a former president and current presidential candidate puts ou democracy in uncharted territory. trump is already lashing out attacking the investigators, them integrating our justice system, and calling on his supporters to protest. that s all without making an of the pleas for peace w normally expect from someone seeking to lead our nation and republicans, for the mos part, have rallied around him, echoing his claims that th legal system has bee weaponized for those of us with lon memories, no trump has littl regard for the rule of law he did not care about du process when he was calling fo the central park five to b executed before the had thei day in court he did not care about politica witch hunts when he campaigned on lock up, locking up his opponent hillary clinton, with chance of lock her up. and now it appears as if trump s refusal to live by the same rules as the rest of us may finally be catching up wit him. and if it does, the paybac will be richly deserved. it s a
the former president. joinin me now is chesley maddox-dorsey, chief executive officer of the american urban radio network which is celebrating its 50t anniversary. thank you for joining us today. thank you so much, reverend al sharpto for having me. first, i want t congratulate you and you organization on halfway centur of important work. we are goin to talk about that more. but i am curious about your reaction to the historic indictment o the former president donal trump. it s really a sad da when we get to this point. this is really unprecedented and quite shocking that we hav led to our democracy down this path. or allowed him to lead our democracy down this path so, it is a tense time for all of us, but have no fear. we ar going to cover it as we always have. with the truth now, former president trump has a long history of bullying and press and inspiring hi