Fighting racism, hate and dangerous norms in Trump era: Obama A.G. Holder talks to Ari Melber
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- Former Attorney General Eric Holder joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber for wide-ranging conversation, and discusses his experience working with President Obama, the importance of voting and growing up during the civil rights movement. Holder also discusses the Supreme Court’s “legitimacy problem” in this Summit Series installment. (Check out The Beat's playlist: msnbc.com/ari Connect with Ari Melber: / arimelber )
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#Obama #Trump #EricHolder
Smart man! I would stand by his side with respect and honor.
Such an honorable man Hoder is! Those Blacks who are supporting Trump, shame, shame, sham on them!
What a wise man. Why are there not more people like him in positions of power today.
We need to abolish gerrymandering AND the Electoral College.
To be a real and legitimate DEMOCRACY, each vote should count EQUALLY.
A. G. Holder is "the man"!
We need more people like Holder😢
Mr Holder is from a great background, now that I have heard his parents were Barbadian. Many British lived there in the early years, before and after slavery. Kids were raised with a very British background, well spoken and great education. Barbadians are well respected all over the world, especially here in the UK, because of their sense of decency and upbringing.
Jamaicans too.
@@annab3698 Yes, they are😘
Luv luv luv, Attorney General Holder...
We need some justice!
Oh my God, I remember the same speech by Kennedy. I remember watching it in black & white. And I remember my dad Tearing up. And I also remember Mr. Holder has been one of my heroes. This is the most amazing night. I've had in many, many respecthat. Yes, thank you.
What an excellent interview, food for thought. More of this please!
Eric Holder is still working hard, even though he doesn't have to.
Attorney General Eric Holder, Stacy Abrams and Senator Raphael Warnock are three most influential African Americans in the country.
Stacy is a horrible human being.
What a great man and Ari Melber did his usual great interview.
Eric Holder's really cool! Thanks Ari!
Love Mr. Holder's afro. In fact, I worked for one of his best friends a few years before he became Attorney General. Mr. Holder is an absolute very good man! My mother's six brothers were the ones who encouraged me to wear the "Fro!" She absolutely hated my afro so I didn't tell her that it was her brothers who started me on my journey into Afrocentric lifestyles. I swapped "pressing" my hair for a shoulder to shoulder Afro (Angela Davis style). I started wearing dashikis, afro headwraps, pucca shell jewelry, big earrings, and totally embraced my Afrocentric culture. I absolutely loved that time of my youth and young adulthood. I then fell in love with the Rasta culture, loved steel drums, Santana. I was criticized for naming one of my daughters Kaya after Bob Marley's song Kaya. My favorite album at that time was Rastaman Vibration. Absolutely loved my youth ❤
Gotta say great interview. Ari never fails, Mr. Holder is an icon I want my kids to follow
Great interview, Ari!🎉
I really like Eric Holder.
The United States of America is very fortunate to have had such a stabilizing voice these decades.
Great interview Ari!
So agree! What a pleasure to listen to two intelligent human beings having an excellent discourse!👍
Fast & Furious still dont know how many died since they clain they lost serial numbers so dont know!
Fast & Furious gun grab?
From Australia: Eric seems like a decent, honest, progressive and great AG - seems like Obama was lucky to have him.
Not the speak of intelligent, it's the color of Eric and Obama's, skin!... Sorry to say!..
We should hear about those individuals who really work hard for American people than those ones who do nothing except trashing America with their words.
AG Holder was a Zaddy in his yearbook picture! That fro was doing its thang!
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE APPLAUSE 🎉🎉🎉He has my highest respect! Great Man. Thank you Mr. Holder, and Thank you Are.❤
Ari. Wish spellcheck would quit checking me.😂
Take a look at the "fast and furious scandal" ,those guns are still killing people along the southern border.
@@suemccord2633 😂 Same!
Excellent interview with a great mind. Thank you
Eric Holder is excellence at its finest no doubt.
If Holder had Garland's title, maybe we would not still be waiting for a trial almost 4 years after the attempted coup in DC, and our peaceful transfer of power...Garland is moving with snail like urgency!
A most execellent traitor to America.
Erica Holders is very brilliant and articulate man.I admire him a lot.
