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. president biden calling out anti-semitism after the rapper ye, better known as kanye west, praised adolf hitler. the president tweeting, i just want to make a few things clear. the holocaust happened. hitler was a demonic figure. instead of giving him a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting anti-semitism wherever it hides. silence is complicit. he's right, and frankly far too many people have been silent. i want to bring in cnn political commentators maria cardona and scott jennings, also tom foreman and phil mudd. you know, guys, i have to tell

you, i'm tired of talking about kanye west. i really am. i'm over the conversation, and i wish we could get over it, but the problem is the significance of the platform that he has. >> yeah. >> the fact that we've got hate crimes on the rise. the fact that we've got social media platforms being used as if people conflate that freedom of speech and free speech is synonymous with hate speech. the idea that we're not talking about things like politics and the idea of breaking with the monarchy and being able to not be suppressed by a government. but instead it's an invitation to use the n-word, an invitation to talk about the holocaust as not being real. there's this moment i want to play for you as we're getting into this conversation about what jonathan greenblatt says. he is the ceo of the anti-defamation league talking about why we should care broadly but specifically about someone

with a platform like this. >> the truth is he still has a lot of cultural cachet. his name is still known around the world. so when someone like that is popularizing anti-semitism, we've all got a problem. >> by the way, lest you think it's not a political issue, you know the house judiciary committee, very important, right? this was something that was on their twitter feed. these three names. it just said, kanye, elon, trump. that was up as of october 6th, 2022, as in a few months ago. it only recently came down after he made the statements, i believe, surrounding the alex jones podcast and discussions. this is all of our problems. you see it that way? >> yeah. here's the thing. when times are tough -- and times have been tough for a while -- historically people want to blame others. they want to blame minorities. they want to embrace extreme

positions that they think will protect them in some way. people may do that. that may be what history does. when it turns into a wildfire is when you allow great big public names and other public names back them in opening that door and saying, yeah, this is okay. this is fine. this is just free speech. i don't think people in america are against free speech. >> mm-hmm. >> but the idea of unfettered, destructive speech, there have always been limits on what we do. we have not yet figured out how much this should or shouldn't be limited, but, boy, does this look like something that a lot of people are saying this can't go on. >> phil, you and i have had these conversations in the past about the idea of people being able to feel entitled to say what they want. you've got that old common quote from i think it was voltaire. i can disagree with you but i will fight like hell for the right to say it. there's always been consequences to certain types of speech, and the idea is that you can't -- i

mean the courts recognize there are certain penalties attached. it's not like it's entirely blameless. but the way that people talk about the first amendment and free speech now, they assume that it relates to any and everything without consequences, and there are real-life consequences to it proliferating. the numbers are out there. speak to me about, phil, what impact the rise of it has on the safety of our nation. >> boy, this is going to make you squirm. so if you go back 15 years ago, people in this country, i think, you know, 99% of them would have said, if you see islamic extremism and people encouraging acts of violence against jews who come from an islamic extremist perspective, do you think the fbi should investigate them? people would have said, absolutely. there's a universal perspective that that's appropriate. if you go fast-forward to today and you say, if you see

anti-jewish rhetoric from people who showed up at mar-a-lago, i think there would be a significant percentage of people who would say, i'm not sure i'm comfortable with the fbi investigating that. there is a common perspective here, though, and that is when you see extremists, in this case, people who are anti-jewish, talking on public forums, there is going to be a sliver of the american population that says, not only do i believe that, but that authorizes me or validates me to commit an act of violence. boy, this is extremely uncomfortable because this is going to be tough to investigate, partly because a lot of americans are going to say, i'm okay with this. >> maria, you're nodding. and thinking about the reality of what he's saying and these figures by the way, the numbers we have and the sources from the center for countering digital hate from the anti-defamation league, the use of the n-word up 300%. anti-semitic posts at least up 61%. gay slurs up 58%.

