faith. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. tonight, breaking news. what police found when they raided michael jackson's doctor's office. also, the continuing controversy over the arrest of henry louis gates jr. the president is speaking out again today. later, jeffrey cannon and soledad o'brien from "black in america 2,"and naacp president will join us. randi kaye is here with us first. >> reporter: i'm holding in my hand the search warrants showing exactly what was taken from the

clinic of dr. conrad murray. we first reported last night that the clinic was searched. well now, tonight, we can tell you that wasn't the only place. a second search warrant was also served not at the clinic but at a private storage unit belonging to dr. conrad murray, both warrants say they are seeking information and evidence of the offense of manslaughter. there is a long list of items taken that we want to tell you about, all of it inside here, including notices from the irs, rolodex cards and some drugs that may very well raise eyebrows. i'll have much more on the warrants, what's in them and how that might affect the investigation in just a few minutes. >> randi, we'll come back to you. the policeman, the professor and the president of the united states and the continuing controversy. james crowley arresting henry louis gates jr. inside the professor's home. was race a factor? did professor gates provoke the sergeant and if he did, is that cause for arrest.

then last night, president obama saying the police acted stupidly, the blogs, talk radio erupting today. the reaction. plenty to talk about. it's a nation divided. first, joe johns with the facts. >> reporter: everyone it seems is weighing in on the story of harvard professor henry louis gates' arrest for disorderly conduct, everyone including the president. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was proof they were in their own home. >> reporter: that was last night. the president had to reel that comment back in a bit today with his press secretary saying the president "was not calling the officers stupid. he was denoting that at a certain point, the situation got far out of hand." but mr. obama talked about it again today in an interview on abc. >> what i can tell -- from what i can tell, the sergeant who was involved is an outstanding

police officer. but my susz pigs is that it probably would have been better -- >> reporter: the president didn't comment about the racial overtones in the case but professor gates certainly is. gates who say friend of the president claims he was the target of racial profiling. he's demanding an apology. >> what it made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are. how vulnerable all people of color are and all poor people to capricious forces like a rogue policeman. >> reporter: the guy who arrested gates, cambridge police sergeant, john crowley, is speaking out, too, saying the arrest didn't have anything to do with race. when asked last night by wfxt whether he would apologize to gates, crowley said, forget it. >> now and forever, no apology? >> yes. >> what if it means discipline or your job? >> it won't. i have the support of my

organization which i'm grateful for. >> reporter: as far as the president goes, crowley said in an interview that mr. obama didn't have all the facts. >> of course he's the president of the united states. i support the president, to a point, i guess. i think it's disappointing that he waited into what should be a local issue. >> reporter: turns out crowley's got a good resume pep was hand picked by a black commissioner to teach classes on racial profiling at a police academy. as far as the gates case goes, the disorderly conduct charge was dropped. but the mayor says he wants to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. and the cambridge police commissioner who expressed his firm support of how crowley conducted himself says, his department is launching an investigation. and is clearly not happy about all the attention. >> this department is deeply pained and take its professional pride seriously. >> reporter: the cost of a national debate over race and the police. joe johns, cnn, washington.

>> a lot to talk about. let's "dig deeper" with roland martin and vance watkins. he's author of "what if george bush were a black man." appreciate you being with us. what do you make of this? >> it is not surprising that what skip gates went through is common for african-americans. >> do you believe this was a rogue police officer? >> i cannot say he was a rogue police officer. i cannot say he was racist. i don't know anything about him or his background. what we have to recognize is what does the individual who is going through, what are they experiencing? here you are, african-american, homeowner, in your home, white cop, looking for a suspect. you provide your evidence, i'm the owner of the home. i'm still considered a suspect if you will. so you have that dynamic. and so you have to ask yourself, what was the position he was in? what was he feeling? that's the issue here i'm the homeowner and i'm still feeling

as if i'm still a suspect. that's what he was speaking to. >> boyce, what do you think? >> i think what we have to do, what i've been saying from the beginning, we need to know all the facts before we accuse someone of doing something that might ultimately ruin your career. imagine if you're a guy like sergeant crowley, had an exemplayexe exemplary career. i wanted to know the facts. i didn't say, this guy did something outrage. 4 rajs. i said what's the standard procedure when your investigator is breaking and entering. for example, just because you show an i.d. showing you belong in that house, that doesn't mean you should be there. one-third of women who are killed are killed by a former lover, by a man who breaks into

