this is civil rights, according to kristen clarke.he wrong skin color, you don't get into college. she will end the doj's lawsuit over its openly racist admissions practices if you are asian or white, south asian, too. your civil rights are not as important to the head of the doj's new civil right division. that sounds a little backwards to you, you should know kristen clarke is not stopping there. she also think identification cards are racist, but only in certain situations. if you buy a gun, of course you have to show a i.d., that is not racist. but if you want to vote, you shouldn't be allowed. be forced to show i.d., because that is racist. in september of 2017, she cleaned her reasoning behind this on this show. >> are there and millions of people -- you know the answer is no, they aren't. >> there are 600,000 people who don't have conceal and carry permit -- >> passport, or else they can't -- >> tucker -- >> is it racist to require a photo i.d. to get a job or stay in a hotel or buy a gun or fly a plane? >> no. >> so why is it

amy: kristen clarke, thank you for being with us, president and executive director of the lawyers' committeeor civil rights under law. juan, i think your have one more question before we lose kristen. i want to make sure you get that in. juan: i wanted to ask about this issue of the rally of the pro-trump folks in front of congress. i don't think i recall a rally of calling for a protests in washington. i heard a president speaking sometimes or addressing a ral but they support it, but especially in the context of the fact these 10 former secretaries, of the living former secretaries of defense issued this amazing letter this week calling for no intervention of the military on the issue of the election. you have some concern about possible violence, not only by the right wing, but possibly by agent provocateurs who may pose as leftists or progressives trying to confront these right-wing folks to devolve into possible violence that one is looking for? >> and admin respects, what we saw in december 12 was that chaos and violence that infused when you combine toxic election disinformation with

we told you earlier this week about a top joe biden appointee called kristen clarke.ery soon she could be running the civil rights division of the justice department, one of the most powerful law enforcement entities in the united states and the world, really. kristen clarke believes that melanin makes people who possess it superior to those who don't. if there's an effort to silence that story. it's so over-the-top, no one will talk about it. what they don't want to dom maggio to see, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have one hundred thousand dollars or more of life insurance you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit conventrydirect.com to find out if you policy qualifies. or call the number on your screen. coventry direct, redefining insu

we told you earlier this week about a top joe biden appointee called kristen clarke.ery soon she could be running the civil rights division of the justice department, one of the most powerful law enforcement entities in the united states and the world, really. kristen clarke believes that melanin makes people who possess it superior to those who don't. there's an effort to silence that story. it's so over-the-top, no one will talk about it. what they don't want you to see, straight ahead. ♪ ♪ over-the-top, no one will talk about it. what they don't wanttttt ♪ if i could be you and you could be me ♪ ♪ for just one hour ♪ ♪ if we could find a way to get inside each other's mind ♪ ♪ walk a mile in my shoes ♪ ♪ walk a mile in my shoes ♪ ♪ well before you abuse, criticize and accuse ♪ ♪ walk a mile in my shoes ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: earlier this week we brought you exclusive reporting on a woman called kristen clarke. she's about to become a significant figure in this country, she is joe biden's pick to head the civil rights division. clarke wrote that black people might have su

with vanita gupta and kristen clark. >> eric swalwell said in the last hour that what he wanted to get to the bottom of and any investigation of what happened yesterday on the capitol was whether or not there was help from the inside. and i don't know exactly what he meant, members or perhaps the police. what are your concerns in that area and do you share his wanting to get to the bottom of that? >> well, i absolutely believe that we have to get to the bottom of it. i had told my family that i was very worried about being out on the street in d.c. yesterday and the day before. but that i was going to be in the capitol and that was the safest place in the country. needless to say, i would have never imagined in a million years that the capitol police would have been overrun like that. it is just inexcusable. it is my understanding that the force is over 2,000 people and there were 500 on duty. so what is the explanation? that is why i thought it was so important to publicize the pictures. they acted with complete impugnity as you mentioned a few minutes ago. so do think that we have to

kristen clarke is one of the best. think she will be great as the civil rights division. , she's on a, look personal shortlist for supreme court. i think she is that kind of serious and important person. so i'm very happy with that team. you talk about the power they have. that will have a lot to do with garland and cell. the fact they were all announced together, which does not always happen, suggests that department will work hand-in-hand, hand in glove is perhaps a better analogy, so i have hopes it will have real power, real authority -- i think you put it right, to restore divisions of the justice department that have atrophied or in some cases willingly been dismantled by bill barr and jeff sessions. take the civil rights division for instance. one of the main ways the federal government has for imposing standards on local police is through the use of something called consent decree. the department investigates you to avoid federal charges, your jurisdiction, or police department enters a consent decree with the

lisa monaco, vanita gupta, and kristen clarke. entering the department of justice will be a homecoming for me. my first job after being a law judicialserving as a law clerk was to work for the then attorney general. ben leavy and griffin bell, the first attorneys general appointed after watergate. attorney general civiletti continued their work to put those norms into written policies. those policies included guaranteeing the independence of the department of partisan influence in law enforcement investigations, establishing guidelines for fbi investigations, ensuring respect for the professionalism of the doj's lawyers and agents, and setting out principles to guide prosecutorial discretion. those policies became part of the dna of every career lawyer and agent. if confirmed, my mission as attorney general will be to reaffirm those policies as the principles upon which the department operates. as ed leavy said at his own swearing in, nothing can weaken the quality of life or more imperiled the realism of the goals we all hold dea