anti-trans slurs up 62%. that's just since elon musk took control. >> yeah. i mean this whole thing, i think, is even more pernicious than just people saying, yeah, it's okay. to what president biden said, it's the silence that is also nefarious and pernicious and allows this to fester and become something that's dangerous, that actually has cost lives, right? and it has cost lives across the board. let's remember the massacre in el paso that happened because of donald trump saying things like hispanic invasion, right? and so this is something that it has got to be up to, like jonathan said, he's a wonderful friend of mine, that we are the ones that have to put a stop to it in both parties and in everywhere that we see it. and it just so happens that it is a little bit more pernicious

in the republican party because there are people there who talk about this like it is free speech, like it is allowed, like it is okay. and too many people are silent about it. not scott. you've always spoken out about it, and there are leaders in the republican party who have as well, though i don't think as strongly as they should or as immediately as they should. they're doing it more now. but donald trump is still the leader of that party, and he had lunch with kanye, and he had lunch with a white supremacist. and that, i think, he has got a huge platform still, and as long as leaders believe that that's okay by either saying it's okay or by not saying anything, this is going to continue to be a danger to our society. >> i want you to weigh in as well, but this is breaking news we got in from evan perez and his reporting. it really is in line, in part, with the idea of as much as we talk about social media and the ills that accompany it, it's also a vehicle that many people are still getting their information and news from and

relying on it even though things are changing. we know that there has been some released twitter emails that show how employees even debated how to handle the 2020 new york post hunter biden story. and i know you were talking about this a little bit. i wonder what your reaction is because there's this tension, right? there's the idea of what -- i think the phrase was hell hole or cesspool that elon musk referred to as social media. but then there's the idea people are going to it for legitimate news sources. >> who amongst us have never wanted to purchase a seventh level of hell and renovate it? we can make this better. it's interesting. twitter has not changed for me. i use it. i follow news people, and it's kind of a newsfeed for me. it hasn't really changed for me. i know a lot of people are freaking out about it. it doesn't look any or feel any different to me now. conservatives believe that before he bought this and specifically during the 2020 election, the people who worked

there were colluding with democrats and people who supported democrats to suppress information that was true and that could have been harmful to joe biden's candidacy, specifically this hunter biden story. i haven't read all the information that's been released. i know it's out there on the internet tonight. but that has been the belief of conservatives, is that there was essentially this massively influential platform that was putting its thumb on the scale. and so i guess we'll find out internally what was going on. i mean, remember, they shut down "the new york post's" account over this story, which turned out to be absolutely, 100% true. and conservatives have really and i think correctly been in a lather about it ever since. and so this free speech issue, i think it's absolutely vital to do what you said, which is we all have to -- we have to stop giving attention to people who are saying these things for attention, or who are having some personal crisis or whatever. but at the same time, these

platforms, i do think there needs to be some reckoning about were they tilting the scale in 2020 or in any other election? >> let me bring phil back into the conversation because part of this and the development of what's been happening, there have been posts that undercut the claim that even tonight elon musk was tweeting out about, phil, that says that twitter had acted under orders from the government essentially to suppress the hunter biden laptop stories. now, there's been a series of tweets that have now been posted about this, saying there is no evidence that i've seen of any government involvement in the laptop stories and lawyers for facebook parent company meta have said similar comments in recent weeks. it disputes the claims from republicans that the fbi somehow coerced the suppression of the story. the greater notion here, it's all part of a larger discussion that certain information is allowed through and others are not. there's a conservative viewpoint being silenced. there's information that's not

flattering to democrats, that suddenly everyone is trying to suppress, but everyone else is a victim. what's your take? >> i disagree with you. no. no. there's a legitimate conversation that should be held in the public media and social media sites and in the congress about the investigation on hunter biden, about whether what twitter did was appropriate, whether what the department of justice did was appropriate. there's a much larger and totally separate conversation about whether you allow hate speech on social media supported by a former president that is anti-semitic and that could lead to the deaths of american citizens. we should not conflate these two, and i disagree with the direction of the conversation. hunter biden is different from a conversation about whether we encourage americans to believe that anti-semitism is appropriate and that potentially the murder of americans who believe in anti-semitism is acceptable. different conversations. >> i agree, and i'm not

conflating the two. the notion that most people are thinking about these issues in a far too broad umbrella for the very reasons that you're speaking about, phil. the idea here that there's only one discussion that is had, and we're talking about suppressing information on social media. and inevitably it faollows back to a road where it ought to be compartmentalized in a more productive way. >> this becomes -- one of the problems here is, you know the old saying, a righteous person does what is righteous whether or not it benefits him or her. one of the problems in all of this is people are calculating, does it help me? does it help me to let somebody say something racist or anti-semitic or misogynist? does it help me? then they don't say anything because it helps me. and later on when it all bolows up, they can say, i never supported that.

