weekly update from him on the extraordinary good work of this committee. and what he told me is the quiet story is the number, the tremendous number of people who are cooperating with the committee, who recognize that january 6 was an insurrection where americans attacked americans, where americans attacked and maimed and killed police officers, capitol police officers here. and so the committee s work continues. the quieter story is the quieter work of the committee and americans who are coming forward to tell the truth so that we never have this happen again. you know, and i m going to skip past i want to talk to mike pence in a minute. but i want to come back and talk about norm core, what would be norm core republicans, kurt. and by the way, if i said 450, i meant 150 people have been deposed. it was 150 people have been deposed. norm core type republicans even struggle to distance themselves
governor of black americans to reelect trump. it s the latest version of the right s tried and tired look at that black person. you see him standing right there, right? they re black, that they deployed when trump s soon to be chief of staff mark meadows physically displayed a silent black woman to prove that trump was not a racist, back when he was a congresswoman. and now this ar-15 wielding l.g. will be their get out of racism card free. shows any white person doing anything wrong to black people ever their 2022 mantra. joining me now, michael eric dyson, distinguished professor at vanderbilt university and author of entertaining race. . banning any history that makes white people feel uncomfortable. i want to get you to comment on the justice department finally leaning in and filing a lawsuit against texas. what do you think? it s absolutely necessary,
here is the thing. as i said the other day, i think the challenge for democrats they also lack the vocabulary to aggressively defend black people. right. even though black americans give 90% and black women give 95, 96% of their votes to democrats. and yet when it comes time to defend black folks this guy is who came up, who is one of the people who came up with the strategy said the gel of pretending the critical race theory is this boogieman is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper that makes them uncomfortable and immediately think critical race theory. and that is what they ve implemented. he said we ve decodified the term and we ll recode vie it to annex the entire range of cultural con infrastructures that are unpopular with americans. democrats don t seem to know what to do about this. and i don t care about this by the way as a democrat. i m going to be real right now. because the democrats can be really irritating. right. i care about it because th