, trump's former chief of staff. he's now essentially trying to get a federal court to intervene in the state charges to dismiss them saying i was just carrying out my duty as chief of staff, following orders. does that have legs? could that stand up? n. court? >> well, he will argue that in court. but the criteria is one, you had to be acting under color of office. meaning what you were doing was actually a part of your duties. think about it. a federal office looking at the actual state elections are
about. democrats outraged over new state voting laws. really over nothing. we're seeing record early voting turnout coming into this election day for the runoff. don't get their complaint. don't really understand if it's even real. heavy hitters from both political parties crossing the state for their respective candidates. not president biden, but pretty much everybody else like former president obama. not president biden. and as we reported earlier, today he is in arizona. he hasn't been in georgia to campaign with senator warnock at all. the white house says it's no big deal. >> we've said many times before at the podium the president will do anything that he can do for senator warnock to be helpful to him. he has done a high volume of fundraising, attended several political events including phone banks and unions and with unions and much more.
florida but, come on. we need to know within hours. >> steve: california needs to change their state voting laws then. because what is going on is completely legal. >> nevada, on down. and then, you know, we need to do some soul searching in terms of why we didn't do better on our messaging but also, you know, look. we need to, i think, move somewhat away from this same day from accountability or from showing up to vote mail works for our rural voters. mail works for our senior citizens. if you do it right, you have integrity mail can really work for us and has in the past. >> ainsley: trump said last night he would want voter i.d., same day voting. we find the results that night and paper ballots. but isn't it up to each state. >> steve: yeah. >> ainsley: if he won would he be able to invoke that. >> brian: no. each state. >> it's up to the states. the states determine how elections are conducted.
the tennis world no. 1, novak djokovic, has issued a statement to — as he put it — "address continuing misinformation" over his travel to australia. he�*s apologised, saying his team ticked the wrong box on his immigration form about his previous travel. president biden is calling it a defining moment for us democracy. he was in georgia, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mail, and to restore state voting laws meant to prevent discrimination. the us has recorded more than 1 million new covid cases as officials warn the peak of a fast—spreading omicron surge is still to come. and there are currently more people in us hospitals with covid than at any point during the pandemic. now on bbc news,
rupert murdoch and david duke, who said this about the anniversary of january 6th. >> they never show helicopter pictures of that incredible crowd because it was the largest crowd i've ever spoke before. i've never seen a crowd that big. >> it was massive. >> it was the real number, i won't say it because it will be a headline, oh, he exaggerated the number. the real number was over that sacred number. you know what that number was, right? >> i do. >> and i don't even talk about that. and they don't talk about it. i'll tell you, the crowd itself was the biggest crowd i've ever, and i've spoken before the biggest crowds. the biggest i've ever spoken by far. >> he's sick. that is sick. and his party right now is changing state voting laws and running candidates who peddle the big lie to oversee elections
passed, what happens? >> we have a cacophony and a complete mixedup situation in terms of actual state voting procedures going into these midterms. we would have a patchwork of state voting laws that are going to lead to absolute chaos going into this november midterms and even the primaries that lead into the midterms where you have had multiple, i think, 31 or 32 states pass voter suppression laws, making it more difficult for people to vote where there's no clarity whatsoever about that procedurely. even without the john lewis voting rights act or the other voting rights act there throughout last year, no excuse for joe manchin or other members of congress to take a look at the freedom to vote act which brings uniformity of those to what will be an "a" chaotic election season in 2022 without it. >> don and tim are staying with me. coming up, the latest example yet of who's really calling the shots at the gop
involved a hypersonic missile. a power cut has left at least 200,000 people in the argentine capital, buenos aires, without electricity in a heatwave. temperatures have reached 45 celsius in some parts of the country. increased demand for air conditioning and electric fans has led to the partial collapse of the grid in buenos aires. president biden is calling it a defining moment for us democracy. he was in georgia, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mail, and to restore state voting laws meant to prevent discrimination. this is one of the big drives of the biden administration after many republican—controlled states introduced tighter voting regulations after the last presidential election.
the tennis world no.1, novak djokovic, has issued a statement to — as he put it — "address continuing misinformation" over his travel to australia. he's apologised, saying his team ticked the wrong box on his immigration form about his previous travel. president biden is calling it a defining moment for us democracy. he was in georgia, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mail, and to restore state voting laws meant to prevent discrimination. the us has recorded more than 1 million new covid cases as officials warn the peak of a fast—spreading omicron surge is still to come. and there are currently more people in us hospitals with covid than at any point during the pandemic. now on bbc news,
in state voting laws. i disagree. i have had that argument over and over again. we've litigated in, private and public, and we will continue to have that argument, because i believe it's a mistake to believe that the preservation of the filibuster is more important in the preservation of democracy. >> including the senate. if you don't have democracy, you don't keep the senate. all of the institutions go down together. it's not just the senate, the supreme court today just struck down joe biden's vaccine mandate for businesses. a popular, executive order, from a popularly elected president. we have five of the nine justices appointed by the president, who didn't win the vote. we also have a senate, in which the 50 democrats represent roughly 43 more million people than the republicans. america's looking less and less democratic. we are in the middle of minority rule, right now. >> listen, the senate was obviously set up to reflect a will that was separate from the
the bbc�*s quinten sommerville reports on a growing crisis. a medical helicopter crashes in phildalephia, narrowly missing a church and power lines. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden is calling it a defining moment for us democracy. he was in georgia today, calling on the us senate to create national rules for early voting and voting by mail, and to restore state voting laws meant to prevent discrimination. this is one of the big drives of the biden administration after many republican controlled states introduced tighter voting regulations after the last presidential election. jim crow 2.0 is about two insidious things —