for those guys. >> owe, what a beautiful day. looking up the hudson here on tuesday morning. it's tuesday, november 28th, 8:00 in the east. just a few hours and we will have a critical day beginning for the senate's gop tax bill. trump is going to rally skeptical republicans. that's the plan. the senate budget committee will vote to advance that plan or will be stuck. how will two of the biggest gop candidates be there today. >> a white house ceremony honoring a group of native american war heroes. listen to this. >> you were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago, and they call her pocahontas. >> the backdrop for this oval

office event is raising questions about the president's sensitivity and judgment, and we'll get to all of that, with chris. >> joining us is anthony scare phaoufpy. >> where you have been? >> on the road, and working on closing my deal with sky bridge and that has been it. been fun. >> how do you feel about what you see coming out of the white house and the general state of play with the nation? >> i think the president is doing a good job. i am not here as a trump loyalist but i am looking at it objectively, the economy is booming and the unemployment numbers is fantastic, and getting middle class and lower

income wage growth, and that's the first time in 11 years you have seen that kind of wage growth and activity, so i think all of those things are positive. i think he's mired down in his legislative agenda because of what i call the political establishment on both sides giving him a hard time, which, i'm hoping, he will figure out a way creatively to figure out the log jam. >> how much of it is on him, his doing? >> all of it is on his own doing, but not the way you say it. all of it is his own doing because he's a figure that has crashed down the gate in washington and knocked down the bare acade, and they are upset with that, and they are resistant to the moves that he's trying to make because they don't like his style, but i think if you look at the content

that he's delivered on the american people for the last 11 months, it has been exemplary. you don't give him enough credit for what is going on in north korea, and not giving him enough credit for what is going on in the iranian situation, and i just got back from a 4 1/2 day in israel, and i went down to the gaza ship, where they are shooting rockets into israel, and 10,000 rockets have been shot into israel in the last ten years, and they have the iron dome there blocking about 95% of them, but this is all sponsored by terrorists emanating from iran, so -- >> while you were there, i know you have good contacts. did anybody express concern that the president revealed classified information that he was given by israeli defense that they feel leads back to iran? >> i remember that situation and

that kerfuffle. >> kerfuffle? >> they see a super strong friend in the white house. >> you don't think they were concerned that he revealed classified information? >> no. >> answer that part of it. >> i don't. i think what happened in that moment, it's irrelevant to the longer term strengthening of the alliance they got with him, visa srae the last president. he's the first president to pray at the western wall. we have to get the information out there cleanly and objectively about the president. >> but the reason i'm talking about how he does the job is because it winds up being a great distraction, sometimes at his own direction and sometimes despite his own intentions. what happened with the pocahontas thing, with elizabeth warren, in front of native americans who were there to

celebrate with andrew jackson overlooking the ceremony. is this something you would have suggested he do? >> listen, that's the president's style. it's a little shock jockey, and listen, i think it's the style that got him elected. i don't think he would be in the oval office if he didn't have that style. >> you think people voted him because he will use a racial slur against one of his opponents? >> he expressed a level of the discontent about the current order of operations inside of washington and i think he used that kind of style and that kind of delivery system -- >> what does that is to do with calling her pocahontas? >> she's been nasty to him, and he's nasty to her. >> you won't let your kids operate that way but you will the president? >> well, what do you do in a

situation like that? this is what i do. see that. that's what you do. you have to do that. at the end of the day, we're getting little too micromanaging with each other's languages, and i think most people in general are tired of that. you are, i am, and maybe you are not, i don't know, you work at cnn. >> save me a cheap shot -- >> not that cheat. looked like a stan -- >> my standard started higher. what i am say something we demand better from a president. he's supposed to be a standard setter. you know this. if you heard this from the other side you would call it out. >> i actually disagree. i have heard so many things from the other side, and one of the funnest things from my 11 things inside t inside the white house, was somebody sent me a clip from the

late-night comedians, most of them were racially -- >> they are comedians and jokers, but the president of the united states. >> i understand all of that, but my point is i don't see it as such of a big deal as perhaps you do or -- >> source matters. >> you say source matters. i think results matter. i think the american people by and large are looking at a booming economy, and they are looking at rising wages, and i think there's a sense of optimism. even goldman sachs, my former company i worked at 21 years ago, talked about 2018 being even better -- >> they have ever reason to be that way. they will get their taxes cut -- >> that was good. >> you have not done this in a while, and you lost your game. >> not as good as joy b--

