didn't impress upon house democrats to take up that bipartisan infrastructure bill. take the win. instead, they're tying it to this massive spending bill, and i think part of what's hurting the democrats right now is on the heels of the afghanistan fiasco. there's the delta variant, which i don't blame biden for. he's got that inflationary pressure. i think all those issues are causing him real problems, and i think he has misread his mandate to the extent that he's going way too big on this reconciliation package. they should simply pocket the win and maybe try to get some incremental gains on the other things they're advancing in the reconciliation. any one of those things, you know, pre-k, if they just did one of those things, that would be a big win. but i think he's under too much pressure from the left wing of his party, and he doesn't have the mandate to do what he's trying to do. >> what do you say to that, bakari? >> i disagree with the former congressman there. he think he does have the mandate because he has the house, senate, and the white

house. i think the problem is the way the white house has communicated what's actually in this $3 trillion reconciliation package. people want to talk about expanding or making permanent the childhood tax credit. people want to talk about pre-k. they want to talk about global warming and climate change. these are issues that actually when people hear what's in the bill, they support overwhelmingly. however, the white house is stalled because the white house simply hasn't come out with the ability to communicate what's actually on the table, what's actually in these pieces of legislation. >> bakari, with all due respect, eid is in the white house. he has the bully pulpit. >> no question. this is a constructive criticism here. this is exactly what this is. this is saying this is something they haven't been able to do, they haven't done. the question is why is the agenda stalled? it's no as if what they're trying to do is unpopular. with all due respect to someone who says they should not go this big, the fact is that there are a lot of us, there are a lot of

black, brown, hispanic-americans. today we celebrate indigenous american day, et cetera, who came out and braved a pandemic for this president and this administration to go out and pass these justice agenda items that we want them to pass. and just to date, that hasn't happened. so that's why you see the numbers as they are. >> but it's his own party. go ahead, charlie. he's fighting his own party. i mean he has some conservative members of the democratic party to be precise who are, you know, who are helping to hold up the agenda. but pretty much, you know, as charlie said, take the win. go ahead, charlie. sorry. >> look, joe biden won the election because there were a lot of swing voting republicans and independents who tired of donald trump. it was an anti-trump vote. they wanted joe biden to stabilize, normalize the functioning of government to address covid as an adult. he simply did not -- these same

voters voted down-ballot for republicans. not one house republican lost his or her re-election, and state legislative candidates on the republican side did well. they were voting for a check at the same time they were voting for joe biden. like i said, i just don't see how -- this was not a mandate to go big or for transformational change. this was a call for incrementalism and stability. the infrastructure that's nicely into the biden agenda would be well embraced, and i'm telling you it's these swing voters who are the ones that are going to turn on democrats in the midterm. they did not vote for this. >> i'm not going to -- i don't want to talk about the midterm because the midterm is always a different animal no matter who the president is. but i think that you're kind of re-imagining the history of 2020. joe biden became president of the united states because of black and brown voters. the reason that you have the senate is not because of individuals who are tired of donald trump in georgia. it's because black voters actually came out in places like atlanta, savannah, augusta

throughout the state of georgia. so when you talk about why he got there, i mean there's the frustration, and you hear this frustration being palpable of the issues such as -- and, listen, you can call it transformational. you can call it too big. you can call it whatever you want. but passing voting rights and passing things like criminal justice reform, they're not too big. that's -- that's what this country needs. that's -- that's how we heal this country. and so that along with what we're talking about in the transportation bill and the build back better plan are all necessary. but the problem is, i mean to your point, congressman, this is the fact. he hasn't passed any of those. and because he hasn't even passed one of those, he's stuck in a rut where he is today. >> but, bakari, black and brown voters are on the conservative end of the democratic party. they're not -- most of all, they're not progressives. younger people of all different ethnicities, you know, whites and blacks -- >> i wouldn't argue that point with you. >> i think charlie is right that he won -- yes, he won because of

black and brown voters but not because those black and brown voters were necessarily progressives in the left wing of the party. he won those black and brown voters -- hang on. let me finish. he won because those black and brown voters, as charlie said, thought that he would stabilize the country, that he would be able to compromise and work with republicans and pull his party together and the country together as well because in order to get 82 million people when you have african-americans -- >> no. >> hang on. when you have 82 million people voting for a president, most of the people who voted for him are quite frankly white americans although black and brown people pushed him over the finish line. >> let's back up a little bit because we're forgetting where we were just last summer. like in 2020, people didn't take to the streets. we were all there. we witnessed them taking to the streets. we didn't take to the streets and then vote in outrageous numbers in the middle of a pandemic for something less than transformative. so when i'm talking about justice issues, i don't necessarily think that we're saying different things here.

