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Mississippi, the try to justify slavery. and racist violence in general. did any of that come through in what we saw yesterday? >> i mean, all of it comes through. i think that i want to say that with the he's committee laid out yesterday was been just so clear and stark and grave. right? for months now we have the republicans lying to the american people saying this was a tour. this was regular political discourse. we actually saw the pictures of a gallows. with a noose on it. when representative thompson was making that connection to racist violence, that was what this was. thousands of peop...

Seven bullet points they'll lay out for us, the first five all pre-date january 6th. this was deliberate, was planned that was a conspiracy in the ordinary, everyday usage of the term. the bigger question and again michael alluded to this, will it make out a criminal conspiracy that the u.s. department of justice will charge? and that means an agreement, a meeting of the minds between two or more people to commit a conspiracy crime. i think with that in mind the committee very much has been gearing its present, yes, to the american public but also to the u.s. department of justice. >> will the...

Much of the black Democratic leadership in this country has been on a 40-year crusade to destroy Justice Clarence Thomas.

Exactly how much bill barr might know, what he might be in the context of an investigation like this that the house is doing. he could be a witness. he might not be as well because we do know that barr was out of the mix. he had left the justice department in december of 2020. but what representative thompson was speaking about, christine and laura, was a more broader idea that the committee is pursuing that they are looking now at a draft executive order that was not signed by the president, but that they appear to have received in this batch of documents that was sent over by the national ar...

Keypoint: This week lawmakers introduced new bills in Mississippi, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania, held hearings in Alaska and Washington