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I'm an eternal optimist

because I'm a student of history.

And, as a student of history,

I feel deeply that sometimes to get to the sunshine,

you gotta ride through a storm.

-[crowd cheering] -There is not a Black America,

and a white America, and Latino America,

and Asian America.

There's the United States of America.

Marc Morial: We are coming out of eight years

of Barack Obama into the age of Donald Trump.

The Obama winds blew this way,

and the Trump winds are blowing that way.

It's a hurricane of conflict.

crowd [chanting]: Hands up! Don't shoot!

We have to meet the moment.

We have to fight back.

It is time for our nation to recommit

to lifting up the hopes and dreams of all of us.

And create a path forward that embraces diversity

and sees it as a strength for this country.

Our fight for racial justice is not negotiable.

[crowd cheering]

Marc Morial: I see this battle

as the battle of our generation,

the battle of our lives,

because you do not want to be the generation

that allows progress to slip.

[ambient nature sounds]

[solemn music playing]

-[buzzer sound] -[downbeat music playing]

[buzzer sound]

[indistinct chatter]

Marc Morial: I am Marc Morial,

president of the National Urban League.

And particularly, at this point in time,

the forces of division and hate are met with,

have to be met with love, tolerance, or progress.

-Hey, what's up? -security guard: Hey, Marc.

What's happenin', what's happenin'? Hey.

We fight for criminal justice reform.

The right to have a job, the right to healthcare,

the right to education, the right to vote,

and at the Algoa Correctional facility,

we have a re-entry program called Save Our Sons.

Save Our Sons will work with people in ensuring

that they will go on to live independent

and successful lives.

You all are our pilot class.

I'm not gon' put no pressure on you,

but I'm gon' put pressure on you.

When you succeed,

then there's an opportunity for this to last a long time,

there's an opportunity for this to be expanded to more people,

not only in Missouri, but maybe across the nation.

Who you were at 20, 25, 30, 35,

is part of who you are when you get older,

but it isn't who you are.

Even though, when I was 25, I thought--

I thought I was a bad, bad boy, you know?

[laughter]

I did.

But then, when I look back,

I'm like, "Man... there's a whole lotta stuff I didn't know."

Jamie Dennis: So, introduce yourselves

and let me know what you expect to gain out of this program.

We'll start with you.

Emory Hayes: I'm Emory Hayes, uh,

I'm expecting to, to, to get some leadership skills

to be a role model for my daughters.

Uh, to, to, to, to have a career, not just a job,

somethin' I can, uh, grow in

and, and, and, and somethin' I can have fun

with what I'm doin' and make money

and, and provide for my family at the same time.

That's what I'm expectin' to get out of this program.

So be it.

I hope to learn how to be the next

Fortune 500 CEO.

[applause]

Bradley Cobb: My, my name is, uh, Bradley Cobb

and, uh, there is bitterness and resentment that is gained

from bein' in this environment, not just from bein' in here,

but the stuff you done that you gotta live with

and the stuff that is bein' done to you

that you gotta live with,

and the environment you're in

and all these different things.

That's why I wanna open up a treatment facility.

That's my goal, that's my path, that's, that's my end game.

What's, in your mind,

the best... cure for the pain?

Bradley Cobb: Love! You just wanna know

that somebody, somebody gives a damn.

Dennis: So, the basis of the program is gainin' skills,

and the only thing that's stoppin' you is you.

Classic example is, you're a cool brother man

and you in there tryna buy you a car,

and the car dealer knows

that you pretty much can't afford this car,

but he's gonna play to your ego.

He's gon' say, "Hey, man, you must not be a big baller,"

or, "I guess only ladies men would choose this type of car,"

and then it'll make a guy who's not sure of himself

throw himself out on the line,

puttin' himself in a bad financial situation.

So, you gotta think about your behavior.

Your behavior will determine your wealth as well.

So, what we're gonna do is we're gonna try role-playin',

so we're gonna have one of you guys be a car buyer,

one of you guys be a car seller.

You a seller? I gotta prep you.

Alright, who's the buyer, you the buyer?

-[crosstalk] -Dennis: Alright, this is gon' be fun.

Step into my office.

Akeel Gibson-Bey: What's up, how you doin', sir?

Doin' alright, how 'bout yourself?

-What are you in for? -I'm okay, uh,

I was interested in, ya know,

buyin' a car for my nephew,

ya know, his birthday.

I'm just tryin' to, ya know,

just get him around the city.

Okay, okay, well, you tryin' to put him in

a Mercedes, a Mustang,

-what you tryin' to do? -Nah, just, just, just,

just somethin' to start him off.

I don't want to start him

-too big. -Oh, okay, okay.

Just a little somethin' somethin'.

Alright, alright, well, uh--

So, uh, whatchu got?

Well, we got a litany of cars here today,

we got a huge selection, but, uh, lookin' at them shoes,

I'ma try you out in this Cavalier right here,

so let me get you in this door.

-[laughter] -Yes, sir, yes, sir.

-Come on in, have a seat. -Okay, aight.

-We gon' test drive. -Alright, come on in.

-Alright. -[crosstalk]

Let's start this up, man.

Yeah, you hear that purr? That's all you.

Ahh, yeah, yeah, it, it sound good.

-Yeah. -I'm sayin' everything good though?

Oh, it's got to be.

If it's in this lot, it is good!

Look at the mileage on her, though.

Ay, you know, the thing is this car-- See, this--

When you got mileage like that...

-Okay. -...it means this is an antique, okay?

-[laughter] -It, it mean, it mean that this thing

is tried and tested.

It will get, it will get you there and back.

Gibson-Bey: I got $1,500 for you.

-You got $1,500? -I got $1,500 for you.

Well, the sticker says $2,500.

[laughter]

I got $1,800 for you.

[exhales]

How 'bout this? $2,300.

I'll knock $200 off, and I get it washed.

$2,100.

$2,200 and we got a deal.

Matter of fact, I like you. I like your line-up, $2,150.

-Haha! Haha! -[laughter]

[applause]

Got a deal, baby! Got a deal, baby!

Yeah, I got a deal.

Dennis: Yeah, let's, let's talk about what just happened here.

So, so, what was your absolute most you would pay for that car?

-$2,500. -And what was, what was it you went in and asked for,

your-- what was your opening offer?

$1,500.

-$1,500, alright. -Yeah.

And you notice how he kinda downplayed everything,

"Oh, I'm lookin' for somethin' for my, you know, nephew.

Oh, it has to be basic," right?

From the very start,

he was protecting against emotions, right?

Somebody comes at you and tries to get in your emotions,

you protect your emotions.

Keep practicin' this

until it becomes natural for you.

Practice makes perfect.

Ask everybody to stand up.

You're strong enough, you're smart enough,

you got enough personality, you got enough swagger.

Everybody's not against you.

Make no mistake, some people are.

All I can promise you is we're for you,

but more important than that,

is for you to be for yourself

and as brothers in this process.

So, dream your dreams,

and make them happen.

God bless you.

-[indistinct chatter] -[applause]

[light music playing]

You registered to vote?

Um, no, not really, uh, I want to.

-You want to? Okay. -I want to, yes.

So, where can you register?

I think I did, but I don't know where to go at.

-That's what I did, 'cause I checked off. -Janet Murguía: Yeah.

-You need to find your polling place. -Yes, yes.

So, we're gonna leave you some information

about where to go, or--

Marc Morial: Janet Murguía is the CEO of Unidos,

which is the nation's largest,

historic Latino civil rights organization.

Janet and I have become close friends

and professional collaborators on a range of issues.

So, we're workin' together to try to make sure

-we get everybody out to vote on election day. -So, do you have any,

uh, anybody-- any other voters in your home?

Uh, my brother, my brother

-lives here with me. -Okay.

-Yes. -So, please share and make sure

he gets out and votes.

Curtis!

-[laughter] -Alright, we'll call Curtis.

We'll get Curtis out.

I saw in Marc, immediately,

someone who understood the importance

of working across communities, of building coalitions.

Marc Morial: Does anybody know how old you have to be

-in order to vote? -child 1: 21.

-No. -child 2: 18.

-Morial/Murguía: 18! -Say, "18."

-children: 18! -Say, "When I'm 18."

-children: When I'm 18. -"I will register."

-children: I will register. -"To vote."

-children: To vote. -Okay? Alright?

-Alright. -Marc Morial: You're doin' a great job, Auntie.

[church music playing]

[congregation singing]

[churchgoers clapping]

♪♪

-[song concludes] -[applause]

I'm here to say that there is a tent of wickedness

when it comes to democracy in America today.

Those who dwell in that tent... they are people who are seeking

to make it more difficult

for people all across the nation to vote.

Uh, they say you've got to have a photo ID to vote.

They say in Georgia

that when you fill out your voter registration form,

if you have one letter, or one hyphen,

or one period wrong, we have the right to reject it.

And in this election,

we wanna send the loudest message to Washington, D.C.,

whoever lives in a big house, a little house,

a purple house, a green house, or a White House.

[applause]

I became president of the National Urban League in 2003.

The National Urban League is a legendary civil rights organization,

which had been led by people who were iconic.

Whitney Young, one of the big six

civil rights leaders of the 1960s.

And then, of course Vernon Jordan,

who I had followed him as a young man

on the pages of "Jet" magazine and through the press.

And I remember when I was growing up,

I used to think that everybody's family

was involved in civil rights work.

I think I-- I kinda had the sense,

"Well, this is what everybody does."

My parents were on the front lines.

We saw them on the front lines,

we understood the responsibility of being on the front line,

and it's part of what's made me who I am today.

My mother's family emanates from the Whitney Plantation

in St. John Parish, Louisiana.

[birds chirping]

The enslaved girl, Anna,

was impregnated by one of the master's relatives,

and from that is where my mother's side of the family traces their lineage.

[ambient street noise]

Sybil Morial: I grew up in New Orleans.

We lived in a big house.

My father was a noted surgeon in the city.

But in those days,

we could not go to any public places.

Back of the bus,

no, you can't go to the library,

no, you can't go to the beach,

you can't ride on a roller coaster.

Um, you couldn't do anything.

My sister was a year older than I,

and we were riding our bikes along Esplanade,

and when we got close to the museum,

all of a sudden, this policeman

seemed to have come out of thin air with his stick.

He took his stick and shook it at us and said,

"You little N's. Get outta here.

You know you don't belong here."

So, out of the segregation of the South,

I finished high school and went to Boston University.

That's when I met Martin Luther King.

