we ll see if it shows up. anderson is now. good evening. so it begins. four years the day after he entered the 2020 race with the video condemning the former president s comments after a white supremacist rally, joe biden is running for a second term. he appeared in a video released saying we still are in a fight for the soul of the nation. he spoke about the need to, in his words, defend democracy. repeatedly spoke of the need to stand up for what he termed personal freedom. this time, not just against the extremism of a former president who hopes to retake the white house, but a republican party, the president believes is enabled by him. we protect our rights, to make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally and everyone is given a fair shot at making it. but, you know, around the country, maga extremists are taking on the bedrock freedoms, cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy, dictating what de
In the 1920s, there was a Strong Black Community here in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. People call it The Black Wall Street. Greenwood was like putting harlem, Bourbon Street, and Chocolate City all in one place. But White Tulsans talked about greenwood as Little Africa or [bleep] land. Tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. Between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre. They were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies by dumping them in mass graves around the city. We have tulsans of an undetermined number who were murdered. It should not have taken 99 years. Anybody who thinks that this crime scene is not going to speak doesnt have the ears to hear. The ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. I came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. So thats been, whew, i dont know how many years. My mother is from oklahoma. There was a Strong Black Community in
politicsnation. tonight s lead profiles in courage. on this presidents day weekend, two of our commanders in chief one current and one former are facing perhaps their greatest challenges in politics and in life. tomorrow, president biden will travel to poland where he will mark the one year anniversary of mush russia s invasion and war in ukraine. calls for ukraine s allies to stay the course. as the u.s. accuses russia of crimes against humanity in ukraine and the republican majority in the u.s. house threatens to curtail the billions of dollars in aid that has gone to ukraine. now going into a second here in here at home the earliest electoral challenge in our materializing. on the republican side, former republican south carolina governor nikki haley has joined donald trump in pursuit of the gop nomination in 2024. and 2020 democratic contender marianne williamson is expected to make her own announcement that she is running for the white house again. she would be the first
losing our democracy. that is what s happening in the state of tennessee. why this extraordinary rebuke could set a precedent plus stormy daniels breaking her silence after donald trump s indictment. why she says he shouldn t go to prison, also, the man in charge of america s biggest bank has a sobering prediction for the economy are seeing people reduced lending a little bit. cut back a little bit. pull back a little bit. it won t be necessary force recession, but it is recessionary. exclusive interview with jamie dimond and yachts, vacations and billionaire explosive new reporting on a supreme court justice, raising new concerns about the nation s highest court . this is cnn prime time. good evening. i m caitlin collins. and i am joined here tonight by an all star cast of cnn talent from across the network sara seidner, van jones and phil mattingly. we re all going to break down the day s biggest stories, but tonight we are going to start here with a showdown in the south a