growing outrage in tennessee one of the ousted lawmaker s justin jones joins me live wit his former boss congresswoma barbara lee. vice president harris speaks out. they understood the importance, these three of standing to say that peopl will not be silenced donald trump s pinch. jack smith is about to get his most important witness in th january six insurrection yet former vice president mike pence. i m jonathan, this is th saturday show. a house divided against itself cannot stand the focus of abraham lincoln s 1850 speech was slavery and th most in the minority of mostly southern white wealthy lan owning men who wanted to maintain it. in this democracy. the same men would start and lose a war to keep that evil institution. but more than two centurie later, the fury of that battle still smolders the tennessee three face expulsion votes this week, following a protest in the state house chamber demandin stricter gun safety measures after a mass shooting at a national ele
hate movement is being normalized the extremism movement is bein normalized into mainstream electoral politics that is why our pushback has t be forceful and continuous stay tuned for the state o black america on a protein because we will address this even further in the two minutes that w have left, excuse me congressman lawrence and campbell, for you to answer th same question really quick congressman lawrence, are yo optimistic despite the hug obstacles we are facing righ now. absolutely. serving in congress, i serve four years on her daughter trump. i served under the leadershi of barack obama and biden. every generation, we are hande a challenge. this thing we call a democracy we don t fix it, we have t continuously build on it and strengthen it. i have hope because the people like what we saw in tennessee,
and powerful and hopeful whe it comes to our movement i was like, we are in good shape, these two at the helm thank god i love to meet them. my reaction was, another connection to where we are wit our democracy. that was my initial response where have we come we talk about 55 years we re still fighting for human rights and women s rights, and all the rights and freedom that our predecessors fought for and that we have bee fighting to keep it was a bittersweet moment. congresswoman lawrence? you know, being a member o congress and fighting for this thing we call a democracy, our democracy does not work unless we have free speech and we hav the ability to come together a a people to have our voice heard. one of the things that i wan
we re gonna fight back and say this democracy warmer time i think the whole thread i what happened in wisconsin what happened with that, wit that judicial race i think it has been an alarmin moment we have to unify, we have to come together around race an gender and all that to fight back against this evil to prevent this from happening in thi country. not on our watch also religiously, congressman lawrence organizations build this they highlight that historic alliances, between the african-american jewis communities which was inspired by talking and it lies almiron explain what sharing thi history is important in this moment we are at the point of 55 years since the assassination. why was more luther king assassinated because he stood up and fought he brought people together history has shown us, when w are divided, we don t ge
campbell, president of the round table. former congressman ben lawrence, executive director of spill th honey. and mark, present and ceo of the league and former mayor of new orleans. thank you all for joining us o the saturday show. for this conversation, where w are, fitchville after we los dr. king i want all three of you to respond to this question melanie, i ll start with you your reaction to what happened in tennessee this week in the context of 55 years after m l k. thank you jonathan. first and foremost, those tw young men, i had the opportunity to meet at the caucus state legislature back in december, at their national conference. my initial reaction was, i jus met those two justices they were the most thoughtfu