just to be totally clear, we feel sorry for jacob blake. he got for it hurt.hange his life forever. but is not the neat little morality tale we thought it was. is it? and again, we are not telling you that, we are not correcting the lie because we are smug and self-satisfied and enjoy highlighting the other people's errors. we are just defending our norms here, as any americans would. it just feels like the right thing to do. but it is a never ending task. to give many examples, here's one for the weekend. hundreds of activists gathered in new york to stage a march against white nationalism, seeking justice for an 84-year-old man from thailand who had been flashed with a box cutter on the subway. a lot of violence on new york subway right now. protesters stormed through washington square park chanting slogans like "whose streets? our streets!" one held a sign that white nationalism is the virus. maybe it is the virus but it is hard to know who has been infected with. police have now arrested a 19 year old man called anton watson for the crime. let's say it is

i was a public defender in kenosha county when the police shot jacob blake.nessed the city i worked in burned and devastated and recently district attorney michael gravely denied to prosecute the police officers responsible. so my question to you is what will your administration do to correct these wrongs that we witnessed not just in kenosha, but across this country? and what will we do to bridge the gap between communities and their police? >> three things. first of all, i was a public defender, as well. and i think it's high time that we had public defenders being paid the same as prosecutors. my son, by the way, was a great prosecutor. he was the attorney general of the state of delaware, and he was a federal prosecutor before that. and so i'm not condemning all prosecutors, but i am saying that it matters that you have adequate defense and you are able to attract people who, in fact, can live on being able to be that public defender, number one. number two, we are pushing very hard and i think we'll get it done, is the legislation relating to what is app

we have example after example where terence crutcher was walking away with his hands up, jacob blake junior trying to get away from the police, laquan mcdonald. in all of these situations, the police trying to say they were in fear of their life even though the black people were running away from them when they killed us. so that is why we have to pass this legislation and have systematic reform and a change in culture so we can truly say that the courts respect black lives matter. amy: ben crump, i would ask about the new feral grand jury that has been impaneled in minneapolis and the justice department has called new witnesses as part of its investigation into derek chauvin, the former police officer who goes on trial next month. on the murder charge of george floyd. the significance of this and could this lead to more charges filed against chauvin? >> we certainly expect the feral government to bring charges against officer derek chauvin in violation of the civil rights of george floyd, who he tortured to death by putting his knee on his neck for eight minutes, 46 seconds. and as

jacob blake in wisconsin is walking around his car and when he opens his door they claim to have seen a knife in there and shoot him five times. shot at him seven times, i think it him five times just by spotting with theireyes . no attempt to pick the knife up and this young white man stands next to him. this is the kind of thing i wish obama would show some sensitivity towards and charles blows article says it's a peculiar post-presidency where you're basically trying young back black people and for the first time there's progress. obama has been facing a little criticism within black communities that were low to critique him before but are now more willing to at least engage him in some reasonable conversation that we should have engaged in when he was president of the united states of america >> your letter to george floyd for me, that chapter was probably the hardest to read. you break it down almost 2nd by second. it's devastating. and you identify what appears to you to be ghastly satisfaction that shows that they seem to having crushing george floyd's neck . given that the pol

applaud joe biden and kamala harris when they were just candidates for coming out after kenosha and jacob blake was shot six or seven times and saying all of this has to stop. there were instances where it was to say enough is enough. people were being murdered and crowds had shifted from protesting to rioting. there's no comparison to be made with the president of the united states of america feeding his supporters lies for months and standing up in front of them calling out people that want to certify the election as people not being on their side and putting the blame on mike pence who they wanted to go and hang. they talked about that outside of the capitol building and sitting and for hours and not sending in support. i hope some of these questions, maybe not mash -- marsha blackburn, but maybe mitt romney why didn't the president send in the national guard to save his president? i don't think republicans will change their votes. i'll be surprised if bill cassidy change his vote. this all came from contesting the election. for katie saying that 2016 was invalid or what stacy abrams did in

