house of representatives who have jumped into our present day and we believe into ou history in a way that we haven t seen, as he pointed out, since martin luther king was 2 years old, when he came to prominence as a civil rights leader it is what feels like a terrible moment for the country, but out of it there are thes absolute lightning sparks of hope in the form of those thre lawmakers who have bee unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, fo
unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, four, quote, parading without a permit. that was during a protes against segregation in birmingham dr. martin luther king was sentenced to a birmingham jail after the united auto worker paid his 160,000 dollar bail back, dr. king was release from that jail, eight days later. on april 20th. while in that jail, dr. king was in a dark cell, alone, wit no mattress, and was denied an phone calls. he was smuggled
they were still that ethic, th fundamental belief in politics in america that transferre itself into other parts of the world to say, look, this can b done - as you were quoting there, w are not doomed to just continually repeating over and over again the same mistakes and i think if it wasn t - if we didn t have that sort of sense of american optimism that can do attitude, it s possible this conflict could still be going on today. maybe if ireland has one thing to get back to america now i might be to say perhaps yo guys need to recover that sens of political stability for yourself fintan o toole, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it pleasure. we ll be right back could we have been someone else if we had taken a right turn instead of a left? or if we had taken the place with the hot tub
look better to a much better future it was striking that th united states, and i m not sur the united states still has th status in many places, but i those days, was fully respecte by both sides of that conflict so senator mitchell coul actually leave the senate an go in there as a special envoy he described it, i believe once, as 700 days of failure followed by one day of success yeah, and you know, this is where, as you say, america s standing at that time as a honest broker, what wa acceptable by both sides but also something that may be you know, we re losing, whic is a sense of american optimism you know [laughter] there is still that epic, th fundamental belief in politics in america that transferre itself, you know, into other parts of the world, to say look, this can be done you know, as you are quoting there, you know, we re not doomed to just continually repeating over and over agai