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home run at a baseball game. he would say you didn't. he would say no, i did. because he could do anything, after the fact! >> he had a hole in one. >> many holes and one. he shot at 18. he cannot predict what's going to happen, but i do agree with chris that this was not the idea that he's going to monetize it or use it to embarrass macron. i think the only thing he might have imagined, because he wanted to show his buddies, look what i got. this is the kind of stuff i saw all the time. beyond that, i'm not sure he had a plan. >> if the new york times reporting is right, is that he said, why did you want it back. it's mine. he doesn't understand that it's for the american people. he's never been able to separate himself from the office. he thinks the attorney general is actually -- his attorney, it's not, it's the attorney for the american people.
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norm, i want to look at these terms. this is what we learned today from the mar-a-lago -- national defense information -- removal of government record and obstruction of a federal investigation. does this tell you anything about where the investigation is focused on right now? >> it does. it gives us some additional information, and of course these are the very basic additional documents that were released today. even that gives us more information about where things are headed. that's why i think no matter how redacted, the release of this affidavit is going to be so explosive. take the first thing on there. the espionage act. -- we all were wondering, i wrote a long piece. would angle are they taking? they've just stated their theory of the case. one that they might or might not argue to the jury. he retained government documents. well, don, if i go to the white house and help myself to a property that is in the oval
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office and i take it with me, i'm retaining government property, that's a crime. these are boxes and boxes and boxes. i think we're already learning more. >> okay, but he says he wants this information out there. do you think that this is going to be helpful to him? >> i do not. i think it is going to tell the story of why the government -- they have to put the details to convince a judge that there was probable cause of crime. >> but is this why his attorneys are doing in court to have the information released and didn't say any thing? >> what could they argue. let's go back to the so-called standing order. there might have been a supersecret hither to unknown to everyone in the white house, standing order that he automatically declassified his documents by taking them to the residents. it might also be a standing order that pigs should fly. neither the matter, because that's not the way things work, as norm well knows. but the other preposterous thing it's just consider the
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notion that donald trump was -- documents up to the residents and burning the midnight oil in the map room, studying the nuances of the start treaty. does not make any sense to anyone? he did not even read the president's daily brief. as i said before. it's preposterous on so many levels, it's unbelievable. >> it appears he may have been studying at the private life of mr. macron. we know he had documents related to him. >> maybe. >> about what you just spoke about, chris, this is cnn exclusive reporting. 18 trump officials including two former chief of staff going on record about trump's claim about the standing order of declassification. john kelly saying quote, nothing approaching an order that who was ever given, mick mulvaney saying that he was not aware of the general order like that. it's something like that have gone around the chief of staff, you think? >> the only guy who was not weighed in was mark meadows.
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meadows might say, this is just fine with him. i happen to know that mark meadows was doing -- the morning of january 20th. and i don't think he was packing boxes for mar-a-lago. and you could read about it in my book on the biden white house. but mark meadows is just about the only person i can think of who might have said, this is just fine. >> the idea that all these people were packing boxes at the last hour is just shocking. >> listen. i gotta tell you. that is slightly plausible to me, considering he thought he was going to hang on to power, and he may have thought that he would not have to move -- out of the white house? >> january 20th? it reminds me of a scene from margot, where the mob is at the gates of the u.s. embassy and everybody is burning things as fast as they can, throwing them into boxes. i mean, this is keystone cop stuff. but it's trump. i believe it.
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>> bringing these boxes to mar-a-lago would have required just trump and mark meadows and a u-haul. many people or could be implicated in this, michael. >> of course. he's always surrounded himself with people who will do the bad thing that he wants them to do. they may even do it before he asks them to do, it because they understand what those standing orders are. the standing orders are protected him. protect the conspiratorial culture. >> but that won't work when it comes to the legal argument that he seems to be testing or getting ready to make, that he declassified those documents. >> so all of this is -- >> it doesn't matter, because there are very elaborate procedures -- i was in charge of them. when i was at pixar -- i worked on the executive order restructuring the classification system that is still in place, precisely because these documents are so
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sensitive. so dangerous if they get out to our national interest. there are elaborate procedures that are in place, and he is not free to ignore the laws, the regulations. even if he wants to declassify, he still has to follow the rules. the notion that he threw a bunch of papers in a box and he had a standing declassification order, whenever he took something to the white house residence -- >> even if people were frantically -- >> you lose your law license if you make that argument in court. >> okay. okay. even if people were frantically throwing stuff and boxes. it's a tongue-in-cheek thing. he thought he was going to hang on to power, but he actually did think, obviously, when he said, on january 6th.
