pacific. the stakes are high, expectations are high with the conversation with the debt ceiling. with just days to go until the end of title 42, we are on both sides of the southern border as more migrants arrive in the hopes of seeking asylum. we will also talk to a congresswoman about what she s seeing on the ground along border towns in texas. and then in new york, the civil rape trial against donald trump begins to deliberate any minute. we begin this hour with what is shaping up to be a big week for the biden administration. hours from now biden will sit down with the four top congressle leaders to figure out if there s a way to avoid a default. white house staff laid the groundwork for today s meeting. this is the first time it was reported by punchbowl news. the meeting comes as the administration braces for the end of title 42 on thursday evening. border communities have seen a large increase in the amount of men, women and children crossing the border with many m
someone has taken a young man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? michael donald was an innocent good samaritan, not a thug. the mobile police department just didn t want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. that s why we kept marching and protesting, letting them know we were going to take this lion down. the admitted klansmen turned to action as the words, guilty of capital murder, sank in. it was the first time since at least the early 1900s that a white had been sentenced to death for a crime committed against a black person in the state of alabama. beulah mae donald is grieving, but also seeking justice for her child. this is a black woman who s just lost her son to lynching. finds the strength to move forward in a civil suit against the klan in alabama. the stakes could not be higher. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. lynching is a tool to control and oppr
out ms. carroll that he thinks is marla maples, and he explained what he meant about how stars can grab women by the p word, he said he used the word fortunately, for arguing wise, stars can do that against women. the jury, though he did not make an appearance personally, he did. they got to hear his own words and arguably hear his confession about what he did to ms. carroll. trump s attorney asked the jury to put aside their personal feelings about donald trump and focus on the facts. how can a jury put aside who somebody s personal behavior been publicly documented, how can you do that? that s what the hope is, you pick people who will just focus
and that was the 50-page constitution of the united klans of america. documents that you don t get to see unless you re in a klan. so i said, i d like to take these with me. he said, no, i want you to get my son off death row. i said, well, a jury put him on death row, a judge did, and i can t do anything about that. but don t you destroy these documents. so i walked out of there with nothing. in about a week or two, benny hayes was arrested and put into mobile county jail. he had burned his house down to get money to hire a lawyer to represent his son. and he had been indicted for that. we were able to establish it was, in fact, arson. so our office prosecuted him under the mail fraud charge. the judge gave him five years.
he said, i want you to have this, and if you would come down to mobile, to my house, i can give you some documentation that would help me in the civil suit. i stuck my beretta 357 in my hip pocket and off i went to mobile. and there sat a box of documents, and i had a chance to look at them. and that was the 50-page constitution of the united klans of america. documents that you don t get to see unless you re in the klan. so i said, i d like to take these with me. he said, no. i want you to get my son off death row. i said, well, a jury put him on death row, a judge did, and i can t do anything about that. but don t you destroy these documents. so i walked out of there with nothing.