Said she condemned mcdonalds saying, as americans, we must acknowledge those tragic events, we cannot allow a false narrative to be created. We cannot allow the calling it legitimate political discourse is wrong. She clarified, the violence at the capitol, is not legitimate political discourse. She was talking about the bogus claims, and the fraud that had been the foundation of the republican party, since election day 2020, they are not legitimate political discourse either. Meanwhile, the New York Times has new details about the january six committee, and how it has adopted prosecution tactics, in conducting its investigation. The committee does not actually have any power, to pursue criminal charges on its own. But, it is clear that its members understand the high stakes of their work, and ultimately, want accountability. That it is why, it has been aggressive and relentless in its work. The committee has interviewed nearly 500 witnesses. It has issued more than 100 subpoenas since
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but what widespread happening is that we round things up or round them down to equivalence, and that becomes dangerous. when you start talking about things that are truly enem cal and hostile to democracy in the same tones that are day-to-day occurrences in a normal functioning democracy, what you do is lull the public into a false sense of complacency. one other thing that s really crucial, we need an accord. we need some sort of document that press organizations can sign onto in terms of how we will approach covering fascism and covering authoritarianism in the united states. we really need more than anything else to be able to get on the same page about how we re going to deal with this looming crisis in front of us. professor cobb, you are invited to do the first draft of that accord that we will all then consider joining. professor jelani cobb, jonathan
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have in terms of the policies that republicans have embraced over the last few decades. professor cobb, you wrote martin luther king jr. spoke of the intransigent optimism that led activists to fight for change in the face of skepticism about what could actually be achieved. and that is where we stand tonight. skepticism that you can get those votes in the united states senate to change that rule that will have to be changed in order to pass anything. yeah, i want to start by saying that i am a graduate of harvard for the purpose of this conversation. i decided to not hold it against professor glaude he is a morehouse man. but significantly, you know, martin luther king jr. himself a morehouse graduate did, when he talked about the voting rights speech in 1965, he placed this in terms that would be
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