america s gun violence epidemic. plus, ruben gallego joins me here in the studio as he launches his bid to evict conservative former democrat kyrsten sinema from the senate. and the latest from the devolder files. george santos claims to have been mugged on one of the busiest and fanciest avenues. when it comes to the january 6th assault on the capitol and the attempt to subvert our democracy, the wheels of justice are indeed actually turning. in the two years since the insurrection, the department of justice has made more than 950 arrests. nearly 500 of those people have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges. at least 40 have been found guilty at contested trials. just yesterday, four members of the extremist group the oath keepers were found guilty of the most serious charge lobbed in the attack, seditious conspiracy. this follows november s conviction of two other oath keepers including the group s leader, elmer stewart rhodes under the same charge. and righ
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those people are. exactly, and we can include audrey lord, you don t get a chance to talk about her, who is also being named. you don t even get a chance to talk about the histories we re supposed to talk about. how can you talk about enslavement if you can t talk about what that meant for black women? who are largely responsible for creating the property upon which this country was built. how do you talk even about you re supposed to talk about the holocaust. you can t talk about the holocaust without talking about how many of the ideas that hitler enacted he borrowed from the united states. there s just a whole range of histories that are not being told. and here s the reason. this isn t about debates about the past. this is about debates about the present. this is a reaction to 2020. this is a reaction to new generations saying we care about equality in this country, we care about structural racism. we want to understand why 50 years after brown v. board, we
videotape, without taped conversations. the fact that you have interference with elections, an insurrection at the capitol, and the recruitment of candidates and provided messaging to go out there and these to donald trump in these elections. this is all connected and it s important that this committee really bring all of this to light, and i say that because we just went to an event with hunter college alum, the warrior poet, audrey lord celebrating her life, and there s a quote from her that i think is so apropos here, which is your silence will not protect you. and for all of the folks who are coming out, albeit perhaps late talking about what happened in the administration and giving us the opportunity to hold folks accountable, it s incredibly important at this point in time, but i want to make this last point that it s not just about what donald trump did in the white house and said to his
those, because it also means that your leadership was tested. what do you suppose your leadership role teaches you about, or has taught you about yourself? that i m resilient, just like our city is resilient, just like our country is resilient. and there are moments that you don t script, but within you and within all of us, i think it s really the strength and the courage to face those moments. and i ve heard said, i did what i knew to do, and when you know better you do better. that s what the last four years have been about. i can t say it s always been perfect leadership, but with whatever has come my way, i ve done the best that i could in the moment. and i ve learned that i am deliberate and afraid of nothing, as audrey lord said. and what do you suppose the nation and the city learned about you? because as you just mentioned,
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