investigation. i'm not about to get out the car to go look for anything to cause trouble. she's like, no, they have their guns drawn on us. and so, i so happen to look out the window and like, you know, i yell out at the officer, why do you have your guns drawn? what is going on? he didn't respond. and then, he like repeated like, you know, everybody, put their hands out the vehicle. so then, out the windows and everything like that. so, we all proceeded to do that. and then, i didn't know where he was just like everybody, people start stepping out. so my eldest niece started to get out the car. i was like, no, you're not going nowhere. he hasn't told us. no one's told us what's going on. he's not telling us the reason he got his gun drawn and you trying to get out the car. no, like, you know, he needs to tell us what's going on. so i yell out, what's going on?

he didn't respond. so then, my niece starts screaming. i said -- i said, you know what, i need you to calm down. she's like, no, aunty, i can't because it's another officer that got their gun drawn on me. so i was like, okay, just forget it. imani, get out the car, listen to what they say. then, they go to my little sister. she, then, gets out. and then, my niece. but before she gets out, i'm telling my niece tariana, hey, get your phone. start recording. so she was like, okay, so she pulled her hands back in from the window. and like, you know, he start screaming and yelling like, get your hands out the window! >> now, just to be very clear, brittany, we are dealing with a car filled with women. okay? a 6-year-old, a 12-year-old, a 14-year-old, a 17-year-old, and you. >> yes. correct. >> and this is how they are

handling it, and they're not giving you any directions. and eventually, they get you out of the car? >> so, eventually, they get all of us out the vehicle. and then, they told me to get out the vehicle. and when i proceeded to get out the vehicle, they told me get -- get on the ground. so, i was like, i start walking towards him, the officer that had his gun drawn on me. but then, when i was walking, i guess i was walking too fast because he's like you're moving too fast. so then, he was like, no, get on your knees. so i got on my knees but i was turned backwards. so he was like, no, i need you to turn my way. i said you didn't say that. you just said get on your knees. so then, you know, when i got on my knees, i turned around. i placed my hands like right above my knees. and so, he was like -- you know, he kept yelling like i can't see your hands. i can't see your hands. so i slammed my hands on the concrete like there's no way you can't see my hands. you tell me you cannot see my

hands. i don't have nothing on me. you'll in shorts and a t-shirt. like, you know, you still haven't told me what's going on. so then, he started to like handcuff me. and started to say this vehicle's stolen. i was like this vehicle's not stolen. you are going to have to prove to me this vehicle's stolen. this is my vehicle. this vehicle's not stolen. he's like, it's stolen. it's stolen. he's like i'm going to get you to the car. and then, like, you know, all i hear is the kids crying and screaming. so then, i see them like, you know, like over top of the kids. so, you know, i start walking towards the kids. and like, you know, he grabbed me like no, we're escorting you to the car. i was like don't touch me. you don't have to touch me at all. i can perfectly fine -- we all complied with you. i said do you need to verify anything? like, do you need to verify license, registration? what is it you need to do?

because you have a gun on kids, and you have them in handcuffs. he's like, i'm going to handle it the way -- he's going to handle it his way. so okay, whatever. so then, i wouldn't go to the police vehicle. so then, he had asked another officer to escort me. so, two officers then escorted me to the vehicle. and then, when i got in the back of the vehicle, like, you know, i was just sitting in there for like some minutes. and then, it came back like, you know, that everything -- that the vehicle was clear. >> i cannot -- while you're speaking, brittany, put the video up again. i have never seen, except maybe in an immigration situation, i've never seen -- look at this 6-year-old. your kid, who's got some kind of like princess head -- she's got a crown on. and they are having her lay on the ground. what are you thinking when you are seeing your 6-year-old laying on the ground, at the feet of the police?

