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♪ >> brian: so the olympic torch has not even been lit yet but controversy heating up at the tokyo games from the u.s. womens soccer team yesterday to hammer thrower gwen berry during the trials. american athletes using exposure to preach political messages and social injustices? havent we seen this before the year was 1968 tommy mitt smith and john car lois chose to demonstrate at the medal more important for him to point out the problems in america in that point. martin luther king jr. had j...

The red, white and blue in 1968 and talked about it? >> i will never turn my back on america. i have this fond memory and love for this country and the people in this country. nobody will ever be ever talk to me out of that. >> brian: rye do some olympians want to honor americans america and americans today and some determined to find and poke holes in them. lets ask shelby steel. bring us time in east st. louis illinois. and i remember the olympics were huge event in the first in the e air. at ...

And racial unrest. but you carried that flag around the ring. why were you, who gave -- grew up in adverse circumstances ready to sing the praises of the red, white, and blue? >> because i have loved america all along. i have always loved america. and once you fall in love just like falling in love with your wife, no one can say anything about her. the next night she is my wife. and im going to stay. thats why you make that thing until death do we part. thats why nothing has ever shook my faith ...

United states, we had members of the texas statehouse in washington. we met with them because we see what state legislating bodies are doing. because they know if they suppress the vote, they know we know -- to silence the progress weve made. thats why we have to come together to continue this fight. thats why the congressional black caucus is so important. i listened to majority whip jim clyburn talk about we cant filibuster away our voting rights. we know but for the montgomery march we wouldn...

In 1968 in that race with that pulled groin left leg muscle. i could not warm up with the athletes and watched them which was a crippling experience with the mind process of seeing athletes as good as i was, some better, warming up and i couldnt but i was a world record holder and had to maintain my stability in believing what i had to be will be done. will i do that? think, think, think. see yourself doing the action or practice as you do the action as the athletes do on the field but inside of...

Raised their black glove fists in the air in 1968. it still gives me chills. one of those activists himself joins us now. 1968 olympic dpold medalist tommy smith, who is the focus of this amazing documentary as well as sports editor of "the nation", david zirin. gentlemen, very happy to have you here. mr. smith, i have of to start with you. a bit of a fan girl moment. thank you so much for that moment in 1968. i doubt that you knew at the time that would ripple through time and decades and still...

To follow you no matter who you are or what you say. you will have a wagon to pull around with the idea of anyone that does something that they believe in. that is a responsibility of a person who is doing the talking that it doesnt stop there. it continues to mob the thought processes and others around you moving through life. so thats back in 1968, thats what happened to me. it kept moving but thank god i had a backing of understanding through my family, through america, a belief experience th...

On the wrong side of the growing climate crisis. but that might be changing. joining me now is my colleague tiffany cross of the cross connection. coming up today, you are going to talk to a member of the youly announced conservative climate caucus. which makes more sense than it might sound like to some people, because if youre a conservative you should be thinking about conserving the earth. >> you think so, right? but conservative chao climate caucus may sound like an oxymoron to some. but im...

Believing what they say. they have to. >> yeah. were way over time. but you are only 24 when you displayed that incredible amount of courage so i want to say my fist is in the air with you in 2021. just like you put your fist in the air for us in 1968. thank you sochl for joining us. well be back after the break. a. ♪ when technology is easier to use... ♪ barriers dont stand a chance. ♪ thats why well stop at nothing to deliver our technology as-a-service. ♪ it takes a certain kind of pe...

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