that's the very thing you're talking about, maria, people being quiet about this. they're not being quiet because they don't know about it, and they're not being quiet because they don't know the impact of it. they're being quiet because for the time being, they think it helps them, which is the same as encouraging it. >> and, you know, scott, you talk about how conservatives were thinking that twitter was aligned with democrats. during the election, democrats are convinced -- and i still think it's true -- that i don't necessarily think the people who ran facebook were aligned with conservatives but that everything that was happening on facebook, right, the fake news that was out there, that all of that hurt democrats in terms of the stories that were being pushed, the false stories that were being pushed, the russian stories that were being -- the russians were doing it, right? does that mean that i think the officials at facebook were

colluding with conservatives? no, i don't think so. but it goes back to how are these platforms run? and that, i think, the bottom line is we're not quite sure yet. like what's going on with elon musk at twitter? i mean people think -- you said that your feed hasn't changed. tons of people's feeds have changed. they see a lot more hate. they see a lot more misogyny, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and that's happening to me. so what is going on here, right? it happens in both atmospheres, democrats and republicans. but i think tom's right. it always is about -- and it shouldn't be -- what is benefiting me? it should be what is right and what is wrong and what do i need to speak out on? >> real quick. >> i agree with something phil said, though. the separation of legitimate political debate from the countenancing of absolute vile hate speech and giving attention to people like kanye west and this other character he brought with him to that dinner with trump. i do believe they are separate conversations.

how the tech companies deal with information flow, that's one issue. this other issue, though, and i don't think candidly that many people in the republican party are being silent about this. trump is obviously the core issue on this one. >> right. >> but everybody from mcconnell to mccarthy down to other rank and file republicans here in washington were pretty uncomfortable with it and did speak out, and i think understood just how big of a problem it was for trump to have done that lunch or that dinner and really for him to have tried to promote kanye west as some, you know, paragon of virtue because he had been canceled or he's the new face of the whatever, free speech. no, he is not. >> in fairness, that's where we are now. things like this have been bubbling along for months and months and months. for people now to say, oh, that's too far, i think a lot of people in the democratic and republican party would privately say, it went too far a long time ago. >> you know, we are out of time.

phil, you're going to yell at me in my ear for different reasons. i'll give you the last word. i'll defer to you because i know you're going to gf me a lot of hell if i don't. go, phil. they're screaming at me. talk to me. >> are you comfortable going into an election campaign with the department of justice and the fbi investigating people that is right-wing extremists who are comfortable with anti-semitism investigating people who are supporting presidential campaigns? yes or no? >> that's how we're going to do it. i hear you. i see you, phil. next up, a new development on a story we've been following far-right talk show host alex jones filed for personal bankruptcy today. this is significant because jones was ordered to pay some $1.5 $1.5 billion to families of sandy hook massacre victims following a series of defamation trials this year. an attorney representing the family has told cnn that jones' personal bankruptcy filing,

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officially set in the world cup, and tomorrow the u.s. will face off against the netherlands in a do or die match. but this world cup has seen its share of controversy both on and off the field with thousands of miles not enough for some players to escape domestic politics. back with me, maria cardona, and joining, christine brennan and cnn correspondent tom foreman. first of all, i don't know if you saw this image earlier of the qatari tv mocking a moment where they were waving goodbye with their hands over their mouths after germany's loss. christine, tell us the significance of this moment and why that mocking gesture is so defiant. >> well, shame on those announcers for doing that. the german team, before its first match, decided to get a picture taken, a team picture taken, all of them putting their hands over their mouths. what that was about is they were mocking the censorship or protesting the censorship of

fifa saying they could not wear those lgbtq armbands. it does get involved. anyway, so good for the germans for doing that. they went and then lost to japan and they ended up losing and are not going on to the round of 16. so it's easy to mock them, but i think history will judge them very well. those german athletes doing that little symbol, i think, will be remembered far longer than whatever happened on the field. >> the idea of on and off the field, there was so much symbolism during these world cups already, and we have yet to even get past saturday's round. i mean you have the idea of what happened after iran lost. a human rights group has indicated that a 27-year-old man was shot and killed by security forces while celebrating the eve iranian world cup loss on tuesday. there was a woman who was a rock climber who did not -- she accidentally did not put on her hijab before competing. we're learning that her home has been demolished although there's

unconfirmed reports as to who has done it and the why. but the air of a reaction and a punishment is in the air. >> well, you know, the sense that sports can be a unifying force of the world and this escape from all the troubles that we all face all the time. that has really changed in recent years, but i think it's changed in part because you have had people who have wanted to use sports to promote their agenda. and they've sort of pushed the idea that if our team wins, it means our nation is greater than your nation. if our team wins, it means your free speech was wrong. well, i don't blame the athletes at all in that environment saying, hey, we have something to say here too. we're not merely pawns. and in some places like iran, i think the consequences for that can be very dire although we've seen in this country some athletes stand up for what they believe, and they've paid some prices too. >> thinking about the idea of trying to take something that is

