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we don't just come for one race. [ cheers and applause ] >> britain was shot three times by a sheriff's deputy who was fired because he didn't turn on his body camera until after the shooting. state police are now investigating. that does it for me. the read out with joy reid is up next. hey, joy. >> thank you for highlighting that, rev is the real one since the 80s since he was a kid really, really. good evening. six months since far right supremacists stormed the capital some are down right proud of their role as they continue to spread the big lie. look at these lawyers in a court filing that brooks believes the 2020 elections were the subject
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of voter fraud and election theft. brooks is one of three lawmakers who stopped the steal organizer, administrator said help organize, administrator said hel alexander said helped him organize the rally. along with mark -- knockout calls unapologetic association with fuentes and american first perhaps the most vivid example of the republican party's growing extremistism, his brother called him a white supremacist on this very show forethe whole nation to hear. >> these people are white supremacists. ok. you don't get to say you're not a racist when you are cavorting with racists, amplifying your message and refusing to denounce
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them. >> literally everything is connected. ali alex ander said he collaborator with fuentes on stop of the steal movement meanwhile, attempting to gas light america into thinking maybe the insurrection wasn't that violent or the fbi or antifa or "woke" mob are responsible. it's got to the point they're playing president biden or democrats, the republicans are doing everything to fight the committee to investigate what happened. there's still a lot of unanswered questions of the fbi are still searching for suspects. they released a host of new videos today on assault on police officers, some are disturbing, including cops getting tackled and pummeled to the ground, projectiles thrown into the crowd. insurrectionists snatching police officers batons right out
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of their hands. the fbi still don't know who left the pipe bombs at dnc and rnc the night before and don't know the alexander investigation. alexander investigation. looking into the ties between the physical attacks on the capitol and individual who's may have influpsed them. roger stone and alexander. -- d alexander. -- joining me now an impeachment manager for the united states and e united states an i have to start with open white supremacy flaunted by paul his own brother saying he's a white supremacist. i don't understand how you as a black woman or anyone can serve alongside people embracing white
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supremacy and not even embarrassed about it. >> joy, good to be with you. i did an op ed which said bring back shane because we know white supremacist have been amongst us, and certainly a time members of congress didn't want everybody to know it. but we know them by the fruit that they bear. we also know what happened on january 6th although we've been asked to not believe our eyes and our ears. this is a sad day. it's a sad reminder of what happened six months ago. and regardless of members of congress who are white supremacist or choose to hang out with them, regardless of those who helped to plan or give tours or helped to incite we are going to get to the bottom of it. i'm so glad that the speaker has 'em panelled this elect committee. we are going to get to the bottom of it. >> i have a question on law
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enforcement theme, in florida it's a small world. people like marco rubio who you're running against in the united states senate who tweets bible verses every day for random reasons these people don't say i don't want to be associated with white supremacists. where is the speaker? where's marco rubio, where are the people constantly lecturing us about what history we're allowed to learn. why aren't they saying anything? >> you know, joy, a long time ago someone told me i'd rather see a sermon in a jay, then to hear one. so rubio can send out all of the bible verses that he wants to. we're looking at not what he says but what he does. we're talking about a man, as you've indicated, thank you for bringing up, who has not said one word to denounce white supremacist since he's been in office, by the way. we're talking about a man who voted against an independent
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commission that would investigate the insurrection that occurred on 1/6. so again, we know them by the fruits that they bear. rubio has not delivered. as you know, that is exactly why i am running, florida deserves better. >> let me read the statement from biden today -- [ reading ] we're seeing republicans trying to bury it but there's issues that are frightening. law enforcement demanding other law enforcement not follow orders. members of the military being involved. where would you start? if this was a police investigation and val demmings was still the sheriff where
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would you start in terms of the investigation? with the lawmakers and their role? where would you start? >> everybody counts, joy, but as i've said many times before, everybody's accountable. and that includes everyone who had any kind of role in what happened on january 6th. that includes the former president. that includes the members of the senate. that includes the members of the house. that involves military, former or current, and law enforcement, former or current. we start at the beginning. we know that this did not just all happen on january 6th but this been planned for weeks and months. who was involved in the planning? who was involved in funding it? who was involve in helping to incite it? some of them we saw who had no shame on camera on that day. but who else was involved in it? we saw the president, members of the senate, members of the house, the president's attorney, but when you start at begin, who planned it, how did it happen?
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who funded it? who executed it? we've seen over 500 arrests from the fbi of those who actually were physically involved in beating police officers down and terrorizing members of congress and their staff and the people who work in the capitol. but we want to know the complete story and we're going to get to the bottom of it. that's exactly what the select committee will do with or without kevin mccarthy the minority leader. we take that word for granted a lot. with or without his help >> representative val demmings thank you very much more being here. really appreciate you making some time. now with me chief strategist for bush/cheney campaign and i'm so glad you're with us. it feels like things have got worse since january 6th. i remember reading the reports when trump ran for office he
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inspired a uptick in violent white nationalism. the chatter was this is our guy. he's gone now. even without his presence daily on social media we have members of congress openingly paling around with people who marched in charlottesville, nick fuentes, who openly say we have to return the united states to being a white, christian country, and others are not embarrassed to be around them. what in the world is going on? >> i absolutely agree, i think it is much worse than on january 6th, much worse than it was in november. much worse after january 6th. part of the problem is because there's been no accountability it's given permission to do more of this. not only it's given permission to just average people who might do crazy things, it's allowed the republicans just to continue this big lie that they've ed across. yesterday i was in kentucky. i decided to go to link --
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lincoln's boyhood home. i reflected on what he said, america will never be destroyed from outside, america will destroy itself. i think that's what i fear about right now. one of the things if you think about this, what would happen if after 9/11 we had done nothing. >> right. >> think about that, if we had done nothing after 9/11. to me, though there was less loss of life on january 6th, january 6th was worse than 9/11 because it's continued to rip our country apart and give permission for people to pursue auto kratic means so i think we're in a much worse place, i think we're in the most perilous point in time since 1861 in the advent of the civil war. >> i do too. i do too. it frightens me. you know what skar -- scares me most, i'm not sure if most elected democrats in washington are afraid as we are. i was talking yesterday to a republican strategistic, if you
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breaking ball down what this looks like to me it looks directly like fashionism, like muse leany italy, the ground shirts, violence on the capitol to over throw the government, centering of the white citizens that happen to be the top citizens or else the country dies and to see the republican party either because of cowardes or because they agree with it. say we're going to go with that. that's what it takes for us to have power fine we'll take fascism don't know what you do with that when one party decides that and you only really have two >> only thing you can do is rid the country of that political party. make it suffer devastating losses in a series of elections. there's no moral argument we can make against republicans who decide moral positioning doesn't matter any more. i was thinking of j dnance the charleston running for u.s. senate in ohio who creates
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fiction, says whatever, he said something i agree with, he said the republican establishment doesn't care about its voters and thinks their voters are stupid and thinks their voters are bigots. what he should have said is i don't care, like all of the other republicans, you know when you're in a relationship that constantly lies and shows they don't care about them, they think you're a yahoo. right? >> yeah yeah. >> the republicans think their base is bigoted and their base is stupid. that's why they keep doing what they're doing. >> yeah, the people, just looking agent the list of people who have ibarra influenced about t who have influenced. mike liddell who needs a publicist. >> he needs a couch and his pillow. >> madison hawthorne the stolen valor guy. mo brooks. it's as if the republican party, in which you served for for
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quite a long time, has decided the only people worthy of elevation are the basis people, the least moral people, that it almost is a virtue to be awful. i wonder if you think that is a reflection of something that's happening in the base? is because people have been locked down for a year? what is going on in the party? at the base of it. >> you know, one of the expressions i grew up with is what is the purpose of locks, locks are to keep honest people honest. and guard rails in politics are to keep decent, good people in their heart a&med their hearts aimed in the right direction. when you lose the guard rails, our leaders are supposed to give guard rails to humanity and stop it from its worst impulses. what you have now is a sprint downhill to the basis. i think today is worse than the donald trump in the four years he was president, they've taken it to another level. like if someone was successful in section 8 and now going to
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act crazier because they want their own section 8. so every single step, even the people you and i thought would stand up to it just don't care. >> they absolutely do not. they are elevating people like marjorie taylor greene, this is their leadership, it is worse than trump. always a pleasure to talk to. thank you so much. up next two really big guests -- ni k ol hannah jones and ta-n ehisi coates joining at howard university. it's major, it's hannah-jones smith first interview. declining belated offer for tenure. and ronn farrow, discussing the conservatorship fight. and more.
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in a major recruiting coup howard university announced journalist nikol hannah-jones and ta-nehisi coates both mcarthur geniuses are joining the faculty in the fall. hannah-jones will become the nice chair in race and reporting at howard and will create a new initiative aimed at training inspiring journalist and have secured $15 million to launch the effort. coates will hold the sterling brown chair in the english department. howard's win count counts as a loss to university of south carolina. and hannah-jones a unc alum was set to fill the school's own night chair in race and investigative journalism, after
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rigorous review and recommendation followed by howls of complaints offended by the project, she was first denied tenure by the board of trustees which sparked a fierce bashlash which led the university to reverse course and offer her tenure last week. for the record she's always been a tenured position. breaking her silence hannah-jones laid out in great detail how painful this entire process has been. she writes -- [ reading ] these times demand courage -- [ continuing reading ]. joining me now is the brand new
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inaugural knight chair n ikole hannah-jones and knight chair at brown university ta-nehisi coates. i'm so happy i am done with my time at howard just finished last year. but welcome. i'm so excited. i want to start with you nikole. you wrote a phenomenal piece which you wrote through the pain of being denied the opportunity at the place you went to graduate school, you're an alum, how much the university gave you and fed into you and sewed into you to only have this happen. i want to for a moment have you talk to us about how that felt. to go through that whole process only to be told no tenure >> thank you for having us on tonight and thanks for the conversation. it was humiliating. it was deeply hurtful, and it
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was enraging. because as you know you don't grow up as a black child in this country without being told you have to work twice as hard to get half as far, i've done that, and to do everything you're told to do to be successful and then have them change the rules at the end, at a school that i'm an alum of, and for a job i didn't seek out but that i was recruited for. it does -- it just confirms, you know, my life's work. everything that ta-nehisi and i write about how even in the end if you follow their roles in theent not going to be treated fairly. that's why i demanded the vote and ultimately made the decision to walk away. >> and, you know, the thing is, we're kind of taught -- you talked about this a little bit as well -- those of us that went to pwi anticipates a.i. a.i.
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to pwi's and not htcu. you have in your head the pinnacle is to go to the school of your dreams, harvard, yale, whatever school it is, i was talking to jason johnson today about the fact set us back a generation, the schools that were producing the greatest minds in american history, the mind that's broke the back of segregation, and rules in place since 1619 came from hbcu's. do you feel like you're going to howard and saying no to unc after they offered you tenure, do you think it will spark more young people to change the vision in their minds to howard? >> i certainly hope so. i know that ta-nehisi ed hopes i know that is ta-nehisi does as well.
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if i was in white society, i needed to have a elite white institution on my resume. i hated my time with notre dame. it was traumattraumatizing, i h been back since 1999, the first place i was ever called n-word was on that campus. we have to ask ourselves, we deserve to be in those places but is the best thing for us. so i certainly hope us making this decision, a choice, right. this is not a consolation prize for me, this is what i wanted. i decided i was going to go to a historically black college i had other options and didn't want to go anywhere else. others will realize, as you said, howard university has played -- of any kind of academic institution in this country -- played the largest role of black people achieving rights of any other institution in this country, the tradition of doctors, lawyers, professionals coming out of
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there still is amazing tradition to be part of and we don't need to feel we need validation from other institutions we can come home and if bring it home. >> and ta-nehisi, i have to bring you in, i'm very honored to get to you tonight. >> you like the lighting. >> we going to work on that, going to send you a ring light. got a great new job. we gonna hook you up. i feel like i'm talking to the waconda forever. you have written so seriously about the theft that has undergirded american society, right. the plunderer, as you put it. i think part of that has been psychic, right. it has been for so long accepting the bland narrative that lionized these founders as sort of a bedtime story, rather than confront the real pain
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that's in the history that built us to be strong as we are. do you think that this chapter teaches the people at unc anything? -- -- anything about the ramifications, the consequences of that plunderer? or do you think they say, good, too less problematic black people that are going to tell our poor white students who are so fragile that they can't handle the truth, they won't tell them that now. what do you think they learned? >> i think one of the things that's clear in nikole's statement when we use the term unc we're talking about a fairly big community. unc is not just merely board of trustees, unc are the student that's protested, and -- king who fought on behalf of niko nikole, named after someone is --
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that advanced nikole's package. i believe unc is also the oldest, public university in this country. and what that means is that this too is theft. because this is an institution of black people in north carolina, and our public institutions in general that we pay into, and what has happened is that the black students and the white students and students of all races and creeds at unc has been denied the counsel of arguably the most decorated journalist in america right now. nikol hannah-jones if i can sing her praises is not just the author of "1619" she's a pea body winner, a national magazine winner and as much as i'm happy she's coming to howard i'm sad for those students. >> ha u yeah, no, i am too. listen she spoke at my class and my students were so absolutely
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mesmerized. i sent them all her book at the end. i have to ask you ta-nehisi, if you look at what nikole role with the 1619 project, look at things adam seerwood has written they've been searing but just facts, ideas, why do you think people on the right are so terrified of these facts. >> they are dangerous, they are, they're extremely dangerous. the political in this country is predicated on a bedtime story. the history is not merely something that lives outside the politics. there's a reason the confederate flag hung in south carolina. a reason why the statues were erected. they are part of the political order. they justify the anti-democratic power that exists in this country.
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and so, you know, one thing i will say about that, joy, you mentioned this, is that, you know, hbcu's frankly not just howard, whether it be moore house, whether it be ant. >> yes. >> whether it be cochran, whether it be morgan. >> don't forget bethune cookman. >> let's go, the whole community. it's not just howard. there's always read outs in places where one would say more truthful, more accurate, as it turns out more searing version of america was rendered to the its students. and i think that's important >> to come back to you nikole, do you feel that parts of white america are just going to further retreat into the bedtime story? that this rejection of true history, we're seeing it in texas where they are banning book events because they just don't want to hear the real story of the alamo.
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give us the bedtime story. do you fear that retreat will get more intense over time, if it does, what are the consequence of that? >> absolutely, i mean, i said that the same places that are trying to bend the teaching of critical race theory, that are trying to bend 1619 project, which is actually they're trying to ban the teaching of the true racist history of this country, those are the same places introducing and passing laws to restrict the vote. right? those are the places trying to ensure minority rule and the people who are the majority supporting cannot actually have control of the politics of state. so these things are going hand in hand. that's why when ta-nehisi says ideas are dangerous, we know, there's a reason black people during slavery were not allowed to read, a reason why prohibition on abolition literature because ideas change action and the way you sustain a unequal society is making us think it's an equal society
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>> yes. >> to if you don't succeed it's because you haven't tried enough. it's not incidental after seeing the largest protest for civil and black rights in the history of this country and you start to see the language changing, even white people who before rejected the idea of systematic inequality starting to say make this isn't the country i thought it was. that's why you see the backlash. because they actually know. if you learn that history they're saying you're bad white people, that you're evil and we can't teach this. so none of this is incidental and it is. it's very dangerous. we've seen it before. >> guess what's going to happen, howard university is about to turn out students, thousands and thousands of minds into the world of journalism over the next many, many year when the two of you are associated with that university who are going to tear down the house and nothing anybody can do about it. i am so proud of both of you, i adore both of you, can i sign up to your class, i just want to
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audit the class, let me audit. [ laughter ] thank you nikole hannah-jones, ta-nehisi coates, i'm not worthy, thank god for both of you >> yes, you are, yes you are. >> appreciate you both, whoo. president biden making another appeal to americans, please, get your behinds vaccinated. meanwhile marjorie taylor greene, makes yet another ridiculously misinformed statement about the virus you. liberty mutual customizes car insurance it's deja vu' all over again. will it ever end? we'll be right back. we'll be right back. 72,807! 72,808... dollars. yep... everything hurts. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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tweet storms by marjorie taylor greene are petry dish of misinformation, racism, looney tunery and bad public health vicente, the latest claiming -- [ reading ] over it or not, covid is not over us, and outbreaks are returning with a vengeance, more than 125 people running a summer camp in houston tested positive for covid-19. multiple cases of delta variant traces of that outbreak have been confirmed. cases of delta confirmed in all 50 states in the u.s., surprise, in parts of the country with low vaccination rates. today president biden inviting americans to please get
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vaccinated. -- -- >> fully vaccinated americans have a high degree of protection, including against this delta variant. please get vaccinated now. it works. for your neighborhood, for your country, it sounds corny but it's the patriotic thing to do. >> joining now critical care pulmonologist, dr. gupta, i feel at this point there's three kinds of people not vaccinated, people afraid of the consequences or fearful something in the vaccine that will hurt them, people over confident that can eat nutritious food or people like marjorie taylor greene being political, ha, i'm not getting vaccinated, what do you do about those three people. not sure their minds can be changed. >> good evening, good to see you. i think there's an opportunity to reach two of those groups. i will say about the congresswoman i think she's thinking short-term. we know the summer will lead to
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respite in covid transmission in warm, dry air. the 14th congressional district in georgia she represents is one of the most least vaccinated districts in the country. she should be careful betting the short-term play that people are over it, come the fall and winter that will be ground zero in rise of hospitalization and unfortunately deaths. i think your team might have an x-ray i would like to show your viewers. the idea here is i think we've lost the narrative here to young people especially on why they need to get vaccinated. this san x-ray from a 30-year-old patient i cared for few weeks ago. the threat perception is not the same threat level that my parent's generation feel when they think about covid. young people say it's older people, those are preexisting conditions that will end up in the icu turns out you're vulnerable if you're young to the delta variant, we're seeing it across the country, maybe we
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need to call it something different like covid-21. we need to make it clear it is a different threat from the original virus, specific to young people. >> another thing i'm seeing anecdotally, there's an attitude among the young people, we can live a hot summer, travel, eat, do what we want and if these people don't want to get vaccinated that's their problem and maybe i'll just avoid going to the part not vaccinated, i won't go to texas or mississippi, i'll just stay away from them. in the end, can we sustain that? or at some point do the unvaccinated represent a threat to the vaccinated? >> oh, absolutely. that's exactly what we're seeing when it comes to these emerging variants. joy, the reason we're seeing these dangerous variants emerge is in part because of the rest of the world is not vaccinated. that's why you're seeing a delta variant that's eight times more lethal we think by initial studies than the original
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version of the virus. so absolutely if we have close to home huge pockets, 30 to 40% of the country not vaccinated that's just a sink, that's a lab experiment at scale for variants to a rise who will pose a threat to us all. i will say quickly, if i may, joy, one of the questions i get from a lot of people hesitant about getting the vaccine or curious they wonder if i am fully vaccinated and go unmasked in public can i bring the virus home to my unvaccinated kiddos. this is where i think we really need to think careful about what does being fully vaccinated mean. people want to be protected and all of the vaccines appear to do that well. i think two doses are better than one when it comes to the issue of transmission. we know the pfizer vaccine dramatically reduces the risk of transmission same with moderna. not convinced johnson & johnson is necessarily the same as two
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doses of pfizer and moderna when it comes to transmission. >> lastly, we're begging and paying people in this country to get vaccinated. in africa i think the vaccination rate is 2%. there are countries around the world who would do anything to have these vaccines. would it be good to send them around the world if americans don't want them. >> oh, absolutely. i think scarcity is motivating. frankly, i think if we start to send out excess supply now it will be a great motivator and it's the best way to safeguard global public health. vaccine those countries that barely have vaccine, i'm with you 100%. >> yeah, african continent are suffering, let's send those vaccines out. dr. gupta you are the person who convinced me, people's minds can be changed because you changed mine. so dr. gupta, thank you. still ahead, january 6th exposed one of the biggest
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big news tonight in the ongoing free britney-saga, tonight, her court-appointed attorney resigns. two weeks after she said she wanted to find her own attorney. -- -- now it's the latest fall out from spears to remove her father jaime from controlling her fortune and her life. in court she called her situation abusive. adding, we can sit here all day and say, oh, conservatorships are here to help people but man, there are a thousand
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conservatorships that are abusive as well. she's right. she's caught up in a toxic, pun intended, legal moras, affecting more than 1.5 million americans, most disables or elderly. she rejected the request to have her father removed from his role and the following day the trust asked to be removed -- e remove- britney alleges she's being medicated against her will and forced to work, the free brit movement gained major traction this year following a "new york times" documentary. >> ladies and gentlemen, britney spears. >> when she walks down, and then passes keeps walking, keeps walking. >> doesn't say anything on stage, doesn't announce the residency she's there to announce.
