i want to call out to bernice king. she actually invited me to martin luther king celebrations in atlanta several years ago. it was one of the highlights of my career, don. what happened to that woman was ridiculous. it was an overreaction. it was terrible. what they're passing is no good either, particularly the voter i.d., because, you know, they tried to pass a voter i.d., a picture i.d. here in ohio. i said if you pass that, i'll veto it because a lot of folks don't have a lot that don't have that thing and that isn't right. have them show some form of identification, but it doesn't have to be a picture. that is apparently in that along with limiting voting on sunday, which also i don't like that either. let people vote. >> so then what is going on here? i mean, you're still a republican, right? >> yeah, a very good one. >> so what's going on here? is this voter suppression? >> what i think, don, is that republicans -- some people do this because they're worry about the the integrity of the voting, okay? some feel t

i want to turn, now, to bernice king. daughter of dr. martin luther king jr. she is the ceo of the king center. thank you so much for joining us, bernice. i really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to play because i want our viewers to see it. i just want to get -- they need to see it of this state representative protesting and getting arrested while the governor signs a bill to restrict voting rights into law. >> the governor is signing a bill that affects all georgians. why is he doing it in private? and why is he trying to keep elected officials who are representing us out of the process? are you serious? >> no, you are not. represent -- >> she's not under arrest. >> for what? under arrest, for what? for trying to see something that our governor is doing? >> why is she under arrest? >> our governor is signing a bill that affects all georgians. and you're going to arrest an elected representative. why does the governor have more power than -- than a representative? >> why are you arresting her? >> why are you arresting her? >> bernice, the

thank you, bernice king. i appreciate you joining us. >> god bless you. >> we'll be right back at the top of the hour.

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this is reverend bernice king. she tweeted on friday, don't use my father to ban teaching about racism in u.s. schools. he said this, the roots of racism are very deep in america. historically it was so acceptable in the national life that today it is still only lightly burdening the conscience. your reaction, your response to what reverend king there says? >> we're not asking people not to teach about racism. we're asking people to teach -- teachers to absolutely talk about the egregious things of the past. we want to make sure that's covered in full, totally. to not teach about the egregious things of the past means that we as a nation could repeat them. that's the reality. that is -- that is the desperate, you know, part of man, that we need to teach the past. my bill does not encourage not teaching the past. >> state representative steve toth, thank you. >>> all right. just into cnn, u.s. port authorities are in cancun, mexico, to help spot people who may be posing as tourists to sneak across the southern borde

and i think that history has shown us we can win some battles even when it -- reverend bernice king was on tonight, and one of the things she said, darkest before the dawn. that's the reality of where we are, and we're dnot giving up. >> the only way you're going to do that is to have an informed electorate and be armed with the truth. i'm glad you recognize what i do here every night regardless of who gets upset, but you got to tell the truth. thank you so much, melanie campbell. i hope you'll come back. thank you very much. >>> vice president harris meeting today with texas democrats who fled their state to block republicans' restrictive voting bill. joining me now, one of those lawmakers, texas state representative james tallarico. i want to talk to yabout your meeting with the vice president today. what did she have to say? >> we were thrilled to meet with vice president harris. we met with her just a few weeks ago when we came to d.c. in june. just like in that meeting, she was enthusiastic about what we had done to stand up for democracy and stand up for voting rights in the state

bernice king. >>> what about saying that the fbi and the nypd may have had a hand in his death? >> these have been concerning allegations from the beginning. it has long been known that the federal government had been clueding with other elements. assume that they had been colluding with other elements. for the families and supporters of the truth and justice and malcolm x himself, this is proof positive that the assassination went far beyond the nation of islam. >> the letter is attributed to raymond wood. a former nypd office here confessed before dying that the nypd and fbi conspired in the assassination. i see you got the striped shirt and blue navy jacket memo today? i think you look great. >> thanks so much. >> that will do it for me today. if you're going outside. wear a mask. if you're staying in, ayman mohyeldin picks up our coverage next. mohyeldin picks up our coverage next ♪♪ if you have moderate to severe psoriasis... or psoriatic arthritis, little things, can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream... ...it's a p

