politics nation. the nights lead, still dreaming. i m joining you tonight from washington, d.c.. in my capacity as the head of the national action network, i will be honoring the civil rights legacy of dr. martin luther king junior tomorrow morning with our annual dream defying breakfast, featuring president joe biden, speaker nancy pelosi, martin luther king the third and among many others. earlier today, president biden reflected on dr. king s extraordinary life from his former pulpit at the ebenezer baptist church in atlanta, georgia. the battle for the soul of this nation s perennial. it s a constant struggle. it s a constant struggle between hope and fear, kindness and cruelty, justice and injustice. against those who traffic in racism, extremism, and insurrection. a battle fought on battlefields and bridges from court houses and battle boxes to pulpits and protests. in a few minutes, i will be joined by martin luther king the third and andre king to talk abo
He got to be friends with martin luther king when barr and with the king was a graduate student at the. law he asked dr. king, what you come and speak? dr. king feeling friendship from reverent dr. set, yes, i will. in february 1963, just a few months before the march on washington speech, i have a dream speech, dr. king spoke, and i went out and sat in a library anti room with a whole bunch of other students and listened to a speech and what she kind of pre-figured i have a dream speech. there was a student who illegally taped it and kept the tape for years and years. it was just discovered a few years ago, and it s a speech that is quite remarkable. it talks about america being a dream, and how we realized the dream of america. i got to listen to these inspirational words that also challenged us and said, you
See a speaker one day, who is reverent martin luther king junior, in your high school, you get to hear him, what is that like? first of all, it was like i get treated susie as a girl with intellectual aspirations for the first time. really, really. but we were invited to go to the school for speech that more in the king would give, and i think he was at the school because they had at the brown school was a man named jon proctor, who was a devoted advocate of civil rights way back in the 1950s before white northerners paid much attention to these matters. he got to be friends with martin luther king when he was a graduate student at the. law he asked dr. king, what you come and speak? dr. king feeling friendship from reverent dr. set, yes, i will. in february 1963, just a few months before the march on washington speech, i have a dream speech, dr. king spoke, and i went out and sat in a library anti room with a whole
Senior white house adviser and infrastructure coordinator. mr. landrieu, we have appreciate you joining us tonight. i want to get into infrastructure. so much of the country s or has been dealing with extreme weather. you and i go way back a long time. i think about the katrina days, things you and i were going through. you and i have done this show right in your hood in new orleans, where you walk up in places where i was nervous about. i want to start with going to president biden s speech earlier, his sermon earlier today that ebenezer baptist church. once the home church of reverent dr. martha luther king junior and senior, using his words and legacy to warn the nation about what he characterized this is the perils of democracy and what we
The voting rights of everyone, for all of the people in the states we they have joined the march of civil rights leaders like reverent dr. martin luther king, john lewis, by the actions that they re taking. and i hope that all the people in texas please see what your representatives are doing. please do the work, because they are done they are gone right now in washington d.c., but everyone and texas down there, do you work, go tell everyone that you have to support them. we have to fight for abraham lincoln said that the ballot has got more power than the bullet. the ballot has got more power than the bullet. we have voting rights because this is the soul of america, the soul of america is our democracy, and we all have to stand up for this fight. because without that, we cannot keep our democracy, we cannot engage with it, we cannot defend, that we cannot fight for it. they decided to go to d.c.,