>> i have been away, is it confirmed the president said it was not real? >> he reportedly has been telling people he questions the authenticity, and when the white house was asked about it, they never said he never said that, he doesn't think that, and sarah sanders shifted away. >> i will go back to october 7th, where he gave his apology. i think he said -- i don't remember it 100%, he acknowledged it and offered his apology. i will go back to that. that's what i remember. >> why question the authenticity now? >> you are saying he is questioning it and you have sources, and i have not talked to the spread specifically related to that, so i don't know if he is questioning it or not. >> would you counsel him to question it? >> i would say let's go back to

the original tape that was cut on the fifth floor of trump tower at 11:50 p.m., from the studio we used to call into you from. let that go. we have so many big problems in the country and we can focus on those things. that's one of the things i learned about washington that i did not like, we focus on the petite microaggressions, and if secretary clinton were president right now there would be a big scandal and all this other nonsense. we are doing it from both sides. my thing is we should probably stop doing that and focus on serving the american people. >> when you were there you brought a sensibility, and people can judge you any way you want and i have known you for a long time, and telling the truth matters because i can't trust you on any level when i think you are going to bs me, and it's

different. the reason you can't let it go because this is a big fat lie, this "access hollywood" is inauthentic, and it's a lie and it's done to deceive and affect the minds of a certain part of the population, and it's cheap and unnecessary. if he will lie about this, what else will he lie about that matters, and that's why you must call it out. >> i hear you -- >> if you -- you would not do this, you would stand up and say that's not the issue, the issue is people voted already. go ahead. >> sarah is doing a great job. >> by what measure? >> by so many different measures. she's got a wonderful personality. >> you think she tells the truth? >> i think she does the best of her ability to tell the truth but also to protect the president, and so i think that there's a fine line to draw -- >> hold on a second. hold on a second. because these things matter. she does the best to tell the

truth while also protecting the president. >> absolutely. the president has to be -- that press secretary is unfortunately for hershey, she's like a hocke goalie. she's doing everything she can to block as many as possible, and there's confidential operation that she has made privy to, and has to protect the president from getting that information out there, and frankly i think she's doing an a plus job, i have an enormous amount of respect for her. i think she's great. >> her personality aside, there's a constant stream of deception that comes from that podium. she either uses misdirection or misstates things, and you will call that, what, protecting the president? what about protecting the american people? that's who she works for? >> first of all, i probably have

a couple accomplishments -- sarah and i sat together and turned the lights back on, and sarah and i would agree, and i hope she would agree with me saying this on the air that it's super important for the fourth estate to have an opportunity to cross the white house, you need to check power, because we both know what happens to people that get power, they can get a little crazy, and speaking from the podium in my opinion very truthfully, i have not seen ever press conference and you are probably microanalyzing it closer than me, if you were at the podium, i was at the podium, i think it's a super tough job to please everybody in the room, but by and large she's doing a very good job. >> one of the things that happens on a fairly consistent basis is something you said was wrong, which is attacking the media, attacking the first

amendment, trying to curtail and abridge that freedom, and calling an entire news organization like cnn fake because you don't like the coverage. you said that was a mistake. they doubled down on it in your absence. >> i maintain that. i'm not inside the room anymore, but i maintain that for me i don't see -- we're winning, the president is winning. look at the economy data from the economy, and what he's not getting enough credit for is his situation as it relates to the foreign relationships. for me i would rather let the results speak for themselves. bill parcells, he said, look, let my record speak for itself. the president has a very good record. where he's not doing as well as he would like to be do something on the legislative side but he can't really do that much given

the way the system is set up and our republic is set up, he has to deal with the congress. my guess is because he's a brilliant intrapreneur he will find out a way to get his legislative agenda passed. if i was sitting in the room, i would say who cares? i know the president likes knocking you guys, you know, you probably don't like it and i think some of the american people find it enjoyable -- >> i find it kind of amusing to be honest. >> you like it, too, then -- >> no, i don't like it, but i don't know it hurts us so no sen reason to feel a sense of aupl bridge. >> let's focus on the winning -- >> if he's winning so much why are his poll numbers in the toilet? >> well, what are his poll numbers right now? >> mid-30s. >> yeah. >> even his numbers within the party are on the historically

