police reform to income inequality and we re going to give them tools to be impactful, evidence based strategies that president obama learned on the ground here in chicago. and so that s what keeps us optimistic. yes, if you spend too much time in washington, it could eat your soul alive. so that s why even when we were in washington, president obama would tell me when i m having a bad day, he d say get outside in washington on the beltway and meet with real people who really want to roll up they are sleeves and make a difference and all we want to do is unleash their full potential. now that i m in washington, i ll say here, here, it is rough on the soul. you re wonderful for the soul, valerie. don t temp me with a good time. valerie, you re great. thank you so much. appreciate you being here tonight. up next, nearly four months after the 100-year anniversary
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of triable is m and might make right. joining me is former white house senior advisor to president ama and president of the obama foundation and valerie, always great to talk with you. it s interesting to see president obam back out now. of course, it s because the groundreaking is taking place on the obama center. but do you think tt he also views in someways president biden and biden s agenda a part of his legacy because it was their partnership and the fights they fought with people like mitch mcconnell to set the table for the fights we re seeing president bid fight now. good evening, joy. so first, i have to say to you, it is a glorious day here in chicago. i m no the obama offices, the foundation oices right now. i was out the on the site earlier today and yes, i do thk that the work that president biden is doing is a continuation of the work that gan under president obama and that s as it should be you run with the baton as fas as you
information goes out into the public, we now have certain portions of our populations that are operating on an entirely different baseline, facts of history, of how democracy is supposed to work. we ve got to figure out how are we helping people to distinguish between truth and falsehood, facts and opinions. so he went on to say that may happen through the education system or how we think about the media. but this is an urgent problem, valerie. what needs to be done right now? well, it s up to all of us, don, to start stretching the importance of engaged and active
about, and that is police reform. republican senator tim scott told pbs last year that he supported police departments losing federal funding if they didn t make reforms. now he seems to be calling that defunding the police. did he flip-flop? is police reform in congress doomed, valerie? i surely hope not. i think it s incumbent on all the members of congress to recognize we have to provide some broad parameters at the federal level about what is acceptable in policing. to give local law enforcement the tools that they need to do their jobs in a fair and equitable way. so in some cases that might require them to receive more resources, but those resources should have strings attached. they have strings attached that show that these police departments are actually going to implement change so that black families don t have to teach their children a certain way to interact with the police that the rest of the country doesn t have to do. and that s in everyone s