wave. within the terms just nine weeks away, i m talking live to rising democratic star michigan state senator mallory mcmorrow. and later another week, another report of ginni thomas trying to overturn the 2020 election. you might be surprised to know just how she seemed to be very passionate about the peaceful transfer of power. i ll do my best introduced pasture need to courage any thomas all of that and more is coming up. and a happy sunday morning to you this labor day weekend. i am kate. even though trump lashing out last night, lashing out at biden in the doj. and revealing more details about the search at the mar-a-lago. states including a claim that eight to suddenly look through melania things but also a 16 year old sons room. for all of the highlights and the low, lights we turn to nbc news correspondent george police in pennsylvania. good morning, george. good, morning katie. certainly a lot to unpack in this nearly two-hour address to his supporters. mr. trum
makes it all the more concerning when you look at how many of trump s pardons carried the stink of political patronage and best in corrupt self-interest at worst. according to pew research center over the course of his four years in office trump only granted 237 acts of clemency. that s the third lowest number of pardons for any president in history. only the two president bush is pardoned fewer people. it would seem that trump was extremely selective about who he pardoned. still some of his pardons were widely praised. like alice johnson in 2020 who was serving life in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction. he posthumously pardoned the historical figure season being anthony, arrested for voting illegally. in 1870 to inject johnson the first black heavyweight boxing champ who is subject to a racist conviction in 1913 for transporting a white woman across state lines. but he also pardoned a robes gallery of political figures including many of his own associates. some of whom
welcome to the show. i am mehdi hasan. they called it black monday. it was the day the supreme court issued its famous ruling in brown v. board of education. a ruling that told americans school segregation was unconstitutional. and for a group of white mississippians, that they came to be known as black monday. the monitor came from this man, thomas pickens brady, a prominent segregationist and future mississippi supreme court justice who gave a defiant speech against the decision entitled, black monday. it was printed as a booklet and passed out to white school children in mississippi. seeped in racism and white supremacist thinking, you might not be surprised to hear that it was published by the white supremacist organization, this is since councils, a group that was also formed in mississippi, right after, take a guess, the brown the board ruling. i am telling you all of this to show you how deeply rooted the racism in mississippi goes, how vicious the backlash was to fe
still too cowardly to take a stand against insurrectionists ex president. the idea of political violence is being normalized. he held newspaper published a piece this weekend underlying its stark terms what this new post trump post january 6th world looks like. the number threat in vests launched by u.s. capitol police in 2021 was 100 and 50% higher than it was in 2017. trump s first year in office. lawmakers who are critical of trump remain among those most frequently targeted for violence. the long and diverse listening clues republicans who voted for an infrastructure bill he opposed. democrats who manage the former presidents impeachments. republicans who supported his ouster after the january 6th capitol attack. and most recently, the nine lawmakers on the select committee investigating the 2021 a riot. all of whom have around the clock security details. end quote. president biden addressed the normalization of violence this week in his soul of the nation s speech. y
republicans hope will win their party control of congress. we are going to hold the majority in the house because we have a plan to fix the problems are countries facing the other side has only a ploy to win back power from shelves and rip away our constitutional freedom, reproductive freedom, it has awakened millions of voters. if democrats want to make abortion the main issue when every poll we have seen says that the economy and the cost of living is the number one issue, good luck to them trying to defend their extreme position. i guess he hasn t seen all the polls. meanwhile we are still being the key decision that could be made any moment, as a judge determines whether to grant trump s request for a special master to review what it was seized from mar-a-lago. earlier today both sides the aisle gave way to trump s handling of the documents. the process for declassification. the president is in a very different position than most of us in the national security