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Monday 1/17/22

Monday 1/17/22

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Foundation holds wreath-laying ceremony at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington
CNN, January 17, 2022 – 9:00 am (ET)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/16/politics/michael-mccaul-ukraine-russia-cnntv/index.html

Jon Meacham: MLK Legacy Should Be An Inspiration To Keep Moving
MSNBCJanuary 17, 2022
Americans see Martin Luther King Jr. as a hero now, but that wasn’t the case during his lifetime
CNN, Harry EntenJanuary 17, 2022

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero. Almost every American adult (95%) believes he was an important figure in American history in CBS News polling.

But it wasn’t always that way. The fact that King is now beloved and has a national holiday commemorating his birthday wasn’t something that obviously was going to happen during his lifetime.

This shows us that often the fight for civil rights is unpopular at the time, and it only becomes popular retrospectively.

During the 1960s, King was a very divisive figure. The last Gallup poll to ask about his popularity during his lifetime, taken in 1966, found his unfavorable rating was 63%. This included 39% of Americans who gave him a -5 rating on a scale, with -5 being least favorable and +5 being most favorable.

Democrats see good chance of Garland prosecuting Trump
The Hill, Alexander Bolton et al.January 17, 2022

Senate Democrats believe there is a good chance the Department of Justice will prosecute former President Trump for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which would have major political reverberations ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Democratic lawmakers say they don’t have any inside information on what might happen and describe Attorney General Merrick Garland as someone who would make sure to run any investigation strictly “by the book.”

But they also say the fact that Garland has provided little indication about whether the Department of Justice has its prosecutorial sights set on Trump doesn’t necessarily mean the former president isn’t likely to be charged.

Today onAir
CNN, Devan Cole and Daniella Diaz,

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/16/politics/michael-mccaul-ukraine-russia-cnntv/index.html

Top Republican on foreign affairs committee believes US is in new cold war with Russia
CNN, Devan Cole and Daniella DiazJanuary 16, 2022

The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Sunday he thinks the US is engaged in a new cold war with Russia amid high tensions between the nations over Russia’s potential invasion of Ukraine.

“I do. I do, because I think (Russia President Vladimir) Putin again smells weakness here,” Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican of Texas, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” when asked whether he thinks there’s a new cold war happening.

His comments come after CNN reported the US has information that indicates Russia has prepositioned a group of operatives to potentially conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion.

“He knows that if he’s ever going to invade Ukraine, now is the time. I hope he doesn’t make that miscalculation. But the fact is, if he does invade Ukraine, what is the United States, what is our commander-in-chief prepared to do to stop it?” McCaul said.

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