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There have been no dimtsz. we haven't seen or heard any subpoenas. we don't know if they are gathering evidence. in the past we have seen other department of justice operations, we can sue there are actual viable steps. i think right now we are not seeing it and by the time they get moving the political landscape is going the change to the point where it is going to be impossible for thib to be held accountable. >> i worked in the white house and the people who were most critical of our performness would call and say we are just concerned about your success. i don't know how her going to view ...

Donald trump? >> it's a great question. i guess what i would say is that, you know, as an organization, the adl, we are the oldest anti-hate group in the united states. we have been fighting for the first amendment and our our freedoms for more than 100 years. and we have always pushed back on extremists since the kkk and nazi sympathizers and whatnot. and frankly, hearing hard speech is part of the price of the first amendment and there always be a lunatic fringe. but, nicolle, we have got to keep them on the fringe. and we don't need to privilege prejudice as if it were something to be valid...

I guess i would then pivot to the second major reveal of this moment. and that is one you just mentioned, nicolle, where is the power? the power is in the hands of fox news pundits who have a very high and constant platform to spew information that's just not true. and they are able to do that over and over again. the other day, president biden tried to wrest that row strum back from fox news it is a bit laid, to be clear, because they have been repeating and patienting this for so long. but that's where we are. the power is in the people who have the billy pulpit. right now that's fox news an...

And you may be the president or kind of a public figure, alex jones the pseudoperformer that he is, but you have no right to show up on social media if you are going the slander people. that suspect protected speech. and i applaud those networks who -- you choose not to have white supremacists on your air time, choosing not to display that madness is actually i think part of our shared civic duty. and we need to do more of it not allow bad guys to weaponize the first amendment and hide behind it. >> do you feel, though, like civic duty doesn't mean the same thing to the country at large anymor...

>> i saw a difference between what i heard from joe biden before and from what i heard yesterday. i mean, i thought it was a forceful factual speech, a speech that i have been waiting for. but it's very -- i think he has taken this up a notch. and i was -- you know, every morning, as you know, i have a tendency to do readings. today is the birthday of this wonderful, wonderful poet named stora neil thurston whose both sets of grandparents were born to slavery. is ithate her birthday today. one of her pope ems had a beautiful quote in one of her poems, some years ask the questions and other yea...