Firing line with Margaret Hoover is made possible in part by. And by. Corporate funding is provided by. Representative val demings, welcome to firing line. Its great to be with you. Listen, in your statement, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, you said, quote. You were the first female chief of the Orlando Police department. What does her legacy mean to you . Well, i thank you so much for that question. Justice ginsburg was a reallife superhero that i envision wearing a pink cape. She wasnt afraid to use her brainpower, even during a time when women were not really expected to or accepted in that way. And when i think about my career at the Orlando Police department and the awesome opportunity of serving as the first woman chief of police, i believe that my ability to make it so far in a nontraditional role for women is a direct result of the work that Justice Ginsburg and other women like her did. So, what a loss, but what a legacy she has. And shes left
An after the civil war he said the United States is because in the end its very in its a very interesting discourse of difference because when we look at it as a collective of states making a country and now after the civil war we look at it is unified here and it seems to me were. Digressing back because its the United States are now because of all of the divisions that we have and we have this mantra of blues daves red states and as i said in my introduction theres a lot of hostility to it to people that you deem as your opponent how do you reflect upon that well im glad that you brought up the civil war because as we talk about how polarized things are and how much we point to people as the enemy i think thats important Historical Context break up when people talk about this being unprecedented its not really any in this country didnt fact have a civil war or. 117 years ago which in the grand scheme of history is not that long of a period of time so i think that period is really ins
That you brought out between seeing is in our unfortunately weve seen throughout history i was a history major in college so i love. I love history and i like to learn from history i wish perhaps one of our citizens felt the same way but when you when you look at that is how were going back to it we can weigh now throughout periods of history in terms of whether we go through these periods that are more partisan less partisan and i think that this is kind of a natural progression of just building up lots of things that have happened since the civil war so i think that its unfortunate and i think its something that i wish perhaps maybe more people were paying attention to this is a topic that comes up repeatedly is that somebody who holds an opposing view from you doesnt necessarily have to be your moral enemy but as part of that weve seen civil discourse has been waning when i you know i just referenced that. Throughout history we see some of these concepts wax and wane thats one thats
Downplay masks and not social distance, and call it a hoax. Where onceision network news casts provided a shared understanding of events, almost a social glue that held different parts of the nation together it is understandable, more than understandable to be enraged. Cable television has turned to packaging the news according to ideological preference. And of course it wasnt just the media. Official message of the Democratic Party is that donald trump had it coming. You going to vote for him again . I sure am. Mike is a former chairman of the Republican County Party in west virginia. When we heard about the president having covid, where did you get the news . A news flash on my phone the same time it was released to the public. Doesnt get much of his news from television anymore. Remember when back in the older days when news casters presented the news in unbiased way. Just threw it out there and let people think what they want to think about it. Theyve gotten away from the pure art
System is as secure as its ever before. The Registration System as secure as its ever before. Four years ago the obama administration, a little later than this, said there is a big problem and were going to declare the election structure a structure of National Significance and were going 0 it play a different role than we ever played before. No anticipation this was going to happen. Not much discussion. Election officials all over the country immediately said, oh, no youre not. Youre not going to just decide in october of Election Year that youre going to take over the election system and declare it a national a system of National Significance, a system of critical significance to the future of the nation. Of course it is. But it didnt become that in october of 2016. But the message was clear that we needed to build those stronger ties with local and state election authorities. We needed to do everything we could as we saw the efforts by some foreign actors and some people in their ba