Van Jones

His brand is 'I'm strong.' His brand is 'I'm independent.' His brand is 'Nobody can tell me what to do.' If it turns out he is a weak loser who is in hock to other countries, he is basically not in office trying to solve your financial…

If you start sending condolences to one side and not the other. Praising one side and not the other. What you begin to do is to encourage people to believe or lead them to believe that they have the President's backing when they go out and…

Trump is -- he loves the bluster. He loves to kind of act like the tough guy. But he often is whining.

That was probably the most consequential endorsement in a generation.

There is going to be a big fight back here. I don't want to only focus on the repressive activities coming from the White House, there is real resistance.

It is, and African Americans and our allies died for the right to vote, we shouldn't have to die in, you know, COVID infested voting lines exercising that right.

What I do believe it's important is not just for Biden, but for all responsible political actors on both sides of the aisle to stick up for the legitimacy of our elections.

Look, I mean, very concerned. Look, these tweets on this topic, become like termites, eating into the floorboards of democracy and the dangerous part is, once you undermine public confidence in the election, you undermine public confidence…

The opposite of criminalization is humanization. That was a dad, you know, he made a mistake. He admitted he made a mistake. He was doing everything that he could to try to get back on his feet.

If we're going to change the system, it's important to talk about police. It's important to talk about prisons, but you have 4.5 million people in the country on probation and parole in his situation, and that system is a spider's web…

We have this unbelievable irony colliding on that parking lot right there, where you have police with too much power and too little oversight, and then people coming home from prison with too little opportunity and too much oversight.

The fact that we are now in the direction of moving forward, I think, it is good and the fact that law enforcement is with him, I'll give it over to Bakari, I know he sees it differently.