but what i am saying, though, is that you have to deliver on your promises. and whether or not those promises were to somebody in south bend, indiana, or somebody in atlanta, georgia, the president has missed on delivering on those promises. what makes my heart beat as somebody who voted for joe biden is criminal justice reform, is voting rights. what makes charlie dent's heart beat is an infrastructure bill. what we all have the frustration with is we ain't passed not a damn thing. >> bakari, but this is on top of -- look, we've spent $6 trillion. most of it was essential spending on covid. i would argue there were several hundred billion spent than needed, but covid needed to be addressed. now we're talking about $3.5 trillion on top of that. there needs to be some level of restraint. there is real inflationary pressure out there. this is what real americans are dealing with, shortages and higher prices. yes, i agree with you, bakari,

about all the things we've seen with respect to former president trump's horrible behavior and his authoritarian impulses and i'm not proud of the way the republicans are handling the infrastructure bill right now. but that said, real americans are concerned about all the spending, the rising prices, and the shortages. i mean this is real stuff. >> hang on, bakr i. i think what charlie is saying, yes, you're right about who pushed joe biden over the finish line. and the moment that we're in now is not necessarily the moment that we're in in the summer of 2020, bakari. and democrats have to read the room right now. you didn't anticipate a manchin or a sinema. read the room. as a matter of fact, you may not have anticipated this, which is a warning. watch this. this is bill maher. >> some presidents spend their post-presidency building homes for the poor or raising money for charity or painting their

toes. trump has spent his figuring out how to pull off the coup he couldn't pull off last time. here's the easiest three predictions in the world. trump will run in 2024. he will get the republican nomination. and whatever happens on election night, the next day he will announce that he won. i've been saying ever since he lost he's like a shark that's not gone, just gone out to sea. but actually he's been quietly eating people this whole time. and by eating people, i mean he's been methodically purging the republican party of anyone who voted for his impeachment or doesn't agree that he's the rightful leader of the seven kingdoms. >> so? >> i don't disagree with bill maher on that. some of the things that came out of his mouth on that show were wrong, but actually on this point he was correct. and i have a lot of respect for charlie dent because who he was in congress is who he is on cnn, and you can't say that about absolutely everyone. this is where we diverge on our

political thought and ideology. he's someone who actually cared about the deficit then and thinks we need to rein in spending. i'm saying this spending that we're trying to do in build back better is necessary because i think it would be offset by the improvement, the dollar spent in people's lives when we get that money directly in their pockets, doing things like making the childhood tax credit permanent. and so i think that these things are necessary, right? so that is a legitimate debate that we can have. but i do think that there is a danger, don, and i hope charlie is listening as well. the danger is by not doing anything on these justice issues, by not doing anything on these issues that matter, you risk not only 2022, but there is a large swath of people who you may argue were not the independent voters or real americans or whatever, but they're the ones that pushed joe biden over the hump, and they won't be coming back because we haven't done anything for them. and they would have been tired

of being taken advantage of. that is my only warning. >> charlie, you don't get anything if you're not in power anymore, and things can change from month to month, day to day, and of course year to year. do you disagree with that? >> no, i don't disagree. the only thing i'll say to bakari in response is, look, i think it's tragic that we can't come to an agreement in the congress on the john lewis voting rights act. i mean we've reauthorized that '65 voting rights act several times. i voted for it proudly in 2006 when george bush was president. it's really tragic that that has not been agreed to. they should be able to resolve issues like that, and that's really the breakdown in this country right now, that we can't agree on things that we've always been able to agree on. now, i think the democrats have overreached on the other voting rights bill, the h.r. 1. i think that's a stretch. it was always a messaging bill, never meant to become law. we should pick our fights better and if i were the democrats, i i'd push full bore on reauthorizing the voting rights

