his family does not accept any suggestion that jelani day died by suicide.ry from cnn's omar jimenez. >> keep hope alive! >> reporter: it is a call for answers that are far outweighed by questions in the case of jelani day. the county coroner ruling his death a drowning but writing it is still unknown how he got in the river. >> the report yesterday was an insult to our situation. it assumes it was kind of a suicide plan. >> reporter: reverend jesse jackson was among thousands in illinois yesterday, rallying and driving in a processional to raise awareness to demand answers and that federal authorities get more involved. jelani day was last seen on august 24th at a retail store in bloomington, illinois, about 130 miles from chicago. almost 70 miles north is peru, illinois, where his vehicle was found just two days later. from the road it looks like a dead end. you can still see the remnants of when jelani day's vehicle came through here. plants knocked on their sides. the question though is whether he was driving the vehicle when it did. authorities found hi

if i thought that anything jelani would have did something, i can accept that.ois, which is here, almost 70 miles from where he was last seen in bloomington, illinois. moving forward, the family, they're calling for more people to be involved on the investigative side. they have called all the way up to the attorney general, the fbi and others. the fbi has been involved at points, and they told me just today that they've been in communication with the peru police department, which of course, here is in peru, illinois, and providing resources as needed. the police department says they're continuing to comb through hundreds of hours of video footage, and following up with leads, but of course the family says it's not happening fast enough. victor, alisyn. >> omar jimenez, thank you. >>> civil rights attorney, charles cullman joins us now. jelani day's mother, they believe there's something very highly suspect about how he ended up in that river. who could investigate this, since the coroner and the local officials have not given them very speedy answers thus far i

we're in peru, a town that jelani doesn't have any friends, no ties to.as parked in a wooded area that you wouldn't even know how to get to had you not heard about this. >> reporter: when jelani day's body was found in the river, his organs were completely liquid according to the former family attorney after over a week of significant deterioration in the river. the coroner's report said there was no evidence of injury prior to death, including strangulation or assault. >> he doesn't have any skin to determine bruising, so none of this makes sense. you want to tell me that there's no physical trauma done to my child? do i accept that they tell me this is my son? i accept it, but i still need to know why my son is not here anymore because somebody knows. >> reporter: the peru police department writing to cnn in part, there are hundreds of hours of video to look through, numerous follow-ups to conduct. the members of the unit are working tirelessly to find out what happened to jelani day. but not fast enough for a mother left searching for answers. >> would

we're in peru, a town that jelani doesn't have any friends, no, no ties to. car was parked in a wooded area that you wouldn't even knew how to get to had you not heard about this. >> reporter: when jelani day's body was found in the river, his organs were completely liquid, according to the former family attorney. after over a week of significant deterioration in the river. the coroner's report said there was no evidence of injury prior to death, including strangulation or assault. >> he doesn't have any skin to determine bruising. you want to tell me that there's no physical trauma done to my child? do i accept this, they tell me this is my son? i accept it, but i still need to know why my son is not here any more, because somebody knows. >> reporter: the peru police department writing to cnn, in part, there are hundreds of hours of video to look through, numerous follow-ups to conduct. they are working tirelessly to find out what happened to jelani day, but not fast enough for a mother left searching for answers. >> would you believe that somebody with comm

of my voice that heamet him, you wd have loved jelani.oken, but also he was the most caring, compassionate, protective son, grandson, brother, friend, cousin, nephew that you would have wanted to have. jelani was one of a kind. and like i said, i have god blessed me to have five children. those are my five gifts. and now one of them has been taken away from me. one of them was robbed. i was robbed of one of them. and so now i need to know why, why somebody thought it was a good idea to take my son away from me. >> we're so sorry. i just can't say it enough. i'm so sorry for your loss. and also for the lack of answers that you're getting here. haley, if i can ask you, carmen said that you're hearing from local authorities. what are they telling you? >> yeah, i am. i have been in communication with several of the officers. the investigation is ongoing. there is new developments coming every day. but like carmen said, it has been 59 days now. and we're still asking questions every day. and we don't have any answers. we asked more and more qu

and something jelani said i think is really important. the logic of self-preservation and how detached from reality this all is. we are talking about a lot of legislators in states and others who are actually on the same ballots that they're challenging and questioning. 11 of the 15 republican members of the arizona senate were on those maricopa county ballots. people -- legislators in wisconsin, in michigan, congresspeople in georgia, in pennsylvania and elsewhere. they're actually debasing themselves to such a degree that they are questioning the very ballots that gave them their authority in the first place. that's how detached from reality all of this is. >> well, and the thing that's really worrying about that, jelani, is that -- and you're someone who -- i know your history scholarship revolved around states that were not democracies. but when you have a situation in which you remove the election as the determinant, right? of who holds power. you have an election, that's the mechanics of democracy. there's a winner, there's a loser.

