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us, head of the naacp chapter there in tulsa. we appreciate it. >> all right. thank you. ♪ hello. it is the top of the hour and we're watching america's reckoning. the nation is experiencing profound change since the killing of george floyd on memorial day. you can look at the transformation in policing. at least a dozen cities or states have banned the use of chokeholds or strangle holds. and the leader of the house says he supports the ban. some cities have cut police budgets. polls show more people than ever support black lives matter. both parties in congress are crafting reform legislation. more cities and states are calling for opening records on officer's past conduct and making them public.
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we saw more departments firing officers. and protesters have had officers kneel and walk with them in solidarity. more businesses and brands are acknowledging racial inequality and they're promising they're going to work to end it. nascar just banned all confederate flags and symbols. the nfl commissioner apologized saying to listen to player's protests during the anthem. and social justice groups have received major donations after a $100 million pledge by nike and jordan. and lebron james has helped form a community on protecting voting rights. they're pulling programs out of sink with the push for racial justice. statues of jefferson davis and
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christopher columbus are being toppled. and americans are showing they want to know more. 15 of the top 20 selling books right now are about race, racesism and white supremacy. despite the sea change we're seeing across the nation, the president is digging in on racial and cultural wars. this includes his refusal to consider renaming the bases honoring confederate leaders, even as military leaders said they were open to it. and the president, himself, was just rebuked by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. now apologizing for being seen here in this walk wearing his uniform with president trump last week. general mark milly wore those combat fatigues while he and other top aids went with the president to a church, where the president posed with a bible. to secure the president's walk
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immediately before hand, police used tear gas to clear the street of peaceful protesters demonstrating over the death of george floyd. today general milli expressed regret during a recorded speech at the national defense university. >> as senior leaders, everything you do will be closely watched. and i am not immune. as many of you saw the result of the photograph of me at lafayette square last week. that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society. i should not have been there. my presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic policies. as a commissioned uniformed officer t was a mistake that i have learned from. and i sincerely hope we all can learn from it. we, who wear the cloth of our nation, come from the people of our nation. and we must hold dear the
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principals of an a-political military that is so deeply rooted in the very essence of our republic. >> with me now is retired army brig dear general, who is a global fellow at the wilson senders canon institute and one of 280 some security officials who signed a letter criticizing the president's push to use active duty military against demonstrators. thank you so much for joining me. >> pleasure's mine. >> you know general milly milley. what does it mean to you that he made this apology? >> he said profound words, i am not immune. our times are evolving, fluid, situations change.
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legacies change. that was a brave statement. i've joined on the joint staff, i've seen him on the army staff, as the president of the court marshal court. and i've seen him as the chairman. he is a moraled man and he is struggling with these changed going on in our country. but to say not immune is a recognition that one needs to adjust and grapple as legacies evolve. and this is everything with what occurred with george floyd and what happened out in front of the church in lafayette square. and the renaming, if you will, bases. no, i have the utmost respect for him riding up there and
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doing that, writing a very personal letter on the 2nd of a june. so, i think he's doing the right thing. >> so, look, i think we all know from watching when administration officials go against the president, what they're really opening themselves up to, right? certainly not professional stability, if we want to say it that way. so, knowing that, i wonder what kind of pressures do you think milley was dealing with when it came to, i guess -- you mentioned legacy. if he had not done this, what would this have meant for his legacy and how other top brass would see him? >> i don't think he could have lived with himself afterward, if he had stayed silent. he obviously was troubled during the event, as it donned on him what was going on. loyalty, yes.
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there's a loyalty by oath to the constitution and you support the commander in chief. but loyalty goes to ways. and a military leader is such a consequential. the biggest loyalty he owes the president is his candor and his perspective on all the experiences of his extensive career. that's what real loyalty is. it goes through waves. it just doesn't go to an individual. his first loyalty is to the constitution. he serves the commander in chief. if he has deep, deep miss giveings, there is a judiciary and a legislator to take it to as well. >> thank you so much for joining us us.