act. >> all right. thank you very much, gentlemen. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks, don. joining me now, retired general stanley mcchrystal, former u.s. commander in afghanistan and the author of the new book "risk: a user's guide." it's an honor to have you on. thank you. good evening to you. we're seeing a real effort by trump and his allies not only to whitewash the 6th, but now he claims that he was a real victim of a coup. what is this doing to our democracy in your estimation? >> well, i think it's a serious threat to our democracy. if we think what our strength really derives from, it's our unity. if we go back to the original 13 colonies, benjamin franklin reminded us that separately we could never survive. and so the degree to which we could atomize our population, but then we can bring into question the legitimacy of our democracy, the viability of the

republic, that's pretty frightening. and you do that in steps. it doesn't happen all at once. but you start to undermine it. i think it's very dangerous. >> you know, you have been -- you're really outspoken about this. this is what you said in january. you compared to the insurrection to al qaeda. the big lie that drove them there is a lie stronger than ever. are you worried we could see more attacks like the insurrection, maybe worse? >> well, i am. i think what we've had is an explosion in the effectiveness of information technology. some of it's social media, some others. what's that's done is given us a tool that is more powerful than we as a society are yet mature enough to handle. so what's happened is the ability to spread misinformation and disinformation is so much easier, and we found that it's so powerful. it's always been powerful in history, but now we can reach more people in real time. we can make it more effective. and that can leverage people to do things that i think are ill

informed but also very dangerous. >> you know what, general? if he runs again in 2024, is he going to be riling up his supporters even more of these lies -- with even more of these lies and kinds of rhetoric? is that the threat to our national security? >> i think the threat is that everybody politician is now going to school on this now. and so those that are more extreme are going to look at that playbook and say that they can follow it. so i think it won't just be a single political leader, and it will be from both sides, people who have determined that this is the way to do it will try to leverage that tool. and of course once you get in there, you get into almost an arms race of lies potentially, and that could really undercut the viability of the election. >> you know, with very few exceptions, republican officials are lining up to support trump even as we learn more details about his attempts to stay in power. how do you think this looks to our allies and our enemies

abroad? >> you know, it's interesting. we talk about the power of the united states, and the military used to talk about being the tip of the spear. i would also argue that our diplomats are the tip of the spear and some of our news people are, and so are our business people. but the real strength of the spear doesn't lie in the tip. it lies in the shaft, the weight and strength of the shaft, the ability to put power behind what you do. countries around the world can watch the united states, and they can sense if we're divided. they can sense that if we are not willing to come behind the policies of whatever administration's in power and to stay focused. they will almost smell out our weakness, and this is not a time in the world when we want to be weak economically, politically, or militarily. >> there are some alarming things happening between china and taiwan. china continuously flying aircraft into taiwan's defense zone, and taiwan showcasing missiles at their national day

celebration. a war of words between leaders. how concerned are you that china will move to retake taiwan, and what should the u.s. be doing to prevent that? >> well, i think we need to take it very seriously. there's a danger that because it's been 72 years since the nationalist chinese went onto the island of formosa and formed a somewhat sovereign taiwan, that we take it for granted that that will be the case in the future. in reality, the chinese have always held -- the mainland chinese, people's republic of china have always held that they will eventually reunify. but it really wasn't within their military power to do that really until about now. and we still have significant military capability in the pacific, but they've reached the point where there's a question mark there. and that question mark is around whether we are willing to pay the price to do the defense of taiwan. and in they can do two things, if they can create in the mind of people a certain idea of

inefitiability, and the price will be too high, then suddenly it becomes very realistic and very dangerous in the near term, particularly for miscalculation. >> there's only so much of your wisdom that you can impart in your interview, and there's much more in your book. your book is about leadership and handling risk from the pandemic to the assault on our democracy. the u.s. is dealing with crisis after crisis. what do we need from our leaders right now, general? >> don, what i think we need for leaders is probably what we've always needed, but we maybe just need it more. we need clarity of communication. we need constant communication with what we believe to be accurate information and admitting what we don't know at the time. we need a clear narrative, what we're about, what we stand for, and that narrative has to be matched by our behaviors.

we need the courage in leaders to make tough decisions. in cases like covid-19, in a pandemic, you have to make decisions before the exponential growth of infection gets in front of it. that means often a leader will take risks. they will ask a population or a nation to pay for something or do something that isn't apparently necessary yet to people, and yet that leader, because they're the leader, has that responsibility. i think leaders also need to be an example. so they've got to be willing to listen. they've got to be willing to learn. they've got to be willing to adapt their positions. and when it gets tough, they've got to be willing to stand up and lead. i think we've had a lot of good leaders show up in the last couple of years, particularly covid-19. they're spread around the country, but it's not uniform. it's not enough, and i don't think we as the american people have yet decided that we're going to celebrate and support all the right leaders. >> general, again,

