The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. This. How seriously are you thinking ab it . Welcome to the ae files. Good to see you. Were here in your hometown of new orleans. In a Cafe Reconcile. Tell me why this is such a special place to you. Well, when i grew up, there was a Jesuit Priest who Half Finishing that run actually became the pastor of a downtown Inner City Church and started talking about ways to help kids and to connect people with money with people who needed money and he wanted to start a place where kids could have a Better Future and he said look, weathve got go to the toughest of the tough places and find the people who need help most. And the children and young people that are working here, kids that have lived the toughest of the toughst lives in america, some have been shot. Some of them with parents of children who have been shot. Some of them are young men and
against jim crow laws. Came to city council, led the fight to get the
not first time we have seen it. capitol hill is not exactly an etiquette school now in terms of how sitting lawmakers speak to each other. the latest is from congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez attacking kevin mccarthy for his lack of response to the islamophobic statements we heard from lauren boebert. we have a full screen of the quote. mccarthy is so desperate to be speaker that he s working with his cku klux klan caucus to loo aside, allow targeting women of color, members of congress. she goes on to say it is not just about nasty phone calls, and emails. the gop are given freedom to incite without consequence. where does mccarthy stand on this? has he spoken as much as he will on this? mccarthy is walking a very difficult line obviously because he s trying to placate the extremists in his party in the hopes he can maintain the enthusiasm for the far right to propel him to the majority in the midterms. it is always a dangerous gamble.
working for him even though it s working against the country. but there s a much deeper thing going on. so the reason i don t want to concentrate for the moment on this, just on president trump, other than to acknowledge that he has been come plolice it and he has put the accelerator on it is because it s a bigger issue for all of us and t not just him, but it is worth noting that the germ, the seed of all of this is racial hatred in a sense of white supremacy, which is why in the book, i talk a lot about david duke and when david duke was in the legislature with me white supremacist. i sat with him. he was a neo nazi. leader of the cku klux klan. got elected in 1990 and subsequent to that, ran for governor and for the united states senate and in one or both of those election, got two out of every three white votes. so i have said in the book that we re not seeing anything there on the national level that we haven t seen in louisiana relating to that racial issue, but it s critic
tributes so a black former assistant testified sessions called him boy and joked about the you cku klux klan. i never called him boy. he also testified that sessions called the naacp and aclu unamerican and communist-inspired. he thought they did more harm than good when they were trying to force civil rights down the throats of people trying to put them behind him. in a heated exchange, sessions denied calling the naacp unamerican. my opinion is they have not. they may have taken positions that i can consider to be adverse to the security. does that make them unamerican? for does not. does that make the positions
which is happening now. it happened in crimea. yeah. and it could work here. the question is what the is putin s goal here. which no one quite yet knows. pressure, pressure, pressure. wait for the talk. it s difficult to say we wait for the talks because that seems to be thursday, we ll see if there s a breakthrough on thursday. meantime, today and tomorrow, nato nations are going to decide whether they have more mull tear exercises on the ground in those nato countries. christiane, great to see you. thank you. all right. let s look at more of your headlines at this hour but quarter past the hour. federal prosecutors will file hate crime charges against frazier glenn cross. she t he is the 73-year-old man accuse of opening fire killing three people on sunday. the charges carry the possibility of a death sentence. cross is a former grand dragon of the cku klux klan and expectd