He like all had agenda
I dont know anything about Mr. Holder until now. He has my utmost respect. Good Bless You Sir. So well spoken. I can improve my English skills listening to him.
Excellent conversation. Need more like this.
As a European, I don't know much about Eric Holder and his time as AG, other than the infamous Shelby County case. From this interview, despite Ari Melber's too frequent interruptions, Mr Holder comes across as a man of vision and integrity, and most of all, one who is still fighting for equal justice for all, rather than living a peaceful retirement. I've got to admire him for that.
❤ from the Netherlands, same here
Read his Wikipedia
He is not. Trust me. He is a fraud. Do a deep dive into these phonies. They pander to either side. Its actually a shame we put these particular turds on a pedestal. They are all full crap. PS They could care less about equal justice. He is a rich , black man who could care less about anyone in the streets.
Operation "Fast and Furious" is his legacy
@@studytoshowthyselfapprove8301 correct Fast to fix the problem and furious that our own deep state helped push the disease and all the bad crap coming from the closers. We have lost an entire generation of students so Trump would not be reelected. Some country we have .
Very very very impressed with AG Eric Holder.
⚖👍👏👏👏👏👏
Not me, not at all. He sounds like a race baiter and thinks anyone that isn't pale skinned is a victim.
Great one guys! 💪👍👌
Great interview. Eric Holder is one of the best. I always wonder where our country would be had JFK or Bobby had not been assassinated.
That fro is excellent
That was the trend back then, I know because I was there. Back then even our women wore naturals. We were proud of being Black back then. Today we're mostly uncle Toms and aunt Jemimas.
Great interview @arimelber. Thank you for this background interview of our former AG! As for the 'fro, we ALL had long hair then; it was the times.
I was proud of our country when under the Obama administration!
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Very correct 💯
We went from Class (Obama) to Trash (tRUMP).
Lol
He was the worst
A 'minority' should not be a word describing any people.
An 'equal' should come naturally to mind/heart as we're all one race ...human ❤.
Well said 👍👏💙💙💙💙
But that is what Indigenous + other people of color were called by mainstream media. I remember. But we know who we are. As Indigenous express today when hardly anyone still knows we exist & thrive "We still live here."
@@arlenebowman2085
I'm Cherokee & Irish.
After decades long of abuses since I was a baby, by my white religious fanatical racist relatives & white narcissist racist father, I know who I am.
I refused to hate, regardless.
Love
Overall
Values
Everyone
I am my own person by my own choice ♥️.
I choose compassion.
@@benjiebenjamin7810really?!?😮😢 OMG! What did they do to you?? Are you ok now??
@@negotiator96
I'm old now, I'll be fine.
I just don't like there's young who are abused today.
There's no excuse for hate!
Powerful words, sharp mind, thoughtful and dedicated human being; and it was a great interview.
I remember that speech by JFK, he was a riveting speaker. He inspired. During DJT’s presidency I watched JFKs old speeches to remind myself what presidential meant.
Ari, wonderful interview w/AG Holder. Wish we had more people like him in public service. Thank you for sharing his testimony👏👍🙏
Eric Holder is the best Attorney General who lived up to our expectations: Honest... Thoughtful... Deliberate and Smart... a man whose values and principles will never be tainted by kowtowing to a creature like trump as AG Barr did.
Holder is 🚮 He should be in prison with Peter Navarro... But we have a two-tiered justice system
Holder was the DC mover behind Fast and Furious the US funded arms pipeline to the cartels. Thousands of guns were sent to the cartels. When called to account he ignored the suponena stonewalled the committe . This is the same offense that sent Navaro to prison. Two tiered justice on steroids? treason with the cartels that are moving millions of millitary aged men into the states incluiding 900,000 Chinese nationals. Eric is deliberate alright.
Thank you for reminding them. Honest? I think not. The man is corrupt.
The ONLY attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress. Do I need to remind you about "Operation Fast and Furious" and the murder of Border Patrol Officer Brian Terry???
So agree with you! But I wonder in these awful times, if Americans recognize such value that Mr. Holder has brought to his various roles throughout the American legal system. And as America's first black AG is wonderful!👍
Dude, be proud of that Fro!! We can not change the world we were born into! Thats how it was!!! Stand tall to your past, present and future!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Eric’s quotes need to be in schools all over the country
You need a job.