their own home. we have to be smart about this. >> massachusetts law states that when something -- when a citizen requests the name and badge number of a cop they are to give it. gates said he requested that, the sergeant said he would not give it to him. >> that's not what the police report says. >> precisely. >> the police report says the sergeant attempted several times to give him the information but the professor spoke over him. >> the police report is the perspective of the police officer. it is his perspective. it's not infallible. it's not the absolute truth. i think it's important to recognize there are two views as to what happened in this case. >> it's one of those situations where there are two opposing perspectives. the professor believes he has been wrongd and he's in the right. clearly, the police officer believes what he did was standard procedure. >> well, i think what we have to do as the american public is we have to distinguish between the facts that are clear and fuzzy.

there are things that are clear. we know he was there. we know there was a dialogue and back and forth and we know what happened on the front porch. we don't know what happen ed inside that house. when you make a strong accusation to say this guy was racially profiling. the officer can say maybe you were racially profiling me, saying because i'm a white man arresting you, i must be doing it because i'm a black man in america. we can't just say every white officer who arrests a black man must be racist. >> i want to continue the discussion on the other side of the commercial break. roland martin, boyce watkins, we'll be right back. a lot more to cover ahead. the live chat is under way at ac360.com. a lot of people logging on about this. the jackson developments and a chilling look at michael jackson's state of mind and body in his final days and hours. the peephole video of erin

andrews, new information about who might have taped it and the disturbing world it reveals.

we're talking tonight about police and racial profiling, how it gets that much more attention when the first african-american president of the united states talks about it on television after being asked. president obama saying that racial profiling is a problem but not using those words but the words stupidity. >> we were deeply concerned. we take our professional pride very deeply. i think when i talked to officers throughout the department during the course of the day, you could see they were really stunned by being -- not having the greatest regard or taking those comments to heart.

i would say to you that they were -- they were very much deflated. >> commissioner haas announcing a panel to investigate the incident but standing by his force. president obama walking back from the stupidity line instead saying cooler heads should have prevailed. let's dig deeper with roland martin and professor boyce watkins. it seemed like the officer believed professor gates lived in the house, but the fact that professor gates was clearly upset with the officer and saying things to him, seemed to irritate the officer or move the officer to basically get gates out of the house and arrest him there. >> if you want to tick off a police officer, what you say is, i want your name and your badge number. we all know that. now, this is a perfect example of how two people can see the same thing in a different way. prior to going to break, boyce said, well, the facts are clear, some are fuzzy. when he spoke of the police

officer's account, he implied that those facts were clear. when he spoke of what gates did -- >> no, i did not. >> boyce, i'm making a point here. one second. >> let him finish. >> when he spoke of gates, it sounded as if, well, his interpretation of the events were fuzzy. the officer has given an account of what took place. gates has given multiple interviews to "the washington post" and cnn explaining what took place as well. so it's not fuzzy in a sense that he has said this is what happened. so, again, two people can see it differently, the same story. >> boyce, i want you to be able to talk about your remarks but should a police officer if he believed that that was gates' house, even if gates was yelling at him or saying something to him that the officer didn't like, should the officer have just walked away and let it go at that rather than arresting him for disorderly conduct on his own property? >> well, my question, when all this happened, when i spoke to the officers and talked to them,

because i have respect for law enforcement but i've also fought jill gently on behalf of black men who are victims of this sort of racism all over the country. that's why i was concerned about this case. i said what's the procedure? did this guy follow procedure and when you saw that the police officer's union stepped out and supported him and said we looked at the procedure and this guy did what he was supposed to do, this isn't just a matter of cops supporting cops. they could have remained silent. if he were a dirty cop or a rogue cop, they wouldn't have supported him. >> you can rarely remain silent. come on, boyce. >> that's not true. i'm going to tell you this, look, anderson, my dad was a cop for 28 years. i've seen the bad and the good. the truth is, we have to pursue equality while maintaining compassion and understanding for what officers go through. there are good cops in america. every white cop who arrests a black man is not corrupt. what has to happen now, in my opinion, is we don't need to use

