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was a horrific event that happened. do you remember -- i shall where i was the first time i saw it. i had to close the door and it was too emotional, too painful, i was at least. it was too painful to watch. i couldn't believe it. i said there's got to be something more than this and there wasn't. it was what it was, it is what it is, and obviously it played out in the verdict. thankfully this time justice with us served as so many other times it wasn't served. but just think about a year ago, chris. you were still, you know, coming out of your sickness, right, of covid. we were all at home in quarantine, nowhere to go, nothing to do but to watch this on our screens. the world was shocked and horrified as the world should have been. and now you have people making excuses for it, again, not surprising, but sad. >> karen bass seems pretty optimistic. >> i love her. i love having her on. she's just a really decent human being.
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nothing to do with her politics. she's just a decent human being and she speaks the truth. and so, unlike so many in washington, d.c. >> she said something that could have been really helpful to members of the left/left fringe early on. instead of defund the police, she said, no, you need to think about how to refund police and give communities more control over who goes to what kinds of call because police have had way too much put on their plate. i've never had a leader on the left say that before on my show. and it would be really helpful in winning a lot of reasonable people in the middle to hear a democrat saying that. >> yeah. listen, i did a citizen by cnn today that we do. it was me, kamala, and sara sidner. it's one size fits all for policing in this country and it's not fair to the citizens of the country and it's not fair to police officers. and so, listen, personally i
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know people get upset with me, especially, you know, the defund the police movement. i think that many of the things that they want within the movement within that initiative, i think it's great. i think it should be looked at. i just think the word just doesn't help at all. >> they know. they try to put it on people saying you know what we meant. that's politics. >> anytime your explaining, you're losing. >> you guys do it to on the left and right. it doesn't matter. i'm not talking to you, i'm talking to the audience. you're going to twist it and take it out of context and play to advantage. you should have known you were giving them the cudgel to beat you over the head with. but congresswoman bass said it the right way tonight. whether she can get anything done, we'll see. >> definitely, obviously, think there should be police reform. i think we need to reinvent quite frankly policing in this country, how we use police officers, what they're used for, what is the actual concept of
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policing? is it more peace officers or are there people who crack heads? >> or both depending on the call. >> in some instances you're going to need police officers. look, when i'm in trouble, if i have to call police or 911, i want o the police to show up and show up fast. i don't want them to be defunded or show up at my place or wherever it is i am without the tools they need to work with or handle the situation. but i also want the right police officers, the right police officers to show up, the police officers who know how to de-escalate the situation, who aren't going to profile me or other people of color or anyone for that matter. and so i do think that we need -- i know people hate that term, to reimagine policing. i actually do think we need to do it. >> it just needs to be better. we're using the same model that came out basically at its inception. you talk to any good police commissioner that deals with any kind of real scope of problems, bring in a bratton or smlomeone
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like that, and they'll say we have so much on our plate that we're not trained for, don't have the funding or resources for and it's not fair. >> you know this. you know this. we have friends who are police officers. police officers themselves will tell you, yeah, we need help. i don't want to go out on every single call. look, if there can be some sort of peace officer or some sort of mental health person that can deal with situations that we don't have to go to, yeah, 100%. the unions, the unions -- they've been trying to protect hair men and women in uniform, i understand that. but it's the unions who are the ones who are fighting against it. most police officers will tell you, look, all the help i can get, i'll take it. >> well, the big issue -- this is what i think is going to be the deal breaker. the left will say you have to remove immunity in order to have accountability. >> qualified immunity.