>> i'm helpless. i'm helpless and i'm devastated. i'm at the weakest. i have never felt like so embarrassed and dehumanized in my entire life. i was just another little, black girl. that little girl was just another black girl that you didn't give two cares about. none of them girls. >> now, the police say, brittany. the police say this. we have been training our officers that when they contact a suspected stolen car, they should do what is called a high-risk stop. this involves drawing their weapons and ordering all occupants to exit the car and lie prone on the ground. but we must allow officers to have discretion and deviate from this process, when different scenarios present themselves. i have already directed my team to look at new practices and training. that's from police chief vanessa wilson and their statement to cnn. what is your response?

>> i -- can i be honest? >> please. >> she can shove it. she can shove it because she contradicted herself. when she made her apology to me, she went on, the same way the lieutenant and the sergeants did. it was protocol that at a high-risk stop, they're supposed to draw their guns. you're trying to justify the fact that it's okay for grown people, to draw their gun on my kids. i can understand if you drew the gun on me, and just myself. and he was like, ma'am, i'm going to need you to step out the vehicle. you never once asked for a license or remg straggistration. you never once tried to change the route or anything. it was five officers on the scene, at that point. not one officer changed the route it was going. >> when did they apologize? >> and then, when they apologized, it was like two hours after the fact. and they didn't apologize to

everyone. they apologized to my little sister that they handcuffed and my niece that they handcuffed. and he's like -- oh, but it was only one officer that apologized. and was like, i feel bad because what i did was wrong. what i did was wrong. and then, they proceeded to walk away. and the lieutenant and sergeant did apologize but like i said, i didn't want to accept their apology because like it's okay what they did, over a mistake. but you can't even tell me how that mistake happened and you can't even put yourself in my shoes, as a human. as a black woman, you can't even put your feet in my shoes. >> you think it would have happened if it was four white girls in a car? >> no, it never would have happened if it was four white, girls in a car. they would have treated it as a regular traffic stop. not a high-risk traffic stop. a regular traffic stop. you are seeing four black girls, five black girls, in a vehicle, and you decided to proceed the way you did. and at the point where you saw

those kids get out the vehicle, you should've stopped right there. you should've undrew your gun. you know what, ma'am, i'm going to need you to step out the vehicle. not once did anybody say that. it's not my duty to do your job for you. i shouldn't have to tell you and -- and ask you do you want to see my license and registration? that's your job, as an officer. you never once asked, neither one of them. >> that's what they're supposed to ask, first. well, look, brittany. you couldn't tell the story any better. it sizes up with everything that we've seen. and we know this isn't the end because an apology's not enough in a situation like this. when your 6-year-old daughter is put on the ground. we will stay on the situation. we will stay in touch with you. counselor, david lane, if there's anything you want to offer up to us about what you learn about the case, you have an open ear, here, at cnn. brittany, i am so sorry too meet you this way, but in a way,

people need to hear these stories. they need to hear what the truth is for too many people in this country, including pretty girls with pretty, little, princess head crowns on. brittany, be well and good luck. >> thank you. >> david lane, thank you. >> you, as well. >> tough time to get your head around the reality in this country. tough time to get your head around the reality, in this country. how does that image not stay with you? imagine if that were your 6-year-old daughter. a little princess crown, and a cop makes her lie down on her stomach because it's supposed to be treated as a high-risk stop? a 6-year-old girl? i mean, we've got to be better than this. i know the job is hard. i know that, overwhelmingly, these are good men and women, black, white, brown, yellow,

doing the job. in communities that they care about. i know. but, not enough of them are that way. we cannot keep having scenarios like this. it can't keep shocking the conscience. eventually, we're going to have to own the fact that this happens, too often, because we're not treating each other well enough. and we're not insisting on the standards that keep that. if it's not a natural suggestion, it's a must, based on your training. just can't be, man. you just can't have a 6-year-old kid laying on the ground like that. an apology is meaningless. you are what you do. you stop people like that, and if you don't know it's wrong, you're in the wrong job. we got two pandemics going on in this country. i can't say it the way d lemon would, but i understand how he feels about these. because it's embarrassing to me.

