shared with the appropriate entities, one of which is the capitol police. the best intelligence of the world is no good if the people that need it don t have it. so i appreciate your reporting. thank you very much for your really diligent and excellent work on this. thank you, madam chair. thank you very much, senator king. on with us remotely is senator ossoff. when we spoke in june during your prior appearance before this committee, i asked you a simple but important question, which is, which individual is ultimately responsible for the security of the united states capitol complex? who is in charge? who has ultimate accountability? and that was not a question that you at that hearing, nor your colleagues who testified before the committee in february were able to answer with specificity. you acknowledge mr. bolton during that discussion at your last appearance that that was a problem, that the lack of a single individual who s accountable for and has responsibility for
it is no coincidence that that law was put into place that year. 1863 was codified. beloved was codified right after president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, enslaved people in georgia started fleeing their captors. when cornell law professor put it bluntly quote, it was a slave catching law for slaves that attempted to flee. and it remained the state saw during jim crow when it was used to justify the lynchings of four black people in january of 1912. it was used again to justify the killing of two black couples in july of 1946. black couples who were dragged from their cars and shot dozens of times by white men. the naacp, has documented more than 530 acts of lynching in georgia alone between 1882 and 1968. the violence was second only to that of mississippi, the citizens arrest law helped excuse some of that violence. what a terrible old law. the problem, is that the law was still on the books in 2021. this spring the state of georgia repealed that law, it o
away. and i think of the spike lee movie. you have the film cue and he is watching somebody move. and they are pulling him along in the streets as he s about to be assassinated. i think of all those different moments. you re right. not only was that the issue. today is also the day that thurgood marshall was sworn in as supreme court justice. an icon and role model like that. unbelievable. the echoes of history. have a great show. thank you so much. we re going to talk about that later. good evening, everyone. i m laura coates. frankly, there s one big headline after another tonight. we got the tale of two courtrooms. one s in fulton county, georgia, the other, washington, d.c. and here we are on this 60th anniversary of the march on washington, learning new details about the latest racially motivated shootings in jacksonville. we re going to step back tonight. we re going to examine all with professor michael eric dyson and get his take on the context. plus, we ll bring
through the streets because he is about to become assassinated. i think about all those different moments. you are right, not only was that the issue, abby, tonight is also the day that they re great marshall was also sworn in as a supreme court justice. and icon and role roe model the echoes of history, laura, have a great show. thank you. thank you so, much we re gonna talk more all about that later. good evening everyone, i am laura coates. look, there is frankly, there is one big headline after another tonight. you ve got the tale of two courtrooms. one is in fulton county, georgia. the other, in washington d.c.. and here we are on the 60th anniversary of the march on washington, learning new details about the latest racially motivated shootings. in jacksonville. we are going to step back tonight. we are going to examine all of the michael eric dyson, get his take on the context. plus we will give you the very latest and tropical forms threatening the florida coas
rabbit hole. kevin mccarthy is following the facts and that he will pursue impeachment proceedings against president biden if that s what it takes to get to the truth. and they had to see what i had seen. the tragedy and the pictures that shook a nation. today president biden unveilings his plan to make sure america never forgets what happened emmett till. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, her pain power eda movement. today, emmett till is enshrined as a possibility both how this country is tape capable of evil and how americans can bend the arc of history towards justice. we start our coverage at the white house with arlette scientist. what do we expect this hour? reporter: any moment now, president biden is expected to sign a proclamation establishing a new national monument that will honor emmett till and his mother, ab effort from the president to try to shine a spotlight on some of the most painful moments in american his