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>> i think there's racism in the united states still but i don't think the law enforcement system is systemically racist. >> i don't think we have a sigs emic racism problem in law enforcement across the country. >> we do have some bad ap. ales in the police department and that can't be changed. >> global opinions editor joining me now. they're key cabinet members. they have a lot of power in this country. and they appear to be in the denial phase. what kind of impact did their statements have? >> i mean, you just look around us. we're having a systemic reckoning. if systemic racism didn't exist, we wouldn't be seeing what we're seeing across all sectors. we wouldn't see monuments coming
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down, black journalists staging virtual lockouts at media rooms. we wouldn't see resignations of heads of companies who are acknowledging their companies have participated in the silencing, inequality, discrimination. so, they've got jobs to do, jobs to pretend that this problem doesn't exist. and it's quite rich coming from them, considering the trump administration, who is elected on the wings of racial incitement and rhetoric, calling mexicans rapists, using the functions of government to enacts a muslim travel ban. we all saw what happened in charlottesville when trump called those people very fine people. this is deeply baked into america's dna. so, they're going to trot out their speaking points. but if systemic racism didn't
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exist, we wouldn't be having this nationwide systemic reckoning right now. >> yeah. you wrote an oped. you said george floyd has become the emmet till of this moment. you called floyd's death a spark, that was a emmet till for a digital generation. tell us more about this. and we're really two weeks -- a couple weeks out now from this moment. so, you're in the middle of history, right? but what do you think it's going to tell us looking back on it? >> you know, in the midest of all there protests and these systemic reckonings, at the end of the day, a man lost his life, a man was killed in front of our eyes. and his funeral was just two days ago. and we saw the family of george floyd opening their pain up to us. and nat is almost the exact play
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that emmet till's mother did in 1955 when her 14-year-old son was falsely accused of whistling at a white woman and beaten and lynched and thrown in a river. the fact that i got a lot of pushback saying how dare you compare george floyd and his record to emmet till. at the end of the day, emmet till sparked the silver rights movement. george floyd's video, his murder shocked us all and i would argue shocked white people into feeling shame for what this country has been doing for 400 years. and so, i think -- not even emmet till's mother achieved a worldwide, getting people into the streets this way, risking their lives in the middle of a pandemic, risking jobs to speak out. this is a historically monumental time that we're
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living in. and it seems like it's still just getting started. >> you start out your piece talking about your dad, who immigrated from guiana. how you had never seen him cry until now. tell us about the moment and why you decided to share it. >> yeah. my father just lost his best friend a couple weeks ago. and i would imagine if he were here he'd be discussing what was happening in the country with his friend, my uncle david. it's not just white people having to deal with this reckoning and a facing of the truth of who america is and has been, it's also immigrants. i grew up here hearing if you just work hard, speak a certain way, have the right degrees, if
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you're just distance yourself in a way from black americans, you'll be safe, fine. just love everybody. and i think this is, for the first time, where my parngts are speaking openly about the racism they've experienced and it's sad. it's tragic. at the end of the day, they're hopeful. they're hopeful there can be change. but gone is this belief that if you just come here and succeed, that you're immune from america's antiblackness. >> karen, thank you so much. global opinions editor for "the post." . i can't tell you how much we enjoyed this conversation. really appreciate it. so, we're also following major developments on the virus. the trump administration under scrutiny. some nursing homes report the gear they're getting is
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defective. plus a new model predicts 170,000 people will die in the united states. and later, the rekrart of "friends" admits she did not do enough to promote diversity. i'm geing it ask one of the few women of color cast in the show what she thinks of this apology. can i find an investment firm with a truly long-term view that's been through multiple market cycles for over 85 years? with capital group, i can. talk to your financial professional or consultant for investment risks and information. let's be honest. quitting smoking is hard. like, quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so try making it smaller, and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big.
