mein kampf, i want to make sure that s what he did. yeah. cantwell, before he was thrown into jail he was like a podcaster kind of shock jock and, you know, it was really cynical what he said within two sentences he s, you know, citing mein kampf, he s saying basically all people are not created equal and then worse from there and, you know what it was, it was kicking over a log and seeing the rot and the bugs underneath. this is the kind of virulent racism that we as white people try to avoid and we can because of the color of our skin and what this trial is doing is making us i think as a nation face the violence of the words
it was kind of an accident. also, if there was planning it was everybody else s fault. so we saw that the defendants kind of throwing each other under the bus. there was chant well who decided to use his opening statement to make a lot of employment and racist remarks which were physically hard to hear. it was really uncomfortable. but what was actually even more uncomfortable was listening to other lawyers justify racism. justify chanting phrases like, you know, just go home, and even worse, which i m not going to repeat on air. under the guise of respectability, which was, it was a really difficult day of opening statements. when you say cantwell, i mean i don t want to repeat verbatim, but somebody word
conspiracies, from pittsburgh. we honored the three year anniversary this week of 11 people slaughtered in pittsburgh. to poway, to el paso, to christchurch. those acts of violence were animated by many of the same grievances that carlson promotes. in fact we just learned yesterday from the child in charlottesville, that crit over the cantwell, the kind of crying nazi, he said that he and his friends watch tucker carlson every night from their jail cell. so, you know, honestly, what makes this so dire, so frightening, is that tucker carlson is host is from some far fringe website hosting a call-in for a dozen friends. he has a platform literally on primetime on the most watched news network in america. so murdoch has to look in the mirror and ask himself, this really what we want to promote.
freedom of speech. the attorneys for the plaintiffs say will face enormous amounts of evidence that proves racially motivated conspiracy and intimidation behind it all. the month s long premeditation and celebration of success after a case therefore with major implications in the fight against right wing extremism including capitol insurrection that followed. joining our conversation tyler hamill, covering the trial and msnbc legal analyst joyce advance, former u.s. attorney and now law professor at the university of alabama. tyler, take me inside what happened today. today the more formal part, opening statements for the plaintiffs powerful imagery and description of the violence and the ordeal that the plaintiffs went through over the course of that weekend which was quite significant. tyler, you tweeted this, cantwell is up and took less for
mccarthy. if you need any translation, talk to me after. gina, you re the best. you re the best. and i want you to know, although he didn t speak today, i want to thank my buddy tom vilsack, secretaryof agriculture, because he s about preservation. [ applause ] and maria, senator cantwell, thank you for your really hard, consistent, unrelenting work on these issues. and i also want to thank michael bennett the same way. he s been in this and from the moment he got elected, he s been pushing hard. and rubin, i want to thank congressman gallego, for the work you ve done and continue to do. i really mean it. this may be the easiest thing i ve ever done so far as president. i mean it. i mean it. i ve got to tell you a quick story. when i was running for office,