Alex Wagner
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And in fact, like in the example she uses is during segregation in lieu of having black kids and white kids swim at the swimming pool together.
some communities shut down the pool entirely.
And that's basically what we're doing to our society.
Rather than saying like, we're better together.
We're like, let's just shut the whole thing down so that we don't have to deal with each other.
Yeah, I would say white Christian nationalism.
White Christian nationalism.
There's a specific strain of it, right?
It is worth talking about.
Like after your arrest, the White House tweeted out, when life gives you lemons.
with a chain emoji, like the White House cheering on the arrest of a journalist, a black journalist with slavery chains.
I mean, did you, first of all, ever, you know, you've been in the crosshairs of this administration before, right?
Like, you know what it's like to be a journalist at CNN, to have a big platform, but did you, what did that moment mean to you when that tweet went out?
Can I talk about that?
Yeah, because I know that your lawyers, and again, if you can't talk about this, just let me know.
But your lawyers want to see the facts that the government presented to the grand jury in order to get the indictment.
Because they're saying, we don't really trust whatever facts the government gave to the grand jury.