Take your calls on impeachment. Will talk about how u. S. Troops are being used in syria and saudi arabia. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Host good morning, it is tuesday, october 22nd. The house and senate are in at 10 00 a. M. , while members conducting the impeachment your curry set to meet behind closed doors. The talk the top diplomat of ukraine Text Messages have become a part of the probe. President trump has called republicans to get tougher on fighting impeachment. Republican callers only in this first segment asking you if you are seeing cracks in the party when it comes to support for President Trump. If you are a republican in the eastern or central time zone it is1. It is 2027488000. In the mountain or pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can send us a text message, that number 2027488003. You do, please include your name and where you are from, otherwise catch up on social media. At twitter it is at cspancj. Unfazed on facebook it is facebook. Com c
Washington journal. We are joined by joyann reid. She is the author of medgar and myrlie medgar evers and the love story that awakened america. She is also a political analyst for msnbc. Thank you. Guest host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the rst field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. Jordan was doing the same job in georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black people and registering people to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. King was doing in alabama and that johnis was doing in georgia and he is doing it in mississippi which was the most dangerous place tothe highest n, the most violent version of the clan. Agency called the Sovereignty Commission that went into action after brown v. They were under tremendous pressure
Wherever you get your podcasts. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. We we are back with washington journal. We are joined by joyann reid. She is the author of medgar and myrlie medgar evers and the love story that awakened america. She is also a political analyst for msnbc. Thank you. Guest great to be here. Host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the first field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. Jordan was doing the same job in georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black people and registering people to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. King was doing in alabama and that john lewis was doing in georgia and he is doing it in mississippi which was the most dangerous place to be black in america. The highest number of lynch
His book watchdog when is about investigations you went through and the troubled asset relief vote, your vote election to congress, interesting for readers is the gray davis recall in california and the behind the scenes story of how that came about and was financed. Has a little of chairman tom baits in it. Guest a little of that. Host what prompted you to write a book . Guest i think voters have lost a little hope. They see the wrongdoing, not all of it but some of it, and dont see what difference it makes. I thought a book about taking the stories people know about and link it to what difference it makes would help people. There were things done as a result on our successes. You sent out 2,000 letters in a congressional cycle and most of those end in government complying, and making changes and investigations. Many led to fundamental changes. There were lavish parties held on taxpayers money and our oversight changed how the administration oversees that to make sure taxpayer dollars
Marvelous and an amazing turnout. I just hope this all leads to some information that might come out about eileen. Reporter eileen was 13 when she vanished while walking home from Wells Middle School on her way home from ice skating practice. That was january 30th, 1989. A missing children website has photos of what she might look like as an adult. Tonight the procession went along the route she was thought to have followed when she vanished. In the group was her twin brother, now 37 years old. Hopefully someone who knows something will see it and will see that even after 24 years it is still the same whether it is 24 days or 24 months or 24 years. All we want is her home. As far as police are concerned it is an open and active case which they still review. Right now we kind of stand at a stand still. We have had no viable leads recently. The night ended with a prayer service. The family hopes the recent attention to the Kevin Collins missing child case in San Franciscoen urge cs peopl