this cannot be allowed to continue. i thank you for your time. i wish you luck with your rehabilitation into normal life and go make some music, have some fun. >> thank you. >> take care. >> you too. >> nice to see you. >> thank you so much. i'm alison kosik in tonight for don lemon. let's get you up-to-speed on today's airlines. this is newark airport. a few tense moments thong. a jet blew a tire on takeoff. the degree flew into an engine. the pilot returned to the airport with a blown tire and damaged engine. the plane landed safely. the vice president of syria may have joined the revolution and trying overthrow president bash

bashar. no confirmation yet. indiana police say weather is to blame for a deadly multiple vehicle pileup this morning. 16 cars and tractor-trailer trucks smashed into echl other in jasper county. one person killed and six others were injured. police say fog, plus smoke from a nearby fire made it tough for drivers to see. former congressman patrick kennedy says jesse jackson junior is beginning his recover. the congressman is being treated for bipolar disorder. kennedy said jackson is battling what he describes as deep, deep depression. >> jesse is getting the help needs and needs to make that his priority and i'm happy he is making it a priority. not only for his own sake, but for everybody who is watching, who also feels the shame and

stigma of suffering from depression and a mental illness. >> congressman jackson has not been on capitol hill since march. he was first elected to congress in 1995. wikileaks founder is expected to speak publicly tomorrow and held up in london to avoid extradition to sweden over a sexual assault charge. assange is trapped at the embassy for right now. firefighters are getting a upper hand on a long line of wildfires. in california and washington state people who fled the area are allowed to go back home and see what was spared. wait until you see what we're working on tonight. cnn saturday night where most shows dare not to go. tonight, spike lee like you've never seen him before. >> me, post racial era.

>> and the kind of interview only cnn's dom lemon can do. >> you're a racist. >> talking politics. >> i drink the kool-aid. >> principal. >> and we're in the punks. >> and perry. >> everything i need to say has been said. >> plus afghan forces turning on americans. >> our enemies have attempted to undermined the trust. >>yan gets riled up. >> mom, you did build that! >> hairpin turn. gone terribly wrong. tonight on cnn. first, tonight, borne in atlanta and now an international star. spike lee has fundamentally changed film making and, in the process, he has also become a leader in race relations and a cultural icon. he sit down with our don lemon and opens up from everything from president obama and racism. >> there are people, i've heard

a number of people say this. i think bill mar r has said it. the new racism is the denial to racism. >> here is the answer to this question to what i've known, i've seen. this country made a great -- one of the biggest steps in its history when president barack hussein obama put his right hand on the boble but i didn't ible r the okey-doke. i didn't drink the kool-aid, people who thought at that moment racism would disappear. we like abracadabra, press tow, changeo, poof. why would it just disappear? i never thought that. a lot of people did, though. that this could be the defining moment and then we enter the

post-racial -- what does that word even mean -- post-racial era where race doesn't matter any more because we have an african-american president. >> so what are you saying? >> that it's still here with us. now there might be in different shapes, different forms, different disguises. different configurations. but it's still here. >> do you think african-americans are too sensitive about race at times, or for the most part? that's the first place we look and i'll say that because i'm african-american. when something happens, the first place we look and it's not always the case. >> well, again, to answer you, i think that it's hard to say african-americans and mean that just blanket, everyone thinks the same. i think they the african-americans think like that and african-americans who

don't, you know? and i think that's something that we get tripped up into again and again and again, that we're one monolithic group. >> one of the harshest things i've heard about you recently is that you have -- is that you're a racist, you're a race baiter. >> garlic bread pizza and perry como. >> you cheap gold chain wearing fried chicken and biscuit eating monkey. >> you been eating 15 in the car and 30 in the apartment and pointy shoes and puerto rican sucker. >> they call it martin luther king. we go down the line where people -- and also not trying to put myself on their level. but any time. the quickest way -- this is old

trick. the quickest way a lot of people feel to negate when somebody talks about racism is to call them a racist. that thing is old. >> thus, my question that i asked you, asked you earlier. >> i'm so past that. it's so old. it's not even funny. i keep it moving. keep it moving. >> really makes you wonder is there a topic that spike lee doesn't have an opinion about some he definitely feels strongly about a fellow filmmaker, that's for sure. >> everything i need to say about him has been said. >> next, spike lee opens up by his new film, the state of movies, and his message to tyler perry. at purina one, we believe small things can make a big difference.

