Thank you. Guest great to be here. Host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the first field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. ■w■ijordan was doing the same jn georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black eople to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. Dd that john lewis was doing in georgiamississippi which was tht dangerous place to be black in america. The highest number of lynchings, the most violent version of the clan. And the statewide agency called the sont into action after brow. They were under tremendous pressure even from the naacp which did not agree with activism in the streets. They wanted to fight in the courts. The amount of violence that you would face in that state was unprecedented for any civil rights activist
Wherever you get your podcasts. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. We we are back with washington journal. We are joined by joyann reid. She is the author of medgar and myrlie medgar evers and the love story that awakened america. She is also a political analyst for msnbc. Thank you. Guest great to be here. Host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the first field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. Jordan was doing the same job in georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black people and registering people to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. King was doing in alabama and that john lewis was doing in georgia and he is doing it in mississippi which was the most dangerous place to be black in america. The highest number of lynch
president biden tonight is managing a high stakes military operation in the mid east, and a reelection fight here at home. national security adviser jake sullivan returning to the region while wanting additional strikes against iran-backed forces could come at anytime. on the political front, biden scored a resounding primary victory in south carolina, with 96% of the vote. we will speak with palm meadows, state congressman jim clyburn in just a moment about the first official democratic contest of the season. but as biden shifts his focus to the next primary state of a new nbc news poll out today showed biden s approval rating nationally is not a new law. and americans say they on issues like immigration and the economy. one silver lining in the numbers, he holds on to a slim lead and a hypothetical former president should be convicted of a crime. south carolina congressman jim clyburn. thank you for joining us. , before we get into politics, with the retaliatory strikes
thank you for joining me tonight. coverage continues with laura coates. i ll take it on a friday night. one per customer. apologize. i m not trick-or-treating at your house. one piece of candy for each kid. oh, no, no. you hand it all out? yes, i don t want it in the house afterwards because i ll eat it all. i m always like one piece kid and not the one i want. take 20 so i don t eat them, yes. okay. well, go to jake tapper s house, not laura coates. you get one piece of candy and probably black accolicorice. you probably give apples. i ve given toothbrushes from time to time. nice. good evening, thanks. i m laura coates. we re going to have a panelists from across the spectrum and they re on the screen right now. here is a really provocative question that we ve been tackling tonight. here it is. so what if the 2020 midterms are a repeat of 2020? it sounds like a very interesting proposition, maybe a scary one for a lot of people but what if electi
and not the one i want. take 20 so i don t eat them, yes. okay. well, go to jake tapper s house, not laura coates. you get one piece of candy and probably black licorice. you probably give apples. i ve given toothbrushes from time to time. i have. not just kidding i give full cans of sodas, too. the parents hate me. nice. this is cnn tonight. i m laura coates. as i mentioned allison is on assignment. we re going to have a panelists from across the spectrum and they re on the screen right now. here is a really provocative question that we re going to tackle tonight. here it is. so what if the 2020 midterms are a repeat of 2020? i know it sounds like a very interesting proposition, maybe a scary one for a lot of people. but what if election deniers are refusing to accept results? i m not saying january 6th happens again but what might be the consequences of that? i ll talk to the master pollster who is scared to death what will happen and plus, the january 6th com