. >> i hate to pull these historical figures out of my hat, but i once talked to howard baker who was reagan's chief of staff at the time. sorry to sound like someone who is 900 years old, but i did. i said to howard baker, you know, given the things that reagan did in iran contra and there were big investigations and people were taken to the and howard baker said, i spoke to democratic leaders in the congress. Ñ■i'm quoting baker. q■and weü$■dedñr■ that the couny could not go through anothert■o■ nixon experience, where you are inx■ danger of a president being impeached and possibly sent to prison. so, we just agreeqamong ourselves that this would never go that far. this is what i mean by, we are waking up in a different country tomorrow. i■that must never happen again. the president has to be bound by the same laws as the rest of us. t■and if you do not like what we saw from donald trump, in the lastt■t■ seven 9"■rs, that's the only way it'sr i■>> indeed,j■ a man. and you are younger than springtime, michael beschloss, and full of such gr#!2■ information. >> thank you, thank you. q■w

senator howard baker, you recall a republican from tennessee, also a republican leader in this body for a number of years, he had these words to say, the economy of this nation can absorb the costs of cleaning up pollution without inflation and without a loss and economic productivity. that's a quote. he went on to say, if we cannot swim in our lakes and rivers, if we cannot breathe the air god has given us, what other comforts can life offer us? senator baker's words were true then, and they ring true still today. thanks to the clean water act, the nation's waters are remarkably cleaner than five decades ago. the same cuyahoga river that caught fire all those years ago is cleaned up and home to more than 60 species of fish. the system fact is the clean water act is our best tool to safeguard the nation's waters from persistent pollution, protecting our health and our environment. we cannot afford to turn back the clock on these protections for our nation's waters and those who depend on them. in a nutshell, that's why i support president biden's commonsense rule defining which of our n

that's john lewis, diane nash, bernard lafayette, and the howard university people, stokely, cleve sellers, myself. and the one thing ms. bakerd to us "do not become a youth division of the southern christian leadership conference." - [ella] what was needed was not what we had been working with before. i knew enough about the egos that were involved. i better stop me from talking. i might tell the truth. - [stokely] the method of sclc, was to come through to a town that was suffering under oppression. rabble rouse the town, agitate the town, bring out the town, and mobilize activity to hit against levels of injustice. here, of course, dr. martin luther king, being one of the greatest mobilizers played a crucial role. and so once you knew that dr. king was coming to a town, that was it. that town was going to turn out. there was no question here. you would come mobilize the people, kick up a lot of dust, and then leave. maybe a legislation would be passed, but where there would be no organized force here, even to take proper advantage of that legislation, which was passed. - [james] you know, we wanted, you know, a movement th