. >> the revverend william barber is here with us too. what is your reaction to what we just heard?it's widely conservative that i'm an evangelical and millions of people that are that don't agree with that interpretation from the scriptures. jesus said real compassion as a nation is carrying for the stran stranger, the poor, the sick. what we see happening is the white evangelicals that call themselves that, they have, in fact, emboldened president trump and given him a false form of a gospel, theological malpractice and they kaw about compassion on one hand but his policy is america first has come to mean separating families from their children, separating children and families from health care, separating children and families from living wages and separating children and families from food stamps. that is not the gospel. that is not the gospel of jesus christ. a false form of the gospel. a scripture in zachariah 70 said whenever you hear women and children and immigrant and poor it's called devising evil. when we talk about constitutional conservativism, i don't like that term e

reporter: pastors liz theoharis and william barber are leading the campaign.ow thousands are heeding their call for civil disobedience. >> you're illegally taking a street. up on the sidewalk. this is your first warning. reporter: people who are poor, sick or disenfranchised are determined to have their voices heard. liz: there's a f fire raging n our sociciety and we're willingo ignonore the red lights of the current sysystem until that emerergency is solveved. reporter: it's sundaday eveningn the heart of washington. the people here are warming up for the mass rally. many have come a long way, from michigan, alabama, even alaska. the campaign is financed with donations. otherwise, many couldn't afford the journey. >> this country is a mess. this is not a great country. when we have over 140 million people that are in poverty. >> we are real people and we matter. reporter: the original poor peoplele's campaign was launchd by dr. martin luther king in 1968. according to liz theoharis, since then, the gap between rich and poor has grown. she believes that with

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william barber, michael moore moore, among others. welcome back to democracy now! talk about what you're calling for in the we will talk about your assessment of this meeting. >> in this toxic political and media environment, are open letter is calling for secure elections and and and to the of conflictcalation with fresh of. we believe you can have secure elections and avoid nuclear catastrophe. u.s.-russian relations -- and this relates to the native discussion -- are at their lowest point and perhaps 30 years. i think in this country, the talk of russia as a hostile power, declaring war on as. i find this hyperbolic. i think we are a resilient nation and i think some of the greatest dangers to our election system have come from the voterution of dark money, suppression, gerrymandering. we need to focus on securing our elections. let us have cyber treaties that both deal with that and command and control. but i also think we need -- this is neither pro-trump or appropriate in, it is the plea, since that we need a working relationship with russia to dial peril,w g

i think that's the arena within which william barber happens to be operating right now. >> well done. [applause] >> so we're going to go to questions and answers in a second. this is my last question. [laughter] so don't give us a too long answer because we've not to get to people. [laughter] >> all right. >> you set this up, this is perfect. we didn't even prep for this. on 106 you say in another manner -- [inaudible] is at odds because hip-hop is at odds with older forms of cullture, expression and politics. hip-hop culture ripped up the unspoken social agreement that was in place long before the civil rights movement. this agreement held that are respectability politics is crucial for black success. in this vein you talk a lot about you are a big jay-z fan -- >> i am. >> jay-z is all over the book. you also talk about bey, who i love them both. they've been very kind to the movement. >> right. >> can you talk about -- there are people who worry about hip-hop in this moment, people who look at some of the artists who glorify domestic violence and drugs at scale in a way that is not