house of representatives who have jumped into our present day and we believe into ou history in a way that we haven t seen, as he pointed out, since martin luther king was 2 years old, when he came to prominence as a civil rights leader it is what feels like a terrible moment for the country, but out of it there are thes absolute lightning sparks of hope in the form of those thre lawmakers who have bee unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, fo
unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, four, quote, parading without a permit. that was during a protes against segregation in birmingham dr. martin luther king was sentenced to a birmingham jail after the united auto worker paid his 160,000 dollar bail back, dr. king was release from that jail, eight days later. on april 20th. while in that jail, dr. king was in a dark cell, alone, wit no mattress, and was denied an phone calls. he was smuggled
later your both back in office as members of the house? i mean, i see a lot o conversation and i m hearing a lot of conversations happening here i m here at the capitol righ now unethical and republican are starting to see if the speaker needs to resign. speaker cameron tried to fle as extremist authoritarian abuse of power, and it backfired. the new laws this for ever action it s a equal opposite reaction that s what we re seeing here. what do you plan, for ou demise, what he meant evil being used for good, trying to shine a light here in this capital.
seeing here. what do you plan, for ou demise, what he meant evil being used for good, trying to shine a light here in this capital. and so i think it s very important that the speaker d some self reflection i ve called for his resolute resignation. i think he is not fit disturbe in our city state. he s an enemy of door no democracy. he doesn t live in his district i learned that when i talk t people in his district cameron sexton represents dark day in tennessee history, and street was not about multi racial democracy, where people like me weren t even able to walk into the legislature an service equal years in thi branch of government, as equal in the house chamber so i hope cameron sexton wil do the honorable thing and tha is to resign and to bring some order and decency integrit back to the house. i don t think his own member are even comfortable with hi serving, at least a few i ve talked to and so i hope that w see better days ahead, but n matter what i know that we mus continue t