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🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, there I'm Chuck Todd. |
0:04.4 | We just wrapped up this morning's Meet the Press. |
0:06.4 | I'm still on set here as we talk. |
0:08.0 | In fact, on today's broadcast, we started with a roundtable on police reform from with |
0:12.4 | Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, and |
0:16.4 | Keith Mays, he's the associate professor at the University of Minnesota, focusing on |
0:19.4 | African American studies and African studies. |
0:22.4 | And I also had an exclusive interview with Dr. Francis Collins, he's the director of the |
0:25.0 | National Institutes of Health, Minnesota Terrific Roundtable, Malcolm Gladwell, Peggy Nune, |
0:30.8 | Jean Robinson, and my colleague Morgan Radford. |
0:34.0 | Look, I think the best way to start off sort of understanding the show this week was the |
0:40.0 | question of whether is this a Soma moment. |
0:42.6 | Jim Clyburn, in a piece that we kicked off the show with, we reached out to him and some |
0:47.4 | other prominent African Americans asking them about their feelings in the moment after |
0:53.0 | the show and verdict, and he introduced the idea that maybe this could be a Soma moment |
0:58.0 | to think about, and then it sort of reversed the question. |
1:03.2 | What is Soma today without the Voting Rights Civil Rights Act passing in 1964? |
1:08.0 | And that's the question. |
1:09.0 | This is going to lead to the passage of police reform. |
1:11.4 | And I think that's what was hanging in there. |
1:13.5 | Is this a Soma moment or not? |
1:14.8 | And Keith Mays, who's a professor at the University of Minnesota, has seen multiple men |
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