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new details tonight on a shocking story we were first to report on last night. the mother of ronald greene, a black motorist who died during an encounter with louisiana state police two years ago, speaking out right here on don lemon tonight. the family was told at the time that greene died in a car accident, but police body cam video is now out, and it proves that's not true. the video shows greene was tased, kicked and dragged by officers before he died in custody. greene's mom saying this to me just moments ago.

>> when we first heard the news, it was two or three days after we got there. and at that time they told us that ronnie was in a high-speed chase. the car crashed into a tree, and he went through the windshield, died of head injuries. but right before then, we found out that through the coroner at the time, she told us that ronnie was being taken out of state for his autopsy. and it was right then and there that we saw it was going to be basically a cat-and-mouse game. they were running us all over the place. also tonight, senate republicans lining up behind minority leader mitch mcconnell, opposing the creation of an independent commission to investigate the deadly insurrection at the capitol on january 6th. so i want to turn now to the gop effort to bury the truth of the insurrection. joining me now, cnn political commentator amanda commentator,

and brendan buck, the former top aide to paul ryan and john boehner. this is really important stuff, and, you know, amanda, i've made the commitment on the show to continue to talk about the insurrection and what happened on january 6th because it is important to our democracy. several republican senators, including john thune and mike rounds are admitting tonight that they're going to vote against the january 6th commission because it's not good for the 2022 campaigns. amanda, people died. voters were brutally assaulted. our capitol was ransacked and they're not even pretending to care about anything besides the next election. what the hell? >> i mean i think you have to call this what it is. we are watching the cover-up of the big lie in all the deadly, dangerous, consequences of it. you know, this was always going to be a tough vote for these republicans because a vote for the commission is essentially a vote to investigate themselves, or at least their colleagues.

and i was very surprised at how upfront that john thune was, saying that he didn't want to support it because of the midterm elections. but i do want to be optimistic here because a commission is going to happen in one way or another, and there were 35 republicans who said, yes, we want to look into this. and so if senate republicans don't want to get onboard with a bipartisan commission where they could have a hand in saying who would be on it and have a say for how it would go, fine. nancy pelosi can look back later and chuck schumer can say, you had your chance. we're doing this on our own. and, don, i believe in my heart that there are people in the trump administration who are horrified about what they saw and have information and would be willing to talk. >> brendan, amanda just mentioned the 35 house republicans who voted for this bill. trump is going after them now. he's calling this -- i should say this commission. he's calling them weak and

ineffective. how much of this is playing into the senate republicans' decision-making tonight, you think? >> yeah, it's hard to suggest that it's not. the president seems to be putting out statements like this in greater frequency, reminding people that he's watching. you know, i talked to a number of folks around the senate. their theory of the case here is that if they don't have a commission, this will help their effort to move on. they're worried that if there's a commission and it rolls out with a report in 2022, they're going to be forced to talk about donald trump when that's not what they want to talk about. here's the folly in that. you're always going to end up talking about donald trump. if it's not this, it's something else. i can tell you as someone who was next to paul ryan all through 2016, 2017, 2018, he's always going to be there. you can't avoid him. so the idea you're going to escape what happened is folly, so you might as well get to the truth here. i think there are enough senate

republicans who actually believe what happened on that day is a disgrace and is worth exploring. i am holding out hope that there are still ten republicans that if there were some revisions, they will be able to get to a place where they can find a bipartisan path ahead. i really think that there's still a chance to do it. >> and, amanda, in a really disgusting and childish and very transparent attempt at name-calling and, you know, trying to change really the subject here, sort of, mccarthy is calling this the pelosi commission. >> yeah. >> i mean, a blatant attempt to rile up the base and trying to turn this heinous attack on our capitol into a partisan talking point. it's embarrassing. >> yeah. i mean, a lot here is embarrassing. but i mean mccarthy is one of the people that would be a witness to very critical information because he talked to the president as the riot was unfolding, as people in the capitol were begging for help,

