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here. [ booing ] >> i want to ask you a couple questions about the governor's response here. when this initially happened, he said he called the sheriff. he did not say that he called you. you are the mayor. did he call you? and how soon after he called the sheriff did he call you? >> i don't know when he called the sheriff. he called me a couple hours before that vigil that you just saw. and told me he was going to be sending some money for securing edward waters university. we had a short conversation. i thanked him for providing that help for edward waters and thanked him for his call. >> i think one of the reasons why he got that kind of reception is he started off by using the term monkey it up, regarding his first opponent, his african american opponent. and it's kind of degraded from
>> well, representative nixon has been right there in the thick of it. you know, there are so many times that she has tried to gain resources for this community, tried to face some of these issues. and as you know, that has not been successful under this governor. so she's had a lot of frustration. i don't pretend to know what is in the governor's heart. i simply know that what we're facing here in jacksonville with this hate against the black community, every step that we take in the wrong direction is a step that takes us closer to the next incident. we simply cannot have it anymore, joy. we have to start facing the reality that we have hate in this state that we need to address and that we need to loudly and clearly say is not acceptable. >> let me play the reception that the governor got when he did what a lot of people believe was simply a photo op, showing up at a vigil for the jacksonville dead. >> governor ron desantis is
there, saying black history had no inherent value, banning dei, attacking black history, saying black people benefitted from slavery. i could go on. do you understand why he got those boos when he showed up in the black community? >> well, i do. and i dare say he may have expected to have that reception. but i will say that i am personally glad that he was there, because i think it's important that he come face-to-face with that pain. there was a lot of grief, and is a lot of grief in that community, and he needs to see that. and as i said, you know, i'm sure edward waters university is grateful to have the money for security, but we have to go so far beyond that. you know, we're were celebrating the anniversary of ax handle saturday on the sunday we were there for that vigil. and it just feels like these days we're moving backwards. it feels as if we're just using different ax handles, joy. and we have got to acknowledge that. and i think the governor being
country where black families going to the store or black students go to school live in fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin. hate must have no safe harbor. silence so complicity we must not remain silent. hundreds attended vigils outside churches vigil after those three who had died. these were very somber scenes governor desantis showed up at one. given less than welcome reception. booed. he was blamed for loosening gun laws in the state. authorities say pal meter was able to purchase his firearms legally. he had no criminal record. involume you recall voluntarily committed for a mental health crisis in 2017. ainsley? >> ainsley: thank you so much alexandria a brian, over to you. >> brian: change gears. >> prosecutor general exclusively sharing with me over the weekend bombshell allegations about the biden family corruption scandal. >> no doubt that there were
that's one and only time i'll use that word. >> jacksonville, florida, is home to nearly 1 million people, about one-third of them black. the city is still coming to terms with its racist past. these murders took place one day before the town was set to remember ax handle saturday, a bloody day on august 27, 1960, when a white mob used baseball bats and ax handles to brutally club peaceful black demonstrators protesting segregation at a downtown lunch counter. police initially stood by. but joined the white mob when the black group began fighting back. florida students will likely never learn about ax handle saturday under governor desantis and his education regime, whose premises are that white students cannot learn anything that might make them uncomfort, and that black students must learn that slavery had its benefits, even if that makes them uncomfortable. and miseducated. that might explain why he got this reception at a memorial vigil for the jacksonville
traffic control systems. it means a lot of people are stuck. mitchell hampton is stuck right now in paris charles de gaulle airport. thank you for the way. how are you getting on? still the same unfortunately. i got here at around 10am. got through ok, and then five or ten minutes before we were about to get on the plane, fortunately, considering some people are stuck on planes, theyjust said that there is no airspace in the uk, the air is broken. something to do with the radar, and it is looking around about a seven hour delay for us. it says on the screens that we should have boarded up too, but it has changed again and our reception are saying it is looking at about ten past seven. i don't think anyone really knows at the moment. we have got our hand luggage but we are quite fortunate. there is only one