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Late teens. He writes that that as well as how he balanced governing with being a dad. We join him in chicago in a high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who were part of my brothers keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. Are you going back to Community Organizing . Well, probably im a little too old and gray haired to be going door to door like i used to be. Plus Secret Service follows me around which is pretty disruptive. I am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. One of the thing that inspires former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. Hey, people. Hey, hey. Its called a bam circle, bam stands for becoming a man. A program started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. How is everybody doing . The idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share struggles and successes, issues at home, in school or on the streets. President obama first joined a Bam Circle Bac
eventually. people think they might be incriminating themselves with an answer, they have a right to assert the privilege. i have seen the fifth amendment privilege more in the past month and i can believe. i probably heard the fifth amendment mentioned more than the first amendment in my lifetime now, with all of the people asserting the fifth. we are interested in protecting the rest of the constitution, including the fifth amendment rights. it is the rest of the constitution that the committee is out there to defend and uphold. congressman good to see you as always. thank you for joining us. jamie raskin, democrat of maryland. on the january six committee. ahmaud arbery s killers are back in court, it finding out what role race may have played in his murder. high commissions, right?
first black woman ever on the supreme court and the first justice since thurgood marshall who retired with significant experience defending criminal. she s a former public defense lawyer for the past eight years she s been a federal trial judge and at her confirmation hearing for the appeals court she was asked what role race would play in her decisions. i don t think that race plays a role in the kind of judge that i have been and that i would be. i like the oliver wendell holmes quote that the light of the law is experience. she s one of the youngest second to amy coney barrett who turned 50 last month.politics former president trump making headlines and later the cdc s new guidance on masks. what you need to know.
by republican senator john cornyn last year about the role race plays in her work. i don t think that race plays a role in the kind of judge that i have been and that i would be. i ve experienced life in perhaps a different way than some of my colleagues because of who i am, and that might be valuable reporter: even before jackson became a judge, she tackled inequities in the criminal justice system. as vice chair on the u.s. sentencing commission, jackson and the six other members decided unanimously to lower federal drug sentences. i say justice demands this result. reporter: the reductions had a wide-ranging impact. they were retroactive meaning 30,000 federal prisoners had their sentences lowered. her own family s experience in the criminal justice system could also provide lines of
political opponents would deliberately not only block out that story, but try to exploit it for their own political gain. i tell the story in the book about the situation where skip gates, a harvard professor is trying to get into his own house and he gets arrested and i m asked about it. i don t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts what role race played in that, but i think it s fair to say number one, any of us would be pretty angry. number two that the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home and not only did that cause a firestorm as you will recall? yes. you were already in the press at that time, but subsequent polling showed that my support