earlier today was an expelled by republicans and th tennessee state legislator joining us now is jonathan martinef and senior political columnist jonathan, this is, on th outside really it appears to b a catastrophe for republicans. although inside the party i' not sure they necessarily se it like that what are you hearing in term of the governor's calculation, movements on this, and how republicans in the legislature are looking at what's just happened >> sure, the bigger pictur here on tennessee is tha increasingly this is a state that is dominated by republica party. even though, obviously, its tw biggest cities, nashville an memphis are heavily democratic and because of that, the prelude to today, was a series of - between the republican dominated state government, an the more democratic dominate city and county government there are. the republicans wanted their national convention,, alex t be in nashville in 2020. for guests, what the nashville democrats did not want a trump dominated party having their convention in nashville 2024 it's going elsewhere there's been sort of thi kindling a fe

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political senior political economist jonathan martin npr white house correspondent.ing. the white house correspondent. dannaker i'm going to start with you. you said you do not think president biden should announce for a second term. what do you think? >> first of all, he is fired up and ready to go. i was not surprised that april april 25th was the day, for the announcement of course. more to. this is a president who is in a hurry. he has a long view of history to invest in america's future to started will bejob that he completed and i do believe that this person is going to run as if he is 10 points behind understanding that the american peopleld like to see him deliver not just on the economy but on the basic freedoms and democracy that he promised a couple years ago. >> martha: and that is what he concentrated on. he did not talk about his accomplishments in that video. he talked about january 6. he talked about democracy. is this the way to beat donald trump? if donald trump is the nominee? >> well, joe biden is operating as if donald trump is going to be that n

jonathan capehart. this is a sunday show. martinuther king junio famously said the arc of the moral universe is along, and dance towards justice. donald trump dodged the draf and he allegedly does not pa as contractors he called for the death penalt for the central part 5 children wrongly accused and convicted of a vicious crime for which they were eventually exonerated he has been impeached twice. he instigated interactio because he's a sore loser an in roughly 48 hours roughly 50 years of skirting the law, donald trump will finally face a modicum of accountability. the exact charges against th ex president are still unknown because the indictment remains sealed but sources familia with the matter telling pc new the trump faces around 3 charges of documents charg connected to just mone payments for point star stormy daniel 2 sources tell the associate press that includes at least one felony offense congratulations, donald trump. thanks to the manhattan gran jury, you finally won a popula vote joining me,now nick ackerman former and

martin schiller. we're honored to be joined tonight by jonathan freedland, who wrote the escape artist and david remnick will interview the escape tells an incredible story of rudolf vrba. jonathan freedland is a british journalist who writes a weekly column for the guardian. david will do more of an introduction. but let me just talk to you a little about david remnick, the editor of the new yorker. 1998 began his career at the washington post, author of several books, including the bridge king of the world resurrection and leonard's tomb, for which he received the pulitzer prize for nonfiction and a george polk award for excellence in journalism. he became a staff writer at the new yorker in 1992 and has since written more than 200 pieces for. the magazine and since 2004, the magazine. in 2015, he debuted the host of the national radio program and podcast, the new yorker radio hour, which airs weekly on public stations across the u.s. under david's leadership, the new yorker has become the country's most honored magazine, with 192 national magazine award nominations, 53 wins. in 2016, it became the fi

assassination of martin luther king can you please talk to us abou what it means, the fights that you are fighting are still being fought by the young ma on the other side of this? >> well jonathan, i think yo know this, i work with the black panther parting, protesting because people don' have enough to here in california and oakland specifically i am reminded, justin remind me of the arc of the mor universe but it bends towards justice you made a lot of progress, bu we haven't addressed the basic issue of white supremacy and institutional racism jonathan, i remember the picture, i think we may have first met in selma, alabama. he was there with reverend barber, fighting and makin sure that we got out o poverty. fighting for democracy we have to continue this fight it is multi generational we had what? 250 years of enslaved in africans here in this country. this country's dna is whit supremacy and racism this is a marathon it is not a spread jonathan, i just want to say he's continue this fight these young people are leading these young people are showing up and saying we are not waiting anymore, no more waiting, we are going to claim are right in this country, all rights in th

jonathan: would you say tech companies have embraced the sophisticated way of doing that? that is part of the strategy. tom: the site guys is silicon valley -- roger martinersity of toronto. lisa: they also hoarded labor. there was excess. tom: yes, but they are also finding there is an improvement in process when you get rid of the excess. amazon alone is a study. jonathan: the pandemic boom of the firing at amazon is phenomenal. the workforce essentially doubling over a couple of years. morgan stanley results this hour. ♪ lisa: keeping you up-to-date with news from around the world with the first word, i'm lisa mateo. house republicans vote next week on a bill to raise the debt limit and impose new cuts to government spending. president biden and other democratic leaders are refusing to offer concessions. republicans are betting if the house passes the bill, it can ramp up pressure on democrats to consider compromise. the debt ceiling has to be raised or the u.s. risks default. a strong inflation reading reason likelihood for more interest rate hikes at the bank of eglin. consumer prices rose from a year ago, driven by the strongest increase in food pr