the family of martin luther king jr. is planning to use mlk day to push president biden and congress to passed stalled voting rights legislation. martin lu martin luther king iii tweeted no celebration without legislation. and martin luther king iii joins me now. hey, thank you so much for joining us during this busy holiday season. we appreciate it so much. martin, what was the moment when you decided that you were going to issue this call for action instead of a celebration? it sounds like some of that could pay dividends here. well, as you may remember, in august, on august 28th, the anniversary of the march in washington, we had over a hundred demonstrations in 41
rights. pre-edmund pettis bridge days. you can tell arizona, well, as long as people can still vote even if it s a little difficult, it s all right. we can t live under that. so many of us in these civil rights organizations, certainly national action network and others, are saying if we ve got to put up resources to do ads in states, if we ve got to do commercials, whatever we need to do, we re going to mobilize. we ve already bringing thousands to washington on august 28th. we have no choice but to fight. we want to see how aggressive this president is going to be with us. we know he has said the right things, but now the speechifying as i would say is over. oratory must turn into real action and boots on the ground because they are far ahead and
for how to save our democracy in 2021. and come august, we can rise up in even larger numbers. voting rights are under attack across america. and we are ready to rise up. on august 28th, 2021. august 28th. 58 years to the day after my grandfather led the march on washington. people all over america. in atlanta. washington, d.c. miami. houston. phoenix. and cities and towns across the country. will join together in the same non-violent non-partisan spirit of dr. king. to tell our elected officials we won t wait any longer. we need federal voting rights protections for every american. we cannot sit idly by as our votes are suppressed and our voices silenced.
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assistance would have been clearly communicated to the ukranians. foreign minister prystaiko said sondland never linked security assistance to investigations. prystaiko said, i have never seen a direct relationship to investigations and security assistance. although there is some testimony that ukranian officials from the embassy in washington made informal inquiries to the state department and the defense department about these issues with security assistance in july and august. the evidence does not show that the president and advisers in kyiv were aware of the pause until it was publicly reported by politico on august 28th. a subsequent news article explained the conflicting testimony that nbc officials in washington had made in formal inquiries about issues with the aid while senior officials in