Biden Pushes For Voting Rights In Battleground Georgia

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

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Summary

President Biden delivers his voting rights speech in Georgia, pushing for the Senate to change filibuster rules to pass the ‘Freedom to Vote Act’ and the ‘John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act’, saying, “I’m tired of being quiet”. But has Biden already lost the African American community within a year by not delivering on his promise to eliminate discriminatory voting practices, and what does it mean for voter turnout in the years to come?

As Republicans push for more voting restrictions in Georgia, its Secretary of State joins to talk about election integrity and his views on non-citizens being allowed to vote. Plus, Dr. Fauci clashes with GOP Senators in a Covid response hearing and the Manhattan D.A. faces pushback from the NYPD after announcing he won’t prosecute certain crimes.

Guests: CEO of the The New Georgia Project Nsé Ufot, Georgia Secretary of State (R) Brad Raffensperger, Former member of Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory Board Dr Zeke Emanuel and CNN Senior Law Enforcement Analyst Charles Ramsey.

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0:00.0	The news continues.
0:03.1	Let's end it over to Laura Coates and CNN Tonight.
0:06.5	Anderson, thank you.
0:07.5	Good to see you.
0:08.5	And I am Laura Coates and welcome to CNN Tonight.
0:10.9	The big headline tonight is President Biden's clarion call for congressional action on
0:15.7	voting rights.
0:16.7	This, of course, hundreds of miles away from the U.S. Capitol, which has been a big pointed
0:20.9	contention for many voting rights advocates who chose not to stand beside him in Georgia
0:25.8	today.
0:26.8	They say they want to see action, not just talk.
0:30.5	And many are wondering if this conversation is coming in too little, too late, even though
0:36.2	we're not yet a year into the Biden presidency.
0:38.9	They hear about more on that issue in just a moment.
0:41.9	Still, the president, a self-proclaimed creature of the Senate, delivered his loudest call
0:47.4	yet for the Senate to change its rules on the filibuster in order to get two stalled
0:52.2	voting rights bills passed.
0:54.2	He says he's tired of being quiet this after apparently having quiet conversations for
0:59.8	months with members of Congress who are holding up voting reform.
1:04.6	I'm tired of being quiet.
1:07.2	Sadly, the United States Senate designed to be the world's greatest deliberative body
1:13.8	has been rendered a shell of its former self.
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