i almost feel like i have to apologize to these black men and women that i interview on this show. when, all too often, it's white police officers doing this. two pandemics. and, in a way, we're suffering from the same thing, with both of them. a lack of truth. a lack of transparency. and a lack of a willingness to do better. and, at the top, in both instances, is a president who is denying the reality. racism. blacks being attacked, more than whites. it is what it is. pandemic? it is what it is. what are you going to do about it? here is his latest idea. >> absolutely. it's -- no question, in my mind, it will go away. please, go ahead. hopefully, sooner, rather than later. >> said that in february. racism going to go away, too?

his top-infectious disease expert is dr. fauci, of course. he says the opposite. which is, also, known as the science. coronavirus. yeah, it'll go away, after it eats through a bunch of us. the whole point is to hasten its exit. to make it go away, faster. now, fauci will say, by the way, it's so contagious, it really may not ever go away, completely. it may just keep getting smaller and smaller in different pockets as more people get immunity, we get a vaccine. and more people get sick of being sick, and they do things about it. and the key, of course, is about us. the cure is the same, in both of these pandemics. together, as oever, as one. if we care about our brothers and sisters, christians, most of all, it should be most natural for us to see through color. if we care about doing the right things, i wear a mask for you, as much as i wear it for me. i had the disease. i had the antibodies. why am i wearing a mask?

because i don't know and if there's any chance, i want to protect you from me. look. i don't have a simple solution on racism. you can't just love one another. we can't do it, evidently. there is an easier way, with the pandemic. testing. rapid testing. quick turnaround, know-right-away testing. so we know who's sick and we know who's not. it will change our society. but it's not happening here, the way it did in the uk, because they had leadership from the top. the guy looks like trump, but he acts totally differently, boris johnson. so, look. i want to bring in dr. shah.

could just move on from that video. and kids, 12, 14, 17, 6-year-old with a crown, being treated like dirt. can't just move on. so, we got to process it. now, we'll take a break. we will come back. we'll process our next problem, which is why do these governors have to get together to do something that the federal government should have done? and is that really our best, most efficacious route to getting to the testing that we need? yes or no? i got an expert that has the answer. next. 't sweats. find your friends. find your sense of wander. find the world is new, again. at chevy we'd like to take you there. now during the chevy open road sales event, get up to 15% of msrp cash back on select 2020 models. that's over fifty-seven hundred dollars cash back on this equinox. it's time to find new roads, again.

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this seven-state team-up? this effort to create mass purchasing power, to convince companies to create more rapid tests for them. so they can turn around their situations in cases and timing. let's talk to the man with the plan. that is doctor, and president of the rockefeller administration and former administrator of usaid. >> good to see you, chris. thanks for having me. >> now, i am very aware of the plan. the rockefeller foundation, from early on, said, look, you got to get quick turnaround and smart

testing. pool testing and antigen testing. and the federal government should be leading this, the same way you guys said about ppe. what is your best sense of why it isn't happening, at the federal level? although, they say it is. so, i guess, the first part of the question is, doc, do you see any indication that they are doing it? and, two, to the extent that you do not, why do you believe that to be? >> well, testing in america today is simply not working. we know that. everyone is saying the same thing. the long delays in getting diagnostic pcr test results, three, four, five, six, some cases, ten or twelve days. that really invaluates the data. so you're not transmitting the disease, unknowingly, to someone else. that's simply not happening with america's testing regime. furthermore, as has been pointed

out by both sides of the aisle. more than 40%, some estimate 50%, of transmission happens among people who do not have m symptoms. so, we still have federal cdc guidance that focuses on people with symptoms or a medical reason to get a test. but the reality is we need to shift our paradigm. think about this differently, and start using cheap, fast testing to screen populations. in nursing homes, in schools, and in critical, essential businesses. and healthcare facilities. and for the essential workers that are keeping our country functioning right now. >> now, if it's good for six states to band together to create purchasing power, why wouldn't it be much better for the federal government to do the same thing? not only do they have the emergency productions act where they could ramp up but what's a bigger pocket than they are, nationally? >> you have seen what they have done with operation warp speed.