this case as the poster child for racial profiling. the attorney general has to step forth and do something about this. >> it's an interesting discussion. boyce watkins, roland martin, thank you very much. the conversation continues online at ac360.com. the debate can get heated when race enters the equation. we've been trying to bring you the facts from as many angles as possible. its scope and the extent of efforts, tom foreman has been looking to that. what have you learned? >> government concern about racial profiling all over this country has risen sharply in the past ten years, following a case in new jersey in which the courts found that minority drivers were being stopped on minor traffic charges so officers could check for drugs, weapons, bigger crimes. since then, look at how the concern has spread. the rand corporation, a think tank here in d.c. created this

map. every one of these dark blue states now has a law requiring police to record whom they are stopping, why and the person's race to tell them if any officers in their departments are unfairly targeting certain ethnic groups. now, all of these light blue states here are also collecting such data. they're doing it by choice, not by law. there are a few others here that there's no data being collected on. in all, 23 states have banned profiling, including massachusetts up here. where all this is happening in this big incident. anderson, one thing that is clear here is we don't know how many incidents of profiling occur every year, because as you're learning here, it's difficult to define precisely what is profiling, when it's taking place and if you can prove it even in places where it's been banned. >> you can pass a law banning it. has passing the laws done anything to ease suspicion in the minority communities about profiling? >> anderson, i think your

conversation is making that clear. it really hasn't, at least not yet, for a lot of people. in one of our polls back in may, i want you to look at this, we asked people do you think racial discrimination is a very serious problem, somewhat serious problem, not a serious problem? very serious problem, whites thought 17%, blacks thought 55%. this is a cbs/"new york times" poll. had to do with the question of when people are sop stopped by the police. do you ever feel that you were stopped by the police because of your race? whites say only 7% ever felt that way. 43% of blacks feel that way. this is notably less than a majority but still a very high number. and a measure of how serious this problem is still being seen. people feeling they're being targeted by the police because of their race. anderson. >> ahead more on the breaking news into the investigation into michael jackson's death.

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jackson's death. randi kaye knows what police and investigators took in the raid of the clinic. >> reporter: anderson, we begin with the raw politics. president obama taking his health care message to ohio today where he is holding a town hall meeting. he's okay with congress not meeting his deadline to pass a reform bill as long as they're working. raw and dirty politics meantime in new jersey where mayors of three cities, two state assemblymen and five rabbis are more than 40 people arrested in a sweeping federal corruption investigation. the bust began as a probe into an international money laundering ring. there was trafficking in everything from human organs into fake designer handbags. family and colleagues paying tribute to walter cronkite today. he was remembered as a great newsman, friend and father. cronkite died on friday. he was 92, anderson. we have details of the

police raid of dr. conrad murray's office in houston. tonight we know exactly what investigators found. randi kaye joins us. you've been going through the search warrants found today in houston. what did you find? >> they were looking for anything they could get their hands on. there were two search warrants filed late today. one raid took place at dr. murray's medical clinic, the other sat a storage unit he has in the houston area. they seized a rolodex card with fedex information which could mean they are trying to track if drugs were fedexed out of state possibly, what drugs and who they may have been sent to. they took personal e-mails and drugs, including one vial of centermine and another drug used to reduce anxiety and in some cases to sleep. detectives seized, among other things, from the storage unit, irs documents, a suspension

notice, two hard drives and a registration for controlled substances. what all this mean in zeroing in on dr. murray is unclear. authorities are looking for evidence related to manslaughter and they may interview dr. murray a third time as early as tomorrow, anderson. >> randi has more coming up on the investigation into jackson's death. she's going to show us what she's learned about jackson's paranoia and explain why he thought someone was trying to kill him. also ahead, jackson's final days. "rolling stone" magazine has an inside look. text us your questions at ac360. the questions are for claire hoffman, who wrote the story. erin andrews, reportedly taped naked in her hotel room. . well, the price went down, so you're all getting a check thanks. for the difference. except for you -- you didn't book with orbitz,