All the Black students from BU, and Boston College,

and MIT, and Harvard, we all went to parties.

[light music playing]

Marc Morial: My father, Dutch Morial, and my mother

met about a month after the Supreme Court

decided the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision.

They were both very interested in being a part

of the change that the Brown decision inspired.

crowd [chanting]: Two, four, six, eight, we don't wanna integrate!

Marc Morial: There was a lot of aggressive rhetoric

directed towards the integration movement.

Protesters were all over New Orleans.

But when the schools became desegregated,

my sister and I went

because that's what my parents fought for.

I went to school with white people

from the very beginning, right,

and I had two sets of friends,

because the neighborhoods were not integrated.

Your friends at school were your friends at school,

and your friends at home were your friends at home.

It's as though I was livin' in two worlds, simultaneously.

So, this is the house that I grew up in.

And... there was a shopping center

about a mile away,

and I remember we'd always go to Sears.

And what I remembered vividly is my mother would not allow us

to use the segregated bathrooms at Sears.

So, if we were out shopping,

and we had to go to the bathroom,

she said, "You gonna practice holding it until we go home

because we're not going into those bathrooms."

So, one of the ways that people protested segregation

was by not participating.

In 1963, my father was president

of the New Orleans branch of the NAACP,

and Medgar Evers, another NAACP leader, was assassinated.

Shot in front of his own home.

And there was a thought that every NAACP leader,

that there would be an effort to take all of them out.

Sybil Morial: Dutch got death threats,

and that was the beginning of the scary part of our lives.

Marc Morial: They took a precaution.

When my father would come home,

he would blow the horn.

My mother would come and she would look around

to see if anyone was there,

and when the coast was clear, she'd blink the light.

And that was the signal for my father to come inside.

Sybil Morial: Even with these forces against us,

Dutch won a seat in the legislature.

[jazz music playing]

And Marc wanted to be with him every minute.

He couldn't wait for school to close,

so he could go to Baton Rouge

and sit there with his father in the legislature.

And Dutch would let him push the button for a "yes" or "no" vote.

He learned from the master,

he learned at the kitchen table.

He just loved it.

reporter: Morial, who will be the city's first Black mayor

as of May 1st next year

defeated councilman Joseph DeRosa by 5,471 votes.

[crowd cheering]

Marc Morial: My father left me with a sense

that elected office

could be an instrument of real change,

that politics was maybe a new cutting-edge

in the civil rights movement.

[applause]

administrator: Repeat after me.

"I, Marc Haydel Morial."

I, Marc Haydel Morial.

-"Do solemnly swear." -Do solemnly swear.

So, I'm proudest of my time as mayor of New Orleans,

that we built a strong operating coalition,

that I called the Gumbo Coalition,

which include various elements of the community:

Black and white, and Hispanic and Asian,

and straight and gay, and business and labor.

And that whole Gumbo Coalition was so--

It was a brilliant notion.

Worldwide, everybody knows what gumbo is.

It-- In a minute, in a second,

you have defined who you're about.

It's a little bit of this, a little bit of that,

and using things that other people might throw away.

It, it just meant everybody felt like they were on board.

[on TV] Every career border patrol agent I have spoken with

has told me that walls work, they do work.

At the same time, we do not need 2,000 miles of concrete wall

from sea to shiny sea, we never did.

-[Murguía laughs] -Never proposed that. We never wanted that.

No money for border wall in this deal.

-Marc Morial: He capitulated. -If he ain't get it now,

he ain't gonna get it. [laughs]

Marc Morial: This administration has staked its claim

on an extreme anti-immigration... message and policy.

And the wall is a symbol

-of, "Keep immigrants of color out." -Janet Murguía: Yeah. Yep.

It's clear, it's unambiguous.

And the vast majority of Americans reject it.

And of course, beyond that, we now deal with

the most extreme anti-immigrant, uh, policies

at the national level.

[emotional] Let me take you back to February 22, 2017.

It was a day me and my husband, and Carmen woke up,

dropped off Walter to school,

and planned to go to Chuck E. Cheese afterwards.

Me and Jose went into ICE facilities for a routine check-in,

where our appointment was at 9:00.

Instead of signing our paper and telling us,

"We'll see you next year,"

the guy took us in... and asked us,

"Where do you live? Who do you live with?

Are you a criminal?"

Immediately, I looked at him and I said,

"Sir, why are you asking those questions?"

He said, "Now, with this new administration,

everything has changed."

And I said, "I understand,

however, you can look at his record. He's not a criminal."

He sent us out to the lobby, and after an hour had passed,

I decided to knock on the door,

and he goes, "Open the door. He's gonna come with me anyway.

Let her say goodbye."

I pushed a door.

I saw Jose sitting in a chair with five men around him.

He had been crying because there were tears on the floor,

and I said, "What's going on?" And Jose said, "I'm sorry."

And I said, "Why are you sorry?"

He picked up his hands, he was already handcuffed,

and I asked, "What are you doing?"

"Your time is up." That was it.

They had to-- escorted me out because I refused to leave.

Carmen was crying, trying to reach for Daddy.

Jose was crying, saying, "Please leave.

I don't want her to see me this way."

I said, "Papi, I got you, don't worry about it.

This isn't over."

The week later, Jose was sent to El Salvador.

It was so life-changing, I can't even tell you.

I stand before you because what happened to my family

is happening to so many other families,

and it's so unfair.

And if I can be this loud for my children and my husband,

I will continue to do it for others

who are too afraid to do it. Thank you.

[applause]

I've heard that you have gotten some letters

-that have not been so kind. -Threat letters,

-yes. -Really?

Some of them are random letters

that call us idiots or... dumb.

But this one letter that was so long,

-I thought it was a prayer letter... -Mm-hmm.

...because it had a cross.

When I opened it,

it said... "Dear Ms. Escobar,

"How stupid were you to marry an illegal immigrant

"and allow him to put sperm in you"...

-Mm. -..."so you could have his wetback children?

"Kill them and kill yourself because you're not American.

You don't represent America." I couldn't read it.

-Mm. -I just teared it and Walter goes,

"Is it trash?" I'm like, "It's trash, Papi. It's trash."

Janet Murguía: Mm, I can't believe that.

-Oh, it was bad. -Oh, my God.

When I started in this role to head

a major Latino civil rights and advocacy organization,

I thought that we were further along as a country.

This job, I mean, it is the role of a lifetime really,

but it is an awesome responsibility.

And little did I realize that there was still

a lot of unresolved issues and deep divisions.

Illegal aliens are in the country,

including many murderers and rapists.

Our wide open borders mean that

this country is highly vulnerable

to all sorts of contagious diseases.

Tuberculosis, uh, leprosy, malaria?

-Leprosy, in this country? -Incredible.

[news theme plays]

You accused me of being, basically, a hate-monger.

And the reality is... I'm not and you know that.

-Janet Murguía: Well-- Okay. -So, let's get to

what in the world are you doing with this organization?

Well, I think the key fact is that we can document now

a wave of hate and different ways in which that...

-Lou Dobbs: No, I wanna be specific. -...different ways in which

the hate is manifested.

-You're talkin' about me. -Let me, let me just make

-my case. -Sure.

Janet Murguía: This is Chris Simcox.

He's been on your show five times, on CNN.

-Dobbs: ...one of the founders-- -Founder of the Minuteman Project.

He was convicted, arrested and convicted,

of carrying a gun into a national park,

searching for undocumented immigrants.

Putting him on the airwaves

and saying that he's an expert on immigration reform,

that's ridiculous--

The reality is you can't stand the fact

that we have free speech in this country,

-that you can be opposed, and opposed effectively... -Free speech is one thing,

-hate speech is another, Lou. -...by people who care about reason in this country.

Hate speech has consequences.

We saw a rise in hate crimes against Hispanics

raise by 23% and twice that in California.

-Hate speech has consequences. -Janet, okay, is it my turn?

Janet Murguía: Uh, you have the mic every night.

When we made our case,

Lou Dobbs was kicked off of CNN.

But, ya know, it also increased attacks on Unidos.

[caller 1 speaking]

[caller 2 speaking]

-[email notification chimes] -caller 3: You should kiss

the floor of this country.

Suck it, bitch.

[phone beeping]

But I like to think that I inherited

a sense of toughness from my father.

My dad worked in a steel plant.

God, I remember him telling the story of going to work,

and one of the colleagues

trying to direct him to a separate bathroom.

He was working in a department where they said,

"Well, we have a bathroom for the whites

and there's another bathroom for Mexicans."

And he said, "I'm not gonna go far away to use another bathroom

and I'm gonna go to this bathroom."

And somebody stood in his way,

said, "You can't use this bathroom."

And he punched the guy in the nose.

So, he liked to tell that story as,

I think, emblematic of, "You have to stand up for yourself."

[mellow music playing]

My father worked very hard to support a family of, uh, seven kids.

My mom stayed at home, but did all the housework,

all the washing of clothes, the cooking of food.

Janet Murguía: When my parents moved into the house,

there were nine of us with one bedroom

and one bathroom.

We didn't have a lot of resources growing up,

but my parents, ya know, they just made things work.

Ya know, Janet and I had very traditional roles.

My boy-- The boys had very traditional roles.

We cleaned,

we had to turn down our brothers' beds

at night when they were ready to go to sleep,

and, uh, that was a,

-ya know-- -Although, there was a stand taken

when we were in high school

and we decided we're not gonna turn down

our brothers' beds anymore.

Mary Murguía: We're not gonna do the turn-down

service anymore.

-We were in high school! -[both laughing]

Janet Murguía: But, uh, ya know, as you get older,

as we became more educated,

and, and started to see the headlines in the early '70s,

and we understood that things were changing.

both [singing]: ♪ I am woman, hear me roar ♪

♪ In numbers too big to ignore

♪ And I know too much to go back and pretend ♪

♪ Yes, I'm strong

♪ I am invincible, I am woman

-Well, sorry, we could've... -Somethin' along those lines.

-...practiced more. -[laughter]

Janet Murguía: We went to the University of Kansas,

and, uh, we were assigned to different rooms in a certain dorm.

And one of the women that I was assigned to, uh,

she made a point in

making her grievance to the dorm administrators,

that, uh, ya know... I was a Mexican,

and that she had never lived with or--

Ya know, she didn't-- couldn't see herself living,

uh, ya know, and going through school with, with me with her.

And so, uh, ya know,

again I think she was more disappointed that she didn't get to--

assigned who she wanted, uh, to be assigned to.

