mines. right, now i am grateful for a week of perspective. one that reminded me why i d what i do. tonight, my national actio network s annual conferenc closes out here in new york. as always, i had the pleasur of hosting some of the mos influential people in th world. most of them black from cabine members to venture capitalist. but i am proud to say th keynote speech yesterday cam from the most powerful black women in the world vice president, kamala harri who covered several topics but as casualties mount from recent mass shootings, she specifically address the impac of our gun culture has had o black immunities where gun violence is often commonplac but public sympathy is not often there. let s reject the fals choice that some are pushing t suggest that you are either in favor of upholding the secon amendment or you are in favo of passing reasonable gu safety laws. let us reject that false choice, we are not falling for the oke dokey. of course, the vice president sob
the mess that they made. and our department, making sur that safety rules an regulations are followed safety depends on tough rules, and strong enforcement from the moment we got, here w did things like resuming safet audits that the prio ministration that hit th brakes on. we know there can be more, w are pushing with the tools tha we have and we are urgin congress to make it possible for us to hold those rubbl companies to a higher standard these front revolt companies for us longer safe existed hav famously had a lot of cloud an a lot of abilities especiall in washington to push back o safety regulation to water dow the rules. ow is a time when th standards for these railroad companies, their accountabilit needs to get tougher and not weaker i m encourages bipartisan bill that do this, that needs t turn into law so that we can g forward and implement that law has any of those on the other side of the republican
justice and fairness, gu control and fairness i american life, as we gear up for the august 26th march on washington, not to commemorate but to continue the fight fo justice that more in the kin that third and andrea king and i called for, we look at thi week we had a great convention, had governors, mayors, distric attorneys, including alvin bragg, members of presiden biden s cabinet, man secretaries come and adjust an gather, encouraging minister and welfare recipients, al thousands coming together to plan and how we continue t fight.
member, a former mayor and ambassador i want you to listen to part o that interview that we hel during the nan convention. when he and i talked about where the movement and the country are at this point in time dr. king, you were as close to him as anyone and as we jus finished observing the 55t anniversary of his assassination, his son and i during the commemoration march in august, august 28th the sixth anniversary march on washington, 60 years later you are in leadership, you are o the staff. 60 years later, how do you see america as we go to washington to commemorate this? well, i get in trouble with all of my younger friends. what i think this country is
affect family stability an also just make sure they kno we are able to have those wh serve without having to worr about having their basic needs met. all right thank you for being with us this evening congresswoman strickland of washington s that, no earlier this week at the national convention i had chance to interview a number o cabinet members of the biden administration one of them, secretary o transportation pete buttigieg. i sat down with the secretary, and started by asking him wher our country stands in light of recent hate crimes against black and lgbtq communities. well i think we are at vulnerable moment fo vulnerable people. we have to concern ourselves not just with the injustic that can come to people for an institution but also the way i is randomized and the way that there have been hate crimes, the way that there have been