The Justice Department into a quote, political Weapon Speech coming less than two months before the president ial election is expected to condemn what he calls an escalation of attacks based on quote, conspiracy theories, Dana Peter is falsehoods. Efforts to bully and intimidate career public servants by repeatedly and publicly singling them out and threats of actual violence. Cnns Jessica Schneider joins us now with more and jessica, this is very unmarried. Garland of berkoff, garland to come out like this. Its notable, jim, weve seen the Attorney General respond to these attacks and congressional hearing springs one questioned by lawmakers, may be in response to questions from the press, but he is going to be making a full throated defense of his employees. Doj officials fbi agents in this really notable speech, hes going to be delivering it around 11, 30 this morning to his employees, two u. S. Attorneys who are in town and its real really incredible. You know, we say we wont let th
unknown is always good to see you, my friend. thanks to you for joining us this evening. on april 3, 1968, the mason temple in memphis was packed. memphis was a city in mourning. it was grappling over the deaths of two employees of the memphis department of public work, employees who were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths today.th under the slogan i am a man more than 1,000 black employees were on strike and tensions were rising. so despite a bad thunderstorm that april night the room was filled, and there was one man the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king jr. had visitedhe memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage and decent working condition, and that night he was back, delivering what would be his final speech the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying something is happening in memphis, something h
not equally apply that s why we have new laws that says we figured out the loophole, now we re going to close it. when we see any politician of any party who claims to be in favor of civil rights but lies about whether or not there s voter fraud or lies about whether or not closing poll sites in black communities keeps black people from being able to vote or lies when you have police officers at polling sites and suggests that you are not making people agrade to go cast their ballot, when the very reality of the black existence is that you re safer if you avoid the police. that is not a democracy. and saving it is exactly what the civil rights movement has always done, fostered democracy and saved it. and the truth is it makes everybody i safer, everybody stronger, everybody more empowered. and all i would say to anyone is
Guidance Details Laws Against Intimidation and Coercive Conduct at Poll Sites, Reminds Voters of Right to Easy and Meaningful Participation in Elections.
that your officials are going to stand outside, polling stations with laptops with access to rural address software and share a database of voter names. is this how do you plan on executing this? and is this something that you re working with others to execute? well, first of all, thanks for having me, and it s an honor to be on your program today. we re happy to have you. and we are working with many of our tribal officials, we re working with other the other tribes in the states, and we re in communication with the state of north dakota, so we want to we want to just make it possible for everybody to have that right to vote. so we will have i.d. machines and we will have all the information at each poll sites in the turtle mountain area. and how many people would you say this is a problem for? i mean, for folks, our viewers who are watching who may not have a sense of what life is like on a reservation, is this a