talk about, arndrea, why that s important that people across different racial lines and other lines of division come together in all of this to realize what dr. king was about. and, martin, we couldn t celebrate dr. king day without talking about your mother who really not only kept the movement going but made this day possible. if it wasn t for coretta scott king, we would not have a federal holiday, and i don t think people know that. the leadership of your mother, which i always say, arndrea reminds me much of your mother, and your mother, i tell joe scarborough all the time, worked on my rough edges and the leadership of your mother should not be forgotten on king holiday. arndrea. absolutely. it s one thing of course that we talk about in our house all the time. and, you know, there wouldn t be a martin luther king jr. holiday
the rest of us know that when we get bills, we have to pay our bills. people sitting around their kitchen tables right now, they know they have to pay their bills, and so there are things that we have to negotiate. there s work that we have to do, but we shouldn t be playing chicken with the full faith and credit of the united states government period. so senator warnock, that s just one area of course where the republican house is talking. this is going to be a new era in washington. they have opened up a lot of investigations into a variety of things about the administration including members of the president s own family. they re also really sending signals they re going to curtail dramatically funding to ukraine, even though as we have seen just over the weekend, a terrible strike killed more than 30 civilians at an apartment building in ukraine. what is the tactic there? as you and your democratic colleagues, both your chamber of the senator, but also your colleagues in the hous
morning, jonathan lemire, you and others have said these days that one of the defining battles in civil rights is that for voting rights. you have spoken very passionately on this issue. about a year ago president biden came to atlanta, spoke about the need for federal voting rights legislation. that didn t go anywhere. as it turned out. you know, his administration have said they still want to move on the effort but now of course there are republicans controlling the house, making it that much more complicated. where do you think as we sit here on this martin luther king holiday, 2023, where do you think things stand right now in the battle for voting rights in this country? we ve got to keep fighting, and we cannot afford to give up. and as you point out, we didn t get the result we wanted in the last congress. i pressed very hard to get this done. but who am i to give up? i was john lewis s pastor, and i think about him crossing that edmund pettus bridge with nothing but a backpac
november or when these documents were first discovered? listen, let s be clear, classified documents need to be handled with a great deal of care, and it s important that the justice department do its work relative to what we are learning. i think the administration is cooperating. they need to continue to cooperate. and i think the most important thing, mika is that we put processes in place so that this doesn t happen again. clearly there were some lapses, and at the end of the day, we re talking about the security of the country, and i think the president and his administration are cooperating and i ll trust they will continue to cooperate. let s talk about the debt ceiling. we ve had the treasury secretary talk about extraordinary measures that need to be taken if a deal is not done. do you think that the democrats in the senate and the republicans in the house are going to be able to come up with
anybody watching. you don t invite me on to interview me, you invite me on to argue with me. i m trying to lay out the facts. reverend sharpton, senator ron johnson just wants the truth, but he only wants the truth of course about certain individuals from certain parties, and he wants to ignore the truth from others. we know that our friend joe scarborough has compared ron johnson to someone who has rocks in his head. never. joe, you did. maybe once. several times. this is something that we know that has become a blinders on party, the republican party, and it seems to me, though, that this is setting a tone for what these next couple of years are going to look like, that the republicans in the house are going to go after just what they want and how they want, and they re just going to try to ignore the rest. and i think that what we that trying to get some things done have to do is prepare