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Taking an individual who stands for public health, for truth, for doing the right things, to protect the safety and the health of the public which i have done now for four decades and to use my name in a derogatory way to prevent people from doing things thats for the benefit of their own health, go figure that one out, jim. i have no idea what thats about. it doesnt make any sense at all. >> this is the thing -- its one of the things of this pandemic and where we are right now as a country that...

Actually in the minority. weve just been too silent, the rest of us. we had 65 members of the house join our caucus in just a weeks time. thats one-third of all republican members of congress joined this caucus. one of the things we need to do is start speaking up and being the voice rather than some of these isolated voices that dont represent many of us. >> it seems like in a way climate change has been weaponized. it has often been a republican rallying cry on the campaign trail, even at frie...

Attorney general garland came into office saying he was going to depoliticize the justice department. falsely claiming that people of color are going to have their vote either not count or somehow they arent going to be able to vote is disingenuous at best and patently false and wrong at worst. and you know, i think americans should be very concerned seeing the department of justice being weaponized as our governor brian kemp said. weaponized by political activists who dont like how georgia is d...

Things? >> youre very accurate with your assessment there, erica. there used to be under section 5 a requirement that doj had to review and approve any change in voter laws, however, in 2013 the u.s. supreme court said, no, were good. doj, you dont have to review anymore. weve moved past discrimination. ruth bader ginsberg said thats like standing in a rainstorm and closing the umbrella. doj has to do their best to prove disenfranchisement or discrimination against minority voters. >> he said th...

>> youre not afraid to take on the mighty department of justice? >> americans should be concerned that the department of justice has been weaponized. i echo what governor kemp said, the department of justice has been weaponized by political activists who dont like how georgia is doing its business. so therefore theyre coming after us. well today it is georgia. tomorrow it could be anybody else but i dont care if youre a republican or a democrat, if youre liberal, or if youre conservative, the we...

Their rights are under attack. thats whats important. so i dont want people to get distracted by this shiny, spinning holiday and losing the thread that theres some serious things we need to be dealing with. whats interesting to me is they talked about miss opal lee and all the work she did to create a juneteenth holiday. whats equally important is whether or not ms. lee will be able to vote in her next election in texas because of whats going on with voting rights. >> you write in your other co...

And, you know, whats concerning to me is that, you know, presidents. they set a tone for the country. and donald trump, from the very beginning, set a tone for bullying and a phony-tough-guy image. and we see that reflected in everyday life today. whether its people throwing bot bottles at nba players, assaulting health-care workers, the house floor and campaigns and the ultimate manifestation, of course, being the insurrection at the capitol. and donald trump went even beyond that. he treated t...

Hes no stranger to this issue. he has been sound alarm bells for more than a decade. in 2011, he wrote a landmark report called fear inc. identifying and categorizing the network of well funded players in the islamophobia industry. the forthcoming book "go back to where you came from and other helpful recommendations on how to become american" joins me now. your groundbreaking report was released a decade ago. would you say islamophobia in that period has gotten better or worse? >> its been main...

Ali describes what happened to the afzaal family, the same story with a different cast. he has been sound alarm bells. he wrote a landmark investigative report called fearing, identifying and categorying the network of well funded players in the islamophobia industry. the forthcoming book "go back to where you came from and other helpful recommendations on how to become american" joins me now. your gronkowski report was released a decade ago. would you say islamophobia in that period has gotten ...

Politicians especially but not only on the right have spent years churning out islamaphobic talking points. and the human cost of that rhetoric, as a writer puts it bluntly in a new piece for the daily beast, more murdered muslims. ali describes what happened to the afzaal family, the same story with a different cast. and hes no stranger to this issue. has been been sounding alarm bells on islamaphobia for a decade. he wrote a landmark investigative report called fearing, identifying and categor...