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>> and the theory of the case is they know they can get away with it. now, i don't know that that's a fair analysis, but i know that's the issue. the right will never give it to you because it will be seen as definitively anti-cop. >> the biggest anti-cop movement or event that i've ever seen in my entire life -- >> january 6th. >> january 6th, 2021. >> good thing we know everything we have to know about it though. put it in the past. >> it's over, it didn't happen. >> we know everything already. no reason to look at it. >> let's talk about something that's going to happen that is happening now. and i got to get to it, the grand jury. >> i love you, d. lemon. >> see you later. this is "cnn tonight." d did you see chris laugh? this is don lemon tonight. there is new legal trouble for the former president. the manhattan district attorney
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convening a grand jury to decide whether to indict trump. executives alt his family business or trump org itself on potential criminal charges. that is according to "the washington post." which reports the whole thing suggests the d.a. believes he found evidence of a crime either by trump, someone close to him, or his company, evidence of a crime. so we got a lot more to come on this story tonight. we have experts who are going to walk us through all of it, what this means for trump, his company, his family, so on and so forth, even for the so-called trump era. that as we mark one year since the death of george floyd. doesn't feel like it's been a year, does it? but then it feels like it's been a lot. from doesn't feel like it's been a year. it feels like it's been longer. one year since george floyd was murdered before our eyes. we can say that because there was a murder conviction, found guilty, murdered by a police officer who kneeled on his neck for an excruciating nine minutes, 29 seconds, the video we all watched, driving hundreds
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of thousands of americans and people around the world out into the vetoes to demand justice for george floyd and sparking a racial reckoning. but is it a reckoning? is it really? have we really reckoned with the racism that killed george floyd? have we? his family in washington today to press for the bill that bears his name. the george floyd justice in policing act. his daughter, gianna, who last year told president biden her daddy changed the world, visiting the white house today, then leading the chant "say his name." >> say it now, baby. >> say his name? >> george floyd! >> but that bill the president wanted on his desk didn't make the deadline. president biden reportedly telling the family that he doesn't want a rushed bill, he wants the right bill. and tonight, the young brave woman who shot the video of george floyd's murder a video that we never would have seen if
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she hadn't been there to bear witness, tonight darnella frazier is speaking out again. what she has to say is extremely powerful. i want to read some of what she says about what she saw, okay? she says a year ago today, i witnessed a murder. the victim's name was george floyd. although this wasn't the first time i've seen a black man get killed at the hands of the police, this is the first time i witnessed it happen front of me. i didn't know this man from a can of paint, but i knew his life mattered. i knew that he was in pain. i knew that he was another black man in danger with no power. i was only 17 at the time, just a normal day for me walking my 9-year-old cousin to the corner store, not even prepared for what i was going to see, not knowing my life was going to change on this exact day in those exact moments. it did. it change me and how i viewed life. it made me realize how dangerous it is to be black in america.
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we shouldn't volunteer to walk on eggshells around police officers. the same people that are supposed to protect and serve. we are looked at as thugs, aen animals, and criminals because of the color of our skin. why are black people viewed this way when every race has some type of wrongdoing. none of us are to judge. we are all human. it doesn't feel like a year. it feels like it's been a lot longer. so much has happened in the past year, we've seen so much. the police officer kneeling on george floyd's neck literally crushing the life out of him, thousands and thousands of protesters taking to the streets, peaceful protesters gassed across from the white house in what became black lives matter plaza. and all that happening in an america where millions of us were sheltering in place from the worst pandemic in 100 years.
