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top house republicans silent on marjorie taylor greene's comments comparing mask mandates to the holocaust. that coming amidst a surge of anti-semitic attacks across the country. plus researchers in wuhan were so sick in november 2019 they had to be hospitalized raising questions about how the pandemic began. we'll get the latest on the country facing global condemnation after what is being called a state sponsor hijacking of a commercial plane. i want to bring in now senior white house correspondent john harwood and charlie dent. gentlemen, lots to get to. good evening. let's start with charlie. state republicans planning to if i will bustter january 6th commission built. meanwhile marjorie taylor greene comparing mask mandates to the slaughter of 6 million jews. i've already played her appalling comments and i don't want to do it again. how do you explain the deafening
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silence from all about a few republicans? >> now is the time for them to speak up. i mean, this was offensive, ignorant, outrageous, and frankly, unsurprising given the source. this is when we were talking about jewish space lasers. it is long past time that they finally condemn her. i said when she was nominate last august, that the gop at that time, kevin mccarthy should have said she would not be welcome into the house republican conference and she would not be seated on committees, and that they would work to defeat her in the primary in 2022. they should have done it then. they have time now. they can do it now. they can throw her out of conference once and for all. i saw your previous segment with jonathan swan where marjorie taylor greene's image ratings were supposedly higher among gop voters than liz cheney and mitch mcconnell. which is beyond depressing.
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it is horrifying. peter meyers spoke up yesterday on one of the sunday shows about taylor greene and condemned her. we need to hear from the rest of them. more than 200 of them. >> yeah. is the gop strategy heading into 2022, let vile comments slide and push off truth telling? is that their strategy? >> their strategy is to avoid anything that risks the house in 2022. history says they have a good chance of doing that. the wind ought to be at their back. one question they have, will that trump base, the older white blue collar, evangelical voters that donald trump did so well in arousing, will they turn out when he is not on the ballot? they lost in 2018. they lost the house, the two senate races in january. a lot of those voters believe and like the crazy stuff that marjorie taylor greene and people like her say. so republican leaders are not
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going to risk alienating them by criticizing her. they're certainly not going to criticize donald trump. >> he's talked about evangelicals, and why would christians condone even if they're doing it, i don't know, if they're not implicitly doing it, why would they condone that sort of behavior and language from someone like greene or from what's his name? gates, or the lies that come out of donald trump's mouth? i know i've been asking that you question for the past four years. but i don't really get it. especially in you're an evangelical christian. are not you supposed to believe in values and the lord? >> well, because the particular christians we're talking about, as i am, older, blue collar, rural whites, are people who feel embattled, endangered in the country. they're people who feel they face more discrimination against
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them than african-americans do. they think that they see the democrats have won the popular votes seven of the last eight times. they see their power slipping away within the culture. their power slipping away politically, economically, so they're going to go to great lengths to try to hold on to that power. that's why a majority of the republicans in january told the enter enterprise institute, the traditional way of life is so endangered that we may need to use force to protect it. that's the mindset those people are in and marjorie taylor greene speaks to that. >> i wonder if the next question on the polling survey when they say, who faces more discrimination, you or black people, if the next question should be, now would you trade places with a black person? would you be black? i wonder what that answer would be. i owe you one, charlie.