the rockefeller group has pulled together, you know, more than actually 100 experts. many of whom are former republican and democratic officials. and they are all calling for the same thing. effectively, operation warp speed for diagnostic testing and screening tests to get up to 30 million tests a week. today, we are at about 5.5 million tests a week. and we are not going to get to 30, without real leadership. the reference you made to democratic and republican governors coming together, holding hands, announcing at the national governors association that they will band together to buy and use screening tests. and they will back a set of protocols that will help schools, local businesses, other critical institutions, understand how to use these is a big step forward. and we're proud to have helped pull that together. >> but why did you have to do it? why didn't the federal government do it? they did in the uk. boris johnson looks like trump. how come he's not acting like

the in the uk? we know there is an exchange between a foundation of your size. they need guidance from ngos like you. what do they say about why they're not doing it? >> to be honest, we work together with everybody. so we work with their leaders. we are working with the federal government. brett giroir, the admiral who leads the testing effort, recently announced a sort of effort to do exactly this program. but specifically, for nursing homes. and i think what they see is a constraint in industry's capacity to scale up production. and what we're suggest is that, by bringing together those who have demand for these tests. and frankly, by setting a new mindset in our country about using screening tests in a far more ubiquitous manner, we think we can actually get industry to overcome those constraints. get to 30 million. >> i'm with you and i love the aim. but i think that you're being

too benevolent in the understanding of the underlying motivation. maybe not by giroir, by his boss. because we know what the answer is here. it's an output contract. i don't know that industry can scale up that -- well, give them the money to scale up. do what you did with the wall. find the money. find the will. say we're going to do it. find people to build it. think they'd do the same thing here. it's the same mentality as warp speed. go to these companies. you know who they are. go to other chemical companies and say we'll give you the money, we'll give you the capital. fund the reagent. tell us how to do this and we'll put it out. you know that's not unfathomable? >> no, it's not at all. in fact, that's what we have been advocating since april when rockefeller put out this 1, 3, 30 plan. let's get 3 million tests a week. and then, by fall, we have to be at 30 million tests a week, otherwise, schools won't be able to open and society won't be

able to function. i think we are seeing that the fall will be worse than the spring, without a significant scaleup of screening tests. one of the other critical barriers. it's not -- it is purchasing and manufacturing capacity is the fact that the federal government has not, yet, issued protocols that, take for one example, schools, on how to use screening tests. i can tell you because we work in 30 cities around the country, it makes it hard for institutions in america to make the decision. okay, we see what the nba is doing. we see what major league baseball's doing. should we be doing that for our teachers? should they have the luxury of being safe when they go to work? should we be doing that for our students? harvard issued guidance. duke is issuing guidance. all these great public-health schools around the country are issuing their own protocols. it's not coming from the cdc. we think it is desperately needed from centers for disease

disea control. >> it should be the standard. hopefully, those people buzzing in on you are the federal government saying, hey, we've gotten past our worries about production. we'll create the production demand for them and we'll do this on a national level. it won't just be six states, it will be 50. doctor, thank you for doing the work for us. >> thank you, chris. >> god bless. be healthy. >> political stunner. congressional seat held by one family, since 1969, is going to get a new leader. that's right. one family, since 1969. the winner of last night's democratic primary upset is on the forefront of the progressive movement. corey bush. here to talk about how she defeated a man, whose father helped create the congressional black caucus. she has unique viewpoints on the two major crises in our country right now. next. [sizzling]