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he thought he might hang on to power. >> some high-ranking officials have learned the hard way, that you can't do this. john deutch, bill clinton's first cia director resigned because he had fallen out of favor with clinton. but it was discovered that he had 31 files of top secret documents on his computer. his personal computer at home. he escaped prison sentence, because clinton pardon him on his last day. sandy berger, a national security advisor also -- i mean he did not wind up behind bars, but he lost his law license. everybody remembers david petraeus, who barely escaped a conviction. so, i mean, these are serious crimes. it doesn't matter whether the documents or classified or not. and that is something to remember. >> you're just reminding us of how old we all are. i remember. wait a minute. you're taking me back. can we talk about allen weisselberg, the former cfo of the trump organization? he pleaded guilty today. for 15 year tax scheme where he
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benefited the, or the trump organization benefited as well. he can testify against the trump, or if it goes to trial this fall, what could that reveal, michael? >> i'm afraid it might not reveal very much, because from one i understand, they're dealing primarily with why -- was engaged, i was about one point $5 million estimated value of wrongdoing. doug no one might know is an attorney better than we would as possible, but i keep thinking about the general motors case, where this was a corporation that was responsible for 140 deaths over ten years with a problem with an ignition system. nobody went to jail for that. it were fined, but it was far less than one billion dollars. it was the cost of doing business for them. i'm afraid that in this case, weisselberg's delayed and delayed, and now he has made his deal, and the fallout for the trump organization could be very minimal.
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>> how did we end up in a world where the former -- trump's former cfo pleading guilty to tax fraud, and that does not even rise near the top of the scandals or the legal battles that he is facing right now? how does that happen? >> one thing we have forgotten is that it's been a bad week for trump for all of the reasons we've been talking about. it's about to get a lot worse, because the sheriff is about to come back into town. her name is list cheney. the january 6th hearings are going to rev up once again. they've already laid out a pretty clear map on serious crimes that trump may have committed. i think that's going to be a defining test of the biden presidency. what merrick garland does or does not do when it comes to prosecuting trump and his cronies is going to be a real test along with ukraine, and with the pandemic. i think that's with the history books are going to be talking
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about. >> may i suggest that sheriff liz cheney is actually part of a posse? and she's got fani willis, the georgia da who's going full steam ahead in her special grand jury in atlanta, looking at trump's election related crimes. she is way out in front of merrick garland, all the doj is catching up. and this is the greatest impact, probably, michael, of the weisselberg guilty pleas. the new york attorney general, to james, we know trump took the fifth amendment hundreds of times when he appeared before her. she has the power, unlike the tax case, she has the power to seek the corporate death penalty because of the pattern of misdeeds, trump's fifth amendment assertion, and she can use these weisselberg guilty pleas as part of that pattern. i think it's multiple. multiple dangerous fronts. the attorney general has, in new york, the attorney general has the power in an investigation of the kind -- he attorney general is not doing to seek a broader array
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of remedies and penalties then just in this -- >> it could wipe out the whole value of the company. >> or lead to its liquidation or taking way of assets. i'm not saying she'll do it, but it's like with the remake of ghostbusters. liz cheney, fani willis, tish james, watch out, donald trump. >> we live in a golden tower, fly around on your own airplane. why on earth would anybody want to be president of the united states? >> -- why can't they also established supervision. >> we will talk about that later. thank you, guys. senate races that once looked like a lot for republicans are not looking a lot closer.
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months away from the midterms and a blunt prediction today from mitch mcconnell. he expects the senate races to be extremely close, with either party ending up with a slight majority. basically admitting republicans may not take back the senate. >> i think there's probably a greater likelihood that the house flips in the senate. senate races are different. their state lined. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. >> let's discuss with cnn's political commentator, charlie dent, and democratic strategist, they're both here. good evening, gentlemen. charlie, wow, mitch mcconnell! he usually sounds pretty confident, but when it comes to the prospects of retaking the senate, not so much. what's up? >> mitch mcconnell has been burned before in 2010 and 2012. i could probably count at least four races.
