and voters? and speaking of protecting our democracy, congressman jamie raskin says the public will be surprised by some of the new information uncovered by the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. that s what citizens in the world s greatest multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-cultural, constitutional democracy need to know, what are the weaknesses that these reactionary alt-right neo fascist forces conspired to take advantage of, because they did. and they will be, i think, both agonizing and riveting for the country to see, how close we came to losing it all. and certainly as close to fascism as i ever want to come in my life. joining us now, lynn kirchner, former federal prosecutor and adviser to the democratic national committee. glen, i ll start with you on the january 6th verse. the committee interviewed
investigations or whatever they re going to do. congressman, one last question. back in 2016 on mlk day you posted this on your facebook page. it s a photo from life magazine and it shows your mother and father in 1963 at the march on washington, second and third from the right, with their feet in the water listening to dr. king give his i have a dream speech. talk to us briefly about what this photo and that day means to you. well, there s a great moment in american history where there was a huge outpouring on a multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-ethnic basis for the principle of universal rights and american democracy. so that s a prize possession that we have those photos. my sister, erica, got them online for all the kids in our family. and, you know, dr. king actually sent a telegram to our house. for those who don t know what a telegram, it s kind of like a text but they bring it to your
fight voter suppression in this country because he brought together a multi racial, multi ethnic fusion collision to focus on voter suppression, not to hide from it, not to say we don t want to talk about it but you raise it up and say we all need to tackle this. that when our neighbors can t vote, whether they re black or white, whether they are young or old, we all lose. so that culture in north carolina has really chance formed the state. yeah, indeed. so where are you where do we need to do more reverend barbering? where are the states you re concerned? michigan is a nightmare, wisconsin. where are you focused now and where should we take, you know, focussing our attention? obviously, georgia, texas, florida, everyone knows about. but what we need to do is we need to realize that this is an epidemic throughout the country. the big lie has spread to all 50 states. now, they can t effectuate policy in all 50 states but we
pursuit of equity. any attempt to repair a ton of that damage, reparation. it sets off white people. they re coming for our [bleep] law. the panelist went along and they themselves hit the buttons saying white supremacy is alive and well in the united states. andrew sullivan hit back and defended america. it s very hard to agree with some of the very premises that are being expressed tonight. as if everything is already settled, we know this country s for example, a white supremacy is, for example a white supremacy. i don t believe that. i think it s possibly the most absurd hyperbole. i come from i m an immigrant. i have a slightly different view of this. i can tell you america in 2022 is the most multi-racial, multi-cultural, tolerant, diverse melting pot that s ever
power were unseated by those who had no claim to it, which is the story that the white south told for decades and is the story that trump is telling his supporters every day basically. well, chris, i think that both you and jelani have put a point on it. the big question is who does america mean to be in the long term, because, you know, the declaration of independence and the constitution were written by a man who owned his wife s sister. he owned his own children. american democracy was not actually conceived of to serve a multi-racial, multi-gendered population. and so we are about the work always of figuring out how to make the dream of america and the ideas of it serve the people of it more completely. and i think that figuring out how to ask it to do something it wasn t actually intended to do is the labor of my life, but it s also terrifying and asking