Social justice are supported in part by at t. We look for to a robust Questionandanswer Period the seating so please follow the instructions on screen for submitting your question via email or comments on our Youtube Page during the program. Were so grateful to have this timely opportunity for Robert F Kennedys Work and legacy with our distinguished guests this evening, and im to lead introduced tonight speakers. Im pleased to extend a warm virtual welcome back to the library to Patricia Sullivan, the William Arthur second professor of history at the university of south carolina. She is the Author And Editor of books including lift every voice, the naacp and the making of the civil Rights Movement, days of hope, Race And Democracy in a new deal era, and freedom rider, Virginia Foster care, letters from the civil rights era. Her new book is Justice Robert kennedys america in black and white. Also so please welcome back our moderator for this evening discussion, Kenneth Mack is the inaug
That does it for me. Thanks for watching. Ill see you back here tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. Eastern for another live hour of politicsnation. My Colleague Alicia Menendez picks up our News Coverage now. Thank you sharpton. It is a busy saturday. A lot developing. Lets get into it. Begin on capitol hill. The senate was in a rare session today, lawmakers working to hammer out Fine Print of a roughly 1 Trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan. Despite taking longer than hoped, Senate Majority Leader schumer thinks an agreement is near. Given the bipartisan nature of the bill, the senate should be able to process this legislation rather quickly. We may need the weekend. We may vote on several amendments, but with the cooperation of our republican colleagues i believe we can finish the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill in a matter of days. While we may soon see that progress in the senate, there is still, of course, the house, where Progressive Democrats say they wont support it unless the paired wit
Deny the mission of mr. Halls Question And Answer statement given on an earlier occasion and ive had a chance to review the script of that, as well as Case Law and first of all, denying the Defense Motion to have the prosecution give an offer of Proof Or Expiration of why they are not granting immunity and i think even as the super case cited by the defense notes that immunity the grant of immunity is an executive Branch Function and is not subject to judicial review and so regardless of what the States Reason was for refusing to give immunity to mr. Hall is not reviewable by this court so the request that the state provide a reason for not granting immunity is denied. With regard to the statement given by mr. Hall and this assumes that he is not going to be answering any questions even if i order him to do so. Im going to find that none of the statements in the Question And Answer statement are admissible. First of all, in johnson versus fabian i noted the basic standard for a fifth a
now, while it s not a subpoena, it s a necessary step given mccarthy s extensive communications with trump including a phone call while the siege was underway. in fact, mccarthy discussed that call with cbs news in realtime during the attack and he made clear that trump had to call off the mob. i had spoken to the president. i asked him to talk to the nation to stop this. i was very clear with the president when i called him. this has to stop and he has to go to the american public and tell them to stop this. leader mccarthy, the president of the united states has a briefing room steps from the oval office. it is the cameras are hot 24/7, as you know. why hasn t he walked down and said that now? i conveyed to the president what i think is best to do and i m hopeful the president will do it. wow. wow. and yet, the former president allowed that attack to proceed for 187 minutes. it is hard to fathom now but mccarthy even considered asking trump to resign the presidency
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