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on national tv? >> it was aloe vera. >> i didn't want to know. >> i kissed ten guys but only four with tongue. >> you know what, i just threw up in my mouth. >> great. i'll give you this, anderson cooper. let's be honest. you ask the question everybody wants to know. all of these dating shows. >> on that show -- i don't watch it but i watched the soup. they show the best moments. they show her greasing people up and volcanos erupt and you see the ocean moving. >> let's be honest, she's not the first bachelorette or bachelor to be in the situations where you think, there's a little more going on here than we're seeing. which is fine. i don't really want to see -- i don't know why we heard that sound effect but great. >> i don't know what that effect means. lovely woman. i wish them both the best. moss l tauf.
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good luck to you. there's only one of them that ended up getting married and remains married, right? >> that's right. why do i know that? >> why do you know that? >> i need to leave now. >> he was a firefighter and she had been on the show previously. >> i love that you know things about this, too. >> that does it for "360." thanks for watching. "larry king" starts right now. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> larry: tonight a prime time exclusive. here for the first time from someone who was in michael jackson's home the day he died. his personal chef reveals the harrowing second by second account of what happened before paramedics were called. screaming, sadness, chaos, an eyewitness account. plus ann coulter versus al sharpton. the war of words over professor gates and the cop that arrested him.
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see who's still standing after the smack down. then, why is another police officer in big trouble over this whole mess? we'll show you his shocking public remarks. his exclusive response next on "larry king live." a businessdy night. our first guest tonight is kai chase, she was michael jackson's personal chef and in his home the day he died. we'll talk to kai in just a moment. but first let's go to cnn's randi kaye with breaking news on dr. conrad murray and what investigators were looking for when they executed search warrants yesterday. randi, what happened? >> reporter: larry, as you know, there were two search warrants executed in las vegas, one is dr. conrad murray's home and the other in his clinic. those were filed today. so now the information on what they were looking for and what they found has been made public. i can tell you according to the warrants, detectives were looking for evidence demonstrating crimes of
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excessive prescribing and prescribing to an addict. also, manslaughter. evidence of manslaughter. now the addict that they seem to be referring to in this case is michael jackson. but here's the key detail of the search warrant. it says that they were looking for any information related to propofol or diprivan, very powerful sedative that authorities, as you know, believe killed michael jackson. it was found reportedly in his bedroom. i can tell you what the search warrant says, looking for records, shipping orders, distribution lists, anything relating to the purchase, transfer, receiving, ordering, delivery and storage of propofol. or diprivan. that is a really big deal. i can tell what you they took. they took hard drives. they took his iphone. they took a couple cell phone records. and they also were looking for any medical records or nursing notes related to the 19 aliases that are listed in this search warrant that michael jackson was apparently using to obtain prescription drugs from various doctors, larry.
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>> larry: thanks, randi. reporting right from the roof here in los angeles. kai chase joins us, personal chef to michael jackson during the final months of his life. she was working in the mansion where michael and his children were residing the day he died. have you seen the kids since the death? >> yes, i have. >> larry: how are you they doing? >> they're doing great. i saw them a couple weeks ago. and they looked great. they're playing with their cousins and having gay time. >> larry: you started as a chef when? >> about 14 years ago. >> larry: they let you go and brought you back? >> no i've been all over. with mr. jackson, in march. >> larry: then they let you go and brought you back? >> they let me go and mr. jackson and the kids requested me to come back in june. >> larry: now take me to that terrible day. >> the morning i got in to work around 8:00, 8:30. i fed the kids their breakfast. which was gra thoel la and almond milk.