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spike lee's latest film "red hook summer" is leaving audiences speechless. you go in expecting one thing and get something different. bothers a young boy who is forced to spend the someone with his grandfather in red hook. spike tee talks will the twist in the films and a topic of contention for him. fellow filmmaker tyler perry. >> spike, this is when you get us into the film. it's a spike lee joint. i think you know it's a spike lee film when you're watching it. but then you go places i feel that you haven't gone. the twist that comes in the

movie, the shocker. you haven't gone there before, have you? >> well, every film is different. and it films different subject matters so myself and james mcbride, this is how we wanted to tell the story. so it's not necessarily trying to duplicate what one has done in the past and try to grow and stretch out and find different ways to tell different stories. >> this is something that just you go, oh, my gosh, what is going on here? and, you know, there is a visceral reaction from anyone and if you don't have one, you're not human. >> or you're a monster. the twist and the shocker, i've been begging people not to give it away. the twist, he didn't want to have any. he didn't want that in there. >> really? why? >> it's touchy.

it's touchy. what we did is touch and go. that's one of the hardest scenes. i don't want to give too much but what we did is that is not easy. one of the hardest he's ever had to film. >> are you sure about it? do you think you'll regret leaving that in there? >> no, no, no, no, no, no. here's the thing. if you can't shoot -- if you include that scene, why even make that film? i've been a punk to not include that. if you're going to go that way and do this film, you're a punk not to include it. and we're not punks. >> are you concerned that by giving it away that it may limit the amount of people who will go. >> no. >> or just away of the -- >> just takes away the enjoyment of discovery. i mean, my man. if i was worried about box

office, i would have made black disney movie, you know? you don't do a film like this where number one concern is box office. there's no one flying through the air. no one wearing tights. people aren't transforming. there's no special -- there's no computer-generated effects. there are no explosions. now i know the people are going to say, well, that's not the movie i want to see! how many times can we keep seeing the same film again and again and again? >> "red hook summer" to me, this film was not -- is not new. we have been doing work like this from the get go. this is a continuation of the

work. observations of the experience of african-americans in contemporary america. the many different experience we have and for me, the biggest thing is so often, we're stuck in this rut where we're just one monolithic group. we look alike, talk alike, we all like the same thing, we all just like the same thing and that's a lot. it's a bold-faced lie. >> you have been critical of black film and the production value of some black prouxs. >> uh-huh. >> because you believe it's stereo typical and you strive not to do that in what you call prototype blrnblrn stereotypes.

>> i finished at morehouse. i'm artistic director of the school. and i know the damage that humanization and degradation. not just black people but color, women. the damage has been done through the imagery throughout the history of television and movies. simple. >> i'm going to ask you -- do you think you've been critical of tyler perry? are you lumping in to that? >> i think everything i need to say about tyler perry has been said. the man is a brilliant businessman. he do what he does. god bless him. >> what do you mean by god bless him? >> may god bless him. he told me to go to hell. i say god bless him. he told me to go straight to hell. that's even different!

god bless him. >> you really think it's that damaging to -- >> what? >> to african-americans, to our culture, to our society, those images? >> yes. those are the famous -- i mean, when you grow up, you don't see your history afflicted in the media. it definitely has an effect on who you are, the way you think you stand in the world. also what can you accomplish. >> unfortunate a conscience and you owe it to the people before you to portray people in a fair -- >> yes. we talk about akman show, gorman parks and ozzie davis, they made

it possible. paul roguerson. they made it possible for me to do what i'm doing. >> "red hook summer" opens in select cities on august 24th. always political and opinionated, don asks spike lee about president obama. >> do you think he has lived up to the promises? >> ahead, spike on the president on the competition and who he says is holding up progress. i'm. ♪ ♪ ♪ with a subaru you can always find a way. announcer: love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. with a wide variety, you can mix and match all day. scampi, grilled, the fried -- there's nothing better.