as the national guard waited, idling on the sidelines for more than three hours. i mean there are huge questions. so, yes, he wants to turn this into a partisan cudgel. but we have to take a second and look at how dumb these arguments are. when john thune goes to the camera and these are other messengers say, we want to move on from donald trump out of one side of their mouths and out of the other side of their mouths saying, well, of course he's still the republican party, that is just incompatible. that doesn't make sense. if the democrats can't make that a big issue, that they're covering up for the big lie, they still want to have all the upside of donald trump, they still want his coalition, then that's political malpractice. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. i have to get to some of the breaking news now. i want to get to this breaking news on the raid of rudy giuliani's home and office. we're learning investigators seized 18 electronic devices from giuliani and multiple people who worked for him. so cnn's senior legal analyst elie honig joins me now.

elie, thank you for helping me out on this breaking news. federal prosecutors are revealing tonight that the searches of giuliani and his ally, victoria toensing, were part of a multi-year grand jury investigation into conduct involving giuliani, and others. does this show this investigation goes much deeper than we knew? >> it does, don. i think that's the most interesting revelation from this new paperwork, which is that the southern district of new york, federal prosecutors have had an ongoing grand jury investigation of rudy giuliani dating at least back to 2019. also we learned that back in 2019, the sdny got a search warrant. we know that they searched his home and apartment three weeks ago, but now we know they also got a search warrant for his icloud back in 2019. and of course, don, in order to get a search warrant, prosecutors have to be able to show probable cause that a kcrie was committed and that when they search rudy giuliani's icloud,

they'll find evidence of a crime. so this is a broader investigation than we had previously known. >> prosecutors now have their hands on 18 electronic devices from these searches. you said they're going into the icloud, what have you, but what kind of information are they looking for here? >> yeah, don. phones are just treasure troves of evidence in today's world. when i first started as a prosecutor, when you would do a search warrant, you would sort of measure the scope of it by number of boxes. oh, we took 28 boxes out of that office. now it's all about phones. and if you think about what's on a phone, emails, texts, we know rudy used encrypted apps to communicate with people. you could have financial records on there, photographs on there. and we know that rudy giuliani, even though he served as donald trump's cybersecurity adviser, i don't think anyone takes that seriously. we know he's not at all sophisticated. he's sort of a notorious pocket dialer, so i would not bet on him having been secure in the way he used his phones.

i would be willing to bet they will find a lot of useful information on those devices. >> that's being generous, pocket dialer. thank you very much, elie honig. also tonight, president biden signing an anti-asian hate crime bill into law after a surge of violence since the start of the pandemic. an 84-year-old grandfather in the bay area brutally assaulted on the street. he later died from his injuries. a 65-year-old asian woman punched and kicked in new york city and 6 asian women among those killed at atlanta-area spas. and there have been countless other horrific attacks against asian-americans. now i want to bring in democratic congresswoman grace meng of new york. she introduced the anti-asian hate crime bill president biden signed today. representative, thank you so much. this is important. i'm glad you're here to discuss it with us. many asian-americans are feeling terrorized in this country over the past years. how will this law help? >> sure. well, thank you so much, don, for having me and for covering

this issue. we're really excited that president biden has really shown support and concern and has heard the cries of the asian-american community for over the past year. this legislation would help not just the asian-american community but really any community who is a victim of any sort of bias incident, and just to collect data. most jurisdictions in this country are reporting zero hate crimes to the federal government, and we really can't fix what we don't know. >> you were at the white house today when the president signed this bill into law. this is part of what he said. >> every time we're silent, every time we let hate flourish, we make a lie of who we are as a nation. i mean it literally. we cannot let the very

foundation of this country continue to be eaten away like it has been at other moments in our history and happening again. >> there's a recent study out of cal state university. it finds that hate crimes against asians are up 164% since this time last year in america's major cities. how do we get to the root cause of that hatred, and how do we stop it, representative? >> well, i do want to be clear that this legislation, while it's a very important and necessary step, is just one piece of the puzzle. we do have a long road ahead. one issue that i believe is important is also talking about mental health. a large percentage of the perpetrators, at least in my home city of new york, suffered from mental health issues. so our government needs to invest more robustly in programs, mental health

