Year they are history making, unprecedented, consequential from Criminal Investigations into the former president of the United States to midterm elections that preserved our democracy, from the makeup o the Supreme Court and th decisions that threatened ou rights to the very rapid ris of hate speech on public discourse, we have plenty to dig into you are watching simone and yo know i have a lot to say when i reflect on the wil ride that was 2022, i keep coming back to these words historic and unprecedented democrats bumped historica trends by expanding thei Senate Majority and preventing a red wave in the house of representatives. And voters, they changed the representation in more way than one electing the first gen z membe of congress with Maxwell Frost In Florida The First woman elected to congress from vermont, wit becca blunt, the First Out Lesbian governors, lamar heal in massachusetts, and tina kotek in oregon. The first black governor o maryland with wes moore. The list just g
year they are history making, unprecedented, consequential from criminal investigations into the former president of the united states to midterm elections that preserved our democracy, from the makeup o the supreme court and th decisions that threatened ou rights to the very rapid ris of hate speech on public discourse, we have plenty to dig into you are watching simone and yo know i have a lot to say when i reflect on the wil ride that was 2022, i keep coming back to these words historic and unprecedented democrats bumped historica trends by expanding thei senate majority and preventing a red wave in the house of representatives. and voters, they changed the representation in more way than one electing the first gen z membe of congress with maxwell frost in florida the first woman elected to congress from vermont, wit becca blunt, the first out lesbian governor s, lamar heal in massachusetts, and tina kotek in oregon. the first black governor o maryland with wes moore. th
letitia james, has spent the better part of three years looking into whether trump o his organization committed financial crimes kimberly, that is a lot. what do you make of thes unprecedented investigations yeah, it is a lot and i m with you unprecedented is a word you do not want to under-use, but i this case, it s absolutely fitting when you have a former president facing all kinds o legal peril. it just shows the way he operated from before he was in office through, during, an after in a way that he seeme to be operating as if he wer above the law. a lot of presidents in his path, including nixon, has said that they believe that they were. but what we see from these levers is that he s not. now of course, we don t know how all of these investigation save that one verdict in the trump organization case is going to come out. they re still ongoing. but certainly, just from the january 6th referrals alone, these are serious matters that require serious looks and thes prosecutors are
think derek makes such a important point. particularly when we look at the anti-lgbtq+ attacks this year, they were extremel venomous, especially towards transgender, nonconforming people and your organization actually found that 72% of transgende people, they actually don feel safe in the current political environment. talk to me about the respons to this hatred do you think it has been adequate you ve got the white house now starting these, you know councils to address all th hate fbi put out a hate crime report that was less tha accurate talk to me a little bit abou the response here. yeah, i think, you know, it is a mixed bag right now on th response i think that the white house and the executive office hav taken this very seriously. i think where we are seeing lot of room for improvement is at the state level i think that, you know, what w are seeing happen is that, especially with the tran
year they are history making, unprecedented, consequential from criminal investigations into the former president of the united states to midterm elections that preserved our democracy, from the makeup o the supreme court and th decisions that threatened ou rights to the very rapid ris of hate speech on public discourse, we have plenty to dig into you are watching simone and yo know i have a lot to say when i reflect on the wil ride that was 2022, i keep coming back to these words historic and unprecedented democrats bumped historica trends by expanding thei senate majority and preventing a red wave in the house of representatives. and voters, they changed the representation in more way than one electing the first gen z membe