But as I look back on it now, it does sting.

I was just who I was.

It turned out for the best because I ended up rooming

with, with my twin sister, Mary,

and then we went to law school together.

Despite the challenges,

my parents were able to see my brother Ramon graduate,

uh, from Harvard Law School,

to see Mary go on to serve on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,

and then to see me work in the White House

in the Office of Legislative Affairs.

I'll never forget taking my parents

to meet President Clinton.

Just before we went into the Oval Office,

my mom had a tear coming down her face,

and she said, "Como llegamos está aqui?"

How did we get here?

And about that moment, they opened the door

and we were ushered into the Oval Office.

Mr. President, I want you to meet my parents.

-[indistinct chatter] -This is my mom.

And my dad made a beeline to President Clinton,

uh, standing in front of the Resolute desk,

and he said, "Mr. President, I wanna thank you

for giving my daughter this job, this opportunity."

He was very matter of fact like that.

And I'll never forget, President Clinton said,

"Ya know what, Mr. Murguía,

"I hired Janet, and, and she walked you into this office,

but you're the ones who got her here."

And, ya know, that was just a great, great moment.

Probably one of my best memories ever.

Can we take one with your parents? Come on, Dad.

Janet Murguía: I hope that that moment helped them understand

their full contributions to making this a better country.

[ambient street noise]

[bicycle whizzes by]

Marc Morial: Janet and I have worked for years

on criminal justice reform.

The National Urban League now may have a narrow opportunity

to do something significant.

The bill is the "First Step Act"

and, ya know, the "First Step Act"

has taken prison reform and sentencing reform

and merged them together into a single bill.

And the impact of it is,

is to allow some people who are in jail

to be immediately released.

Half the federal prison population is non-violent drug offenders.

I mean, people tend to wanna paint a caricature...

-Senator Cory Booker: Yes. -...that it's all about murderers.

And that's not what we're talkin' about here.

We're talkin' about, ya know, a lot of people

in there for possession,

small amounts of low-level, street-level trafficking.

I mean, just a lot of, ya know, stuff that, uh, ya know,

really, really never warranted long prison sentences.

Right. 2016, we had more marijuana arrests in America

than violent crime arrests.

-Marc Morial: Wow. -And, and so you have people

in this country wallowing in jail for doing things

two of the last three presidents admitted to doing.

Marc Morial: I think we're gonna affect, what, 3,000 right off the bat.

-Close to 3,000. -Right off the bat.

90% of 'em are Black, 6% are Latino.

-Wow! Is that the number? -Yes.

-Ninety. -Ninety.

Marc Morial: Oh, wow.

Mitch McConnell's decided to bring criminal justice reform

to the Senate floor as soon as this week.

-Hm. -Oh, wow!

-Hmm. -Talk about movement.

So, it's a win and a lot of work.

How long have you been working on it, though, Marc?

I think we've been workin' on this, really in a concerted way,

probably for the last four or five years,

and I'm confident if, uh, we have a vote on this bill

before Congress breaks for Christmas,

we're gonna have a big victory.

reporter 1: The fact that this is coming up for a vote,

and widely expected to pass the Senate is no small feat.

Jared Kushner deserves a lotta credit.

-Obviously, this is personal for him... -Yeah.

reporter 1: ...his father was in prison.

This is something he has been fighting for.

reporter 2: New Jersey-based developer, Charles Kushner,

is charged with hiring a prostitute

to blackmail two witnesses

in a federal investigation where he is a target.

Mr. Kushner engaged in a conspiracy to entice witnesses

into engaging in sex acts with prostitutes,

and to have those sex acts then videotaped.

This arrest highlights some of the lowest forms of blackmail

an individual can use to attempt to dissuade an individual

from cooperating with law enforcement authorities.

How are you, Tina? Good to see you.

-You too. -Thank you for having me.

-Hey, what's goin' on? -Hey. How are you?

-Good to see you. -Marc Morial: Thanks for comin'.

Jared Kushner: We have a good day today.

Marc Morial: Yeah! We, uh--

I just saw some good news, right?

-Kushner: Yeah, it's true. -You wanna tell me about it?

-Yeah, no, we just, uh-- -It's real, huh?

I mean, as you-- Jared, honestly, as you,

as you walked in, the alert came over.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Now we just have to keep the pressure up,

so we can bring this thing home.

Marc Morial: Well, I'm excited that we got here

and I think, uh, Washington politics, to me--

I grew up in loc-- state and local politics

where it just isn't as partisan,

and I remember how difficult this had been

to get something done when President Obama was in office.

And I said, "Look, we have an opportunity here

"because, uh, we've got the, the president

"that we may not agree with on policy issues too often, poised,

ya know, we've got Jared who's well-positioned and really has passion."

-We ended up to do more than anyone imagined. -Oh, yeah.

Being in the White House, there was a lot of things

I was asked to do initially

and this is one of the things

that I spent a lotta time on

because I, personally, wished that,

uh, when I was going through my experience,

that somebody in the White House who was in my position

cared about the issue, uh, like I do

and, and would work on it.

Obviously, I had a family member

-that went through the prison system... -Right, right.

...and, uh, have a lot of friends,

uh, who I met through that experience,

and then when you came on board,

it really helped, uh, members of the Democratic party,

it gave them almost permission to work with,

uh, Trump and the Republicans

because I think people saw that we weren't gonna make

-this a political issue. -Well, ya know, Mitch McConnell and I

have, uh, had many, many discussions over the years,

and one thing he, uh, prides himself on

is having, quote-unquote,

"Never voted against a civil rights bill"...

-Mm-hmm. -..."in the time he's been in Congress."

And when I saw that, I said, ya know,

I-I'd like to go talk to him and remind him of that.

-Well, this is-- -He might've heard that message.

I have him marked down as undecided right now,

-so, so we'll see. -Oh, do you? So, he's gonna let it vote,

-so we need to-- -Yeah, so, maybe you'll give him a call.

-Marc Morial: We need to remind him. -And if you give him a call,

I've had so many people callin' him

askin' him to, to push the bill.

Maybe call him and just thank him.

-That's a good idea. -Let's get his vote.

Let's see if we can get that done.

Marc Morial: I learned from my father

that, sometimes, you have to work with your adversaries,

and in today's fractured,

contentious... difficult political environment,

I wanted to put the interests of the men and the women

who are incarcerated above politics.

Even if we have to align with an administration that,

for the most part, we fundamentally disagree.

[ambient nature sounds]

Don Lemon [on TV]: Here's our breaking news tonight.

The Senate, overwhelmingly, passing a major prison

and sentence reform bill, the vote 87 to 12.

The bill, known as the "First Step Act",

was backed by the White House and negotiated with the help

of the president's son-in-law.

speaker [on TV]: It's the beginning of a new era

of rethinking criminal justice.

[mellow music playing]

Antuane Waddy: I really hope that the S.O.S. program succeed,

because if I can do it, any other guy can do it.

As a kid, I used to always wanna be a EMT/EMS,

ya know, ambulance driver.

I used to always see the truck go by.

Ya know, one time, it got stuck

durin' a winter storm on our hill in front of the house

and we had to help 'em out.

They had a patient in the back.

So, it just kinda drive-- ya know, drove me

to really wanna be a part of that.

As a kid, I-I-I ori-- I originally grew up in Oklahoma,

bounced back and forth,

and then we moved to St. Louis.

But I experienced physical abuse on my visits.

I used to come back with big welts on my back,

ya know... all kinda stuff happened,

locked in a closet at night.

[emotional] Um... not only me--

not, not only me, but my little brother, um,

and my little sister was also abused.

Ya know, seein' that, I started to repeat it as a kid.

Not even if I was beatin' on somebody,

but just gettin' into fights,

and, you know, I always had anger outbursts,

and... I was always in trouble in school.

I just think that all the abuse and stuff

played a major part in my upbringing.

Yeah, the feeling is just, like, overwhelmin', like,

I can feel my heart beatin', I'm sweatin'.

It's been a long time comin'.

[wind blowing]

[chuckles]

[crying]

Rose Waddy [crying]: It's over, it's over.

-It's over, it's over. -Yep, and I'm all good.

Rose Waddy: It's over, it's over.

And when I, when I got out,

and brother Dennis will attest to this,

I had a job within a couple days.

-speaker: Man, he wasn't playin'. -Like, I was like a--

I was like a cannon, you know?

And, and I was blessed 'cause I had a vehicle,

-you know, and-- -speaker: And good parents.

-And, and great parents. And great parents. -[laughter]

-Gibson-Bey: 'Cause everybody been lyin' to me. -speaker: Oh, I got you, homie.

Gibson-Bey: It is, everybody been lyin' to me.

Dennis: Is that Waddy? Ha! Ha-ha-ha!

You're late! [laughs] What's up, dawg?

Antuane Waddy: Before we left Algoa,

-ya know, my dream was to be a paramedic, right? -An EMT.

-Yeah, most definitely. -Yeah, EMT, yeah.

So, when I got out, they accepted me,

I put my application in, they, they pulled me in.

I went through a physical training.

They wanted to see if you could handle the, the duties of the job,

-like all the weight. -Dennis: So, did you do it?

Yeah, I passed with flyin' colors.

So, tomorrow was my orientation

-for the actual first day. -"Was"?

Yeah, "was".

-You ain't get it? -No.

Uh, we went up there and we sit in the office,

and I tell the lady, she was like, "Yo,

"s-- we got your background check in

"literally about 20 minutes ago

"and, uh, there's some things on there that,

-that disqualify you for employment here." -Wow.

And I was like, "Okay,"

and then I wasn't down about it, I was like, "Alright."

-Dennis: You gotta have plan B. -Yeah.

-Gibson-Bey: Yeah, you got to, though. -Dennis: Yeah.

♪♪

Even though I did get denied for my EMT stuff, I'm not down about it,

because I just started to see a girl.

I met her when I came home.

First, we were just seein' each other,

now, I'm pretty much stayin' with her.

My girl and her four kids, ya know, I accepted that

and that's my life now.

So... it's not just about me anymore.

Rose Escobar: Good morning, Carmen!

Good morning!

-Alright, let's do this, okay? -[toothbrush buzzing]

How many more days, Walter, 'til Halloween?

I think, 14?

Rose Escobar: Fourteen.

Carmen, who you gonna be?

-Supergirl, right? -I'm gonna be Superman.

Rose Escobar: That's right.

Super Escobars.

Alrighty.

You think Daddy's up?

Yeah, I think so.

