republicans expelled to blac to democrats for protesting gu deaths as the texas governor promises to pardon the man o killing a black live protester. plus, a member of the centra part exonerated on crimina defendant donald trump and a closer look at the gop - providing three of trips t supreme court justice clarence thomas and his nazi artifact collection if you ve been watching this show since we launched over tw years ago, you know the core enterprise of this program has been to sound the alarm on the threats to american democracy. and to underscore had the gran old republican party constitutes the greatest threa of all this week, we ve got fou stories illustrate exactly that, indeed, we are sadly spoiled for choice let s start in tennessee where it man accused of molestin multiple young girls was ouste from the state legislature wait, no he wasn t back in 2019, after thos allegations came to light, the republican s the point to lead the education subcommittee this week, th
even though he s bee projecting this bravado online this closely is told once told the new york times they thin he s putting up front. he s masking his anxiety as someone who s covered fro for decades. what do you think he s going through his mind right now of course he s anxious, mehdi, the only other time i his life that he was subject o a criminal investigation was i the early 1970s. when he and his father was sanctioned by the justic department for racia discrimination and the trump organization s housing project in brooklyn and queens after that, he never really ha to face the long arm of th law. this myth has grown that n matter how severely he break the rules are bends the rules, or pushes it, but the reality is is that he never been in this positio before i think he watched his cfo allan weisselberg at per walked in handcuffs, it freake him at he s not someone who set a ounce of sympathy for this kin of an anvil, falling on someon else as, yusef, has a tested to when he to
own. yusef salaam, a candidate fo new york city passable slump - to twitter, marking trump 1989 out and calling on quote, brin back justice and fairness. salaam share this message from trump, i hope that you exercis your civil liberties to th fullest, and you get what th exonerated five did not get, a presumption of innocence in fair trial yusef salaam joins me. now and trump biographer, ti o brien, is back with me yusef, after donald you issued a sink but pointe statement calling it quote karma. talk us through what you r feeling personally when you sa that news? i was thinking about dr martin with the king junior, and the universe is long but i bends towards justice. here i had this long history of really living under the oppression of what the syste
it s humbling to sit here an listen to the calm, gentleness in yusef s voice but when he talks about as lived experience, what he want to do and an even generous tone it s humbling, because you obviously never hear that ou of donald trump. donald trump is full of bile and poison and anger. and under oath in a courtroom, a skilled prosecutor can pierc the very tiny balloon that contains those things. and he could spill out in th courtroom, and no lawyer wants to defend them under those circumstances. i m not a lawyer myself, or a prosecutor, but i m paid goo money to people to cross examine donald trump, unde oath are not tim o brien, yusef salaam, thank you both much, i appreciate it coming up, the hypocrisy of the lock her up chant whe we look back on all of that. let s see if i can explain what s going on here in 60 seconds. time for a rant.
talk about him incitin violence we see enamel tack the da an now the judge in the judge family yusef, people have pointed out that the jury in your case, th jury was kind of poisoned by those ads. everyone in new york saw those ads influence the outcome of the trial. at that time, he poisoned th legal system against you and in a sense, 30 years later, he s trying to do i again. he s trying to poison again. turn people against the da, th judge, his own people if not a future jury. what absolutely, this is travesty of justice when you think about what could happen. when i think about what we represent now, we present th ability to stand the test of time to still be here, use all of the experiences that we ve gon through. and be better and not better and use all platforms to reall effect change. when people look at me i particular, they look at a