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top house republicans silent tonight on marjorie taylor greene's appalling comments comparing mask mandates to the holocaust. that coming amid a surge in anti-semitic attacks across the country. plus intel that several researchers in wuhan were so sick in november 2019 they had to be hospitalized, raising questions about how the pandemic began. we're going to get the latest on the country facing global condemnation after what's being called a state-sponsored hijacking of a commercial plane.

i want to bring in now cnn white house correspondent john harwood and former republican congressman charlie dent. gentlemen, thank you. lots to get to. let's start with charlie. state republicans planning to filibuster the january 6th commission bill, charlie. 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 silence from all but a few -- a handful of republicans? >> well, now is the time, don, for them to speak up. i mean this was offensive, ignorant, outrageous, and frankly unsurprising given the source. this is the woman who gave us talk about jewish space lasers. look, it's long past time that they finally condemn her. i said when she was nominated 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 and defeat her in the primary in 2022. they should have done it then. now they have time. they can do it now. they can throw her out of the conference once and for all. i saw your previous segment, don, too, with jonathan swan, where marjorie taylor greene's image ratings supposedly were higher among gop voters than liz cheney and mitch mcconnell, which is beyond depressing. it's horrifying. peter meyers spoke up very eloquently 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. john, is the gop strategy heading into 2022 let vile comments slide and push out the truth-tellers? is that their strategy? >> their strategy, don, is to avoid anything that risks their chances of winning the house in 2022. history says they've got a very good chance of doing that.

the wind ought to be at their back. but one question they have is 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's not on the ballot? they lost in 2018. they lost the house. they lost 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 going to risk alienating them by criticizing her, and they're certainly not going to criticize donald trump. >> you know, you talked about evangelicals, john. why would christians condone, you know, even if they're doing it -- i don't know f. they're not implicitly doing. why would they condone that behavior and language like someone from greene or from -- what's his name -- gaetz or the

lies that come out of donald trump's mouth? i know i've been asking you that question for the past four years, but i don't really get it, especially if you're an veeck c evangelical christian. aren't you supposed to believe in values and the lord? >> well, because, don, the particular christians that we're talking about, as i said, older, blue-collar, rural whites are people who feel embattled and in danger in the country they feel more discrimination against them than african-americans do. they see the democrats have won the popular vote seven of the last eight times. they feel their power slipping away within the culture, their power slipping away politically, economically, and so they're going to go to great lengths to try to hold on to that power. that's why a majority of republicans in january told the american enterprise institute, the american way of life, the traditional way of life is so endangered that we may need to

use force to protect it. that's the mind-set 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 if -- i wonder what that answer would be. charlie, i owe you won. i got to run. thank you both. i appreciate it. i want to bring in cnn's donie o'sullivan. good to see you, my friend. you say marjorie taylor greene's disgusting comments comparing mask mandates to the holocaust fit the mold of what you're seeing from the far right online. talk to me about that. >> reporter: yeah, don. these comments don't come out of the blue. we know marjorie taylor greene knows her way around some of these dark internet forums because, of course, she was a prominent peddler of the qanon conspiracy theory.

what we've seen really since the early lockdown last year, we've seen a lot of rhetoric but really upping in the past few months around vaccines and whatnot, comparing the democrats to nazis and specifically both fauci and biden to hitler, imagery, anything to do with vaccines, lockdown, masks, it's all being compared to naziism. one thing, don, which 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 about the holocaust. so we have a woman here who in 2018 claimed that it was jewish space lasers that were responsible for california wildfires. she is now claiming to speak for rational jewish people. >> yeah, there's so many places to go with that, but i won't. is this nazi and holocaust-type rhetoric flourishing because of the rowproliferation of hate or

because of ignorance and lack of education, some sort of strategy to incite violence, all of the above? what is going on here? >> reporter: i think what you're seeing here is something donald trump was really good at, which was bastardizing and co-opting the meaning of, you know, words and phrases. i mean if you look, you remember back on january 6th, there was literally a guy who walked through the capitol, an insurrectionist, wearing a camp auschwitz sweater. there were actual neo-nazis, people who have nazi sympathies there, and even greene herself, there has been, in her past, she has shared anti-semitic and extreme anti-muslim commentary. if you start calling everybody a nazi, if you start calling democrats nazis, it sort of takes away, it blunts really -- the intention at least is to blunt the meaning of that phrase. then it eventually becomes, well, we're all just calling each other nazis here. i will say finally, a few weeks ago i was down in the villages in florida outside a greene and

