i have some very sad news for all of you, and that is that martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis. martin luther king dedicated his life. to love and to justice between fellow human beings. you know, actually standing at the intersection of 17th street and broadway, broadway and annapolis, indiana, both 6202. this is the spot where on april 4th, robert kennedy gave his impromptu speech, so to speak, informing the crowd of martin luther king's assassination. i was in a position on this side. so if you look at the picture up there of robert kennedy at the time he gave his speech, of course, this a collage. but that was that was the angle from which i was looking at. and i was no more than 25 feet away. so i was relatively close being here as early as i was. so i got a good spot. we did get here early. 24 years old at the time, just got out of the navy the year before i came home and in annapolis it changed somewhat. i mean, this was still a predominantly black neighborhood. i had spent four years in the navy and become a journeyman printer and i came home and i co

martin luther king used to say, i'd rather be dead than afraid. coward. on the legal front,front, sociac front, we should remember martin luther king■u jr. in the paddy wagon with just him and a german shepherd. his father told me a num -- he could not walk a straight line. all he could say is, this is the cross. we must band further freedom of our people -- for the freedom of our people. the cross is not something you talk about or bear. sometimes you end up on that cross. look at all the martyrs right now burying that cross. their spir is alive in this room. their spirit is still strong in this room. and we will never,et their resilience and sacrifice. that's to oppressed people wherever you go. our spirit as human beings is never crushed. that's why america has such a crucial role to play and why the coming together of the black freedom struggle connected to the critique of the american in poverty and■u great, and scapegoating on the most vulnerable, and the bringing together of those various groups of all■ colors who are willing to say, we are

i said, i think you are better than martin luther king. mlk times two? did someone check the math on that? this guy doesn't even like mlk! but trump just ranks all black people on a scale of "how mlk" they are. "i had a great golf caddy. i give him 1.5 mlks." and "mlk on steroids?" i kind of wish mlk was on steroids. that would've really sped up the civil rights movement. "i had a dream i was going to beat your ass!" "okay, okay! have some rights!" jesus. but mark robinson is the perfect symbol of where the republican party is at right now. because if you really want to be successful as a republican, you kind of have to be insane now. and we have donald trump to thank for that. he came into politics saying crazy shit, and instead of losing, he became the president! and so now his playbook is the playbook of the party. so like it or not, trump is kind of a visionary, a trailblazer. i guess what i'm saying is, trump is mlk... times three. when we come back, chelsea peretti will be joining me on the show. so don't go away. [cheers and applaus

martin luther king used to stay -- say, i would rather be dead than afraid. i would rather be a corpse than a coward. when we think of our work, the legal front and the medical front and social front, artistic front you should remember martin luther king jr. in the paddy wagon. his father told me, he said brother west i saw my son. he could not walk a straight line. all he could say was, this is the cross he must bear for the freedom of our people. the cross is not something you talk about. the cross is not even something you bear. sometimes you end up on that cross. look at all of those in gaza right now. bearing that cross. their spirit is alive in this room. their spirit is still strong in this room. we will never ever forget their resilience and sacrifice wherever you go. you can be black on the south side of dallas. there is spirit. our best in human beings is never crushed. such a crucial role to play and that's why they are coming together with the black freedom struggle connected to the critique of the american empire with its greed and hatred and sca

and all the things that you quoted, former president donald trump likened your opponent to martin luther king jr. in an endorsement. saying he is like king, martin luther king on steroids. there are comments about extremism, homosexuality, religion, and more. he has told audiences since july last year it is time to read quotes from dictators. he said that blacks should pay reparations to whites. that trump in the gop are embracing a candidate like this. >> he would compare this man whose ministry is opposite of martin luther king as humanly possible. i don't think he would've liked to that comparison. he called king a mediocre preacher. he said it was the communist rights movement. i don't think that is a comparison that can stand the test of history by any stretch. >> you are the first jewish person to win a state election as attorney general. this shows that anti-somatic acts have increased in 2023 compared to the previous year. if you win this race, how will you tackle anti-semitism, racial attacks on blacks during a time when the israeli government is at war with gaza? >> yeah. this is an

there is a history of black gangsters as well as a history of martin luther king jr.nd malcolm x and muhammad ali and all of the history of black people and we haven't even got to use that yet and i do say that in all honesty because as a black man i still have some gangster in me. i have to fight it every day. so when we talk about our muslims or talk about other christians or talk about jewish people are secular folks, yes, they all have some gangster in them as well. so when i look at what is going on right now in iran, overlapping muslims and overlapping muslims, that is a human affair and where is the moral consistency and ethical constancy? are we really connected with the humanity? let us never be so tribal and chauvinistic and narrow in our allegiances and loyalties that we are blind other people's sufferings and that is precisely why we find the situation in which in the middle niece -- east and too often in the congress and corporate media and the white house they believe that a palestinian vice has the same value as an israeli life. that is deeply racist. i