You wanna show Daddy your donuts?

Alright, chiquita,you ready?

Jose, these kids will not eat, like, bacon and stuff,

they just want donuts.

And I said, "Alright." Alright, there's yours.

-[Carmen clears throat] -You okay? You wanna talk to Daddy? Yeah?

You can talk to Daddy.

Who's that, Carmen? Who is that?

Hey, Carmen!

Say hi.

-No, not today? No. -Carmen. Carmen, look!

How you doin'?

She says, "Not today." You don't wanna talk to Daddy?

She won't, she won't talk a lot.

She'll only talk if Walter asks her something.

Alright, chiquita.

[flag flapping in wind]

Rose's husband, Jose, was deported to El Salvador,

a country he has not seen

since he was 15 years old,

over a paperwork problem

that occurred more than a decade ago.

We put together a campaign to bring back Jose

with Senator Schumer, with Senator Kamala Harris.

I think we're at an inflection moment

in the history of our country.

I think of this as being a moment in time

similar to that moment in time

when my parents met when they were active

in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

I think this is a moment in time

that is challenging us as a country

to look in a mirror

and ask this question: "Who are we?"

Rose Escobar: It's amazing what Unidos did for me.

It was different camera crews back to back to back to back.

We're living our happy American dream

and it was just ripped away.

It's not fair.

I'm a U.S. citizen.

I've been trying to do the right thing,

but there's no pathway.

Janet Murguía: We didn't give up, and we worked with

other organizations,

and Rose reached out to quite a few folks.

Rose Escobar: Congressman Al Green saw me on TV.

The next week, I went to his office.

And I walked out, the last thing he said to me is,

"I promise I will bring your husband home,

I will be the one to bring him home."

Janet Murguía: And today,

I am very pleased

to announce that after two long years,

Team Escobar has finally been reunited.

Please welcome Jose Escobar,

who is here with his wife, Rose, and their daughter, Carmen.

[cheering, applause]

[indistinct chatter]

This whole thing was a wake-up call,

and now the help that we received,

now it's time for us to give that back,

and help other families.

Every time there's a march, I'm there,

every time that there's a rally, I'm there.

I mean, my motivation was my family,

but now that we're together, now it's just something

that we're gonna do together.

[sirens wailing]

reporter: Now to a Fox News Alert.

We're following reports

of an active shooter situation.

police officer: I need tactical units to go ahead

and start responding.

[gunfire]

[panicked chatter]

speaker: Come on, come on, come on!

[indistinct shouting]

-[helicopter hovering] -[sirens wailing]

Got a level one, level one! Level one right here.

speaker: Go! Go, go, go, go!

[indistinct chatter]

reporter 1: This is now one of the top 10

deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.

reporter 2: The shooter uses words such as "invasion" and "fake news"

that have been staples of the president's tweets and speeches.

Los Angeles Congresswoman Karen Bass.

Representative Karen Bass: If you read the, the quote-unquote manifesto,

it reads like a script from a Trump rally.

President Donald J. Trump: This is an invasion.

I mean, when you have 15,000 people marching up

and you have hundreds and hundreds of people

and you have two or three border security people

that are brave and great.

And don't forget, we don't let them

and we can't let them use weapons.

We can't. Other countries do. We can't. I would never do that.

But how do you stop these people?

-[audience member speaks] -You can't. There's no--

[crowd laughing]

That's only in the panhandle

you can get away with that statement.

[cheering, applause]

-[ambient nature sounds] -[distant traffic noise]

My parents, on Saturdays, would go to the local Walmart,

in Kansas.

That was a typical part of their routine.

I can't imagine that somehow

these simple, humble, hardworking people

would be targets of someone's hate,

the same way that we saw here.

So, this is personal for all of us

who can relate to these stories,

to these people, and their, and their journeys.

It's, uh, it's unthinkable.

[indistinct chatter]

Marc Morial: When you see what's going on in America today

with all the violence,

what do you expect from the leaders of the nation,

uh, when you face these kind of tragedies?

What are your feelings?

Well, sometimes, it's not always the case of a person getting a gun,

it's not always the case of, "He's mentally ill."

Sometimes, it's just a person hating.

The problem that my generation will have to deal with is,

what's the difference between freedom of speech

and hate speech?

How does it compare and contrast,

and how do we handle that?

-Mm-hmm. -And that is gonna be an issue,

that is gonna be, uh, like, a, a question

that we will have to, we will have to solve.

Marc Morial: How many of you think racism is on the rise?

How many of you think racism is, is, is going away?

I don't feel as though racism is on the rise,

but it's more coming out now

because of who's in the office at this time.

Um, I do believe we have a political problem,

but the only way to fix the problem is

if we get out and vote.

We need more people to actually vote than we do now.

Marc Morial: I'll challenge you all to make your voices heard,

make your voices loud.

The 2020 election is gonna be crucially important.

So, on the public policy front,

we are helping people

who are returning from incarceration

to get back the right to vote.

And so, this is taking place

in state legislatures around the country.

Hello. Look at the design of this place, man.

Oh, would you look at that?

Wow.

It's great in here.

Senator Jamilah Nasheed: As of today, individuals who

are on parole or probation cannot vote.

Some of those individuals

may be on parole for 10 to 15 years.

They are payin' their taxes,

they're goin' to work every day.

This is not about being soft on crime.

The heavy liftin' is gonna be on the Senate floor

where I have to have 18 votes.

And so, I'm gonna have to strive hard

to change the hearts and the minds of many of my colleagues.

You're, You're not saying, are you, that, that while you're

on probation or on parole,

it's not part of your sentence, are you?

You said someone who had completed their sentence

should get their vote back.

No, what I'm sayin' is if--

those that have completed their sentence in prison.

-Inside the prison. -Senator Ed Emery: 'Kay, so the, so the only--

So, if, if, if you didn't want this to happen,

the only way to stop it, with your legislation in place,

would be to keep them in prison

rather than release them on parole.

Is that right?

I mean, [stammers] you're sayin' that, I'm not sayin' that.

-That's what you're sayin', Senator. -Senator Emery: Do you know--

Do you have any idea what the recidivism rate is

on nonviolent, um, offenders?

Senator Nasheed: I would say approximately 65%. 65 to 70%.

Do you think that should have any impact on this legislation,

-that you have 65% recidivism? -Senator Nasheed: Well, if they recidivise,

if they recidivise, then their, their rights

are taken away from them.

They won't have the right to vote at that point.

But in the meantime, they've been able to vote...

-Senator Nasheed: Yep, that's, that's right. -...even though they didn't

necessarily, uh, change their attitude towards the law.

Th-- Is that a quest-- What? Is that a question or a comment?

Did you-- You listed Colorado as one of the states

that had, had, uh, made this change in their law.

Was that before or after they legalized recreational marijuana?

-[chuckling] -Senator Nasheed: I don't know, uh, Mr. Chair.

I mean, I don't know where you goin'

with that, with that stat.

Thank you.

speaker: So, first witness would like

to come forward.

Bradley Cobb: Um, [clears throat] my name is Bradley Cobb

and I'm a formerly incarcerated convict

representing the Urban League and the S.O.S. program.

I work two jobs, I have two daughters,

when will my debt be paid?

It's hard for me to tell my daughters that

this is the greatest country on Earth

when they're still holdin' things against me.

It was James Otis, the colonist, who said that

taxation without represat-- representation is tyranny.

And are we gonna sit and participate in tyranny

amongst our fellow Missouri citizens,

because of some outdated law?

If I'm out on parole,

and I own a house, or I'm payin' my taxes,

and doin' my, ya know, doin' what I need to do

to provide for my family, in a legal way,

shouldn't I be allowed to participate in the political process?

They always say, "Oh, we want people to get out,

we want 'em to, ya know, be good citizens."

Well, how can I be a citizen when I can't be a citizen?

[birds chirping]

[dog barking]

[indistinct chatter]

-Hey, son, what's goin' on? -Hey. Nothin' much.

Mary Cobb: My son, Bradley,

when he was incarcerated,

he was talkin' to the kids on the phone.

Samaya runs to the phone, she--

"Hi, Daddy!" Blah, blah, blah.

But Amani said, "I'm not talkin' to him."

And I said, "Why?"

And she said, "Because we weren't enough.

He didn't love me and he didn't love Samaya."

I told him I feel the same way,

I wasn't enough either.

So, until you decide that you've had enough,

you'll never change.

But I'm gonna be here for those girls as long as I live.

Bradley Cobb: I went to prison for burglaries,

and I would steal to supply my habit.

I-I started with the pain pills because I had been injured,

and, uh, then when I couldn't get 'em anymore,

I was usin' heroin,

and the biggest thing as a heroin addict

that you don't want, is to get sick.

So, you end up spendin' most of your time

trying not to go through withdrawals,

ya know, and it just takes over your life.

And... I will never forget the moment

when I got to the prison in Missouri.

It's the dead of winter.

They say, "Strip down, show us your, your butt, open your buttocks,

show us your anus, cough," all this stuff.

And then, pulls this ice cold bug spray out

and sprays you... from head to toe,

and throws you in the shower,

a cold shower.

So, to come from a pretty carefree existence growin' up

to... essentially bein' raped,

I would say that that was the moment I lost my innocence.

That was the moment where somethin' changed in me

where I became harder and more...

um, callused, I-I guess.

Mary Cobb: Nobody knows when you're incarcerated

how the loved ones feel at home.

Ya know, I see you with your children and they really love you.

Even that simple gesture of reading them a book,

that was a big deal.

So I knew that there was somethin'

inherently good in you,

and that's why I couldn't turn my back on you.

And it has paid off. It took a while. Ha-ha!

The blessing came with the Urban League and, uh, Save Our Sons.

And then, o-once he got out... he, uh, kept it up, kept--

came home on a Wednesday, workin' on a Saturday.

Bradley Cobb: Alright. So, uh, I'm gonna be goin'

back to work in a minute, so I love you.

Amani Cobb [sadly]: Oh. Let's go to the water park!

Bradley Cobb: No...

Hey, good morning.

-[indistinct chatter] -Good morning, good morning.

Oh, hey.

Hey, we were back there in the green room talkin' to--

Marc Morial: Biden's about to come out. -Who?

-Biden. -Mason Morial: Okay.

Marc Morial: I think the challenge for us

is my wife and I both have careers that we love,

so we're both out a lot.

Stay here and take a picture with Biden

and then you can sit down.

We're always juggling

trying to be responsible parents

and also give everything we have to our careers

and to our professions.

