of that, in this case again there is in suspense about who did it we know who did it, it becomes from the tension path storytelling standpoint how you communicate and capture the public s attention about that story. well, there are lots of characters who are not known to the broad public tonight were involved in this. there were a number of heroes who surfaced throughout this process and we want to make sure that we re profiling them as well as the villains of this story but it s very important to know how it was done as well as whodunnit. and that s what the citizens in the world s greatest multiracial, multi religious, multi cultural constitutional democracy need to know, what are the weaknesses that these reactionaries all right neo-fascist forces conspire to take advantage of. because they did, and it will be both agonizing and riveting
in harlem early this week where new york city police officers, in the parks department, cleared out a long-standing fitness club in a public park. according to the parks department they are not allowed to have that equipment that is there. but it serves as a safe place for kids to participate in activities to stay away from trouble in violence. so you look at this and you think, is this what policing is? for do we want policing to do that? and then of course there is the truly upsetting story coming out of grim rapids, michigan, where officers shot and killed a black man after struggle at a traffic stop. i will not play the video of the shooting which is, like so many of these videos, just unspeakably upsetting. but it shows the officer lying on the man s back before appearing to shoot him in the back of the head. this is after the officer pulled him over because of the week he was an immigrant from the democratic republic of congo
ivanka trump and jared kushner sat for about 50 hours. jamie raskin from serves on the january six committee and he joins me now. it s striking at the end of the list, congressman, at the end of it it seems a lot of people very close to the president have cooperated with the committee given testimony. nobody wants to get left behind because the truth is coming out in the way that it s supposed to in a democracy and it s kind of the way you journalists operate saying we ll have everyone else speaking to us, but not you unless you decide to come forward. it s like a woodwork [laughs] exactly no one wants to get left on the dock, you know. but the truth is the whole country now knows the basic outline of the story. we don t know exactly when every single person was doing at every moment, but we know that there was one line of attack which was a violent
and now yes that memorial site has been hit by russian missile that was apparently aimed at the tower that s nearby. but i think more importantly with the russia story is really about is that we re done with the post-world war ii period of history in europe. whatever comes after this war is gonna be the post-ukrainian war period in history. you could feel that in your bones, you really can. i have 1000th of a connection to it that you do but it feels very clear. again, your reporting on this has been essential and i thank you for making the time with us. thank you. all right coming up an update on a story i brought to you last night on a january six defendant who blamed trump for his actions at the capitol. didn t take long for the jury to come back with a verdict. we ll give you that to you after this. we ll give you that to you after this
officers out looking for frank james, in the, and they didn t really find him. he called himself in and citizens spotted him and directed him to police, which, again it brings up the question, what exactly is policing for? we don t ask this question a lot in the public debates, and there s a lot of demagoguery and anger around this. it s really an existential question we are facing as a society and but we ve been arguing about without really naming, what is policing for? just look at what was happening in harlem early this week where new york city police officers, in the parks department, cleared out a long-standing fitness club in a public park. according to the parks department they are not allowed to have that equipment that is there. but it serves as a safe place for kids to participate in activities to stay away from trouble in violence. so you look at this and you think, is this what policing is? for do we want policing to do that? and then of course there is the truly upsettin