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so breaking news tonight. jon gruden resigning as the head coach of the las vegas raiders. this coming in the wake of reports detailing how gruden used misogynistic and anti-gay language in numerous emails over multiple years, not to mention racist language. we'll talk about that. joining me now, former nfl linebacker and sports analyst emmanuel acho. thank you, sir. how are you doing? >> i'm doing great, my friend. thanks for having me. >> let's lay this out because i want you to jump in. but gruden admitted to using a racial trope in 2011 in an email. tonight "the times" is reporting

that he called roger goodell a fa faggot. as you put it, he attacked everybody, a black man, gay people, women, concussion protocol. you said he had no choice but to resign. >> no choice. he was -- jon gruden was homophobic. he was misogynistic. he was racially insensitive. he was perverted. remember, he sent topless photos of cheerleaders of the washington football team to the president of the washington football team. so at the point in which you are both a pervert, a homophobe, a misogynist, and anti-black, you're left with nothing. and jon gruden needed to resign. it's imperative that he did resign, and i'm glad he resigned. >> this is his statement. i have resigned as head coach of the las vegas raiders. i love the raiders and do not

want to be a distraction. thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of raider nation. i'm sorry. i never meant to hurt anyone. you say, look, this is the whole thing when we talk about cancel culture, and i hate that term "cancel culture" because it can be accountability culture. but people use this to say this gruden is getting canceled. you say this is accountability, not canceling. tell me what you're thinking. >> it's not that jon gruden never meant to hurt anyone. it's that jon gruden never meant to get caught. here is why jon gruden was not canceled but rather held accountable, because jon gruden said i don't have a blade of racism in me, closed quote. so what does that mean, don? what that means is if he was racist while not having racism in him, then he does done nothing over the last decade to fix his racism. if he was misogynistic while not having misogyny in him, then he's done no work to fix his

misogyny. it's not a matter of being can canceled. it's realizing that jon gruden is today who he was in 2011. and the reason i can say that confidently is because he is ignorant of who he was in 2011. thus, he has done nothing to fix or change or mature as an individual. so this is not being canceled. this is being held accountable, and the accountability is he has no place in the national football league. >> but we look at this, and i talked to bob costas about this. the national football league, it runs deep in our -- it is a reflection of what's happening in the larger culture, and you see this in our politics and in our culture today. people all the time saying, i'm not racist. donald trump says, i am the least racist person or what have you. and i have said is the new racism not knowing that you're racist or denying that you're racist. he said, this is not who i am. he said it over and over last night. >> i say there's a difference

between being racist and racially ignorant. at a minimum, jon gruden was both racially ignorant and racially insensitive. at minimum, jon gruden was ignorant of his misogyny. at worst, he is both racist and misogynistic and homophobic. so let's clarify exactly the delineation between the two. but in 2011, jon gruden was still 48 years of age. at the point in which you are saying that the vice president of the -- or rather the director of the nfl players association, a black man, demaurice smith, has lips the size of michelin tires, jon gruden, you can't plead ignorance. you're too grown. >> and questioning his intelligence, but go on. >> you know as well as i do, black people have been mocked and ridiculed for centuries because of the size of their lips. and i've said this. you wouldn't make a mama joke about somebody whose mom was dead. you'd have a little bit more cognition of what jokes you can and cannot use based upon the audience you're speaking to.

if we can be real for a second, this is a bigger nfl issue. this is why there needs to be more minorities in position of power, more minority voices, because there was literal, just rampant ignorance laced throughout that email. and let's also be real. bruce allen clearly did something to allow jon gruden to feel comfortable speaking to him in that manner. >> yes. >> jon gruden -- he's the fall guy, but you allow someone a level of comfort to speak to you in such a matter. >> i asked bob costas about that, and he said, well, maybe he's not getting the heat because he's no longer involved. he's no longer a manager -- john allen. >> i agree with that. >> bruce allen. sorry. >> i think that's why jon gruden also resigned. i think jon gruden said, wait a second. if i resign, then i will no longer get more heat. >> can we -- i want question four back up, please, because i have to ask emanuel this before we move on here. so here's the thing. espn is reporting following the