i said, i think you're better than martin luther king. s to. >> i am bereft of words. joining me again, my all-star political kenner -- rick wilson, cofounder of the lincoln project, an msnbc political analyst, former congresswoman, donna edwards. all right. since you're not here at the table, rick, you go first. what in the entire what? >> i don't know. comey crazy, but martin luther king, one of the most consequential, important, and world shaping figures of the last hundred years or longer, it's not the same as a jumped up yeah who we are down from north carolina. and the fact that there are people around donald trump you don't say to him, donald, please never say that again, that's embarrassing to you and to america and the world. that's insane. the fact that people don't say that to donald trump tells you everything about the crew of sycophants around him. this guy isn't just a generic marga. you read through the record, he is a vicious person. that guy is a hater. and if there's one thing that went in the third king was not, he was n

i said i think you're better than martin luther king. i think you are martin luther king times two. >> donald trump actually called mark robinson who has a history of spreading islamophobic, antisemitic, antiwomen, antilgbtq rhetoric, martin luther king on steroids. they wrote they will want us to forget who he really is. in a 2014 facebook post, he claimed he was doing whatever history book in america does because quote they all quote him end quote. he has said acceptance of gay people will lead to the accept pans of pedophilia and compared lgbtq people to maggots and demeaned muslims and said trans people should be arrested or use the bathroom outdoors. he spread the birtherrism conspiracy theory about barack obama. he calls abortion murder despite that being a choice he and his wife made. martin luther king on steroids indeed. >>> north carolina has a 12 week abortion ban. it was a policy that was vetoed by governor cooper until the republican led legislature overrode his veto. vice president kamala harris said this in north carolina.

i said i think you are better than martin luther king. martin luther king times two. >> donald trump called mark robinson, who has a history of spreading islam a phobic, anti- semitic, anti-women, anti-lgbtq rhetoric, martin luther king on steroids. isaac really writes in the charlotte observer robinson and his republican enablers will want us to forget who he really is but we mustn't forget. in a 2014 facebook post robinson included hit letters pride in one's own race quote. he claimed he was just doing whatever-- every history book in america does because they all quote him,". robinson has said that acceptance of people will lead to the acceptance of pedophilia. he compared lgbtq people to maggots during a sermon, demeaned muslims and said tradespeople should be arrested or use the bathroom outdoors. he also help spread the bigoted conspiracy theory about barack obama and calls abortion murder despite that being a choice that he and his wife made prior to having two children of their own. martin luther king on steroids, indeed. >>> on th

>> i don't know if he's on steroids or something else, but he does not know martin luther king jr. dr. king said we are caught up in an inescapable net , what affects one directly affects all directly. he reminded us of the ways in which we need one another. this man hates everybody. he, like the person who is endorsing him, is not worthy of the office he seeks. >> i've known you for years and you've always been involved in civil and human rights causes, you always tell people the first time you were arrested for a civil rights cause, civil disobedience, was a rally organized in '99 here in new york. i'm sure you're following the military in christ is all over the country and the world. how do you look at the humanitarian crisis in haiti? i have called for the biden administration to hold an emergency meeting with myself and others to discuss the situation. i met with haitian asylum- seekers at the u.s./mexico border in 2021 when the border patrol agents were seen chasing them on horseback and it's heartbreaking to hear stories about people feeling political violence once again, bei

my, my mind is blown with how much i agree with you all, but, i mean, even think about the martin luther king holiday. there were so many people, you know, we sort of have the same media about how a vitriolic people were against martin luther king. and what and mohammed ali, but now they are heroes that martin luther king holiday was had to go through so many rounds of congress. and it was when stevie wonder came out with this happy birthday song that really turn the tide. so in that case, you say that pop culture are obviously issues change, but at the same time we don't trust the media. we don't trust the politicians. could you say that people now are going to start looking at elements of pop culture because they are becoming so infused and not trust that movies have an agenda. now, anything on netflix because the obama is, are behind it. people don't for us because it's pushing a certain narrative virgin. same thing with music. is that not a danger, lionel? what do you say 2 things? what is the most important things that never happened regarding one of the most important red po, subject of

