politics reporter at the washington post. also the co-author of the book his name is george floyd. so happy to have all of you on. why don t i start with you. good evening to everyone. to the trump pressure campaign. last week the committee focussed on the intense pressure on pence and how much danger that put him in. this week it is the pressure on state officials to overturn the election. remember this call that trump made to georgia secretary of state? here it is. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so what do you think it is going to mean to hear publically from these election officials? well, this is part of a methodical approach by this committee to lay out what happened after the election. it included not only former president trump when they went into court but after they were thrown out of court for all these failed legal efforts, they put pressure on these state lawm
eastern time. the committee saying tomorrow s hearings will focus on former president trump pressuring state officials to overturn election results and pushing to advance phony slates of electors. a lot to discuss with doug jones, charlie dent, a former republican congressman, and political analyst, the national politics reporter at the washington post. also the co-author of the book his name is george floyd. so happy to have all of you on. why don t i start with you. good evening to everyone. to the trump pressure campaign. last week the committee focussed on the intense pressure on pence and how much danger that put him in. this week it is the pressure on state officials to overturn the election. remember this call that trump made to georgia secretary of state? here it is. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so what do you think it is going to mean to hear publically from thes
these are staples for inclusivity. that s the way we should be looking at it, inclusivity is what the catholic church needs and it is what the catholic church teaches. i think the bishop here is truly on the wrong side. flags bearing the words end ra racism would be far more appropriate for a catholic school. would that be a fair compromise? you and i both know how important these symbols are. these aren t just logos. this isn t about one or two phrases. this is about a movement of embracing human beings and human rights ultimately. that s what this is. to hear the bishop say this, it doesn t make sense. they want to sanitize or dlut what this actually means. okay. thank you. best of luck to you. happy pride. happy pride. thank you. thank you. an alarming rise in hate speech and violence, and a lot
no. absolutely not. i looked at the fact that we were the bishop started talking about this in march and to make the decision here in june, i think to me that s more telling. look, this community serves black and commune population. young black men are attending matters. so to them you have the students that made this decision to have these flags come up. i mean, the decision to understand that what these flags mean to them is about inclusivity, you know, a catholic school is essentially being punished for being inclusive. there has been a long you said you re openly gay. there has been a long divide between the lgbtq community and catholics. what is your response to that? yeah. that s a tough one. i think what i learned in catholic school and i think what many others in the catholic
faith can attend to is the fact that jesus helps those that were marginalized, and this is a little bit of an attack on the marginalized groups out there. i am not a believer that jesus would be turning us away. we should be promoting inclusivity in the catholic church. this is not something new. i mean, lbgtq catholics exist. you know? and so to hear this come from the bishop, it just doesn t really make sense. yeah. as a product of a catholic school, similar. similar. i ll just say similar to what you just said. this is from the bishop. he said because every human life is sacred, the church is 100% behind black lives matter. wider agenda has coopted the phrase it promotes a 13 principal agenda for schools which i dare say people do not