Jonathan Jackson

Two members of Congress went there as recently as April.

Pramila Jayapal and Jonathan Jackson, both Democrats, are quoted by U.S. News & World Report as saying they wanted to see the suffering that is happening on the ground.

They call the president's embargo of the island an illegal blockade of energy supplies.

You would think lawmakers would have a clearer picture of what's legal and what isn't.

We are back with one of my favorite Congress people.

Jonathan Jackson is here to chat with us.

Jonathan, how are you? Oh, that's what I want

to see.

And this whole fiasco with Iran, the New York Times, which sometimes drives me crazy because they bend over backwards to be overly fair to conservatives and Republicans, headlined the home page, Trump's retreat from the Gulf to Britain, American forces pull back, a war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite.

That's where we are right now, damaging relationships that will still be damaged long after Trump is gone.

I'm talking with Congressman Jonathan Jackson.

We are going to take a break.

Thanks for hanging with us there.

Uh, today on Live Local and Progressive, October seventh, twenty twenty-six, for those listening to WCPT, Joan Esposito will be taking your calls and talking to David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal editor-in-chief and opinion columnist, Illinois Congressman Jonathan Jackson, and USA Today columnist Rex Hupke.

That is Joan Esposito, Live Local and Progressive, two to five here on WCPT, heartlandsignal.com.

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So you could look at, um, somebody like, uh, former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., right? His father never held political office, had been unsuccessful in his bids for the presidency, but that name certainly did help Jesse Jackson Jr.

get elected, um, to Congress in the 2000s, and it certainly hasn't hurt his brother, Jonathan Jackson, who now, um, you know, holds a seat in Congress today.

So you can see how, like, that, uh, you know, could, could, could help.

But then there were other people whose, uh, parents weren't necessarily, you know, office holders, um, or, uh, people who were at the tops of civil rights organizations who were also saying, "Hey, um, they should be given a chance to be pulled off the bench." And so you do see this generational battle.

I'm so proud of him for that.

Listen to the US congressman, Jonathan Jackson, who also spoke at the event.

United States in my childhood was supporting the white minority over the black majority purely because of race.

Now that they have found their freedom, they are imposing visa restrictions on them.

South Africa is an independent and sovereign nation that has maintained its level of dignity.

Mr. Elon Musk should not be lying on the African people.

Yeah, that is Jonathan Jackson, the US congressman.

In fact, he speaks of Elon Musk.

He's defiling the sacred grounds of the White House." Remember, re- remember Biden posing with one of these guys, one of these guys topless or wearing a bra and he had a beard? All that c- That, that, that was on the sacred grounds of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

And listen to this nut, Jonathan Jackson from Illinois.

Is he Jesse...

Is he the another one of Jesse Jackson's son now that they threw the other, Jesse Jackson Jr., in prison for a while? Is he a Da- Is he one of the Jackson...

Is he one of the Jackson Five? [laughs] I, I don't know.

But listen t- listen to this insanity about the, uh, uh, about the ballroom from Jonathan Jackson.

Cut 25.

President's proclivity, his inclination in this administration is towards violence.

Uh, one could even say a friendly audience.

This is an event that is going to be hosted by Congressman Jonathan Jackson.

He's the congressman from Illinois, and of course, uh, the son of the late, uh, Dr. Reverend Jesse Jackson, who passed recently, and where President Cyril Ramaphosa gave a keynote address at, uh, a memorial for him in Chicago.

So this is going to be a different, uh, kind of atmosphere in terms of what you might expect from the minis- uh, uh, a visitor of the international relations minister in Washington, DC.

This is Donald Trump trying to put his stamp on our culture permanently and capture it for political purposes.

You know, I introduced a bill this week with Representative Mifume and Representative Jonathan Jackson of Illinois to tell Donald Trump to get his hands off the Smithsonian.

Because when you look at the history of the United States, when you look at the history of countries where we had leaders that were trying to capture institutions to try to exercise power, to try to— try to roll back the clock on social progress and justice.

One of the methods that they do is trying to capture history, trying to capture culture, trying to capture institutions.