programs. also education. we're working on legislation actually with the black/hispanic caucus and native american americans to diversify our curriculum in this country. there's too much history that our students don't learn about. i didn't learn enough about the chinese exclusion act, japanese incarceration camps, slaves building the u.s. capitol, the very place where i work every day. and to break down the walls of biases and stereotypes, we need a more complete teaching of what american history is. >> i'm so glad that you mentioned that because of what i've noticed. and i live here in new york as well. and you watch the local reports, and you see some of the suspects or the perpetrators, and there are people who have mental health problems. and that really needs to be dealt with on top of the hate. so thank you for mentioning that. i don't understand how anyone can be against anti-hate crime legislation, but these 63 republicans actually voted

against this bill. why do you think that is? >> oh, don, i don't have enough energy to try to explain why the josh hawleys of the world can't support this type of bipartisan legislation. republicans, many of them, we have found, are trying to rewrite history or erase history if it doesn't happen to fit their creative narrative. >> i hate to interrupt. let me just read to you, since you mentioned josh hawley, and i'll let you pick up. senator hawley says it turns the government into the speech police. i mean what kind of speech does he want to be able to have? go on and finish your statement, but i just wanted to put that out. that's what he said. it turns the federal government into the speech police. >> yeah. well, this is exactly what we're seeing. you know, when we passed a symbolic resolution condemning bigotry last year in congress, the leader of the republican

members, kevin mccarthy, said that no one in america was talking about anti-asian bigotry in this country. and so whether it's him, whether it's josh hawley trying to rewrite history, not really being responsive to their constituents' concerns, whether it's the january 6th commission to find out the truth and to protect people who work in the capitol, we have seen that they're just trying to erase and rewrite their own history. >> it's really interesting. do you think this bill got wrapped into the gop strategy of turning everything into a culture war? >> well, i don't know. look, i just know that the community has been suffering for over a year, battling two types of viruses, also wanting to make sure that we are continuing the allyship, existing and expanding allyship between so many communities as we stand in

solidarity against hate and racism. and so we're glad that president biden took quick action, not just words but decisive action to push back against bigotry. >> again, i thank you for coming on the program, and i thank you for doing what you did with this bill. you be well, representative meng. >> thank you. disturbing new developments tonight in the shocking story we were first to report on last night. videos out showing a black man, ronald greene, dying after being kicked, dragged, and tased by louisiana state troopers after a high-speed chase. his family said police initially told them he died in a car crash. and this is far from the first time that what police said didn't match what we saw on videos.

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when we were there, we were lied to in our faces, and they allowed us to continue to go our ways, knowing that nothing was going to be done. that deceit, we already know what the state troopers done. but on all those above them, that's -- that's really painful. >> we have seen it time and time again. cases where black americans die in encounters with police officers. the video tells the real story, though. here's cnn's josh campbell. >> reporter: george floyd, walter scott, breonna taylor, laquan mcdonald, just a few of the names of black people dying at the hands of police officers. police whose initial narratives were found to be inaccurate once video surfaced telling the real story. the official police report documenting the arrest of george floyd simply stated, officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. officers called for an

ambulance. no mention of floyd being handcuffed with a knee on his neck for over nine minutes. walter scott, pulled over by police officer michael slager for a broken taillight in south carolina in 2015, was shot in the back five times. slager initially claimed he shot scott because he feared for his life after scott grabbed his taser. but video showed slager shooting him in the back from 17 feet away according to prosecutors, then dropping his taser by scott's body. >> but what we see again, time and time again, are officers punishing black folks who run, who don't comply, who don't comply quick enough. >> reporter: breonna taylor, a black emt, was shot and killed by louisville police officers in march of last year during a botched raid on her apartment. the initial police report stated there were no injuries and no forced entry. taylor was shot at least eight times, and police used a battering ram to execute their

