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good evening and welcome to "politics nation." we have live pictures from the white house or president biden
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is expected to deliver remarks in the st. patrick's day celebration. we will take you there, live, when the president begins speaking. while we wait, i am honored to be joined by senator warnock, democratic, of georgia. thank you for joining us this evening. >> good evening. >> let me start with, as we wait for the president, i have to ask you about remarks made by his opponent, former president trump, at a rally in ohio last night, the presumptive republican nominee warned that there would be a " bloodbath unquote --" if he loses the election bid he claims he was talking about the car industry river -- but repeated those words several times and even said some migrants are not people and at another point called them "animals". what's your reaction?
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>> well, my angelou said when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. donald trump is shown as who he is time and time and time again. we ought to take him seriously. this is the insurrectionist president. this is the man who egged on the most violent insurrection on our capital or attack on our capital since the war of 1812, and that violence has metastasized and that continual attack on the dignity and integrity of our democracy through suppression laws which i am engaged in fighting and so are you, in so many ways, so the selection is a binary choice and we are just being reminded time and time again about how much is at stake. nothing more and nothing less than the future of our republic. >> in your state of georgia, let's go to your homestand.
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friday, a judge ruled that fulton county d.a., fani willis, can continue to lead the interference case against president trump although she had to accept the resignation of the special prosecutor with whom she had had a romantic relationship. many of us have questioned whether fani willis has been subjected to such personal scrutiny in this case parts, because she is a successful black woman. are you confident this case will go on and justice will be served and are you hopeful we will see a trial before the election? >> first of all, we certainly have seen donald trump attack this black woman, and again, we are not surprised when we see donald trump do that because that is who he is. when we see that process play out, there are some political actors who have tried to put
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their hand on the scale. i'm not going to pile on. we are watching the process move forward. she will be able to try her case and i think that it's important we center what this case is about, it's about a sitting president of the united states calling down to the state of georgia, basically, threatening the officials, here, and saying, i need 11,000 votes. i need someone to explain to me what else he could mean other than that they should be engaged in some kind of fraud. he's on tape saying these things so i think it's important to center that, to center the ways in which he created an environment that led to intimidation and death threat for samos and b freeman, folks who were just volunteering, people who keep the wheel of democracy turning, their lives
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were literally turned upside down because of the awfulness of donald trump. he deserves his day in court and the people of georgia and the people of our country will get their chance to ensure that he does not return to the oval office. >> before we move completely off of donald trump, i want to get to voting rights because i know you are bringing a bill back but i have to ask about his candidate for governor of north carolina, mark robinson. he has gone on record with bigoted comments were jewish people, women, the lgbtq community. trump has called him "martin luther king on steroids." you are the senior pastor of dr. king's church in atlanta, one of our prominent churches. you even had me preach there a couple times. what do you have to say about comments like that? >> i don't know if he's on steroids or something else, but
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he does not know martin luther king jr. dr. king said we are caught up in an inescapable net , what affects one directly affects all directly. he reminded us of the ways in which we need one another. this man hates everybody. he, like the person who is endorsing him, is not worthy of the office he seeks. >> i've known you for years and you've always been involved in civil and human rights causes, you always tell people the first time you were arrested for a civil rights cause, civil disobedience, was a rally organized in '99 here in new york. i'm sure you're following the military in christ is all over the country and the world. how do you look at the humanitarian crisis in haiti? i have called for the biden administration to hold an emergency meeting with myself
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and others to discuss the situation. i met with haitian asylum- seekers at the u.s./mexico border in 2021 when the border patrol agents were seen chasing them on horseback and it's heartbreaking to hear stories about people feeling political violence once again, being turned away. what can congress do to help? >> i am deeply concerned about our sisters and brothers in haiti and as you point out in the past, and ebenezer church, when i see human suffering wherever it is, it moves my heart, but haiti is in our own hemisphere. haiti is a stone's throw from our front door. here is a small republic, a very poor country with an incredible history. the slaves
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in haiti rose up and they took over the government and in a real sense it seems to me they've been paying for that ever sent. we have an obligation to make sure that the folks who are in haiti no that they have the support of the united states of america. i think it is in our vested interest and i'm concerned about the gangs, the anarchy, happening right now on our doorstep's and i am actively exploring as a member of congress everything i can do to respond to that situation. the first time i ever left a country, i grew up a poor kid in public housing and i was in graduate school in the seminary and i was telling friends earlier today that the first time i left the country, i went to haiti with an organization that was observing the situation
