Rep. Jim Clyburn on GOP’s Efforts to Erase the Insurrection, Qualified Immunity

By Teddy Grant Published: May 19, 2021

Rep. Jim Clyburn on GOP’s Efforts to Erase the Insurrection, Qualified Immunity

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020 file photo, Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Trump administration political appointees tried to block or change more than a dozen government reports that detailed scientific findings about the spread of the coronavirus, according to a House panel investigating the alleged interference. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)

Charles Blow sat down with House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn to talk about Republican’s attempts to move past the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and police reform.

Blow also talked to Rep. Clyburn on the George Floyd Policing Act and the removal of qualified immunity as part of the bill to get it passed.