no-knock warrant. in chicago, 17-year-old laquan mcdonald was shot in 2014 when he walked away from police on a side street while holding a knife. chicago officer jason van dyke initially said mcdonald raised a knife at him, but at no point on the video that was released over a year later was mcdonald seen lifting the knife in the manner van dyke described. >> the length of time it took to release the tape, the lying in the initial reports by the officers, all these things, that's part of a cover-up. >> reporter: without the emergence of eyewitness cell phone video and the public release of body cam footage, these officers' stories would remain the final word. and, don, we know that that incident in louisiana involving the death of ronald greene after that police encounter is currently under investigation by the justice department civil rights division as well as the fbi. we hope to get greater fidelity on what exactly transpired there. now, it's worth pointing out that that is just the latest example of a situation that's raising serious questions when

you compare what police initially said with what is later seen on video. it's also worth pointing out that in the united states, there are still police departments that do not require officers to wear body cameras. and even in those instances where someone dies in police custody and an officer was wearing a camera, it can sometimes be months or even years before that video is seen publicly. don. >> josh campbell, thank you so much. this isn't a one-off. it's over and over and over again. how do we stop police from whitewashing what happened? that conversation is next.

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crash during an encounter with louisiana state police two years ago. but now we can see for ourselves what happened. the associated press releasing three segments of the original video, which it says is 46 minutes long. now, we don't know what happened before, and cnn has not viewed the video in full. and i have to warn you, though, this is disturbing. >> get on the ground! >> get on the ground. >> taser, taser, taser. [ screaming ] >> put your hands behind your back. put your hands behind your back. put your hands behind your back. >> goddamn it, get up here. >> you better not move. [ moaning ] >> got it?

>> you all right? >> joining me now to discuss this is phillip atiba goff, the president and co-founder of the center for policing equity. and captain ron johnson, formerly with the missouri state highway patrol. gentlemen, thank you for joining. i wish i could see you under better circumstances. difficult to watch that video. phillip, i'm going to start with you. we saw ronald greene tased, beaten, dragged in shackles by his feet. the police report says greene was taken into custody after resisting arrest and a strug of with troopers. a short time later greene became unresponsive and was transported to glenwood medical center. greene died while en route to glenwood medical center.

it's outrageous. does this show there was a cover-up from the very beginning? >> so i just -- i have to put this into context. there's not one officer there who gets scared and says, oh, wow, look at what i did. i better cover this up. there are multiple officers, and this is the official report of the police department for two full years. you can't call that a mistake. you can't call that sort of one individual bad officer. this is absolutely a conspiracy to conceal the violence that produced death. there's no other way to look at it. and when it's been held out of public eye for two full years, who the heck feels comfortable calling the police to keep them safe in that community? >> captain johnson, this happened two years ago. the public only seeing this video because it was leaked. who controls the release of these body cam videos, and what needs to change to expose this

kind of behavior? >> well, i think when we talk about culture, this defines that because it's not just about those officers that were there on the scene. it's about those administrators, that upper management of that agency because they're the ones that have to review that. they have to be the ones that send that report through. but they're also the ones that decide what's going to be released. >> mm-hmm. >> so when we talk about culture in our country, this is what our community and country talks about. >> again, this is the a.p. video. cnn does not have the original video. we don't know what happens in between the portions of the video that they released. 46 minutes. this was only a short portion of that video. but, captain, why police departments -- why are they allowed to decide to make that decision? isn't there an inherent conflict of interest? what's the whole point of wearing body cam video if you decide how transparent you're going to be about releasing that video? >> you're absolutely right, and

i think that's why you hear throughout the country people talk about we need some national policies. so it's just not enough to say that we're going to have you wear a camera. but in some cases we're seeing that we're not seeing the video. and in some cases we may never see all of the video. so there has to be some national policy here that puts some mandates on that so we can have transparency and start creating trust. >> phillip atiba goff, all these stories, ronald greene, george floyd, breonna taylor, the police reports were clearly deacceptive or just flat-out lives. when i read the george floyd, i was like, what incident are they talking about? was there something else that happened at the cup foods because this doesn't resemble anything of what we saw on video. how are police allowed to get away with this? isn't there an oversight or investigation, especially after a death? >> yeah, you would think so. but unfortunately oftentimes the investigation is done by police officers who have served with those exact same officers.

