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
are that we only have one third of the government, all of our dreams to stop this madness are now invested in the house and w have this crazy spending bill that the senate rushed through and we only have one alternativ and that is these investigations . everybody wants unity so we can have at least some chance to stop this collective madness that country is suffering from. we lost the presidency, we should ve won the senate we los that. kevin mccarthy for all of his centrism, he did get 14 seeds i 2020, he did get nine changed seats this election, he did get the house, that s the only thin he got. i think if i understand you right you re saying that this i good because it s going to remind him that he can t act like the senate and he s got to be conservative and we ve got t get the house back, the senate, we ve got the house back we ve got to get the senate.
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reporter: west virginia s governor wants more rescue teams, more oxygen stored in mines and electronic tracking for miners, something these survivors say may have saved their buddies. one man we los was close to us. we could have got him, no problem. reporter: firsthand accounts like that only intensify the call for a major overhaul of federal mining regulations and what safety equipment the industry must provide to miners. congressional hearings start tomorrow. david kerley, abc news, melville, west virginia. always interesting to see pieces like that and see what we have learned, perhaps knowing knowledge from things like that,owowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowo