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trump tower to rikers island, but the trump organization was sentenced today for felony tax fraud. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg joins me. >> plus, he needed help and was killed. those are the word of black lives matter cofounder patrice colors on the death of her cousin, keenan anderson. anderson went into cardiac arrest and died after being repeatedly tased by los angeles police. patrice colors joins me tonight. >> but we begin in september 1941. when a federal prosecutor named william power meloni on orders from the justice department was investigating the infiltration of nazis in the united states. a story that you probably never learned anything about in school. at the time, during the 1930s and '40s, there was a pretty darn massive far right movement literally supported by the hitler government in germany that was plotting violent attacks in the u.s. to overthrow the u.s. government and install

hitler friendly fascism here. and in some cases, they went through with actual attacks. what prosecutor maloney discovered is members of congress, the house and senate, namely republican but also some democrats, were also part of this movement. actively distributing nazi propaganda to the american people, trying to sabotage democracy from the inside out. when maloney started connecting the dots and pursuing this nazi propaganda scheme, the strategy of these lawmakers was not to get out of the doj's cross hairs but rather to take down the investigation and maloney all together. one senator, burton wheeler of montana, even threatened an investigation into the justice department's handling of nazi sympathizers which rachel maddow describes in her must-hear podcast, ultra. >> senator burton wheeler decided to pay a private visit

to attorney general francis little at his office inside the justice department. in what was described as a stormy and violent session, senator wheeler reportedly threatened the attorney general that he, as a senator, would launch an investigation not just of maloney and the sedition case, he would launch an investigation of the entire department of justice from the attorney general personally on down. unless the attorney general fired maloney and took him off the case. >> which he did. i mean, how did we never learn any of this in school? well, fast forward to today, and in the first week of the 118th congress, we saw on full display what the main priority of congressional republicans, it's easily eerily similar, that is to investigate those who are investigating insurrection. and to snuff out those investigations. in some cases, to hide their own complicity. even creating this weaponization

committee that would allow the party to look into any government agency that it decides is suspect, is getting too close. and because history literally rhymes, the chairman of this weaponization committee is a member of congress who was part of the effort to overturn the 2020 election and replace the legitimate new president with the one that lost, donald trump, namely jim jordan. jordan is one of the leaders of the new republican majority in the house that has spent its first week promising investigations, revenge against political adversaries, and even, get this, expunging trump's impeachment. you literally cannot make this stuff up. and note that none of it will do a darn thing to help the american people. just literally trump and these members of congress themselves. earlier today, jordan also sent a letter to attorney general merrick garland, launching an investigation into president biden's misplaced classified documents and demanding all communications between the doj

and the president. jordan and the republicans want you to believe that they are the true champions of protecting the country's national secrets. they're outraged, outraged by president biden's mishandling of classified material. so of course, they have been totally consistent in their reaction to both of these developments and the news last summer that trump was hoarding a treasure trove of classified documents at his florida golf resort. totally consistent. >> sounds more like a book keeping issue than a national security threat, which means it doesn't rise to the level of justifying, raiding the former president's home. >> these are just absolutely outrageous. this is completely mishandling of classified information and documentation. >> what i have seen at the national archives was concerned about trump having in his possession didn't amount to a hill of beans. >> this is very concerning, now the second location that the president was in possession of classified documents. look, what's the vice president

doing with classified documents? >> they went down there and raided mar-a-lago. and i believe president trump i think there were maybe 14 classified documents in the 19 boxes of things they took. what they did to him is wrong. >> as a matter of fact, joe biden conceivably stole those documents. for joe biden to steal documents and have possession of them, this is a serious investigation. >> it's like they're literally two different people. the message from top democrats meanwhile has been more consistent. for instance, when news broke about trump's case, senator mark warner, chairman of the intelligence committee, called for a briefing on the matter. just this week, lo and behold, he did the same thing when news broke about president biden. then there are the two principles themselves, president biden and trump, reacting to their separate doj investigations yesterday. >> as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. i also said we're cooperating fully and completely with the

justice department's review. >> this prosecutor should resign. he's got a conflict with my prosecutor. jack smith, he is a terrorist. he is a trump hater. he should resign. his wife hates trump, probably even beyond him and his wife and his wife has a sister who openly hates -- like, a level that you can't even believe. >> can't even believe. joining me now is brad withouse, senior adviser to the integrity project and dean obeidallah, my sort of stumbly attempt to recreate what really everyone should watch on ultra, which is this bizarre situation in the 1930s and '40s where there was an active nazi cell that was like millions of supporters, it's wild that there was actual support and it was called america first, how fun is that. the thing that is fascinating, and i want to start with you on

this, brad, is that you have the same dynamic now in this congress. there was an attempted insurrection, an attempt to overthrow an election and put in a president who had not won the election, and the people in charge of now the house, their mission is not to investigate that. they didn't want to investigate that. they want to investigate the people trying to investigate that. meanwhile, they now have a fabulous football to play with, which is this set of a small number of classified documents found in biden's, you know, possession from when he was vice president. what do you make of these two things? and what do you make of it, i'll ask you that question. >> i mean, first of all, look, you had a great setup there. i want to know who i can sue for whiplash. this is just -- it's just beyond -- it's just beyond your comprehension they could hold these two thoughts, and that they could say these two

completely different things. i mean, joy, they live somewhere between delusion and dishonesty, that's all you can conclude here. you showed these clips. you know, comer says, you know, trump's documents didn't amount to a hill of beans but he's gone to death con one on biden's documents. look, the documents versus documents is not even where it ends. the treatment of these documents, we're talking about cooperation versus obstruction. we're talking about misplaced documents versus stolen documents. we're talking about voluntary disclosure and turning over versus having to have a search warrant executed. but i think the corollary between now and previous time in history you're talking about, maga. maga. it's a cult. it's a cult. it's a cult unto itself. a cult to trump.

it is a cult of election denialism. it's a cult of our way or the highway. our politics be damned no matter what, no matter what the truth is. you have in this house, and look, we celebrated the democrats did better than expected in november. we have 173 people who are election deniers in the house of representatives on the republican side. that's like 73, 74%. so you know, they're election denying for trump. they're weaponizing these committees for trump and against biden. and like i said, i totally have whiplash over what we have seen the last few days. >> a lot of whiplash, much like the first america first movement, the second america first movement, aka maga, has millions of people who believe it. it was shocking to see how many people were on hitler's side of the united states. very different from the history we learned. but the thing, dean, i have to say, it is one thing for the

republicans to do it. but this whole biden classified documents thing, it's beginning to take on a little bit of a her emails vibe for me. let me just show you a little bit of karine jean-pierre getting some questions incoming today. >> the president is sloppy handling classified material. >> what is the white house trying to hide? >> when will the white house release a log of visitors to the wilmington house? >> does the administration have any idea between the garage and the biden penn office just how many people could have gotten their hands on this or are we to assume the white house doesn't have an estimate? >> there's an ongoing review on this and i would refer to the department of justice. >> i mean, and it's not as if you should ignore the story. i mean, if there's classified documents found somewhere they're not supposed to be, there's supposed to be an investigation, but it's starting

to feel her emails-y to me. >> look at the gop, the hypocrisy on this, the gop didn't have hypocrisy, they wouldn't have anything, except white supremacy and fascism. their core currency is hypocrisy, and you have marjorie taylor greene literally tweeted when they did the mar-a-lago search, impeach merrick garland. now what is she tweeted? nothing about merrick garland. impeach joe biden. they want to reopen alcatraz to put him in alcatraz over a handful of documents. they are vastly different. we'll see where the facts go. to me, the question is really, why is donald trump not charged with eve one crime? why is he not charged with anything? we're two years and seven days from the january 6th terror attack he played an oversized role in. we're a long period of time from may of last year, trying to get a -- a year and a half ago, trying to get the documents back. national archives begging him. his own lawyer lied and i would imagine as a lawyer, did want dt told him, we gave all the

documents to doj in response to subpoena. they do the search in august, they find over 100 new classified documents there, folks. they found classified documents in december, last month, in a storage area in florida of donald trump's. to me, the miscarriage here is that donald trump has not been charged with even one crime for all of this, joy, that's the discussion right now. donald trump's trial coming up, that's the key, and i'm very disappointed in this doj. >> i have to say, it's hard to ignore it, brad. i mean, two years later, you get a special counsel in the case of the immediate past president taking documents, boxes of them, and putting them in his bedroom. and you know, in an unsecure location in a place that's had spies on the premises. in a place that could easily be -- you don't have to break in to mar-a-lago. people just walk in as long as they walk in with a celebrity. and it took two years for there

to be action. and i guess as a democrat, as someone who is a democratic strategist, does it frustrate you? because it seems like when it was hillary clinton, and she had a server at her house, which every secretary of state before her had, it's like, death con one, we have to interrupt the whole election 11 days out. we have to go big from that doj. then now, we're talking about the vice presidential era of biden, again, wib a week, a special counsel. it does feel like different treatment. >> well, it does feel like different treatment, and it's frustrating at the both siderism. i have read i think every story i could possibly read on the recent disclosure of the biden documents and you get to this place where the reporters write in, these are vastly different, and they walk through a little bit of the difference, then it goes, but. i'm like, but what? the but is, well, this is a real

political problem for the president. well, it wouldn't be a real political problem for the president if it's treated fairly and accurately and these two sides are put next to one another. i mean, i believe this. i believe the way that president biden handled this was the textbook way to turn the documents back over once you found them and cooperate with an investigation. i believe what donald trump did was textbook criminal obstruction. >> you mean don't wait for the fbi to knock on your door? >> don't let them execute a search warrant. >> dean, the two things that mccarthy said this week that i think are the most outrageous in this regard is that he claims kicking democrats adam schiff, including adam schiff and adam swalwell off their committees is a way to depoliticize politics. let me play you the other one. this is what he says he wants to do with donald trump's

impeachment. >> when you find that the final information that the russia document was all a lie, when you watch what he went through, i could understand why members would want to bring that forward. i understand why individuals would want to do it and we would look at it. >> they're going to look at trying to erase an impeachment, which i'm not even sure you can do, just to make trump feel better? that's why trump wanted him to be speaker. >> they want to rewrite history, the gop is doing this in state after state with their ban on critical race theory, where they don't want to teach black history, don't want to teach about the sins of white people who committed slavery. this is part and parcel. we want to get rid of history that makes us uncomfortable. kevin mccarthy is a joke here. you mentioned swalwell he wants to take off a committee. he wants to take ilhan omar off her committee too. that's part of the donald trump send her back message. an extension of that, that's demonized a strong black woman to score points with the base.

it's bigotry and lies, and we call it out, not because it's going to change them. you can't shame the shameless. we call it out, i really think, for our own sanity, so we're not gaslighting ourselves. there is a right and a wrong, and we stick to that path because beside that, you can't change them. it's about us. >> and dean, the muslim community knows better than anyone else, there has been weaponization of government against some communities. there sure has. but it's not the conservatives who take documents and the presidents who take documents. that's not who's being demonized. it's just the law is just doing its thing. brad and dean, thank you both very much. >> alvin bragg joins me next on the sentening today of the trump organization for felony tax fraud. stay with us. ay with us i'd like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.

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today was sentencing day for former donald trump's company. the trump organization was hit with $1.6 million in fines for evading taxes. those fines were set by a new york judge. had maximum punishment allowable under new york law. now, although as "the new york times" points out, the financial penalty is a pittance to the company, and the former president, who collected hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year while in office. it follows convictions la month on 17 counts of conspiracy, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records over 15 years. trump and his family were not charged. the lone individual charged,

former chief financial officer allen weisselberg, is currently serving a five-month sentence at rikers island after pleading guilty to his role in the scheme. i'm joined now by manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. thank you for being here. i wonder if we understand that there is a maximum penalty under law, and it is the $1.8 million fine that the company received. but can you understand how people look at this sentence and the sentence for weisselberg, who admitted to everything, tried to take the blame for everything and only gets five months. can you understand how people feel like this is two systems of justice and that the rich get away with everything? that's the way it looks. >> i certainly understand that, as to the corporation. we have been talking with our partners in our state legislature in albany about having stiffer penalties so that the companies that have a lot of resources can't just price this in as the cost of doing

business. so we have been pushing, i said earlier today, right after the sentencing that this financial penalty is not sufficient and we're working to stiffen the penalties, so certainly, i understand that sentiment. >> i think about al capone, you know, the feds couldn't get him on the gangsterism and on murder and on the things that people knew he did. they ended up getting him and jailing him on tax evasion. when you think about donald trump, who notoriously did not seem to pay taxes for, what, 20 years or more, he doesn't get charged with a crime. allen weisselberg, who admits to being in charge of the scheme, gets five months in rikers. i mean, there are people who have gone to prison for years and years for having weed on them, for having small amounts of drugs. so it does seem like as you said, this feels like an incentive for companies like trump's to just price into the cost of doing business that you may pay a million dollars in fines and not pay taxes.

>> we're working with our stakeholders and state legislation to change that. i do think it does send a powerful message, though, you know, now they're felony corporations and there are contracts they can't bid on, that means there are banks that will not lend to them. while i think we need stiffer penalties, it's consequential and sends a message via the marketplace, and as to mr. weisselberg, look, we're looking, as you know, trying to apply the law evenly. rikers is a place that we have had lots of concerns about across the board for everyone going to, and so five months in rikers on the backdrop of what we have traditionally seen for a tax offense is -- it does stand out. >> i have a family member who used to be a guard at rikers so i know it's not a place you want to be even for five minutes. there were a couple people who resigned from your office, and

one of them is a guy named mike pomeranz, and i'm going to read you a little of what he said. i believe that donald trump is guilty of numerous felony violations of the penal law in connection with the preparation and use of his annual statements of financial condition. what he essentially said here is trump evaded his personal taxes, lied about his assets to banks and national media to counterparts and many others including the american people and the question is whether or not he committed crimes, he did. why was trump never charged with a crime in new york? >> our investigation is ongoing and active. we have said that since april. i have talked about this trial that happened late in the fall and the sentencing today is a chapter. i ended my remarks right outside the courtroom today saying we're now moving on to the next chapter. this was a consequential moment. there were investigative steps we thought we could not take prior to the trial. we didn't want to prejudice the trial, give rise to mistrial

motions so we had to think about and be judicious about our steps. now with this significant step behind us, we now move on to the next chapter in this. >> let's talk about michael cohen for a moment, who you know, went to jail for having written a check to stormy daniels to silence her. that check was written on behalf of donald trump. is donald trump being investigated for being the unnamed coconspirator in that scheme? >> so, i can't get into specifics because i don't want to impair or prejudice an investigation we may or may not be conducting in a case we may or may not bring, but suffice it to say that we, while the team that was trying the case and all saw the professionalism and rigor in the courtroom, while they were doing that, there was another part of the team taking private steps behind closed doors conducting this active investigation that's ongoing. >> since you have now been through this experience and have

people like me asking you all these questions, you know, and you're diligently doing your job, do you feel zooming out that the law, the state law needs to be rewritten? as you said, to relook at the criminal penalties for tax evasion, but also to insure that the rich are treated the way regular people are treated? because there is a huge disparate sentencing guideline for broke folks who, you know, are convicted of things like theft or fraud, and rich folks who seem to really get a slap on the wrist. >> there's no doubt that our system is imperfect. this is something i have been working on for 20-plus years as a civil rights lawyer. a state prosecutor, and a federal prosecutor. if i could go into the lab and take pieces from the federal jurisdiction, some pieces from the state and infusion them with some of the equal justice work i have done as a civil rights lawyer, i would address that and have that perfect system. we don't have that.

we're operating under the current law and the constraints of the current law, but always mindful. you mentioned you have a loved one who is a guard at rikers. i had a family member who has been at rikers. i'm very familiar with the inequities of our system personally. so it is something that as manhattan district attorney is never far from mind. >> i will say you thank you for at least applying some accountability to donald trump at least through his corporation. it's something, more than he ever had to deal with ever. alvin bragg, congratulations on that and thank you. >> black lives matter cofounder patrice colors joibs me to talk about her cousin keenan's tasing death at the hands of the lapd. we'll be right back. lomita feed is 101 years old this year and counting. i'm bill lockwood, current caretaker and owner.

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and father, died at a hospital after he suffered a medical emergency about four hours after he was arrested. now, we're going to show parts of the footage now. i want to warn you and our guests that it is disturbing. >> against the wall. get up against the wall. get up against the wall. get up against the wall real quick. >> please. hold on a second. >> please, sir. help me, please. help me, please. help me, help me. help me, please. please, please. >> turn around. >> stop it or i'm going to tase you. i'm going to tase him. >> they're trying to kill me. they're trying to kill me. >> stop it. >> joining me now is patrisse cullors, cofounder of the black lives matter movement and cousin of keenan anderson. thank you for being here.

and i just want to just pause for a moment and give you a chance to tell us about keenan in life. so that we can know who he was. >> thank you. i will work my hardest to get through this segment. keenan was -- keenan was a mentor. he was a teacher. he was a proud family member. we come from a very big family. our grandmothers migrated from louisiana to make a better life for themselves and their children and their children's children here in los angeles, california. we spent a lot of time coming together for family picnics and family gatherings. and keenan was really proud of the movement, of black lives matter. and i believe the work that he

did teaching young children at the tenth grade level, at the school he was working at, the digital pioneers academy, was part of his contribution to helping change and bring love and care to young black kids. >> thank you for that, because we want to know that these hashtags are people. i wanted you to have an opportunity to talk about him as a person. this is a statement from los angeles mayor karen bass on the deaths of your cousin, but also on oscar sanchez and takar smith, two other young men who died in police custody between january 2nd and january 3rd. she said i have grave concerns about the deeply disturbing tapes that were released. full investigations are under way. i'm deeply troubled that mental health experts were not called in even when there was a documented history of past mental health crisis. in the case of keenan, what do you believe happened and do you believe that he had a mental

health crisis under way? do you have some understanding of what happened to get it to the point where he was tased? >> i don't know what happened. i can't read the minds of lapd, and i definitely don't know what my cousin was going through in those last hours of his life. but what i do know based off of watching the video with my family is that he looked scared. he looked like he was in need of help and support, and in fact, that's exactly what he asked for. he asked for help. he then begged for help. and then he pleaded for help. and for many of us who have been leading this work for so long, the question here is why are we having cops show up at traffic stops? why is that the answer?

we need to push, you know, mayor bass, city council members, to challenge the ways in which we're using law enforcement on a daily basis here in this city. >> you put up a tribute to keenan on your instagram, and the caption says, keenan was killed by lapd. you also wrote, my cousin was an educator who worked with high school aged children, an english teacher, and that tribute we're showing right now. you have been at this work since you cofounded the black lives matter movement. for your own cousin to then join the hashtags that we all memorized over time, what in your view has changed, if anything? has anything changed? and if not, what needs to change? >> one thing that i'll say is that the people are ready for change.

we have been ready for change for many years. in fact, we just lived through just two years ago, uprisings in which communities were calling for a different relationship to law enforcement. but not much has changed policy wise. at the local level, at the state-wide level and at the national level, what we're asking for locally, we're asking for chief moore to step down. or be fired. we want to pull police out of traffic stops. and other places. they should not be dealing with mental health care crises. they should not be in schools, parks, or housing facilities. my cousin was tased multiple times. less lethal does not mean nonlethal. >> we need to see more of the footage. release the unedited footage of this murder. and we want to end qualified

immunity that shields police from being accountable. >> we're going to keep following the story. patrisse cullors who along with opal and alicia garza, founded black lives matter, thank you and our deepest condolences to you and please share those with your family as well. thank you. we'll be right back. k.

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great place to raise a family. we will enact more family-friendly policies to make it easier to raise children, and we will defend our children against those who seek to rob them of their innocence. >> and that is how florida governor ron desantis started the year, following a draconian campaign against lgbtq rights last year. including his investigation into businesses holding drag shows that allow children to attend. with desantis, get this, threatening to ask child services to investigate parents who take their kids to those shows. and he's not alone. politicians in at least ten states have introduced laws over the past few months seeking to ban or limit drag shows. making the absurd claim these fun theatrical performances are sexual in nature and inappropriate for children. in just the past week, politicians in arkansas and arizona introduced bills that

criminalize holding drag shows in public places. classifying them as adult cabry shows. and in a nebraska bill introduced yesterday makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly bring a minor to a drag show. this crusade on the right isn't just unnecessary, offensive, and honestly kind of dumb and a waste of taxpayer resources, it's also dangerous. last year, drag events were targeted by threats and protests every 2 1/2 days. or 38% of the year. and joining me now is dj pierce, cohost and producer of hbors's we're here, and emara jones, founder and ceo of translash media. i'm glad to have both of you here because i feel like this issue is a side swipe hitting drag shows that's also really trying to target the trans community as well. even though these are two, you know, related and loving communities, but different. so i want to talk about both of

those aspects of it. dj, i want to start with you. it seems to me that the right isn't being honest, that they have a problem with drag per se. i want you to watch this montage. >> our friend amy said there was a great apartment in her building. dirt cheap, but it's a hotel for women. okay. we made one adjustment. now these other ladies know us as buffy and hildaguard. >> i understand you're looking for a couple girlies. >> how do they walk in these things? >> oh, you beast. you cad. it's getting so a girl can't travel alone without you. >> i'm sorry, ma'am. >> and dj, it strikes me, they don't have a problem with drag when it's people who are using drag to mock the idea. right? to mock the idea of trans. to mock trans people, to mock the idea of drag.

but when people who are in the community, who are lgbtq themselves do drag, that's when they have a problem with it. >> yes. it looks to me that governor desantis and so many of the conservatives who are targeting the drag community right now have an issue with evolving their way of thinking. they have an issue with including people who are different than themselves into the larger conversation and into our way of life. i don't think that there's a problem with drag shows, and i don't think they have a problem with drag. it is about the challenge to how they feel their way of life should be. and as we continue to evolve as a society, what we're learning is it is so important to have inclusivity and visibility. it is so important to have representation of all different ways of thinking, of all different people from all different walks of life. if they didn't, you and i and ms. emana would not be here today. it's so important that inclusion

is something that is a part of our conversation as we go forward. >> yeah, i mean, and i love we're here, and i'm watching season three, and the florida stuff, i lived there for 14 years. i recognize it, i understand the villages. you have this sort of dichotomy between people saying don't bring drag here, and literally, like, all over you guys as you walk through the villages, they're the people in the villages, this very conservative central florida community, that can't leave you guys alone. they keep their hands off the three of you, because they don't -- they're saying that they hate this thing, and they have signs that are so cruel, but to your face, they're actually enjoying you. and so i wonder how you feel about dealing with these the places where they are saying that they hate it, but at the same time, i don't know. i just wonder how you feel in those situations. >> growing up in a small town,

