not on camera, not on twitter, not anywhere. let s bring in caitlin owens. a reporter for axios. he had a busy weekend. he did. he touched on a lot of topics this weekend. shep, something i think that is we need to keep saying is the topic he did not touch on is what we re going to do next as a country to prevent this level of interference in our elections happen again. shepard: i ve heard his spokespeople talking about the russian meddling. he sent out a tweet here it is. he said obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didn t he do anything about russian meddling, but nothing about what we should do about it. there s no rally call. right. it seems like he s focused on blame. who is to blame for this and wants to point to obama, dems,
well, if you undermine democracy by not accepting independent judges, not accepting the role of media, not accepting democratic rules, if you undermine itby denying science and facts about climate change and many others, that makes you dangerous. that makes you a threat to democracy, and that s what i wrote. you go on to say, you re making a rally call for europe in particular, to form an alliance against president trump. do you think that europe is not prepared for mr. trump s policies and perhaps do you think that europe should be more aggressive when it comes to president trump? i think it s with two things. basically, one is that the united states under donald trump are pulling back from the international order. they are pulling back from the role they held for decades. and somebody has to step in. somebody has to take responsibility and it shouldn t be russia, it shouldn t be china. it should be europe and europe
right. harris: moving forward, the inauguration is more than just about the president-elect, and members of congress. it is a rally call for our smooth transition in democracy. precisely. harris: my question remains, regardless of who apologizes to who, why wouldn t you be there if you re an american elected to congress? it will facilitate if they both apologize, more congress members showing up, and donald trump should extend an olive branch as should the democratic congressional leadershipship. this isn t a tit-for-tat. this is the united states of america, and as you correctly say, harris, this is about celebrating us and a symbol to the world. i remember john f. kennedy standing up. i was a young boy. it s what brings me here today as a proud american, proud of our values, proud much our commitment to one nation under god, and we need to celebrate that, not decry it. harris: at least 22 members of congress are not attending the inauguration.
harris: moving forward, the inauguration is more than just about the president-elect, and members of congress. it is a rally call for our smooth transition in democracy. precisely. harris: my question remains, regardless of who apologizes to who, why wouldn t you be there if you re an american elected to congress? it will facilitate if they both apologize, more congress members showing up, and donald trump should extend an olive branch as should the democratic congressional leadershipship. this isn t a tit-for-tat. this is the united states of america, and as you correctly say, harris, this is about celebrating us and a symbol to the world. i remember john f. kennedy standing up. i was a young boy. it s what brings me here today as a proud american, proud of our values, proud much our commitment to one nation under god, and we need to celebrate that, not decry it. harris: at least 22 members of congress are not attending the inauguration. representative john conyers of
about. who employepolicemployeepolices? they want the officer fired in the chokehold death of eric garner on staten island. they are saying that they want to see independent prosecutors called in when there are cases of police misconduct. they are saying they want to have officers named released within 48 hours after an office-involved shooting. these are a couple of items that they are enumerating. the concerns are actually extremely broad. people are talking about a number of different things. a sign over here that says not one more. another sign with a gentleman, black lives matter. this is something we have been seeing for days if not weeks here across the country, this rally call, this cry started as a hash tag. it has become an activist group with chapters across the country. right now they are saying no peace.