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the number of u.s. cases pass said the 2 million mark. vice president mike pence tweeted this photo and then he deleted it. show as large group of trump campaign staff very close together, no social distancing, no masks. it's the opposite of what the white house and pence's own coronavirus task force recommend. plus new criticism is emerging from nursing homes about the personal protective equipment they're receiving. cnn national correspondent, erica hill, is in new york for us. what are their concerns, erica? >> reporter: some of them telling us the masks are paper thin, the arms didn't have arm holes. and they remember there president touted the administration was going to shore up the ppp stores at nursing homes around the country and some getting what we just
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d discussed and we reached out to fema and they responded saying all equipment meets certification but did acknowledge there were concerns out there and i'm quoting here, the contractor is working on an instructional video about proper use of the gowns which will be shared with nursing homes. and meanwhile, we're seeing the number of cases and deaths rise in the country and there is concern those numbers could continue to increase as more reopening is phased in. >> reporter: as americans embrace summer and shifting restrictions, officials are focusing on disturbing new trends. cases nation wide continuing to rise and while testing is more widespread widespread, it doesn't tell the whole story. >> we had a huge spike
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yesterday. we're not getting the messaging we need from the state that this is real serious. it's going to put us in a horrible place in the next couple of weeks. >> reporter: texas is one of a dozen states seeing a spike in covid hospitalizations. in arizona, nearly 80% of the icu beds are in use. >> i think a critical shortage of icu beds is the nightmare scenario. that's the main reason we were flattening the curve. >> reporter: florida still posting more than 1,000 new case as day. in south carolina, daily counts have been rising over the past two weeks. >> i am more concerned about covid-19 in south carolina than i have ever been before. >> reporter: and an uptick as new modeling forecasts nearly 270,000 covid-related deaths by october 1st.
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>> somehow, as a country, we have decided hundreds of thousands dying from the virus is okay and that's unbelievable to me. >> reporter: and film, tv and music production can resume tomorrow. disneyland resort is eyeing midjuly to reopen, while in iowa, the iconic state fair has been postponed for the first time since world war ii. mow butter cows and no campaigning. human trials are starting for the first antibody cocktail to treat and prevent coronavirus. and in chicago, a successful double lung transplant for a woman in her 20s whose lungs were damaged by the virus. >> yesterday she smiled and said doc, thank you for not giving up on me. as health care providers, there's nothing more gratifying to hear. this is why we do what we do. >> reporter: a bit of hope in
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uncertain times. now that young woman spent about six weeks in a covid icu where she was on a ventilator, as well as other machines to help her heart and lungs. they said a transplant is really the only option. >> erica, thank you so much. the spike in coronavirus cases is a big concern for state and local governments, including arizona and south carolina. senior national correspondent is in phoenix for us. cnn national correspondent is in -- >> reporter: we're just hearing from the mayor of phoenix today and she's raising the alarm bells. she says her city and state is not recovering from covid. and she said, quote, we opened too much, too early. so, what is she talking about? she's referencing this graph.
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if you look at the yellow bar lines, what you are seeing is that in the last few weeks those numbers, the new cases in arizona, they have risen dramatically. the numbers speaking for themselves. a state health department announced more than 1400 cases just today. compare that with a few 00 a few weeks ago. now the health department is asking hospitals in the state to activate their emergency plan. why? you heard it briefly mentioned in erika's story. 80% of the icu beds are now occupied. certainly this state is preparing for that surge. we're hearing the growing sense of alarm from officials. but walking around here, from the airport to the restaurants, you're seeing precautions, tables spaced out, people giving each other space but we're bearically seeing any masks.
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a lot of life in the state of arizona feels like it's returning to normal. >> wow. natasha, tell us what you're seeing. >> reporter: not a lot of masks here either and that's after the state epidemiologist yesterday was urging people to put them on in public. that's why i have mine on in the city streets. we're hearing it's hit or miss if they're wearing them and properly social distancing. there's a seven-day average in new cases that's been trending upward since the state began reopening on april 20th. and south carolina was the very first state to announce any reopenings at all. and unfortunately, we're seeing the upward tick. and we have the seven-day average of daily new deaths. that has unfortunately also been trending upward. and they said this is the most concern she has been since the pandemic began.
