america that needs it the most, if he gist parents whose kids have been suffering in inferior schools the choice to send them to more competitive schools, would that go a long way from getting i way from i guess the 9 0% of america that always votes democrat? that s very tricky. that s not a tricky question. that s an easy question. naturally let me put it this way. the president-elect has already said that he s in. we made a presentation to him about economic development in the black community, about families, about the state of our black communities in this country. and he realizes that with the education and the attack on the violence that takes place that we can then get on the right track with our economic development. did you walk out of that meeting confident today that
america that needs it the most, if he gist parents whose kids have been suffering in inferior schools the choice to send them to more competitive schools, would that go a long way from getting i way from i guess the 9 0% of america that always votes democrat? that s very tricky. that s not a tricky question. that s an easy question. naturally let me put it this way. the president-elect has already said that he s in. we made a presentation to him about economic development in the black community, about families, about the state of our black communities in this country. and he realizes that with the education and the attack on the violence that takes place that we can then get on the right track with our economic development. did you walk out of that
going to stand on the side of the american people. he was not going to stand with wall street. then he turns around and first big economic appointment is to appoint a wall street insider, a guy who made millions of dollars off mortgages that crushed families financially. that s who he s putting in charge here. do you approve of any of the cabinet picks to date? today he gist talked about having the u.s. attorney down and i think parit is a terrific guy. maybe turn out he ll have an appointment. but no one he s selected so far? look, so far what we have seen is donald trump has doubled down on racism and bigotry. got strategic adviser a person who is white supremacist. and he s there s no evidence he s a
oklahoma will try again on january 15th with whatever combination of drugs they decide to settle on. whatever they find on, you know, wiki leaks or whatever. amazing new information in that oklahoma case. joining us now is zeva branstedder, where reporters have been digging into the death penalty system of this particular execution for months now. thank for being here. thank you, rachel. good to be here. so what are the substantively new details or factual, i guess factual bits of this story that we didn t know before e before these new revelations this weekend? well, i think i was surprised to hear the warden say that the affidavit she signed saying she would follow the department of corrections policies, that she essentially controlled this whole process. that she said, in her words, she gist signed it. she didn t have anything, really, to do with choosing the drugs. nor did the department of corrections director. it appeared that attorneys were
forth. they asked spike lee that question. he s out front tonight. look, you asked a controversial question but an interesting point, hey. you stay in the neighborhood and other people move in, whatever their color may be, property values go up, all of a sudden your house is more value. he gist goes off. were you shocked? i was a little surprised by the magnitude of his going off. i figured he would not be positive about that issue. all right. so obviously he wasn t personally going after you. he was being a little bit funny in i m going to kill you now. this rant continued. let me play a little bit more of it. sure. i thought that the great jzzz musician [ bleep ] and the [ bleep ] called the cops on my father. he s playing electric bass. it was acoustic. we [ bleep ] in 1960 [ bleep ] 8