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May 31, 2021
Of the faith in politics pilgrimage. so let me just ask the obvious first question. why is a senator from delaware in tulsa this morning? >> im here as part of a congressional delegation. as you know well, faith and politics is an organization long led by our dear friend congressman john lewis of georgia. most years we would go on a pilgrimage to historic sites from the civil rights movement in alabama. we also went on other pilgrim pilgrimages. today, we are here in tulsa to participate in the ...
May 31, 2021
Commemorations -- even just all the attention being focused on tulsa right now, are they healing in any way for the descendents? >> reporter: thats actually a great question. i have been talking about this all week. this is first time anyone asked that question. i think the answer is maybe, possibly. you think about even centering the narrative, having the commemoration and concerts and speakers and services, does little to ever shrink that gap. when you think about here in tulsa, black folks ar...
May 31, 2021
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May 31, 2021
Another indicator of it. the fact that we have such a great racial disparity in every arena of american life, whether you talk about jobs, wealth creation, housing, the environment, health equity, black americans are still at the bottom and last. so i think we have a long way to go. i think sometimes we focus on how can we rapidly decrease the tension which my father would call negative peace, where we get rid of the tension on the surface, but underneath theres still this lack of a presence of ...
May 31, 2021
Ten good people on the other side of the aisle that would do the right thing. so we took a vote, and he got his answer. we keep getting asked what else can you do to work on a bipartisan basis? what else can you do to work on a bipartisan basis? if we can try, well keep trying. the question is really for republicans, when theyre going to be ready to work on a bipartisan basis because we keep hearing no, and what we keep seeing is a party that is choosing loyalty to trump over truth and democracy...
May 31, 2021
Learn how you could pay as little as $0 at ingrezza.com . in todays "washington post," you can read my column about my interview with vice president kamala harris. i got her thoughts on the one year since the murder of george floyd and the 100 years since the tulsa race massacre. but let me tell you about something we talked about that didnt make it into the column. at the end of the interview, i asked the vice president if there was a question i didnt ask that she wished i had asked. without ...
May 31, 2021
Business entity of the trump organization. so theres a lot of potential targets in that widely cast net, and so, yes, we should pay attention to the activity thats happening in cy vances office. >> carol, you covered donald trump when he was in the white house, when he was president. im going to put the question to you that ive been asking, i think, three times leading up to this discussion, and that is why cant the gop quit donald trump? he aided in them losing the house, losing the senate. he ...
May 31, 2021
Intervention thats potentially about to occur in new york not only through the state a.g. but through cy vance and the manhattan d.a.s office through the grand jury thats been impaneled. >> one more question on this grand jury, katie. how significant is it that it actually has an extended time? its going to be over six months. should we read anything into that? >> we should always read into things that are unusual, things that are out of the ordinary. the impaneling of the grand jury thats going...