spokeswoman for kamala harris, and steven a., editor of the dispatch. n centers the longer running show in television history, thinks meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. for many it s been a tough weekn with 37 days until the midterm elections, it s a tale of two campaigns. for democrats, the campaign they re trying to run is about access to abortion and the growing extremism of the republican party represented by a singular figure in donald trump. with both parties so sure what they want the mid terms to be about, it s important to keep in mind tom broke could s what much for ufos, the unforeseen will occur. it was represented by two major
happened. there is no reason to trust the russian government on this more than you would trust them on anything else. as putin s war in ukraine turned six months old this week, it does seem this dark, murky, weird incident, it s reported assassination, might be priming us for some worrying behavior from putin and russian forces in the days ahead, potentially in ukraine, potentially elsewhere on russia s borders. we will talk with the intelligence committee chairman about that strange news as well in a few minutes. our first guest tonight, i m very pleased to say, somebody who has no parallel at all, a singular figure in american public service, in a good way. somebody who spent 38 years in one of the most important and most difficult jobs in american public life, somebody who has board criticism, a lot of it, his field, his work, is high stakes, it s often controversial, challenging, personal. for all he s been through in
kaepernick s kneeling really was this kind of seismic social and political event, right, it has all sorts of cascade effects. all of a sudden now this thing that s been in everyone s household across the country, comes the awkward chatter, the national anthem, the sports casters, and donald trump, and we ve seen several rounds now, i think of racial justice protest and backlash, racial justice protests and backlashes. we re going through one of the backlashes now with this attack on critical race theory. as someone, i think so much of your work is about basically critically encountering race through the work you do, i m curious what you make of the backlash? oh, gosh, i think it s ridiculous. it s pedestrian. i think it s also pretty expected. it s in the continuum of the idea that progress can be stopped, right. it may be slowed down, but it can never be thwarted, and i saw
was, which we should say he s an incredible athlete. three sports at that high level. that is a kind of training, a kind of aptitude for, you know, staying in line, that s what we teach our athletes to be, right, and these american sports institutions. for someone to break out of that into what he s doing now is remarkable, and that s what this interrogates. and that point, i think, the context specifically of football, i mean, we just saw these jon gruden e-mails coming out and he s saying all kinds of things about all kinds of different groups of people. there s a quote particularly about kaepernick that they should cut this f word. there s a sense in which that culture particularly, i mean, even of all the major sports cultures is one of the most i think freighted with like the reactionary instincts kind of straight up racism. having up racism. yeah, absolutely, and so he s
given interviews. how did the project come together to begin with? it s in line with the way he has been expressing himself, which is very selective, in some ways obscuring his main point, to let people have a dialogue without pushing his narrative. it s the reason he said i want this to be in my early life. i want to speak directly to what s happening now, but let s talk about the early life and the foundation of where this all started and when he first approached me about it, i wasn t sure it was something i was interested in. what do i do with a famous person s childhood story, that s kind of not my thing. as i heard his story and the micro aggressions, that make up someone who would become an american icon, a singular figure in american culture, it became fascinating to use his life as a spring board into larger conversations about race, identity, representation, and all of that good stuff.