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i have to get to the next guest. i want to bring in doni. you say marjorie taylor greene's disgusting comments about mask mandates fit the mold from what you're seeing online. >> these comments don't come out of the blue. we know marjorie taylor greene knows her way around some of the dark internet forums because she was a prominent peddler of the qanon conspiracy theory. what we're seeing since the early lockdown last year, we've seen a lot of rhetoric but really around vaccines, comparing the democrats to nazis, specifically both fauci and biden to hitler. anything to do with vaccines, lockdowns, masks, it is all being compared to naziism. one thing i found striking is in taylor greene's defense of her comments, she said she believed that any rational jewish person would agree with her comments
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about the holocaust. so we have a woman here who in 2018 claimed not that long ago, claimed it was jewish space lasers that were responsible for california wildfires. she is now claiming to speak for rational jewish people. >> yeah. there are so many places to go with that. i won't. is this nazi rhetoric flourishing because of the proliferation of hate? or? sort of strategy to incite violence? all the above? what is going on? >> i think what you're seeing is something donald trump was really good at. changing the meaning of words and phrases. you remember january 6th, there was literally a guy who walked through capitol, an insurrectionist, wearing a camp auschwitz sweater. there were actual neo-nazis, people with nazis sympathies
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there and even greene herself. in her past she's shared anti-semitic and extreme anti-muslim commentary. if you start calling everybody a nazi, if you start calling democrats a nazi, it takes away, it blunts the intention is to blunt the meaning of the phrase. then it becomes, we're all calling each other nazis. i will say, finally, a few weeks ago i was down in the villages in florida joults greene's events. there were democrats and republicans on either side of the street shouting at each other. one group was calling the other group pedophiles. the other group was calling the other communists. so you can sort of see the level of national discourse here is really sort of spewing from the internet into the real world. it is not a great thing to witness. >> it is also sad. i'm laughing because it is laughable. not that it's funny. thank you. good to see you.
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so this is something, look, i don't understand it. i don't get hate. i know it exists. i witness it. i'm sometimes the target of it. often the target of it but i don't get it. the anti-semitic attacks in this country, lies spreading online, fueling violence in the real world. this is real. nick has the story. i have to warn you, some of what you're about to see is really, really disturbing. >> reporter: boca raton, florida. hitler was right, scrolled on the side of a van as it passes a pro israel rally. in one week while this was happening in the middle east, the anti-defamation league found more than 17,000 tweets with variations on that horrific phrase. hitler was right. >> in the past you have a conflict and maybe you see vandalism at a synagogue.
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we've seen a blitz creigh of anti-jewish acts across the country. >> reporter: fueled by online bile and con conspiracy mongering. guess what, those unhinged d cd not spearial claims lead to real world jews. >> i was just surrounded by a crowd of people. >> he was wearing a cam. >> people are being attacked for looking visibly jewish. >> daylight, times square. cross ways of the world. joseph was surrounded by a crowd, he said shouted filthy jew. >> i was thrown to the ground, protecting my face, to do what i could. honestly my main thought was to survive at that point. >> the man seen hitting him with a crutch has been charged with a hate crime. the man said he has no problem doing this again. >> the nypd is now out in force.
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>> after this apparently anti-semitic attack outside a los angeles sushi restaurant, one man was arrested. lapd requested his bail be enhanced due to the crime being motivated by hate. >> somebody in the car driving by started throwing glass, bottles and cups. >> men got out and -- >> started running toward the tables and asking indiscriminately who is jewish? >> passions run high. that's okay. that's human. what is not okay is to take that out on innocent people, on groups of folks who are dining because of who they are. >> in london, four men were arrested after anti-semitic slogans were shouted from a pro palestinian convoy a week ago. >> one of the things that was amazing to jews in western ooup, then united states jews could be visibly jewish.
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>> i am now having american jews tell me this. they're afraid to walk outside wearing a jewish star necklace, or to be visibly identifiable as jewish. like that's chilling. >> cnn, los angeles. >> oh, thank you form report. let's bring in now michael masters, the national director and ceo of the secure community network for jewish ings institutions across the country. thank you for joining. an important conversation. so glad you're here. new york is increasing police patrols at synagogues, schools, other jewish facilities. is this an acknowledgement that the threat level is even higher than usual? >> well, i think as we saw in the reporting, we are seeing the increases at the current time. not nearly in hate speech post online or the vandalization of buildings but assaults on members of the jewish community. as we saw, a man walking down
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the street. friends enjoying a meal in l.a. a family leaving the synagogue. that heightened presence is an indicator that we're working very closely with state, local and federal law enforcement all the time. that increased police presence, that increased vigilance by the community is an indicator. we have to remember before covid-19, we had four deadly attacks on the jewish community in under 14 months starting with pittsburgh. and unfortunately as we're seeing things reopen, as the conflict in the middle east has occurred, we're seeing the numbers go up to even higher than they were before. which was historic. >> the violence between israel and hamas, there was a surge in anti-semitism on social media. what connection are you seeing between online activity and anti-semitic attacks in the u.s.?