He was the OG of denying congressional subpoenas........ You can quote me on that
what self-respecting Black person would ever watch MSNBC ??
@@buddyratliff6535 I was at work when I commented. Troglodyte. 🙄
@@TheOpenSociety777what is there to be proud about with ignorance ?
This is a fantastic interview, thank you.
Splendid could not ask for a better conversation well said
I am as old as Eric born 1951 I watched it to with my parents.I cried walking home from school after my teacher told us in class .When he was shot!
I watched it when he got shot. It was so sad!!!!
Wonder how many where shot by the guns Eric Holder sent to Mexico under operation Fast and Furious. 🤔
Our teacher brought a TV into the classroom and allowed us to watch history unfold 😢
Same here, only I was born a few years later. First time I ever saw all my teachers and bus driver crying and the my dad when I got home. He was Republican, but he loved Kennedy and was devastated.
Remember operation Fast and Furious when he trafficked guns to cartels in Mexico under orders by the Obama administration and BATFE?
Great job Ari, I am from Barbados and my hubby is from Jamaica, we both migrated here many years ago; proud of Mr. Eric Holder.
"Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for you country." The Kennedy years began when I was in the just entering high school and ended in my senior year. There have been just a few days which I remember what I was doing when it happened, assassination of President Kennedy, assassination of Martin Luther King, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and Sept 11. The assassination of Robert Kennedy was the eclipse of hope.
Later history indicates that JFK was not perfect, especially in his lack of fidelity, unbecoming a president but behavior that was unfortunately tolerated at that time. However, that JFK quote "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" that needs to be a coffee mug. That needs to be added to the oath of office that every public official takes in every local, state and federal position. It's about the nation, it's not about you. 🗽
All that for me as well and I’m a Canadian. 🇨🇦
@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 👍
When President Kennedy was killed, I immediately felt a tremendous loss and sadness for our country. It was downhill after that. Don't forget Malcom X too.
And now we have a former president selling sneakers and bibles while begging for donations.
Such a rapid descent. Thank a MAGA supporter.
Thanks for a great interview. I've been following contemporary American history, as it unfold daily, since Trump's 'perfect phone call' impeachment hearing. You've revealed another piece of the complex jigsaw. Thank you fir great journalism.
I have so much respect and admiration for Eric Holder. He along with Obama have a true legacy behind their names 💙🥰💙
Yeah like trafficking guns to cartels. 🤣
In your dreams!
What did Obama and Holder do for blacks? I’ll wait
They are both good humans. Not enough of them.
@@steadly3668That is what Republicans are doing.
Fine man,smart,intelligent,knowledgeable and straightforward man..Answered questions with proofs in a professional manner..Thank you for shedding light to what many people do not know and understand.
Great interview.
AG Eric Holder = RESPECT
Eric Holder - Thank You! History will be good to you ♥🙏
Only to one political side. This guy should be in prison
@MisterWeave-tm4oc why?
Characteristic of the magically functioning person is that he is strong
functions egocentrically: everything is seen from one's own perspective
interpreted, 'considered' and manipulated and conjured. That
someone else (neighbor, classmate, sister) is having a hard time is not the first
care (or even no care): one's own story, one's own suffering, one's own
'chance' rules life. There is none in the little child
group consciousness or vicarious feeling of shame (the small child
is not bothered by all the looks in the supermarket for his sake
screeching). Egocentric functioning means, among other things: 'I want
have the biggest, I want to be the first. Everything has to be done by me
available.'
The 'big' person with a predominantly magical level of functioning is
also egocentric: primarily taken with his personal,
momentary and short-lived feeling of pleasure or discomfort. The broader
perspective of the group, of the community, of the larger
society and the whole world are of no use to him. And if
he sometimes takes the group into account, then that is on the basis of
'fear' of disaster, of short-term punishment, often oneself
urged or whispered by (magically speaking) authority figures.
But this fear-reducing “ethic” is actually self-centered.
@SupportTheArts-yo8ox look up operation "fast and furious" He was running guns to the cartel and as a direct result, Americans were killed with our own guns. He also skirted any criminal inquiries about that and Obama let him off the hook.