associated with the enthusiasm of sports, i think about the brazilian iconic yellow jersey. it was being used by bolsonaro to try to use it in association with his campaign, with his incumbency and going on. and now some fans have taken to wearing the blue, less iconic version of the jersey. you think about the brazilian soccer team uniform, you think about the yellow, and this notion of politicians trying to almost hijack symbols for their own self-serving purposes, it's something that's not necessarily unique to just this game. >> no. and it has happened before. and i think it's a shame because, you know, tom, you're right. i think a lot of us, the world sees sports as a place to kind of say, ah, okay. let's just have some fun. let's let go. but it's not new that sometimes, a lot of times, the passion gets in the way and becomes the thing that then goes to whether it's

violence or extremism or things that are said and shouted that, you know, perhaps in the moment they didn't mean it, but then it becomes something else. i think what is interesting about everything that's happening at the world cup, especially all of these governments that are extremist governments that are trying to shut people up and shut women up, right? they're doing their own agendas harm because they're calling attention to their own extreme agendas and to their own dictatorships and autocracies, and you're seeing not just in iran but in china that that is starting to back ffire. is this going to change tomorrow or next week? no. but as the places in those countries, the populations get younger and younger, they're becoming more defiant. >> i tell you -- >> hopefully that is going to lead to change. >> your point is so well taken. the united states, we at times live in a glass house, and we throw stones. there's varying degrees of the

human rights issues that we all grapple with globally, but our athletes collectively, whether it's on this stage, the world cup, or even at home, christine, you know they're asked questions about things not anything to do with the actual field or their game of play. and we've been following this story this week where lebron james calling out the media and talking about, hold on, you've asked a lot of questions about kyrie irving. why not questions about jerry jones and a photo from many years ago where he was seeing jerry jones attending a rally. jerry jones has responded. and listen to what he has to say when he's talking about his respect for lebron. >> i don't know anybody i respect any more. i don't know of anybody that has taken every opportunity he's had and maximized it. he not only is an absolute great

ambassador for sport, he has taken sports, he has taken his venues and used those platforms. i just want to be sure you know where i'm coming from. i did hear what he had to say. >> so he addressed it. didn't address the actual substance of the controversy. >> to your point, you've got the slight again. people are talking about it. those questions should be asked. journalists should be asking those questions, and jerry jones deserves those questions. obviously he understands and he can handle himself and answer them as well. >> can i just say that was a lesson in crisis communications 101 what he just did. >> not answering the question fully. >> no, but he talked about how wonderful lebron is and was able to kind of pivot to that, and he did say at the end, i hear what he said. >> yeah. >> go ahead. >> i got to say, i think one

thing about this that is, i find, important in sports -- mean i'm old-fashioned or naive about this. i'm a big hockey fan. one of the things i'm always amazed at in hockey, you can have the most brutal series you can imagine, and the players line up and shake hands at the end. i think some of the most important moments in sports are simply the respect the players show to each other regardless of creed, regardless of where they came from. and that, it doesn't seem big, but in the world we live in today, that's a kind of protest. the simple fact that you walk over to your opponent and say, you are worthy. you're worthwhile. you're not diminished as a person because we fought today. >> an important point about sportsmanship. i wonder what lebron's reaction will be given part of his larger issue was the level of atonement required among black athletes compared to the pat on the back or the job well done that's often reserved for others. obviously very different circumstances. kyrie irving, jerry jones, and you can name any number of

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brains and increased anxiety and depression could really be to blame. i want to discuss now with clinical psychologist who joins us now. i'm so excited you're here to bring us your expertise. it's very scary to think about in many respects what we thought might happen. >> right. >> what impacts it would have on young people. we thought maybe emotionally, but really it's on their minds. tell me in what ways. >> so in so many ways, and before the pandemic, the cdc was reporting that at least 37% of teens were having mental health issues, and that number skyrocketed during the pandemic. so we're seeing teens being isolated, withdrawing from their social communities, feeling depression, anxiety, sadness, issues with concentrating. they weren't doing their homework, completing assignments. it was just a tough time for them. >> and these aren't things that one wants to be dismissive of and say, oh, this is just