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spike lee has always been political and this election season is no different. don lemon continues his interview with lee, asking him if the president has lived up to his promises and what lies ahead in november. >> i'm thinking about my grandma. she lived to be a hundred years old. her mother was born a slave and i'm five generations removed from slavery and what barack said tonight is true. this is the only place in the

world where this could happen. america. >> do you think it was too high, the expectations? >> he was a save injury, black jesus. i don't care who it was. i mean, expectations were, i think, way too high. what somebody can deliver knowing how politics works and knowing you have the deal with the congress, in my opinion, a congress that's solidified saying whatever you do, we're blocking that. we're blocking. we're blocking. and every breath we take, we're going to do what we can that you don't get a second term. bottom line. and if it hurts america in the process, tough business. >> do you think he's lived up to the promises? >> look. the man is not perfect. who is perfect? but my wife ty and i had a fund-raiser at our house in

manhattan. we raised over a billion dollars for him. he has my full support. and i'm going to do what i can to help that he gets a second term in office. >> you just -- my question was does he deserve a second term and you answered it. do you want to talk at all on the other side? what do you think of the competition? >> i don't want to -- i don't think i have to do that. number one, it's -- you have to be -- i mean, it's very obvious. you got this and you got that. it's plain as day and americans are going to have to make a choice. we go this way, or we go that way. there's going to be no in between. >> he has won all kinds of awards and known all around the world. what is next for spike lee? don couldn't let him go without asking. >> as a cultural critic, what is

next? what is next for spike lee? do you have plan? >> right now, this is as busy as i've been in a long time. "red hook summer" is coming out. i had mike tooivyson in "ungute truth. >> how did you get involved with him? >> i've also just finished a documentary the 25th anniversary, a documentary on the making of michael jackson's "bad" album. ♪ august 21th would be the

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hour now. get you up-to-speed on the headlines. for the first time in 45 years dallas county, texas, is spraying insect eyed from the air.

because of west nile virus. they say the pesticide is not harmful to pets. witnesses say the syrian military attacked one city using war planes. the great recession is officially over but the after shocks are hitting schools across the country. a new white house report finds 300,000 education jobs have been lost since the end of the recession in june of 2009. the cuts have also led to fewer school days and larger class sizes. thousands of people protested outside a mine in south africa today two days after police opened fire on strikers. south africans are outraged over the violence that left 34 people dead. the country's police commissioner says officers were, quote, forced to utilize maximum force to defend themselves. we want to tell you off the bat what we're about to show su graphic and disturbing.

contains cnn exclusive video that shows saginaw, michigan, police officers shooting a homeless man dozens of times. the case has drawn the attention of civil rights investigators with the justice department. here's correspondent jason carroll. >> reporter: a joint investigation is under way into the shooting. amateur video details what happened during the final moments. i have to warn you, the video is graphic. this amateur video, purchased by cnn and not made public until now, captured the confrontation between six saginaw police officers and milton hall, a 49-year-old man who his family says suffered from serious mental health issues. hall, seen in the middle of your screen, police say, had just had a run-in with a convenience store clerk. he was in a standoff with police and holding a knife. a female officer is heard shouting. [ bleep ] >> reporter: if you listen

carefully, hall is then heard continuing to yell at police. >> 911! >> reporter: hall seems agitated. but not intimidated by a police dog. [ bleep ] >> reporter: heard on the tape, a witness describes what he sees. >> he's in a karate stance. about to go ham on him! >> reporter: then as hall appears to take a few steps, everything comes to a head. local media report 46 shots were fired. cnn counted the sounds of at least 30 shots on the videotape. anthony baber witnessed the shooting. >> all of a sudden, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, and he drops. you know? pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, and he drops. i was about where that blue van is. i was parked in my van. >> reporter: tabitha perry saw it, too. >> i heard one of the officers

say something to the fact where, put the knife down or i'll let the dog go. >> reporter: do you believe the officering were justified in what they did? >> no, i don't. no, i don't. because what they did, there was a better way to do it. i think their judgment was off. >> reporter: perry is not alone. hall's mother says saginaw police overreacted. >> emotionally, i have a lot of pain, and i'm stunned. that six human beings would stand in front of one human being and fire 46 shots. i just don't understand that. >> reporter: on the day of the shooting, july 1, the saginaw police chief defended his officer's actions. >> this is someone that, from our understanding, has a long history, not only with police, from our department, but with the county. known to be an assaultive person. >> reporter: over the last

month members of the community have voiced outrage and not satisfied with the police investigation into the officer's response. we showed the video of the shooting to city councilman norman braddock. >> i can see why people are traumatized at looking at something like that. and we need answers. >> reporter: braddock has been critical of what he calls the slow pace of the shooting investigation. could it be that investigators are just trying to make sure they're doing a thorough job and that's why the investigation is-- >> i'm sure that has something to do with it, but, at the same time, it should be a top priority. >> reporter: the michigan state police lead investigator would not discuss the case. instead, referring us to the saginaw county prosecutor, who told us, i can't tell you when the case is going to be completed. the matter is being thoroughly investigated by an independent police agency, the michigan state police, along with the michigan attorney general's office. hall's mother already feels she