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, at the time when they were dealing with political strife and it has remained in my heart ever sense. i want to see however i can to uphold the dignity of the people of haiti and help them with a pathway, at least, to peace and prosperity. >> i want to ask about two senate situations, when you reintroduced, the john lewis will around voting rights and the senate will now half to consider a bill calling for the sale, or ban the social media platform, tiktok after he passed the house last week. president biden has said he would sign that legislation. where are we with the voting rights bill and where you stand on the tiktok issue? >> let me just say on the latter issue, my record is clear. with making sure that we do everything we can to check the
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ambitions of the chinese communist party and so i think it's important even as we debate these issues and i am reviewing the legislation that was just past in the house, that we, it's important we center what it's about and it's about national security and i am aware of that and we will see where he and up in terms of legislation. i am hearing from the 13-year- olds in my church and my constituents across georgia and i don't want to say too much about this because i don't want to get in trouble with my seven- year-old at home, but in the meantime, we do need to take this seriously and i am reviewing the legislation and we will see where we land. i am very focused on, always, on voting rights. for me, voting rights and democracy, this is not just one issue alongside other issues. it's the framework in which we get to fight for everything we
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care about. i had the honor of serving not only in the pulpit where martin luther king served but where john lewis worshiped. i was his pastor and i was proud last week to reintroduce the john lewis voting rights advancement act. it's the renewal of the voting rights law first passed in 1965 and it used to be reauthorized, any bipartisan matter, when it was last reauthorized, it's 2006 and passed the senate, 98 to 0, and a republican president who came to john lewis his funeral, by the way, george w. bush, was president. sadly, we've entered in in -- into an era in which the very violence we saw on january 6th, 2021, has metastasized throughout the
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body politic and all these voter suppression laws. the supreme court did us a grave disservice in 2013 and the very places where historically we have seen these kinds of assaults on voting rights, including georgia, are the places where we are seeing it right now. i won't rest until we passed the john lewis voting rights advancement act and the freedom to vote act. >> i can say that i remember in 2008 on the election night, we asked you and you let us have a watch night to watch the election at ebenezer and you and i sat with martin luther king's sister, and john lewis was there and would always say, that's my pastor, and he was very proud of you and you laid him to rest with the dignity he deserved. thank you for joining us, raphael warnock. >> god bless you. next, my political panel and later, kansas republicans
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welcome back to "politics nation". we are waiting on comments from president biden from the white house, where they are living a st. patrick's day celebration and we will take you there, live, when he starts speaking. while we wait, let's bring in maia cummings, a democratic strategist and former chair of the maryland democratic party. there's been a lot of buzz today about this each donald trump gave last night in ohio, while giving his pick for u.s.
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senate. let's take a listen to some of what he said. >> the killer was set loose into the united states through joe biden's program of releasing military aged males into our communities after they have illegally crossed our southern border and that is what happened. this animal came in. no one has been hurt by joe biden's migrant invasion more than our great african-american and is panic american communities, you know that, right? they are taking your jobs and creating lots of problems. if i don't get elected, it will be a bloodbath. that's the least of it. it will be a bloodbath for the country. >> now, the presidential race is set. people are starting to pay more attention to what candidates say on the campaign trail. are they going to be turned off i trumps behavior? >> his voters, unfortunately, will not be turned off by his
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behavior. they are lining up to reward him again with a second term in office if they can pull it off. let me just say this about his comments. he is setting the united states up for his own form of, i believe, mass genocide. he is dehumanizing is following, the classic book, dehumanizing a group of people who are relatively powerless. he's trying to set up a divide and conquer situation with other population groups, so that they do not feel compelled to come to the aid of immigrants and, he's basically setting up his second term to continue what he did in the first term, which is not only dehumanized, -- to dehumanize but to depress their ability to survive and thrive. unfortunately, the biden
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administration has fallen into a multilayer trap and is going to come if trump wins, help to facilitate trumps aim to be the american hitler and that trap is taking place right now in gaza where there is a mass genocide going on as we speak and unfortunately, the biden administration and the democratic party has allowed this mass genocide to continue and go on with more than 32,000 palestinians who have been, most of whom are innocent, women, children, babies, elderly, 32,000 of them have perished at the hands, aided and abetted by the biden administration has provided weaponry and funding to the situation in israel. the biden administration needs to recognize and the democrats
