he played dumb. what do you mean suggest when we know trump tweeted about these types of things. so what they did is weaponize the doj and they did it not only for to dig into phone records of members of congress but their families and children in some cases and that is the authoritarian behavior that oddly would not surprise the american public but definitely confirms that trump was abusing his power. you re right, there are still people in the doj who were part of these biweekly briefings where they talked about these investigations and what that says to me is that merrick garland is getting all of the tea from them. tell me what you did, when you did it and once this is all investigated they absolutely need to be held accountable because merrick garland, we know he follows the rules, but i also need him to clean house so that this does not continue under his watch. i want to follow up with that with you, erin. so merrick garland gives a speech this week. hey, we re going to do t
the department of justice will never stop working to protect the democracy which all-americans are entitled. department of justice is stepping up the fight against voter suppression. evenly split senate could protect voting rights bypassing the for the people act. democratic senator joe manchin has said he s a strong, firm no. my next guest is taking the fight right to the west virginia senator s backyard. we have author of we are called to be a movement. thank you so much, reverend, for joining us. i m going to start right off. i am disturbed and shocked by joe manchin s behavior like most other americans are. what do you hope to accomplish with your moral monday march?
overhaul of the tax laws. my book talks about how the tax system advantages rich white men and disadvantages black men. and it s no surprise that the top highest earners who are rich white men, i will point out propublica didn t talk about the race angle but it s everywhere in the story, they are paying very little taxes in the system. the he system was designed by rich white men for other rich white men to pay less in taxes. what a surprise. dorian? there was a story that showed one or two workers require the government to survive. we should be angry that we are subsidizing through the government the low wage business model, yes, you and i pay our taxes. all of us pay our taxes but we re supporting the wealthy few
we re moving up in society. it mabs us proud. we look back and go, why you would have the government surveil us where we work, where we dine, where we pray? they ve done so much to us. finally we have someone on the other side going, that s unconstitutional. that s wrong. for our community, we re very ecstatic. very proud. next up, jason, to get more of us in the society. muslim boy band. going to call it shiski bab. me and eamon javers and ali velshi will tour. he does have front man energy. i can see that. i want to understand yes. i also want america to understand, 20% of american muslims are actually african-american. let s be clear also about how many different kinds of people this is a change for. erin haynes will be sticking around for the hour.
begin with. the reason our institutions were able to be corrupted is because they were already weak going in. what s happening now with the biden administration refusing to enforce accountability, refusing to investigate things like trump s reaction and handling of the covid pandemic, the january 6th attack on the capitol, the fact that he was a kremlin asset, i don t think that that s necessarily going to restore faith, either domestically or globally in the u.s. as a paragon of representative democracy and justice. exactly. it occurs to me in any other country in the world that has been watching america for the last six months alone, it s like there was an attempted coup and the guy that you found responsible for it is happening out in florida and no one s been held accountable. i want to ask you this, this idea that america used to be an example of a democracy and now isn t, when was this place ever an example of democracy? when large numbers of people, especially black and brown