. >> let's listen to jelani's mother after his funeral. >> he could have been anybody's son, he could he was my son, and i want to know what happened jelani, so i need the state's attorney to do what he needs to do to get the fbi involved and find out what happened to my son. >> yeah, and you know, as we've covered this, none of these mothers want people to stop searching for answers in the gabb gabby petito case, just focus on our children too. >> and the mother makes it clear, this is not about saying white people who go missing shouldn't have the full force of law enforcement agencies and media covering the stories, but other kids that go missing, other young adults that go missing need that kind of attention because we know that kind of attention leads to results. gabby's body was found, and we know that there are clues that are found that help them find perpetrators of crimes when they are committed like this. hopefully this mom, you know, gets her prayers answered and the fbi does get involved, the state's attorney gets involved, and we get answers to this case. >> she deserves

so that really has to happen. >> professor jelani cobb and michelle goldberg. thank you for starting us off tonight, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, mike pence is now trying to win the votes of the people who said they want to kill mike pence on january 6th. that's next. 6th that's next. ♪darling, i, i can't get enough of your love babe♪ ♪girl, i don't know, i don't know,♪ ♪i don't know why i can't get enough of your love babe♪ ♪oh no, babe girl, if i could only make you see♪ ♪and make you understand♪ get a dozen double crunch shrimp for $1 with any steak entrée. only at applebee's. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. (man 1) oh, this looks like we're in a screen saver. (man 2)th any steak entrée. yeah, but we need to go higher. (man 1) higher. (man 2) definitely higher. (man 1) we're like yodeling high. [yodeling] yo-de-le-he... (man 2) hey, no. uh-uh, don't do that. (man 1) we should go even higher! (man 2) yeah, let's do it. (both) woah! (man 2) i'm good. (man 1) me, too. (man 2) mm-hm. (vo) adventure has a new look. (man 1)

and jelani cobb. he is co-editor of the new book "the matter of black lives."oint of going public with your thinking about this challenge now? >> well, being out of the news business makes it easier. i must admit. i was just -- you know, i watch the news every day and you see all of the dishonesty and you wonder why it isn't called out so much. i was editing stories for four decades. and you know, four decades ago i think there was some similarity in honesty and in corruption with the democratic and republican parties. they were close enough to where, again, as i said in the tweet, if you quoted a republican, quoted a democrat, that added up to somewhat -- to fairness. but you've seen a dramatic problem in my opinion with the republican party going very dishonest, just lies, lies, lies, corruption, corruption, corruption, and the democrats in my opinion becoming -- thinking about what they were 30, 40 years ago. and so you have this gigantic imbalance in how these parties are behaving. in fact, one of the parties isn't really behaving like a party. it's behavin

the mother of jelani day calls for investigation. he went missing in august.week later but not identified until nearly a month after he was reported missing. the cause of death is still unknown. >> i need answers. what happened to cause me to have to lower him to the ground. i need answers. the police departments that were involved in searching for my son and looking for my son and finding answers for my son failed me. they failed my child. >> the fbi field office has declined to answer whether it will answer the question to handle the investigation citing the department of justice policy that it prevents it from commenting on active cases. >>> democrats are moving closer to president biden's domestic agenda. speaker pelosi is hopeful for a vote in the coming week but divisions in the party could still stand in the way. and new mv- you gotta refresh to be fresh! hold up, false start on the spokesperson. save big. order through the app. ♪ ♪ (vo) subaru presents... the underdogs. they may have lost an eye, or their hearing, or their youthful good looks. but ther

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one person who went missing this year, for example, was jelani day. the 25-year-old in illinois grad student's body was identified nearly a month after his disappearance was reported back in august. his mother joins "new day" in the 8:00 hour. >>> all right. to washington now, the full house much representatives is expected to vote today to hold a trump ally steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress. bannon has refused to cooperate with the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection at the capitol. congresswoman liz cheney, one of two republicans on the panel, she urged her gop colleagues to defy party leaders and vote to hold bannon in contempt. >> i ask each one of you to step back from the brink. i urge you to do what you know is right, to think of the long arc of history. we are told that it bends towards justice, but it does so only because of the actions of men and women in positions of public trust. >> but cheney's plea to her gop colleagues didn't work. lawmakers voted along party lines during a house rules committee meeting on t

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