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PBS Newshour live episode, Jan. 10, 2022
MSNBC, January 10, 2022 – 6:00 pm (ET)
Biden facing pressure to deliver on voting rights ahead of Atlanta speech
CNN, Kevin Liptak, Jasmine Wright and Dan MericaJanuary 10, 2022

Pressure is intensifying on President Joe Biden to articulate a plan to enact meaningful voter protections as a counter to strict new voting laws going into place around the nation after warning for the past year of nascent dangers to democracy.

Biden heads to Atlanta on Tuesday to make an urgent new case for voting rights legislation as Democrats prepare to advance two new bills that will require a weakening of Senate filibuster rules in order to pass — a step Biden is prepared to endorse.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — who asked Biden last year to take on voting rights as her signature issue — plan to lay a wreath at Martin Luther King Jr.’s crypt and visit the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the slain civil rights leader preached.

Coming at a critical moment, the day is meant, in part, to quiet criticism that the President hasn’t done enough to break a congressional logjam. That criticism is growing louder after a coalition of voting rights groups annoced Monday they would be boycotting the President’s speech.

Russia downplays Ukraine invasion, but U.S. makes no concessions
Politico, Quint Forgey and David M. HerszenhornJanuary 10, 2022

The United States and Russia managed a first day of security talks Monday without a breakdown that might give Moscow any basis to carry out a threatened military strike on Ukraine.

But even as Russia’s lead negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, insisted the Kremlin had no plan for another invasion of its western neighbor, it was clear that Moscow and Washington are confronting virtually unbridgeable differences on many issues — including a repeated demand by the Kremlin for hard guarantees that Ukraine and Georgia will never join NATO.

The wide gulf between the former Cold War rivals became clear as Ryabkov and his U.S. counterpart, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, held dueling news conferences at the end of the daylong negotiations, which were conducted at the U.S. Mission in Geneva.

Discussions over the threat of a Russian military incursion and demands for an array of security concessions by the West will continue on Wednesday in Brussels at NATO headquarters, and on Thursday in Vienna at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The highlight from the first round of deliberations Monday, however, was Ryabkov’s insistence that Russia was not preparing any imminent move against Ukraine, which it invaded in 2014 before annexing Crimea, and where it has backed an armed separatist uprising in the eastern region of Donbas that continues today.

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CNN, John Harwood,

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/09/politics/joe-manchin-biden-build-back-better/index.html

White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds a news briefing
Politico, January 10, 2022 – 1:30 pm (ET)

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-10-2022/happening-today/

State Department spokesperson Ned Price holds news briefing
Politico, January 10, 2022 – 2:00 pm (ET)

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-10-2022/happening-today/

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