we ask police to investigate themselves, and that's why you can have police who shoot tamir rice inside of two seconds of getting out of the car, but the formal report says, oh, i warned him three times please drop the weapon, so i reasonably feared for my life. that's where you can have a d.a. in elizabeth city -- decided that nothing bad is going to happen to these officers. you deon't need to know. just trust us. the investigations are by the people engaged in the crime entirely too often. there's nowhere in the united states now that whole communities can trust it's going to be done right. >> we lost your audio, a little glitch there for a second, but we got it corrected for now. let's see. fi fingers crossed. captain johnson, two officers still on the job after being

reprimanded. one faced a suspension for manipulating a body cam. is that -- >> they've already made their decision. i think like the other guest talked about, police are policing themselves and doing their own investigation. in some cases, that shouldn't be. >> thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate it. i'll see you soon. white men increasingly invoking cancel culture when it's not about that at all. why they're trying to cling to the woke wars, next. dark spots away. new neutrogena® rapid tone repair 20 percent pure vitamin c. a serum so powerful dark spots don't stand a chance. see what i mean? neutrogena®

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are straight white men being silenced by so-called woke culture? what conservatives like to call cancel culture? that's the claim of podcast host joe rogan who by the way has an audience of millions. but is it really just a case of feeling threatened by the growing diversity of america? more tonight from cnn's chief media correspondent brian stelter. >> reporter: joe rogan has come a long way from eating roaches on "fear factor," but he's still good at making people shriek. >> you can never be woke enough. that's the problem. >> reporter: the podcast host causing days of chatter by saying straight white men are the targets of woke culture.

>> it will eventually get to straight white men are not allowed to talk. >> right. >> because it's your privilege to express yourself when other people of color have been silenced throughout history. >> reporter: cue another day of the woke wars. it's an awakening about racial and social justice to some but an overreaction to others. what is consequence cull ture f some is cancel culture to others. rogan blaming wokeness for altering the comedy landscape. >> can you make a good comedy movie anymore, or have they made it so dangerous in terms of like being canceled that comedy movies are no longer something you can do? >> reporter: then predicting more backlash towards straight white men in the future. >> it will be you're not allowed to go outside because so many people were imprisoned. >> reporter: think he's just joking? >> i'm not joking. it really will get there. it's that crazy. >> reporter: crazy indeed. but these arguments from the likes of rogan, bill maher, and tucker carlson are worth

analyzing because these issues sway voters. rogan's podcast draws millions of downloads, and his deal with spotify is reportedly worth $100 million plus. yet. >> i'm not a doctor. i'm a [ bleep ] moron. >> reporter: there rogan basically said don't listen to me after arguing that young healthy people don't need the coronavirus vaccine. but millions do listen. he's been accused of spreading conspiracy theories and spotify has even pulled some of his old interviews due to controversies. but that's clearly part of his appeal along with unpredictability. rogan has shown he is not one to be pigeonholed into an ideology. >> i think i'll probably vote for bernie. >> reporter: interviewing liberal figures along with those on the far right and pushing back on conservative figures who might seem like his allies. >> how much of that 18-year-old kid today deciding to pick up a gun and shoot somebody is based on him growing up in this

[ bleep ]-up environment where that's what he modeled? >> the answer is there's only one way to break that chain. >> what way is na? >> not to pick up a gun and shoot somebody. >> that's a simplistic way of looking at it if you're on the outside of that community. >> reporter: leading his millions of listeners to have to tune in for what he will say next. as for his recent comments, on one level it's just comical, hearing this rich and famous guy express worries that even though he's paid to talk for a living, he's going to be silenced in the future. but he's not the only one talking that way. this fear about woke culture, about an overreaction, is pervasive, especially in right wing media. it's worth scratching at to find out what's going beneath the surface. >> let discuss now with w. kamau bell, host of "united shades of america." let me just say this, kamau. i do honestly think that there is a legitimate discussion about, you know, so-called woke culture going too far.