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probably five or the senate republicans should have won but did not. remember sharon angle and christine o'donnell and tom again and richard mourdock. they should not have been lost. here we are again. that was an issue of candidate quality. here we are again where we have candidates, republican candidates who are underperforming and states like georgia, pennsylvania, arizona, ohio. and so, mcconnell has every right to be concerned. his candidates just are not doing well in polling, right now. there have been some issues we could talk about big -- all his problems. as his redundancy -- residency issues. that's a challenge for him. j. d. vance, probably more of an authenticity challenge. he's got a deal with that. that's what we are dealing with. republicans need to basically protect five seats and democrats need to protect five seats. there's maybe ten, maximum 12 seats that are competitive in this cycle.
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a third of the senate's up and if i was mcconnell, i'd be worried. >> paul, let's talk about which are we just mentioned because mitch mcconnell intentionally start talks about candidate qualities. he opening the door to blame republican omanis with zero political experience? like doctor oz in pennsylvania? -- herschel walker in georgia? >> he's looking to blame trump. let's face it, mcconnell blames trump. it's not just a lack of experience. these are very eccentric people. doctor oz voted in turkey before he ever voted in pennsylvania. he's been living in new jersey for 20 years. now he was famously on tv talking about crudités at a grocery store -- it's talent. but there's also a larger, i think, national mood that's going on. too much of the press has missed it. gas prices are getting better. abortion rights are not. so the things that are
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motivating democrats are still motivating them. everybody thought, oh, the search warrant executed mar-a-lago. that's going to inflame the public race. how many times did you hear knuckleheads on cable saying that? no evidence of that. i've called around the country law, none of them are saying this mar-a-lago is killing us. they're seeing gas prices are getting better. abortion rights are not. we think things are trending. it's 81 days, 81 lifetimes. but right now, the democrats are on the front foot for once. >> interesting. charlie, do you agree with that? >> certainly the environment is better today for democrats than it was a few months ago. i would agree with paul that the roe v. wade decision is certainly a challenge for republicans in these swing states in marginal districts. this is not an issue that they want. to the extent that republicans are talking about the search at donald trump's home at mar-a-lago, while they're not talking about joe biden and the
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democrats and inflation and the economy. they want republicans -- republicans want to make this issue about the party in power. that would be the democrats, but to the extent that they're talking about abortion rights and also talking about donald trump and the search, and election denial, this is a major problem for the party. they can't stay on a message, because donald trump is trying to turn this election, it seems, from a referendum on the democrats into a choice between himself and the democrats, or maybe a referendum on donald trump. that's not where the republicans want to be. mcconnell has mentioned that mcconnell and trump do not have a good relationship for obvious reasons. trump cost the senate republicans and majority by his intervention in the georgia runoffs. there's a lot of hostility out there. >> charlie, this is exactly the reason that i think the whole crudités story was a big story. because of what you said.
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you shall maloney in new york saying democrats are not relate-able, they need to be more related to people. but if you look at what's happening in pennsylvania, someone saying crudités, he's going vegetable trey. that's actually a real story. because fetterman versus oz, it shows that fetterman is up by 11 points. there's a relatability issue when it comes to this race. you've said that this race is going to tighten up, but will it tighten up enough? >> well, yeah, look, the crudités thing that was an unforced error. but i think the bigger challenge for doctor oz, is his residency. i think that's really the issue. >> authenticity. >> what's? that >> authenticity. >> yeah, and fetterman's are very flawed candidate, many people feel the. he's got a bernie sanders type, i could make a case he's not gonna have a great appeal in many of the communities in philadelphia. and that holistic that he has isn't always playing everywhere very well. but again, the residency issue,
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and also don't forget to, doctor oz had over $20 million of negative ads dumped on his head in that primary. it was enormously contentious. and many of the republican establishment preferred dave mccormack. so, there's still a lot of hostility. he has to put together his base to a greater extent than he has. the crudités thing, that was an unforced error. i think that's gonna pass. but it didn't help. >> i don't know. i don't know about that. i think people underestimate that story, especially when you think about authenticity. not just a crudités, it's a relatability and authenticity. paul, let's talk about georgia. it was a big surprise when they went for biden in 2020 and put in two democratic senators. warnock is fighting to keep his seat up against herschel walker, who is had a series of gaffes there. does warnock have a good shot of keeping georgia blue. >> he does. this is the republicans best opportunity to pick up a seat. because georgia is so close, it's traditionally been a republican state a last 20 years or so.
