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Youre concerned about broad immunity. I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances. When we have a criminal Justice System that had ordinarily treated everyone the same. Justice Ketanji Brown jackson addressing her concerns about president ial immunity in a new interview with cbs news, as late today special counsel jack smith filed a Superseding Indictment against donald trump in the january 6th conspiracy case. Also tonight, ...

The Atlantic The Pressure of Being California’s First Latino Senator Alex Padilla, who filled Kamala Harris’s seat, is hoping to speak for his fellow Latinos. That won’t be easy. gabriella demczuk Alex Padilla was radicalized early. The young man was 21, freshly graduated from MIT with a mechanical-engineering degree, and he had returned to his childhood home in the San Fernando Valley to figure out his next step. From the television in the living room, Padilla heard a grim voice offer a ...

>> we were talking about this earlier and saying this is the first candidate sort of -- who was considered adjacent at least to the front running candidates to leave and somebody said broek w beto orourke was there too. after that debate where she got into it with joe biden, she sort of had an important voice in this conversation. what happened in your opinion? >> first of all, its tough to be a black woman in politics. we cant ignore the race and gender dynamic. we also cant ignore the fact tha...

But iowa is a majority white state. it is. if you cant do well with african-americans, i dont care if he wins iowa, new hampshire, he cant be the democratic nominee. thats number one. number two, you look at the cross tabulations. voters there still believe joe biden is the best individual to defeat donald trump. so im not convinced by this temporary boost the mayor has. it is still 70 plus days away. who knows what will change a month, month and a half from now. if i was on mayor petes campaign...

Of their power and take over themselves. they can even abolish the town, sell off its assets, you get no say. the governor used the new power to strip all the elected officials in benton harbor of their powers, the town council kept trying to meet, tried to pass a resolution honoring the constitution, for example, to try to make the rather obvious points. but they were not allowed to do that. theyve been stripped of their powers. so benton harbor went -- a detroit suburb called allen park went, ...

Emergency manager to run your town instead with the power to overrule your vote. they can strip elected officials of their power and take over themselves. they can even abolish the town, sell off its assets, you get no say. the governor used the new power to strip all the elected officials in benton harbor of their powers, the town council kept trying to meet, tried to pass a resolution honoring the constitution, for example, to try to make the rather obvious points. but they were not allowed to...

Constitutional and necessary. i can talk about the example in idaho. idaho has one statewide elected official that is hispanic. i am one of two congressmen in idaho thats hispanic. its a majority white state. about 90% white. and they have no problem voting for racial minorities to represent them. i think we need to start rethinking all these things. in fact, i welcome all minorities to move to idaho and to states that are willing to vote statewide for minorities. >> how far have we come, tom? >...

Constitutional and necessary. i can talk about the example in idaho. idaho has one statewide elected official that is hispanic. i am one of two congressmen in idaho thats hispanic. its a majority white state. about 90% white. and they have no problem voting for racial minorities to represent them. i think we need to start rethinking all these things. in fact, i welcome all minorities to move to idaho and to states that are willing to vote statewide for minorities. >> how far have we come, tom? >...

The demographic tide was turning against the white minority so they just stopped having elections to avert demographic tide. so this is a sense that people feel entitled to change the political process to stop mainly minorities from gaining political power. so its sort of an ironic use of phrase. >> congressman, is it still necessary to have a voting rights act? >> clearly, congress voted for it overwhelmingly. the question is whether its constitutional and necessary. i can talk about the exampl...

Three or four years. i dont understand why people are saying this, that crime is going through the roof here, and saying this is all because of illegal immigration. do drug cartels in mexico effect us? absolutely. they always have. nothings new on that. but crime overall is going down. so i dont follow that. >> how much of it, do you think, is born of fear? this is a state that does not have a huge african-american population. relatively small compared to much of the other country. if you look a...