Marc is like this

incredibly independent force.

What's up, Senator? Good to see you, man.

Michelle Miller: But really deep down inside,

he, he really needs his peeps.

And I'm his peep. I'm his Chief Peep.

But he leans on us.

So, my dad told me, like, he really wants me to come

with, like, all the presidential candidates here.

You know, I'm 'bout to be 18,

'bout to be able to vote and all that.

So, he said, like, this is kind of a good precursor,

'cause I'm voting in the next election.

Marc Morial: Hey. [chuckles]

Hey... What's happenin', Mr. Vice President?

-Good to see you. Good to see you, man. -Good to see you.

-How you doin'? -You make me feel bad, man.

-Hey! -How are ya? Nice to see ya.

-Michelle, how are you? -Michelle. [kisses]

-Great to see you. -Wonderful.

-And our son, Mason. -[crosstalk]

-Vice President Joe Biden: How are ya, man? -I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.

-Vice President Biden: Good to see you. -First-time voter in 2020,

so you gotta work on him.

-[crosstalk] -[laughter]

-[applause] -Alright. [laughs]

Hey, everyone.

Vice President Biden: And I promise you one thing:

if I am your president

I need you to be an integral part of an administration.

I-I genuinely mean it.

And the bad news is,

if and when I get elected,

you're gonna see less of this guy.

[laughter]

[ambient nature sounds]

W.H.O. Director General [on TV]: W.H.O. has been assessing this outbreak

around the clock and we have called every day

for countries to take urgent and aggressive action.

Why is it not-- Am-Am I sideways or straight?

I-- See, I'm straight, you're crooked.

Uh, let me see how to do this.

-Oops. -speaker 1 [over computer]: Oh, boy.

Marc Morial [over computer]: Aw, shit.

Oops... I did something else now.

Alright, can ya hear me now?

Is that better for me? Can you guys hear me?

speaker 2 [over computer]: We can hear you.

I've been home now,

this is day number, day number 10.

Ten work days, and look, I've got... the iPhone,

I've got an iPad, I've got the computer, and the landline,

so I've-- I'm workin', ya know, three screens at one time.

[ambient street noise]

[over computer] Hey, Janet, I don't see you.

Hey, how ya doin', man?

What's happenin'? How ya doin'?

Janet Murguía [over computer]: [laughs] Hangin' in there, how 'bout you?

Marc Morial: Michelle put me out of the livin' room,

she put me out of the kitchen, she said I talk too loud.

I'm, I'm, I'm on the phone, she can't hear,

so I've been, I've been banished to my little office, right?

I have my little office here.

-And so-- -That conversation sounds very familiar. [laughs]

["El Paso" by Marty Robbins playing over speakers]

[singing along]

So, it's Enchilada Sunday.

[music continues]

[Janet singing along]

-[hair clippers buzzing] -So, we have it on a medium size

-trim here, right? -Yeah, go slow.

Janet Murguía: Now, see here, I apparently cut

a little bit more than I should've there,

but, Mauro, you said it's okay 'cause it's gonna grow back.

-It'll grow back. -[laughs] So--

-Thank you, honey. -Aww.

-Three... two. -[Marc grunting]

-[heavy breathing] -trainer [on phone]: Very nice.

[cars honking]

[cheering]

speaker: One, two, three!

[laughter]

["Rumors" by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings playing]

Vice President Biden [over computer]: Everybody, I'm not sure who's on.

-And how 'bout Marc Morial? -I'm right here.

I'm right here, Mr. Vice President.

-Good afternoon. -Vice President Biden: Hey, good,

good to hear your voice, man.

-I gotta catch up with you. Anyway... -Yep.

Vice President Biden: ...there are a couple of reasons

I wanted to convene the call. First and foremost...

Mason Morial: It's Biden! It's Biden!

-...I really wanted to hear

what you think about what I should be doin'

because I think this pandemic has ripped the blinders off.

The American people are now seeing

just how, how difficult it has been for,

particularly, African Americans and Latino communities.

Representative Marcia Fudge [over computer]: Mr. Morial.

Yeah, thank you very much, uh, Congresswoman Fudge.

And first of all, Mr. Vice President,

congratulations on becoming the putative nominee

of the Democratic Party and the standard-bearer.

I'll make this point,

the importance of judicial appointments, uh,

and the tragedy we face with the current administration

with probably the lowest number of African Americans and women,

maybe since Eisenhower.

Uh, it's a tragedy what's happened to the judiciary.

It needs to be an issue in the election.

Representative Fudge: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Um, last but not least, uh, Reverend Sharpton.

[Reverend Al Sharpton speaking over computer]

[indistinct chatter]

Reverend Al Sharpton: I think that shows a lot,

and I think it means a lot to us.

[indistinct chatter]

President Trump: Also had some very good updates on the virus.

We're doing a great job with it and it will go away. Just stay calm.

And our, our, uh, death totals, our numbers per million people

are really, uh, very, very strong.

Uh, we're, we're very proud of the job we've done.

reporter: The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis

hosted a drive-through food giveaway today.

And people lined up for miles down Jennings Station Road.

We're here tryna empower 1,000 families

with basic needs, necessities, toiletries.

Everything that pretty much makes your house into a home.

We're tryna undergird the most underserved people in our community

'cause that's really what time it is in light of, you know,

the epidemic or the pandemic, that is,

that's goin' on today with this COVID-19.

["Show Out" by Unk playing on speakers]

♪ Now bust a move I'm 'bout to show 'em ♪

♪ This is what I do

♪ Now do it lil', now do it lil' ♪

♪ Now do it right, now do it right ♪

♪ Now jig with it, now jig with it ♪

♪ Now walk with me, now walk with me ♪

Bradley Cobb: You want a job?

Sometime next week, Monday or Tuesday.

Matter of fact, and then we got a job

-for Monday with Profast. -Sure do.

Text to my phone, this is my cell number.

Dennis: Okay, we gon' text you, bro.

Bradley Cobb is doin' phenomenal work

and that's how he was able to move forward

and get a job with Save Our Sons.

That's really never happened,

that was pretty well unprecedented.

He is the total polar opposite of Antuane Waddy.

Waddy, against my advice, pretty well, was goin'

head over heels into this serious relationship,

and I was tellin' him that

you need to focus on gettin' your life together

so you can be, ya know, an adequate partner

in a, a "potential" relationship.

And he just wasn't really, ya know, gettin' that.

[sirens wailing]

[police radio chatter]

[solemn music playing]

[over phone] Waddy, he was the aggressor.

She tried to get him outta her face.

He got to punchin' the shit out of her.

He bit her, blacked her eye.

He took his truck and rammed it into her house.

And then he went as far as sayin'

Save Our Sons wasn't there for him.

[laughs] I tried to offer him counseling.

I gave him, like, four professionals.

And I followed up, "Did you talk to anybody?"

"Oh, no, I couldn't get through, man."

She's livin' in a safe house now

because he's threatened her

like one of those crazy motherfuckers who's like,

"If I can't have you, no one can!" type shit.

After this point, that's the end of Waddy's story

because he's goin' back to prison.

So, he got-- his parole was revoked?

He probably have to do maybe about three or four more years.

Wow. He hurt somebody

and we can't condone it

in any way, shape or form,

and it has to absolutely be condemned.

But we gotta realize...

if it doesn't get fixed,

then someone else could be at risk,

and he's gotta recognize that he needs serious help.

-Dennis: Mm-hmm. -And I mean serious help

on the anger management...

-Mm, yeah. -...side.

Mental health side, right?

-Dennis: Yes, sir. -Do we have an element of the program

that can try to work with him inside the wall?

And, ya know, it's really like a heart-to-heart.

-Brad was plannin' to go out to visit him. -Marc Morial: Good idea.

[raining, thundering]

Rose Waddy: It's, uh... heartbreaking, I guess,

-to see you back. -Antuane Waddy: Yeah, I know.

-It's gon' be aight. -Rose Waddy: Yeah.

[Antuane laughs]

-Was that Miller? -Antuane Waddy: No, that was Bradley.

-Oh. Yeah. -Bradley's funny.

Rose Waddy: Yeah, they can't wait to come in.

-[both chuckling] -Alright, don't break my back.

Antuane Waddy: Yeah. I'll try not to.

Meryl Miller: How are you doin'?

Antuane Waddy: Hangin' in there.

Bradley Cobb: You stayin' out the way?

Antuane Waddy: Yeah, always.

Bradley Cobb: So, what exactly are your thoughts

on this situation at hand right now?

Antuane Waddy: Can't believe I'm back in here.

Let me ask you this, alright?

What did you do wrong?

I reacted in a way I shouldn't have reacted.

But she... admitted to swingin' on me

and bustin' my, my gums, my lips open.

-She swung on me first. -Meryl Miller: No, no, no, no, no.

You're not gonna sit here and you're not gonna do that,

and you're not gonna manipulate me,

I can guarantee you that.

Bradley Cobb: Waddy, there comes a point in your life

where you just have to say, "You know what,

I've made the mistakes that I've made, I was wrong."

Antuane Waddy: You think I wanted to come back here?

I don't, I don't think most people wanted to come here,

but they here, because they wasn't thinkin'.

Antuane Waddy: But you sayin' it like I just pushed the button,

like I'm goin' back to prison tomorrow.

No, you turned the thinking button off.

Meryl Miller: Everything else has happened, right now we're sittin' here.

What needs to be done

-for that? -Antuane Waddy: Well, for one,

I need help with my PTSD.

-Meryl Miller: Okay. Alright. -My post-traumatic stress.

Which I wish I would've gotten in the beginnin'.

I can go out here, I can get a job,

I can have a career.

-Meryl Miller: I didn't question that. -I can have a girl,

but as soon as my anger gets to a certain point,

I'm gonna get to a point where I don't care no more.

Bradley Cobb: If, if, if-- Let's just say the Urban League says,

"You know what, we gon', we gon' get you some therapy,

we gon' take care of the bill."

Would you go? Would you consistently do those things?

-There's other factors still. -Bradley Cobb: I'm just askin' you a straight question.

This is about you gettin' your shit together

so that you can get out and do what you need to do

so you don't come back to jail

and your mama standin' out there crying, okay?

My mama stood out there cryin',

I don't wanna put her through that no more.

You wanna keep puttin' your mama through that shit?

Havin' her drivin' three hours out here

like a fuckin' little kid?

You're not a kid, you're a grown-ass man.