lisa monaco, vanita gupta and kristen clarke. it will be a kind of homecoming for me. my first job after serving as a judicial law clerk was to work as a special assistant for the attorney general cippoletti. the first attorneys general had enunciated the norms that would ensure adherence to the rule of law. attorney general cippoletti took to continue to work on crafting those norms into written policies. those policies included guaranteeing the independence of the department of partisan influence in law-enforcement situations,regulating communications with the white house , espousing guidelines fbi. ensuring respect for the professionalism of doj's lawyers and agents and setting out principles to guide the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. those policies became part of the dna of every career lawyer and agent. confirm, my mission is attorney general would be to reaffirm those policies and principles upon which the departmentoperates . as ed leavy said at his own swearing, nothing can more week and the quality of life or more in peril the realization of the goals

joining me now is kristen clark, president and director of the lawyers committee for civil rights understen, you had recently written an article about that last million maga march, particularly the ataggitacking historically black churches. donald trump seems itching for his last chance to bring the military in or call the national guard up or do whatever it is he does. what do you suggest happens on wednesday? >> we should all be gravely concerned about these continued baseless attempts to challenge and final and fair outcome of the 2020 election. these efforts, which have included lawsuits, that have failed by the dozen, you know, have also resulted in violence. they resulted in political violence. we have seen elected officials such as secretary of state in michigan joslin benson face death threats and and we've seen grim racial violence in our streets. a stop ended in an ugly grim display of violence in the streets of our nation's capital and ended with black lives matter signs being ripped from historically black churches, including metropolitan ame and churches that date back to t

after an outcry on campus, kristen clark suggested she didn't necessarily believe what she had writtenarvard crimson," left-wing paper did not buy that explanation. does she or doesn't she? wrote the editors. so far she has given us and every indication that she does, and indeed, she did appear just a month later kristin clark noted trinidadian anti-semite tony martin to speak on campus. martin a professor at wellesley college a self published manifesto called "the jewish onslaught." escalating jewish onslaught against the black people. now, for martin van slyke kristin clark from of the speech at harvard did not disappoint. he attacked and judaism as a religion. tony martin spent final years to holocaust denial organizations on topics of of tactics. kristin clark strongly approved of tony martin and we are not speculating because as she told the crimson after his speech "professor martin is an intelligent, well versed, black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable facts." so we can, directly from kristin clark, tony martin's anti-semitism was based on "indisputable fact

to see our last interview with kristen clarke just this week, go to democracynow.org.in kentucky, the louisville police department has officially fired two detectives involved in the killing of breonna taylor, after the two men received pre-termination letters last week. taylor, a 26-year-old black emergency room technician, was shot to death in her own home on march 13, sparking mass protests. the officers are detective myles cosgrove, who fired the shot that killed taylor, and detective joshua jaynes, who prepared the search warrant that led to the fatal raid. no one has been criminally charged over breonna taylor's death. newly elected illinois congressmember mary miller has received widespread condemnation for praising hitler. miller made the comment at a moms for america rally in d.c. on tuesday. >> hitler was right on one thing. he said whoever has youth, has the futu. amy: illinois governor j.b. pritzker, who is jewish, called miller's remarks unfathomable and disgusting during a news conference wednesday. >> hitler got nothing right. this rhetoric has no place

kristen clarke will head the division.larke has a history that some republicans that if you democrats find troubling. >> the civil rights division represents the moral center. >> president biden's nominee to have the civil rights division is under fire for past comments and actions when she was president of harvard's black student association. kristen clarke wrote in "the harvard crimson" newspaper in october 1994 "black infants sit, stand, crawl sooner than whites. adding skin color endows blacks with better mental, physical and spiritual ability something with cannot be measured based on eurocentric standards. coastal part of an article criticizing a 1994 book on the bell curve which question the intellectual ability of black students. clarke organized a campus event featuring professor tony martin, author of "the jewish onslaught" who made anti-semitic comments about jews persecuting blacks clarke told the publication it was a mistake and "i unequivocally denounce anti-semitism." about her black supremacy comments, she

tapped to serve as deputy attorney general and two highly regarded prominent civil rights attorneys kristen clark and venita gupta to fill out the other positions. >> let's go to kristen walker at the white house, where this is essentially all landing, what is the reaction, what are we hearing today? >> it's been a fairly quiet day here at the white house, lester, because the president has remained behind closed doors. we know that he gave out the medal of freedom to three golfers, one posthumously but no press was allowed inside that event and it does come as we are reporting, and reported overnight, that tlfhere were conversations, informal conversations about invoking the 25th amendment here behind the scenes in the trump administration. now, those preliminary conversations were started at the staff level and it's not clear how high they have gone up but i spoke with a white house official earlier today and asked bluntly has this been something that's been raised directly with the vice president. the answer, just a short while ago, lester, was that it has not yet been raised directly with the

