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but if you go back 100 years to a hot summer day on the shores of lake michigan, you might begin to understand. he and four of his friends decided to go to the beach along with everyone else. they were ordinary kids. black kids? black kids. yes, black kids. what happened to a 17-year-old named eugene williams started a chain of events that led from rocks to riots. they drove into bronzeville and they opened fire. to promises broken again and again. every family that wanted to stay in the community will stay in this community. i don t see the black people. where we at? do you think things have gotten a lot better in the last 100 years? where there s poverty, there s usually high rates of violence. tonight, i ll meet people who have lived that story. it s like every day, we risk our lives by coming out the door. and are trying to change the ending. we have a new brother. how long have you been here? i ve been here for three, four weeks now. ....
we will uphold our oath, as public servants, it is my belief that our state be met or off for it. also this, week a judge ruling trump s georgia trial can be televised. so if willis gets the start date she wants, trump s georgia legal fight will be coming to a screen near you on october 23rd. the former president already has a trial date in washington d. c.. he will face off with federal prosecutors just one day before super tuesday, in the january 6th case, more than three years after the capitol riot. this comes as the doj secures some of the longest january 6th sentences yet, including ten years for a member of the proud boys, who smashed a window at the capitol. far-right extremist, dominic pezzola, cried in front of the judge, then pumped his fist and yelled, trump won, as he left court. that moment of defiance, sounding a lot like trump himself. the former president s social media rants still showing no remorse, even when a frenzy of 3am posts suggest he might b ....
fulton county district attorney fani willis in georgia and showing the nation what accountability looks like. former president trump is facing criminal charges for his attempts to subvert the 2020 election in the peach state. he has pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal charges. and that includes racketeering and conspiracy. the eyewitness is now facing political attacks for doing her job and standing up for the rule of law. georgia state senator colton moore spurred on by former president trump has launched an effort to investigate and potentially impeach her. he sent a letter to governor brian kemp accusing gia willis of targeting political opponents. asking for a special session to review her actions. he forcefully shot that idea down on thursday. in my mind a special session of the general assembly to and and run around this law is not feasible and it may ultimately prove to be an unconstitutional. the bottom line is that in the state of georgia as long as i am govern ....
currently qualified to hold the office of president of the united states, or any elected office in the country for that matter? to start, let s go back 155 years to july 9th, 1868, went two years after passing the senate, the 14th amendment to the constitution is ratified. and within it, section three reads, quote, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or-elect or, or vice president, or vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states or under any state, who having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the u.s. shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. donald trump having incited an insurrection and having tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election, in violation of the constitution of the united states, is now constitutionally ineligible to be president again. that seems pretty straightforward if you read your const ....
on its face, a hearing this week that donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, product around what might sound like a sideshow legal issue compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state, to federal court. but we learned from his nearly four hours of questioning, it has implications far beyond a potential change of a new first trial. in addition to giving us the first sense of where the argument may be for a number of trump s other coconspirators, of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. i mean, let s zero in on the key defense we heard from mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud, the pressure campaign and church officials to find votes? the conspiratorial behavior to keep trump in power? he says all of that was, quote, part of my r ....