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>> that's it, we've been waiting for the live stream and she's just walking by. >> a new piece in the "new york times", ronan farrow detail in depth how spears got into her conservatorship nightmare and a family friend that put it in place now regrets it saying [ reading ] my friend ronan farrow for "new york times" so excited to talk to you. let's start with the breaking news, the resignation of britney spears lawyer, what's the situation situation n situatio -- significance. >> so britney spears manager larry rudolph and in the past few hours her corporate-appointed attorney are on their way out of this arrangement, i think that reflects, joy, an understanding that has been overdue for many years just how desperately and
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repeatedly britney spears has tried to get out of this conservatorship. in addition to this strange saga of how this came to be around spears and the fact that now individuals who initially helped to set it up because they thought it was in her interest are pulling back that support. you correctly pointed out the much larger pop -- pop elimination -- pop elimination -- population affected by this. a lot of situations that are ripe for exploitation and abuse. >> that's the thing hard to get our head around. britney spears is young, rich and famous. how on earth could something, you and i talked about this offline, has happened to other people who are maybe elderly or disables which is horrible enough because they don't have her money and clout, how did this happen to her? >> well in some ways britney spears fame and wealth make her a-typical. you know, she was, i think was
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placed in a state of emotional distress that's very understandable because she was hounded by the paparazzi everywhere. she had very little space in her life to just live. and the fame and the money also meant that her family by strugg would control her fortune, who would control her career. we document all of that in this piece. but in other ways, you know, britney spears' case, it is in the eyes of a lot of disability rights attorneys fairly typical. one thing we see play out in these cases, joy, is if a conservatorship is leading to a situation where a conservatee, like britney spears is doing well under the conservatorship -- britney spears has toured. she's made a great deal of money for a lot of people around her. that can be used as evidence that the conservatorship is working great. and then if the conservatee is doing poorly, these experts describe, that can be used as evidence that, oh, the
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conservatorship was necessary all along. these can be helpful arrangements, necessary arrangements. but clearly they can also be arrangements that are ripe for abuse, especially in cases like britney spears' case, where you're dealing with someone who pushes the outer edges of who this should be applied to because she is clearly, whatever other mental health struggles she may have, and they may be grave as people in her case are suggesting, she is high functioning as well. >> she's also a money maker for her dad. i think the thing that's most disturbing about this is the appearance at least that the father wants to keep her working, keep her not pregnant, keep her ability to make money because he financially benefits. once the lawyer is gone and the publicists have resigned and all the people involved who were stopping her from being able to petition to get rid of the dad, do you think that this now opens the door for her to be able to separate from her father? she's not a child. how can he continue to control her and control her money? >> jamie spears, her father's
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involvement, is one of the more peculiar aspects of this case, joy, because so many people close to britney spears -- and we talked to dozens of people around this conservatorship, people who knew her before and during. so many people remarked she had an incredibly strained relationship with her father, that her father could be emotionally abusive to her. we documented her calling her some pretty horrific epithets. and in ways that would lead someone to say the least, never want that person with that relationship to control their finances and their person. and, you know, she has filed over the years to limit his control and right now he is only conservator of her estate, not conservator of her person. that role has gone to a court-appointed person. but the fact that he's still involved at all, as you point out, is striking. and i certainly hope that as we see this exodus in the wake of this piece that we published, there's also attentiveness on the part of professionals in the court system that one of britney
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spears' main objections was her father's involvement and that he not be left behind as the only person with a thumb over her life. >> how do people prevent this from happening? as you looked at this and have done the journalism on it, should people be doing like living wills? what can you do to make sure you maintain control over your life if you become disabled somehow? >> it's a great question. you know, i would say that it's got to come at a policy level. this really isn't about anything that britney spears could have done differently beforehand. you know, i think that there are people around this who argue, well, you or i or many people at, you know, a standard level of mental health functionality might push back more vigorously in a more concerted or strategic way earlier. britney spears when she gave that explosive testimony in court says, well, years have gone by and i tried because i felt i wasn't getting heard. that's something to understand in these cases. they're often applied to people
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who do have sincere mental health struggles. all the more reason why i turn again to policy reform. >> yep. >> making sure the courts keep an eye on these situations. >> another thing we got to make some policy on. ronan farrow, you are the best. great journalism. everyone should read this piece. thank you very much, my friend. >> back at you, joy. up next, conservatives just love the police when they're keeping those black lives matter protesters in line. but when it comes to punishing white insurrectionists, not so much. tonight's absolute worst is next. stay right there. that. okay, imagine this... your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we cut to downtown, your sales rep lisa has to send some files, asap! so basically i can pick the right plan for each employee... yeah i should've just led with that... with at&t business... you can pick the best plan for each employee
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the twice impeached one-term president and his harem of congressional followers continue to claim that all democrats want to defund the police. sadly in the six months since the insurrection that led to the death of three police officers, republicans have made clear just how little they actually care about law and order. first there's the whitewashing of the january 6th assault on the capitol by a pro-trump mob. on that day more than 140 members of law enforcement were wounded. one officer lost the tip of their finger. others were smashed in the head with bats, poles, and pipes. many were subjected to these types of verbal and physical assaults. a warning. it's disturbing to watch.
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