ban steam boat landing there on the bank of the river. a bustling spot a lot of coming and going. a sight of commerce, there were roads and buildings of course around there because of the steam boat landing but in the 1890s, a tornado came and wiped out that steam boat landing on the river bank, and they never rebuilt it. and so all that s left at that spot to this day is just kind of a wide spot, just kind of a clearing, a break in the vegetation through which you can get down to the river. that is where they put the sign up in 2008. but as soon as they put it up, somebody came in and tore it down. this was the posts that it was standing on. you can see it s been cut off. they tore it down. they cut it off its posts. they threw the sign if the river. it didn t last there six months before somebody destroyed it. after that first sign got torn down, they put up a second one, another one just like it. this was the second sign. what are all of those holes in it? well, people sta
lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. racialized violence is as old as the constitution. klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it s still happening. today, people are horrified of the police. it s the modern day lynching. what are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding i m bold enough, and i m going to make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. this is an incredible story of courage. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. living in mobile was a quiet town. it s nothing but old trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of, like, creepy to me to just look at the trees. the hurt is still there. the hurt my mom went through, i just visualize her face and i go, like, i can t talk about it today. my mama, beulah mae donald, was a quiet woman. she was a good-hearted person. all the neighbor
we were getting ready for a big celebration. we were winning everything, and all of a sudden, it was just called off. so we ll be going to the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we don t want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. that, of course, was donald trump on election night, calling for the nullification of mail-in ballots. that was part of the plot to overturn the election. and now, text messages have surfaced from former georgia senator kelly loeffler revealing even more details of that plot. plus, the phony republican narrative that abortion rights is fading as an issue. they re gaslighting women about what s at stake in the midterms and tonight s democracy defender is taking on the powerful maga forces in arizona. who want to control how votes are cast and counted, as the threat of violence increases against election workers. we begin tonight with the midterm elections. now just 19 days away. but here s the thi
house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. they re also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. they ve, you ve been talking to local law enforcement about this. i m wondering what you re learning down there in florida. you know laura, first, off we in the state attorney s office did not know about this search in advance. neither did local law enforcement. but you can understand why we are dealing with something so sensitive, so unprecedented, you can understand why the feds want to keep this close to the best. and when i was told is that the secret service met them there and walk the plain clothes fbi agents throughout th
telling cnn authorities did not believe that the former president and his aides had returned all the documents, and of the materials that had been taken to mar-a-lago when he left office. i want to bring in sarah murray, covering the story for us. and state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good to see you both. we are learning that this fbi search after suspicions with of withheld materials, what else can you tell us? part of what made this perplexing to the people in donald trump s orbit was that his attorneys were engaging on this issue, this notion that he took documents with him when he left the white house that the justice department wanted back, but what we are learning is authorities were suspicious that the trump team wasn t being truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents, that they weren t putting forward everything that they had available, and they were also concerned that some of the documents could potentially