Okay, you take responsibility for your actions,

and you stand up, and you do what you need to do.

Antuane Waddy: I already said that I'd play the part.

Forget sayin' it, do it.

I don't want no help when I get out.

I don't want no help from no Urban League or S.O.S.

They ain't help me the first time, I don't want it now.

Meryl Miller: Listen to me, I will insist

before I leave here that you do see somebody for mental health.

I'm gonna do what I got to do.

["Queens Highway" by Menahan Street Band playing]

-[keys jingle] -[door shuts]

Dennis: Today is the class reunion

of the Save Our Sons participants.

♪♪

[indistinct chatter]

We've had most guys make it, everybody bein' employed.

I have a lot of victories, but some losses as well.

But however, the payoff is so great to see these brothers

that we actually were able to affect,

ya know, positive change in their lives,

and, and really show the world

what transformative action is about,

and I think that's good work at the end of the day, man.

[crosstalk]

Gibson-Bey: When I grew up, I told myself,

I'm-I'ma be gang-bangin' for the rest of my life.

Just like the other day, I was drivin' to work,

I'm like, "Man, that's straight crazy."

I straight get up every mornin' and go to work.

I never pictured that for myself.

My vision was blocked.

S.O.S has been a powerful steppin' stone

to my understandin', ya know what I'm sayin'?

Not only how to conduct myself

in an interview, but in life.

Ya know what I'm sayin'? I can 100% say

that I'm a man now because I understand.

So, that's, that-that's my experience.

[applause]

Marc Morial: We now have a proof of concept that has demonstrated

it can make a meaningful difference.

And what we have to do is get the message about this program

to all of the folks who are talking about criminal justice reform,

uplifting communities,

and tell them to consider investments in this.

That's the strategy, that's the scheme!

[applause]

Dennis: So, you can just hold that proudly.

Congratulations. Thank you, brother.

Bradley Cobb: Today was just a testament to the power of redemption,

people being able to overcome adversity

and not let their past get in their way, but actually let

what they want their future to be... guide them.

When people work together

to do the right thing, big things can happen,

even to the smallest people.

[watching George Floyd video]

-[George struggling] -[police chatter]

George Floyd [on video]: I'm 'bout to die, ya see?

-officer 1: Relax. -Floyd: Man, I can't breathe, my face.

-Just get up... Ugh, ugh. -officer 1: What do you,

-what do you want? -I can't breathe!

Please, the knee in my neck. I can't breathe, shit.

officer 2: Bro, get up and get in the car, man.

-Floyd: I will! -officer 2: Get up and get in the car!

-Floyd: I can't move. -officer 2: I've been waitin'

-the whole time, man. -[George wailing]

Just get up and get in the car.

-Mama! Mama. -officer 2: Get up and get

-in the car right. -I can't!

Mama. Mama.

-Mama. -officer 3: No, it's a male.

-Floyd: Mama. -officer 3: It's in one of the front pouches...

-Floyd: Mama. Mama. -officer 3: ...on my right side bag.

-[bystanders yelling at police] -Get the fuck off him!

-What are you doing?! -Like, bro, three minutes, bro.

-He's not fuckin' movin'! -He's dying!

Why is he still on him?

Y'all see that he's not--

Bro, he's not even fuckin' moving!

Get off of his fuckin' neck, bro!

Get off of his neck!

[indistinct yelling]

bystander 1: He's damn near dead, bro!

He's fuckin' dead, bro!

[chatter]

Yeah, 987, you just killed that man, bro.

bystander 2: Y'all just really just killed that man.

bystander 1: You just really killed that man, bro.

You just really killed that man, bro.

Marc Morial: The last decade, we had Trayvon Martin,

no accountability.

We had Michael Brown, no accountability.

Tamir Rice, no accountability.

This is a justice moment, uh, in this nation

when the criminal justice system and the system of police

has to come to a reckoning,

that substantial reform is in order,

and, and that we're gonna work and demand it now.

crowd [chanting]: I can't breathe!

Margeaux Morial: Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy

killed for playing with a toy,

but his dark skin suggested that he was menacing,

so the officer shot because he was "scared."

Playing with a toy gun, that's something we can't do.

Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old boy killed for walking home,

but his dark skin suggested that he was about to commit a crime.

So, George Zimmerman shot for "self-defense."

Walking home with Skittles and a sweatshirt,

that's something we can't do.

So, where's our freedom and justice?

Because the color of my skin defines

whether or not I get to live,

decides whether or not I look suspicious or like a criminal.

There's so many other things we can't do.

[softly] Say "Black Lives Matter."

Black Lives Matter and Happy Father's Day.

audience member: Thank you, Margeaux!

[Mason leading chant]

crowd [chanting]: Hands up! Don't shoot!

[inspirational music playing]

[crowd cheering, applauding]

crowd [chanting]: Whose streets?! Our streets!

[drum music plays]

[chanting continues]

Marc Morial: This is a moment of transformation.

I really believe that we, we'd make a mistake

to not see this as a new

civil rights movement being born.

[ambient street noise]

Janet Murguía: Lord, we wanna lift up

our brothers and sisters in the Black community,

and all those who seek justice.

So, protect us, and guide us,

and keep everybody safe today.

-Amen. -Amen.

-crowd [chanting]: Black Lives Matter! -[clapping]

Black Lives Matter!

-[crowd yelling] -[loud booms]

reporter: Outrage and anger after tear gas

was used to break up a peaceful protest

at Washington's Lafayette Park.

[crowd chatter]

Just after, President Trump walked through

for a photo-op at a nearby church.

[sirens wail]

Marc Morial: Reverend Sharpton, are you there?

Reverend Sharpton: Yes, I'm here.

Marc Morial: Senator Booker?

Senator Booker: I'm here.

Marc Morial: Senator Harris?

Senator Kamala Harris: Present.

What is so important is that we must seize the moment.

The moment! The moment!

Understand this moment!

We have a man who died,

and we saw-- the world has seen it.

My hope would be that our legislators

can walk in this week,

go to their respective floors and say,

"Here is the bill we're gonna drop."

[tense music playing]

Change the standard,

create a national database.

No more chokehold... no more this, no more that.

We, we, we gotta realize, you gotta act now

because we have a moment of leverage.

What we hope is that the "Justice in Policing Act"

will give tools to our communities,

so that we can hold police officers accountable.

Right now, ya can't sue, ya can't prosecute,

ya can't fire.

Senator Harris: A lot of the legal standard for showing

that a police officer used excessive force is to ask:

was that use of force reasonable?

What we wanna do is change the, the question,

so that it is a more fair and relevant question,

which is to ask: was it necessary?

It really goes to that, that, that point that

Martin Luther King made, is I can't pass legislation

to make you love me,

but I can pass legislation to stop you from lynching me.

This "Justice in Policing Act"

represents... a bold and clear step forward,

but an opportunity.

As to whether this nation's elected representatives

will hear the pain, hear the cries,

hear the suffering, hear the outrage.

This is a moment not of politics.

This is not a moment of Black or white.

This is a moment of morality. It's a moment of human decency.

[marching band music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

♪♪

speaker: Black Lives Matter right around the corner here.

Janet Murguía: This is now... Black Lives Matter Plaza.

-And it's at the foot of the White House. -Marc Morial: Yeah, yeah.

Janet Murguía: So, I think there's a statement

-that's bein' made here. -I think it's more than a statement.

Ya know what I think it is? I think it's a megaphone.

Janet Murguía: [laughs] I think that's an "F" and a "U" to Trump,

but that would be my guess. [laughs]

[indistinct chatter]

[person giving speech over speakers]

I'm just wondering who's in charge.

I need to find out who's actually bringing speakers over.

Murguía? Is anybody tracking? Oh, wait... Hold on.

Aye, yai, yai.

How ya doin', sir?

Reverend Mark Thompson: Oh, hey hey.

Janet Murguía: I saw you before.

Can I just follow you guys?

Reverend Thompson: Yeah, come on.

[indistinct chatter]

Janet Murguía: Hi.

Pronounce your last name for me.

Janet Murguía: Sure, it's Murguía.

-Oh, Murguía, okay. -Murguía, yeah.

speaker: Next up we have Janet [mispronounces] Murguía,

as someone who's experienced the promise

of the American Dream firsthand.

[cheering]

I am here because

what we have in common

is far greater than what divides us.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to Cesar Chavez,

"Our separate struggles are really one,

a struggle for freedom, for dignity, and humanity."

[cheering]

[Janet humming]

Mauro Morales: A lot of people have asked me over time,

ya know, "How's it work with Janet?"

Ya know, "She's a strong woman."

I said, "Well, ya know, I just learned how

to lead, follow, or get outta the way."

So, that's really how I deal with Janet.

-[Janet laughs] -friend: That sounds familiar.

Yeah, but then, ya know, the other thing I love about Janet is that

despite, ya know, being the, the CEO of Unidos,

and takin' a call from Joe Biden, and--

-friend: She's still cookin' ya rice. -She is a girl next door

and she will cook dinner, and she will make sure that,

ya know, um, I've had a full meal.

-[phone buzzing] -Janet Murguía: Kamala Harris.

-Morales: She's callin' you? -Mm-hmm.

-Hello? -Senator Harris [over phone]: Janet, it's Kamala.

-How are you, sister? -H-Hey, girl!

-[both laughing] -What's goin' on?

Senator Harris: It was so good to see you the other day.

I literally-- I just-- I've been thinkin' about you

since I saw you and that's it.

I'm just callin' to see how you're thinkin' about everything.

Oh, my gosh. Well, it's so nice of you to call,

and, look, we're in the fight, man,

-we are in the fight. -Yeah, we-- I--

I'm tellin' you, I'm like-- got bloody knuckles,

but, um, this is the life we were born into.[laughs]

-Amen, sister. -Um...

I-- Ya know, here's kind of what I'm concerned with.

-This is you and me talking. Just you and me. -Okay, okay.

We have to be really thoughtful about-- What is the win here?

Is the win to defeat Trump or is the win to win?

Because we feel so strongly, deeply, and legitimately,

-we gotta get rid of this motherfucker, right? -[laughs] Yeah.

But, but we also have to give people a reason to vote for us,

-that it's not about against something. -Right.

-Right. -But it's for the fight.

-I'm, I'm-- -It's for what we plan to do when we win.

That's really important. We can't just be against Trump.

It's gotta be-- Ya gotta give people, uh,

-people somethin' to vote for, and... -Yeah.

...we might as well try to get ahead of this

-as much as we can, right? -Right, yeah.