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want to bring in bernice king, ceo of the king center. bernice, thanks for joining us on this thanksgiving holiday. you heard my conversation with cal. i think probably one of the hardest things for ahmaud arbery's family is seeing that empty chair on this thanksgiving holiday. it hurts even more on a holiday like today when family is supposed to be together and it is about safety and security and loving one another. let me play some sound for you from reverend al sharpton who was on the 9:00 a.m. hour of msnbc. he talked about how he helped the family prepare for worst case scenario. >> even though i felt the evidence was rock solid, i prepared them for the worst. when they read the charge and we had the first guilty, i think wanda breaking down crying is the only thing that stopped me from crying. because the tears i had was that finally we got something for one of these families. >> and it is real in this country, bernice, right? even with evidence rock solid, you always wonder how is this thing going to go. as we've seen so many other

reverend bernice king, a valiant advocate for civil rights herself, makes it a point about who ultimately pays a price. but in the short term it may be necessary to sacrifice. her father said that we will have to sacrifice our blood, that is the people who are advocating for social change in order for real change to be brought about. if dr. king was willing to suggest the sacrifice of body, limb and blood for the long term gain of not only economic prosperity, but racial justice it may be true that it will be necessary to sacrifice in the short term the wages and the economic security that may redown to sacrifice their personal wage interest, economic interest and income redownding to them for the bigger picture of saying we have to stop this because if we allow this to go forward the harm and damage to black people in the long term will be far more substantial. i think a targeted, short-term boycott is extremely necessary. >> i have to tell you, it's a micro and macro look at all of this. hey, do stay with me because i want to talk to you about your meeting with president biden and other

i appreciate bernice king calling that out and saying keep my father's name out your mouth. >> that's right. she did that and she was right. it was offensive, insulting, and a miscast of what dr. king stood for. thank you for joining me. >>> coming up, the latest revelation from the january 6th investigation and what they tell us about the critical importance of voting rights legislation. >>> plus, the omicron variant is new, but the racial disparities in our health care system exposed by the coronavirus pandemic have been with us for a long time. we'll look at what's being done to address them later on "politicsnation." >>> but first, my colleague richard lui with today's top news stories. richard? >> rev, a very good saturday to you. more stories on the issue of omicron. president biden will lay out new steps in a speech tuesday to combat the new omicron variant. measures are expected to be beyond his already-released covid winter plan. the world health organization says omicron cases double every 1 1/2 to 3 days according to data. >>> london declared omicron a major incident to dea

so bernice king had a tweet i thought was perfect because all of the republicans are out here, let me quote the 1963 march on washington speech. i have a dream. they all are quoting it. she said please don't act like everyone loved my father. he was assassinated. 1967 poll found he was one of the most hated in america. many that quote him now and evoke him to deter justice may already hate the authentic king. it annoys me that he is used. what are your thoughts? >> notice they never quote the agenda of march on washington, $2 minimum wage, $15 today, and complete and full civil rights act. we must be honest, can't deal with innocence. what we saw happen at the capitol two weeks ago is the result of a long history, many corporate leaders, republican politicians and religious nationalists have sewn politics of race driven class bathe division that was cynically named 50 some years ago positive polarization. they said richard nixon and others, we're going to do this deliberately to divide the country in half. what we know is the strategy of feeding and seething race class division into t

bernice king to spare him the lectures about her father's legacy which she specifically works to preserve. he went on to tell the ceo of the king center that he'd take his civil rights guidance from his cousin, thank you, which is unsurprising since she's a big fan of the disgraced former president. josh mandel undoubtedly knows nothing that dr. king actually preached beyond i have a dream. he probably memorized that one line. nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and stupidity. meanwhile, hedge fund hill billy j.d. vance in an interview this week he defended the texas abortion ban was asked if anti abortion laws should make exceptions for rape or insist. >> it's not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it is whether a child should be allowed to live even though the circumstances of that child's birth are inconvenient or a society or a problem. the question is about the baby. >> no one thought to ask of j.d. when she thought of commander vance's thoughts. not that they could. maybe they could query her martha. ohio's moderate former govern

speaking to the content of his criticism, i would like to point to bernice king. youngest daughter of the reference dr. martin luther king jr. who tweeted this message. please, stop using out of context quotes from my father to excuse not working to eradicate racism. his content of their character, live with a full speech, i have a dream, in which he talks about ending racist police brutality and economic injustice." so today's absolute worst, conservative flip-flopper an opportuist glenn beck. stupidity doesn't stop there. and what they're squawking about today. it will sound very familiar. we'll be right back. ight back. no. you know what you want? no fettuccine. no fries with that. no foods you love. no added salt. no added sugar. in a can? you can-not. no pizza. have that salad. unless there's dressing. then, no. remember, no skipping meals. but no late-night snacking. and no sleepless nights! is this stressing you out?! no stress! stress...is bad! exercise. but no overdoing it! and no days off! easy, no? no. no. no. no. no. or... you can 'know.' with freestyl

bernice king put it like this. please don't act like everyone loved my father. he was assassinated. in 1967 poll reflected he was one of the most hated men in america. most hated. many who quote him now, she reminds us, and evoke him to deter justice today would likely hate and may already hate the authentic king, end quote. we share her words tonight because it is a fitting place to reflect on all this. and we should apply it forward. if we look around and see that the people that carry on this legacy, black lives matter activists or other people fighting for the marginalized or the economically oppressed which king also cared about, if those people are attacked, reviled, hated today, let's reflect on what we learned so we don't repeat mistakes. we need not celebrate all the heroes in the country long after they're dead. roes in the countrr they're dead state of the art technology makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx, lease the 2021 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. lease the 2021 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. my body is

