On the topic of History's Most Defiant Moment of the Last 75 Years, the six items up for consideration between Craig and the panelists - political commentator/journalist
John Avlon, and actor/comedians
Yvette Nicole Brown and
Lisa Kudrow - are: the young man standing in front of a tank (hence being referred to as Tank Man) in Tienanmen Square in Beijing, China in 1989 protesting Chinese government oppression, never having been seen since and his identity unknown;
Rosa Parks, a black woman, refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama;
Ronald Reagan "commanding"
Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in a 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany; former CIA employee and contractor
Edward Snowden leaking classified NSA documents to a journalist in 2013 to expose what he saw as agency wrongdoings, the leaking which is considered a traitorous act; NYPD police officer
Frank Serpico blowing the whistle on police corruption in the force in the late-1960s/early-1970s; and Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc's self-immolation in public in Saigon in 1963 to protest the South Vietnamese government's persecution of Buddhists. Beyond the merits of each of the six, the panelists discuss whether some of these events truly were acts of defiance or something else completely, the scope and downstream effects of each of the acts, the acts in and of themselves in context to the person's everyday life, and if negative personal consequences should play a factor in defining defiance. They conclude by talking about moments that did not make the list but perhaps should have.
—Huggo