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and then proceeded to, you know, start doing the lunch. lunch is usually around 12:00, 12:30. so around 10:00, something like that, normally dr. murray comes down. >> larry: he is living there? >> dr. murray would stay in the evening. >> larry: he stayed overnight? >> he stayed overnight. and normally he come around 10:00, 10:30, downstairs to get mr. jackson's juices or some sort of breakfast for him that morning. so around that time i noted i hadn't seen dr. murray. and i'm thinking to myself, maybe mr. jackson is sleeping in late. maybe because his rehearsal is pushed back. or something of that nature. so i proceeded to prepare the lunch and wrapped his lunch like mr. jackson likes. wrapped it inner is saran wrap because he likes his lunch like it's at a hotel. kind of like room service. exactly. so around 12:00, 12:05, 12:10 dr. murray comes down the
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stairs, there is a stairwell that leads into the kitchen screaming, hurry, go get prince. call security. get prince? >> larry: prince is -- >> michael jackson's eldest son. uh-huh. and so i drop everything that i'm doing and run into the den which is very close to the kitchen. and i go get prince. prince and i run back. he meets dr. murray at the stairs. prince stays down stairs with us and dr. murray goes to the stairs. within minutes the paramedics are there. and the security is running upstairs, skipping stairs. and all of a sudden we're all panicked. what's going on? what's happening? the energy changed from that happy kind of day that we were having and preparing lunch and having a good time to just kind of erie. >> larry: what were the kids doing when this was going on? what were they saying? >> the daughter, she -- paris, she started screaming, daddy! daddy! daddy! we all started crying.
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>> larry: you knew something was wrong with michael? >> we knew something was wrong. something was wrong. and she screaming daddy and starts crying. and luis started crying. and we all come together in unity in a circle and we started holding hands. and we started praying. you know, god please let him be okay. >> larry: you knew it was deadly bad? >> i didn't know what. i just had a feeling. >> larry: you knew it was real serious? >> something very serious. >> larry: the doctor first relayed that you to. >> by the way he came down the stairs. >> larry: you did not hear the 911 call? >> no. i was never allowed up stairs. >> larry: you never went to the room? >> no that, is part of the rules of the house. >> larry: how did the food get to him? >> mr. jackson would come downstairs and eat. lunch and dinner with his children. >> larry: you never went up to the upper quarters? >> no. >> larry: did he eat three meals a day? >> i prepared three meals a day. sometimes he would take meals with him to rehearsal. and sometimes he would eat in here. i mean at his home. >> larry: did you see anybody remove the body? >> no. they asked us to leave, go home
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around 1:00, 1:30, something like that. security asked us to leave. and we asked if mr. jackson was okay. and they said we need to take him -- he's going to be going to the hospital. >> larry: did the rescue workers say anything to you? >> no. no one spoke. >> larry: did they act very worried? >> everyone was very concerned. they were panicked. you know. no one knew. it's hurry and rush. >> larry: did you see michael the day before? >> yes, i did. i saw him. i fed him lunch and his children the day before. and he ate lunch with his children at the dinner table. and then i packed his lunch -- his dinner for him to go to rehearsal. >> larry: how did he appear at lunch? >> he seemed like he was just, you know, tired. and i thought probably because, you know, he's been rehearsing a lot. >> larry: had he been eating well? >> when i was -- i left in may. so in may i don't know what
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was -- you know how his eating habits were. when i came back in june, the third day in he asked me and pulled me to the side. he said, i need you. i know you know what you're doing. you do a very good job. i want you here i need you to be here. i need you to keep feeding me healthy. do you have my beat juice? do you have the organic juices? any healthy food? i need to stay healthy and strong. he was excited about this tour. >> larry: did he eat a lot of salad foods? >> oh, yeah. saturday, gumbo, fried chicken, kfc, barbecue chicken, corn on the cob. he and the children. >> larry: kai has written a dramatic blog, exclusive about what happened that day. read it only on cnn.com/larryking. we'll be right back. most people try to get rid of algae, and we're trying to grow it. the algae are very beautiful. they come in blue or red, golden, green.