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need to recognize that if donald trump actually receives a second term, democrats will not have a leg to stand on when he starts going after migrants or any other stigmatized group, because we have allowed this to happen internationally, under our watch and with our bombs, bullets, and with our budget. i just highly encourage the biden administration to reconsider its actions in gaza, it's putting america in danger domestically and internationally because we are literally the pariah of the world in terms of supporting this effort. >> no, i agree with that baby been saying that for weeks, but let me ask you this. back to trumps speech that he gave yesterday in the buckeye state, president biden delivered remarks of his own at the
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gridiron club in washington, d.c., speaking last night to a bipartisan audience. he cracked lighthearted jokes before taking a serious turn to warn about threats to freedom and democracy in the u.s. and abroad. do you think americans will begin to focus on the contrast between the character of these men as we get closer to the election? >> i believe that they will try to, however, the worst fear of democrats and progressives about trump has always been the fact that he could be the american version of hitler. unfortunately, biden has removed that distinction by supporting israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu , to the extent that the biden administration has not only supported those efforts, by blocking permanent cease-fire in the united nations, but providing weapons and funding
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to help facilitate mass genocide . what we are seeing is a lack of distinction between what a potential trump would do and what biden has actually done. >> do you think the fact that chuck schumer, the majority leader in the senate, coming out, calling for a new election in israel and taking on benjamin netanyahu and the fact that biden said it was a good speech, do you think that that is a signal that the biden administration may be moving, we see their leading jewish senator and government official take such a hard stand on angela netanyahu? >> unfortunately, my mother used to have a saying, call talking out of both sides of your mouth and the biden administration, their language has not matched their actions when it comes to their stands in the united nations and when it comes to even democracy here
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at home. they've been willing to bypass congress which is our form of democracy. that's the voice of the people. congress is the voice of the people and they been willing to bypass congress in order to facilitate the flow of weapons and funding to israel, to perpetrate this mass genocide. >> and now they have to deal with the challenge of haiti and we are watching that. let's turn to the swing state of nevada. a recent counsel poll has trump up six points compared to biden with a margin of error of three percentage points. winning the state could be crucial to clinching the presidency. the l.a. times put it this way, both nevada and arizona make up 3% of the u.s. population, but are vital to picking a president. it would be a huge blow to democrats if they can't count on nevada. what your read on why biden is lagging behind in the polls
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against trump there? >> i think that biden has suffered from, certainly, trumps efforts to betray him as being too old and senile. certainly, it donald trump himself is quite elderly and has had had -- has had moments of lacking coherency on the campaign trail. you know, i think that biden also has other negatives, particularly his handling of the situation in the middle east which is turning off a lot of progressives, a lot of young people. he needs every vote he can get and so he needs to reduce the distance between him and trump by closing every deficit he currently has with the electorate. he needs to certainly operate on all cylinders and his team needs to understand that they have a lot of work to do to message and certainly change their tone and tenor with
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regards to a number of things with the american public. >> please standby, let's listen to president biden speaking at the st. patrick's day celebration at the white house. >> we have a lot of great guests is with us, today. we have to change the rules in the united date, when st. patrick's day falls on a sunday the next day is a holiday. on behalf of the finnegans and the blue it, my mother of scranton, pennsylvania, welcome to st. patrick's day the white house. we extend 100,000 welcomes all of you, whether you are irish or wish you were irish and we are very glad you are all here. st. patrick's day is about
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friendship and we have many friends here today because it's a moment of great unity in washington, whether you are from a red state or a blue state, on this day, we are irish green. we are joined by members of congress and members of my cabinet. claire conan is here, the ambassador and of course, our guest of honor. we want to welcome you. we've spent a lot of time together on this visit, sharing last at the gridiron, we had you over for breakfast as well, and ireland won the six the nation. my whole family is excited
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because two of my cousins played for the team. you won anyway. it's been a great visit that captures how strong the friendship is between our countries. look, we have friends here today from northern ireland, the first minister and deputy first minister. great to have you come here, and very happy, and young people in northern ireland represented a great devon and of the belfast country. the entire generation has been shaped by confidence. the
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united states believes in that future. that's okay. you only have 57, here. along with dozens of family members. they are leading the charge to ramp up investment because this will help the benefits to be real and lasting and from one big irish catholic family to another, it's great to have the kennedys here. folks, st. patrick's day is a joyful occasion and it's time to remember with pride, our ties to the emerald isle, the land of poet and dreamers,
