committed to the fundamental principles to make this countr what it is than my good friend my late wife s great friend, joe biden. [applause thank you and joining us now is the democratic congressman james clyburn, of south carolina national co-chair of the biden 2024 campaign. congressman, good to see you today. thank you for being with us. ali velshi, thank you s much for having me you are, in addition to being a student of history - this is now a story, what yo said in 2020, and what stood out with the idea that - you said you are fearful you were not fearful during th civil rights movement. you are not fearful when you got arrested you are not fearful when you got put in a jail cell but you were fearful in 2020 about the direction in which i countries going. talk to me about that now. wha has changed, what is better an
are fundamentally, excep through the prism of what yo are showing them in a presidential race, the ke of the lights is that it s s bright and it s such a clarity it shows all your flaws, i shows your strength. and it also shows all your flaws. and from what i ve talked to - i ve talked to a number of republicans in florida it is pretty common knowledg among all republicans ther that have been in any contac with them with ron desantis is he has no retail politics ability. he just has no - even as the congressman pointe out, even the basic things about learning someone s nam are going out of your way to reach out. he s not interested in it. that is not who he is. do you think ron desantis i making a mistake right now b continuing to delay we are assuming he s going t run. but do you assume he s making bad decision, a mistak politically, by not entering the race at this point well, when you take o
he will commit all sorts o vengeance and drum up all kind of craziness in their district among republicans towards them and then - that s the other part. but if ron desantis - may be wrong can sort of pus up against some of that, if ro desantis was a very good politician now, the thing about staye statewide races for viewers is statewide races you can kind of hide sometimes your ability to get some personal connections you can run on television ads. the press does not cover the as much. you can avoid debate you can do all those sorts o things where they don t really voters don t really see who yo are fundamentally, excep through the prism of what yo are showing them in a presidential race, the ke of the lights is that it s s bright and it s such a clarity it shows all your flaws, i shows your strength. and it also shows all your flaws.
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you spoke out of turn. because you spoke up for people who ar marginalized, you spoke up for children who would never b able to speak again. you spoke up for parents who don t wan to live in fear, you spoke u for larry thorne, who wa murdered by gun violence, yo spoke up for people that - care about. in a country built on people who speak out of turn, who spoke out of turn, who thought out of turn to build a nation. i come from a long lin of people who have resisted. i come from a long line of peopl who have fought injustice, i come from a long line of peopl who know what it means to face adversity and difficult days we all have a responsibility we all have an obligation to d what is just, to do what i right and to do what is fair and what i can promise to thos of you who have cried today, those of you who mourn the seaming and an assault aroun our democracy, i can say t folks who are worried abou