constitutional origin and dimension. in an interview with me in the situation room, the committee member zoe lofgren noting his prior cooperation in turning over thousands of documents is not buying meadows privilege claim. he s sent this information over. obviously, he did not believe it was privileged. or he wouldn t have sent it. and so, to refuse to answer questions about it is really it s not the way things work. you assert privilege on a question-by-question basis. and he is just trying to escape telling the truth to the committee. tonight, the committee chairman bennie thompson says lawsuit or not, they plan to move ahead next week with a criminal contempt referral. joining us now, the california democratic congressman, house intelligence committee chairman, and select committee member congressman adam schiff. he is the author of the best-selling book midnight in washington: how we almost lost our democracy and still could. congressman, thanks so much for joi
missouri, in 1967, the year before he killed king. he spent time in mexico. spent time in california. by 1968, he was reportedly intoxicated with the reactionary campaign of george wallace, the segregationist alabama governor, who ran for president in 1968 on an anti-civil rights, pro-segregation, white supremacist platform. james earl ray volunteered on the wallace for president campaign. even beyond that, he was just increasingly committed to the racist cause more broadly. and in the spring of 1968, james earl ray moved to atlanta. he had been living on the west coast. moved across the country to atlanta, where martin luther king lived and where he preached at ebenezer baptist church. he seems to have gone to atlanta in pursuit of dr. king. and in april of 1968, king took a trip from atlanta to memphis, tennessee. it was widely publicized he was going to do it. he wentgo to memphis to support the striking sanitation workers there. james earl ray followed martin luther king
pro-segregation, white supremacist platform. james earl ray volunteered on the wallace for president campaign. even beyond that, he was just increasingly committed to the racist cause more broadly. and in the spring of 1968, james earl ray moved to atlanta. he had been living on the west coast. moved across the country to atlanta, where martin luther king lived and where he preached at ebenezer baptist church. james earl ray appears to have gone to atlanta, specifically in pursuit of dr. king. and in april of 1968, king took a trip from atlanta to memphis, tennessee. it was widely publicized he was going to do it. he went to memphis to support the striking sanitation workers there. james earl ray followed martin luther king to memphis. and he killed him there. he shot and killed dr. king, as king stood on the balcony of a motel in memphis, the lorraine motel. and for much of america, it must have seemed like time stopped in that moment. part of our history absolutely did stop
so i hope that the folks there are listening because a lot of people are upset that he s gone for saying something that the pope cleared up today. do you disagree? the pope has now said it twice. he called joe biden again. you know, look, people are like so what, he said popes, you either respect the history and the tradition or you don t. we don t hear a pope say someone is a good catholic. right. and for him to say that to joe biden was really him trying to be instructive of a point. it s like literally, he said to the u.s. bishops this is the second time i ve told you this now. this guy can get communion. focus on something else. right. and it will be interesting to see whether or not they heed francis s call. yeah. listen, i ll say sometimes church people can be really churchy. and that s the church that i go to on the internet a lot. and that is the potter s house in dallas, texas with bishop t.d. jakes. but sometimes church people can be the most judgmen
we have the big climate summit coming ahead and president biden needs to build a head of steam at the g20 to try to show some leadership in glasgow on these critical issues about ca n we gt some collective action on turning back the effects of climate change and some breakthroughs on the carbon emissions. that s really going to be a very tall order. you mentioned it briefly. i want to explain to viewers and show them what happened. when biden met with the french president emmanuel macron today, admitting the u.s. poorly handled a submarine deal with australia and the uk, which undermined france and cost them a multi-billion dollar deal. take a listen. is the relationship repaired? to use an english phrase, what we did was clumsy. it was not done with a lot of grace. i was under the impression that france had been informed long before that the deal was not coming through. some people may see that as a weakness. just me personally, i think it s a strength when people ca