low side. >> you say that, and he was always polling at lower numbers than people than he actually achieved during the -- >> it's different in the campaign versus now, and now he's judged on what he does and not just what he says. >> he's raising record amounts of money at the republican party level, and when he runs for re-election, he will have a billion war chest, and i think he will go well over 50%, and he'll win a re-election. >> i thought he didn't want to play that money game? >> where are you going with that? >> you said the war chest, and i thought -- >> now you and i will have to acknowledge and give him a huge compliment, and i knew these numbers better last year, but 2.3 times -- she had 2.3 times

more people than we did, and out spent us 2 to 1, and he won the election, so i think if you are making the point that he can deliver with less personnel -- >> i am saying money in the business is bad, then why would he be amassing a war chest? >> because he's running for re-election. every smart politician does that. >> he said he's not a politician and he said the money was dirty and wouldn't do it that way, and you are saying he is going back on those types -- >> no, you are trying to call him out as a hypocrite and i am trying to call him out that is a smart guy that -- >> people can decide. >> man, i miss this. >> you are a good advocate. is the president reaching out to use the mooch? >> i am not going to bother him, he's the president of the united

states. i spoke to him last week and wished him a happy thanksgiving. we started out as friends. it's politics. the decision to fire me, i accepted like a man. i'm not a whiner. there's no whining in sports and politics and it is what it is, i served at the president's leisure, when it came time for him or john kelly to decide i was not going to be serving anymore, that's their tpau raugtive. i had no problem with that. >> it's good to know you are still in touch. the president needs good heads around him. you are always welcome on this show. >> i fulfilled my campaign promise, i came back. >> you did, and it took longer than i expected. >> alisyn. let's talk all the news of the day. we want to bring in cnn political analyst, jonathan martin and josh green. josh, i don't know if you were just listening to that.

where would you like to begin? do you want to talk about the pocahontas slur and everything that we have seen with the president? >> yeah, i didn't think it was a very vigorous defense of the president from scaramucci. he was having to defend a racial slur like pocahontas, and while honoring native american veterans. i think scaramucci had a tough chore in that interview. >> what he said to chris was we all felt it, we're italians and you have to brush it off and it's that simple. >> i think scaramucci -- you could always see it happening in real time is trying to be honest because he prides himself as being a straight shooter, and frying to be honest about his view of the president's shortcomings, and if he and chris were talking in the green room right now he would be more

candid about his view's of the president's shortcomings and he edged towards it in the interview but will not go all the way. why? because he wants to keep his access open to the president. he knows the president watch as lot of tv and doesn't want to blister president trump on the air so he can keep his contacts, so he's trying to walk a line about being honest about the reality of how he views the world and what is plain to see, and at the same time not going too far and slighting a president that he knows is watching right now. >> there's value in the testing of positions that reflect the minds of the president. scaramucci is unique in many ways but not unique in his disposition and perception of how the president is doing and why he does what he does. that's why it's important to test, because the rationals --

it's not good to call warren po pocahontas because she gives him a bad time and he gives her a bad time, and these are positions held by other people in power supporting this president. >> a i think that's why you saw scaramucci squirm to the degree he did. all of this comes at a political cost for the president who right now, i think, is focussed on trying to pass tax reform. he's going up to the hill today. the fate of the bill is very much in limbo in exerting presidential leadership could make the difference in whether or not it moves forward. instead, here we are with a noted indian affairs expert like anthony scaramucci talking about the president's pocahontas comment, and that can't be

helpful to the republicans on the hill today. >> when he goes to capitol hill in a few hours, he will try to persuade the ten lawmakers on the fence? what are we going to see happen today? >> this is eerily similar to the health care, and never being profishant enough to negotiate about what their concerns are. he would rather stay at 20,000 feet, and 20,000 feet can be charitable there. and then the fact that once again we're talking about a handful of gop holdouts who could make or break the bill. what is not in the conversation, which to me is extraordinary, where are the red state senate democrats, senators that

represent the states the president won last year by ten points or more and are facing re-election in red states next year, and they are not scared at all and don't fear the president's wrath, and they are not even in the conversation -- >> well, there's a good reason and bad reason. the reason is the democrats are coming together as an opposition party and that's something they will have to rationalize to their voters, and the president gave them cover. the proposition to get the votes over the line to alisyn's question is we're all, you know, in bad trouble if we don't do this. if we don't do this, we all lose. that's powerful medicine because it happens to be true. the other reason is the president will be exposed as not being for the middle class, and not being a populist, and not being a little guy. that will give cover to the democrats. even in red states, they will say i'm for you, but i'm for the group the president said he was

