growing outrage in tennessee one of the ousted lawmaker s justin jones joins me live wit his former boss congresswoma barbara lee. vice president harris speaks out. they understood the importance, these three of standing to say that peopl will not be silenced donald trump s pinch. jack smith is about to get his most important witness in th january six insurrection yet former vice president mike pence. i m jonathan, this is th saturday show. a house divided against itself cannot stand the focus of abraham lincoln s 1850 speech was slavery and th most in the minority of mostly southern white wealthy lan owning men who wanted to maintain it. in this democracy. the same men would start and lose a war to keep that evil institution. but more than two centurie later, the fury of that battle still smolders the tennessee three face expulsion votes this week, following a protest in the state house chamber demandin stricter gun safety measures after a mass shooting at a national ele
embarrassing, pennsylvania democrats elected a dead man. they knew they were doing it. they did it anyway. this would seem to defeat the idea of representative democracy, which is that you vote for people so that they can represent you. but party leaders in pennsylvania were not embarrassed. they were proud, quote: well we are incredibly saddened by the loss of representative tony deluca they said in a statement. we are proud to see the voters show their confidence in him and his commitment to democratic values by reelecting posthumously. in other words, electing a guy who can t possibly represent you is not an offense against democracy, it s the essence of democracy. now, it s not a typo. they put that in a press release and actually makes kind of sense when you remember it was also in the state of pennsylvania that democratic party leaders backed a senate candidate called john fetterman long after he had suffered a massive stroke and could not longer talk or communicate cle
everyone to pay attention to when the people are speaking and they vote and elect someon to represent them in the halls of government, that they nee to be heard. i am really concerned about th strength of our democracy. one of the things is, i believ like martin luther king day, i will not give up hope an continue to fight and brin people together as i do. you know, mark, you are the president of the national urba league every year you put out the state of black america, th state of black america, take a black, the state of americ doesn t seem so strong especially after what we saw the threat to democracy institutions of democracy, voting, free press, freedom of speech, is under attack by a
congress has two investigate because if they don t, this is also something that that americ doesn t recognize the icc for the american people have a righ to know and thomas paine wrote in common sense that we don t have a king in america, in america, the law is king and we cannot let historic and constitutional journey just be destroyed by a group in the white house that doesn t want t recognize their responsibility to the united states constitution. no president has a right to, an active war against any other nation and less there is a vote of congress, so there are problems there with the u.s. constitution, with internationa law, and this is just beginning. what seymour hurst did his seat he tore open the curtain gave the american people in the worl to look at the machinations behind this thing that really