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year, of all years, we are sending a black, working-class, single mother. [ cheers and applause ] who's been -- from ferguson, all the way to the halls of congress. >> all right. that is progressive activist cori bush. she scored a remarkable, upset victory over 20-year incumbent missouri congressman, william lacy clay jr. the seat is part of a political dynasty. clay's father held the seat as far back as 1969. clay jr., defeated bush by 20 points back in the 2018 primary. but, last night, things turned around. bush turned the tables on the moderate incumbent. proving the power, arguably, of

the progressive or left-wing part of the democratic party, called the squad. what does that mean for cori bu bush? what does this mean for the party? who better to answer? congratulations, congressman-elect. >> thank you, and thank you for having me. >> how did you win this time, versus last time? what was different? >> we started out with more name i.d. we ran the same race, against the same person. you know, in a film on netflix "knock down the house." so people knew me when i went to the doors this time around. we started early. and then, we had more organized team. you know, i was a national surrogate for senator bernie sanders' presidential campaign so we were able to get a lot more momentum that way. and so, people started donating. when we closed out our last race, we were less than $180,000 in donations. this time, we're at 800,000. you know, so that really helped

us. it helped us get on tv. you know, billboards off the highway. you know, it helped. >> so, from politics to policy, why are you different than clay jr.? and what kind of different democrat are you? >> well, you know, i always call myself an active leader. one thing that is known, throughout the district, is people talk about congressman clay. you know, and this is not a jab at him. i mean, he's, you know, we -- we have to be able to work together, in this transition. but, you know, i have no hard feelings or anything, ill will against him. but people always say that he's just absent. he's just an absent leader. and that's not who i have been. i have been on the grounds, even before ferguson, fighting for the unhoused population. fighting for our people in human trafficking. and then, when michael brown was murdered, i took to the streets. you know, we protested in the ferguson and st. louis area. again, after the verdict in 2017. and now, with the george floyd and breonna taylor protests. you know, i have been out

organizing and leading protests. >> let me ask you one big, political question. and then, i want to get back to how you see the pandemic, and what you think the challenges for your party and your community, going forward. biden is not the same kind of democrat, issue for issue, that you are. >> right. >> what is your level of concern that misgivings about biden, as a proxy, may cost you the presidency? >> look. we have to work for -- we can't allow another trump administration. so whatever we have to do to make sure that person is not in that seat, you know, i'm out galvanizing. that's the next thing i'm doing. i'm galvanizing people to the polls. you know, i'm working hard and working in different communities, making sure that they know they can vote. that they should vote. that it's safe to vote. so, that's what i'm working on. you know, that's the person that is the choice right now. the alternative to that is

someone who's been hurting our communities, that has helped to fuel this hatred that is going on. that is causing people that look like me and our brown community members, so many people, to live, you know, with even more oppression than -- than what we were, before. you know, fighting for black lives, you know, it's a daily thing that i lived with my entire life. that my friends have lived with, forever. but what's happening right now, at the hands of this person, how he's helped to push that. you know, it's timeout for it and i will not allow it. and so i'm working to help get joe biden elected. >> you see the pandemic and the disease of racism as connected. how? >> yeah. two pandemics. well, one thing is when i think about what happened in my own district. you know, covid-19 hit the st. louis area, and it hit the black community the hardest. and black women carried the most cases. you know, we have so many black women who are essential workers that are working in nursing

homes. and, you know, so we just -- we were in the position. you know, like right on the front lines. and by having -- by being -- some of us, as essential workers, aren't making at least -- i mean, aren't making more than minimum wage. you know, where is the healthcare? where's the benefit? underlying causes. when i think about my own covid-19 situation. and i'm sorry for what you went through, you gave me hope when i was going through my situation. that thing knocked me out for two whole months. if i was working a regular, everyday job, i don't know what i could have done because i couldn't get out of the bed for two months, for the most part. other than trying to walk to the bathroom, trying to breathe all day. you know, people had to live through that. >> yeah. i hear a lot of people starting to make the argument that it's not just policing. policing is a symptom of inequality and of unequal opportunity. and the pandemic is every bit as

much of that as well because there's, you know, a similarity of why this community is more likely to be sick and sick, worse. more percentage of essential workers. they don't have access to healthcare. they check more boxes of pre-existing conditions because they don't have the access to food and money to take care of themselves the same way. so they're related. well, you are getting into power, at a very important time. in our history. and we will be watching what you do within your party and how you handle it. congressman-elect, cori bush, congratulations. >> thank you you. >> all right. be well. i'll talk to you soon. all right. now, this was an upset win. but it's not the only big boost that the progressive part of the democratic party got last night. paul begala on the recent developments, and why he believes he's got political kryptonite to offer in the campaign against trump. look at that beard. next.

