interview. there s so much going on. we want to get the court ruling, which we will, but first, i wanted to get your thoughts, really, on the interview that you did and i want to play for our viewers the part where you did discuss what is a huge issue for the nation right now, one president who does oversee a doj, while a former president awaits trial. i want to play from your interview. i made a commitment that i would not in any way interfere with the justice department, who they prosecuted, if they prosecuted, how they proceeded. i ve not spoken once, not one single time, with the attorney general on any specific case. not once. i have faith the justice department will move in the direction that is consistent with the law. and so, it may take time, but i have faith that they re going to do the right but i ve not spoken about that. the president s answer there to you, i m curious your thoughts.on t surprise you that it was rachel maddow that sort of articulated this b
matter, because it s a one out of ten, one out of a hundred room, and the people in those rooms go on to congress, and they go on to the fortune boards, and they go on to the supreme court. and now, this court has said that those institutions and the government have to get out of the diversity game. and why? because we re all supposed to be colorblind already. so, ask yourself this, and then we re going to bring in our experts. who do you know who can say they re colorblind and pass a lie detector test? who do you know who can sign a sworn affidavit and say they re colorblind? and what does it mean to even claim you want to be colorblind or genderblind if the people pushing that are the ones telling you that to care about gender or racial diversity is itself to make you, the person who s pushing discrimination? some of it doesn t make sense for the same reasons i showed you earlier. it doesn t make sense for the reason that the same supreme court ruled the opposite many more times than
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what s clear is that this president s defense against attacks to our democracy from his predecessor is to double down in a near zealous defense and protection of institutional norms. so, you know, i think that there was an open question, right? what would happen to doj after trump and barr and durham made so clear that they were comfortable politicizing it? and what would happen is what you just saw. that would happen. the next president who ran on restoring our institutions would do so by zealously protecting the department s independence. now, i have been very critical of the pace of the department s investigation into trump s role in plotting the coup. i asked him. that answer came because i asked him about washington post reporting that you and i have talked about because it was a
ruling, and the wider issues, we re joined by the new yorker s jelani cobb, dean of the columbia school of journalism. welcome back. thank you. we understand the skepticism that people bring to many issues in america. i think it is true that historically, the supreme court has operated differently than, say, the political branches where there is rank trading, you know, rank tricks, leaks, all the other messy stuff we know about. and at times, it has even gone and taken risks to advance and protect civil rights. this feels like a different court today. nicole and i discussed that. i showed some examples. the president mentioned it. do you think it s a fundamentally different court today? you know, listen, there s always been, you know, a degree of concern about not nearly as much as there is right now, but you did have the