go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
santos. republican leaders refused to no matter how many times he s bizarre lies are exposed. and forget gas stoves. even more outrageous nothing burger involves a made-up story about a pregnant batman villain. it was in april 2010 that justice john paul stevens, after serving 34 years on the nation s highest court, announced his intention to retire in a letter to then president barack obama. the news, naturally, set washington into a tizzy, of all things. scotus usually do. overnight, every tom dick and harry had suggestions for who obama should name as a replacement. republicans got in on the action as well. even conservative republicans like the then long serving of utah. he proclaimed he had found the perfect candidate, a, quote, consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulte
would like to live a long life, longevity has its place, but i m not concerned about that now. i just want to do god s will. and he s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and i ve looked over, and i ve seen the promised land. i may not get there with you but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. a haunting speech from reverend martin luther king jr. delivered the night before he was assassinated in memphis. we ll be honoring dr. king this morning and exploring his legacy throughout the morning on morning joe. also ahead this hour, we ll have the latest developments on the classified documents found at president biden s home, and the gop s false equivalency when it comes to this discovery. hundreds of files of donald trump tried to stash away at mar-a-lago, to equate is a little tough. congress is on the clock to raise the country s debt limit. it comes after a dire warning from treasury secretary janet yellen. plus, we ll get a live
peace. should people be frightened? people should wake up. it s 1991. we have talked at each other and about each other a long time. it is high time we started talking with each other. no justice, no peace. can t we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now, david dinkins is scheduled to take a public oath of office and become new york city s next mayor and the first african american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david being inaugurated on new year s day 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade. and the culmination of some of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s . people are seeing tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was worn? as the nation s first elected black governor. i was born in the 30s so you know i didn t think nothing like that was going to happen. after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wante
continues and president zelensky is winding ukrainian forces are holding out but are outnumbered. belgian s king arrived in congo, two years after expressing regret for his families brutal colonial ruling. let s start with borisjohnson and the fallout from yesterday s confidence vote on his leadership. although he won, more than a0 per cent of his own mps voted against him. in recent months, the prime minister has faced mounting pressure following revelations of lockdown parties held at downing street. the prime minister addressed cabinet ministers today here s what he told them. thank you everybody for all your good work yesterday because it was a very important day because we were able to draw a line under the issues that our opponents want to talk about and we re able to get on talking about what i think people in this country want us to. we know that cabinet support for the prime minister still holds firm here s foreign secretary liz truss. we had a vote yesterday.