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furious fighters, hard workers, and perseverance because the irish spirit can never be overcome. we remember the immigrants are the courage to travel across the sea. further shores are reachable from here. they arrived in america with a little more than hope in their hearts and the strength of their dreams. their sweat is soaked into the foundations of this country. america has a heart and soul that draws the old and the new, to people from every place on earth. we all come from somewhere and we are all american. we can never forget that. that's a critical element that binds us together. this year, ireland and united dates marked a milestone, 100 years of diplomatic relations between our countries, 100 years
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. i want to make clear i wasn't there -- i wasn't there at that time. at that time, the ties between us have deepened and multiplied. our partnership is grown tremendously in both directions. ireland is now one of the top 10 investors in the united states economy and our countries stand probably for liberty and against tyranny. we stand together and oppose the war of aggression in ukraine. clap for that, please. we agree about the urgent need to increase humanitarian aid in gaza and get the cease-fire deal to bring the hostages home and move toward a two state solution
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which is the only path for lasting peace and security. folks, my friends, since the last time we celebrated saint patrick's day together, i made a trip to belfast for the 25th anniversary of the peace corps and then to the church where my ancestors were baptized and to dublin for a speech at the irish parliament and to county mayo to a town where in huge cathedral, right on the banks of the river, one of the men who built it was my great, great grandfather. he worked in the town brickyard. 1828 he was paid 21 pounds and 12 shillings to help supply the bricks for that cathedral. it was made and i was able to touch with my own hands some of the very bricks he made and all i could think was this. i'm sure he imagined that one day his family would worship at
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that cathedral and his children would be baptized there and that future generations of his family would mark milestones there. i doubt he imagined that 200 years later, his great great grandson would return as president of the united states of america. >> i toured: furred county on that trip, the castle. it was one of the last glimpses of ireland that my ancestors saw when he sailed away to new lives and new lives in america. they left in 1850 and here is an amazing fact. it turns out that the exact same port, barack obama's ancestors sailed from, they left five weeks earlier. they
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were on the same ship, both of our great great great grandchildren, their great- great-grandchildren, ended up president of united states of america. it's remarkable. >> stories like these, where we often say that the irish are the only people who are nostalgic about the future. we believe it better tomorrow, we are always looking for the next horizon and that's a very american trait, as well, just more proof that the bond between ireland and united states runs deep, our joys, our sorrows, our passions, our dreams, our optimism, even the most difficult moments, we hold onto hope. that's what we do. we see the world with unlimited possibilities. our future knows no bounds and we are ready for that future now and are doing it together. ireland and america, just as we have for generations. let me
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end with this. as i said on st. patrick's day, at the core of our friendship are number of words, from yates, who said "think where a man's glory begins and ends, and my glory was i had such friends." we celebrate those bonds today connecting millions of irish and american, the friendship between two great nations, one that shaped our path, strengthens our presence, and inspires our future. happy st. patrick's day. i would like to welcome leticia to the podium. >> you have been watching president biden's remarks from the white house, st. patrick's day celebration, and certainly,
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we join him in wishing all of our irish brothers and stirs and all of america happy st. patrick's day. you notice how i wore my green. i wish you happy birthday, every st. patrick's day, to mrs. jacqueline jackson, the wife of reverend jesse jackson. we celebrate on this day, both occasions. coming up, i have a warning for republicans, embracing overheated rhetoric on the campaign trail. that's ahead. we are still waiting on comments from president biden on other issues in the days ahead. happy st. patrick's day. we will bring you all of that in a moment. and i know, you've been going through it. but what if you get to it. a key source of your asthma inflammation. enter nucala. it isn't your rescue treatment and it's not a steroid.
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welcome back to "politics nation". as we continue to report on the efforts to win over black voters ahead of the november general election, a few weeks ago i mentioned on the show that two of the largest black church groups in georgia are formally uniting for the first time to mobilize black voters, there. earlier this month, more than 30 local advocacy agencies and organizations in pittsburgh came together to launch a correlation to help educate and motivate black voters, there. here with me to talk about this is reverend derek harkins, former faith-based director of the u.s. department of housing and urban development, and the former d and e director of
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interfaith outreach and the reverend malcolm byrd, pastor of the historic church in harlem. thank you for joining us, today. to start, what can you both tell our viewers on the efforts to mobilize black voters ahead of the election eight months away? >> i can say that there are a number of national effort from the clergy network, all staging significant efforts to educate and mobilize and that is doing what the church is done all along, the nexus of education and organization, so it's really taking shape on a national scope with over 1000 people who can equip individuals on the ground to make sure that access to the polls, pushing back against voter suppression and making sure that people really do have the opportunity.