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before the break we told you the breaking news of what investigators found when they searched the office of michael jackson's doctor. as the case moves forward, new details about jackson's state of mine ready emerging. randi kaye is back with that information. you spoke with dick gregory, a friend of michael jackson. >> yes, they met decades ago when they were doing "the wiz" together. he told me jackson's parents called him and said michael wasn't well, can he come and help him. a few days before the trial ended, dick gregory told me he

went back to neverland with michael jackson, jackson hugged him and said please don't leave me, they're trying to kill me. gregory said he asked jackson when the last time he ate was and that jackson told him, they're trying to poison me. he asked him when he last drank water, he said, again, they're trying to kill me. >> so what did gregory do? >> he tried to help him as quickly as he could. he insisted jackson go to the hospital. he was paranoid that someone was after him. he drove him to a small hospital about ten miles or so away from neverland without announcing that he was coming. gregory told me that jackson was given fluids to hydrate him from 5:30 in the evening until 5:30 in the morning the next day. so for 24 hours straight, the doctor told him, 12 more hours and he would have been dead. he was that dehydrated. >> that was after the trial. did gregory stay in touch with him over the last couple years? >> he did. he said actually the last time he saw him, he didn't see him for a little while. then he saw him again at singer

james brown's funeral. that would have been in december 2006. we have pictures of him. that's them hugging right there. he hugged him and michael jackson looked well. i asked gregory if he ever saw michael jackson do drugs. he said, no. he said when they used to spend a lot of time together, years ago, jackson wouldn't even drink soda. he was always particular about what he put in his body. he summed up his old friend this way, to me he's always been a little 5-year-old child in a grown man's body. he felt that michael jackson needed someone to take care of him. he didn't trust those around him who he says were pretending to take care of him. >> "rolling stone" has a new article on the final hours and weeks of jackson's life. it contains new information. claire hoffman is the contributing editor who wrote the cover story. she joins us now. claire, one of the things that stuck out in this article was that apparently, according to you or your sources, la toya jackson after michael jackson

died basically rushed over to the house, trying to take stuff. what happened? >> there were numerous reports that she went over to the house, within a day of him dying, and looked for these bags of cash that he was known to keep around the house in duffel bags. >> and you also write that with regard to the number of shows that jackson was scheduled to do, you say he wanted to do the number he agreed to do, not only because randy phillips from aeg wanted that to make the money but there was a runway rivalry that he believed he had with prince. how did that come about? >> right. i feel one of the misconceptions of michael jackson that i've gotten from reading about him, he was a passive person in his life. and my sense after reporting the story is opposite. he was particular, controlling about what he did. one of the things that he wanted was to have 31 nights at the

arena because prince had done 21. he was interested in busting prince by ten. >> that ultimately went up to 50. that might surprise some people, the image that jackson is fiercely competitive but that jives with some of your sources. >> it does. we spoke with aeg. two things michael jackson insisted on, he agreed to do the 50 veries in the end was a country estate, he would be in the london airy. he wanted a place for his kids, and that also insisted that someone from the guinness book of world records be at that 50th show. he wanted this to go big. he wanted someone to make a record of it. he wanted people to know he did something wonderful here. >> claire, as we've been reporting the investigation seems to be focusing on dr. conrad murray. you write that jackson was defensive about having murray around. you quote jackson, like president obama, i need my own

personal physician attending to me 24/7. did you talk to people around him? what did they think about murray? >> you know, they didn't see a lot of murray. he didn't go out of the house with him. it seemed like he was sort of part of jackson's very private life at home. but the people who, you know, who did experience him, like first of all, they found it suspicious that murray had originally asked for a million dollars a month to treat jackson, which is just, you know, highway robbery even for michael jackson. they got him down to $150,000 a month. but even that, that kind number just doesn't really jive with the sense of somebody who's really out there to take care of you. >> randi, we have a text 360 question coming from arkansas. where has dr. conrad murray been since the raid? >> he's been holed up, really. he has a body guard 24/7. apparently his lawyer says he's been so harassed, he can't go to work, he can't go to his clinics. he has two clinics, one in las

vegas and one in houston. as of yesterday, his lawyer said he was in las vegas at the time. but is he going to work? we don't know. is he treating patients? we just don't know. >> another interesting detail, claire, that michael jackson had an ebay -- addiction is a strong word. but he would spend a lot of time on ebay buying things. >> i got the sense that people saw michael jackson as this nocturnal creature. he suffered from insomnia. one of the things he'd do is set up all these different ebay accounts and buy a bunch of stuff. >> fascinating. the article is in "rolling stone." thanks for being with us. a lot more in the hour ahead. go to ac360.com to read an excerpt of the article. join the live chat at ac360.com. up next, the peeping tom and the reporter. who videotaped erin andrews maked in her hotel room?