revelations here of gruden's racially insensitive email, las vegas quarterback derek carr said the team rallied around him, and i quote. us as a team, we're like, yeah, coach, it was ten years ago. we love you, man. we got your back, carr said. we're just trying to be there to support coach. i know it's a hard time for him. he told us, men learn from my mistake. when we left that meeting, we didn't take it as how it came out. i wanted that quote. that's why i asked them to go to question four here. the team came out in support of him, but gruden had to know all of these terrible things that he said, i mean, and maybe he thought they weren't going to come out, but he had to know that when these players -- you know, when he was denying this and the players stood up for him. >> here's what we all need to be a little bit more cognizant of in society. just because someone treats you right does not mean that they treat everybody right. jon gruden, of course he treated

his star quarterback earning $125 million, of course he treated him with the utmost respect, particularly publicly. but just because someone is kind and respectful to you does not mean that they are a kind and respectful person. and i understand the raiders wanting to defend their head coach, but if jon gruden, who is the head coach and who was the face of monday night football on espn, speaking to an audience of 13.3 million people weekly or 221 million people annually, if he was the face of large-scale entities like that, then think about what else currently exists in the nfl society. >> yeah. i love hearing from you. your book, "new york times" best-seller, "uncomfortable conversations with a black man," correct? >> yes, sir. >> a lot of people should pick up a copy of that because they could learn. thank you. i appreciate you appearing. >> thank you, brother. a former facebook employee speaking to cnn, warning the company is contributing to havoc around the world with dictators using the platform to manipulate people. she speaks out right here.

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she says facebook knowingly serves up harmful content to young users. she is warning that authoritarian leaders using the platform are creating all sorts of national security concerns. and now the facebook whistle-blower, frances haugen, is getting ready to speak with the social network's own independent oversight board. the question is will the company actually make any changes, and will they want to meet with any others who are raising flags? others like sophie jane, a former facebook employee who is speaking out to cnn about how dictators exploit the platform. cnn's donie o'sullivan has more

now. >> it was very frustrating for me. i started losing sleep because, i mean, i should not have been put in this position, and frankly i was the wrong person for this position. i am not charismatic. i am not good at attracting or receiving attention. i'm an introvert who wants to stay at home and pet my cats. >> reporter: repressive governments around the world using facebook to achieve influence and control. >> if anyone is an expert on public relations, on what is effective for driving attention, it is dictators of those countries. the fact that multiple national governments and presidents felt the need to exploit facebook on mass scales, to manipulate their own citizenry without even trying to hide, that speaks volumes about how important they believed it to be, how important it actually is. >> reporter: some of her findings led to facebook

cracking down on accounts in azerbaijan and honduras, but she says facebook is too slow to act against abuse of its platform, particularly in smaller or developing countries. when it first came to light last year, some of what you had found, facebook executive guy rosen said, with all due respect, what she's described is fake likes, which are routinely removed using automated dete detection. >> if i did not know that guy rosen was lying, i would frankly be concerned about his memory because i personally briefed him on this matter and he knew perfectly well it was not just fake likes. in fact, facebook did to thorough investigations and takedowns that received media attention based on my work. >> this is where there's a lot of similarity between you and frances haugen is in both cases, facebook is saying you were low-level employees and also that frankly neither of you know what you're talking about. >> and i think the people can

decide for themselves who is more credible. >> reporter: she was fired by facebook last year. she said the company told her because of performance issues. facebook offered you $64,000. part of that was the non-disparagement agreement. you chose not to sign that. >> that is correct. >> reporter: before she left the company, she wrote a 7,800 word memo dealing how she said facebook was contributing to havoc around the world, writing she felt like she had blood on her hands. she was expecting facebook to remove the memo from its internal company system, so she also posted it on her personal website. but then facebook asked her website's hosting service to take the memo down, claiming it contained proprietary information. facebook shut down your website. >> first they went to my hosting server and got them to take it down. a few day later, they took down my domain too. >> that seems an extraordinary move to me. >> absolutely. i'm still a bit annoyed that i never got my website back. but i don't blame the hosting

server. no one wants to make an enemy of facebook. >> reporter: facebook told cnn sophie's memo contains sensitive information that could have been used by people trying to get around facebook's safety systems. a company spokesperson also said facebook had invested $13 billion in safety and security and that 40,000 people reviewing content in 50 languages across the world, adding, we've also taken down over 150 networks seeking to manipulate public debates since 2017 and they have originated in over 50 countries with the majority coming from or focused outside of the u.s. our track record shows that we crack down on abuse and fraud with the same intensity that we apply in the u.s. despite facebook saying it is investing billions, both whistle-blowers say the company isn't spending enough to fight hate and misinformation. i find it shocking that on an area as important as this, that