in texas, originally from paris, i really understand, and relate to being in a community, where you do not see a lot of people like yourself around. a lot of people enjoy drag as, maybe, a form of entertainment from a distance, but when it becomes something the people around them start to accept, it becomes more integrated into our mainstream media, and they become afraid. really, peoples hatred comes from fear. that is why in our show, we're here, we go to these places where it is very conservative, but there are still queer people there who deserve love, who deserve to see, and feel representation. so, when we do run into these people who would vote against us on a ballot, but at the same time, love us there, in person, they are loving, a lot of the times, the theatrics of it all. look at me today, and i'm about

to go on tour, i will be chandeliers, all dolled up, but right now, and dj pearce. i'm a grandson, i am a son, i am a brother, a friend, to a lot of people. they need to get to know the people behind drag, and in the queer community, we deserve to be heard, seen, and deserve to be respected. >> amara, i want to bring you into this because, as a trans person, i'm sure that when you hear this conversation about drag, do you feel like it is a sideswiped to attack trans people, and acquaint the two, as if they are the same? >> thank you so much for having me, i'm such an admirer. i absolutely, that is the case. the fact is, it what we have arrived at is a two-year strategy by the christian national movement to get us here.

they can put that amount of time, hundreds of millions of dollars testing these teams, focusing on what works, and then figuring out ways to road test a lot of these particular bills at the state level. this year, we will see them nationalized. the focus on drag this year, an expansion of this strategy. they haven't stopped introducing anti-trans bills this year. they just added drag to that. that, is to them, with christian nationalism, anything that is outside of the idea of gender binary, which was handed down through the bible, is, for them, different frightening. like dj, like such angela, like so many others is a deep threat to the people to a sharp division to them that is defined, and rooted, in biblical teaching. i think we have to understand that this is a serious threat,

and that it is both religious belief, and a political strategy. >> i will note, for those who are watching, there is 11 states who've targeted bills struggling trudged or health care in 2023 alone. the self-care bans have targets, going after adults, so if they want to mind the children, they should look into the churches. the u.s. southern baptist churches are facing an apocalypse of sexual abuse, and the catholic church, as we know, has had the same issue -- issue. you don't see any bills talk about that. if you talk about that, talk about all of it. dj, and amara, stick us down, for who won the week, i can't wait. stuart there. stuart there by cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb.

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appears, an amara jones. amara, you're new to the family, so ask you first, to win the week? >> we need to keep it light. if i'm going to be serious, that's a lula desalva for cracking down on this question nationalist insurgents right away, instead of waiting two years, but my favorite is mckayla jay rodriguez who, finally, got her recognition, and standing ovation, for making history as a trans woman for winning an award at the golden globes. it was fantastic to see the love she received, and there's no better actor, a person, to get it. >> that is amazing, i love that, love, that love that. dj, your turn, who won the week? >> okay. let me follow suit with amara, and say some of the ladies from the golden globes, quinton brunson, angela bass it, and also, miss jennifer coolidge, who accepted that award and said, yeah, now my neighbors

are talking to me. i love all these guys! i love her so much. it's so good. >> angela brought me to tears. these are great picks. here is my pick, here is my pick. it was a big night for diversity at the globes, i agree with that, but let me shut out the asian american winners, q equine, and michel you who won everything everywhere all at once. cohen, who you may know a short round from indiana jones, or data from the companies. the first actor of asian descent, in nearly 40 years, to win in his category. he could acting, because he felt like hollywood was not welcoming to asian actors. that changed with crazy rich asians, which starred michel yell, his costar, and fellow winner. >> thankfully, more than 40 years later, two guys thought of me. they remembered that kid.