by political violence. we really need be careful in terms not making this a black or blue or red or white we re all vulnerable to this because the temperature of the country has been risen so much. absolutely. i want to read you something, l.z., you re speaking to something, i was looking to figure out where we are. it s hard to tell if we re in a worse place than we have been in the past. first, i want to show you what we have seen according to the u.s. capitol police. on the threats being made. threats of violence. and those numbers are astronomical compared to, for example, 2017, there were 3,900 plus. you look at this graph here. yes, it s gone up and down, but look at the difference between 2017 and 2022. that is a huge jump in the number of threats against u.s. lawmakers. but look at this, in 2019, two years, a full two years before the 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol, a group of u.s. and international scholars with the carnegie endowment for international peace who study pol
reporting during donald trump s first impeachment when even though a lot of his allies thought that a potential impeachment trial would be potentially politically beneficial to him, he did not want to have an impeached president on his resume, and it s very similar. i think right now, as much as i think a lot of people are arguing that potentially this indictment could politically benefit him in the long run. he doesn t want to be indicted, and he s going to say otherwise. publicly he s going to say otherwise to reporters, but at the end of the day he s been trying to avoid and arrests and indictments for the past several decades, and i think it s really a scary moment for him tonight. elena caitlin very much for your reporting. i want to bring in now. cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers, a former u. s attorney, also former congressman max rose and lease elden are back with us when we re joined by l. z. granderson and op ed columnist for the los angeles times. thanks so much for being he
we have yet to see footage of that. the people who remove the books from the classrooms and they take the books out of libraries, they are usually not the good guys. hold on, i have a political question about him, l.z.. is he in danger of becoming a one-trick pony? this is very success nfl florida, but he is playing the hits again, and maybe he is introducing it to a national crowd, but it s starting to sound maybe because we play it so much, but it s sounding familiar. it is awfully familiar, but i don t think it s a one-trick pony and i don t think it s hurting his campaign. he hasn t officially announced but come on. the hundreds of bills around the country. there s an audience for this. are states for people who want to hear the message, and i think it s a good opportunity for the administration, as well as other
and i would pay you for the answers. yeah, excellent. well done. all right, how much time do we have left? oh, all right. anyone with any other question? first, you won. all three of you tied, and l.z., i think you threw the game and you took it, a two-point loss. the idea of michelle obama going to mcdonald s after the inauguration sounds wonderful to me. don t you like here going to drinks with george bush. i like that she did what everyone did. i cried longer and i drank heavily. you did b and c. yeah, i try cried and dank. and drink he drank soda, of course. thank you, we ll be right back .
superstar allen iverson. and teenage kaepernick wanted corn rolls to match. he s getting what rolls, his mom asked? you look like a little thug. your mom said that to you. yeah. it s spaces where, how do i navigate the situation now? and it s why i have my hair long today. cnn attempted to reach out to his parents but not did not receive a response. he brings up a lot of issues here. l.z., what do you hear here? it s messy. he s right, you know. he is right. i just personally would not have chosen to say that about my parents, who saved my life and raised me. i m not saying his argument or perspective is wrong. i m in an interracial marriage. i have heard comments made that