who we are. because that s what americans are supposed to do. that s what america s supposed to be. and that s what stacey abrams believes. joining us now from atlanta joy reed, msnbc s national correspondent and the host of am joy on weekends here on msnbc. joy, you were at the abrams event. i hear the president losing his voice there. he is campaigning his voice away. it looks like classic obama out there on the campaign trail. yeah, absolutely. that was at moorhouse college. you had a lot of people from the house there, people from spellman university, people from all over and president obama had campaigned earlier in the day from florida obviously for andrew gillum and he made his way to moorehouse to campaign
correspondent and the host of am joy on weekends here on msnbc. joy, you were at the abrams event. i hear the president losing his voice there. he is campaigning his voice away. it looks like classic obama out there on the campaign trail. yeah, absolutely. that was at moorhouse college. you had a lot of people from the house there, people from spellman university, people from all over and president obama had campaigned earlier in the day from florida obviously for andrew gillum and he made his way to moorehouse to campaign for stacey abrams. he was hoarse. people were chanting vote, vote, vote in the crowd. they were excited to see him. lawrence, it s interesting. i listened to the earlier obama speech in florida and a little bit of the trump latest speech in the car, just as i was driving around today, following around the abrams campaign.
movement. why are they chanting pigs in a blanket. this on-air offensive came after recent killings of police officers and the reaction to chants at a black lives matter march in minnesota where some in the crowd could be heard saying this. pigs in a blanket. pigs in a blanket frying like bacon. bigs in a blanket frying like bacon. some of the organizers said that was actually in humor. some attempt at being plafyful. is a dangerous connection being made between the movement and a misunderstood movement. joining me cornel west president of african-american studies at princeton and mark lamont hill in philadelphia a professor at moorhouse college. thank you for being here. first, that clip we just saw, the pigs in a blanket comments. cornell, doesn t the movement
plan. the president mingled and passed out high fives and check out this little hip preschooler giving the commander in chief the fist pump. moorhouse college snagged president obama as their commencement address. the college has an impressive list of alumni. gun rights advocates point to the second amendment as the ultimate barrier to new gun control legislation. how absolute is the second amendment protection? we will take a look at that next. sources they need.
department are facing perhaps the biggest challenge yet. it comes from a federal justice department probe more than three years in the making and is detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney. detailing, a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinas at the mcso, the maricopa county sheriff s office, that reaches the highest levels of the agency. in addition, the letter details a study commissioned by the department of justice that found latino drivers, quote, are four to nine times more likely to be stopped than similarly situated non-latino drivers. there s more in the report, documenting detention officers at the sheriff s jail using offensive slurs and profanities. calling them, quote, wetbacks, stupid mexicans, and slurs we can t mention on the air. according to the attorney general for the civil rights division, they re also reviewing allegations that sheriff arpaio s department failed to investigate hundreds of alleged sexual assaults