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>> larry: we're back with kai chase. you haven't been to the house since. right? >> no. >> larry: you saw the kids at his mother, katherine's house? >> yes. >> larry: why do you think the doctor called for prince? >> well, i think, you know, at that point he may have panicked. >> larry: the doctor panicked? >> it seemed like he was in a panic state. he called for prince. he called for security. somebody. you know? that could go up -- that was allowed to go upstairs. >> larry: had you seen much of dr. murray before that? >> i saw dr. murray a lot when i came back and he was there on a regular -- >> larry: did you question that at all? what is a doctor doing here?
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>> no. no. because i knew that mr. jackson was rehearsing. i figured he was -- he was there -- he was employed and there to take care of him. >> larry: would you say he was eating well? >> i fed him well. >> larry: you fed him well and he ate well. there are all the stories that he didn't eat. >> number he ate very well. he ate organic and fresh. you know, he is into the health foods and juices and things of that nature. but he ate very well. >> larry: is he a good employer? >> he was a very nice man. he is nice. you know, he -- you know, he liked people around him that were, you know, and in his home that were genuine and real. i thought he was very nice. >> larry: did you notice oxygen tanks? because if it was depp ro van and they have to measure blood pressure, they also need oxygen tanks if you're given that drug. did you see them? >> i saw them. >> larry: where were they? >> i would see dr. murray
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carrying the oxygen tanks down in the mornings. >> larry: that morning or other mornings? >> i didn't see him that morning. i saw him in the afternoon. but other mornings. >> larry: he would carry them down. portable oxygen? >> yes. >> larry: let's listen to some of that 911 call that brought emergency personnel to the house. >> i need a an ambulance as soon as possible, sir. i have a gentleman here. he's not breathing. we're trying to pump him, but -- >> how old is he? >> he's 50 years old, sir. >> 50? okay. he's unconscious? he is not breathing? >> yes, he's not breathing, sir. >> okay. >> and he's not conscious either? >> not conscious, sir. >> okay. all right. is he on the floor? where is he at right now? >> he's on the bed, sir. >> ok, let's get him on the floor. let's get him to the floor. i'm going to help him with cpr right now. okay? >> we need an ambulance. >> we're on our way there. >> larry: dr. murray, his attorney says that the delay in
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calling 911 was the phones in the house were disconnected. do you know that? >> no. >> larry: do you have any knowledge of that? >> no. >> larry: did you ever use the phone? >> no. >> larry: so you wouldn't know. >> no. >> larry: the warrants to search the doctor's office cited your name as a suspected alias for michael jackson. what do you know about that? >> i was just made aware of that from my publicist. just recently. i think that is appalling. i have no clue what that is about. >> larry: has the police questioned you? >> the detectives came to my home right after the death because of the situation. >> larry: but did they ask you anything about these prescriptions or your name? >> no. >> larry: alias? >> no. this is all new. no. >> larry: so what do you make of this, kai? what is your read on this? >> as far as the -- >> larry: the doctor, the whole situation. >> i think -- you know, i don't know what to make of it. i know that what, you know, the
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situation with the oxygen tank and doctor. you know, the doctor was there. i thought to do his job as a physician. >> larry: are you suspicious of the doctor? >> you know, i don't know what to make of it. >> larry: when you hear about drugs and things. >> well now. now, you know -- >> larry: but you weren't then? >> no. >> larry: we'll be back in 60 seconds. ♪
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>> larry: like? >> and gifts and things. just little letters from prince, you know, thanking me about -- thanking me for the gumbo -- >> larry: dear kai, thank you for the gifts and the gumbo. i hope you enjoy the gift. i think you'll like it. love prince jackson. >> this is really cute. >> larry: hey, kai, thanks for getting me the apricots. daddy loves them. daddy loves them. you -- he loved apricots? >> oh, yeah. organic. exactly. he was getting ready for the tour. we were -- he was eating. >> larry: you would say just from observation that he looked in good health except for a little tired from rehearsing? >> he was very healthy in april, yes, he did. you know, i remember one evening he came downstairs, i mean, dressed nice. he had on his black jeans, straight leg, black blazer, black aviator glasses and cell phones. he comes downstairs and he says
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>> larry: we're back with kai chase. custody deal for michael's children was announced to day. katherine gets full custody. debbie rowe will have visitation rights. what's your read on that? >> i think that's wonderful. that is beautiful. i saw the interaction when i went to the home. and they love their grandma. you know. it's wonderful. i think debbie rowe should be with her children. >> larry: did they ever talk about debbie? >> no. they never did. >> larry: did you meet debbie? >> no, i have never met her. >> larry: but being the biological mother, you feel it's okay for -- >> of course. absolutely. >> larry: this tie with katherine, how strong? >> well, you know, michael loved
