david bakari, we'll take it on the road. thank you very much.'m going to bring in now melanie campbell. she is the president of black participation. she can also add to this conversation. we're so glad you're here, melanie. do you have an event with ser civil rights activists. >> what was the message left for biden? will it motivate him, daca to me. >> i was listening to the conversation right mccarney talked about, we felt the same, with . we still need politicians to do what they need to do because we elected them. i was in a meeting last week with my civil service colleagues. get out here, get out here, use his bully pulpulpit. use his center of gravity. we have to decide through our elected officials to do their jobs. that's why the folks had to fly out of texas. wa what's going on as african-americans in this country, we're not going to stay we're voting rights be shefld for one or two kaex. we want this democracy to still be here because of theeds state laws. >> i could tell through all ofly. it keeps going and going. as a black woman in t

let me start with you, bakari. look. mean, white nationalists are chanting the election was stolen. homeland security officials are now warning of more violence, this summer, because right-wing conspiracy mongers seem to think that trump will be reinstated in august. trump is, still, pushing the big lie. i mean, the insurrection may have been six months ago but this threat is not going anywhere, is it, bakari? >> it's not. but i, also, think that we have to regroup. and understand that this started way before donald trump. like, donald trump is not the root cause of this. he -- he's a symptom. he is emblematic of it. but if we go back to 2008 with the election of barack obama and creation of the tea party in 2010. you began to see this rising. you began to see this bubbling up and it was going unchecked. even in 2015. we are six years away from just a few -- a few weeks ago, when we remembered the -- the victims of the charleston massacre. when dylan ruth went in and murdered nine black folk on a wednesday night in bible

bakari, i don't know if you've had an opportunity to watch on cnn.e been very sick and now are regretting not getting vaccinated and have had a change of heart. let's hope more people do that. >> no, my prayers go out to mark and his family. my story is very well known of seeing audiences and you and mark and everybody lifted us up in prayer. my daughter is immunosuppressed. she's a liver transplant baby. you're not getting the vaccine for yourself. i'm a huge nfl fan and watching the ignorance of some of my friends who play in the league and some of their teammates, this is not about you. listen, bill gates ain't putting 5g into your arm. this is about making sure that other individuals who cannot go out there and do the things they need, that they can actually live a healthy life because you did what was necessary and you were selfless. so get the vaccine. >> thank you very much. >>> an olympic update when we come back. n, plus have high blood pressure. they may not be able to take just anything for pain. that's why doctors recommend tylenol®. it w

but go on, bakari. i'll give you the last word. >> i don't disagree with you because i know you've been there, and i know what you all went through to pass the affordable care act. i know how difficult it was. when i think about it, i think about tom pair yell la who sacrificed his seat. >> and others. >> he's one who jumps out to me. my only point is just -- and just purely looking at today's speech, it has the urgency of his words, and it should have the passion thereof. then we have to do more than that, that we deserve more than that. and to ask, to ask a base, to ask the voters who have come out many times before, just come out one more time, now that's a fight i'm going to be with you on. but just know we're making it that much more difficult. >> that's got to be the last word. i've got to run. i'm sorry. >> we can do our own show like this. >> we'll take it on the road. thank you very much. i need to bring in now melanie campbell, the president of the national coalition of black center for partic

bakari, let's start with you. a major speech on voting rights. do you think he has done enough on this issue? >> i mean, that's a tough question. um, i'm not sure that we need any more speeches on voting rights legislation. i think we all know the import of this issue. this is the life and legacy of someone, like john lewis. in fact, there is a piece of legislation that bears his name. we know that the john roberts supreme court has gutted the voting rights act and it's just hanging on by the proverbial nub, now, after its most recent ruling. so, i think, we're beyond the point of speeches. although, i look forward to hear his words. i think that if these words continue to fall on the deaf ears of kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, then all of this will be for not. those two individuals are the ones that have to care about minority communities in this country voting and it's apparent they do not. >> and you are talking about, also, you know, their support for this bill. but also, the filibuster, too, is part of this