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>> it's a great point. we've all seen the increase in anti-semitism online. it is not just in the dark deep recesses of the web. it is not there exclusively. we're seeing on it facebook, twitter, tiktok, instagram, our kids are being exposed to it. praises for hitler, calls for renewed holocaust. as we see that spike in online anti-semitism, we see a clear upward trend in calls for violence against members of the jewish community. those calls unfortunately result in people acting on them. so we're seeing that spike in anti-semitic activity which is resulting in those bottles being thrown, the fireworks being tossed, the assaults during to jewish people around the country. >> michael, look. i know you don't want to get political but i have to ask but this. when you see lawmakers making comments like when we saw from marjorie taylor greene about masks and comparing it to the
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holocaust. and realize people hear that and they believe it. what impact does that have? >> i think you know, the comment that any rational jewish person didn't like what happened in nazi germany may be the understatement of the decade. 6 million members of our community. but not just our community. 400,000 americans gave their lives. and i say that as a law enforcement professional and member of the united states marine corps. we lost 75 million people around the world to that conflict. so i don't think we should minimize it in any way. what we see across the board is often a normalization of activity. we saw in it charlottesville. we saw people marching in polo shirts? khaki pants shouting, jews will not replace us. so i think we have to be very careful that normalization of statements like that, equating events where people's lives are lost, taken where genocide
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occurs, to other activity. that is politics and we don't need slogans right now. we need solutions to deal with the violence during on our streets and in our communities. >> very well said. thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us here. >> thank you. u.s. intel finding several researchers in wuhan were sick enough to be hospitalized in november 2019. what were they sick with? what does that tell us about the origins of the pandemic? a live report from china, next. >> i think that we should continue to investigate what went on in china until we find out to the best of our ability exactly what happened. at carvana, we treat every customer like we would treat our own moms, with care and respect. to us, the little things are the big things. which is why we do everything in our power to make buying a car an unforgettable experience. happy birthday. thank you. we treat every customer like we would treat our own moms.
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china reported its first case on november 8th. dave culver is live for us in shanghai. good evening to you. this report raises so many critical questions about the origins of this pandemic. what else can you tell us? >> reporter: it is really disturbing, don, to think not only these research here's worked within the woo handle institute of virology, the high level lab within the city which this outbreak was first detected were sickened, but also now through this intel, the severity of their illnesses. just how sick they were. suggesting they had to go to the hospital. so we don't know exactly what they had. part of that could be because going back to that time, november 2019, we didn't have the testing for covid-19. and the chinese likely did not have the testing at that time. however, what it does do is it challenges the time line and the narrative that has come out from chinese officials here suggesting the virus really didn't start until december 2019
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in wuhan, and spread not from a lab but rather in the seafood market. that was, if you remember, the initial ground zero, if you will, which we visited several times, that the chinese officials closed, wiped clean and really put a lot of focus on. this lab origin theory now getting a lot through the u.s. officials, through intel, it is not just the u.s. though. it is u.k. officials and european leaders who are likewise suggesting this is a possible origin that needs to be further investigated. >> the former fda commissioner doctor pointing out that there is at lot of circumstantial evidence that it originated in the lab. you visited wuhan, to the lab in question. take us behind the scenes. what was that like? >> going to wuhan is always an interesting experience. i've gone three times since the outbreak. what we saw the most recent time we went, january of this year,
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one year after the outbreak was widespread in its reporting and one year since the lockdown, is that we were followed closely and even as we drove by here, as you're seeing the wuhan institute of virology, we had people following us in vehicles, like will government officials. not interfering with our reporting but certainly wanting tons what we were doing. as you look at the institute of virology which is the heavy focus for this possible origin theory, you notice it it is well fortified. it has a lot of security. i was trying to get out of door and get in and it was simply not possible. we made a lot of requests to speak to the researchers, to speak to the director, to get access ourselves. that hack denied repeatedly. >> all right. thank you very much. we appreciate you joining us. a plane flies from one democracy to another only to be forcibly diverted by a dictator and passengers dragged off. plus a former nba star turned