gaetz event, and there were democrats and republicans at either side of the street shouting at each other. one group was calling one group pedophiles. the other group was calling each other communists. so really you can sort of see the level of national discourse here is really sort of spewing from the internet into the real world, and it's not a great thing to witness. >> it's all so sad. i'm laughing because it's laughable, not that it's funny. it's just ridiculous. thank you, donie. good to see you. so this is something that -- look, i don't understand it. i don't really -- i don't get hate. i know that it exists. i see it all the time. i witness it. i'm, you know, sometimes a target of it, often a target of it, but i don't get it. these anti-semitic attacks on the rise in the country, lies and conspiracy theories spreading online, fueling violence in the real world. this is real. cnn's nick watt has the story, and i have to warn you, some of what you are 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 fanned more than 17,000 tweets with variations on that horrific phrase -- hitler was right. >> in the past, again, you'd have a conflict in the middle east, and maybe you'd see vandalisms at a synagogue. we've seen sort of a blitzkrieg of anti-jewish acts across the country. >> reporter: fueled, he says, in part by online bile and conspiracy mongering. >> guess what? those unhinged conspiratorial claims lead to real-world consequences against american jews. >> out of the corner of my eye, i see someone chasing me from behind. before i could even react, i was surrounded by a crowd of people. >> reporter: was wearing a kip pa, a cap. >> people are attacked for

looking visibly jewish. >> reporter: times square, joseph was surrounded by a crowd he said shouted "filthy jew" and -- >> i literally fell to the ground just protecting my head, my face, doing what i could to ensure that honestly my main thought was just survive at that point. >> reporter: the man seen hitting him with a crutch has now been charged with a hate crime. prosecutors says while in the cells, the man said he has no problem doing this again. >> the nypd is now out in force. >> reporter: after this, apparently anti-semitic assault outside a los angeles sushi man, one man was arrested. one man requested his bail be enhanced due to the crime being motivated by hate. >> somebody in one of the cars driving by started throwing glass bottles or glass cups at the tables. >> reporter: the words "dirty jew" were heard, cars stopped, man got out and --

>> started running towards the table and asking indiscriminately, who's 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 folk who's are dining because of who they are. >> reporter: 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 always amazing to jews in western europe was that in the united states, jews could be visibly jewish. >> i'm now having american jews tell me this, that they're afraid to walk outside wearing a kippah, or to wear a jewish star necklace or just be visibly identifiable as jewish. like that's chilling. >> reporter: nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> nick, thank you so much for that report. let's bring in michael g. masters, the national director and ceo of the secure community network that coordinates security for jewish institutions across the country. michael, thanks for joining.

important conversation. so glad that you're here. let's start. 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 that as we saw in the reporting, we're seeing those increases at the current time, not merely in hate speech posted online or the vandalization of buildings but assaults on members of the jewish community. as we saw, a man walking down the street, friends enjoying a meal in l.a., a family leaving a synagogue. so that heightened presence is an indicator that, you know, 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, i think 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. >> mm-hmm. >> unfortunately as we're seeing

things reopen, as the conflict in the middle east has occurred, we're seeing those numbers go up to even higher than they were before, which was historic. >> yeah. the anti-defamation league says that during the escalation of 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.? >> it's a great point. as we have all seen an astronomical increase in anti-semitism in online platforms, one thing i want to stress. it's not just in the dark, deep recesses of the web. we're seeing this on facebook, twitter, tiktok, instagram. our kids are being exposed to it. those historic anti-semitic tropes, praises for hitler, calls for a 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. and 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, those fireworks being tossed, those assaults occurring to jewish people around the country. >> michael, look, i know you don't want to get political, but i've got to ask you about this. when you see lawmakers making comments like what we saw from marjorie taylor greene about masks and comparing it to the holocaust and realize that 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 a member of the united states marine corps. you know, we lost 75 million

people around the world to that conflict. so i don't think we should minimize it in any way. and what we see across the board is often a normalization of activity. we saw it in charlottesville. we saw people marching in polo shirts and khaki pants shouting "jews will not replace us." so i think we have to be very conscious that normalization of statements like that, equating events where people's lives are lost, taken, where genocide occurs, to other activity, that's politics, and we don't need slogans right now. we need solutions to deal with the violence that's occurring on our streets and in our communities. >> very well said. michael, thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us here. >> thank you, don. u.s. intel finding that several researchers in wuhan were sick enough to be hospitalized in november of 2019. what were they sick with, and what does that tell us about the origins of the pandemic? a live report from china next.

