Please welcome doug jones to this program. Last month he won the democratic primary in alabamas special senate race. His republican opponent is roy moore, a former state Supreme Court chief justice. They will face off in a special election on december 12. Mr. Jones joins us tonight from alaba alabama. Good to have you back on. Great to be with you, tavis. Let me start by explaining to the audience why this race is so important. One, because its a u. S. Senate race, all u. S. Senate races are important but this is the seat to replace Jeff Sessions who is now the attorney general. This is also the seat in the state of alabama where donald trump was a few weeks ago when he called those nfl players s. O. B. S while he was there campaigning for senator Luther Strange. Donald trump was throwing, to my mind, red meat to a red state. Trumps candidate, senator strange, lost to the former Supreme Court chief Justice Roy Moore so hes the republican nominee, doug jones is the democratic nominee. S
Please welcome doug jones to this program. Last month he won the democratic primary in alabamas special senate race. His republican opponent is roy moore, a former state Supreme Court chief justice. They will face off in a special election on december 12. Mr. Jones joins us tonight from alaba alabama. Good to have you back on. Great to be with you, tavis. Let me start by explaining to the audience why this race is so important. One, because its a u. S. Senate race, all u. S. Senate races are important but this is the seat to replace Jeff Sessions who is now the attorney general. This is also the seat in the state of alabama where donald trump was a few weeks ago when he called those nfl players s. O. B. S while he was there campaigning for senator Luther Strange. Donald trump was throwing, to my mind, red meat to a red state. Trumps candidate, senator strange, lost to the former Supreme Court chief Justice Roy Moore so hes the republican nominee, doug jones is the democratic nominee. S
Insurrectionist, amplifying racist videos,protecting confederate monuments by executive decree, this as covid19 cases go tragically and predictably up. Ill talk to alabama senator doug jones shortly about the spiking pandemic numbers in his state and the final chapter of a tragic act of racial terrorism that took the lives of four little black girls 57 years ago. More on his role in that story in a bit. But first, what might be the most Meaningful Police Reform legislation in american history, overwhelmingly passed in the Democratic House one month after George Floyds death, appears to be stuck, because it actually has teeth to attack the problem of police violence, which means Senate Republicans are almost certain not to take it up and Senate Democrats say they will block the reform bill from their gop colleagues, which they have cast as toothless. Joining me now is democratic new jersey senator cory booker. Senator booker, first of all, we saw on one of the morning shows your colleag
also tonight, we will have more on our program tavis smiley reports. i hope you join us on most of these pbs stations on education in america. it is called too important to fail. it focuses specifically on the plight of american boys and how we can all make the system better. we are glad to have douglas jones and a preview of our prime-time special too important to fail. every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it is not just a street, a boulevard, but a place in the community. make every day better. nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide is proud to inavis in helping literacy and removing obstacles to economic and power meant one at a time. nationwide is on your side. and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org tavis: doug jones is a former u.s. attorney w
the man has been a lifelong pillar in the community in birmingham but is now serving time in a federal prison. doug jones on the curious details of the case and what president obama has been asked to do on behalf of mr. mcnair. also tonight, we will have more on our program tavis smiley reports. i hope you join us on most of these pbs stations on education in america. it is called too important to fail. it focuses specifically on the plight of american boys and how we can all make the system better. we are glad to have douglas jones and a preview of our prime-time special too important to fail. every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it is not just a street, a boulevard, but a place in the community. make every day better. nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide is proud to join tavis in helping literacy and removing obstacles to economic and power meant one at a time. nationwide is on your side. and