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so imagine you're sitting on a may not maybe heading to visit family or on a vacation you've been planning when suddenly your flight is forced to land in a foreign country where intelligence personnel grab your girlfriend or family and throw them in prison. that's what happened in belarus this weekend in what is called a state sponsored hijacking. it was making its flight to
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lithuania was forced to land in belarus, supposedly because of a security threat. when the plane landed, the activist was taken off the plane, place in the custody. now they said that e.u. airlines say they won't fly over belarus until he is set free. so joining me to discuss all of this, to explain what it means, richard quest, our business editor at large, and the columnist for the "washington post." good evening to both of you. richard, let's start with you. the president of the united states is condemning belarus calling the diversion and arrest a direct affront to international norms. have we seen anything like the before? >> no, is the short answer. that's why in an editorial tomorrow morning, the new york tlims say that the president of belarus has gone too far this time. i'm sure somebody can dredge up some incident and there have been certainly times when civil aviation has been felled and
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risked, but this naked, open, blatant, brazen, running out of adjectives to describe. this is the equivalent of flying from boston down to, say, miami in terms of distance and the name of flight, holiday flight, and then being diverted for no good reason to a dictatorship country where you're then told, the passengers, by the way, three other passengers didn't fly on when the plane left minsk. they are believed to be belarusian kgb, secret service, that have followed roman down in greece. so this is a nasty, squall i had, potentially exceptionally dangerous situation, which, don, is why tonight, the e.u. has maintained the strong measures it has. it won't be enough. >> you have a column out where you write that how this is just the latest sign that autocrats
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are feeling empowered to break with international norms. >> this is a very dangerous trend which we've seen going on for a number of years. in some ways, recalling the 1930s, where now these dictatorships all over the world feel empowered to break international law with impugnity. you've had russia which has invaded georgia and excrimea in'58ed ukraine. you've had china which is an aggressor in the south china sea. you have russia carrying out operations in western europe to kill western defectors and dissidents. you have iran. it goes on and on. what you're seeing is a breakdown of international law and order and you have this petty two-bit dictator, alexander look shenko who feels like he can get away with something like this. this blatant act of air piracy
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because he sees them getting away with even greater attacks on their neighbors and the rule of law. >> let's lean into this a little more. you heard what max just said. talking about numerous countries with dictatorships here. there is a push for airlines to avoid flying over belarus now. should people be afraid of this happening now? especially if they're in no real consequences. >> that is the point, don. will it happen again, no. is it going to sort of, do i need to be concerned getting on a plane tomorrow? no. but future safety will only be guaranteed by the measures taken now. that's why the u.s. transportation center, pete buttigieg said tonight in a statement, there must be an immediate international trans apparently and credible investigation of this incident. so the e.u. is putting on sanctions on the bell rusian officials. they are stopping the overflight
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of belarus. they are stopping belarusian airline from flying to the e.u. or flying over. as long as belarus gets support from russia and russia has already said, this was well done on him for coming up with this. and i'm not paraphrasing far from what they said. as long as russia is prepared to condone their henchmen upstart, luke shenko, then we're in real trouble. >> max, the man they detained is a journalist who covered the police violence at a recent protest. then there is a video release on pro government social media where he appears to confess to organizing riots through their concerns are that this might have been forced. that it was some sort of a hostage video. how dire are his prospects? >> i mean, they're pretty dire. it has been widely reported that
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before he was taken off the airplane was saying, it's a legitimate concern. people do die that way. it is really chilling. it is like something out of the stalinist show trials of the 1930s where he is confessing these imaginary crimes and he seems to have bruises on his face. you can just imagining what is happening to this poor guy. we have to make sure that he is going to suffer dire consequences for this behavior going beyond what he said today. we need to support the democracy movement. the civil society movement in belarus. they need on get rid of this guy had has been in power for 27 years and it is becoming more and more abusive. thank you. that's all the time we have. he said it was racism.