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be in milwaukee to accept the democratic nomination. instead, he is going to do it, virtually, from his home. state of delaware. the convention speech. usually, one of those big moments in a campaign. lots of people are watching. it's the kind of event people, like paul begala, say can make the race for the white house. paul is also out with a new book. paul's book is called "you're fired." the perfect guide to beating donald trump. we welcome him, as always. good to see you, brother. >> good to see you, chris. you look terrific, for a man that's about to turn 50. >> i feel like i'm 65. i have never had a more rapid descent from where i thought i was, than in the last few months. and i will use that as a segue to your book.

why do you believe that there is a perfect guide to beating this president, as teflon as he has proven, even now, in the last month. his numbers have settled, even come up a little tick, with all the badness around him. >> well, because i learned from my mistakes. and democrats have learned from their mistakes. let me tell you what i got wrong. you covered it but i participated. i was an adviser to the super pac that was helping hillary. we ran $190 million worth of ads. all of them, attacking trump, which was our job. but all of them, really attacking his character, which i don't regret. they're all true, in my opinion. but i didn't connect it to people's lives. he brags about women. oh, look, he insults a p.o.w. oh, look, he insults a mocks a man's disability. i didn't connect it back up to people's lives. and this is a cardinal mistake that i made. democrats are not going to make

it again. right? they are going to make an electionability t election about the voters, not about trump, and it's a huge distinction. >> i think the biggest threat that's facing you is what i was just talking to the new congresswoman about. which is, you guys are prone to splintering. you get in your own way. you start your fights. biden fails a lot of those purity tests for people on the left wing. if you do not see it as a binary situation, the way people on the right do, you will lose. how worried are you about that? >> that's right. well, less worried than ever before. i watched your interview with ms. bush. and she is remarkable. a star is born. she was focused. she was empathetic. she was active leadership, servant leadership. and, from the very progressive wing of the party, she's a bernie sanders spokesperson, she said. she's -- she's telling you that she's going to bust her rear end

now for joe biden. i think democrats make better presidents because you have to unite a broad, diverse, multiethnic, multi races, which is -- for a multi-religious, multicultural company. >> because they're going to debate, right? and when trump is saying this guy, the kiss whoever you want. there's no such thing. there's no good. there's no this. and he is going to have to say hold on a second. and he is going to have to have an answer. that answer is almost assured will be unsatisfactory to people in your party. how threatening is that? >> it -- it -- because the democrats now see it as ms. bush did in the interview with you, as a binary choice. you are either voting for trump or you're voting for biden. that's really it. a lot of the left, in 2016, did

take a walk. and i don't see that now. before the covid, i was out campaigning with a lot of these candidates. now, i do these zoom calls with them and talking to activists. nothing unites the people of earth like a threat from mars. and trump is a threat if mars. let him try that on joe biden from scranton, pennsylvania? really? they are going to call him some kind of crazy, lefty? and as a moderate, my hat is off to the left. my hat is off to cori bush and the rest of the left who are busting their tail for a guy who's probably their fourth or fifth choice. i am really impressed with how the left is conducting itself this year. >> so, you got bush and missouri. tlaib in michigan dawn ballot wins in st. louis. so if it's just binary. your party's changing. how does the party change with a guy who doesn't reflect the change? >> oh, he does. this is all a difference between, you know, a progressive and a leftist.

