Christiane Amanpour welcomed CNN colleague and senior political analyst John Avlon onto her Monday show that is aired in the U.S. on PBS to discuss President Joe Biden’s latest speeches. In Avlon’s world, Biden is fighting the dark forces of “white supremacy” and “Christian nationalism.” Ironically, he also believes that it is important for journalists to be more activist as currently there “is an assault on truth.”
On Biden’s speech at Mother Emanuel Church, Avlon first recounted the church’s history, “I think, a relatively renewal of an old idea that we’ve debated in the United States, often with violence, unfortunately, which is the resistance that exists to a multiracial democracy that characterized the run up to the Civil War, certainly, but especially reconstruction and the violence around overturning Jim Crow.”