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report his camera footage in the evidence submitted to the district attorney. that is according to a spokesperson for the louisiana state police. lieutenant john cleary's body camera and dash cameras with among nine videos released by police late last week after some clips of body cam footage from the incident were obtained by the associated press. the video shows the moments leading up to greene's death. some show him being tased, kicked, and dragged by officers. remember, the initial police report, crash report, made no mention of troopers using forceful and greene's family says they were told by police that he died in a car accident. we'll stay on top of the investigation. we'll keep you updated on everything we learned about what happened that night. so stay tuned. i want to turn to the former nba player and basketball hall of famer who says that he was turned away from a restaurant because of the color of his skin. dominique wilkins, vice president for the nba team the atlanta hawks, said he was turned away from a restaurant in atlanta over the weekend adding that he has never before faced
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prejudice when dining out. he joins me now. good evening. it's been a while. >> it's been a while, man. good to see you. it's been a long time. unfortunate to come on -- yeah, yeah, absolutely, man. unfortunately we have to come talk about something like this. it was very unfortunate that i had to experience that with a friend of mine. >> let me explain the story before you go into that. so at first, the restaurant told you, no tables were available. then you said you were -- they said that you were not dressed fashionably enough. okay. so now tell me what happened. >> well, first of all, we were going through restaurant. when we went through door there were two or three people in the front. they looked us up and down and sized us up. it was kind of strange. i said we on like the sit down
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outside and have lunch. and they looked me up and down again and said we don't have any reservations available. i'm looking outside, it's lunch time, 1:00, and there are a ton of tables outside, empty. so we would said this doesn't make sense. i'm dressed better than most of the guys in there. had a nice below the shirt long cargo black pants with nice sneakers. to the left of me there were three white guys with shorts, t-shirts and sneakers. and them, give me a minute. we'll seat new second. and i am, well, there doesn't make essential. you have all these tables. we don't have anything available. and he said, we're trying to keep a level of elegance in our restaurant so we can't seat you. so i left. my girlfriend went back and said, mr. wilkins, what is your criteria of dress code? he was dressed better than most of the people in here. so he was not in sweatpants or whatever you want to call it.
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it is clear, clear act of discrimination. and so i was just blown away that they turned me away. they were very, very nasty. >> you're dominique wilkins. you're a legend in atlanta. but it's true. and i think that any restaurant in the atlanta area, i'm being honest, should know who the hell dominique wilkins is. i'm sorry. that's the truth. >> but it shouldn't happen -- >> you're right. i get that. it shouldn't happen to anybody. but still, that was on the staff of probably young people who don't know their you know what from a you know what. the restaurant initially released a statement that focused on dress code. here's what it said. to protect our restaurant's culture, we installed a minimum standard in our business casual attire which includes jeans and sneakers but prohibit basketball caps, baseball cams and athletic clothing including sweat pants and tops. though the definition of casual
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is ever evolving, we strive to maintain our policy requirements daily but it isn't a perfect system. dress codes at restaurants. it can be tricky. it can be arbitrary. they can be enforced inconsistently for different people. so again, this shouldn't happen to anyone. i know you say, it didn't matter that you're dominique wilkins. it shouldn't happen to anyone. what did you think of this first response? >> first of all, i thought it was, wasn't a time of response that i thought was efficient because i think they lied a lot in that statement. they released the statement earlier today, basically apologizing for what happened. and now they want to make a lot of changes. the reason why i said, i felt like it was racism, because i'm seeing two or three white guys in shorts, t-shirts and sneakers. and you're not turning them away. and so it felt like back when i
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was in high school. i made a decision to further my education at the university of georgia. even though it is not the same, it felt the same. so it was very, very nasty. my friend went back and asked them, why did you do that? they said, you know, mr. wilkins -- they said we can't seat him. i have just never been -- the thing is discrimination has many different disguises. in this case, the disguise is through a dress code. i'm not the only case or the only person who had this time of thing happen. this has been a trend. hopefully, i'm hoping they learn from this and that they can get some diversity and equality training on guard against this. what we do as far as people dealing with needs, with inclusion. it has to be addressed and we address those things right now. these are the things we do and that is just mind-boggling to me
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at this day in the world, we have to deal with this time of stuff. >> i'm sorry that happened to you. i respect you and love you a lot. i miss seeing knew atlanta. what i do miss is the great seats we used to have when we were turner down there. listen, thank you. i appreciate that. i have to till, in full transparency, i know some of the folks who own the restaurant. and they should do better. and i think that they will do better after this. and i think that you're going to make that change happen. they are an upscale restaurant. there is one here, one in palm beach, one in atlanta. they will do better and i thank you for bringing light to this and thank you for joining us, okay? >> appreciate it, man. >> to talk to you. one year cynic george floyd's death rocked this country. has any progress been made since? w. kamau bell weighs in next.