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>> you passed with the historic church, and you saw the action network with me and the conference of black churches. what are you seeing on the ground were churches are concerned as part of a more broad mobilization? >> first of all, thank you for having me on today. sunday morning in the african- american community is the largest gathering of black people at any time throughout the week in the united states. the conversations in african- american churches and african- american pulpits have always been directed toward liberation. we are talking about voting in our pulpits every single sunday throughout black america. the black church has been and is the best vehicle for liberation for our people going back 200+ years in the case of older congregations.
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>> frederick douglass was a member of your church. >> absolutely. there are african-american nominations, poised in many respects, leading voter mobilization effort to ensure that black communities are not left out concerning the vote coming up in this coming november. >> reverend, you were a d&c, you did outreach, but i knew you in new york. my hero growing up was adam clayton, that was a political based church if there ever was one. let me ask, donald trump's new team at the republican national committee is reversing its plans to cut the parties community centers and a program to encourage early voting, after backlash from rnc members, the plan initially included laying off staffers who, in
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many cases, were employees of color, from communities of color, the centers they were based in. what does it say to you that a republican party as a firmly aligns with the trump campaign was considering to abandon its minority outreach at the same time that the campaign insists its giving priority to black voters? >> two fold. i think you're talking about a party that had interest in its relationship, and broad you -- broadening with constituencies and i felt that the relationship or effort aimed at communities of color are peripheral at best. when you have a candidate saying, i can relate to black voters because i have a mug shot, how insulting and unimaginative that is. it represents the fact that there is no sincere effort or genuine effort of engagement and i found in my work that it's relational. you can't just have a broad sweeping initiative.
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you have to be able to engage on a grassroots level but that's not happening. >> the trump campaign has tapped the former north carolina republican congressman, mike walker -- mark walker, to lead efforts in swing states. walker does have some history working with black faith leaders and historically black colleges, but also has ties to a corruption scandal that rocked the north carolina gop five years ago resulting in federal indictments. regardless, one might question the efficacy of choosing a nonminority republican to court minority voters. you went to school in north carolina, your thoughts on all of that? you know north carolina well. >> i know north carolina very well and i'm not sure how successful that endeavor will be because the african-american church, the black church in north carolina is incredibly strong, as well as north
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carolina has more historically black colleges than any other state in america. it trump and the republican machine can try all they want in north carolina, but we have a considerable amount of boots on the ground to fight back. >> as i said, you were head of faith outreach of the d&c. what do you think the biden campaign and the d&c need to be doing now? >> first of all, mobilizing and engaging, working with resources you know you have, making sure the people have the opportunity to exercise their franchise. there are plenty of people who are solidly making sure they have access to the opportunity to vote. the ministration is seeking how to do that, the rhetoric, making sure, i think they're working hard to make sure that people here were, that they
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hear the people and i think that is what has to happen. >> i will ask both of you, are they doing enough to reach young people? >> you have to do more. people live by social media and that's controlling the narrative, not let -- not letting someone else control or narrative. >> beyond social media, there must be more intentional engagement for people in our congregation. who are not tech savvy, who are in church every sunday, we have to be people where we can find them and where they are. >> you also deal with young people in social media. reverend derek harkins and reverend malcolm byrd, thank you both for being with us. next, my final thoughts. stay with us.
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tomorrow morning in tennessee, the tennessee state senate will be voting to remove the board of governors of the tennessee state university which would be outrageous. it's an atrocity that will cripple the education of many students. some of which i've known because i've spoken at that university many times. it is a threat to hbcus everywhere. which is why we will be taking up issues like the future of hbcus and voting rights. and what is going on in the gaza and in haiti as well as dealing with the continued need for criminal reform. criminal justice reform in the united states. and national action networks convention 2024. april 10 through the 13th. it's all free. we have speakers like stacy abrams and whoopi golburg will be there. the governors of new jersey, maryland, the governors of new
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york. many of the cabinet members of president biden. robert smith will be there to talk about real economic and black wealth and black/white wealth issues that would bring us closer together. we must convene, it's all free. you can go to www.nationalactionnetwork and register to be part of the national action network convention. that does it for me. we'll see you back here at 9:00 p.m. eastern. right now, it's the sunday show with john than capehart. >> reporter: the rematch, president biden and donald trump clench their nomination for 2024, but for trump it's 2020 all over again with the same violence anti democracy, anti immigrant rhetoric only worse as he warns of a quote blood