Very hard to do. But in that commandment, in my view lies the essence of the gospel and the essence of the american promise. When we see each other as neighbors, not enemies, the progress and justice come. When we see each other as fellow human beings, as children of god, we begin to walk the path of dr. Kings beloved community. The path is dream inspired, and his legacy propels us forward to this day. Heres what i learned in my life and career along that path, as many of you have learned along your path. Were all imperfect beings. We dont know where and what fate will deliver to us and when. But we can do our best to seek a life of light, hope and love. And, yes, truth. Truth. Thats what i try to do every day, to build the future we all want. Were reminding ourselves that nothing, nothing is guaranteed in democracy. Nothing. Every generation is required to keep it, defend it, protect it, to be repairers of the breach. And to remember the power to redeem the soul of america lies where it always has led in the hands of we the people. We the people. [ applause ] i was vividly reminded of that truth on the south lawn of the white house. I believe you were there, both of your senators, the south lawn of the white house when Vice PresidentKamala Harris and hearing these words, and i quote it took just one generation of segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States, end of quote. Those are the words Ketanji Brown jackson, our Supreme Court justice. It took just one generation of segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States. Posts posts [ applause ] as i told folks at the time, shes smarter than you are. As dr. King said give us the ballot. We will place judges on the bench who will do justly, and we are. That is the promise of america. Change is hard but necessary. Progress is never easy, but its always possible. Things do get better on our march toward a more perfect union. At this inflection point, we know theres a lot of work that has to continue with economic justice, civil rights, voting rights, protecting our democracy. Im remembering that our job is to redeem the soul of america. Look, i get accused of being an invete erate op mist. I call it the irish of it. We were never on top, but optimistic. Like dr. King was optimistic. Folks, as i said, progress is never easy. Redeeming the soul of the country is absolutely essential. I doubt whether any of us would have thought even in dr. Kings time that literally the institutional structures of this country might collapse. What were seeing in brazil, in other parts of the world, folks, i will close with this, with the blessing i see today. In the oval office, and many of you have been there, in my office. You get to set it up the way you want within reason. As i sit at my desk [ laughter ] as i sit at my desk and look at the fireplace, just to the left is the bust of dr. King. Its there in that spot on purpose. He was my inspiration as a kid. He does know where we should go. I ran for three reasons. I said i wanted to restore the soul of america and wanted to rebuild this country from the bottom up and middle out. I wanted to unite it. Not far from him, if you look about 40, 50 degrees to the right, theres another statue, another bust of rosa parks. People ask me, why . I say, i put it in my words, she would say, ive had enough. Ive had enough. Folks, i often think of the question that dr. King asked us all those years ago. I think its important you all and the nation remembers. He said, Where Do We Go From Here . Thats a quote Where Do We Go From Here . Well, my message to the nation on this day is, we go forward. We go together. When we choose democracy over autocracy, a beloved community over chaos, when we choose believers in the dreams, to be doers, to be unafraid, always keeping the faith, every time i walk off my Irish Catholic grandfathers home in scranton, he would yell, joey, keep the faith. My grandmother would be, no, joey, spread it. Spread the faith. The point is, theres hope. Theres always hope. We have to believe. Ladies and gentlemen, that was dr. Kings path, in my view, the path to keeping the faith. It must be our path. Folks, for gods sake, this is the United States of america. The United States of america. Theres nothing beyond our capacity. Nothing beyond our capacity if we set our mind to it. Ladies and gentlemen, were a land of dreamers and a land of doers. Nothing is beyond our capacity. The gospel song that dr. King loved weve come too far from where we started. Nobody told me the road would be easy. I dont believe he brought me this far to leave me. He did not get me this far to leave me. My fellow americans, i dont believe the lord led us to this far to leave us. My word. God bless dr. Martin luther king and his family, and based on one of his favorite hymns, pressure lord, take my hand through the storm through the night, and lead me on to the light. May god bless you all. Lets go find the light. We can do this. [ cheers and applause ] snoot. Youve been listening to President Biden delivering a sermon at atlantas Ebenezer Baptist church, where dr. King was once pastor. You just saw him say hello to raft yet. This State Of The Union live. Of course he had a difficult week. Hes now facing a Special Counsel investigation. My panel is here with me, though, to focus briefly now on what we just heard from President Biden, from that special pulpit on this special weekend. Karen, lets start with you. This would have been Martin Luther kings birthday had he not been assassinated. What did you make of the address . Powerful and meaningful. This Midterm Election was just a ballot in terms of democracy. As he talked about when he ran for president , the soul of the nation, and we need to find a way forward when it comes to voting rights, when it coming to being unified. I thought he did a good job, staying on script, and staying in the moment, which is what it means to be at been kneeser baptist church. President biden is the first sitting u. S. President to ever speak at a Sunday Service thats an important distinction, where senator warnock is the pastor. What did you make of it all . Look, if you know anything about black culture, the church is one of its pillars. For a black preacher at any church to gipp up their pulpit on a sunday means a lot. Theres a loft history that goes into the community of having a safe place to come when youve had a rough week, and commune with your fillo parishioners. I thought it was a great opportunity for the president to remind us why he ran. He talked about restoring, rebuilding, uniting. We have come off a tough midterm. Senator warnock was a victor of one of those races. And people want to restore, unite and rebuild. I learned something i did, too. When he returned