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his mother. you know? and the children obviously loved their grandmother. he spoke very highly of his mother. it's a beautiful bond that they have together. you know, she's loving. they love her. >> larry: did he ever have any health complaints? did he ever say i'm not feeling well or have some chest pains? or something's nothing right? >> no. never anything like that. i remember one day the third day i was there when he came back he had told me, you know, they're killing me. they're killing me because i'm working too much. >> larry: who's they? >> i'm assuming whoever -- >> larry: concert people? >> he was rehearsing a lot. i need to eat healthy. i need to stay strong, you know. i'm tired. you know, so -- >> larry: so he complained? >> just that one day. to me. >> larry: was he looking forward to england? >> oh, yes, absolutely.
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we all were. >> larry: were you going to go? >> yes. prince, his son, came and told me one day, daddy wants me to tell you that he wants you to go to london. and i said well please tell your daddy i said thank you and i'd be honored. and the kids started jumping up and down. yay, kai's going to london. we started talking about bringing video games and stuff to the private jet and it was just, you know, he was very excited about going and doing this tour. this was his comeback. >> larry: did you cook for dr. murray? >> i would prepare meals for him in the evening with mr. jackson's meal bring left the home. >> larry: what was he like? >> dr. murray was very nice. he seemed like a nice man. we would talk. he would bring, you know, in the mornings he would get mr. jackson's juices. maybe one, two, maybe a mango papaya juice or a beet juice or both. he would take them upstairs and make sure that he ate. he had dinner with the family. i served him.
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he seemed like a nice man. >> larry: was he a late riser, michael? >> mr. jackson -- just -- it depends. he was -- he would make sure he would have lunch with his children. >> larry: with his children? >> with his children. >> larry: and their interaction was good? >> oh, absolutely. you know, i would bring the lunches, sit them on the table and they would all come in and close the door and they would dine privately. and you could just hear laughter. and storytelling and just beautiful things. they're his babies. >> larry: why are you coming forward now, kai? >> i don't know if i call it coming forward. i just think that, you know, i just want to tell the fact that mr. jackson, he ate. he loved food. he was excited about this tour. >> larry: so that's a good thing to clear up, that he wasn't some sort of anorexic? >> i never saw that. i saw the man eating. >> larry: when you saw the tape
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of the rehearsals, did that impress you? >> oh, absolutely. you know, it's like a light switch went on and he's there. you know, he's amazing. he's an entertainer. >> larry: so this to you is a double shock. you can't even expression it, can you? >> right. >> larry: seeing him one second and the next second gone. >> absolutely. very devastating. very devastating. you know, unreal. >> larry: thank you, kai. thanks for coming here. >> thank you, larry. >> larry: next, al sharpton and ann coulter. get out and dance... even play a little hide-n-seek. i'm breathing better... with spiriva. announcer: spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled maintenance treatment for both forms of copd... which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. i take it every day. it keeps my airways open... to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announcer: spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. stop taking spiriva and call your doctor
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liberal victims and their assault on america." and in new york, reverend al sharpton, president and founder of the national action network, noted civil rights leader and syndicated radio host. the statement was issued today from the white house concerning the meeting that took place earlier between the sergeant, the president and the professor. i'm thankful to professor gates and sergeant crowley for joining me at the white house this evening for a friendly, thoughtful conversation. even before we sat down for the beer, i learned that the two gentlemen spent some time together listening to one another which is a testament to them. i've always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart. i'm confident that what has happened here tonight and i'm hopeful that all of us are able to draw this positive lesson from this episode. ann coulter, do you think that will put it away? >> i don't think it should. i also by the way, i think it was a little racial profiling
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that president assuming the irish hops and would like to drink beer. no chablis here. a little stereotyping. i think it's a teachable moment. but the teachable moment needs to go to president obama and to henry lewis gates. we have one case after another of these where there's an assumption of racial profiling or racism by cops or by teachers and you have one hoax after another. the duke lacrosse case. if we're going to claim that there is this rash of racial profiling in america, you know, eventually there's got to be one real case of it. >> larry: all right. al, how do you counter? >> first of all, i think that you must deal with the fact that what the president did tonight was absolutely the right thing to do. to set a tone and a climate so we can go forward and deal with both -- with what police are dealing with in terms of trying to fight crime and their fears and what people have to deal with with documented cases of racial profiling.