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changed? what do you think? >> well, i mean, you know, we have had that conversation ever since derek chauvin was found guilty of those three charges. nothing has changed. you know, i mean, i think i feel good for george floyd's family, they got justice. but the ultimate justice would be he wouldn't be dead, in the first place. but we also know black men, many other black people, people of color, have been killed around this country, since that verdict. not even since george floyd was killed but since that verdict. so, nothing has changed. >> i want to put this poll up. it's from "axios." nearly seven in ten black-americans say police treatment has gotten worse, in the past year. that says a lot. >> yeah. i mean i think that's what tells you nothing has changed because perception is the reality. and, you know, as a black person walking through the streets. if you see a police officer, and the first thought that comes to your head is george floyd or some other black person you know who's been killed. that doesn't put you in an even playing field with the police officers. even if you don't have an interaction, it raises your blood pressure. >> yeah. and you look at what's happening in louisiana and other places.
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where you, all of a sudden, see this video coming out of police officers abusing people. >> let's be clear. all those -- think about all the videos that we couldn't see because they weren't on video. i mean, we have to remember that. if we are seeing, it seems like it's a lot. there is a lot we aren't even seeing. >> yeah. back in april, the president -- biden -- asked to have george floyd -- the george floyd justice in policing act passed by the anniversary of george floyd's death. listen to this. >> we need to work together to find a consensus. but let's get it done, next month, by the first anniversary of george floyd's death. the country supports this reform. and congress should act. should act. >> well, that is tomorrow. the bill is stalled. it's important we get this reformed, on a national level. so, how important is that? versus, what local-police departments or governments want to do? >> i mean, of course, we want
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that to pass. but i think, the problem is we have to have -- last summer, there was a lot of pressure from the people to change things. but once the pressure goes away, the -- the -- the want for the political will to change goes away. and as we know, america has a short memory. it forgets things, very easily. and so, we -- i mean, we can't even remember january 7th -- january 6th, at this point. i can't even remember what day it is. january 6th, at this point. we have a -- we have a problem holding a lot of things in our head. and so, a lot of people want to think things are changed because it was a year ago, and we're having an an aniversary but it really comes down to local-police departments really stepping up and changing the way they interact with the public. >> yeah. you got a restaurant in atlanta that won't let dominique wilkins. come on, man. >> and he still looks like dominique wilkins. he looks like he could dunk right now. >> can we talk about united shades? because you talk about the military in your next episode. and you say -- let's see -- you
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talk about looking at issues in justice -- active-duty troops. ted cruz put a tweet saying military has been emasculated. what do you think about that? >> that says -- it's a lot coming from a guy who i don't think ever served a day in the military. so we have this disconnect where we are supposed to support our troops and we are supposed to thank our troops for their service. and yet, even that tweet from ted cruz, he is telling the military that they don't know what they're doing. we're not respecting our troops. we're not supporting our troops. so we have a lot of republicans, mostly, talking about what the military should and shouldn't do, who have never served a day in the military and don't know what they are talking about. >> doesn't know his way around the military but he knows his way around cancun! >> yeah. >> thanks, w, i appreciate it. be sure to tune in. an all-new episode of "united shades of america" with w. kamau bell airs sunday night at 10:00 p.m. only here on cnn.
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