Ep. 506 — Doug Jones

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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While in law school, former Alabama Senator Doug Jones skipped class to watch the trial of Robert Chambliss, convicted in 1977 for his role in the deadly 1963 Birmingham church bombing, which killed four Black girls. Decades later, as a US attorney, Jones successfully prosecuted two others involved in the attack. Doug joined David to talk about the state of the Democratic Party and why Alabama voters have turned their backs on Democrats, why curriculum that teaches America’s flaws demonstrates progress rather than failure, his thoughts on Biden’s political accomplishments and Trump’s legal troubles, and serving as Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s guide through her Senate confirmation.

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axfiles with your
0:12.9	host, David Axelrod.
0:16.0	You may have become familiar with Doug Jones in 2017 when the Democrats stunned the nation
0:24.7	by winning a special election for Jeff Sessions seat in the U.S. Senate from the Ruby Red
0:29.9	State of Alabama.
0:31.6	But Jones made his mark long before that as the U.S. attorney who at long last brought
0:36.7	two ex-clansmen to justice for the 1963 Birmingham Church bombing that killed four young black girls.
0:44.4	That story and his whole life's journey from white steel workers son in the segregated
0:48.8	south to the man who avenged those savage murders is something to behold.
0:53.4	I sat down last week with Senator Jones at the Institute of Politics where he's a fall
0:57.7	Pritzker Fellow.
0:59.2	Here's our conversation.
1:01.2	Music
1:07.4	Doug Jones, great to be with you.
1:09.8	Great to have you as a Fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
1:15.2	Well, thank you.
1:16.2	I look, David, this is great.
1:17.2	I appreciate the opportunity to be here.
1:20.2	It's an extraordinary opportunity for me and also to do this podcast.
1:23.4	Thanks very much.
1:24.6	You have such a led such an interesting life and probably not the one that you imagined
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