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cnn confirming tonight that u.s. intel found several researchers at china's wuhan lab became ill enough in november of 2019 that they had to be hospitalized. if they were sick with covid, that would mean that their infections happened weeks before china reported its first case on november 8th. cnn's david culver is live for us in shanghai. david, good evening to you. thanks for joining. you know, 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 that these researchers who worked within the wuhan institute of virology, that high-level lab within the city in 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 that they had to go to the hospital. so we don't know exactly what they had, and part of that could be because just going back to that time, november of 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 timeline and the narrative that have come out from chinese officials here, suggesting that the virus didn't really start until december 2019 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 chinese officials decided to close, wipe clean and really put a lot of focus on. this lab origin theory now getting a lot of credence from u.s. officials through the intel, but not just with the u.s., don. it also is involving uk officials and european leaders, who likewise are suggesting that

this is a possible origin that needs to be further investigated. >> david, the former fda commissioner dr. scott gottlieb pointing out that there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that the virus may have originated in the lab. you visited wuhan, the lab in question. take us behind the scenes. what was that like? >> reporter: going to wuhan is always an interesting experience. ive i've gone three times since the outbreak. what we saw the most recent time we went, january of this year, one year after the outbreak was really 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, likely government officials, not interfering with our reporting but certainly wanting to know what we were doing. as you look at the wuhan institute of virology, which is really the center point and heavy focus for this possible origin theory, you notice it's

well fortified. there's a lot of security. us trying to go out of our vehicle and knock on the door to get in is simply not possible. we've made several requests, don, to speak to the researchers there, to speak to the director, to get access ourselves t. that has been denied repeatedly. >> appreciate you joining us from shanghai this evening. 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 away by an upscale restaurant, and he says it was racism. i'm going to speak with dominique wilkins straight ahead. t: it even kills the covid-19 virus. science supports these simple facts. there's only one true lysol. lysol. what it takes to protect. more protection, more sun, more joy. neutrogena® beach defense® the suncare brand used most by dermatologists

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your plane and grab a passenger and his girlfriend and throw them in prison. that's what happened in belarus this weekend in what's being internationally condemned as an alleged state-sponsored hijacking. a ryanair flight making its way from agentens to lithuania was forced to land in belarus supposedly because of a security threat. but when the plane landed, belarusian opposition activist roman protasevich was taken off the plane, placed in custody. now european leaders say that eu airlines won't fly over belarus until he's set free. joining me now to discuss all of this is cnn's richard quest, our business editor at large, and max boot, our columnist for "the washington post." good evening to both of you, gentlemen. richard, let's start with you because tonight the president of the united states is condemning belarus, calling the diverse and arrest a direct affront to international norms. have we seen anything like this before? >> no is the short answer. that's why in an editorial

tomorrow morning, "the new york times" is going to say that the president of belarus has gone too far this time. i'm sure somebody can dredge up somebody incident, and there have been certainly times when civil aviation has been felled to risk but this blatant, brazen -- this is the equivalent of flying from boston down to, say, miami in terms of distance, a holiday flight, and then being diverted for no good reason to a dictatorship country where you're then told, oh, 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 had followed roman down in greece. so this is a nasty, squalid,

potentially exceptionally dangerous situation which, don, is why tonight the eu has taken the strong measures that it has. but it won't be enough. >> max, you have a column out in "the washington post" where you write about how this is just the latest sign that autocrats are feeling empowered to break with international norms. tell me about that. >> well, this is a very dangerous trend, don, which we've seen going on for a number of years and in some ways recalling the 1930s where now these dictatorships all over the world feel empowered to break international law with impunity. you've had russia, which has invaded georgia, annexed crimea, invaded 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 russian defectors and diss dissidents. you have iran being responsible for missile and rocket attacks on saudi arabia.

