that valona today was his 94th birthday, he dedicated his life to make sure that this nation s founding ideals and principles applied equally to african americans. and as a nation honors in this holiday weekend we are reminded just how far we ve come and how far we still have to go. the country remains deeply divided on many important, issues of factor flecked it by the new congress. in their first full week as a majority in the house republican zeroed a in the last week, republicans have been given a free path to a theater e. you are under cut to the draconian budget plan that will lead to, cuts to, medicare and social security. even though it might seem like we are headed for two years of unrelenting chaos, we should heed the message doctor king delivered. the now peoples overwork and how to creation culture with the mines turn to me now is the chair, neutral, of the congressional black caucus. hum. on the foot traffic gun was completely eroded? made no mistake ab
choose democracy over autocracy? couldn t ask that question a two years ago. we thought democracy was settled. not for our african americans. but democracy is institutional structure was settled. it s not. it s not. we have to choose a community over chaos. are we the people that are going to choose love over hate. these are the vital questions of our time and our reason why i m here as your president. i believe dr. king s life and legacy show us the way and we should pay attention. i really do. [applause] dr. moore luther king was born in our nation. we re segregation was a tragic fact of life. he had a reason to believe as others of a generation to that history had already been written. that the division would be
dangerous what donald trump did. we re going to see false equivalency s for the republican party. and so sadly, this document taking from vice president biden is going to be a distraction. hunter biden obviously will be a distraction as well. he never made a hundreds of millions of dollars like jared and ivanka. jared kushner couldn t even get a security clearance yet and still still in the west wing doing with sensitive documents. even though countless individuals told the trump administration that jared kushner was a conflict of interest. that he should not and would not get clearance. he was still there. dealing with very sensitive documents. here we are. the republican party will never be truthful so themselves about the fact that we re dealing with apples now dealing with two similar instances. sadly, it is going to be distraction for real policy getting done. which begs the question. might be an unpopular opinion. is it best for joe biden who is an octogenarian to say listen,
listen, this is the modern era. technical difficudifficulties. weave into it this is a guy, jared kushner couldn t get the job and qualify for it, correct. you mentioned 666 fifth avenue at the top of the segment. a reminder that that was a disastrous investment. jared kushner does not have a strong track record as an investor so there is a real issue as to why the saudis would put this much money behind him to begin with and there is only one reason. it s influence peddling. the trump administration did a number of favors for the saudis while kushner was still an advisor to donald trump. they took the saudi side in the yemen conflict. they over wrote a congressional ban on armed sales so the saudis and as you mentioned, as well, jared kushner coached mbs on how
so i think you do this hesitancy because of the script that dr donald trump has followed. you ve even seen this from william barr when he was testifying before the senate. someone asked him a similar question about any interference from a foreign government? he sort of hedged on it, as well. i think this comes from donald trump. they want to toe the party line and he said it pretty, i think forcefully over these many years. although, caitlin, throughout the trump presidency, there would be leaks from ivanka and jared that they didn t approve of step x that was going on, whether it was the muslim ban or whatever. and here you have jared kushner refusing to say that birtherism, accusing the first african-american president of secretly, obviously, a false charge, being born in africa, here you have him not saying not attacking it, not agreeing that it s racist, but also, he didn t defend it, which was also seems to get at the idea that in some ways, jared and ivanka kind of are tr