king and these amazing women of color, black women standing in solidarity with us it brings me to an emotion i have never experienced in my entire life and that is the silver lining in this that we all understand that injustice to one is a threat to us all, and so for me growing up i never experienced understanding that we had support because we only had each other. like you said, i grew up in a household with 15 members in our house. i realize that all of us have american names because we changed our names because i heard in second grade that my teacher could aren't pronounce my name, and my name is -- in vietnamese and my mom said i'm going to name you jeannie because that's a name that everybody watches on the show, i'm jeannie. i'm jeannie from "i dream of jeannie" and my mom is olivia from olivia newton-john and now i realize there's tinas, cindys, kims and nobody works to pronounce our name and therefore we change our name to assimilate just to lessen the already onset of racism that we have that asians smell funny or that we eat weird foods or that we're different or that we c

bernice king to delores wetka. so we are actually able to cover more ground and at the same time, you know, make sure we are not running any health risk to anybody else until we can ride this out in the next, you know, five or six days. >> in terms of that conversation with congressman clyburn or any of the other conversations that you have had around strategy about voting rights, can you tell us of anything that you have heard that makes you feel more hopeful? makes you feel there are more paths available to a potential advance on this issue than we might see on the outside? i think a lot of americans watching this and feeling anxious about this issue feel like it is just an impasse and there's no way around it right now. are you hearing things that are making you feel more optimistic? >> well, the one thing i heard were my ears perked up this morning is when, you know, the majority whip said, there's plenty of time. that's what we keep hearing over and over again, that we're sort of running into this august 6th r

king who tweeted this. representative mccarthy, i encourage you to study my father's teachings and words beyond the last lines of i have a dream. this nation has yet to eradicated racism against black people. you should help with that. joining our conversation, kim atkinson, and david plouffe is still here. kim, this feels like a thing that in their bubble they all pat themselves on the back. they debase themselves in front of general milley and secretary austin and then they go into the safe bubbles, the snowflakes that they are, of fox news green rooms and everything is okay. but he seemed to step on sort of a live wire when he invoked martin luther king. explain. >> well, look, this is something that we often see certainly around dr. king's birthday where we see our twitter and instagram feeds flooded from folks who we know have pushed policies that do great harm to black and brown folks in america, but they think so long as they post a two or three-sentence quote from dr. king everything is okay or that

king. this monday, while republicans who supported the 1776 commission were tweeting out empty platitudes about martin luther king jr., his daughter, reverend bernice, took them all to task, reminding them, quote, many who quote him now and evoke him to deter justice today would likely hate the authentic king. that's a historical truth that cannot be denied. i gotcha. i gotcha ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7! (announcer) and you may lose weight. adults who took ozempic® lost on average up to 12 pounds. i lost almost 12 pounds! oh! (announcer) for those also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. it lowers the risk. oh! and i only have to take it once a week. oh! ♪ oh, oh, oh,

you have martin luther king jr.'s daughter, bernice, who is in the in favor of that, eddie. she tweeted, it could hurt middle class workers and people grappling with poverty and increase the harm of both racism and classicism. do you have a sense of what you think voters should be doing on this? >> well, i think we need to trust the organizers on the ground in georgia instead of helicoptering in. they've been organizing for a long time. i think they're ready. they've already filed lawsuits and the like. i think there needs to be targeted boycotts in some ways or targeted efforts. whether or not that will include boycotts, we will have to see. we know that the s.e.c. did in the state of mississippi to bring down that flag, but look, i think it's very important for us to understand that there are forces around the world, not just in the united states, who believe that capitalism can proceed without liberalism, who believe that you can pursue profit without any commitment to democracy. and we're seeing that view, evidence itself in our own country. we have to understand that th

and got to know well his widow, coretta scott king. i thought about the sacrifice dr. king made, finally giving his life. he never lived to see a lot of what he planted the seeds to happen. he did not know we had a black president, that we elected and reelected. that wouldn't have happened without what he did in selma. he did not know we would have a black woman vice president. he marched because he believed in it. we must continue the fight. that's why i'm asking everyone to log on to national action network's convention, week after next, april 14 through 17, where members of the biden administration and civil rights leaders and youth activists will be on virtually so we can plan to protect voting rights and protect the rights of people in policing and the police reform movement and economic justice. and i'm reminded, as i look at the difficulties and i see the weeping in the courtroom, in the family room, as they watch the tape of george floyd. dr. king's last speech, he said we'll have some difficult days ahead but we will get to th