he s also a political activist with a lot to say about voting rights and joins me live tonight. good eving. i m mehdi hasan. senate republicans dramatically swooping in by water, to a news conference after touring portions of the border with customs and border patrol, a remind they are the perceived enemy at the boarder is this. children. not soldiers. not terrorists. only girls and boys looking to be united with family in the u.s. that s right, gop senator tommy tubberville ready to take the fight to unaccompanied kids. everything the republican party is doing at the border right now, everything the republican party is saying about the border right now is from outrage over how children are being treated, it s meant to enrage. these senators posted videos to their accounts of them crouching in the brush, in the dark, to hide from the evil drug smugglers at the border. the same smugglers who heckled them during their visit. so sad. the senate gop twitter account also chose
tomorrow s trial provides a possible reckoning for one of last year s defining moments. george floyd was, simply put, an unknown, regular and innocent civilian. his slow, brutal killing, eight minutes and 46 seconds caught on tape sparked something that if you think about it tonight, virtually every american knows at least something about it. national protests spanning months. the reignited blm moment, center stage, formal demands for police reform and what barack obama himself called the greatest social justice push of this entire generation. so now many do know about george floyd, his face portrayed in murals and memorials around the nation, but as a legal matter, we re going to get into this tonight. the trial is primarily not about floyd but rather about the defendant, officer derek chauvin. the judgment will be for him, not floyd. the evidence will be to assess his actions and mind state, not that of the man he killed. chauvin faces a range of charges including third deg
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