people in the world. we don t use them. we re going to use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks anymore. that s the people that do these deals. they re political hacks. we want experts our finest people. we don t want people that are b-level, c-level, d-level. we have to get our absolute best trump hired all the best people, now many of those same people, his former attorney general, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others say he endangered national security. also tonight, new reporting seems to answer the question as to why it took so long for the justice department to begin an investigation into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election. plus, republicans loyalty pledge they re basically asking all of the presidential candidates to support trump if he s nominated again, and probably pardon him, too. i m jason johnson in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with justice delayed. today, of course, is juneteenth. marking the day i
and to place slavery and its trajectory at the highest leve of study in the federa government let me be very clear, we shoul be studying about api, latinos we should be starting abou southeast asians, africa americans, anglo s, america is a mosaic in no one should be ignored. but certainly, slavery has bee something that has been longed to be talked about i believe juneteenth, commemoration of freedom, an our commemoration today, we li candles, we prayed, and we thanked and recognized those who had lived, who were born and died and never saw freedom i think that is a legitimate powerful reason to hav juneteenth, as well as thi inspirational rally on freedom and democracy. and that the work is not finished, it is stil continuing and we will go on and on and o
hello. how are you? i m doing great. so i understand that you helped convince ford motor company, the sponsor of the traveling freedom sisters exhibit, to extend it so as to help commemorate the 50th anniversary of the freedom riders. why was it so important for you to do that? well, it was important to get ford motor company s foundation to extend the program because it has been so very, very successful over this last three years of which it has been presented to the public. it s critically important that this project come to mississippi as well. it s my home. i m very pleased to be a part of the commemoration of freedom s sisters. but there are so many women here. it s almost impossible to say three, four, or five. because most of the women in
benjamin netanyahu is scheduled to speak to aipac tomorrow. earlier i spoke with elyse labbott. i asked her if mr. obama s speech today may ease some of netanyahu s concerns. i think president obama went a long way to making the prime minister feel better. he was really looking for a strong statement on hamas and the president did say that the israelis shouldn t be expected to negotiate if hamas does not accept israel s right to exist. he s saying any country can t be expected to negotiate with someone that won t even accept its right to exist. and so i think as the prime minister looks to make his speech tomorrow night at aipac and also a speech before congress on tuesday, i think president obama definitely encouraged him, made him feel a little bit bitter since what he heard on thursday during that speech. president obama is getting ready to put some more miles on air force one. he heads to ireland in a few hours to examine his irish roots. in about ten minutes, we ll h