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there are 23 states that have laws on racial profiling. there have been any number of states that have studied and documented it. to say that they're all hoaxes is, you know, ann being ann. i think the fact is that when you see almost half the country dealing with this, state law, even the justice department under president bush documenting the differences in terms of arrests and in terms of stops and searches. i think now we have a climate to deal with. >> larry: and the question is, was this racial profiling? the other night on this show colin powell said looking at both sides, he said that the professor was wrong for getting angry. it's a cop, you listen to a cop. the cop was wrong for arresting them. are you saying, ann, that there is no racial profiling? are you saying that doesn't exist? >> i'm saying that probably everything under the sun exists at one point or another. whether this is a crisis -- >> larry: that's the question. does racial profiling exist? >> no, i do not think there is
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an epidemic of racial profiling. i think there is an epidemic of claims of racism that turn out to be a hoax. i mean like i say, you go back to brawly, and also the case of the exeter kid. edmond perry i think his name was. >> larry: because those were hoaxes, are you saying, therefore, there was no racial profiling because they may not have been racial -- >>, no all -- well, all of the big cases that were released to us and bill clinton citing a racial incident that was known to be a fraud in the democratic acceptance speech and the democratic national convention in 1992. there was the kiko garcia case in new york. shot a kid. he was holding a machete. >> larry: i think -- before i come back to ann, do you think it's possible that a black man in america last night might have been stopped by someone -- by a policeman just because he was black? >> i think it's possible that a man -- that a man bit a dog yesterday, but if i keep hearing
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about man biting dog stories, i want to see one real one. we have dog bit man stories. we're told every time the man bites a dog, it turns out to be false, what you hear is well, okay this one wasn't true. but there are all the others ones. >> larry: sergeant crowley spoke to the media after he had the beer with the president and the professor. here's a little of what he said. then we'll have al comment. >> what you had today is two gentlemen agreed to disagree on a particular issue. i don't think that we spent too much time dwelling on the past. we spent a lot of time discussing the future. >> larry: what did you make of that, al? good idea? >> well, i think it's a good idea particularly of now, those in law enforcement and those that are involved in fighting for these cases can come together and sit with those in government and try in this climate of trying to deal with what is fair and equal for all do that. i remember when janet reno had began that, i would hope that eric holder and others picked that up.
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and i think that the fact of the matter is there are clear cases that have to be dealt with. i mean, you can go from rodney king and abner loumia and on and on where people went to jail. i'm not going to get in this argument with ann. clearly, 23 states are not hallucinating racial profiling. and colin powell said talking about his own experiences. so all of these people are not making this up. to go 23 years ago to brawly, i mean try to find something this century, ann. we're talking about a problem -- >> it's a problem. >> well, the duke lacrosse case was not about profiling. that was about a report. you maybe need to find profiling -- but the racial profiling -- racial profiling is when there is an assumption made based on race when there is no one that is called in the report. and i think if you understood the definition, you could not deny it. >> larry: al, do you think it's possible -- do you think colin was right when he said the professor overreacted?
