Trump's Attorney General Denies KKK Sympathies

Trump’s pick for Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has a very sketchy racial past. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break down racial past. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://www.tytnetwork.com/go

“Today Jeff Sessions claims credit for prosecuting a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan as proof that he is not a racist, but an attorney working for him claimed 30 years ago his boss wanted to drop the case.

Confirmation hearings will begin Tuesday for Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, and they’re sure to include questions that were raised when he was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986. His confirmation was derailed largely by the testimony of Thomas Figures, an assistant U.S. attorney in Alabama when Sessions was U.S. attorney.

Figures's claims that Sessions made racist remarks have resurfaced recently, but overlooked is a more serious allegation that Sessions sought to go soft on investigating the lynching of a black man by two Klansmen.”

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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola

Cast: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola

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