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to "the new york times" headline, which was u.s. deaths near 100,000. now it's more than 590,000. it's been a year of huge change. but where are we tonight? where are we? we've learned that hate flourishing from anti-asian hate to anti-semitism, the qanon congresswoman doubling down on ignorance today, comparing a vaccine logo -- oh, god -- to the yellow star. well, it's yellow, not gold, the nazis forced jewish people to wear. then-candidate marjorie taylor greene in 2020 defending confederate monuments by comparing them to statues of hitler or satan. >> whether i see a statue that may be something that i would fully disagree with, like adolf hitler, maybe a statue of satan himself, i would not want to say
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take it down. but again, it's so that i could tell my children and teach others about who these people are, what they did, and what they may be about. >> my dad used to say, god rest his soul, fools never learn. and i said fool. nobody is putting up statues of hitler or satan. and now, it took leaders of our party five whole days to speak out about the lunacy of one congresswoman. the top three house republicans putting out statements today, they could have said something. talk is cheap. this is the party that threw liz cheney under the bus for telling the truth. it took them five days to condemn marjorie taylor greene's anti-semitism. here's congressman adam
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kinzinger. >> is it just for attention? i think it's for attention. we can take a stand and say you don't belong in our depress. that's what we should do. if there was an organic movement to oust liz cheney, certainly we can have the same kind of movement to oust somebody that is trying to compare wearing a mask to the nazis. >> of course it's just for attention. i want you to think about this. whatever you do for a living. if there was someone in your workplace who said -- i almost said it, some stuff like this, what would happen to them? would they still have a job? would they still be respected? would you still respect them? would you? would they still hang on? i think you know the answer. sources telling cnn gop donors
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and house members urged mccarthy to urge him to say something but he's unlikely to kick her out of the conference. one source saying donald trump likes her and kevin doesn't want to upset trump. and there you have it. that's what republicans are signing up for, allegiance -- you know how this part goes. say it with me. a disgraced, twice-impeached, one-term former president who could face potential criminal charges over his family business. that's where we are tonight after a year of turmoil, a year of hate and division, a year of covid, a year of reckoning with race in the wake of the murder of george floyd. that's where we are tonight. still, with the craziness, the insanity on the right. one party, that's who the republican party -- that's what
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the republican party is right now. that's who you are right now. own it. the party of insensitive statements about the holocaust and jewish people. the party of anti-semitism? i manhattan's d.a. convening a grand jury, that is expected to decide whether to indict donald trump if prosecutors present criminal charges in their investigation of the trump organization. that is according to "the washington post." the latest, next. na ♪ na na na na... ♪ hey hey hey. ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na... ♪ hey hey hey. ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na... the world's first six-function multipro tailgate.
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so here's what we're learning tonight that the manhattan district attorney has convened a grand jury in its criminal investigation of the trump organization. that is according to "the washington post". they will consider whether to indict the former president, president trump executives, or the company itself. i want to discuss with andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi, author of "the threat." also with us our senior legal analyst laura coates. thank you for joining.
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help us understand what this means. laura, i'll start with you because, according to "the post," the district attorney, c cy vance believes he's found evidence of a crime. so what does that indicate to you because michael cohen, you remember trump's former attorney, he's talked about the trump organization essentially being a small mom and pop company. so what does it mean, laura? >> going beyond that as well, right, talk about the idea of inflating assets for the benefit getting bank loads, but deflating them. there's a whole wide scope. we know the new york attorney general and cy vance's manhattan's office has combined forces. this tells me that the scope not only has widened, but also they're prepared at this point to present something to the grand jury. they will convene a grand jury to allow them to have subpoena power, that's very important. you convene it at this stage to
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figure out if they will allow you to indict someone on serious offenses. you present evidence to them. you give them the documentation you have been gathering. cy vance's office is the one that went to the supreme court twice to secure former president trump's tax information. he did not give the willingly or voluntarily. now you present to a grand jury over a six-month period to be able to give information to say, hey, does nifany of this add up it shows forward movement. it did not mean there's an indictment in a particular case or charge we're aware of at this point. we know that the grand jury is never impaneled simply to spin its wheels. >> andrew, the former daughter-in-law of allen weisselberg -- listen, all payments, all money, he signed the checks. he was the chief financial officer. but listen to the former daughter-in-law who was on erin
