@jonathanvswan: "When you talk to someone...that says to you, 'I love former President Trump and I think he won the election,' like, what do you say back to that?"
@RepLizCheney: "I say, 'he didn't win the election.'"
@Gina_McCarthy: "Well, fossil fuel companies have been, you know, spending a good deal of money early on, on fighting the idea that climate change was real." #AxiosOnHBO
@RussContreras@lisahopeking@RepKarenBass@TopekaKSam .@RepKarenBass: "The most important part of the [George Floyd Justice and Policing Act] is that the bill that holds officers accountable...As a country, we are tired and we are horrified in seeing videotape after videotape."
@RussContreras@lisahopeking@RepKarenBass@TopekaKSam .@RepKarenBass on protests in 2020 moving the needle: "Many of the provisions in the bill are not new. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have been fighting for these different provisions for decades. But public pressure led to us finally beginning to move."
🧵 HARD TRUTHS DEEP DIVE — Systemic racism in the criminal justice system
The U.S. criminal justice system is cyclical and leaves a lasting imprint on people’s lives. Every step of the way, people of color suffer most. axios.com/hard-truths-de…
Police shootings captured on video often drive a lot of media attention, but after the funeral, it leaves victims' families with years of pain and a lonely journey with little sense of closure or justice. axios.com/hard-truths-de…
In 2011, two plain-clothes officers visited Stephen and Renetta Torres’ house to question their son, Christopher, over an alleged road rage episode. Court documents said officers jumped the fence and fought with him. axios.com/hard-truths-de…
.@mikeallen sits down with Rev. Franklin Graham to discuss vaccine hesitancy and whether there’s a race problem within the evangelical community. (2/5)
💥 NEW — Off the rails: Inside Trump’s final-weeks campaign to withdraw the U.S. military from engagements around the world axios.com/off-the-rails-…
A week after the election, acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller received a stunning order, signed by Trump, seemingly out of nowhere:
All U.S. military forces were to be withdrawn from Somalia by Dec. 31 and from Afghanistan by Jan. 15. axios.com/off-the-rails-…
Top military brass, including Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, were appalled.
This was not the way to conduct policy — with no consultation, no input, no process for gaming out consequences or offering alternatives. axios.com/off-the-rails-…
.@mikeallen: Do you consider getting the vaccine to be a pro-life decision?
@Franklin_Graham: Of course. And I’m pro-life. I believe saving the life of the unborn as much as those that are born. And medicine is pro-life. #AxiosOnHBO
@mikeallen@Franklin_Graham Graham on Trump: “I think he did some great things in his presidency. I think the vaccine that we're talking about right now, I'm not sure we would have that if we'd had another president in there. Now, he made plenty of mistakes. We all do.” #AxiosOnHBO