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Was highlighted and so on and so forth. what about the voting rights bill? don't they have the gumption to come back and debate? >> i don't think it's about gumption but strategy. unfortunate that a handful of democrats chose to come back because what's on the line here are voting restrictions that where there is no voting fraud. 58 lawsuits brought by the trump administration and some folks in texas all -- many went in front of trump judges and they failed to find fraud. restrictions targeting laws in harris county, a democratic county. a political strategy to restrict the vote. stop people f...

They are mandated to get it. we saw a very positive move today with the biden administration requiring nursing home workers to get vaccinated basically or the nursing home may lose medicare and medicaid funding. that's really important, because the nursing homes have been ground zero for this pandemic. and a nursing homeworker who is unvaccinated is really a potential deadly risk for the people they are responsible for carrying for. >> dr. tom frieden, it's a privilege to get to talk to you today. thank you for spending some time with us and fielding our questions. matt dowd is sticking around...

Democratic colleagues from the state house and the state senate and from fulton county to try to sound an alarm. um, about georgia republicans using the new powers they gave themselves in their new anti-voting law, they passed after the november elections. they are using those new powers to try to mount a partisan-republican takeover of the administration of elections in georgia's largest democratic county. >> when republican lawmakers passed senate bill 202 earlier this year, we knew that the state takeover provision was the most dangerous provision in this bill. and we knew that provision wa...

At one point, after 2020, he praised fulton county for a job well done. and he fell out of favor with then-president trump who sort of ostracized him. so he and some others, they are doing everything they can to curry favor with trump and his crowd. and the way they do that is to bash fulton county. we are the largest county in the state of georgia. we are the most democratic county. and therefore, he picks on fulton county. but i'm not going to stand for it. i am going to continue to fight for fulton and the good news is our democratic members, they are standing side by side, shoulder to shou...

New York's county chairs of the Democratic Party call on Governor Cuomo to resign in light of the numerous sexual harassment accusations he faces.