Hearing will come to order. Today the Judiciary Committee is holding the firstever hearing on a growing danger to our democracy. Threats against election workers. In a recent survey went out of every six election workers reported receiving threats because their jobs are on the front lines of democracy. Many of the stats were inspired by false claims or fraud surrounding the last election. Claims that culminated in president trumps big lie. Night last summer, the department of justice launched a task force to address the unprecedented threats that election workers across america are facing. This morning, for the first time the department will testify about the progress that has been made by the task force since it was formed. We will also hear from these and Infrastructure Security Agency which plays an instant been instant indispensable role in securing our election. We will hear from Public Officials who have received Death Threats because of their efforts to protect voting. Before we
The department will testify about the progress that has been made. We will hear from Public Officials who have received Death Threats because of their efforts to protect voting. Before we begin, i want to play video to put this in perspective. [video clip] donald trump releasing a barrage without evidence. Numbers started miraculously getting whittled away. In secret, we have so much evidence and proof. Donald trump, jr. And other allies threatened to turn against allies who do not rust to the president s rate the president s defense. Is also having a detrimental effect on poll workers and everyday citizens. We have confirmed these are not suitcases but standard ballot containers. He ruined these womens lives. Described in a lawsuit how she left her home of 20 years hours before a mob of angry trump supporter surrounded her home. Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you . I felt like it was all my fault. Like if i would have never decided to be an
The department will testify about the progress that has been made. Well also hear from the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency which plays an instrument and dispensable role in securing our election. Well hear from Public Officials who have heard received Death Threats because of their efforts to protect voting. I want to play a video to put this in perspective. Donald trump launching an assault on the integrity of the election, policing a barrage of false claims of fraud and corruption without evidence. We were winning and then our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away. In secret, we have so much evidence and proof. Donald trump, jr. And other allies threatened to turn against allies who do not rust to the president s rate the president s defense. Is also having a detrimental effect on poll workers and everyday citizens. We have confirmed these are not suitcases but standard ballot containers. He ruined these womens lives. Described in a lawsuit how she left
Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Who would hear from the cybersecurity and intercommunity agency which launched task force a year ago to address threats. The department will testify about the progress that has been made. Well also hear from the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency which plays an instrument and dispensable role in securing our election. Well hear from Public Officials who have heard received Death Threats because of their efforts to protect voting. I want to play a video to put this in perspective. Donald trump launching an assault on the integrity of the election, policing a barrage of false claims of fraud and corruption without evidence. We were winning and then our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away. In secret, we have so much evidence and proof. Donald trump, jr. And other allies threatened to turn against allies who do not rust to the president s rate the president s defense. Is also having a detrimental effect on poll workers
Up next on booktv, after words. Former Senior Researcher of colombia diversities malcolm x. Project. Nicholas johnson and his book will be featured. In at the Law School Professor discusses the tradition of africanamericans using firearms to defend their communities. It dates back to reconstruction. The nonviolence help to bury this fact of black history, he argues. This program is about one hour. Host negroes and the gun the black tradition of arms strikes me as an important intervention in three ways. One that is story of the black freedom movement. And the increasingly new work that revises the way that we understand the role of violence related to the kind of predominant narrative of nonviolence. The other intervention is cultural in terms of who we see or who we think of when we think of gun owners and also how we think about black resistance. Finally there is a Public Policy implication as well for the presentation of the black traditions of arms. So i look forward to really gett