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>> the question becomes, that's why you need to have law enforcement and all the forces stick. the question is, what is overreaction in your own home? we need to define that. is it possible? sure? what we need to do now is deal with the law. if you're in your house, someone comes to your door, you think it's the repairman, it is not. they order you out of the house. however you respond, is that overreaction? the fact of the matter is what we do know is the prosecutors said we're not going to forward this case. this is interesting to me. the police unions, larry, were mad at the president. they never questioned the prosecutors' decision saying we're not going forward which meant what undermined the arrest was not the president, not those that supported dr. gates like me but the prosecutors -- >> larry: ann, on the other hand, if it's your house -- forget racial. it's your house. they're questioning you about your own house. you would be ticked? >> in fact, i have been at least in the initial crankiness by professor gates, i've been
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somewhat of a defender of his in as much as i'm someone who travels a lot. i get a lot of -- i get cranky, too, especially after a long trip from china. what can't be defended, i think, is the next 48 hours. the next week when he could calm down and think i overreacted. i wish i hadn't done that. but i think that is a problem. both minorities and females are told to take everything as it's because your black. it's because you're a woman. i don't think that's good for blacks or females. i don't think it's good for the rest of the country. and there is one thing i'd like to say about the studies on racial profiling and even the bush administration coming out with them. the bush administration self-suppressed the study that disprove 8 billion studies about the new jersey state troopers. there was a scientific study setting up cameras of people speeding and it turns out new jersey state troopers, by scientific evidence either through the bush administration kept rejecting and rejecting were stopping, if anything, not enough blacks.
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>> so what you're saying, ann -- >> larry: hold it. hold it. al, i'll come right back with you. hold it. hold it. by the way, who you are more likely to agree with, ann or al? i think they disagree. go to cnn.com/larryking. have your say. by the way, the boston police officer who's in hot water over all of this will be with us in a little while. want faster pain relief? get advil® liqui-gels. they're faster and stronger on tough pain... than tylenol® rapid release gels®. advil® liqui-gels rush real liquid relief... wherever you hurt. advil® liqui-gels. liquid fast. advil strong. now the colors of life can last a lifetime. valspar -- the beauty goes on.
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>> larry: we have a statement released by professor gates. having spent my academic career trying too bridge differences and promote understanding between americans, i can report that it is far more comfortable being the commentator than being commented upon. at this point, i am hopeful that we can all move on and that this experience -- i know that sergeant crowley shares this goal. do you agree with that, ann? >> yes. though i don't want to move in on him quite so fast. one other point i mentioned in my column this week is what if sergeant crowley had not been the model policeman who taught diversity classes and giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a famous black athlete? what about at some point in his career or in his life he had been accused falsely or not of racism? his life would be ruined right now. we know this wasn't a case of racism. we know that now. but we -- >> larry: what's the point? >> only because he's a model
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policeman that the case fell apart and all the usual race amongers are saying let's move on, let's move on. i don't want to move on so fast as long as they brought it up. >> larry: al, do you resent that statement? >> no. because i, you know, ann is ann. i think that the fact is that only case that fell apart was the case against dr. gates. dr. gates was the one arrested. and charged. that's the case that fell apart. i don't know what case he's talking about against the officer. that's one. secondly, i think many of us said, on my web page, that if this is a question of police overstepping their bounds and arresting him because there was no crime or racial profiling, we wanted an investigation. there's no race mongering to ask when investigation on why a man was arrested in his own house when there was apparently no crime. i think what the president has done, and i think it's important that we don't go past this, is to get the disagreeable parties to say we can disagree. no one backed down from what i saw tonight. we could disagree without being
