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Women are getting attacked, or they are playing along with this. biological men and biological women are different. >> harris: how hard do you think america will fight for women? >> how hard will america fight for women? let's hope really hard. i consider that what you just heard there from bureaucrats a disqualifying response. if you can't define what a woman is, i don't think you are qualified to handle any level of degree of responsibility, none. i don't care if you are a would be supreme court justice like jackson. i don't care if you are a would be doctor or a bureaucrat. if you can't ans...

Inferiority of the black communities that we are not intelligent enough or aware enough of our own needs to elect those who best represent us. furthermore, it is going to expand the capacity of the capital police who in little over six months have recorded seven officer-involved incidents which is more than the jackson police department and surrounding agencies over the last two years. so there is a lot of concern within the community over the implications of these bills. >> look, one thing that everyone does agree on is that jackson has a crime problem that you are dealing with, and jackson h...

We go to omar jimenez, and you are talking to a number of people, and what are you finding out? >> well, the bill is back on the agenda, but even if it passes the senate, there are things that need to be hammered out. at the core of the debate is representation. you have a core black city like jackson with a legislature that is majority white. what this would do is to take away some of the governing power from the city of jackson and give more to the state. even a version introduced on the house side singled out a section of jackson that was majority white that would have state appointed judge...

Further. they wanted to charge the city of jackson, if there's any leaks in the rents water system, with cities how stream could charge up to $400 million a year. that would break the city! this is what happens when people have absolute control that they don't respect the citizens of jack and, jackson and they don't represent all of the politics at home. this is taxation without representation. >> it is. i'm glad that i have both of you gentlemen on here tonight mister mayor because louisiana, mississippi we knew you general honoré from louisiana. to the richest states in the union, if not be...

Appointed completely by white state officials, meaning jackson voters will not get to elect judges or prosecutors. joining me now is the mayor of jackson, mississippi, and retired army lieutenant general russell honore. mr. mayor, i know you've been on with us before. what is the status of the vote on basically stealing jackson's autonomy? >> absolutely. thank you, joy, for having me again. to speak to this that we have grown to understand is being valuable. they have made some amendments to the bill. amendments that acknowledge that it is fraught with constitutional violations, but nonetheles...