Good evening and welcome. We are delighted to have Jacqueline Jackson and Jesse Jackson junior. First it is my pleasure to introduce to you april smith a classmate of congressman jackson and agent for their book loving you, speaking of view and dont forget to pray and is a family friend as well. To introduce these lovely people, here is april smith. [applause] thank you. Good evening and welcome. Welcome to Raleigh North Carolina we appreciate you coming in. Thank you for joining us. We would like to thank quail ridge books, cspan, the ceo and founder of healthcare and our friends from North Carolina that have joined us. [applause] also, we would like to thank our educators in the area for joining us tonight as well as friends and family thank you for coming out. We appreciate you. For those of you who do not know, ms. Jackson is the life of reverend Jesse Jackson, from the civil rights movement. She has marched, she has been jailed and she participated in the initial me to march in wa
Which i absolutely love my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways is very different from what we do, from what im used to. Im a scholar here at aei and we are a private institute for Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland but in a way that highlights what we have in common to the section that goes after how nationhood in the modern day is often well ill put it like this a nation today in a modern way of thinking is at best problematic. It is at best problematic a useful administrative unit. That section is tipped off by the author Michael Daugherty talking about singing to his newborn baby over and over again the same songs. The foggy dew, the wind that shakes the barley and even the patriots game which i tried to sing in that lullaby way. This is familiar to me because i also sing my children to sleep with irish songs. I mostly use irish rebel songs because t
Amy as the republicans engage in another primary debate, this one in South Carolina, we will go to columbia, South Carolina, does it with tom turnipseed, who is a National Director of segregationist alabama governor George Wallaces 1968 president ial campaign, but has since become a civil rights attorney and social justice activist. Well also speak with nation magazine publisher katrina vanden heuvel, not only about the republican bait debate, but also for only the third time in its 150year history, the nation magazine has endorsed a candidate in the democratic primary. Then to the water crisis in flint, michigan. It is an emergency. The cdc and the pediatrics say levelis no safe of lead. It is an emergency. Amy protesters fill the State Capitol in lansing, calling on Governor Rick Snyder to resign over the flint water contamination crisis. We will get the latest from the doctor who helped expose the lead poisoning, mona hannaattisha, as snyder has asked president obama to declare a fe
About their brother jessie junior. Jonathon Jackson Jesse jackson jr. Brother the gravity has affected our family and we felt the impact of so many peoples prayers and were appreciative of everyone whos kept us in their prayers well keep them in ours as well the former Second District congressman is charged with using Campaign Funds for personal items including furs. A 46hundred dollar fedora once owned by Michael Jackson and a 5thousand dollar football signed by two us president s. He faces up to five years in prison and a 250thousand dollar fine. His wife, former chicago Alderman Sandi jackson, who resigned last month, also faces prison time and fines. Accused of understating the couples income on their tax returns for six years. The patriarch of the family, reverand jesse jackson, is in washington dc this weekend to be with his son, who the family says is still undergoing medical care. Jesse junior took leave from his congressional duties starting in june. While at first keeping tig
President trump, on twitter today speaking for africanamericans, as, very angry at the double standard on full display in virginia. President must have done his own polling because the latest wo t Washington Post poll on whether northam should step down shows while theres an even split among virginians overall at 47 , most black voters in the commonwealth think he should stay on. 58 , just to 37 who say he should and must go. With a 4 margin of error. Meanwhile, fairfax says that his sexual encounters with the two women accusing him of rape were consensual, calling on the fbi to investigate as both accusers say theyre willing to testify in state impeachment hearings. Joining me now in washington, juanita toliver, Campaign Director for the center for american progress. Action fund. And here on set, republican strategist Shermichael Singleton and dean abadala, host of sirius xm radios the dean abadala show. Let me go to you first, juanita, when you hear northam say that he wants to upgra