guarantee we make it out of this period as a democracy, let alone a big one. constitutional law professor lawrence tribe and others vently urged the justice department to take action saying to decline to investigate would be appeasement and appeaing bullies and wrongdoers only encourages the same. they re practically shouting from the rooftop. the question is whether anyone is listening. with me now, stewart stevens, a senior advice sore to the lincoln project and democratic strategists and michael eric dyson professor at vanderbilt university and author of entertaining race performing blackness in america. juanita, i want to start with you. look what is happening in our democracy, there is a lot of focus on that but we have to realize what comes after you
professor at vanderbilt university and author of entertaining race performing blackness in america and tom nickles contributing author for the atlantic, the assault from within our modern democracy. thank you both. i ll start with you because you write about the idea of performing race in this society and it s interesting the context of this is that we do it does feel to me like we are having the redemption period after reconstruction a certain percentage of america chances feel like the country used to fix on them and they don t get to do what they want and have their way, it s an outrage and crime and goes back to the way they thought it should be. can you walk us through someone that looks at history how we get out of the circumstances because the last time i don t feel like it was permanent, our exit from