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discrimination in housing and called for the death penalty of five innocent young black and latino boys in central park rape case. but a packed show today including an interview with martin luther king iii and carrie kennedy, daughter of robert f. kennedy. before we get to tharkt, let s t to the latest on president trump. joining me is jeff mason, a white house correspondent with reuters. jeff, let me ask you. why do you think this white house, this president has had nothing to say about the police shooting in sacramento? they ve said it was a local issue, but when you see the attorney general in louisiana, when you see nightly news deal with the demonstrations, the protests, the funerals all of us participated in, why so silent when he can talk about anything and everything else. he certainly can. it s hard to answer how he
some confusion about it, particularly as it relates to some on the right wing, the right wing evangelistic community. moral behavior is really about values. what do you value in society? do you value your children? it feels as if we have not so far because we re not we have not been courageous enough to do something about guns. every nation is judged by how it streets its young people. they are our most precious resource. we can and we must do better. we are a much better nation than the behavior that we re exhibiting at this particular time. let me ask this of both you and carrie, martin. what do we need to see with all of this tremendous energy? what do we need to see to translate this into a real movement for change? how do we not have this moment pass? well, first of all, the
country. that s amazing. we need to keep that up and keep those changes happening. and we ll have much more of both martin luther king iii and carrie kennedy on our show next sunday, same time, right here on politics nation. and tonight you can catch me on a new documentary called hope and furry, mlk, the movement and the media. it explores how social movements and the media have influenced each other from the civil rights movement through today. king was able to energize young ministers, young students. he set a tone of let s come out of these cathedrals, let s come out of these offices, and let s do something in the streets. hope and fury airs tonight
to be changed. in other words people have to say, i don t want to see violent programming anymore or at least a minimum of violent programming. people have to stop watching those kind of shows. people have to demand as it relates to the gaming industry that the games that we are produced or manufactured are nonviolent games. i mean you have to it is almost like, you know, dad used the example in one of his sermons about nicodemus, and in the conversation that nicodemus had with jesus he said, you must be born again. the whole nation has to be thinking about how do we create, as carrie said, this kind of just and humane society and civil society. that s what we all or most would want for our children and generations yet unborn, but we have to create that climate. it is not going to happen on its own. carrie, your father was the head of the justice department and the attorney general, yet he stood up for certain things that would alter how the justice