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burnett talk about the trump organization. >> as far as i'm concerned, there's been nothing legal going on in the past 21 years. >> allen weissleberg, will he flip on trump? >> yes. >> okay. that was an emphatic one-word answer. the new york attorney general's office opened a criminal tax investigation into allen weissleberg, so what would it mean if he flipped? >> don, it would be a really bad day, i think, for the former president and for the trump organization if allen weissleberg decides to provide state's evidence. it's easy for his former daughter-in-law to provide her opinion in that way but investigators are going to put pressure on people they want to come on board to become witnesses. one of the ways to do that is to look into their tax situation to determine, as has been alleged in this situation by some of the
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folks who are in the know, that people in the trump organization may have received benefits like, you know, rent and things like that, other benefits through their employment that maybe weren't declared as taxable revenue. it's just one of the many streams that i'm sure investigators are looking down to see if there are leverage points they can use against people like allen weissleberg to convince him to cooperate against the trump organization. >> laura, very simple question which w, which i'm getting from everyone. is donald trump going to be indicted? that's the question everyone is asking me. can you answer that question? >> we can't answer that question. here's why. for the very reasons that andrew was talking about. one of the reasons that you want to look for leverage points is because you want to develop your case for the areas that you might otherwise be weak. when you're talking about former president trump who has routinely spoken about the use of legal council, all of which
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to provide advice to give him the distance essentially -- one area removed from being able to say that here was my specific intent, here was my directive. it makes it a more challenging, not impossible, case. you look for weissleberg who can provide information about the intent of the person who might be your larger target. weissleberg already is a pretty large target. if he weren't attached to former president trump, the head of a huge organization like this and having that capacity as a cfo and other information about the finances is a very large fish. but if you have a bigger target in mind or a wider-reaching organization and investigation, you want those leverage points to secure the answer to the question you've now asked. one person's able to provide when the direct target does not provide the contextual clues and maybe direct evidence if somebody has not had a text message trail. former president trump didn't have that. that's why you look for somebody
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like a weissleberg in addition to others who may be able to give information to really present to a grand jury so they can answer that question. >> you know, he's been -- andrew, donald trump has been sued for fraud. he's been impeached twice. multiple lawsuits connected to the january 6th insurrection. and that's not even a full list of what's going on with him. i mean, is this in a different category as a criminal grand jury? is this different? >> it is. but let's not forget that he also has a distinguished record of dodging responsibility for a lot of things. this is a guy who's run businesses and hotels and casinos into bankruptcies. he's walked away from massive loans to his learned, primarily deutsche bank. he's scored massive tax deductions, so he's a very cagey
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guy. he's managed to dodge the bullet many times. this, however, is a different bullet. this is not somebody coming and saying you may have violated the tax rules and now you owe us money. these are two separate investigations that could end up in criminal charges, which means you go to jail. that is an entirely different prospect and we'll see how he does this time. >> andrew, laura, thank you both. appreciate it. george floyd's family in d.c. today one year after floyd was murdered. his brother speaks out right here. and i'm going to speak with biden domestic policy adviser susan rice and the holdup in the policing act named for floyd. we'll talk about that. age before beauty? why not both? visibly diminish wrinkled skin in... crepe corrector lotion... only from gold bond.
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the president pressuring the senate to get its act together and bill the bill to his desk as quickly as possible. we have a lot to discuss right now with ambassador susan rice, white house domestic policy adviser. thank you so much for joining us, ambassador. >> great to be with you, don. >> president biden says we have to act. we face an inflection point, but congress missed his deadline to pass policing reform. is there a risk that we're going to end up without action being taken? >> there's always that risk, don, but i think for the moment there's reason to be encouraged. there's a very serious and constructive negotiation ongoing between democrats and republicans in the senate led by senator cory booker on the democratic side and by senator tim scott on the republican side. congresswoman karen bass and colleagues from the white house very much involved. we are in close communication with them. we are trying to be supportive in any way we can, but they're
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in a serious negotiation. as long as that continues and they continue to make progress, i will personally remain hopeful. >> you know, the president has said, ambassador, that george floyd's murder changed the dynamics of race in the u.s. what's changed? >> well, i think a lot of things have changed. obviously we don't have this legislation yet, but i think in many part of our country from people of all ages of all races and background, there's a much greater awareness that in some fundamental ways our system is still not fair. we do not have equal outcomes, whether we're talking about in the realm of criminal justice or in terms of economic jury instructions we've seen that played out time and again, but the fact that we have greater awareness and greater commitment to trying to embrace policies and approaches that recognize that we are all individuals of equal worth and
