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that is testimony from mike pences former adviser regarding former president donald trumps repeated efforts to get pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. we will hear much more of the key moments from yesterdays january 6th hearing, including the vice presidents close call with the mob, very close call that day. and the pardon request from the architect of the presidents election scheme. plus, new reporting that the house select committee now wants to talk t...

Benefit from being white. It is 1 amount down to the penny and its a lot of money. Shes here to explain white bonus, fascinating. All right, have a great show. Victor. Thank you very much. Lets do it right now well first of all Keeping Track of the protests, breaking out at College Campuses across the us right now, its not easy the protests are broadly referred to as propalestinian. Most are antiwar. Some are anti israel. They include some muslim students. They include some jewish students some ...

WUNC's Race and Southern Culture Reporter Leoneda Inge reflects on the past year, and the standout moments and people who fought against injustice in North Carolina.

Necessarily always have exclusionary policies. and senator whitehouse has built a reputation for himself fighting for equal rights and diversity and progressive civil rights causes. >> thats right. hes a known progressive, hes someone who fights for diversity on a regular basis publicly. last week he co-sponsored the juneteenth bill, making it a federal holiday. this week the senator in answering questions about this, he actually did defend the club as having a long tradition of being a family c...

Unequivocal. this was an armed insurrection. by my count, at least three defendants were carrying in the mob, according to prosecutors that day. that doesnt count according to the pipe bombs at the rnc and dnc. >> it remains fascinating. we called ron johnsons name. lets show you what he was up to over juneteenth weekend. he decided after having initially blocked the juneteenth bill in terms of making it a holiday, that he would show up and heres the reception he got. charlie, can you get your h...

Racist dog whistle type themes that trump leverages as candidate and president. republicans are recruiting new candidates to run at local levels to build a bench of a candidate modeled after someone like a marjorie taylor greene. it shows the gop moving further and further into that extremist wing, that cult of personality wing that is there to disrupt versus to lead and to legislate. but i think democrats still need to continue to break this down and name the fact that this is an uncomfortable ...

That we confront in the present. it is important to acknowledge and recognize and lift up the sins of the past. so it was an honor to vote on the juneteenth bill. but we still have a long way to go in america. now, well see what happens with the for the people act, h.r. 1 and s. 1 on tuesday. then i think we have to go back to the drawing table if mcconnell presumably prevails with the use of the filibuster to move toward some of the things that joe manchin has indicated along with stacey abrams...

Necessarily. president rouhani dismissed successor as someone who knows little more of executions and imprisoning people has met the cleric and congratulated him. one thing is clear, griff, it is going to make -- this election will make it very difficult for the biden administration to get tehran back to the table and to rejoin that deal that was struck back in 2015 that effectively had iran abandoning enrichment program. keep in mind they are now enriching it at the highest levels ever though n...

White house is just a block away, and the capitol is a couple of blocks that way, and it is not gone unnoticed here that you have two members in congress, and sponsors from texas, and congresswoman sheila jackson lee, and john cornyn sponsors of the juneteenth bill saying that this is about racial reconciliation, and moment of reflection, and jim, you are talking to people here, and it is very apparent that, yes, it is a symbolic aspect it to, and there needs to be some teeth behind it as well. ...

The vehicle of studying critical race theory but it is what it is. but to your second question -- im sorry. theres audio issues here. the idea that the bill passed today is not -- cannot exist in a vacuum. so black twitter and the leftist twitter should claim a victory because they made enough noise that people like joe biden and the snaft democratic caucus recognize for the first time they cant do this performtive stuffer and not pass real voting rights reform and on issues to make a difference...