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she says this spot, greenville county, is a hot spot. and i spoke the office of congressman joe coning hm who represents some of the beach communities on the coast. he says the low country has seen a doubling of new cases since memorial day weekend when we saw a lot of crowds come to the beaches. in fact, some of the beach towns, have called for their july 4th fest tativities to be cancelled because of this. still, governor mcmaster says people have to have a way of making a living. >> thank you so much for showing us the two locations. president trump announces he'll be holding his first rally in months on juneteenth, as the nation struggles with unrest. and the actress who played the first african-american
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america's reckoning with racism has sparked a number of apologies, including from the creator of popular sitcom "friends." she's apologizing for a lack of diversity. she said, quote, i'm sorry.
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i just wish i knew then what i know now. i would have made different decisions. i mean, we've always encouraged people of diversity in our company but i didn't do enough and now all i can think about is what can i do? david schwimmer, who played ross, said he campaigned for years to have ross date women of color. one of his girlfriends on the show was iisha tyler. she had a recurring role you'll probably remember as dr. charley wheeler who was joey and then ross's girlfriend. she's joining me to talk about this. thank you so much for being here. >> it's a pleasure. good to see you. >> so, when you saw her apology, what did you think? >> look, this has been a conversation about "friends" for decades.
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i mean, since the show was on the air. my appearance on the show was part of a concerted effort to diversify late in the show's life. i came on season 9. i appreciate what she said and i'm glad she's making an attempt at a full throated apology. she's an incredibly smart lady and accomplished a lot. i think she probably did know then what she knows now. and it points to a larger issue, not just in hollywood, but culturally. the casual racism of apathy, which is well, i know this is going on but it's not really my problem. or i'm just hiring people i know, i connect with, with no thought about the fact that most of those people are going to look and sound and have a similar experience to yours. and even in hollywood, where there's a narrative that black leads don't work or it's not enough. we've been hearing it every day.
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it's not enough to not be racist. you have to be actively not racist. and make the kind of choices that tell new and different stories. i think that show was a function of her own experiences and she was telling the stories she knew and it happened to be about white people. >> as you talk about their opportunities for antiracism in hollywood, is there anything in particular, when you think of the shows we see now and there's so many more. what kind of opportunities in a tangible way do you say there. that's right for showing people different kinds of people, different experiences. what do you think? >> that's a good question. i think there has been a move to
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tell a broader swath of stories with a broader swath and more complex group of actors and stories and characters. i'm thinking of the second season of homecoming where -- i mean, there are a million examples and there's a growing move the diversify. they're still using this term in hollywood, like we wants a diverse lead. and there's always a code for a nonwhite lead. this was just americans. i think we need to get past the idea that we're doing someone a favor and just start talking about telling american stories. it's important to tell black stories but that's because they're american stories. we have a lot of work to do because it should not just be that black stories are about inner city or struggling through
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poverty. these are diverse american stories with a lot of complexity. and i think we're still stuck in the idea that we're going to step outside of what's normal to pick a diverse lead, rather than continually working hard to tell great, new, urgent american stories that come from a variety of areas. we have a lot of black creators now, which is great. shows predominantly black casts. we have to stop thinking that the idea is the middle class white american story and everything else is alternative. i think that's going to mean hiring and empowering and funding diverse voices behind the cameras, while not just putting a black character in a show and thinking that's got the job done. >> i also want to ask you about an appearance you made on the show "whose line is it anyway?" it's a clip of you and wayne brady calling out racism on the
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show. >> ma'am, can you pick out the man that robbed you? [ applause ] number two, number two. >> y'all know this messed up, right? >> sir, can you pick out the man that embezeled hundreds of millions from the american economy and made you pay for it. >> you mean after systematically devaluing my education and relegating me to certain neighborhoods whereas i couldn't actually pursue the education that would allow me to reach a certain fiscal century. >> or prevent you from getting homes or businesses or getting a car lease. >> you were the host of the show. and i wonder if, looking back on
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the moment, as the initial improv skit played out, what did that feel like and how does this look now, looking back on it? >> well, it's interesting there have been a lot of dialogue about this online. because wayne posted and it fell in my timeline. at the time and now, what i took that joke to be was a comment on the way that police skew these kinds of situations against black people. that they literally lined up three people and obviously the two white guys didn't resemble the black guy and the cops were obviously trying to gear the entire system towards convicting a black guy with no evidence. that's how i took that joke. but i did want to reset the apple card here in case people were taking it the other way, which is how a lot of people
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have taken it, which is black people are always the criminal here. it's a part of a larger conversation, which is that a lot of the time police pick a black guy, decide he's the criminal and skew the entire judicial system, the justice system and police system against that person. and i think even with the arbry shooting, what you saw is guys saying i knew by looking at him he was a criminal. i think that skit spoke to the ongoing prejudice that if there's a black guy around, he's great to be the bad guy. and then turning it on its head and say we can point to people who have done much worse in our economy and they seem to keep getting a pass. >> it does explain as people were trafficking in stereotypes,
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right? thank you so much for coming on, joining us from los angeles. we're very thankful to have you on for the discussion. >> it's a pleasure. thanks for having me. just in as seattle's mayor tells the president to go back to his bunker, president trump threatened to take back the city from protesters. was that your grandfather, leading armies to battle? was that your great-aunt, keeping armies alive? drafting the plans. taking the pictures. was it your family members? who flew. who fixed. who fought. who rose to the occasion. when the world needed them most. (♪) find and honor your ancestors who servered in world war ii.