for. by any analysis, this is good for cuomo and cam rota, but not for you, the people he was supposed to be good for. >> that underscores the failure, firem frankly in salesmanship, and use the bully pulpit to rattle senators like claire mccaskill from missouri, and from montana -- these are red states and the president carried them overwhelmingly the last year, and now the president trumped, and invoked the senators by name, and said we want your vote on this, and if not, dot, dot, dot, and here we are on the eve of this vote and those senators don't feel threatened at all. that's remarkable. >> jonathan and josh, thank you very much for these snap analysis. joining us tonight -- please join us, i should say, we have a

cnn debate on tax reform. jay tapper and dana bash will moderate. that's at 9:00 p.m. eastern. if you are going to do the drinking game to that debate tonight the word i would pick is rigged, because you will hear bernie sanders use trump's word against him, and say this tax bill is rigged to help the upper class and not the middle class. confusion, we still don't know who gets the parking space. which of these two is the boss? it's going to be a legal battle and take time and the man that set off the battle joins us next. the wrapping paper the holidays. that counts. it's a phone for mom. okay, well, it's also that counts, too. no, the network. is inside the phone? around the phone. awarded network ever. count on it. here you go. as the network it's on. so give the best unlimited for four lines.

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a leadership showdown at the nation's top consumer agency. two people say they are in charge. you have an obama-era official suing president trump over his pick up director, mulvaney.

and joining us is the former head of the consumer financial protection bureau. thank you for joining us, sir. >> my pleasure. >> the obvious question, who wins? who should be the head? >> well, i think it's clear in the law which says that the director of the agency, and that was me as of friday, has the right and the duty to pick a deputy director. i did that. it's english. and then the deputy director should serve as acting director when the director is unavailable through a vacancy which happened when i resigned friday night at midnight. so i believe english is the director, and the trump administration has a different view and citing a different statute and the court took it overnight to think about it further because it's a serious

legal question and that's where it will be hashed out. >> why create a situation like this? why make it so the president has to prove he has the executive authority to decide who will run one of his agencies? it seems like there may be a tinge of political brinksmanship here? >> first of all, the law says the director shall appoint a director, so i felt obliged to fulfill a duty on my way out the door, and this is set up to be by design an independent federal agency, similar to the federal reserve. in fact, it's in the government organizational chart. if janet yellen resigned the notion that donald trump could appoint somebody that he controls i think people would find strange. this is also an independent agency. what we are talking about, chris, is an interim situation here, not a permanent situation,

it's an interim situation. during that period the independence of the agency should be preserved and that's part of what is at issue in the court case. >> what do you make of the criticism that you did this to frustrate the president? >> i think you do the things you do as part of carrying out your mission as an agency and our mission is to protect consumers, and that's what i have been working on on the last six years, and that's an important mission. if that frustrates the president, the president like everybody else has to deal with the law and has to be bound by the law, and we don't know exactly what the outcome of this is going to be until a judge decides it because it's a serious legal question. i will say this, chris, that's where it should be decided, in the courts through the respectful process of ordinarily court resolution, and should not be decided by tweets and insults and name calling and there are parts of washington that like to deal with issues that way, and that's not my way of dealing

with the issues and i like to deal with the merits and that the law is followed. >> a person in the white house, this agency stinks, it has run rough shaud over its mandate and intentionally tying the hands and putting consumers at a disadvantage. >> yeah, that's one view, and a different view is that this agency got back $12 billion to people who had been cheated or mistreated by banks, that's 30 million americans. this agency gave people a voice, when you have a complaint or problem that is costing you $20 or $50, you know it's wrong but there's not much you can do about it, they started to bring those complaints to us and we got over a million to 3,000 in

the last year of these. the banks made record profits last year, $71 billion. they are on track through three quarters of this year to make bigger praufe bigger profits this year. is somebody going to be looking over their shoulder to make sure they do the things the right way, and they don't cut corners or take advantage here or there and you do it across a million customers and it's real money and that's what is at issue with this agency. >> the president says regulation hurts business and that's part of his mandate to get rid of regulations. what do you want the audience to know about your concerns about what happens if the cfpb is weakened? >> this is what i argued to the president in my resignation letter. in consumer protection, you can say it hurts business, that is it makes them comply with the law which is what we want them to do but it helps consumers.

