people were not just conservative, black people always have been conservative minded, but more black people voted conservatively. and lyndon johnson, then you go down that road, and now we are where we are. that was byron donalds suggesting there were positive aspects to jim crow. he joins me tonight. plus, president biden is in normandy on the 80th anniversary of d.-day, delivering a stark warning about the state of democracy. and the grandson of a key member of the black panther party, david hilliard, is pushing back against a video of hilliard saying allegedly that he supports trump, saying it is misleading. and that grandson joins me later. but we begin tonight with the 80th anniversary of d-day, the day some 156,000 allied soldiers arrived on the beaches of normandy, charging head on into nazi gun fire, land mines, and barbed wire. pushing the occupying nazi era germans out of normandy and then out of the rest of france. the invasion marked a definitive turning p
for the longest time, trump was not addressing gershkovich at all. his silence was really conspicuous in contrast to basically all other u.s. politicians and he was eventually about the one-year anniversary called on that, and asked directly about it repeatedly, and then he finally called for the release, and then turned it into this thing about how putin would do it for him and not for biden. it s odd he never mentioned paul whelan who was taken during his presidency. ruth, talk about what it would mean to the world if the u.s. became prey to what we do see in other countries where you have autoocracies pop up. if it happened here, how would that materially change the world? well, the world would become just much, you know, more unsafe place because the people who trump is backing are imperialists who are warmongers, who won t stop at anything. and the thing about the way