i think there's a good discussion about that. i don't disagree with everything that rogan says. where he lost me was the straight white male part because, you know, america. so many people want to fall back on the cancel culture argument when it's really about asking them to consider why something may be offensive to someone else. so why do people get so up in arms when they are asked to consider another person's history? that's the part that i want to know. >> yeah. i mean i think that we're living in an era where, you know, straight white men have had an unimpeded access to the public microphone for most of the history of this country. now there's more public microphones for people to talk into. but brian's piece, entertaining, but it sort of unmade its own argument by the fact that we're talking about rogan, bill maher, and tucker carlson, some of the most successful broadcasters in america, who are all rich. >> and straight and white. >> and straight and white.

so to me, it's like rogan had that podcast for years. i've done his podcast a couple times. for years he could talk about how he didn't believe in the moon landing. he had conspiracy theorist guests on regularly, and nobody paid attention. what rogan is now understanding is $100 million makes more people pay attention. >> i just can't believe that, you know, all one has to do, look at the press conference that was had today by the republican leadership. it was all straight white dudes and, you know, according to matthew dowd, make up 30% of the population but hold 80% of the political power and leadership in this country. i'm trying to figure out the whole straight white male, being canceled when they're on tv every night talking about how much they are being canceled. i mean am i wrong?

>> who's been canceled? who hasn't been canceled for either committing a crime or encouraging violence or regularly putting out information that is harmful? who's been cancel because i didn't like that one thing that person said? who's that person who's been canceled? who's the straight white man who can't talk anymore? i rest my case. >> i haven't -- i haven't -- i can't think of one. i'm picking up what you're putting down. so let's talk about this week's episode of united shades on sunday night at 10:00, which i watch every sunday night. if i don't get there, then i dvr it. you take a look at the wealth gap. so let's listen. >> you've got millionaires upon millionaires moving here and buying second homes. >> the thing about charleston, people that work in charleston

can't afford to live in charleston. >> they just met today, but each of them has a story that represents millions of americans, many of whom are millennials just like them. >> let me take a moment to officially apologize to millennials on behalf of every generation older than you. sorry. people love to call millennials lazy and soft when in resident every older generation does that to the generation coming up. i know because it happened to my generation. slackers. >> well, your generation -- i mean that was true about you. you're laying there on the couch. >> gen x. i think you're an elder gen x compared to me, though. >> so anyways, you went to south carolina to learn about the roots of america's inequality. what did you find out? >> you know, i mean we found out that the pandemic has sort of

brought everything into sharp relief. everything that we knew about wealth inequality has been made clearer through the pandemic because everybody who was struggling or on the edge has really been pushed over the edge through the pandemic. if there's ever a time we need to fix wealth inequality in the country it's right now because the only class of people that did well in the pandemic generally are the billionaires. >> you talk about wealth inequality. listen, when you're in this business you meet some really wealthy people, and you're like, oh, you're rich rich. there's a wealth that i couldn't even understand as a child growing up in baton rouge, louisiana. like, oh, you have that much money where you just have a plane that takes you wherever you want like i have a car that i have to drive. >> and let's be clear about that. there's a point at which you have so much money that you're not putting it back into the economy. >> yeah. >> you're just like a hoarder who is hoarding magazines or cat

skeletons. which is why mcdonnell companies -- please pay the employees better so that we can put the money back into the economy. >> there are some very generous wealthy people, but amen to what you're saying. you're exactly right. thank you, w. kamau bell. don't get canceled now. i'm younger than you by the way. >> sure. sure. >> post-truth society. thank you so much. i appreciate it. be sure to tune in to all new episodes of "united shades of america" with w. kamau bell. that's sunday 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific only on cnn. we'll be right back.

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♪ hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up here on "cnn news newsroom", after 11 days of deadly fighting there is finally a ceasefire between israel and hamas. we're live in jerusalem with the very latest. disturbing new video of a black man who died after being dragged, cuffed and tasered by