knows the answer to the question of whether police used too much force. >> it appeared to be a firing squad dressed in police uniforms. and there was another way. they did not have to kill him. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn, saginaw, michigan. >> now that the justice department has launched its investigation into the shooting, the question is did the officers respond appropriately? earlier, i talked to bill lewinsky. he trains enforcement agencies on how to handle the mentally ill and says the saginaw incident is not that surprising. >> with today's gun, the average officer is going to fire a quarter of a second rounds. in one seconds, you have five bullets shooting. you had six officers firing. usually in this type of

situation, each officeis making their judgment individually and so each officer is going to be starting to fire and then ending firing individually. as a group, it is a large number of rounds. we will see what the investigation mes up with for each officer shooting time duration and frequency of shot, but that's not uncharacteristic of the response of a group of officers firing. >> coming up, guns out on campus and why police say this needed to be done in the first place. . would define you as a true leader. to hold over 80,000... well, that would make you... the creators of the 2012 mercedes-benz e-class... quite possibly the most advanced luxury sedan ever. ♪

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a school apparently under siege by a gunman. >> come on, guys. people dying in here! >> most of us have played our part in a fire drill or two but as shooting incidents become more commonplace, watkins

memorial high school in ohio decided to prepare its students for the worst. more than a dozen law enforcement agencies were involved in the drill saying education is the first step to surviving what is known as an active shooting. canadian police are continue to scour wooded areas in a park west of toronto. search teams were called in this week when hikers made a grizzly discovery. a right foot. a day later a severed head spotted nearby and two hands were found in a river. >> conclusion that they are most likely associated to the -- sorry. the foot and the head that was found yesterday. >> today, other remains were found in a ravine east of toronto but it's unclear at this stage whether they are human or animal. inflight emergency forced an airline pilot to quickly return to newark airport this evening. investigators say a tire on united flight 96 blew apart on takeoff. the piece damaged an engine. the pilot managed to land without a problem.

173 people were on board. everybody is safe and making new travel plans tonight. as crimes fuel by hate become more common, communities draw together, finding strength where they can. muslims in joplin, missouri, know that better than most. their mosque was burned to the ground this month and mark the holy end of ramadan at their homes or at a convention center rented by the mosque's leaders. certainly not how they expected to honor this time. of course, the shooting at a sikh temple in wisconsin two weeks ago showed how terrible these crimes can be, even more troubling, groups motivated by hate appear to be on the rise. cnn national correspondent susan candiotti looks at a troubling trend.

>> the hate movement has been basically rapidly rising for lal ov a little over a decade. >> reporter: they were tracking over 600 hate groups. by 2011 that number dramatically increased to 1,018. what changed some some say the changing face of america starting with the 2000 census and predicted by 2055 less than half of the country would be white. >> if you're a white supremacist and you find that out, it's pretty terrifying because that puts an end of your dreams to creating a white nation in the united states. >> reporter: hate groups and hate crimes are mainly motivated by race and running. 2009. white supremacist arrested for fatally shooting a secured guard. he died while awaiting trial. 2011. martin luther king parade in

spoka spokane, washington, the fbi find a backpack loaded with explosives. this man pleads guilty to a federal hate crime. this year, 14 alleged men's of the anarchist group american front are arrested on charges including anti-american paramilitary training and planning an attack in central florida. prosecutors say their ultimate aim is race war against jews and immigrants and other minorities. trials are scheduled for later this year. which brings us back to sikh temple shooter wade page. how do you stop an apparent lone wolf? >> the sad fact is that wade page is just one of thousands of people who are involved in the skinhead movement, the neonazi movement who look like him with the racist tattoos and say vile things about killing jews or whatever the case my be. he decided to step over violence

and it's hard to know when that happens. >> the fbi says unless a threat of violence, agents cannot arrest them, no matter how hateful the speech. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. paul ryan out with his mom? and what president obama is calling snake oil. next. a busy day in politics today. max. this is the plan that revolves around you. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. and a single pool of sharable data that powers up to 10 devices. the first plan of it's kind. share everything. only from verizon. add a smartphone for just $40 monthly access.