facebook is understaffed. >> i think that speaks to facebook's priorities at the end of the day. >> there he is right there, donie o'sullivan. donie, good to see you. sophie spoke with you. is she willing to testify about her experience at facebook in front of congress? >> reporter: yeah. sophie is willing to testify. she also told us that she has handed over some documents about facebook. she wouldn't specify to a u.s. law enforcement agency. she wouldn't give us any details beyond that, but she is eager to speak and to, as you heard there, share her story. >> i mentioned another whistle-blower right before your reporting, frances haugen. we've been reporting on her for the past week or so. she's going to meet with facebook's oversight board in the coming weeks. how do you think that's going to go? >> reporter: yeah. it's going to be interesting. i'm sure facebook, given all that happened last week and all the attention they got, negative press, they would like this all to go away and for us to forget about frances haugen. but she in the next few weeks, she's due to appear before

parliament in the uk. i believe she's going to brussels. she's also going in front of that facebook oversight board, which is a sort of quasi independent board of experts that facebook has set up to try to make decisions about its platform. and also, don, possibly most importantly here in the u.s., she may in the coming weeks be giving testimony or giving at least speaking to staff on the january 6th select committee that is looking into the insurrection, again, to talk about that very, very important period between last year's election and the insurrection and what facebook did and didn't do and what it did and didn't know about what was being organized, stop the steal, and the big lie being pushed in the lead-up to january 6th. >> donie, we love your reporting. thank you. really appreciate it. my next guest spent 2020 convincing black men to vote, and he says it would be harder to do today. why president biden is losing support among black men. we're going to dive into it next. reliefl severe gives you powerfl

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so president biden's approval is sliding with black voters. did you hear that? president biden's approval sliding with black voters, and he has yet to deliver on key agenda items that many of those voters support. remember this from the president's victory speech? >> especially those moments and especially those moments where this campaign was at its lowest ebb, the african-american community stood up again for me. you've always had my back, and i'll have yours. >> so joining me now, w. mondale

robinson, founder of the black male voters project. thank you, sir. i want to get as much time with you as possible. you were out there the field. you were getting people registered. you were getting them to the polls, laying out the groundwork for biden's victory in georgia. he said he had black voters' backs. has that proven to be true? >> not yet, don. unfortunately, i think it's extremely nerve reckoning that we are at this point this far into a president's administration, and we've not seen them deliver on anything we were promised. big things like voting rights act or criminal justice reform in a real way, especially since these are the reasons that motivated so many black men to participate in politics for the first time ever. >> yeah. but you know -- this is his approval rating among black voters, okay, across the country. plummeted nearly 20 points between july and september. so the question is, look, can it bounce back if he delivers some of these things?

do you think it is gone? what do you think? >> i don't think it's gone completely. i think there's an opportunity for it to bounce back. but in order for it to bounce back, he's got to stop negotiating with republicans and conservative democrats -- >> i've been saying that all along, but everyone says, well, he's got to do this, and he's got to do that. he doesn't have the numbers, and he's got to convince these people to do that. they don't want to work with him. they're never going to work with him. go on. what do you say to that? >> i say it's cap. that means it's lies. it's fake. they absolutely have enough power because they control the senate. they control the house, and they are in the white house. so they absolutely can do exactly what they promised. they just don't have the nerve, the backbone to do it. when we see republicans are in power, not even controlling all three houses, mitch mcconnell stopped an entire democratic

nominee for the supreme court being nominated for an entire year because he wanted to. the democrats are showing black people they don't want to show up for us, and it's dangerous. >> there are people out there trying to put the fear of god into black votes, especially black men, that oh, trump could return. does that even register? >> don, black men don't play the boogie monster in politics. we don't trust politicians in general because they show up two months before an election with proverbial church pan and fried chicken and not really with the gall to do what's necessary to improve our lot in life. i don't think donald trump is big enough or orange enough to scare -- joe biden better deliver on some of those prompro promises.

>> you keep up the great work. it's so good to see you. keep speaking the truth, brother. thank you. >> you got it. peace. >> all right. we'll be right back.

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