benjamin chavis.emocrats (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001, independents it will mark 60 years for the" i have a dream" speech. do you think the state of the "i have a dream" speech is in america today? guest: we have made great progress is america, but if dr. king could speak and address his speech from 60 years ago, he would say we are still not there yet. we are still evolving toward a more perfect union. have we made progress in 60 years? yes. but have we made enough progress? no. we need to keep fighting for racial justice, climate justice, environmental justice. we need to work on bipartisanship. that is why i am so excited about no labels and the caucus -- of the problem solvers in congress. we have bills because of bipartisanship. we got the chips bill because a bipartisan ship. i believe that we will do something with the debt limit coming up that we have to debate. hopefully, we would be able to solve that in a bipartisan way. we would have to fix social security and medicare. we ha

benjamin chavis. (202) 748-8000 , republicans (202) 748-8001 , independents (202) 748-8002 host: it will mark 60 years for the i have a dream speech where do you think the statement for the have a dream speech is in america today? guest: we have made great progress is america but if dr. king could speak, and address his speech from 60 years ago, he would say we are still not there yet. have we made progress in 60 years? yes. but have we made enough progress? no. we need to keep writing for racial justice, environmental justice, climate justice. we need to work on bipartisanship. that is why i am so excited about no labels and the caucus in congress. we have bills because of bipartisanship. we got the chair because of bipartisanship. i believe that we will do something with the debt limit coming up that we have debate. hopefully will would be able to solve that in a bipartisan way. we would have to fix social security and medicare. we have to do that in a bipartisan way. i am hopeful, but to answer you

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