of james, mccord. he is one of five persons surprised and arrested yesterday inside the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is? a consultant to president richard nixon s re-election campaign committee. nixon s watergate scandal began 50 years ago today. like trump, his presidency ended in crime and chaos, but there were major differences in the methods the two presidents used to cling to power. also tonight, the unholy alliance between ginni thomas and the people plotting to overturn the presidential election. a member of congress who is now calling for her husband, justice clarence thomas, to resign joins me. we begin tonight with june 17, 1972, the day five bungling burglars broke not offices of the democratic national committee located in the watergate complex in washington, d.c. two years later president nixon resigned. the 50th anniversar
we can t wait. it s urging the president to use executive authority to start a reparations study. it s a coalition it s a human rights and racial justice coalition that sent this letter to biden, asking him to issue this executive order to train a commission to study reparations nationally. just from having gone through this fight, what do you think it will take to move the fight forward, to move each are 40 out of committee and into passage? out of we stand in solidarityh that group. many of us have the same expectations of president biden at this point. we need to take action. they are now over 100 localities that have some sort of local reparations initiative. and congress and our president should be hearing from these cities and states, all across this nation, that are calling for reparations. we are standing hopeful that he will do the right thing and signed by executive order. but we see the challenges, how this nation is regressing, the voting rights issues and
and i m joined by the stars of the big payback and as well the founder of first repair. i have to start with you, my friend, eric alexander. talk about the genesis of this film. yes, thank you so much for having us on. the big payback genesis is it s a documentary about reparations. directed by me and a white malle co-conspirator and clan nator whitney dowd, and it s following the historic stories of alderman robin simmons and congresswoman sheila jackson lee. we started this at the initial hearings in 2019, and then we heard about what are robin simmons did and totally pistd on got there and started filming her where we witnessed her beginning to implement the ground breaking bill in evanston as the tax reparations bill in america. that s what we did, and we ve been following congresswoman lee
sunday commemorates jooept, recognizing the emancipation of black americans. it s been 38 years since john congersman introduced hr-40 now sponsored by sheilla jackson lee. every coming has failed to pass it. call year hr-40 got further than ever passing the house judiciary committee but it remains stalled. while congress languishes on address the wrongs inflicted on generations of black americans, cities and states are taking action. last year evanston, illinois became the first city to issue slavery reparations, a $10 million project funded with revenue from recreational marijuana sales. the new documentary pig bay pac followed the fight for the reparations and congressman sheila jackson lea s fight to
senator gutierrez, we know you re all over it and i hope you ll come and lexish churchill you as well because we do want to follow up what s happening in uvalde. up next, the big payback, a thought-provoking new documentary looks at arguments for and against reparations. the co-directors and the focus of the film activist robert simmons join us next. m activist simmons join us next that nourishes and strengthens teeth. patients should act now to prevent sensitivity in the future. the new sensodyne nourish will help patients invest in healthier teeth.