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pardon happen. abbott blaming radical prosecutor jose garza funded by george soros in election 2 years ago. governor stating, texas has the strongest stand your ground law of self-defense that cannot be nullified by jury of progressive district attorney. sergeant perry claims he acted in self-defense when a mob of protestors surrounded car and one of them pointed gun at him. the texas lieutenant governor also weighing. >> he should never have been charged with murder. detective says th...

Joe Raedle/ReutersDonald Trump’s defense lawyer slammed a recent speech by Fani Willis yet again on Wednesday, insisting that the Fulton County district attorney’s “extrajudicial public comments” at a historically Black church last month should disqualify her from the former president’s Georgia election interference case.In a Wednesday filing, defense lawyer Steve Sadow argued that Willis improperly spoke about the case at Big Bethel AME during a speech to cele...

Just justin jones may get his st tomorrow. you know, david, is this voter disenfranchisement as they say? david: boy, do we have to go there again? enough already. your voters are not silenced even if they dont reappoint them they get to vote in a special election. voters get to send another left-wing democrat back. these guys are flat out liars. they are not interested in representing their district. i watch the fake mlk speech. i said it before and will say it again, the republicans should hav...

>> we must judge one another by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. >> again and again that one line from one speech, whether its opposing affirmative action in the 1980s or critical race theory today, republicans have the same response. martin luther king said the content of your character over the color of your skin. put aside the fact that it was an aspirational line, it was what king dreamt might happen in america one day at some point in the future, but not the america ...

"where do we go from here, chaos or community," quote, a society that has done something special against the negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the negro. heres the thing. today conservatives and republicans who decried mlk during his lifetime for his civil rights activism, his anti-war speeches and his very open support for socialism want to pretend he wasnt a man of the left, wasnt a radical who stood up to and critiqued racial inequity in america. and so they have e...

Democratic tradition. give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights. >> that mlk speech is known as the "give us the ballot" speech which is one of the refrains he repeats over and over. more than 60 years later, people of color are still in many places in america being denied the sacred right to vote. we are still fighting for these basic rights. as colbert king puts it in his op-ed for "the post" using mlk day and this speech as standards...

Door, when my dad was indicted in the case. dr. king said if youre guilty of conspiracy to aid and abet, i am too. my dad was facing many years in prison in that trial. fortunately, all of them were acquitted or had the charges dropped. >> congressman, that is a great story and we appreciate you coming on and telling us to us today on mlk day. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you for having me. so, chris hayes is off tonight, which is why im here. but this is actually my secon...

Investigations or whatever theyre going to do. >> congressman, one last question. back in 2016 on mlk day you posted this on your facebook page. its a photo from "life" magazine and it shows your mother and father in 1963 at the march on washington, second and third from the right, with their feet in the water listening to dr. king give his "i have a dream" speech. talk to us briefly about what this photo and that day means to you. >> well, theres a great moment in american history where there w...

Rights. we talked about the poverty in his i have a dream speech. these things go hand-in-hand. we must deal with this. america has a long history of not wanting to deal with the kind of racial lies that have been distributed. so we could have a homestead act. where whites got land out west but we could not have got 40 acres and a mule because the enslaved were black people. its the same thing when we look at these policies dealing with healthcare. the policies dealing with economic justice and ...

Help them raise themselves up. >> but dont welcome them into your home. >> the bible does not quantify -- >> the whole entire world. it is our job to empower those leader. >> pastor burns? >> to raise their own people up. you said that president trump has clearly stated -- >> pastor burns? >> let me finish, though. president trump clearly ran on a make america great again principles, there are black people in america that are suffer iing. there are minorities in america that have a low-interest ...