i think you are martin luther king times two martin luther king times two. what's your reaction to that description >> well, this is a sad time material. the very books they're seeking to ban on the books they should read. this election is about fascism versus democracy. and we choose democracy, which choose a voice of the collective whole of what we call america. we choose a future that is recognizable based on all the citizens, not a past. that was exclusionary at best discriminatory and practice and eliminated the hopes and dreams and the potential of this country by suffocating the voices like the king and so many others. so whatever that former president talks about, we should take what a granite salt not try to make false comparison and really looked forward towards a future deaths inclusive. and then really sprout out of democracy mark i, what i'd like your reaction to because this there just to hate to use the word, but just a dumb factor to this. i mean to to make that comparison to say he is twice the man that martin luther king who fought through

i think you are martin luther king times two. >> the martin -- the dr. erend martin luther king jr. who was assassinated using a certain weapon, a high powered shotgun because he was leading the civil rights movement that ensured that mark robinson could vote in the south and eat in restaurants without the humiliation of segregation and that he can stand for election to potentially become the state's first black governor. you know, the civil rights movement. that mark robinson was referred to on facebook as, quote, that crap in the 1960s that was the communist rise movement. facebook is also where robinson shared his rampant and gross anti-semitism freely. in 2018, he wrote, quote, this foolishness about hitler disarming millions of jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash. in 2018 he claimed, there's a reason the liberal media fills the programs about the nazi and the 6 million jews he puts that in quote they murdered. robinson wrote how an agnostic jew made the film black panther to pull the shekels off of your schvot

i think you're better than martin luther king. i think you are martin luther king times two donald trump praising the now republican nominee for north carolina governor mark robinson, >> who is under renewed scrutiny for a long list of rather own martin luther king like bigoted, derogatory comments and conspiracy theories that is giving hope to the biden campaign that north carolina could maybe be in play this november, we invited lieutenant governor robinson onto the show today to try to address these comments is campaign did not get back to us joining us now, the democratic nominee for governor of north carolina, the attorney general, josh stein attorney general stein, thanks for joining us. so north carolina is a purple state leaning red. but you're running down ticket. it has to be said from an unpopular president, a lot of americans are not feeling the strength of the economy that he heralds right now immigration, the border crisis, quickly become top of mind for many voters is many voters in north carolina to how are you goin

. >> i think you are better than martin luther king. i think you are martin luther king times two. two. what you think of that, congressman? >> ayman , elements of this are represented here that should be called out for being despicable. we don't know what is in their hearts but we know what is on their lips. and we know that donald trump and the north carolina governor should be condemned tonight. >> holly, your thoughts? >> i mean, so racist. just unbelievable. racist. sexist. xenophobia. again, the anti-semitism. they are so, and the conspiracy theories. look. trump pics carol -- terrible candidates. he always has. from carrie lake to the sky. i mean, this is the brand. these candidates -- great for democrats. >> you made me have to think about something i did not want to think about or even remember. molly jong-fast, david jolly . thank you so much for your time. great to see you this evening. >>> after the break, i will talk to the producer of the oscar-nominated film, "the zone of interest" which is a movie that hones in on the idea of looking away from cruelty. [street noise]

i said, i think you are better than martin luther king. two. he looked at me and i was not sure if he was angry because it is a terrible thing to say or was he complemented. i have never figur iwhen i saidk like -- i don't know if i like that comment. you showedyou are going to be tt robin or so that is going to be very -- the next governor, so that is going to be very cool! now, you know the fake news will go today and take that little say -- he said that this gentleman is better than martin luther king. he a racist? i don't care. it doesn't matter. because the people get it. mark, the people get it. thank you, mark and it was a great speech you made and i appreciatevepeople did not knowt man to well and then i endorsed him and they got to know him ■g whe was in a blue corner of r state and he was a congressman. he was a great congressman. matt gaetz wanted him. jim jordan wanted him. a lot of great people wanted him. a lot of great people. i did not kn as much about him as i should have. i met him and i liked him. and he has been an unbel

. >> i think you are better than martin luther king, i think you are martin luther king times two. ou think of that, congressman? >> there are elements in this party represented by donald trump, they should be called out for being despicable, we don't know what is in somebody else's heart but we know what is on their lips. and they should be condemned to that.>> molly, your thoughts?>> so racist, just unbelievable. and again, the anti-semitism, i mean, and the conspiracy theories, trump has terrible candidates, he always has and he always will, i mean, this is the brand, his candidates have always been great for democrats.>> you made me have to think about something i didn't even want to think about or remember. it's great to see you both, thank you for your time this evening. after a break, i will talk to the producer of the oscar- nominated film, the zone of interest, a movie confronting the idea of looking away from cruelty. from cruelty. ays after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion and stomach pain. talk to your doctor about nurtec today. it's time to feed

