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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jul 30, 2020

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.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jul 30, 2020

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…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 16, 2020

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.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 16, 2020

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…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 16, 2020

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.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 15, 2020

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.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 15, 2020

Look, I think it's pushing in the right direction, but the main action is going to be in Congress.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 4, 2020

There are common sense reforms can be done this year on bipartisan basis that would reduce the amount of unlawful violence.

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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro· May 5, 2020

The mere fact that so many people on the right had condemned a white cop for killing a Black man was proof that systemic racism is a myth.

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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro· May 5, 2020

George Floyd’s killer would be prosecuted, and that would prove the system works.

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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro· May 5, 2020

Chauvin should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro· Apr 30, 2020

The mere fact that so many people on the right had condemned a white cop for killing a Black man was proof that systemic racism is a myth.

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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro· Apr 30, 2020

Chauvin’s treatment of George Floyd was really ugly and really bad.

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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro· Apr 30, 2020

George Floyd’s killer would be prosecuted, and that would prove the system works.

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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro· Apr 30, 2020

Chauvin should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 5, 2020

The President says today anybody could be tested who wants to be tested. The vice president who he put in charge says, actually, we don't have the tests. We're trying to get them out. They're not there yet.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 5, 2020

The job of Meadows isn't to come in and make policy. It's to run the White House and make sure the administration is functioning in a way that carries out the president's agenda.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Mar 5, 2020

I think it's important to point out, this looks like an orderly transition. Obviously, Mulvaney wanted this appointment to be the envoy for Northern Ireland. Meadows has been in the mix for some time. I think this is sort of expected…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 18, 2020

Yes, I mean, he was talking about the billionaires, the billionaires, the billionaires, and now he's going to have one of the biggest billionaires in the world on stage with him.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 27, 2020

If any of these witnesses we bring, if they're not going to change your opinion about whether the President should be removed from office, why prolong what's going to happen?

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 27, 2020

If they go down the path of witnesses, what I've heard is that it's going to be witnesses as far as the eye can see.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 27, 2020

Wouldn't be better for the country to put this behind us and get on about the business of the people?

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