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returns the past two years. his most recent return shows he and his wife made more than $323,000 in 2011 and paid close to $65,000 in taxes and that is 20% of his income. that 20% is higher percentage than his reasoning mate mitt romney paid in 2011. romney paid 14.5% of his income in taxes that year. 2010, ryan paid higher percentage of his income in taxes. 16% to romney's 14.5%. romney took a day off the campaign trail and no public event but behind the scenes he held private fund-raisers in boston. in florida paul ryan tackled the medicare issue head-on before florida retirees and his own mom. he says he will provide better care for future generations. >> here is what mitt romney and i will do. we will end the raid of medicare, we will restore the promise of this program, and we

will make sure that this board of bureaucrats will not mess with my mom's health care or your mom's health care. >> president obama is talking medicare as well with a very different view, of course. he made two stops in the small, but critical state of new hampshire telling audiences that romney and ryan's plans for medicare will cause seniors to pay more for less coverage and benefit the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. >> the governor romney's tax plan would actually raise taxes on middle class families with children by an average of $2,000. ask governor romney and their running mate when in new hampshire on monday, they are coming here on monday, ask them if that's fair. ask them how it will grow the economy. ask them how it will strengthen the middle class. they have been trying to sell this trickle down snake oil before. >> today marked the president's third visit to new hampshire

this year. romney and ryan will campaign there on monday. we're working around the clock to bring you the latest news. here is fredricka whitfield what we are working for you on tomorrow. >> on sunday, a controversial new policy at a denver university where undocumented immigrants can get a reduced tuition. also we are seeing a lot of negative presidential campaign ads. how do they stack up to some of the more notorious campaign ads of the past? and a talk with singer/song writer macy gray working hard to maintain her individuality. all that and more coming up sunday. alison? >> thanks, frederica. american troops being killed by the very people. they are helping to train. we will look at sweeping new changes being implemented in afghanistan to protect the troops who are there to help.

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afghanistan conduct themselves and protect themselves after a string of attacks. a number of afghan security officers and policemen violently turning on nato forces. details now from cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. >> reporter: at least 24 american troops in afghanistan attacked and killed by afghan forces this year. the top commander general john allen is ordering massive new security measures. starting with his own headquarters in kabul, allen has ordered all troops to carry their weapons loaded at all times. it's a headquarters visited by defense secretaries diplomats and journalists and until now it's only been protected by security forces ready for instant combat as they were in september of last year when insurgents attacked from outside the base. but now across the country, afghan forces are turning their weapons on nato and u.s. troops. >> our enemies have attempted to

undermine the trust between the coalition and afghan forces and, in particular, they have tried to take credit for a number of so-called green on blue or insider attacks that have taken place this fighting season. >> reporter: since 2007, 69 americans have been killed by afghan forces according to the pentagon. the military already is using so-called guardian angels, a service member designated to stand watch over others while they eat and sleep. anywhere they might come into contact with afghan forces. defense secretary leon panetta is calling, once again, for better intelligence and better screening of new afghan recruits but the pentagon is emphasizing the attacks are still relatively small in number. >> i want to stress that these incidents, which have now involved 31 afghans, do not reflect the pride and dedication

of the 350,000 soldiers and police of the afghan national security forces. >> reporter: small numbers or not, the attacks are taking their toll. one u.s. military official in afghanistan who is now carrying his weapon around the clock, told me "everyone is watching everyone else just in case." barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. many of us have had fender benders. >> oh, geez! >> but full-blown wicked rollovers like that? not many can say they have walked away from something like this, but the two guys inside that car can. first, a woman who experienced her own tragedy and went on to become a cnn hero. >> teen pregnancy is a very big

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curiosity has us seeing red. nasa showing off pictures of rover on the red planet. they believe it shows proof in hydrated minerals in the landscape and say it is familiar to e four corners region of the united states. dry and rocky like areas around arizona and new mexico. for all intents and purposes, these next two guys, they shouldn't even be alive. >> oh, geez! >> yep. that is going to leave a mark. this is what happened with when a driver missed the turn during

the pikes peak national hill climb in california and if that isn't bad enough. here it is again in slow motion. amazingly the driver and the passenger driver. asked by cnn piers morgan if the two would er race again some both said "time will tell." keeping cool in summer is easier said than done especially when you work outside or in air-conditioned building so one mechanic found his own way to chill out. >> this is the manualliest man wear you can wear! >> david brian says he won't work another summer day in pants. he prefers kilts until it cools down in october. they are functional and he admits he has certain kilt rules for his shop. >> keep your knees down and your feet crossed and everybody is happy and safe then. this is much cooler physically cooler than shorts. now i understand the female skirt theory. >> check this out. a restaurant in l.a. is offering guests a 5 hrs discount if, if ey