even more fair and more equitable for assistant attorney general for civil rights, i nominate kristen clark, who has spent her career advocating for greater equality and equity in our justice system the daughter of jamaican immigrants now, don't think this has been designed here. [ laughter ] i'm still looking for an irishman all kidding aside. daughter of jamaican immigrants, she's one of the distinguished, she began her career, her legal career in the very same office she's now nominated to lead. her previous tenure with the justice department saw her take on some of the most complex civil rights cases from voting rights to redistricting challenges to prosecuting hate crimes and human trafficking she's earned accolades throughout her career, including as the head of the civil rights bureau for her home state of new york, where she's led the charge to end the school-to-prison pipeline and root out discrimination in housing and in law enforcement. she currently leads one of the nation's top civil rights organizations, where she promotes greater equity in voting rights, in our education syst

just like kristen clarke, joe biden's pick to head the civil rights division, catherine lehman believesrance matters more than what they do. because there are groups in america, particularly african-americans who are discriminated against and historically. this is a way to make good on that. how does it make you feel when you see the numbers that foreign-born lack students displace african-american students, especially prestigious schools at a high rate, and the school gets to say they are diverse when their leading indicator of the nigerian ambassador. it doesn't that seem like a perversion of the purpose? >> it might be a perversion of the purpose. i haven't seen those numbers, that's not my experience from investigating schools. i need to resist your reduction of the applicant to a particular characteristic. >> they are completely race conscious in the way they do admissions. >> that is not clue stomach true. >> tucker: you can't reduce people to their race, you have to look at the whole person. if that's the point we are making, and to make night. he's a member of the u.s. commissio

department will be run by three women, lisa monaco serving as deputy attorney general, anita gumpta, kristen clarke, executive director of the national lawyers committee for civil rights tapped to lead the department's civil rights division. leading up to wednesday's violence, that pro-trump mob also saw their majority evaporate in the senate when jon ossoff became the youngest senator elected since joe biden himself. he's also the first jewish senator ever elected in georgia. and reverend raphael warnock, georgia's first black senator, the first ever black democrat to represent a southern state in the senate. and only the 11th black senator ever in america. but just because america is changing doesn't mean all americans are changing with it. anyone who's paid attention during this presidency knows that. while shocking to see, truly shocking, wednesday was predictable. as zach carter at the handcuffington post writes, no one is confused about the danger he represents to democracy, the accumulated evidence includes a murderous charlottesville, virginia neonazi riot and a shoutout to a street gang. w

to serve with merrick garland 2 of them prominent civil rights attorneys va need a good turn kristen clarke he talked about. the need to bring the country together in that way so we're hearing from joe biden certainly condemnation of the president's actions and what happened at the capitol but not a prescription for how to deal with that instead showing that he will leave enforcement of the law to those who are charged with that job as opposed to trying to dictate how the law should be enforced from the very eventful transition period for the president elect to christen salumi with the latest from wilmington delaware thank you. still to come on the news hour too risky for facebook and blocked from twitter social media giants clamp down on trump's they've wrecked lines to his supporters rolling up their sleeves to protect their community but it's feared coronavirus could soon overwhelm a british hospitals and we'll have the action from the dakar rally in saudi arabia that's coming up in sports. a 2nd state of emergency will come into effect in tokyo on friday the months long restrictions are

kristen clark, executive director of the national -- for civil rights tapped to lead the civil rights division. th jon ossoff became the youngest senator elected since joe biden, himself. also, the first jewish senator, ever, elected in georgia. and reverend raphael warn ongoiwarnock, georgia's first black senator and only the 11th black senator, ever, in america. but just because america is changing doesn't mean all americans are changing with it. anyone who's paid attention during this presidency knows that. while shocking to see, truly shocking, wednesday was predictable. as zack carter at the "huffington post" rights of the president, nobody in american politics is confused about the danger he represents to democracy. a murderous charlottesville, virginia neo-nazi riot in 2017, and a shout-out to a street gang from a presidential debate stage, last fall. in 11 days, donald trump, he is out. what will it take for trumpism to go out with him? with me now, alicia garza, author of "the purpose of power, how we come together when we fall apart." which seems more prescient, than ever. c

and he's also evaluating two prominent civil rights attorneys, vanita gupta and kristen clark. and the reason why those two names matter is because i've been talking to civil rights advocates who had some concerns about the fact that they thought that merrick garland as attorney general might be too deferential to law enforcement interests given his background as a prosecutor. but kristin clark leading the civil rights division and vanita gupta serving as associate attorney general, if they're all confirmed, i think, goes a long way towards assuaging those concerns. and in the statement the biden transition team put out, they said, joe biden's overall approach will be to make the case that the justice department overall will serve as america's lawyers and not the president's lawyers, steph. >> jeff bennett, thank you. kelly o'donnell, leigh ann caldwell, pete williams, gabe gutierrez, thanks to all of you. we so appreciate your extraordinary work over these last 24 hours. >>> we've got a lot more ahead in the wake of an unforgettable day on capitol hill as the world watches the