teenagers being teenagers. this is significant, and the acceleration of the aging, we think about maturity and maturation, and we think about that in an emotional sense, which is good. but maturation at an accelerated pace of the brain can have long-term significance, right? >> right. i mean we don't know yet what that's going to look like for this generation when they're young adults and when they're older. what we do know is when your brain matures quicker, you start experiencing issues with brain fog, which what that looks like is issues planning out your day, which teenagers already have an issue with because their brains are still maturing. your brain doesn't fully mature until you're at least 25. so they're having issues with that end. and then they're struggling just to verbalize and vocalize what they're going through with their parents, with their teachers. they're online all day, which is also exacerbating how they're feeling because they're looking at social media. we know that bullying has increased, people harassing each

other online. so they were just going through so many things that we have yet to see what those effects are going to be. >> although you're talking about teenagers, across the age spectrum, the impact has been there from the older populations to maybe even younger kids. i have an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old. they were in distance learning. my daughter left kindergarten, came back a second grader. that's significant. >> and on top of that, we're talking about kids look at computers and ipads all day. they're not keeping that attention span they used to have when they're in school 24/7. so now we're just trying to figure out how do we get our kids back to, i guess, what was normal before. >> yeah. >> and helping them be socialized the right way, helping them have those skills like we're talking about to verbalize how they feel, what's going on with them, whereas now with the pandemic, they were kind of shut in and not knowing how to do that. >> it's so important to think about ways to course-correct,

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bloodthirsty. you can earn a pretty penny with the salary ranging from $120,000 to $170,000. back with me, maria cardona, christine brennan and tom foreman, none of whom are mousey. >> i smell a rat. >> here we go. when you think about new york city and see some of the rat issues that are there, it's a real thing. i mean the idea that they have this job posting is obviously out of necessity. you're going to see these images of people, and you remember the infamous pizza rat. remember him, carrying a full slice? what do you make of this tom? >> well, here's what i make of this. there is an estimate that there are 2 million rats in new york. i don't know how much we can rely on the rat census, but let's say there are 2 million rats in new york, and you want to go after these rats in new york and this is your job.

i think there are things in the application for becoming the rat person -- >> have you filled out one? >> no. i'm working on it. i think there are things missing here. like it doesn't really say do you have much of a team, or is this basically a sack and a pair of gloves? what are you supposed to do? and 2 million rats, how many do they think you're going to knock out? >> that's true. you all must be rat fans, right? >> rat pack. >> out of a full confession, maria, when i was in sixth grade, i had a pet rat. it was a hooded rat. i got it from a pet store. my mother has not forgiven me. three months later it tripled in size and i was horrified by it. i'm not applying to be a rat czar. >> i'm not horrified by that story. >> ratatouille, my kids grew up on that, and i have to say that they cutified rats for me. >> have you seen a subway rat? >> we live in washington, d.c., laura. >> true. >> i used to live in adams

morgan, and i would go back to where we parked the car in an alleyway, and we would pass rats, and they would be eating pizza. and they'd look at us and be like, hey, what's going on? can i help you with something? and then we were on our way like nothing. so, yes, i understand the rat problem in new york because we have one in washington, d.c. >> i think really that's the point. every city, a big city has rats. and so the idea that you're going to somehow be able to eradicate rats from the biggest city in the country. >> did you say eradicate? >> you did say that. >> i love it. >> let me see if i can spell that the right way with the "rat." every city. so, you know, good luck, tom, if you're going to take the job. >> i might do okay. >> good luck. we could come back a year from now, and i have a feeling, or two years, whatever the time period is, and there's going to be the same 2 million rats. >> by the way, the proliferation of it is interesting because in part it's because you had outdoor dining. you had trying to compensate for

the social distancing rules of new york city, trying to have people adjust themselves to covid. and i've been told more food on the streets, the construction, that's part of the reason. of course we remember american tail, and they were there even in disney fashion at that point in time. i was told then there were no cats in america, and the streets were lined with cheese. >> here is a great bit of odd trivia. cats actually don't do a lot of rat and mice hunting. people think they do, but they don't really. >> no. >> so the lack of cats is not a problem. if i become the rat czar, i will not be bringing in a lot of cats. >> how will you do it, tom? >> well, i'm not really sure. i've got a couple of ideas. there's something involving a flute and a river. i've read that in the past but i don't know how to play the flute. >> magic wand. >> he's perfect for the job because you're not giving us any answers at all. >> you know what the problem is? they get this job and they have a big city meeting and the mayor is like, here's my chief of police, and here's the fire chief, and then they're all

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