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disagreeable. he got that with the union. he had newt gingrich and i sitting in his office talking about education together. the climate, ann, in america, is no longer arguing and screaming and saying even the bush administration is covering up. the climate is let's sit down and say we disagree. now let's solve the problems even though we disagree. i hope you learn to do that, ann. >> larry: ann, you could not possibly disagree with him sitting down, could you? >> oh, no, no, no. not at all. could i just say some of the things about the disorderly conduct charge? i will bet you more than -- just a misdemeanor. i bet you more than any other arrests those are dismissed and not brought to trial. the idea is if somebody is ranting and raving and behaving irrationally, the cop can't just walk away. if the person behaving irrationally then goes off and, you know, hits his girlfriend or something, well who's to blame for that? the cop. a lot is to get the angry guy out of the situation. they go to jail, the charges are dismissed and we're over in this case gates' own lawyer said it was dismissed because of
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connections. i wouldn't be waiving around the dismissal as proof that it's a bad arrest. crowley is certainly backed by the entire police department and by the law in massachusetts. >> if the police department thought it was connections, then i'm sure they would have in their press conference condemned everyone else and condemned the prosecutor. and i'm sure that there are many disorderly conducts that go to trial. he was detained for hours and the charges weren't dropped for four days i assume because they investigated the case. but beyond that, i think we've got an opportunity to really heal in this situation. where now you have crowley who i disagreed with. but his credit stood up to night. you have professor gates. and they said let the dialogue begin. the president set a healthy climate. i think now we'll see if responsible people on both sides will sit down in the climate and make change happen. >> larry: let me get a break in. ann and al, we'll come back and discuss some other things. they're coming back. so are we in 60 seconds.
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referring to professor henry lewis gates as a jungle monkey in mass e-mail. he's also been suspended from his military duties as a captain in the national guard. the e-mail was sent in reaction to a "boston globe" article about the gates/crowley incident. it went to friends in the national guard. we want to read a few excerpts. warning, some might find this offensive. if i was the officer he assaulted like a banana eating jungle monkey, i would have sprayed him in the face with oc. deserving of his belligerent noncompliance. i'm not a racist but i am prejudice toward people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they claim is freedom. gates is a god damn fool and you, the article writer, simply a poor writer. your article title should read conduct, unbecoming a jungle monkey, back to one's roots. officer barrett, what were you thinking? >> yes, larry, i'd like to take this opportunity to offer fellow police officers, soldiers and citizens my sincerest apology
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over the controversial e-mail i authored in response to evan abraham's editorial in "the boston globe." my choice of words, larry, was lacking. i failed to think from the perception others may have based upon what i wrote. i failed to realize the potential through the use of words that others would see as offensive. i am not a racist. i did not intend any racial bigotry, harm or prejudice in my words. i sincerely apologize that these words have been received as such. i truly apologize to all involved, larry. >> larry: do you think, justin, you deserve to be suspended based on it? >> larry, if i could answer on that -- >> larry: all right, peter. >> -- on behalf of justin. there is suspension in this circumstance that needs to be
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addressed. is justin willing to accept a punishment commensurate for what has occurred in a proportional sense? absolutely. there is a process that does need to be followed. listening to some of your other guests tonight, we're talking about how as a whole this country can move on and learn from this episode that's occurred. justin is stepping into this event between professor gates and sergeant crowley and what had occurred. it was a poor choice. poor choice of words and not a well-thought-out sense of what he was doing when he did it. i think at the end of the day the proportionality is what we need to look at is what the punishment will be. >> larry: officer, what upset you so much -- as you say, you're not a racist, to be so vitriolic in the e-mail?