the examples, don, go on and on. what you're basically seeing, i think, is a breakdown of international law and order, and that's why you have this petty, two-bit dictator, alexander lukashenko, who feels like he can get away with something like this, this blatant act of air piracy, because he sees all these other dictators getting away with even greater attacks on their neighbors and on the rule of law. >> richard, let's lean into this a little bit more. you heard what max just said, talking about numerous countries with dictatorships here. there's a push for airlines to avoid flying over belarus now. should people be afraid of this happening now, especially if there are no real consequences? >> that is the point, don. look, is it going to happen again? no. is it going to sort of -- do i need to be concerned getting on a plea toane tomorrow? >> no. but future safety will only be guaranteed by the measures taken now. that's why the u.s. transportation secretary, pete

buttigieg, said today in a statement tonight, he said there must be an immediate international transparent and credible investigation of this incident. so the eu is putting on sanctions on the belarusian officials. they are stopping overflight of belarus. they are stopping belarusian airline from flying to the eu or from flying over. but as long as belarus gets support from russia and russia has already said this was a jolly wheeze by lukashenko and well done on him for coming up with it, as long as russia is prepared to condone their henchman upstart lukashenko, then you're in real trouble. >> max, the man they detained is a journalist, a journalist who covered the police violence at recent protests against bell aruss' longtime leader. then there's a video released on pro-government social media where he appears to confess to organizing riots though their

concerns are this might have been forced, that it was some sort of a hostage video, right? how dire are his prospects? >> i mean they're pretty dire. it's been widely reported that mr. protasevich, before he was taken off the airplane, was saying -- that's a legitimate concern because a lot of people do die in lukashenko's prisons as they die in putin's prison. this video is really chilling. it's like something out of the stalinist show trials of the 1930s where he's confessing these imaginary crimes and he seems to have bruises on his face. you can just imagine what's happening to this poor guy in lukashenko's grasp. we have to make clear that lukashenko is going to suffer dire consequences for this kind of misbehavior going beyond what the eu said today. there has to be punishing economic sanctions and the u.s. and the eu need to support the

democracy movement, the scivil society movement in belarus because they need to get rid of this guy who has been in power for 27 years and is becoming more and more abusive. >> thank you very much. i appreciate you both joining us. they said it was their dress code. he says it was racism. nba legend dominique wilkins talks to me about being turned away from a restaurant next. the killing that shocked the world. one year ago tomorrow, george floyd was killed in police custody. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now

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lieutenant john clarey's body camera and dash cameras were 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 videos show the moments leading up to greene's death, some showing him being tased, kicked, and dragged by officers. remember the initial police report, crash report, made no mention of troopers using force, and greene's family say they were told by police that he died in a car accident. we're going to stay on top of the investigation. we're going to keep you updated on everything we learn about what happened that night, so stay tuned. now i want to turn to the former nba player and basketball hall of famer who says he was turned away from a restaurant because of the color of his skin, dominique wilkins says he was turned away from a restaurant in atlanta over the weekend adding that he has never before faced prejudice when dining out. dominique wilkins joins me now.

thank you, sir. it's been a while. >> it's been a while, man. it's good to see you, don. been a long time. unfortunately we got to come on and talk about something like this. it was very unfortunate that hi to experience that with a friend of mine. >> let me explain the story before you go into that. >> mm-hmm. >> so at first the restaurant told you no tables were available. this is what you say. then you said you were not dressed -- they said that you were not dressed fashionably enough. okay. now, so tell me what happened. >> well, first of all, when we were going into the restaurant, when we went through the door, there was two, three people at the front. they kind of looked us up and down and sized us up. it was really eerie, kind of strange. i said, we would like to sit down outside and have lunch. they looked me up and down again. they said, we don't have any reservations available.

i'm looking outside. it's lunchtime, 1:00, and there's a ton of tables outside that's empty. i mean i'm dressed better than moist of the guys that was in there. a nice pullover shirt, black pants, nice speakers. to the left of me, there was three white guys coming in with shorts, t-shirts, and sneakers. and they said, give me a minute. we'll seat you in a send. and i said, well, this doesn't make sense. you've got all these tables and you can't -- we don't have anything available. he said, we're trying to keep a level of elegance in our restaurant, so we can't seat you at all. so i left, and my girlfriend went back and said, you know, mr. wilkins and i -- what is your criteria of dress code because he was dressed better than most people in here as men. so he was not in cargo -- i mean sweat pants or whatever you want to call it. and it's a clear, clear act of discrimination. and so i was just blown away that they turned me away.

