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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. Today at the U.S. Capitol |
0:04.8 | building, the Reverend William Barber was arrested inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda for praying, |
0:12.6 | praying with other clergy there inside the rotunda. You can see what it says there on his vestments. |
0:18.3 | It says, Jesus was a poor man. Outside the Capitol building, |
0:24.5 | supporters and friends of Reverend Barber rallied in the first of what they say will be |
0:29.1 | repeated moral Mondays protests against the actions of the Trump administration. Reverend |
0:35.0 | Barbara leading those protests for so long in North Carolina |
0:38.3 | to such great national galvanizing effect. Moral Monday's protests starting today, |
0:44.6 | including with Reverend Barbara himself being arrested for peacefully praying inside the rotunda. |
0:49.3 | That action today follows an unusual sit-in-style protest on the steps of the U.S. Capitol yesterday. |
0:55.8 | This started at sunrise Sunday morning with just New Jersey U.S. Senator Cory Booker and the Democratic |
1:03.2 | leader of the House, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries. It started with the two of them yesterday |
1:08.3 | morning at sunrise, but then all day long they stayed. |
1:13.1 | And the steps of the Capitol just kind of quietly filled up over the course of the day |
1:17.2 | as more and more people came to sit with them and talk with them, including Reverend |
1:21.7 | Barbara at one point, including many other members of Congress over the course of the day. |
1:26.4 | Senators including Chris Coons and Raphael Warnock, Angela also Brooks, Amy Klobuchar, Brian Schatz, Adam Schiff, Lisa Blunt, Rochester. |
1:35.3 | All those senators came by during the course of the day yesterday. |
1:38.4 | Also members of Congress, members of the House, including Andre Carson and Maxwell Frost and Emmanuel Cleaver, Sarah McBride, Mark Takano, |
1:46.2 | Tom Swazzi, Sydney Kamliger Dove, Stephen Horsford, Sue Osabro, excuse me, Subramanyam, |
1:53.0 | Emily Randall, Sarah Elfrest, Stacey Plaskett. People came by members of Congress and |
1:58.0 | regular people came by all day long to sort of participate in this sit-in, to talk about opposition to what Trump is doing. |
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