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>> right, larry. i read the article, the editorial written by evan abraham in "the globe." it seemed like it was biased. it did not show the roles and duties of the police officers and how dangerous it already is without having a debate about people getting in a police officer's face which should never happen at any call. police officers have a dangerous job, and i just felt that the article was one sided and really didn't show justice to what police officers face on a daily basis, when they have a tough job to do and then they have to go home to provide to their families and they work a lot of hours per week to provide for their families. >> larry: what made you come up with that language, though? >> larry, i don't even know. i couldn't tell you. i have no idea. i can say there was no
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intentional racial bigotry on prejudice by my words. i did not intend that. i treat people with dignity and respect. i was in iraq. i work on the streets of deuchester. i work with people in positions that they're stressed out and need help. i have treated people with dignity and respect, on the job, off the job, in iraq, in the city of boston. that's what i've done. i continue to treat people with respect. >> larry: have you used those words before, officer? >> no, i've never used those words before. >> larry: so you were pretty angry? >> larry, i -- >> larry: peter, you want to say something? go ahead. >> i do. i want to speak out a little more on justin's behalf, that his angst and anger that was portrayed -- it wasn't portrayed, it was what he wrote
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in this e-mail. it was directed towards behavior, not well thought out, not placed well. he's recognized the severity of what's occurred because of this. this is a young man who's never had a disciplinary issue at all in his career in 16 years in the army national guard or in the last 2 1/2 years with the boston police department. it was probably the biggest lapse of judgment that he had, and the poorest choice of words he could make. one e-mail is making a judgment on his entire life and all of what -- >> larry: i've got you, peter. he's humbled himself, tonight. he's come forward, formally apologized. i don't know what more he could do. maybe we could all seek a little forgiveness. thanks, justin. good luck. we'll keep in touch with this. and peter morano as well. let's check in with anderson cooper for a preview of "ac 360." anderson? >> remarkable show tonight. beer at the white house, the president and vice president, along where the black harvard
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someone to say that calling someone a monkey-eating -- a banana-eating monkey is not racist. absolutely it's a racist term. to ask for forgiveness, but then don't forgive me for something racist because i didn't say anything racist, forgive me if you took it that way is absurd. i'm the most forgiving guy. i forgave a while male for stabbing me at a march. he said he was wrong. he's saying he's not racist and the frightening thing, larry, which is why we need laws, is that they're going to entertain putting them back on the streets and we're supposed to trust someone with these feelings to protect the public? >> larry: ann? >> that's what an attorney-formulated apology sounds like. i think you have two people, a white man, a black man, both of them lose their tempers, do something highly immature. one berates a cop. one berates a reporter. which one is on tv abjectly
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apologizing and begging for mercy? >> are you comparing dr. gates saying something in his home about why are you bothering me with a man calling someone a banana-eating monkey, is that what you're trying to do, ann? >> there are differences that cut both ways, reverend sharpton. one -- by the way, it was more than what are you doing here? he's screaming at the cop, you're a racist, you don't know who -- >> he did not call that man a racist term. >> and the black cop -- >> according to -- >> larry: one at a time, one at time, guys. one at a time. ann? >> it was my time. he was screaming, berating the cop, calling him a racist i'll talk to your mama outside. walking out. the black cop and hispanic cop totally backed up crowley. i wouldn't say it is worse. i think the e-mail language is worse certainly. >> can i say something? >> it's nothing like wasting a cop's time.
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>> you know what is worse, ann, this is the argument, what it's about, what's worse is this a policeman. no one is going to depend on dr. gates to protect their family. no one is going to depend on dr. gates to respond to a 911 call. you're asking people to depend on this man, to respond to them when he in a moment of anger sees us as banana-eating monkeys. we wouldn't call on gates' house, we'd call on this man if we lived in boston. that's the difference. that's a lot more serious, ann. >> if a 911 call came in when gates was wasting the time of half a dozen police involved. >> ann, ann -- we need to have rational -- >> the difference and the reaction is more striking. >> the difference in who they are are more striking. this man is upheld by the state, given a gun to protect people. that's his feeling. dr. gates, right or wrong, is not in that position. >> larry: we were going to discuss in this segment, we're running out of time, other political issues. i'm going to invite both of you back, hopefully next week to discuss a lot of issues.
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