they were very, very nasty. >> but you're dominique wilkins. you're a legend in atlanta. i hate to -- but it's true. i think that any restaurant in the atlanta area -- i'm just being honest -- should know who the hell dominique wilkins is. i'm sorry. that's the truth. >> but you know what, don? it shouldn't happen to anybody. >> 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 focuses on dress code. here's what it says. it says, to protect our restaurant's culture, we installed a minimum standard in our business casual attire dress code, which includes jeans and sneakers but prohibits baseball caps and athletic clothing, including sweat pants and tops. though the definition of casual is ever evolving, we strive to maintain our policy requirements

daily. it can be tricky. sometimes it can be arbitrary, right because they can be enforced inconsistently for different people. so, again, this shouldn't happen to anyone. i know you say, you know, it didn't matter that you're dominique wilkins. i think it is, but it shouldn't happen to anyone. what did you think of this first response? >> first of all, i thought it was just -- it wasn't a type of response that i thought was efficient because i think they lied a lot in that statement. now they released a recent statement earlier today basically apologizing for what happened. >> mm-hmm. >> now they want to make a lot of changes. but 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. >> mm-hmm. >> and so it felt like back when i was in high school when i had a cross burned in my yard because i made a decision to further my education, you know, at the university of georgia. and even though it's not the same, it felt the same.

and so it was very, very nasty. my friend went back and asked them, you know, why did you guys do that? they said, you know, mr. wilkins just want to know. they said, we can't see him. the thing is, discrimination has many different disguises. in this case it's disguised through a dress code, you know. i'm not the only case or the only person who have had this type of thing happen. this has been a trend. hopefully -- i'm just hoping that they learn from this and that they can get some diversity, equality, and this type of training to guard against this. you know, what we do as far as, you know, people dealing with inclusion, it has to be addressed, and we address those things right now. it's just mind-boggling in this day and world, we still have to deal with this type of stuff. >> well, listen, i'm sorry that happened to you.

i respect you and love you a lot. i do miss seeing you in atlanta. what i do miss is the great seats we had to watch the hawks. i got to tell you this. in full transparency, i know some of the folks who own le bill bouquet, and they should do better. and i think that they will do better after this. i think that you are going to make that change happen. they are an upscale restaurant. there's one here. there's one in palm beach, atlanta, whatever, but they can do better. i think they will do better. i thank you for bringing light to this and i'm sorry this happened to you. >> appreciate it. good to talk to you don. one year since george floyd's death rocked this country, but has any progress been made since? w. kamau bell weighs in. he's next. 's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4.

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tomorrow marks one year since george floyd was killed in police custody. shocking video sparking a racial reckoning. thousands of americans and people around the world taking to the streets to demand racial justice and reforms in policing. joining me now to discuss, w. kamau bell, host of cnn's "united shades of america." kamau, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> as we know, the officer who killed george floyd convicted but a year later, how much has changed? what do you think? >> well, i mean, you know, we've had that conversation ever since

derek chauvin was found guilty of those three charges. nothing has changed, you know. i feel good for george floyd's family that they got justice, but the ultimate justice would be that he wouldn't be dead in the first place. but we also know black men and many black people, other 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 from axios. nearly 7 in 10 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 the perception is the reality. 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 has been killed, that doesn't put you on an even playing field with the police officer. even if you don't have an interaction, it raises your blood pressure. >> and you look at what's happening in louisiana and other places where you all of a sudden see this video coming out of police officers abusing people.

>> let's be clear. think about all the videos that we couldn't see because they weren't on video. i mean we have to remember that. it seems like it's a lot. there's a lot we aren't even seeing. >> yeah. in his address to congress back in april, the president biden asked to have 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 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 want for the political will to change goes away. as we know, america has a short memory. it forgets things very easily. so we -- i mean we can't even remember january 6th at this point. we have a problem holding a lot of things in our head. so a lot of people want to think that things have changed and it's a year ago and we're having an anniversary. it really comes down to local police departments really stepping up and changing the way they interact with the public. >> 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. you say -- let's see. you talk about looking at issues in justice that active duty troops and vets face.

a tweet saying the military has been emasculated. what do you think about that? >> that's a lot coming from a guy who i don't think ever served a day in the military. i mean we have this disconnect where we are supposed to support our troops and we're supposed to thank our troops for their service, and yet even that tweet from ted cruz, he's 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're talking about. >> doesn't know his way around the military, but he knows his way around cancun. thanks, w. i appreciate it. be sure to tune in. an all new episode of "united shades of america" with w. kamau bel airs sunday night at 10:00 p.m. only here on cnn. thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues.

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♪ hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i'm rosemary church. just ahead here on "cnn newsroom," george floyd's death triggered global protests against racism and police brutality. now a year later congress is still working on some sort of police reform. the u.s. ends its top diplomate to bolster peace efforts in the middle east. we will have live reports from the region. and exclusive details on that w.h.o. investigation in