Politics and views in the United States.

The FCC tackles A-I generated political ads, senators demand Secret Service firings over the attempted Trump assassination, and the director of Project 2025 resigns as Democrats highlight its extreme right-wing vision.

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Welcome to 2024 Talks, where we're following our democracy in historic times.

We're just behind this principle of transparency, which is you should simply say if AI was used.

It's nothing more complicated than that.

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman, Jessica Rosen-Worsel, says the public has a right to know if they're being misled by political ads that use AI.

The agency has proposed AI labeling on radio and television campaign spots, although the new rules may not be in place by November.

AI robocalls are already illegal after a misleading deepfake of President Joe Biden before the New Hampshire primary.

Acting Secret Service Director, Ronald Rowe, is defending the agency's failure to fire anyone since the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Rowe told a Senate committee Tuesday an investigation is ongoing.

As a career law enforcement officer and a 25-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.

Rowe says a communication failure with local law enforcement meant the Secret Service didn't know about the gunman until just before the shooting started.

He took the place of the previous director who resigned after intense congressional criticism.

The director of Project 2025 has resigned.

The hard right roadmap for a second Trump term was written at the Conservative Heritage Foundation by dozens of Trump aides and allies, but parts of it, like outlawing pornography and contraception and radically increasing the power of the presidency, are proving wildly unpopular.

Trump is publicly disavowing it.

They read some of the things and they are extreme.

I mean, they're seriously extreme.

But I don't know anything about it.

I don't wanna know anything about it.

Meanwhile, Trump tells Fox News he won't commit to debating Vice President Kamala Harris because he doesn't like ABC.

The network was already scheduled to air a debate between Trump and President Joe Biden September 10th.

Harris says she might debate an empty podium.

New polling shows Florida voters support a state constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights.

Amendment four would protect abortion access through 24 weeks and will be on the November ballot.

Lauren Brenzel is with the group Floridians Protecting Freedom.

So we want folks to know what's at stake.

A yes vote on four is a vote to stop the six-week abortion ban, but it's also a vote to remove politicians from this process more broadly.

The ACLU of Nebraska has filed a lawsuit claiming Secretary of State Bob Evnan ignored state law when telling county clerks to deny ballots to former felons.

Evnan claims only the State Board of Pardons on which he sits has that authority, but the ACLU's Jane Suh says he's violating a 2005 law that returns the right to vote two years after a former felon finishes their sentence.

It is extremely troubling that these Nebraskans have to sue our state's top election officials just to get them to follow the law and let eligible voters vote.

I'm Catherine Carley for Pacifica Network and Public News Service.

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