in the pantheon of racism i'm thinking of the edmund pettus bridge i begin to think of a civil rights i'm thinking of all these terrible things not some pimple faced sorry kid who said something stupid again so what it's the mob it's all about the mob is what we're talking about and i think as journalists to there's a certain amount of there's a certain amount that people don't understand like you take a lot of heat whether you're at r.t. or c.n.n. or wherever you go i mean take heat for whatever you say because they're going to say well you had a choice to do this or you you decided that that was your way and normally i would rarely and i'm sure you could check the tape i've rarely ever. said something nice about tucker carlson or said i agree with something he sad but in this instance i actually do want to because he had something really interesting to say about. the question he asked about the carson king saga and who's really responsible for what happened and who is responsible and take a listen. you know still though at the des moines register carol hunter she's the editor who ma

the edmund pettus bridge. re is a white man on the couch a thousand miles away watching marchers from selma get stopped on a bridge in alabama by state troopers who then tear gassed them and charged in with billy clubs and started viciously beating them. what did this guy on a couch in new jersey do? he did not allow his inability to do everything to undermine his determination to do something. he stood up from the couch and said, i cannot go to alabama. i cannot afford a plane ticket. but i will do what is a powerful american tradition. i will do the best i can with what i have where i am. he was a patriot. he showed his love. he didn't talk about it. he called around to see who needed an hour of pro bono work. he found a group of activists, mostly white people, too, who were trying to do something about real estate segregation in new jersey. he said they started working and they got other volunteers demanding from their neighbors. by 1969, they had a whole system working. he said i will never forget the , day

at nuremberg" on tv and they interrupted that movie to show a bridge in alabama called the edmund pettus bridge. and they saw john lewis and other marchers who were beaten viciously by alabama state troopers. we all owe a debt that we cannot repay. we all drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty that we did not dig. this is the moment in america where we need a leader that can inspire us to get up and fight again, that we have truly a moral moment in america like it was back in 1965. if you give me a chance to lead, i will cause what john lewis says is good trouble. i will challenge us. i will ask more from you than any other president has ever asked before because we -- >> thank you, senator. >> -- need to mobilize a new american movement. keep me on this stage. keep me on this race. it is time we fight and fight together. please go to corybooker.com. >> senator booker, thank you very much. mr. steyer, your closing statement. >> last time i was not this stage i started by saying everybody here is more patriotic and more competent than the criminal in the white house. and i stand by that