Well, look, I just wanna encourage you and tell ya keep, keep at it.

You're doin' great, and, uh, whatever we need to do to support you,

I hope you'll let me know.

And we'll be lifting you up

in all of the work we're doing here, so,

-uh, just, just call any time... -Thank you, Janet.

...ya need anything at all, okay?

-Same here, same here. -Okay.

Morales: There ya go, look at that bartender.

Mm... Alright, feels like a Friday!

-[laughter] -All of a sudden.

-Morales: And it's a Monday. [laughs] -Janet Murguía: Oh, my God.

Hey, but it's gonna be a good week.

Kamala Harris called me, right?

Janet, M-Madam President, [laughs] thank you.

We've been friends a long time, I love ya.

Thank you for your friendship, and I really mean it.

It's been a real friendship.

I will, personally, never forget

you calling my sister a few years ago

when my mom was suffering from Alzheimer's,

and you said, "Who's taking care of her?"

And I said, "Well, it's my sister, Rosemary, and she"--

And the next day, you called her

and encouraged her.

We know you care, Mr. Vice President,

and we wanna make sure that we can bring

your passion, and your caring spirit,

and your commitment to our community

into the White House,

so you have our commitment.

We're gonna do everything we can to get you there, okay?

-Okay. -Thank you so much.

I like her a lot.

-So, I filled this out. -Let me see.

I filled it out.

-You don't want me to look at it? -No.

-parents: Why? -'Cause this is my vote.

-...double check. - I know, but you still wanna make sure it's right.

Let's just check to make sure everything is filled out.

Okay, Mason, you screwed this up.

How? You're supposed to vote across.

"Vote for three."

-Okay, vote for-- -You voted for five.

-Uh-oh. -You disqualified your ballot.

So, what I would do... is try to fix it.

-You want me to cross it out? -Mason, Mason, Mason. Listen to me. Listen to me.

I wanna-- I just wanna make a point.

-Okay. Okay, make a point. -I wanna make a really important point.

You have to-- You just started fillin' in circles.

You have to read the instructions.

But watch, watch whatcha have to do.

You're puttin' it in wrong.

-It's upside down. -You're puttin' it in wrong.

-It's upside-- -You're putting it in wrong.

-There's a window here... -Stop laughing.

-...that this has to show. -That's how-- I put it in that way.

-Okay? -I put it in that way.

Gonna get your ballot disqualified by rushin'.

-It does matter! -It does matter!

Because if it's in there, it's not gonna be taken.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Push it all the way down first.

It's all the way down as it can go.

You gotta smile.

I'm not-- Like, I-I can't. I'm just not in the mood.

Like, I don't understand.

Show them pearly whites.

Show them pearly whites.

Show them pearly whites. Yay!

[tense music playing]

reporter 1: In the midst of a pandemic, more and more states

are turning to mail-in ballots.

The president claims, without evidence,

that will bring fraud.

reporter 2: That's a truck being loaded up

with post office boxes.

reporter 3: We've been seeing those iconic blue boxes

disappearing, and also hearing reports

that mail-sorting machines

have been removed and dismantled.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott

used his executive authority yesterday

to change election rules,

limiting ballot drop-off boxes to just one per county.

In Harris County, we have millions of people,

and particularly of color,

one place where people can submit their ballots.

We're seeing, also, Marc,

the highest and intense level of disinformation

sent to our community through these robocalls.

[caller speaking]

There's an active campaign to keep us from voting.

There's an active campaign to keep us from being counted.

I wanna go out to Philadelphia.

The turnout in the Philadelphia region

determines the direction of the state.

There's no question that the potential to drive some

important messages is there.

But, ya know, for the Latino community,

I feel like we'll have the most impact

with our own voters in Arizona.

Arizona's a key state.

I-I-I-- We gotta touch as many people as we can.

Let's just go act and move.

See, we have to create fire right now.

♪♪

Janet Murguía: Arizona has a special story.

reporter: Meanwhile in Arizona, anger is still smoldering

over the state's controversial immigration law.

Janet Murguía: Ten years ago, Arizona

had passed this awful law, SB 1070,

that created a effort to racially profile Latinos,

and anybody who looked Hispanic or like an immigrant,

and allow for them to be stopped and asked to show their papers.

It was absolutely unconscionable and unconstitutional.

It makes all Latinos in Arizona,

the vast majority of whom

are U.S. citizens and legal residents,

suspects in their own communities.

We fought back and we used our community's economic buying power,

uh, and said that we would begin a boycott.

crowd [chanting]: Veto 1070! Veto 1070!

Janet Murguía: So many in our community came together,

and as a result, 10 years later,

we're seeing that in power and influence.

Arizona is, is on the brink of a transformation.

Arizona will likely be the swing state

that determines the outcome of the presidency.

Latinos and our vote will be the difference.

Please vote. Make a promise. Make a plan.

Marc Morial: As Pennsylvania goes,

so will go this election.

As Philadelphia goes, so goes Pennsylvania.

What happens in Philadelphia

will determine the direction of this election.

So, the power is in the hands of people here

in the Philadelphia region to make a difference.

♪♪

Abby: Well, this is my first election I can vote in.

-[applause] -Janet Murguía: Excellent. Excellent.

Abby: So, all of my friends are voting with me.

Like, my parents tell me it's the most important one.

We're hearing about the uptick in younger voters.

-Alejandra Gomez: It's been historic. -That's exciting, right?

I know. Latino community and young people

are showing out and showing up to the polls.

[light music playing]

-[indistinct chatter] -Marc Morial: Thank you, brother, thank you.

How y'all doin', brothers, may I give you one?

-Yeah. Thank, thank you. -associate: We're just stressin' the importance of voting.

Marc Morial: Who, who in your house votes?

-Most of my family vote. -Marc Morial: 'Kay, you make s--

We wanna get Trump outta office, right?

Marc Morial: Hey, I think that's what a lotta people wanna do.

speaker: Reclaim your vote!

crowd: Reclaim your vote!

speaker: Reclaim your vote!

crowd: Reclaim your vote!

speaker: Reclaim your vote!

crowd: Reclaim your vote!

-[indistinct chatter] -[car honking]

speaker [over phone]: I show that you are registered to vote

at the[indistinct] library.

Bradley Cobb: Thank you so much for that, that's a blessin'.

I appreciate it so much, ma'am, thank you.

[indistinct chatter]

Voting today, it just felt empowering.

I voted for Joe Biden, I hope he wins.

But if Trump wins,

then... I think it's gon' be like Sodom and Gomorrah.

I'm serious. I think it's gon' be like the fall of Babylon if he wins.

It's just-- I just got that feelin' in my soul.

We just got a report that, uh, robocalls have gone out in Flint, Michigan,

uh, into the Black community, saying to people,

"Vote tomorrow because the lines are long."

We wanna encourage people to disregard these robocalls,

which are tryin' to trick, uh, and fool us.

I'm on pins and needles.

I'm very anxious because you can't predict these things,

particularly since '16 was such a surprise.

Michelle?

How ya feeling?

I don't know... I'm worried.

No, I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a--

it's just a tight race, all these battlegrounds.

You know, the results are comin' in,

I think it's gon' be a close night.

So, we just gotta keep on prayin'.

-Sybil Morial: Mm-hmm. -So, Ma, any-anything else you-you-- you're sensin'?

Ya know what I think, uh... Trump's loyalists believe,

they hear him say, "Make America White Again."

That's what they hear when he says,

"Make America Great Again."

-Mm-hmm. -And that's why they will never leave him.

Right, right.

[deep breath] Think you're right, Mom.

Sybil Morial: Mm-hmm.

Wolf Blitzer: Trump can't be the President of the United States

without Pennsylvania.

The president's math does not work

without Pennsylvania, just 20 electoral votes here.

Joe Biden can win without it. The president cannot.

Uh, that is the threshold of today

as we go through the consequential hours ahead.

The Secretary of State just told Jake,

she says 550,000 ballots--

Hey, Janet.

Hey, man. How we doin'? [laughs]

This is nerve-wrackin', isn't it?

Yeah. Hopefully, doesn't come down to Pennsylvania.

It has-- It's probably going to, though, it sounds like.

And people are worried about Michigan--

-Oop! What is this? Sorry! -[cheering in background]

Did they call Arizona?

Did our decision desk make it?

-Arizona, 11 electoral votes? -speaker: Yes.

-[all cheering] -Okay, if that's the case then, guys,

uh, when we come back, we'll fill this in.

reporter: Okay, time out, this is a big development.

-Yeah. -The Fox News decision desk

is calling Arizona for Joe Biden.

Janet Murguía: Lookin' good.

reporter: That is a big get.

Blitzer: In Pennsylvania, Trump's lead now is only 64,266.

If Biden wins Pennsylvania, it's over.

["Hypnotize" by The Notorious B.I.G. playing on phone]

Turn it off before my mom-- I talk to my mom,

-You know-- "What is that?!" -[laughter]

speaker [over phone]: I've had to do that a few times, too.

I don't wanna destroy my image with my mother.

Grammy!

Hello, Marc!

Hey, what's up?

Still a nailbiter, but it--

we're goin' in the right direction.

We just gotta hold on.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, right?

Sybil Morial: Mm-hmm.

Hold on in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania's the prize.

-Mm-hmm. -So, ya know,

we-- I'm gonna-- I'm not gonna count

one chicken...

-before they hatch. -[chuckles] I know, I know.

-I know. -I'm not gonna sneak in the kitchen

-and put my hand in the pot... -[Sybil laughing]

-...until the gumbo is done. -Oh, my.

[both laughing]

Well, Mommy, you inspire me.

Well, you inspire me more. [laughs]

-Marc Morial: Thank you. -I'm so proud of you.

[cheering]

crowd [chanting]: Biden! Biden! Biden!

[whistling]

Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!

Mr. President-elect, Madam Vice President-elect,

let me just say congratulations to both of you

on your historic, uh, victory in this election

for which, uh, we worked so hard to turn out,

uh, a record vote in our community.

I want to, uh, lift up

your historic commitment to racial justice.

Our job is to help you

and to hold you and your administration accountable

to accomplish the progress of racial justice.

And those twin objectives,

helping and holding you accountable,

is what we will use to guide,

uh, this relationship over the next four years.

President-elect Biden [over phone]: My overarching objective,

we gotta figure out how to unify this country,

and you've been the leaders of being able to do that.

I desperately wanna work with each of you,

and I promise you,

you will have access to us on a regular basis.