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all have dignity and we deserve each of us an opportunity to fulfill our god-given potential. that's what joe biden believes, that's what he is governing to achieve. and we made very significant progress already working with congress to put in place important measures that reflect that commitment to equity and to greater justice. >> listen, you folks there in washington, you have a unique challenge because -- i have to preface this question by saying, in my job, when people don't operate in reality or with logic, they no longer have a job. but that is not happening in washington. i mean, listen, president biden is going to need bipartisan support quite frankly to get this policing bill passed. but when the gop is clinging to the former president and a big lie, you got marjorie taylor greene making these asinine and hurtful comparisons to the holocaust, does that make working across the aisle almost impossible? >> it can be challenging, don,
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no question. and this is a moment where, you know, it's unclear how far we will get. we understand that for the system to work, it needs to deliver. our democracy needs to deliver for the american people. and to the extent that we can accomplish that through working with -- on a bipartisan basis with the republican party, that is clearly president biden's strong preference. whether it's on the jobs panel or the family plan, or whether it's on policing reform. and there have been pieces of legislation that have emerged from congress on a bipartisan basis. last week the president was honored to sign the covid-19 hate crimes act, which recognized that hate crimes against any american group, but in particular, asian-americans who suffered violence and hate
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in the wake of the covid pandemic, should be protected. the president has called out very strongly the horrific anti-semitic attacks that have occurred in this country over the last two weeks. these need to be condemned. and these are the sorts of things minimally that we ought to be able to agree on. and thankfully last week congress proved that 94-1 in the senate that we could come together. so i'm not prepared to write off bipartisan cooperation. on the contrary, there are glimmers of home and we are determined to do our utmost to get as far as we can on a bipartisan basis. but at the end of the day, there may be things we can't agree on. the only thing he will not tolerate is inaction. >> listen, it's been said, especially when he was running and when he was first elected that if anybody can do it, if anybody knew the senate, it was joe biden, the former vice president and applicant then.
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but in 2019, he said that republicans would have an epiphany once trump was out of the white house. in an interview published by "the atlantic," i'm quoting biden's first interview after the inauguration. he said they're in a really tough spot. you expect people to be willing to get into the second edition of profiles in courage, but it's awful hard. there's enough people out there, but i don't know. so has he changed his views on bipartisanship? >> no. look, the president knows better than anybody how the senate works, how depress works, and he knows that it's worth the investment to try to bring the two parties along to the greatest extent possible on important pieces of legislation. but he also is a realist, and he's -- he'll do what he can to get that bipartisan cooperation.
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but at the end of the day if it's not forthcoming, if it's not fundamentally serious, then he'll take what action he can to get what needs to be done done for the american people. he couldn't not be clearer about that. so, you know, we'll do our best and we'll get it done. >> all right. i'll be optimistic along with you and i hope the american people are as well. we'll be watching and reporting. thank you, ambassador. i appreciate your time. >> great to be with you, don. thank you. george floyd's family met with the president, vice president, and congressional leaders today, and they're here to tell me how it all went. that's next. t the looks ♪ ♪ let's make lots of money ♪ ♪ you've got the brawn ♪ ♪ i've got the brains... ♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700 click or call to switch
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for floyd. here with me now, philonise floyd, george floyd's brother, and ben crump, attorney for the floyd family. gentlemen, good evening. thank you. >> good evening. >> philonise, how are you doing? >> i'm doing okay. just -- it was a hell of a day today. just me waking up knowing that this is the day that my brother was brutally murdered by a police officer who was sworn in to help others, it was just like picking at a wound all over again. >> you met with the president today for an hour as lawmakers negotiate that policing bill, the george floyd justice in policing act. you called the president genuine. what did he tell you today? >> oh, you know, he just had a basic conversation of just -- just basically letting us know that he support what's going on. he's behind us 100%.
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he's praying for us and the same thing, he hoped we had get accountability. he just hoped that we can make it out what's going on because he said, hey, this is going to be a lifetime journey, he understood because he lost someone that's special. he lost a couple of people that's special to him. so he understands everything, from us to even gianna, you know. and i watched him with gianna and i was, like, wow, you know, this is the president. he's showing who he really is. he's just a genuine person. he just -- he loved gianna. he talked to her and played with her, so i know he's an awesome guy with his own grandkids. >> we have the picture of g gianna, george's daughter, walking into the white house today. what an incredible, iconic picture there. you mentioned how the president was interacting with her, but what did this mean for her?
