justin pearson s last words to the tennessee house of representatives. we are in a movement rooted in love. the movement for justice, th movement and gun violence, the movement are and poverty t ensure every kid gets good education, to ensure everybody has asked us access to healt care - it s rooted in love becaus it s rooted in the belief that every person has value i know that counterculture o subversive to some people s wa of thinking but it is rooted i love that is the way we mus operate. the responsibility to hold together this democracy does not just fall on the hands o the people who are being persecuted it is actually the people wh are in positions of powe because when you don t, yo
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is colonel eyes. so, this is a whole shift in their hypocrisy. so, unsurprising, but you know, they have the powe to do things for america people we could focus on the budget we could focus on the crises that we have before us, bu there are two things that lead us to the distraction an they re choosing it for reason we have not these as office as you well know, they r pushing back against three house gop chairman for what it calls unlawful political interference in a new letter in response to requests for information and testimony, rags general counse urge him to quote use th stature of your office t counter these attacks. and urged respect for th fairness of our justice system and the work of the impartia grand jury and so the gop led committee that you are on is among those trying to compel testimony fro the da, you heard the response from bragg s office. why are your republica colleagues not respecting th way our system of justice works?
yeah and this is one place, as we were driving in here where you could see where th tornado apparently jumped over a highway. across the way in that direction is a strip mall of stores, and their damaged. then there s a place where there is no damage and yes, th thing about tornadoes, they re just so random and yes, the shredding that s a good word to describe it what it does to communities. i mean, these places are devastated they seem inhabitable. they re trying to restore powe as best they can they re still, again, pocket that are not without power i don t want to leave th impression that the entire capital city is devastated that is not the case but there are areas, significant areas, wit significant damage and again still a lot of concern peopl trying to figure out what to d next, where they can get help, how they can begin to rebuild. the good news, it s a beautifu day here and as you said people are out and about, an this is also, i might point out, a community where faith is
and it has allowed them to focus on just this case for as long as they need to focus o it but they don t have the powe to indict. and now the evidence is turned over to a regular criminal grand jury which, i think, i not an ideal situation because this second grand jury presumably, will not be hearin the testimony from the witnesses directly, but will in fact, be reviewin transcripts and such so, it s a knob construct. it s a construct that came about partly through the legislature and partly through case law so, it s not necessarily the construct that the legislature envisioned but that s what they have. so, if there is an indictment, if that indictment include donald trump, and if the manhattan da indites donal trump which, donald trump said, is going to happen on tuesday - he will have the unusual situation of facing tw prosecutions at the same tim in different states. and it s important for folks t realize that states are thei own sovereign. this is not run by the department of j