Cedric Richmond [over phone]: Mr. President, I'm being told,

that, uh, you're over.

Yeah, 10 seconds, Mr. President.

Uh, we take you up on your offer to meet with you regularly.

We'd like to do it four times a year, thank you.

[Sybil groans]

Mama, we got Trump out.

-Sybil Morial: We got him out. -Hurray.

-Yes. -But it's been one hell of a year, Ma.

-We, we-- We're living in a t-- -We, we are in crisis.

-Yeah, we're in, we're in deep crisis. -Yes.

So, historically, how does this year compare?

-Can you identify another year like this year... -Yes.

-...in, in, in, in American history? -When Hoover was president

and FDR stepped in and saved the country,

saved the economy.

-Mm-hmm. -You know... got rid of the depression.

That was the last real crisis of d-demo-- in a democracy.

Yeah, and, ya know, it really affects me

in ways that I never thought it would.

-It-It's-- -What do you mean?

It depresses me that our leaders are so...

-inept. -Small-minded.

Uh, lack of integrity.

Um... it c-- it shouldn't be like this.

-That's a threat to democracy. -Yeah.

-Leaders with no character. -Mm-hmm.

-That's the biggest thing. -Leaders who stand for nothing.

Sybil Morial: Right.

Marc Morial: How 'bout on racial justice issues?

How do you look at this year?

Uh, I-- Marc, it's a struggle.

We're right back where we were in the '60s.

The contempt for Blacks and people of color.

The venom is just as strong.

[indistinct yelling]

We're gonna walk down to the Capitol.

[crowd cheering]

Because you'll never take back our country with weakness.

You have to show strength and you have to be strong.

[crowd member shouts]

[yelling]

rioters [chanting]: USA! USA! USA!

-[chanting continues] -[indistinct shouting]

rioter: Let's go! Let's go!

[fighting]

[yelling]

[cheering]

rioters [chanting]: Stop the steal! Stop the steal!

[rioters chanting]

[person speaking]

rioters: Heave ho! Heave ho!

[officer screaming]

-[TV playing] -I'm sendin' Janet a note.

"Hope you're safe amidst this act of insurrection and treason.

We must and will stand up to this assault."

Janet Murguía: So, I'm here on Pennsylvania Avenue,

it's January 6th, and we're seeing some of the folks

who have come here to protest the election

and to really instigate s-- real chaos in the Capitol.

Part of me wants to be out here to

not just kinda witness history,

probably one of the lowest moments

in our country's, uh, democracy,

uh, but also to stand up for... my own beliefs.

And to say, ya know... "This is my country, too."

[emotional] And, um... no one... should be allowed,

not even our president,

to destroy... our democracy

and our institutions.

I have to tell ya,

it saddened me beyond belief...

to see people take on...

the Senate floor, the House floor.

Where was law enforcement?

-I don't understand. -Why didn't law enforcement know this was happening?

Durin' Black Lives Matter, there were police in riot gear

and national guardsmen everywhere.

They could have killed the next vice president,

they could've killed members of Congress.

This is an absolute outrage.

Hey, hang on, hang on, Marc. What?

Morales: The press just reported when the mob stormed...

-Uh-huh, uh-huh. -...the chamber,

um, staff grabbed the electoral ballots,

and removed 'em, so they couldn't be burned or destroyed by the mob.

That is-- Man.

This is shocking, it's appalling,

and it's a low for our country

that I think no one could've conceived of.

And it just goes to show you,

we're gonna be fighting to protect this democracy

for the next 50 years.

[utensils clinking]

So, somethin' happened that's never happened,

I know in our lives, right?

How does that make you feel?

Dang, we got a lotta crazy people in this country.

Like, oh, my goodness.

Like, people actually, like, went to the Capitol,

got in to the Capitol,

-and, like-- -speaker: Broke into the Capitol.

Broke into the Capitol

and, like, just went crazy in there,

and, like, with no, like,

respect for any-anyone or anything in there.

Like, the police officers, no respect for them.

-Marc Morial: Mm-hmm, you're right. -Christian Brown: I don't know.

It's just crazy how afraid we are of cops.

Some white kids grow up and never have to be scared

of something like that, and can, like,

do something to, like, the max extent

of running into the Capitol...

-Marc Morial: Mm-hmm... Mm-hmm. -...and, like, acting a fool.

Marc Morial: So, what about 2020?

Some kinda year, right?

Arthur Pratts: It was bad at first, bad in the middle,

it was just bad all around.

Marc Morial: What, what made it the most baddest?

COVID, Kobe dying, um, Trump, um, Black Lives Matter,

George Floyd dying, all these Black people dying.

Most racist, probably, year ever for, like,

I don't know, our generation.

Marc Morial: Mm-hmm.

Mason Morial: Yeah, but it, it was just great

seeing people, like, actually care about Black lives.

And, like, knowing, like-- We, we got to know, like,

who our a-- true allies really were, to be honest.

Marc Morial: Alright, Mom.

So, who wants pie?

-speaker: I want pie! -Michelle Miller: One, two--

[cheering]

[person giving speech]

reporter: Genevieve Hansen, a Minneapolis firefighter,

was the last witness to testify.

She had videotaped Floyd's death

and claimed she tried to intervene.

Are you, are you really a firefighter?

-Yes, I am. From Minneapolis! -Officer Tou Thao: Okay, okay.

Then get on the sidewalk!

-Show me his pulse! -Check his pulse!

Check it right fuckin' now!

reporter: She testified Officer Tou Thao

didn't allow her to perform medical assistance.

And when you couldn't do that,

how did that make you feel?

Totally distressed.

attorney: Were you frustrated?

Yes.

[indistinct chatter]

announcer: We the jury in the above entitled matter

as to count three,

second-degree manslaughter, culpable negligence,

creating an unreasonable risk, find the defendant guilty.

-[crowd cheering] -...20th day of April 2021

at 1:45 p.m.

[solemn music playing]

[chatter, cheering]

-Benjamin Crump: Say his name! -all: George Floyd!

-Crump: Say his name! -all: George Floyd!

-Say his name! -all: George Floyd!

-Say his name! -all: George Floyd!

-Say his name! -all: George Floyd!

-Say his name! -all: George Floyd!

-Say his name! -all: George Floyd!

-Say his name! -all: George Floyd!

[applause]

♪♪

It's been a long journey

and the person that comes to my mind is Emmett Till.

[group reacts, agrees]

He was the first George Floyd...

speaker: Yes.

...but today, you have the cameras all around the world

to see and show what happened to my brother.

It was a motion picture,

the world seen his life bein' extinguished.

And I could do nothin' but watch,

especially in that courtroom over and over and over again

as my brother was murdered.

This is the first time in the history of this state

that a white police officer has been convicted,

less known convicted of a murder.

Marc Morial: We call on the United States Senate

to pass the "George Floyd Justice in Policing Act,"

and not to water it down.

Let us understand that this is but a moment,

and this battle, this fight, this work for justice must proceed.

[applause]

["Skin Tight" by Ohio Players playing over speakers]

speaker: Hey!

[laughs] That's some good stuff there, man.

Marc Morial: That's music, baby!

That's back in the day, old school.

♪♪

Marc Morial: It's great to see all the people out here

in a mood of justice, a mood of satisfaction,

but it's also good to see that there's--

people have continued resolve.

To understand that this is part of a larger movement

that's gonna continue not only in Minneapolis,

but all across the nation.

[indistinct chatter]

[ambient street noise]

President Biden [over tablet]: The promise of America

is that we're all created equal,

while we as a country have never fully lived up to that ideal,

Marc and Janet, you make sure we never walk away from it.

You're among the nation's most important civil rights leaders

because people trust you.

Ya know when to speak and when to listen,

and how to get folks to organize and mobilize.

That's why you're so effective and how you've been able to

get so many big things done together.

With your voice,

we're gonna fix our immigration system,

we're gonna protect the most fundamental freedoms,

the right to vote,

and to have a vote that's counted.

And I'm determined to outlaw and ban assault weapons as well.

Marc and Janet, there's always more we have to do, I know,

and I know I'll be seeing a lot more of you, and that's no joke.

So, thank you both for all you do

and for bein' a friend.

-Thank you, Mr. President. -Yeah, that's nice.

-That was nice, that was nice, um... -Mm.

And, uh, it makes me reflect somethin' you always say,

and you always say, "Elections matter!"

-Yeah. That's right. -Who gets elected counts.

Our community's invested in voting.

Our communities can see the beginnings of a return

on their investment.

Do we always agree with every move he makes?

Every move of the administration? No way.

No way, so we have to--

This delicate balance of working

and holding accountable

every president with whom we work.

We have this Gumbo Coalition.

-Ya talk about bein' in the kitchen and bein' hot. -[Marc chuckling]

-The importance of us coming together... -Mm-hmm.

-...knowing that it's not always easy. -Mm-hmm.

But we're not gonna have a choice in the future

but to really leverage that unity

to further our broader interests.

Dr. King captured the spirit of an important idea,

and that is, "The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice."

So, we're gonna fight 'til hell freezes over...

-[Janet laughing] -...and then we're gonna fight on the ice!

["I'll Take the Long Road" by Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens playing]

♪ I realize I had to make a choice ♪

♪ So I decided to make this choice ♪

♪ Mm-hmm

♪ Listen, y'all

♪ I'll take the long road

chorus: ♪ I'll take the long road

Shelton: ♪ I'll take the long road, yeah, yeah ♪

♪♪

♪ But I surely, surely, surely I will get there ♪

♪ Yes, I will

["Tear It Down" by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings playing]

♪♪

[chorus vocalizing]

chorus: ♪ We gonna tear them down

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

♪♪ They keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ We're gonna tear them down ♪

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

♪ They keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ We're gonna tear them down ♪

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

♪ They keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ We're gonna tear them down ♪

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

♪ They keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ We're gonna tear them down ♪

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

♪ They keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ We're gonna tear them down ♪

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

Jones: ♪ Why be afraid of others

♪ Who are different than you

♪ We had the first nation ♪

♪ Before we had the red, white, and the blue ♪

chorus: ♪ They keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ We're gonna tear them down ♪

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

♪ They keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ We're gonna tear them down ♪

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

Jones: ♪ Said they keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ But we gonna tear them down ♪

♪ Tear them down, tear them down ♪

chorus: ♪ They keep tryin' to build more walls ♪

♪ We're gonna tear them down

♪ Tear them down

♪ Tear them down ♪

[song fades out]