unknown is always good to see you, my friend. thanks to you for joining us this evening. on april 3, 1968, the mason temple in memphis was packed. memphis was a city in mourning. it was grappling over the deaths of two employees of the memphis department of public work, employees who were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths today.th under the slogan i am a man more than 1,000 black employees were on strike and tensions were rising. so despite a bad thunderstorm that april night the room was filled, and there was one man the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king jr. had visitedhe memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage and decent working condition, and that night he was back, delivering what would be his final speech the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying something is happening in memphis, something h
israeli military now says an additional nine soldiers have been killed inside gaza. they were hit by an anti-tank guided missile while operating in the northern part of the strip for the very latest, chief fox news correspondent jonathan hunt joins us live from jerusalem. jonathan lauren, it is 8 a.m. here in israel. and within the last couple of hours, we got that news from the israeli defense forces that nine soldiers were killed in one incident tuesday day morning. they were fired on by with an anti-tank tank, guided missile fired by hamas fighters. nine un soldiers killed. that is separate to the two soldiers killed that we reported on yesterday. so it brings to 11 the total number of idf soldiers killed in gaza since the ground operation began. now, the israeli defense forces , meantime, put out these videos showing an israeli strike against a vehicle that they said was carrying exactly those kind of anti-tank guided missiles. their ground operations continue. you meanti
And keep going from one death to the next. the issue now is voting rights and police reform. that is theno civil rights challenge of the 21st century. we must meet the challenge. do you think we re in agreement onth that those of us who want to see change, this is the civil rights battle of our era? yes, you can t be for civil rights and not see the importance of protecting our right to decide who leads us, protecting our right to be from police violence. there s nothing more fundamental to our rights as residents and citizens of this country than to be able to do both those things, literally to choose leaders and live and have anybody in a position of power to pay consequences for notr paying attention to the same laws we all have s to pay attention to. now, i will also say because the rev s is so right about this, is not given, it s not ever given, it s demanded. change and laws are demanded. and when we see the laws that do
Any politician that seeks to divide us, calls us names, that suggests being woke is worse than being asleep is not a politician fighting for democracy and for every single resident of thiser country. and o just hope in 55 years people do not need to eulogize another black person with signs that say i am a man. reverend sal sharpen, maya wily, thank you both for being here tonight. i am deeply appreciative for your words of wisdom. when we come back house republicans have put fire brand jim p jordan in charge of the subcommittee to investigate what they re calling the weaponization of the federal government and democrats have chosen who will be going toe to toe with them. plus a look at the elephant in the room, literally the elephant. donald trump wants a 2024 republican presidential nomination all to himself, but the rest of his party maybe not so much. that s next. f his party maybe n so much. that s next.
The law recognize 20 years from now what do we have, a lot of marches thatot achieve nothing, that fundamentally changed how society operates to protect its citizens you needot law to do that. there was an important lawmaker at the funeral today, the vice president of the united states. she, herself, emblematic of progress this country has made. you asked her to speak. it didn t seem like she came with prepared remarks. she didn t. what s your impression how this death in particular is changing the white house focus on police reform? i think when she spoke and talked about how she was one of those inbo the senate before th vice president that offered the george floyd bill and pushed it forward, president biden has said we need this law. now we need the senate. we need all the democrats and some well-meaning republicans to say we can t keep being episodal