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tonight, a sports reporter is fighting back after someone secretly videotaped her in the nude. the recording and story has spread across the internet. erin andrews and the network she works for, espn, believes she's the victim of a peeping tom. who would do this to her? insiders think the culprit may not be a stranger. erica hill has the latest. >> reporter: erin andrews commands attention, young, beautiful, a sideline reporter, covering college football, basketball and major league baseball for espn. but now, she is the story. thanks to video of her naked in a hotel room.

taped without her knowledge and posted online. internet security experts perry aptab isn't surprised. >> everyone has video technology in their cell phone cameras. >> any of us can watch at any time. >> reporter: when, where and how the hotel video of andrews was made isn't clear. some reports say it may have been shot through the hotel door's peephole. private investigator allen dressler says it's certainly possible. a few years ago he used cameras like this. now thanks to ever-shrinking technology, he can hide one almost anywhere. the most disturbing thing about this is how easy it could be. maybe someone used the peephole, drilled a hole in the wall or maybe someone snuck in your hotel room and put a clock in with a tiny peephole camera like this one. it can record your every move and you have no idea. is this as small as it gets? >> no.

they get smaller than this. >> reporter: how long does it take to set up a small pinhole camera if you were trying to tape someone in a hotel room? 30 minutes, 5 minutes? >> it could be two minutes. >> reporter: erin andrews isn't commenting. both her attorney and espn issued strongly worded statements, promising legal action once the person or persons responsible are found. they're also targeting the websites and media outlets who showed any of the video. today, espn announced it would no longer use reporters from "the new york post" on its air, after the paper printed still pictures from the video. for some of those who do manage to find the link, a nasty surprise may be waiting in the form of a computer virus. and as for theories the video was leaked by andrews herself, friends say it would never happen. >> erin is conservative, modest. you've never seen her in lingerie in magazines.

you've never heard her flirting with the idea of posing naked in "playboy." >> reporter: whoever is responsible may not be able to hide for long. >> we leave a trail of cyberbread crumbs behind us wherever we are online. i have no question in my mined that this person is going to be caught. >> reporter: i did hear back from erin andrews' attorney earlier this evening. no more information on who, when or how she was taped. but he did tell me, there's no reason to believe she was ever taped anywhere else while alone or working. >> even if the persons are caught, there's no way to prevent this from happening again. >> it's not. there are things you can look out for. if you're in a hotel room, bring tape with you, cover the peephole. when you use your laptop, disable the webcam. by opening your laptop somebody could take control of your webcam. >> that's crazy. >> you can get a trojan horse and they can then control it. trust your gut.

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another challenge. take a look. >> reporter: it takes more than $64 million a year to run the harlem children's zone. canada gets a third from government funding and the rest, about $40 million, comes from private donations. >> what are we learning about? >> he's such an active little guy. >> reporter: exhibit a, the zone's promise academy charter school. >> these are our fourth graders. >> reporter: this year's fourth grade class is special. all the kids have been in the zone's pipeline since birth. >> i am convinced that this particular class is the smartest class, not only at the academy but probably in all of new york state. >> reporter: he has the numbers to prove it. math and english scores that beat new york city and state averages and a new harvard study that concludes that these students have closed the

achievement gap between black and white students' test scores. he wants to bring that success to another crisis affecting black america. obesity. >> we have folks who are dieing from strokes and heart attack, who are losing because of diabetes. it's all fitness and nutritioning. we have to get our kids focused on this issue. they are heavy and we need these kids to lose weight. >> we are now joined by soledad o'brien, ben jealous, president of the naacp and geoffrey canada. why focus on obesity? >> in some communities like harlem, you can find potato chips, cupcakes, honey buns and sugared water. you cannot find a banana or decent apple, broccoli, fresh

vegetables. they're called food deserts. you can't simply find healthy food. fast food constantly. we have an epidemic in the african-american community of obesity. it's killing african-americans at early ages. >> does your program work? we've seen the -- it's basically a competition in the center, one of the young women you interviewed was fueled by a desire to win and she did win. her team won. does it work? >> you know, we were trying an experiment because we had been struggling with this issue for years. we were trying to figure out how do we motivate the children and the parents to really develop habits? what we're trying to do is get these kids to develop habits. about a third of our kids actually lost weight. for young people who are growing taller, you expect them to put on weight. we feel like this is promising. we don't think we have the answer but we think we've seen the first glimmer of hope. now we have to do it for a second year and third year and we have to scale it up and got not just our 60 or 70 kids, we have to get hundreds of kids to do it.