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again, mister walker, one of the great football players i've ever seen. not one of the best candidates i've ever seen. reverend warnock, he knows what he's doing. he's executing on middle class economic issues in georgia. and poor mr. walker's having to answer questions just like doctor oz, couldn't answer how many houses he has. he said too, he's got like ten. there's been a lot of questions about how many children mr. walker has. that's a pretty easy question as a dad for me to answer. and so, again, in this case it's not authenticity so much, it's just, who really is this guy besides a guy who played a football? it is really what we won in georgia? it's really hurting him. he's having a very hard time getting out of the shoe. >> it's also qualification, let's just be honest. and yeah. i'll just leave it there. >> as we say back home, bless his heart. >> yeah. quality of candidates, thank you very much, i appreciate it. >> he says florida is a place where woke goes to die, but a
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am i wrong? >> you are not wrong. woke was a word that was hours, don. it was a black colloquialism. it was utilized when people knew what was going on around them. when i was in college and more houston 2005 and 2004, people say you will because he knew what was going on around you. somebody alert and paying attention. you can delve into conspiracy theories, et cetera, now, it is being bastardized. it is anti intellectualism, dishonest, whatever rhonda sentence thinks woke is, it is not what is supposed to mean. >> i have a lot of people say, you don't know it will get is, when you talk about woke and wokeness. stop it, please. this is from the ruling, alice. normally, the first segment bars -- a state from burning speech while private acts -- . but in florida, the first amendment apparently bars to suffered speech while the state may suffer speech freely. what do you think that?
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>> everyone likes to throw woke around, but the name of this piece of legislation that was signed is the individual freedom act. >> the governor called it the anti woke act. >> ron is all in on wokeness. he is 100% using this as a cornerstone for what he plans to do next. he is covering the gambit on this. here is the thing, there are some components of this that i do think are important, things that they need to be pushed back, whether we talk about in the workplace or in schools, there has been some efforts by those on the left to really push an ideology that makes some people feel us though they are inferior. the whole white privilege concept makes people feel inferior. that is one aspect of this i think is important to push back on that in the school. there should never be an effort to try to make any person to
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deterrence feel inferior. that is part of what is happening in this new ideology that is taught in schools. that is one component i think is important. however, there is a large part of this that has done a tremendous overreach in regards to pushing back on some concepts that i think are important, but they are taking it a little too far. >> kari, let's talk about this because the thing they call it, the stop woke act bill does not mention critical race theory. its intention was to prevent teaching or training this is just a person is privileged or oppressed based on their race or color, their sex or national origin. the judge said if florida truly believes we live in a post racial society, then let it make its case. but you cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents. go on, what do you think of that? >> this conversation is kind of
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silly. first of all, white privilege is a thing. you can look at silicon valley, for example, a recent example, you had the former founder and ceo of we work herenda company into the ground. they lost 40 billion dollars, but he got another dementia 50 billion dollars worth of investment. he was able not to fail once but twice in a private venture. that was due to his privilege as a white man. you have a privilege that exist in this country because of the color of your skin. whether or not we want to talk about the honest history of our country are not something totally different. if you want to talk about people's place in the country because of who they love or the color of their skin or who they pursue, then we really have to have an honest conversation. we have never dealt with the issue of race. what's desantis wants to do in the state of florida is make customer. he is pushing not woken us, not white privilege, it is anti intellectualism. i said this before, and i will say it again, not everybody wants to be as anti
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intellectual as desantis. the fact of the matter is this, he does not want individuals to feel empowered knowing their real history. i believe that i can criticize this country because the blood of my family literally runs through the soil of the country. whether or not it was my grandfather who was a veteran or whether or not it was my father shot in the civil rights movement, this is a part of our history. my father went to jail not once but twice unjustly. so, when you consider all of these things and raising black children and this america, let's tell the truth. i don't care if it is called walk. i don't care if it's called white privilege, i don't care what term you want to put on it, i want to be honest about this country's history. desantis lives in disney, weirdly enough, he's the governor of florida. he lives in a fairytale and. he does not live in america really is. >> alice, you are saying that it makes people feel inferior.