consumers drive two-thirds of the economic activity in our economy, makes up two-thirds of consumer demand. if consumers are strong and protected and if they can trust the marketplace and feel confident they are not being treated here and there, the consumers can drive the economy forward. that's exactly what they are doing. mortgage and housing up double digits the last two years leading the economic recovery, and auto sales have been at the all-time highs the last couple years, when the consumer is strong the economy will be strong so consumer protection serves economic growth and progress. i will say another thing at issue in this court case here. the person i appointed to be the acting director of the agency, the deputy director, now the acting director, she's a professional, and she served in the office of personnel management, the treasury

department. she's a career professional that concentrates on operations. she's the perfect person to see the agency through an interim period like this, and ultimately the president will have the power to nominate somebody and get them confirmed through the senate, and they will air out their views and it will be somebody whose views are not so extreme they cannot be confirmed through the senate. >> thank you for making your case here on "new day." appreciate it. chris, now to alabama. a new contender is entering the alabama senate race two weeks before election day. why does he think he can beat roy moore? he's next. and could be on the journey to much worse. try parodontax toothpaste. it's clinically proven to remove plaque, the main cause of bleeding gums. for healthy gums and strong teeth. leave bleeding gums behind with parodontax toothpaste.

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senate election is two weeks from today, and roy moore is digging in against multiple accusations against sexual assault. now a man new jump into the race, a man that once served as a top aide to trump's chief of staff. why are you undertaking this long shot effort? >> my handicap is a long shot but doable. i was not happy with my choices, and had i thought it was a personal shall i would not have gone to this extreme, but the more people i talked to the more convinced i came is that feeling is widespread here in alabama. i think there's a huge swath of people in alabama that don't feel like they're represented by the two candidates out there now. >> how much did the accusations

against roy moore of sexual assault and misconduct play into your decision? >> not at all. not interested in it. wasn't going to vote for him before that. my decision to run was not driven by that. that's something for him and the people he's involved with to work out, and as a voter i just didn't feel like i needed to get involved with it and cast a vote for it. >> but do you believe his denials? >> i have no idea. i have walked past the television once and heard a snippet of one of the ladies who has accused him. i saw a piece of a press conference. i have no idea. not interested. no plans to get involved in that. >> just to bring you up to speed, there are eight women, four of whom claim sexual assault, four claim that he pursued them when they were teenagers, and one of whom was

14, under the age of consent, and one says he assaulted her against his will and she thought he was going to rape her. do you believe the women? >> again, i haven't heard them all. i have no idea. there's no way that i could know and i'm not interested in it. that's an issue for him to sort out with the women involved and as an alabama voter i want to steer clear of it and bring the people something they can vote for to represent them. >> look, i hear you, it's unpleasant, i get it, but how can you steer clear of it? this has become the issue of the race. >> it's not the issue for me, though. it wasn't. the issue for me is -- and i think the people who will vote for me, is i don't feel that either roy moore on the right or doug jones on the left, represent the views of this huge

swath of centrist alabama voters. grant you, that's alabama sepb cri centrist, and that's probably different than los angeles centrist or new york scentrist, but there's a swath in the middle that don't feel like they are represented. >> even before the accusations, you didn't like roy moore? what was your problem with him before all of this? >> i don't know him personally and never met him personally, and i thought some of the things coming out of the campaign struck me as self-righteous, and i wanted to steer clear of that. >> you have two weeks. you have two weeks. what is your plan? are we going to see campaign ads? >> i thought about first setting my hair on fire and and running

around in you acircles, but i d have time for that. my original plan was to spend the first three or four days building a social media push and from there the national, state and local medias would get involved, instead when the sun broke yesterday it was game on. we are at the media stage now and we will turn when this calms down and while it's going on to converting the media exposure to write-in votes. we have a lot of people we have to reach. we've got people i think we are going to bring back into vote that had previously just decided not to vote, and then we have got to do the difficult task of educating your voter to write lee busby at the bottom of the

ballot, and they are not used to that. >> colonel lee busby, we have begun the process. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> chris. the president called elizabeth warren pocahontas again, and it's a slur and it's the latest example of the president disrespecting minorities. and we will talk about what one sees as the president's tone deafness. it's giving tuesday, and we will show you how you can look at the cnn's heroes. >> i am anderson cooper, each of the top ten cnn heroes proves one person really can make a difference. this year we are making it easy to support their great work. go to cnnheroes.com and click donate beneath the top ten cnn