floyd, breonna taylor, tamir rice, trayvon martin, ahmaud arbery, pamela turner, sandra bland, and jacob blake, eli j in colorado, an names beyond. sean bell. eric garner. mothers who have -- michael brown. that's why we have such pain. and i guess my constituent, the family li that's become america's family, along with all the other mothers and fathers, george floyd, grew up in houston, texas. in the cuny homes, mother was the queen of public housing, took in children, fed children. big george is what he was called. big man. took his brothers an sisters under his wing. george floyd played basketball. my recollection is in china. with yao ming, when they were young players, not pros. this is the 100th anniversary of some of those like the names that i called. lifes cut down. this depiction is captured negros on way to convention hall during the tulsa race riot. they were captured. there was no justice. 300 negroes, black americans, were buried in an up marked grave as we were told. this is how it was. this is how it was. this is how it was. the congressional black caucus will be commemorating

just to be clear, i'm not condemning peaceful ral lives in memory of george floyd or jacob blake, but rather we simply take advantage of protests. no form, no form of extremism should ever be tolerated. period. we can't pretend one side is good and one side is bad. we need to use common sense and work with one another am we live in a country where freedom of speech is not only allowed, but it is encouraged. it needs to happen without destructive and divisive actions, and that's the real devil in the details here with all of this. our voices as members of congress need to be used to soothe rather than to inflame. and i just wanted to agree with jonathan green on section 230. i think there's support for legislation along those lines on the republican and the democratic side. and i think you're absolutely right. they've got an way with too much, too arbitrarily, and thank you for making that statement. i have a couple of questions, and one of them is, and let me find it. to chris rodriguez. chris, what i wanted to ask was , how much is too much when we talk about the kind of protection -

that jacob blake was unarmed. that was told over and over.den story was nothing. these big lies are parroted by the media over and over. the costs are real. let's not pretend they don't have real cost. violence, human life. someone has to start telling the truth. we can start right here, with the coronavirus origin story, jedediah. jedediah: yeah. it has been hard to watch, this profound lack of interest particularly because covid has been all over the news now, rightfully so for a year. we're talking about deaths. we're talking about sickness. we're talking about vaccines. we're talking about long covid and people elongated symptoms, businesses have been shut down. there have been so many horrific side-effects of this virus, healthwise and otherwise, that it would be insane to me to not have a curiosity as to where this began and want to dig into that, saying where did it come from, instead of writing everyone off who was trying to figure it out from the get-go, maybe have genuine curiosity around investigative interest figuring this out. i

i'm beginning to think whatever the system tells you that jacob blake was unarmed.ink whatever the system tells you the truth is exactly the opposite of what is actually true. here's another story that's going to come as a real shock to you if you haven't been paying attention to the truth. the cdc now has issued their requirements for school reopenings. brace yourself. here's what's needed for schools to reopen. universal and correct use of masks. physical distancing. hand washing. he had cut, cleaning and maintaining healthy facilities, contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine. i know we here and i can't see you there, jedediah through the screen right now. i know are smiling and we can at times get is that correcty. this is because all of these lives these lies have caused. the cdc is issuing guidance we knew to be true it's not months ago it is almost a year ago, jedediah. jedediah: here is a quote from cdc guidelines. this operational strategy presents a pathway to reopen schools and help them remain open through consistent use of mitigation

it had nothing to do with george floyd or jacob blake, get that outrage was taken out on them and theyrviews by some of the big outlets. do you have any final thoughts about protecting our rights and what it means when thugs take over? >> i think the videos we took and the coverage we got throughout the whole year, it speaks for itself. all you really have to do to get an accurate depiction of what is going on is find these people on the ground putting in the hours and the efforts, it will paint a better picture. something better could have been done earlier and people would not have died. >> in >> the federal government is only so much, what we saw across the country was local cities, to highlight the importance of national elections but also local and state. when stuff hits the fan it is a real chance. unfortunately we saw that they will abandon you so it is up to you to provide results and for your safety we have rights, use them. >> if you are not reading them, you're missing out, thank you very much. [applause] >> what are you doing? >> trying to sign up for health care, a lot of