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>> gianna? it was good. you know, you got to understand that gianna is still a child. >> right. >> but she understand that her dad has passed. but the grieving process -- a lot of people don't know what goes on behind closed doors. but one thing that she said -- it has stood out all across the america -- her dad has changed the world. >> yeah. >> and not just here, globally. that's huge because you have to understand, europe was watching, germany was watching, ghana was watching, brazil was watching, italy, i can just keep naming places. everybody was contacting me letting me know that, hey, we stand behind you in solidarity and if we got to leave london or italy to get there just to march with you, we will do that. >> yeah. i try to get -- my dad died when i was young. i didn't quite grasp the concept of death. i sort of got it.
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but i think what young people understand is that the people around them are in mourning and are not the same anymore and they're sad. and i'm sure gianna is affected by that and by not seeing her father again. ben, i have to ask you, the bill didn't make it to the president's desk today. i know that philonise is an optimistic guy. you think this bill is going to make it? >> i do, don. after meeting with the speaker of the house and congresswoman karen bass, and then talking with senator cory booker all from the democratic side of the aisle, then spending an equal amount of time with senator tim scott and senator lindsey graham, they all were very consistent. they said this is as close as they have ever been on a meaningful bipartisan bill on
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police reform. they even went as far as to say they are hopeful that it will be done sooner rather than we all think. so they all are saying the same thing, that they are working through the night negotiating sometimes two, three hours a night after hours. >> okay. well, we'll see where that goes. the president wanted it on his desk but he told the family he didn't want a rushed bill, they wanted right bill. so philonise -- he said that, right? >> yeah. >> let's talk about darnella frazier for the folks at home who may not know f you haven't been keeping up with everything, darnella frazier is the teenager who took the video of george floyd's murder, philonise's brother's murder that was seen around the world. this is what she says today. even though this was a traumatic, life-changing
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experience, i'm proud of of myself. if it weren't for my video, the world wouldn't have known the truth. i own that. my video didn't save george floyd, but it put his murder away and off the streets. i mean, we saw the truth in that video. what do you say to her, philonise? >> i want to tell her thank you. i want to give her a big hug. it's nothing that i can do to thank her for what she did. she stood out there just like a soldier would out there in the army, and she videotaped all of that while she watched my brother being tortured to death. it wasn't her job to go out there and help, but what she did was show the world what they did to my brother. and that's even better because we get the opportunity to get down to what's happening right now. people are being killed every day, and sometimes they don't
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even have -- people sweep it under the rug. but this is one death that they couldn't take away. this is something that the world has watched over and over again, just like me. whoever watched court tv seen my brother die 100 times. whoever watched cnn seen my brother die 100 times. >> you know, i want to put up this video. this is video of your brother's vigil just wrapping up in minneapolis. what do you say to that community and the communities across the country that rose up following his murder? >> i just want to thank them. they all ignited a flame in them that they didn't even know that they had. they all walked out on faith because they knew there was a pandemic and covid was out there. they put their lives on the line for what was right. that was amazing. the gratitude that i have for them is big, you know, it's extremely huge. my heart is huge.
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and i understand that they had kids. they could have lost their lives. it's a blessing to have people like that who step out and do the right thing because that day that officer, he didn't do the right thing. a mistake can be made right. my brother was tortured to death, and this is the day that will always be remembered around the world forever and i should have been make sure we continue his legacy. that's one of the biggest reasons i started my institution called if philonise institution for social change, we're turning our pain into purpose. >> ben, you're optimistic after year what has transpired over this past year? >> we've made significant progress, but when you think about all of the black people, especially black men being shot in the back like anthony mcclain in pasadena, baton rouge, when
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you think of daunte wright being shot during the sean trial, i mean, so many men. we have to get this bill passed. and the one thing i was trying to put the police unions versus the civil rights groups. it's not either their issue or our issue. it's ap-american issue. and we have to solve this issue together. that's the only way we will get meaningful police reform on the federal level. we have not had it in 57 years, don lemon, and that's why it has to pass to prevent some of these unnecessary killings of black people. >> ben and philonise, thank you both. i appreciate it. suspicious powder at rand paul's house and he is blaming
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