mason temple in memphis was hacked. memphis was a city in mourning, grappling with unrest over the deaths of two black employees of a memphis department of public work. employees that were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths. today, under the slogan i am a man, more than 1000 black appointees were on strike, and tensions were rising. despite a bad thunderstorm that april 9th, the room was filled. there was one man that the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king junior, who visited memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage, and decent working conditions. that night, he was back. he was delivering what would be his final speech, the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying that something is happening in memphis, something is happening in our world. we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to struggl
for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow on april 3rd, in 1968, the mason temple in memphis was hacked. memphis was a city in mourning, grappling with unrest over the deaths of two black employees of a memphis department of public work. employees that were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths. today, under the slogan i am a man, more than 1000 black appointees were on strike, and tensions were rising. despite a bad thunderstorm that april 9th, the room was filled. there was one man that the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king junior, who visited memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage, and decent working conditions. that night, he was back. he was delivering what would be his final speech, the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying that something is happening in memphis, s
around and hope that something bad happens. as the atlantic s mckay commons reports in a new piece for the atlantic, ask republicans how they plan to move on from trump and the discussion will quickly veer into the realm of hopeful hypotheticals. maybe he will get indicted, and his legal problems will overwhelm him. maybe he will flame out early in the primaries, or just get bored with politics, and wander away. maybe the situation will resolve itself naturally. he is old, after all. how many years can he have left? joining us now is josh marshall, founder and editor in chief of talking points memo. josh, thank you for being here. let me just start with a question that confuses me. that is, which republican party does nikki haley and larry hogan think they are running to potentially be the titular head of? it is hard for me to imagine, and mike pence for that matter, it s hard to imagine any of them having any basic support in the gop. is this a s fools errand, or do you think that the
gas range when you use the copen code desantis. believe it or not, this kind of politics guess you second place in the early republican primary. let us be clear, let us make no bones about this. the front runner as of right now is still donald trump. the republican strategy for defeating trump, preventing him from being the nominee, if you will, is to essentially sit around and hope that something bad happens. as the atlantic s mckay commons reports in a new piece for the atlantic, ask republicans how they plan to move on from trump and the discussion will quickly veer into the realm of hopeful hypotheticals. maybe he will get indicted, and his legal problems will overwhelm him. maybe he will flame out early in the primaries, or just get bored with politics, and wander away. maybe the situation will resolve itself naturally. he is old, after all. how many years can he have left? joining us now is josh marshall, founder and editor in chief of talking points memo. josh, thank you for bei