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i'm harris faulkner. thank you for watching. huckabee starts now. >> mike: good evening. i'm mike huckabee. the president's state of the union address earlier this week raised questions about the accuracy of some of the things he said. we have been able to arrange to get the president in between a golf outing and a fund raising dinner in hollywood so ladies and gentlemen, joining me now, the president of the united states, barack obama. welcome, mr. president. >> hay, everybody. >> mike: mr. president, a little fact checking article for the washington post implies that well, you might have stretched the truth just a little bit in the state of the union. >> governor, that is not true. that is false. i did not stretch the truth. i completely ignored it. >> mike: mr. president, you did mention in your speech how the hoover dam was built during the
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great depression. i wonder how could a project like that ever get launched today with your epa restrictions? >> well, probably not, mike. now, look, i won't promise another hoover dam. but reelect me and i might guarantee another great depression. >> mike: i don't think any of us doubt that, mr. president. i really don't. let's talk about maybe your spilt milk joke for a second. >> that joke went over great. wasn't it good? >> mike: mr. president, that joke went over about as well as your stimulus plan did. >> next question. >> mike: all right, newt gingrich said that the proposals in your speech would double capital gains taxes. >> again, the speaker is wrong. they would actually triple them. >> mike: well, you must have certainly at least have been humbled by the fact that your speech was interrunne interruny
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applause nearly 80 times. >> yes, mike and joe biden was jealous of that. the only time his speech gets applause is when says and finally. >> mike: mr. president, we want to say thank you very much for your time. show have to start the snow now. >> thank you. who is on the show this week? >> mike: senator marco rubio. cue cuba gooding, jr. janarizona governor january brewer. look at the time. got to go. >> tonight, all battling for the state's gop primary but the most popular republican name in florida is not on the ballot. >> senator marco rubio. >> marco rubio. >> the influencial florida senator on the hispanic vote and why he won't endorse a candidate. and the president says this exchange with arizona's governor was blown out of proportion. but she says mr. obama still
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doesn't get the point. jan brewer sets the record straight. plus, oscar winner and star of the new movie red tales, cuba gooding, jr. salutes world war ii heros lane. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. >> thank you very much. welcome to our show tonight from the fox news studios in new york. well, most of us realize that we need some level of government but we would like for the government that we have to at least pretend to engage a brain in doing what it does. in new york city, mayor michael bloomberg not only tolerated the occupy wall street fiasco but even praised them for their stand. this in spite of the day that they broke the law by getting up illegal camps, operated without benefit of the all too per vasive new york style regulations and permits required of other groups that
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have such demonstrations and became a haven of criminal activity from rape and assault to lesser but equally disgusting acts such as publicly firefighter d defecating on police cars. the same city recently arrested new york city pastors and christians because they peacefully protested an idiotic decision by the same h heavy handed mayor to no longer allow unused public school buildings to be used by local churches. the mayor defends a mosque adjacent to the 9/11 memorial but thinks that a christian ministry which provides food and job training and education as well as worship is not a proper renter of a school building. so we tell the cops to turn the other way and ignore the utter detraction of the peace of the neighborhood and.
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but then, we ask those same cops to arrest local pastors like bill devlin because they dared to stage a peaceful protest against the cities it schizophrenic policies regarding religion and they didn't even poop on a police car or spend a night in a tent in the park. stupid government isn't limited to new york. there is an epidemic of it and probably some of it going on near where you live. we hear about the anger in voters. you bet there is anger this year. anger because people understand the need for rules but you they don't understand nor will they tolerate the inconsistency of the application of those rules as government good afternoons give their pals permission to go what to land most of us in jail. in tim geithner doesn't pay his taxes why should we? if unbathed malcontents can occupy a park for free why
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can't some christians occupy a school when they pay for it? i sometimes hear about a war on christianity? i think it is simpler than that. a war on common sense and common sense seems to be losing. that is my view and i welcome yours. you can always contact me, go to mike huckabee .com and click on the fox news feedback section or go to my facebook page or follow me on twitter. by the way, we have a brand new paperback version of my book "a simple government." if you haven't read it, i would love for you to do so. you could find out how you simple government could be. all of the members of the audience will be give and copy of "a simple government." see how easy it toss mak easy m happy? >> with the sunshine state's primary coming up on tuesday, the republican candidates are spending a lot of time as well as effort trying to court the