to the bust of rosa parks in the oval office. I havent been in the office since he became president. There is also one of harry truman, robert kennedy, caesar chavez. I was a bit underwhelmed over it, but in his defense, he did not claim to have been arrested at any civil rights march. He didnt call his political opponents Jefferson Davis and so a step in the right direction. Just to be clear, though, last year was no the on a Sunday Service. It was mlk just because we want to be clear. This is unique. And a less partisan event is what i think youre saying. Absolutely. Last year that was more about i mean, we were leading into an election. I can say, you know, this is the other significance of this, during the election, top issue for African Americans concerned about racism, concerned and the impact on peoples lives. Concerned about voting rights, actually topped economic concerns. So, for the president to come to this hallowed hall, hallowed civil rights and black culture, as you were just saying, that is a very meaningful to the black community. I hope again, as you said, for everyone to hear a president talk about unity, i think its a reminder, he had a rough week. Its a reminder president s do still have the opportunity to use the bully pulpit, to refocus to try to refocus on the bigger issues of the day. He does have a big decision to make on whether to run for reelection. It looks like hes going to run. Are they going to listen . Nobody wants this, but it appears that he is moving in the direction of running, and trump at least will have a challenge from somebody in the republican party. I have long believed if one of these party goes new and goes old, whoever it is, new will have the advantage. You know, which i say, last year on mlk day, i had the privilege to spending time with one of his sons. Martin luther kings sons . Yes. His family said, i dont want you to celebrate unless you legislate. It was clear they wanted that holiday last year, and probably this year, to be about voting rights. When a piece of legislate isnt passed, legislators saying thats deadweight. I appreciate President Biden showing up again and saying we arent giving up on this issue. Voter suppression is still a real issue. Georgia is one of the epicenters of Voter Suppression historically and present day. I think it was a policy speech, even though he didnt get into specifics, but i think it was the familys wish to talk about that particular issue. To that point, earlier there was at story about a wisconsin official who was bragging about decreased black and latino turnout. So we know its still very much an issue on peoples minds. The other thing ill just remind us about the king holiday, it was a struggle for it to become a holiday. That was something the king family wants us to remember, we move forward through struggle. Thats how we got this holiday. Ashley, we need to acknowledge this has been not been President Bidens favorite week, with all of these classified documents being found in various locations, in his private offices, at the Penn Biden Center here in d. C. , in a garage, in another room. That has to factor into his decision, the fact that this is a its a significant bump in the reed for him. Sure, i think its an issue that the administration wishes probably didnt happen at all, but here we are, i think its important to searchal his properties, and if there are more found, they turn them over to the archives, the doj. Its not the think he wants leading into mlk weekend, but i think he can overcome it. You think it defangs the trump investigation. Yes. For all the differences you can list, how do you go after one person for having documents and not the other . I think it was right to appoint a Special Counsel, but i also get the feeling theres a lot of people around biden who dont know exactly what will happen next year. Every day they send out the press secretary, that it was a complete search, weve been transparent, but the next day you get more. Then you add on bidens statements on top of it Attacking Trump last year, how can someone be so responsible . Yes, indeed, how could someone . There are material differences between the two. Those matter. I think continuing to make that case i actually think that its possible that this makes it easier, actually. Remember, with trump, its not just the maralago documents. There are multiple lawsuits, multiple fronts on which hes in real trouble. 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And now House Republicans who downplayed the much bigger trove of over 300 documents found at maralago, and the yearlong effort to try to recover them, the House Republicans are making clear now they want in on the investigation of joe biden. Joining me now to discussion is chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, republican james comer of kentucky. Mr. Chairman, thanks for joining us. Lets start on the news yesterday that five additional pages of classified documents were found at President Bidens residence in that wilmington suburb in a room adjacent to the garage. Whats your reaction to this latest development . Well, my concern is that Special Counsel was called for, but yet hours after that, we still had the president s personal attorneys who have no Security Clearance still rummaging around the president s residence looking for things. That would essentially be a crime scene, so to speak, after the appointment of a Special Counsel. So we have a lot of questions for the National Archives. We have a lot of questions for the department of justice and hopefully well be getting answers very soon. Just this morning you have a new letter to the white house Chief Of Staff ron klain demanding more information about these classified documents. What more do you want to know . We want to know the visitor logs to the residence. We want to know who had access to the biden center for diplomacy. This is the same type of investigation that the democrats were so outraged and launched, and demanded ham to President Trump. What we see with President Biden, there are multiple locations. We would never have known about the possession of the classified documents were it not for Investigative Reporting by cbs that somehow got a leak to determine that this had happened prior to the election. The administration hasnt been transparent about whats going on with President Bidens possession of classified documents, and we just want equal treatment here with respect to how both former President Trump and current President Biden are being treated with the document issue. Ill get to trump in a second. I want to be clear here, are you accusing President Biden or anyone on his team of breaking the law . Well, we dont know exactly yet whether they broke the law or not. I will accuse the