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Thank you, Ari, for continuing to bring discussions of race in America out into the open. History will remember you kindly. It is not that you make it all about race; you simply allow the subject. Of course, the touchiness of the subject inevitably results in some awkwardness. But your videos will be the ones future generations look back upon and chuckle because they will not be able to understand just how difficult discussions allowing race were in America. Add to this your whiteness and your willingness to quote the lyrics of black artists with gravity and respect makes you a hero of our times. Thank you, Ari. Comically, I opened up the comment to simply note that Eric Holder's lightning round was the most articulate I have seen so far on your show. I hope he has great success in fighting the incessant redistricting and the underlying Jim Crow-esque worldview of those who perpetuate both.
Out of curiosity, why do you assume that Ari Melber identifies as white/ Caucasian?
Yes the notion of feeling proud of your president.
I am from Ireland. My Dad took me to see JFK when he came to Ireland. The excitement and love for him was amazing. The streets were lined with people. My Dad had me on his shoulders waving flags. For my Dad to do that ...believe me...was a big thing. He was a very quiet man. 50 years later...Donald Trump announces he is coming to Ireland and there were protests EVERYWHERE. The Government were I suppose embarrassed to reject the President of the USA making a visit.....and had to let him come. There were a lot of objections and protests but the people around Trump and probably our own government (out of embarrassment) kept them at arms length so the media did not catch the US President being booed and made unwelcome.....think we all knew he was not fit for the high office of US President then...and nothing has changed. He is a criminal...fraudster etc., etc., PUT HIM IN PRISON...
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s very inspiring. Wish tRumpt ignorant’s would get their heads out of the sand.
I know England didn't hold back! Glad y'all feel the same as us.
Most Americans want him gone, too.
@@ittt6339
The sun rises only so long on each of us. Another issue to forecast is the vacuum created when he is no longer an option, there will be new threats.
@@whatabouttheearth Of course there will be more threats, and the vacuum was not created by him alone.
Love the focus. Thank you.
Great interview. Throughly enjoyed it.
Biden is a failure😊
Love this interview
This was a wonderful interview. I got see a lot more about Eric Holder the man, and I was impressed.
Diversity is our STRENGTH! WE are stronger TOGETHER ❣🇺🇸
Diversity means the Wolves get an easy lunch and dinner.
Thank you MR Holder for your contribution and your loyalty to society and fairness hats off to you no bias all hope is not lost thank you Jesus🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Hahahahahaha....I remember Eric.....yep, quite the dude.
Brian Terry. (Look that name up)
He can beapotential president himself if choose to.
World ned people like you Sir!
Great interview Mr. Ari.
God bless🙏💞
I would not intend to defeat Holder's ardor in these times to uphold equal justice.
Fantastic
Well Done , well Said. More Power .Peace.
Long looking forward for highly qualified Mr Eric Holder appointed as Supreme court Judge.🙏
What’s a great interview with Eric Holder!!!
I love Mr. Holder. The American people need more people like him.
Great Show today Ari... Great Guest as well 👍🏾👍🏾
we need more people like him. Honest, respectful, and above all.... lets do common sense laws....not politics.
Oh no we don't. He doesn't even know that there's no such thing as an African American or democracy in the USA. He's just like the rest. Putting on a suit doesn't make u smart or knowledgeable.
List 2how many timer he refers 2the American people, African Americans &our democracy. None of these exist. Holder is the same psychobabbler & sociobabbler as all the rest.
Thank you, Ari, for your interview with AG holder. I enjoyed it, and learned things about him, I did not know or understand.
Boot Thomas
Sandrafisher theres a lot you dont know and wont unless uou look him ul. I yhink you will see he is a sheep in wolves clothing. Dont takre medias word look him up
Shout-out Mr Holder You should run for President I want to vote for people that know Capital hill💙✌️
Good idea..precious one. BUT..hmmm. America has to change her historical racist idea. For the equality waves to move smoothly to every ethnic shores. Maybe the next generation might think better than the current. Wht. My 2 cents.😊
I watched that,and I was 7 at the time.
Thanks for this interview. Eric Holder is such a gem!
Remember "fast and furious"? (probably not)
I agree!
@@muddywater4505That program wasn’t Holder’s idea, nor did he sign off on its implementation (which was a continuation of Operation Wide Receiver).