and also, do you see another martin luther king on the horizon today. i see a lot of martin luther king's on the horizon. the problem is we tend not to listen to them because we all want to just listen to what makes us most comfortable. and the great thing about king, as i mentioned earlier, is that he was willing to talk to people who disagreed with him. he was willing to talk to people who he got punched in the face by a nazi, literally a member of the nazi party. he invited the man to come back and listen the rest of his speech speech. that should not be so rare, should be able to talk to each other. so i think there are a lot of people, a lot of great activists, a lot of people doing the work and it's just that it's very hard for them to reach the masses in the way king did, because we are we're just not listening. i would agree on that last piece. as a journalist, i meet every day who are unbelievably inspired and who are doing what they can on their local level change, who try to speak out on these issues. but it feels like we're in a very fracture

originally a conscious effort to redirect the civil rights movement, to reject the rhetoric of martin luther king, bayard rustin, and other traditional civil rights heroes, to say that actually they didn't go far enough and they should have put race on the front burner. what happened is that ideology percolated inside the academy for a few decades, and then just in the past decade, starting around 2013, those ideas that had been essentially dormant in certain corners of academia academia really spread throughout society and have had vocal exponents such as mexican, mexican and robin d'angelo, who say that rather than strive for colorblind society, rather than strive for a society where someone's race doesn't mean anything at all, and recognize that race only in deep, we should strive for a society where everyone reflects deeply on their racial identity. we teach kids at a young age that their race most important aspect of air we put in racial categories and every piece of public policy and every public policy, including emergence situation like covid, should be viewed through the lens of reducing

last week, trump praised robinson, who is black, saying, "i think you are martin luther king times two in november, robinson will face off against josh stein, who won the democratic primary in north carolina. meanwhile, in arizona, independent senator kyrsten sinema announce she will not run for reelection this year and will leave the senate after one term during which she left democratic party after years of shifting further to the right. super tuesday was the start of the primary season for house and senate races in at least five states. in texas, colin allred won the democratic senate primary, defeating state senator roland gutierrez and others. allred will face republican ted cruz in november. many contested races were in california. in the primary race to replace longtime california senator dianne feinstein, who died last fall, democratic congressmember adam schiff defeated progressive congressmembers barbara lee and katie porter. under california election rules, the two senate candidates with highest number of votes advance to the general election. in this race, republican steve

be the senate nominee in georgia four years ago, not only endorsed robinson, he called him "martin luther king mind this week while i was in memphis. i always go and make a stop at the lorraine motel where he was assassinated when i one, when i was a youngster 56 years ago. her to mr. king died fighting for political rights that made mark robinson's candidacy possible. if he were alive today, i believe dr. king would be gratified to see more black politicians rise through the ranks, regardless of party. however, i believe he would be deeply disappointed in those who do not use their newfound prominence to lift up others who have also been held back. but, instead, they choose to perpetuate the same cycle of hate that once held all of us in chains. gotcha! gotcha! you need... ...without the stuff you don't. so, here's to now. boost. bladder leak underwear has one job. i just want to feel protected! especially for those sudden gush moments. and tes - vapes increase cravings - trapping you in an endless craving loop. nicorette reduces cravings until they're gone for good. >>> welcome back to polit

quoting martin luther king.i was first involved in politics, it was folks like richard fuller, nicholas boles, elizabeth berridge, white parliamentarians who saw a young guy from a working class background and thought i had potential. and when i was in downing street, when george floyd was murdered, it was not the black or brown members of parliament who reached out and said, how can we bring communities together? it was borisjohnson, despite some of the things that he said in the past, that was most interested in that. and now, of course, some of the most divisive politicians are people like suella braverman. and so, to paraphrase martin luther king, it is not the color of your skin that matters when it comes to tackling racism and discrimination, bringing communities together. it has to be the content of your character and your willingness to lead, and that is not what we are seeing today. i asked mark harper, the cabinet minister who was doing the rounds this morning, if the tories had a problem with race and

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and former president trump just elevated a controversial candidate, saying he's like martin luther king jr. on steroids. a lot to get to but we start with donald trump heading into the biggest day on the political calendar super tuesday on the heels of what pears to be his most sweeping and significant legal win to date. today's supreme court ruling not only ends colorado's attempt to kick trump off the ballot but stops efforts in maine, illinois and at least 14 other states. the court's reasoning essentially that colorado had overstepped its bounds. the justices saying, "we conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office but states have no power under the constitution to enforce section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency." it is a big win for donald trump. >> i think it will go a long way toward bringing our country together, which our country needs and they worked long, they worked hard and frankly they worked quickly on something that will be spoken about 100 years from now and 200 years from now. extremely important. e

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