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Student. cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. professor, i want to start with you here. you think -- you actually wrote that you think some of the insurrectionists should be charged for insurrection. why? >> because that's what they're guilty of engaging in. you know, charging them with simply entering a federal building without permission or causing a disturbance or engaging in theft would be like charging john wilkes booth with disturbing a play at the ford theater when, in fact, he was guilty of assassinating a president. this law making it a crime for people to engage in or incite or gi...

People have been arrested but not one of them has been charged under a specific statute that bans rebellion and insurrection. why not, let's talk about it with cnn's chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, we have heard from the legal scholar lawrence tribe who says the petty crimes that the insurrectionists are being charged are not enough. what do you think? >> i disagree. the insurrection law was passed in 1862. the leading precedent on insurrection is from 1863. it's almost never been prosecuted in the subsequent 150 years, plus, prosecutors don't want to get into legal fights. that is a gener...

That we want to do as native washingtonians but that's unlike any other district in the state. >> in the district of columbia, 700,000 citizens, nearly half of them black, are forced to live under a shadow government. they can vote in presidential elections, but they have no real say on capitol hill. and while that applies to all residents of d.c., not just the black ones, the fight for statehood and the ongoing struggle for black freedom are tangled. we are celebrating juneteenth, a celebration of freedom. is there any freedom for black washingtonians without representation in congress? >> d....

For juneteenth, i wanted to turn the mike over to this brilliant young artist, a clip about her powerful essay about the meaning. >> if the confederacy would have just cooperated, but no, they just wouldn't do it. so what was a threat of ending war had to actually come to be. a warning in september of 1862 came to life in january 1863, so why do i celebrate juneteenth of 1865? because that's the day the last of me learned about living and not just staying alive. as robert e. lee and the troops made their way to galveston to tell my people to drop their weapons of mass production because slavin...

About all of these things, somebody else is and you have to get to them first and talk to them. there is definitely an agenda of people who want us to hate our country, hate each other and they want this division. they benefit politically from this division. lawrence: it's 100 percent right, rachel. we have got to tell the story. sometimes the stories are uncomfortable. that is the beauty of america. you know, for me, it is sad that we are just now learning certain parts of history. and i know sometimes we don't want to touch it. but that's the beauty of america. juneteenth just begin a big th...