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how exactly does it make people feel under? >> part of the teaching and part of the conversation that has been introduced because a child that simply by the color of your skin, you are inferior, or you are unduly privileged, that does make someone feel as though they owe something to other students. here is the thing. when we talk about diversity and inclusion and equality, the sheer, mere definition of saying one race disappear that another flies in the face of making sure that we have equity in our school system. that is the message that he is trying to say. we need to take these teachings out of the curriculum and out of the schools. >> should we just be teaching the history of the country, which is black history is american history. >> but don, we don't want a white kid to feel inferior. i don't want a white kid or black kids or anybody to feel that because of the color of their skin, their interior. that is the point. we are talking about the
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systems in this country that treat people unequal because of the color of their skin. jackson, mississippi is a predominantly black city, does not have clean water. denmark, south carolina does not have clean water. we know black and brown folks are wrongfully and overly incarcerated. we are talking about black women in this country who are 3-4 times more likely to die during childbirth than white women. we are talking about black women who are the largest and most booming small business owners, who but who had the least access to capital. this is not a figment of my imagination, i don't believe. these are real life statistics. we're talking about systems of oppression. i don't want a white kid to feel any type of way, other than understanding what the history is and where we are living now. i firmly believe that there is nothing, absolutely nothing that is in this country that we cannot really imagine. that is what i want to do. i want us to reimagine with
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watson under agreement of the nfl and player association agreement but he suspended without pay for a regular season games and. will pay a 5 million dollar fine. also undergo anguish nil by ration from borough experts in felony recommended treatment program. he has been accused of sexual misconduct more than 2 dozen women, most cases settled confidentially here. is his reaction today. >> i am moving on with my career and life. i'm continue to dip my incidents just because settlements and things like that happen, does not mean the person is guilty for anything. i feel like a person has the opportunity to prove his innocence. we proved that on the legal side, and we will continue the push for it as an individual in person. >> joining me now, cnn contributor, carrie champion. carey, hello, good to see you. >> hi, don, good to see you too. >> can you break this down for us. what about this on watson -- talk to us about how far the allegations? go >> bigger picture here with
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this on watson, and i will set the stage for the folks at home who are not necessarily familiar with his quarterback. at one point in time, no less than 2 years ago, he was called by his then former coach a university as the michael jordan at the nfl. he came in as a wonderful draft pick who came in as the face of the nfl, and terms of quarterbacks, how they look and think and intelligent they are. things went really bad -- things about the texans, and as they one bad with the texans, we've heard stories from 2020 that he may be inappropriate with such therapists. but for whatever reason, call it life, the covid pandemic, you name it, everything goes -- we don't hear anything about it. then ultimately, somebody comes out and says this is what he has done to me. one of the massage therapist talk about it and a real way. they had 4 seats. he dm to me, he did this. at the very least, he was inappropriate.
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at the very most, most are saying that it was sexual harassment and incredible. the nfl has a huge problem on our hands. they have gotten it wrong when it comes to punishment time and time again. insert differ name whether it be ray rice, colin kaepernick, we can go down the list. they can't get it right. not in the defence, but how do you say sexual harassment versus how many games you suspended? it does not make sense. >> i don't people to get confused, you talk about colin kaepernick, you mean they got it wrong with the kneeling, not that he's been accused -- >> yeah, they got it wrong with how they treat these people who they feel or not -- >> got it. you heard watson deny everything, and he wants to move out of this. life will be nfl penalty and any measures they say they are taking get through to him if he is just over? >> i think the shaun watson cooperated with the nfl pa.
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everybody wanted to get it right, and this is the first time showing that they went through the different particles, and they came back and pushed back and set, instead of this private sense, this private our brother said they get 6 games. the nfl says, no, we want more. the shaun says, no, i except more. can we just move on with their lives? i think, ultimately, if they have it their way, and this is a coordinated effort, it looks good on all sides, and they will move on. the problem that the nfl has is that they are not willing to talk about the quiet part out loud? they have a real problem, and they have to address it. the bottom line is business. the aspect of somebody's personal life does not coincide with that make their money. >> look, at the same time watches we've given one of the biggest contract in nfl history we're talking big money here what message do you think of the? >> message says that winning trumps all.