and right now, you're going to get, in joe biden, a very progressive president. but, in the mainstream of the democratic party. you know, i do write about this in the book. i live in virginia now. ralph northam's a moderate. he beat a leftist in the primary. tom. you know what tom did? he didn't take his marbles and go home. he busted his rear end, went to places you never heard of virginia campaigning for northam. he is tearing down the statue of robert e. lee. new protections for lgbtq plus, womens laws. so the left cooperated with the moderates and got a whole lot of what they want. that's politics, at its best and that's what is happening with biden now. he's united this party, as never before. >> what does it matter that he doesn't go to milwaukee? >> i hate that he can't do that. he's actually a really good speaker and i have seen him light up a room. and i hate that he can't do it. but unlike trump, he's not a

pathological narcissist. he actually cares about other people. he doesn't want to put thousands of people at risk, in a rally. he doesn't want to put his staff and secret service and everybody else at risk. so he's really got no choice but i do think it's a shame. i love those things. you know that. like a super bowl and a willie nelson concert. >> that would not be my depiction but i get it. i get it. who would you put him with in his house? where is he? and who is around him. >> you know, he is all about family. and i have a broad definition of family. i remember a great, former governor of new york with the same name as you, who he used to talk about the family of new york and family of america. and i think your father really embodied it so perfectly. and i think joe needs to do that. i think he's very much in that tradition. not only his own family but it's all about family for joe biden. i have known him a very long time. and it all begins and ends with family with joe.

the great thing about him is he cares as much about my family as he does his own. that's what we want in a president. >> i tell you what. i have never seen people deal in the time of loss, as he does. as a man, not as a politician. the way he loved beau and the way he dealt with beau's loss, and reaches out to others. i have never seen anything like it. i'll still come after him about politics. but i'll never forget. paul begala, good luck with the book. it's called "you're fired" the perfect guide to beating donald trump. be well, brother. we'll be right back. >> thank you, chris. great to see you. when the world gets complicated,

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comes? no, that's reality. the mistake is that we don't deal with it too often, especially men. we make a mistake as seeing toughness as denial. i'm okay. i don't have to deal with it. i'll drink it away. strength is dealing, not denial. you learn with life to manage what comes your way. you have to. because that's how you cope, and by coping, you improve, and by improving, you avoid more of the same type of pain. covid took me low. in those moments i had to confront not just fever but flaws, the truth about myself, what i had done, what i had not done. but more importantly, i confronted something you rarely hear men talk about, pain, fear, hurt, how i had been hurt, how situations had hurt me, how i had hurt others. men rarely say they are hurt or were hurt by anything other than, like, a tiger, but emotional hurt scars deepest, it

drives addiction, bad behaviors. we have to be strong enough to deal with what drives our desperation. life management. it's true around us as well. we have a president who says he never had to ask god for forgiveness. he won't admit when he's wrong. he won't admit what has to be done in a pandemic. he won't admit there's systemic racism. why? because he doesn't know how to manage negativity. he doesn't know how to manage pain except through denial. it's a mistake. it's weakness. here's the truth. you must deal with what disappoints. problems require owning them and managing them. feeling, communicating, coping, and thereby changing. life is pain management. because all of it is coming. and here's the biggest part of the lesson. if you don't learn pain management, you'll never appreciate the good that comes in life. because without the pain you don't understand the upside of the relief of when beautiful things and blessings come in your life. you squander the good moments worrying about the bad because you don't know how to manage

them because you're afraid of them. embrace them. we are all hurt. we are all imperfect. we are all in pain. manage it and your life will be better. we'll be right back.

all right. you know what time it is. "cnn tonight" with laura coates, the upgrade for d. lemon, who is probably swilling rose. >> and probably doing it fabulously, i might add. meanwhile, i'm freezing in a studio, shivering with a cup of hot water, but it's okay, it's okay. it's fine. i'm not going to complain about it. you know, i'm just loving your life lessons and it's always so nice to hear people be so reflective and introspective, especially for you to touch on things i know matter to so many people. i got to tell you, it's what i needed to hear to calm myself down from that brittany gilliam interview you had. let me tell you, i have a 6-year-old.