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rally senate republicans on the tax plan. the committee could advance or stall the bill. >> trump will also meet with democratic and congressional leaders over the government funding deadline. both chambers have less than two weeks to pass a spending bill in order to avoid a shutdown. president trump under fire for calling elizabeth warren pocahontas at a ceremony. and then the pick of who is in charge at the consumer financial protection bureau. english was set to takeover, and president trump's pick is mick mulvaney, and they are sparring over that spot. and a private meeting with pope francis, the potpourri

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black athletes specifically and their perceived disrespect when so much else is going on in the world. let's discuss with the actor, comedian and producer. answer some questions for us. it seems that the comedian has become the sage in the common era. >> right. >> when you hear him go at the nfl, do you hear him say respect the country no matter who you are or just african-american? >> it's gay, muslims, so he clearly is a racist. to pretend like he's not -- yesterday he was honoring native americans in front of a portrait of andrew jackson, who was called a sharp knife. he can't pretend. it was not just a slur. it was that he did it in front of somebody that murdered the -- it was based on the guy hanging

in the portrait behind him. >> the andrew jackson thing, he had no idea. >> if he has no idea of history, he doesn't need to be president. more than anything else, donald trump -- listen, we have had more presidents who were racist than weren't. president trump is not new, he is retro. we can go back and forth but ultimately a large percentage of americans, 80% of republicans support him, and a large percentage of evangelicals support him, and if the large -- >> you make this point all lot. you don't want to spend too much time attacking what is obvious about the president. you say people need to look at themselves about why they support it. >> he decries what colin ckaepe

but you want to keep the sta statues. i can't decide why he does these things. he has had a problem with people of color for long time so this is just like when the muslim thing happens, he wants to ban muslims. white guys with three names are more dangerous to americans than the muslim things. i am more scared of lee harvey oswald than a dude. he now, moore is being accused of a pedophile but he says that's better than a democrat. to me, all to get his tax cuts. isn't that the idea of supporting somebody regardless of what kind of hell they put in on our children, isn't that the

idea of the love of money being the root of all crazy, and that's crazy but the american people tolerate it. >> what does that tell you? do you believe the country is in more trouble than some suggests? a statement against interests, i often say i believe what unites the country is more than what divides it, and it works well and that's not what this country is about. you think i have it wrong and that's what the country is about? >> this could not exist if the american population were tired of it. barack obama held a mirror up to the american people and donald trump smashed it. donald trump is unkaot and not bright and an embarrassment. he's the black dude everybody thought barack obama would be. if barack obama were acting just like him, he would already be impeached. the idea is we are willing to tolerate this -- he's bad for

the brand. he's messing up the blue book value of america >> what do you think is the correction? >> the american paopulation -- >> you need the republicans to vote against -- >> last time i checked. i got a ged, whether they are republican or democrat, they still serve the people and if the people were tired enough of it they would make something happen. i think that people are not as uncomfortable with racists or incompetent than they pretend to be. >> the new show, the comedy, "get down," we have a clip. let's play it. >> you remember the brazilian chick that thought she was denzel and i went along with it, and i had to play carlson from

"fresh prince." my hips ain't been the same since. >> that's low, man. that's real low. >> and i feel terrible. >> real low. >> i don't want to do it. >> nobody says they feel terrible while not meaning it better than you do. this is the first scripted series about the behind the scenes world of big-time comedy. >> it's myself, george lopez and the late charlie murphy and we were on tour together, and it's a black guy and mexican -- usually when you see black dudes and mexicans, it's at a prison riot. >> how close do you stay on script? >> it's based on actual incidents but we extrapolated the comedy out of it. it's nice to be onstage with

guys you respect. >> did you say cut through the -- >> absolutely. you don't pay for this coat not knowing some words. >> that's a big word. that's top shelf. the best for the holidays. god bless the family, all right. >> always. cnn "newsroom" with john berman picks up after the break. he knows what tree kul means. most awarded network. it happened again. a gift is only as good as the network it's on. parodontax, the toothpaste that helps prevent bleeding gums. if you spit blood when you brush or floss you may have gum problems and could be on the journey to much worse. help stop the journey of gum disease. try parodontax toothpaste. ♪

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