Member for the president s Reelection Campaign, talk about the africanamerican vote. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. This is the federal holiday marking the life of dr. Martin luther king jr. Today is the National Holiday and this is a live picture of the mlk memorial in washington, d. C. After about 20 years of planning and fundraising, this memorial twoopen to the public in thousand 11. The mlk holiday became law in 1983, signed by ronald lakin reagan into law. How are Race Relations doing as we enter 2020 . Are they Getting Better . 2027488000 is your number. If you think Race Relations are getting worse, 2027488001. If you are not sure, 2027488002 is your number. You can send us a text at washington journal. The number is 2027488003. Please leave your name and the town you are calling from. You can post a comment at facebook. Com cspan or a comment at cspanwj. Usa is the fro
Editorial, they are throwing their weight behind two democrat candidates for president. Senators Andy Klobuchar and elizabeth warren, for various reasons. What do you make of this double endorsement . Guest is unique both in how they did it and also in endorsing two candidates, but it is something i have been thinking about for years. It is time for newspapers to stop endorsing candidates. For a couple reasons. First of all, im not sure how many people are waiting around for a newspaper to tell them who to vote for. I think that that time has gone. But also, you and i know that there are walls within the Editorial Board, the reporting side, i think most people either do not know that that exists or they do not believe that that exists. When an Editorial Board makes an endorsement, people assume that the whole paper is in the tank for that candidate or those candidates, and i think that hurts the reporting, the journalism side. Andow it is a big deal in the New York Times is a wellrespe
Confirmation plan and stubbornly resisted a new fbi investigation but had no choice when one of their own had an emotional encounter and last minute change of heart. Youre telling all women in america that they dont matter, that they should keep it to themselves because if they told the truth theyre just going to help that man to power anyway. Thats what youre telling all of these women. Thats what youre telling me right now. Midterm elections now five weeks away. The bitter kavanaugh divide now a major flashpoint and a major challenge for the president. You see this horrible, horrible, horrible, radical group of democrats. You see it happening right now. You see the meanness, the nastiness. They dont care who they hurt, who they have to run over in order to get power and control. Thats what they want, is power and control. Were not going to give it to them. This sunday to share their reporting and insights. Julie davis of the new york times. And Seung Lin Kim of the new york post. Two
Shown a willingness to ignore basically all of it. So todays big question is how far are chairman nadler and Speaker Pelosi willing to go to hold attorney general barr accountable . Joining me, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, White House Correspondent and msnbc political analyst gentleman moosh alcindor, sahill kapur, former Deputy Assistant attorney general at the doj Elliot Williams and editorinchief and msnbc legal analyst ben wittist. I want to start with you this letter that were getting a chance to read, seems to lay out some rationale from the white house as to why they dont consider why they would like to be able to en voc executive privilege. What should we be focused on in this letter . They dont exert executive privilege over the report. Barr has said that. This is a letter sent the day after the report was made public, sent april 19th. It is a letter from white House Counsel emmitt flood saying he wants to, in the words of the letter, memorialize his concerns.
reconciliation process. 160 times. i think, by voting this down, by not allowing us to even debate this, to get to the conclusion of a vote, that is silencing the people of america. all in the name of an archaic senate rule, that isn t even in the constitution. that s just wrong. all in the name of an archaic rule that isn t even in the constitution. joining us live, the senior senator from minnesota, andy klobuchar. senator, i know you re in the thick of things, thanks for joining us. thanks for taking a moment to show perspective. tell us about how this happened today, and internet tonight. first of all, i love that you played that clip of maggie hassan. i love maggie. i just want to say that. she s so strong. she made the case that nobody ever could. secondly, what s happened tonight, is we had a first vote