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to have $230 million guaranteed. those who are watching and paying attention, they structured the deal. by the, the cleveland browns, structured deshaun watson's deal. so that very first deal that he was only making 1 million and some of dollars. only sounds crazy for me to say. but he is only essentially getting fined half 1 million dollars. this does not really affect that big guaranteed chunk of change. because they knew this was coming and i wanted to cooperate. so at the end of the day, if you can win, if you can put fans in the seats, in these arenas, in the stadiums, we will take you. regardless of your behavior. >> we need to see more of your carry champion. i love conversing with you and we don't see enough of you. thank you for being, so user. >> thank you for having me my friend, see. >> hawaii has seen a post covid surge of tourists and transplants a lot of neighborhood people are not happy about it. w. kamau bell asked, can he moved to hawaii without being a jerk? that is next. is the planning effect.
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w. kamau bell is back with another new episode of united shades of america, this week, kamal takes us to hawaii to look at the post covid surge of tourists and transplants, how that surges impacting native people, land and culture. he's or is a preview. >> this is where the broken relationship begins between the united states and its military and the people in hawaii. >> more and more mainlanders have been moving here because it's an easy place to escape.
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we saw that movers and shockers program. >> yeah, i think that's a very problematic program. it's a settler colonialism supercharged with social media. so that you can be a digital nomad and then occupy the space. meanwhile, the people of this land can't afford it. >> and they can't move to the suburbs and the ocean, there's no place to go. >> people are homeless in their own homeland, struggling and surviving as best they can, and often that means affordable housing is living in your car or under a blue tarp tent, kids are going to school you got a job maybe. but you just can't afford a place to live. >> joining me now, the host of united shades of america, w. kamau bell is also the director of the emmy nominated series, we need to talk about cosby. and the coauthor of the new book, do the work and anti racist activity book. which is available now. good evening, sir. didn't you tell me you've made the bestseller, you join the
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group that urine? >> i'm part of the exclusive new york times bestseller list. >> that i'm. on >> yes, i know that. you bring that up every time i see. >> enough about me, kamala, like everything else hawaii was locked down in the beginning of the pandemic. that basically meant no tourists. that is not the case anymore. hawaii's dealing with a huge influx of people right now. is this their version of gentrification? what is going on here? >> yeah, i mean i think it's been their version of gentrification since the natives would say the island was stolen from them. when you think about the fact that tourism is back up in hawaii, the thing that is changes that a lot of people who are making a living off tourism, they haven't gotten their job back. the people who work in houses in maine and staff, those people have not gotten their hours back because many of us who travel have gotten used to not having that same level of service. and the hotels than tell us that they're doing them for their safety because of covid, would it means that even less people are making of money
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tourism than before. >> yet, they're still saving money with that as many people in their employ. >> so listen, this isn't new for hawaii, outsiders even trying to control and use the land and resources of hawaii for generations. >> yeah, i mean you think about hawaii, as i said in the episode, it's literally, the land is so fertile it could grow rocks. and yet, most of their food is imported, which puts them in a very vulnerable position, because of the way that they are set up with america. they can grow all the food they needed and more, they could be exporting food. and yet, because of the way they're set up to the u.s. government, they import most of their food. >> then what is the answer? because the big question that you asked about this episode is, can you visit or moved to hawaii without being a jerk? so what's the answer. how do you fix this? >> it's a complicated question, i think overwhelmingly the answer is, no. but if you have to, be careful and try and do it the right way. my family has been to hawaii
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several times, i didn't go as a kid but my wife was in that clip has gone a lot of her life. and we understand that if we go, we want to connect with locals. we want to make friends with people and be a part of peoples lives instead of going to a resort and expecting them to aloha over you. >> is that the ideal situation for the native hawaiians you talk to? when it comes to mainlanders? one is? >> i don't know, i think a lot of native hawaii's hawaii and sovereignty. there is that they would have their own country back the way that a lot of people in puerto rico feel, that that they be allowed to make decisions for themselves. i think the relationship of the united states government is uneasy at best for a lot of native hawaiians. your program as always, i'm not just saying that because i know i love you, it's always fascinating, i always learn a lot. so thank you, come on. i'll see you soon. >> thank you. >> be sure to tune into the united states of america with kamau bell, it airs sunday at 10 pm, only on cnn. and thanks everyone for watching. our coverage continues. our coverage continues. (jackie) i've made progress with my mental health.
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