colbert. good evening, reverend sharpton. always good to see. i ve been keeping abreast of your activities this week, and want to applaud you for your protest with respect to the pushback that we are facing around d.c. and i efforts across the country. but i do have a quick question for you. for a policy measure, what s it gonna take for us to actually move the needle and finally keep dni from having the attacks that it s currently facing? i think we must make cities, municipalities, states and others, say that the a.i. must be enacted if people are gonna get state city contracts are funds. these businessmen, when we picketed on thursday, i ll do business in the public space. they cannot do public space business with taxpayer dollars if they re not trying to make it an equal place for all. so we need to have politicians putting legislation and policy in place to protect dei. well, that protection doesn t start without any pressure. and so with that, reverend sharpton, t
and a positive way keep this thing moving? you have hakeem jeffries who off beastly wants to get the deal done, and then you have far-right republicans who are already objecting to the central tenets of what the steel looks like. i mean, the president did a great job last year, again, putting this deal together. and this deal looks like it s very similar. i think the president and democrats were gonna get behind it. once we kind of review all the details, it s looking like it s heading in the right direction. but the far-right extremists will do everything they can to derail any sort of progress that we make in the house. so that is to be expected. and let s remember what their top priority is. their top priority is not helping the american public. it s not passing new laws on health care or lowering prescription drug costs. it s an impeachment scam. it s an impeachment inquiry that has no legs. that s been their entire focus. attacking president biden, many of them had said just l