then i think we'll have the answer. >> then there's been the changing role of the naacp who is having their 100th anniversary this year. >> we have to focus on the fight for good schools, good jobs, for safe neighborhoods for all people. you know, we thought for a good 50, 60 years for all kids to go to the same school. now it's the same bad school. we need all kids to go to the same good school. we have to extend the social contract in new ways. >> soledad, you focus in this episode on really exceptional people who are achieving remarkable things. >> geoff canada. >> they said, geoff canada, he's my personal hero. he can't be everybody's personal hero.

i don't believe it. i don't believe it. >> what do you think they all have in common? >> i think what i have seen in the number of people we got to profile is they took what was a job and they ran with that and made it passion and then they made it a commitment. almost look a calling. it's so much more than a job. it is this effective calling to serve something greater than themself, decide that the children who they interact with, the people they serve, are going to be as dear to them as their own flesh and blood. truly. not even sort of metaphorically but truly, literally as same to them as their own actual children. you saw that yesterday with dr. perry, la compton rock. the patients mean as much to them as their own family members do. in order to have success in the community as a whole, we have to treat each other like that. we're all in the same boat. one portion of the community cannot fail and the rest of us are fine.

it just won't work. >> can the success you've seen, can it be replicated? that's the knock on it. everyone says you're getting tens of millions of dollars in dou private donations and government funds every year. >> now that the president has said they're going to use for federal dollars to pay for half of this, we think the fund-raising challenge is going to be reduced across america. this can be replicated. people keep pretending that there is a genius idea that we came up with that other people haven't thought about. i learned about how to do this back in the '70s. we were talking about comprehensive services. we know if a child is hungry, if he had lousy teeth and they're rotting in his mouth, they're not going to learn algebra. quality schools are holding adults accountable. there's no secret source to this. other people can do it. you just have to do what soledad said.

people have to treat these children as if they're their own. >> i hope i'm not revealing a confidence but at one point i got an e-mail from dr. steve perry, he said i'm going to meet with geoff canada. i need him to explain to me how i take my school from fixing education to -- it's not enough. you have to fix the community. they are meeting to expand that. >> how do you do that? as we learned from principal perry last night, a lot of times the parents don't show up to the board meetings, to the pta meetings. >> you've got to get focused, not just from the power of me, but the power of we. we have to show people that we can't fault these crises and that we can do it as a group. it's not enough to have big, pretty flowers like the harlem

zone. we've got to have a full healthy lawn. we have 1.2 million kids in the charter schools, 48 million in the schools across this country. you know, that's the challenge. geoff is one my heroes but he and i both know that the challenge is, how do we get from these flowers to a complete garden. that's going to take the power of we. >> how do you get parents to come? >> look, first of all, i was so happy to see that the parents wouldn't come because that just means he's working with the right parents, the tough parents. if i start something and all the parents come right away, i'm in the wrong community. i want to work with the most difficult parents. we do everything to get our parents there. we will go out and get the parents, same way we were picking up the children. you saw them picking them up in the morning. that's what you have to do. you have to do that with parents. they know we will harass them at

the harlem's children's zone. we'll knock on their door and say we need you to do this. we have to scale this up. we also have to help one another. i'm so happy to be meeting with dr. perry. that's a young man who i think is going to show us that what we're doing is primitive in comparison to what we'll be doing 15 years from now as we leave the clear footpresents about how to do the work. >> thanks very much. another great episode. >> thank you. >> ben jealous, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. stick around. today's pioneers, people using groundbreaking solutions to change the african-american experience. first, an nfl star quarterback accused of sexual assault. he's now speaking out. be right back. . to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long.

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