@@jimm.6542It happened under his watch cupcake. He was also impeached
Eric Holder defied a congressional subpoena and nothing happened to him..... Peter Navarro did the same and is now in a democrat prison
What a very wise and intelligent man! When he said, "David Ruffin and the Temptations," I loved him even more!😀
Holder you looked so FINE! Wouldn't change a thing with that picture!❤
🎉 right! My thoughts exactly!
Excellent Man.
Ari... THOSE Jay-Z lyrics was a great add to THIS interview!! GREAT INTERVIEW! Thank you!
He likes Jay Z. He quotes him often.
Eric Holder is very smart honorable man.
Operation "Fast and Furious" says different.
Seems measured and kind also
@@studytoshowthyselfapprove8301
I agree that was at the very least a disaster, but can we judge a man's entire career on one project?
@@Crystal_Blue_Persuasion Hello. I agree that we shouldn't do that. Let me ask you this: Why can't we apply that to 45? He is a nuisance, I admit, but he has done a lot of good for our County. We should judge his entire time on a mistake?
Outstanding interview. AG Eric Holder was the GOAT. Thank you for your great service to our great country.
Great interview and I loved the fro
That was a really great interview
excellent,
very informative on the effort made to reform the country for the better!
Good man, Eric Holder!!!
Racism is so horrific that I can't stop weeping right now. I'm going to snuggle with my cats and drink my favorite boxed wine tonight and hope our democracy can still be saved. 💙💙
LoL your post made my day. Of course your with cats and boxed wine
Trump 24
Your cat has more wisdom in one of its claws than the entire Party Of Putin! We gotta do more than hope, we have to vote and bring like minded people to the polls 🇺🇲💙🌊
Your cat has more wisdom in one claw than the entire Party Of Putin! Vote and bring like minded people to the polls 🇺🇲💙🌊
@@Mike-ye8qvYou mean BIDEN2024 SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY. TRUMP' WILL DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY.
@kellycook3914 hey u got some pp tape on your face lol you should wipe it off it's embarrassing
The EXTREME change in Mr Graham's behavior and what he USED to say he believed in are SO shocking and completely opposite its hard to comprehend.
He's compromised
He's been purchased or is being blackmailed.
Lindsey got Trumped like so many.
Excellent!!!!
Arie you nailed it again excellent show 🔵🔵🔵🔵
What a beautiful, beautiful interview.
First Cabinet member to be cited with contempt by Congress (June 2012), for refusing to answer duels constituted inquiry by the Legislative branch. He’s earned my Civil Libertarian contempt, too.
Most of us from that generation heard and understood what that speech meant and his eventual death. That time period has changed many forever to Stand Up forever for the Call to serve with goals for a better America 🇺🇸 and Freedom, Integrity and Commitment to Democracy 🗽⚖️. Vote 🗳 Justice Matters. Great segment Ari always🎉
Yes. Vote red and we might be able to stop the Democrats from destroying America
He would make a wonderful supreme court justice!!! Boot Roberts.... and put Holder in :)
Boot amy!
Boot thomas
@@carlottawalker6185Agree
Eric Holder is the man
Thanks so much for this conversation… so much needed inspiration!
Excellent 💯
True American
And a real understanding of how America can keep moving forward.
We need ppl like him in the Justice Dept.
Interview was super
👍👍
Brought me to tears. He articulates the positive as well as the dangerous. Listen to this person!
A 👍interview; well done!
Thank you Mr.Holder! And for helping us fight against gerrymandering!🇺🇸
Holder guilty of contempt of and lying to Congress. Melissa's kind of guy.
@@KaiserBladeBet you have a Red hat, and Trump lost.
@@edwinbrathwaite5268 I bet you're in debt and don't own anything. And believe 10,000,000 more Democrats voted for Biden than voted for Obama. Racism.
The disfunction starts at th top and flows down hill.
Awesome interview
Civil service, justice seeking, love for country yeah yeah yeah. we get it, can we talk more about that Afro! That thing was amazing!!!😅
I bet his hair did not move in a strong wind! LoL. Ahh, history. I have never understood why people think history is boring! BTW, good time to remember history, especially the 1930s. Reread that chapter everyone,and vote carefully. 🗽💙🌊🗽
@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 History has always been my favorite. As a young adult my friends would poke fun at me for watching history on tv. Now they are all into it and I love it.