audience at the january 6th hearing on capitol hill, which ended up being a 12 minute sue w spouse heavy on rhetoric the arco the president of the united states trying to stop the transfer of power. a president that has stood for 220 years even as our democracy face its most difficult test. laura: i get it, now benny thompson cares about the transfer of power and making sure it works okay? remember, he s the same benny thompson that voted against certifying george w. bush s election. by the way, i m not talking about the 2,000 recount, we are talking about 2004, okay? the blowhard of the evening award goes to liz cheney. if you thought her interviews were rough to watch, when it was off-the-cuff stuff, try watching her for 34 uninterrupted minutes of screen reading. to defend the united states constitution, and that oath must mean something. tonight, i say this to my republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. there will come a day when donald trump is gon
We will have with us later today two representatives. We understand in this building that can be a challenge. Fingers crossed we will have both congressional representatives with us. We also have several former commissioners with us. Thank you very much. Two fellow commissioners on the eeoc, thank you for coming. I understand that susan eisenhower, the granddaughter of president eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the commission into existence thank you for that. For joining us. John gore, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights at the United States department of justice, and cameron quinn, the officer for civil rights and Civil Liberties at dhs and also a former Virginia State Advisory Committee member for civil rights in virginia. We have several people who have traveled from california, illinois, and missouri to be with us. Thank you for coming from afar and thank you to everyone in our staff who has been with us today. You make sure we do the work we need to do. Thank you to
This is a special edition of nightline. Hidden america inside Rikers Island. Good evening. Im rebecca jarvis. Tonight diane sawyer takes us jail complex with unprecedented access. We meet the commissioner seeking to restore humanity to the broken system. Just last week adding new Safety Measures to protect city jail staff. Another look at this special report. Reporter come with us to Rikers Island, the biggest jail complex in america, a place haunted by its violent history. 8,000 inmates living in a kind of suspension, a shadow world. Island, you can survive anything. Id like to kill myself this is a badass place. Reporter one road in, across a bridge. The inmates have nicknamed this the bridge of pain. On one side of the car we can see the new york skyline, celebrating possibility and hope. And straight ahead, a world apart. Weve been granted unprecedented access. Hi, im sawyer with abc. Reporter our cameras will have seven days inside. 70 hours. Once we enter the first lesson of rike
This is a special edition of nightline. Hidden america inside Rikers Island. Good evening. Im rebecca jarvis. Tonight diane sawyer takes us inside new yorks Rikers Island jail complex with unprecedented access. We meet the commissioner seeking to restore humanity to the broken system. Just last week adding new Safety Measures to protect city jail staff. Another look at this special report. Reporter come with us to Rikers Island, the biggest jail complex in america, a place haunted by its violent history. 8,000 inmates living in a kind of suspension, a shadow world. If you can survive Rikers Island, you can survive anything. Id like to kill myself this is a badass place. Reporter one road in, across a bridge. The inmates have nicknamed this the bridge of pain. On one side of the car we can see the new york skyline, celebrating possibility and hope. And straight ahead, a world apart. Weve been granted unprecedented access. Hi, im sawyer with abc. Reporter our cameras will have seven days
This is a special edition of nightline. Hidden america inside Rikers Island. Good evening. Im rebecca jarvis. Tonight diane sawyer takes us inside new yorks Rikers Island jail complex with unprecedented access. We meet the commissioner seeking to restore humanity to the broken system. Just last week adding new Safety Measures to protect city jail staff. Another look at this special report. Reporter come with us to Rikers Island, the biggest jail complex in america, a place haunted by its violent history. 8,000 inmates living in a kind of suspension, a shadow world. If you can survive Rikers Island, you can survive anything. Id like to kill myself this is a badass place. Reporter one road in, across a bridge. The inmates have nicknamed this the bridge of pain. On one side of the car we can see the new york skyline, celebrating possibility and hope. And straight ahead, a world apart. Weve been granted unprecedented access. Hi, im sawyer with abc. Reporter our cameras will have seven days