leaked audio revealed racist comments made by the council president. she has since i think some others need to step aside to. we will hear about an l.a. city council member about what happens next. i have something to say. the midterms aren t coming, they are already here. voting is underway in multiple swing states and it starts tomorrow in georgia. candidates are getting their final messages across in debates and polls are i need you to know something. while we talk a lot about these congressional gubernatorial races, because they are crucial, who you elect as secretary of state or who you elect to appoint your secretary of state, we will talk about that, we ll have a defining consequence for the future of our democracy. the secretary of state as the chief elections officer of their respective state. there are secretary of state races in 27 places across the country. that is more than half this november. at least four republican nominees in swing states have ref
criminal insurrection probe intensifying. i have a very special guest on that later in the hour. coming up i have neil cochel to start us off. look at this report from cnn, trump lawyers waging a secret fight to try to halt a grand jury from getting information from his inner circle, basically blocking testimony that otherwise would be relevant, meaning the prosecutors at least want to introduce it. we know the context for this, those 40 new subpoenas. you have a former prosecutor on the letitia james side saying that the business probe is basically a dealt penalty for trump org. so you have the insurrection and the business probe both going at trump hard, and then that s not the only thing going on. these are circling trump while he has no presidential powers left. we have seen in the special master case where they thought it would help to have more court review, which could be true if he were president because in the process if the president says, hey, national security, he
Does not fix itself. We must read resolve to do it together. Thank you. Please welcome chair of the Congressional Black Caucused joined by some of its esteemed members. And i say democracy, you say for the people. Democracy. For the people. Democracy. For the people. I am the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus honored to be here with members of the caucus. It is our 51st year of existence , 58 members, the largest in our history. I want to thank reverend al sharpton and the king family foregathered us here at the Lincoln Memorial for 60 years ago Martin Luther king junior spoke of his dream of more just and equitable america. Today i am reminded not only of the famous words of dr. King, the words that have been a beacon of light for our country in some of its darkest moments, but also those of the conscious of our caucus, our beloved congressman, the late congressman john lewis. [applause] here in 1963 congressman lewis said to those who have said be patient and wait, we have l
Wonderful to be here with you all. I have already looked out into the audience and i have seen some former Senate Judiciary colleagues and friends, and i am just delighted that we have this opportunity to engage with these two incredible men to talk about an issue that is so very important to us. I have been getting to know judge ludick who is also distinguished practitioner fill out our institute at uva, and secretary johnson as we overlapped the obama administration. I have had the opportunity to get to know them better in recent months. To say that i am a fan is an understatement. These are two people who are extremely busy and at the same time, are, of public severance whether they are in or out of government at a time when it is so desperately needed. So i want to say publicly, thank you for the work you all are doing and for your leadership on this task force. [applause] mary gave us some of those sobering statistics, and i am going to date myself by saying that hopefully some of
Wonderful to be here with you all. I have already looked out into the audience and i have seen some former Senate Judiciary colleagues and friends, and i am just delighted that we have this opportunity to engage with these two incredible men to talk about an issue that is so very important to us. I have been getting to know judge ludick who is also distinguished practitioner fill out our institute at uva, and secretary johnson as we overlapped the obama administration. I have had the opportunity to get to know them better in recent months. To say that i am a fan is an understatement. These are two people who are extremely busy and at the same time, are, of public severance whether they are in or out of government at a time when it is so desperately needed. So i want to say publicly, thank you for the work you all are doing and for your leadership on this task force. [applause] mary gave us some of those sobering statistics, and i am going to date myself by saying that hopefully some of