the first sitting vice president, at a time dealing with police reform and black rights. spike lee will give an award to the first black composer of the met. we re going to have a lot of chris rock is giving an award to lauren michaels of saturday night live, opening the door. it will be a big night for us. we re going to be on the issues of voting rights and police reform with the vice president of the united states. that s very exciting. we re looking forward to that. we re at the top of the hour, so let s get to the most exciting announcement. the polo bar is reopened and you were holding court last night. i m not saying that kamala coming to talk at your 30th anniversary is not big, but, rev, donnie, the polar boy reopened and donny deutsch. it was the rev and yourself and myself there last night and but you kicked us out.
it is a situation that is so unique, when a president is trying to steal the election from the american people. the report clearly showed yesterday he was browbeating d.o.j. officials trying to get them to interfere in the vote count n the certification of the votes. he was whipping up his supporters to storm the cap toll in an armed attack to go after his sitting vice president, to disrupt the procedures of our government. that s not the procedures of a president. i think and the white house is within their core right to deny this assertion of executive privilege. do you think there is a scenario where trump sflly keeps these documents we all know the supreme court is unpredictable.
insurrection whose mission statement is to hang the sitting vice president? first, you are right. if you review the charging documents written by prosecutors in the january 6th cases over and over and over again you see references to social media either posting plans beforehand posting activity during or bragging about it afterwards. and there is a role there that has been played. it is significant. you are going the see it come forward in the trials of these people charged for january 6th. now, why isn t facebook completely owning up to it? look, first, it s ugly stuff if they say we helped do this really bad thing. they better have a way to fix it. and i don t believe they do yet, because it s highly complicated, and of course the bottom line comes into play. it s about profit. one of the solutions would have to be somehow decoupling the profit incentive from these algorithms that keep people driving down into these rabbit
that s all you do. you have no power. what do you make of that? well, i think it s fascinating that the sitting vice president turned to a former vice president for not so much legal or constitutional advice but i think just for a gut check. i can t imagine dan quayle s advice was valuable in as much as it was to give pence comfort that what he was doing was the right thing to do. dan quayle was right. vice president pence did have extremely limited legal and constitutional authority to do what the president was asking him to do. dan quayle s advice was good. the fact that vice president pence needed to seek out dan quayle is extraordinary. neil: all right. i want to thank you for that, tom. the other part of this story that we started with, the concerns enough that general milley had that the chinese should be reached out to because fears that they had and others
and act violently, to go and even come and attack his own sitting vice president at the time. there was a noose hanging on a platform on capitol hill. so of course this is someone who urged this kind of behavior when he had the opportunity to tamper some of this down, he told these folks to stand back and stand by. right? even before january 6th. it should be of no surprise to any of us. what we also know is that he regularly tied black lives matter protesters and protests to antifa. he called them terrorists. yeah. he called these folks names. this is something that we are very familiar with. and we have to be very clear that donald trump s presidency may have ended, but white supremacy has not. it is going to be incumbent upon all of us to ensure that a january 6 commission actually happens and that we get to the bottom of what exactly occurred thanks to donald trump. and what was instigated to help make it occur or to set the