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anyway? >> reporter: it's similar to the threats against minneapolis and washington d.c. threatening to bring in u.s. military, if he doesn't feel it's being handled as it should be. clashes for days between police and protesters. and finally, police removed a barricade outside a precinct. it's called this autonomous zone where the police cannot come up and they're free to roam around, which some have said they view as a chance at potentially deescalating the scene you're seeing here, where the precinct is boarded up. and the president doesn't seem to be please would the way they're handling this, saying he is going to get involved if it continues to go this way. the mayor is pushing back, telling the president to go to his bunker. a reference to the white house bunker during protests briefly
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sources tell cnn the intelligence community believes russia is taking steps to meddle in the presidential election this november, and plan to use many of the same tactics as they did in 2016. now house democrats are warning foreign actors could spread disinformation and encourage violence as protests against racism continue to sweep the nation. a representative is with me now, and val demings writing to the director of the national intelligence, "let me be clear, the underlying issues that led to these continued protests are based and years of systemic racism and concerns that originated from american policies and american actors, but we do not want foreign state actor to exploit the injustice in america as we try to heal these wounds and build a more equitable and just society for
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all." sir, thank you for joining us. >> absolutely, brianna. thank you. >> so tell us what you've been seeing that made you say, i need to write this letter? >> well, as you moenentioned, we in a state of heightened tensions as we try to battle racism and enact police reform following the brutal murder of george floyd. but wa we're concehat we're con is the russian, chinese and others might try to repeat what happened in 2016, which is spread disinformation and in this case potentially try to incite violence or influence the election. we've already seen coordinated, i guess, spreading of disinformation by beijing and moscow directed outlets, and concerned that the i.c. needs to plan for further coordinated
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attacks or spreading of disinformation and try to prevent it. >> how concerned are you about the impact on november's election? how bad to you think it's going to be? >> i'm very concerned. you know, before dni dan coats left his position, he said that the russians were already targeting us. special counsel mueller in his testimony last summer said the same thing and chris wray, head of fbi said red lights are flashing. the russians are already targeting this election. now that we have this unrest, my concern is that they'll have more fuel to continue with their disinformation tactics. >> what do you want from the dni? >> what we want from the dni is information about how is he
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planning for this, for the expected interference on the part of the russians and chinese and others? how is he coordinating with private actors, such as facebook and twitter, and other social media platforms to deal with the problem, and what has howard happened? what efforts have been successful and what has now on the part of foreign actors pursuing their agenda and not ours? >> congress member raja krishnamoorthi, thanks for coming on. u.s. spy planes monitoring some protests of the death of george floyd. plus, the chairman of the joint chiefs publicly breaking with the president, and doing something the president never does. apologizing.
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hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. this hour president trump arrives in dallas, texas, taking part in what the white house calls a roundtable on disparities in american communities. those disparities and systemic racism is blamed for so many getting renewed focus during the nationwide protests after the
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