and that's the problem with the republican party -- >> what about where you are, bakari?ill like nikki haley. she's a friend of mine. but you're right. i think that nikki haley is a perfect example of it. ted cruz is a perfect example of it. lindsey graham is a perfect example of it. all of these individuals who have some independent streak who stood for something. listen, nikki haley went to nine funerals for the charleston massacre. she helped take down the confederate flag. and now to see her cower to donald trump, to see her beg and plead for his support, that's not the person -- that's not -- >> i'm mad at trump, but i'm much madder at the people around him that enable him. >> mark, let me ask you, we spoke about your brother-in-law who was sick in the hospital with covid and can you give us an update, how is he doing? >> happy to say that in the last 48 hours things have turned for the -- are better. they're positive, headed in a better direction. and he's a very fit guy even though he's 70 and he's really fighting hard and doing everything that doctors are asking h

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bakari sellers, bakari, good to see you. >> good evening. >> you say joe biden is wrong on this.> i mean, it's no doubt. you framed the question perfectly, let me just say. joe biden really didn't have an answer. i think i have a couple of issues with joe biden and his policy, one is on marijuana, the other is on voting rights and the filibuster. he's just flat out wrong. and i think it's okay for those of us who support joe biden to be able to be critical and criticize him for not moving this country in the right direction on these issues. the fact is that we must push forward even if we have to do so alone on the issue of voting rights. if lyndon johnson was waiting and playing the same games that joe biden is playing today, we would not have the civil rights act. his inaction, the lack of urgency, the talking about john lewis in one breath but then sitting back and being passive when it comes to getting rid of the filibuster just for this narrow purpose, is just -- it's not what we need when we must have what king called the fierce urgency of now. i love joe biden, i hope he s

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let's discuss with cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, cnn political commentator bakari sellersand our political director david chalian. we know david was not going to be able to be kept far away from that. and ryan nobles is still with us. with republicans, you know, pulling out of this january 6th committee, how incredible is it to see this united front between republican congresswoman liz cheney and the house speaker nancy pelosi? it's pretty extraordinary. they are working together on this. you can't break them apart. >> yeah, it's really a classic case of strange bedfellows. obviously there's no love lost, jim, between liz cheney and kevin mccarthy. there's been a rift there for a couple months now. but to see liz cheney take on her former partner in the leadership of the republican conference and congress today calling him unqualified to be speaker because he has not shown a commitment to the constitution or democracy. this is hard-hitting stuff from the former number three in the house republican leadership who is doing nancy pelosi's work of pushing back on kevin mccarth

on wednesday, family attorney bakari sellers said brown didn't get justice in life and has yet to findustice in death. >> andrew brown's voice will be heard. the sheriff cannot just run to fox news. he is going to have to sit in front of us and have a deposition and answer the questions about his officers violated their own policy about shooting into vehicles where no one poses a threat. amy: and jamaica is planning to seek billions of dollars in reparations for slavery from britain. jamaica was a british colony from the mid-17th century until its independence in 1962 and remains part of the commonwealth today. an estimated 600,000 africans were brought to jamaica as slaves. olivia grange, the minister of culture, gender, entertainment and sports, told reuters -- "our african ancestors were forcibly removed from their home and suffered unparalleled atrocities in africa to carry out forced labor to the benefit of the british empire. redress is well overdue." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman in new yo

you -- you and i and bakari had this discussion, i think, maybe last week. >> two weeks ago. >> i keepg the question. what would dow? what what would you do? he does not have the votes and what he was saying to you is we're on the cusp. i'm not going -- i don't have 50 votes to do away with the filibuster. this is in the bubble box, above his head. i am on the cusp of making a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure that will unlock a reconciliation bill with all-50 democrats onboard. that are going to have real-positive impacts on people's lives. people. particularly, people in need. but all people in this country. and i don't want to blow that up. that's what he was saying. that is reality, too. so, you know, i -- i just -- it is -- it is -- it is satisfying to say, well, gee, he's the president. he should just compel them to do that. and the republicans. well, i remember john mccain turning his thumb down, despite all the pressure that donald trump put on him. and that's why the affordable care act is, still, here today. senators do have prerogatives and there are limits to what pres