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hispanic community. during thursday night's debate in jacksonville the candidates were asked which hispanics they would ask to join their administration. >> senator marco rubio is a pretty impressive guy. >> of course, senator marco rubio, a terrific hispanic american. >> i thought about marco rubio in a slightly more dig anified and central role than being in the cabinet but that is another conversation. >> mike: though many see marco rubio as a great candidate for the vice presidency the florida senator has repeatedly said that he is not interested but remains influencial in the gop race both in florida as well as nationally. i spoke to senator rubio just moments ago. so much attention on florida and a lot has to do with your influence. steadfast and unwavering and unfrenching you are not going to endorse anybody but the candidates with all like to have your endorsement. you did without an endorsement
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come out and do a little pushback because of a spot that newt gingrich ran and mitt romney had this to say the other night in the debate. >> that is simply unexcusable and senator marco rubio came to my defense and said that was inexcusable. i'm not antiimmigrant. my father was born in mexico. my wife's father was born in wales. they came to this country. the idea that i'm antiimmigration is repulsive. >> mike: the issue of immigration is volatile to florida. why did you feel you need to speak out for the ad? >> i have nothing for admiration for speaker gingrich. the language of antiimmigrant is one being used against me. i'm troubled by the fact that everybody agree illegal immigration is a big issue, what you what you is unfair is people to go around saying unless you agree with their specific ideas about how to
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deal with illegal immigration you are antiimmigrant. not only is that unfair, it ridiculous. there are a lot of different ways to deal with illegal immigration and we must deal in it with our heritage as a nation of immigrants but we are a country of laws. we can't have immigration laws and refuse toence force them. i think people should not go around throwing terms like that loosely and many on the left do and when i heard that in the ad i thought i should speak out and say i didn't think that was fair. >> mike: both gingrich and romney appeared at the spanish network yesterday. both had a good reception. you there were. tell me, what is it that people in florida are the hispanic community are pl primarily loog for in a candidate and which candidate resonated with the voters yesterday? >> well, i wasn't there when they spoke so i can't tell you about who resonated the most. they all did a good job in their presentation otherwise we would have heard about it. what they are looking for and
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it is clear cut. they want to look for someone prepared to come in and know what they are doing. that is not too much to ask when it comes to being the commander in chief in the most powerful military in the world. overseeing the largest most powerful economy on the planet. we are looking for somebody that knows what they are doing because the guy that is there now doesn't know what he is doing. who can we turn to and who is going to provide the best opportunity to make a change, no pun intended i suppose in what is happening in washington, d.c. and the white house. i have always been a proponent of florida being early in the primary cycle because this is a state where all of the major issues that confront our country are major issues here. i think florida will give us a clear indication of which direction the republican party is headed. >> mike: the talk about the hispanic community and how important it is as if the only question in the community is immigration. but my observation is that is certainly not the only issue that matters and one of the
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things impressive to me is that the hispanic community largely is prolife and they are unwavering in their commitment to marriage and strong families and a strong work ethic. how do republican candidates need to better address those issues because it does touch a nerve in that community? >> immigration is not the number one issue on the minds of americans of hispanic descent. there are a lot of other issues. number one is the economy, the lack of jobs. no community in this country has a stronger desire to leave their children better off for themselves than americans of hispanic descent. the importance of life, social conservativism. hard to get to those issues without confronting the immigration issues. you are talking about people that they love. their grandmother, mother, next door neighbor, sometimes their husbands or their children. that is why i think it is important that the republican party become the prolegal
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immigration party. we support legal immigration and if we could do that we win on the other issues. it is about upward mobility, economic empoured concrete youerment and there is no community in america that desires that more than americans of hispanic descent. >> mike: coming up, i asked governor rubio to respond to the president's class warfare rhetoric. weight loss programs can be expensive. so to save some money, i just got the popular girls from the local middle school to follow me around. ew. seriously? so gross. ew. seriously? that is so gross. ew. seriously? dude that is so totally gross. so gross...i know. there's an easier way to save. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more.
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president obama this week in the state of the union as he has in previous months made again references not fact there is a small group of people that have done well and doing better than the vast numbers who aren't doing so well. listen to a clip clip from a couple of the speeches and talk about then after that the president's approach. >> we are not going to settle for a country for a shrinking number of people do really well and a growing number of americans barely get by. if asking a billionaire to pay the same rate as plumber or a teacher makes me a warrior for the middle class i wear that charge as a badge of honor. only class war fare i have seen is the battle waged against middle class folks in the country for a decade now. >> mike: senator, your own story has been one that always inspired me and everyone who hears it. you have come from a working class back ground and family and risen through the ranks to become a united states senator. i want to ask you from your perspective when you hear talk
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like this are you inspired by the president? are you offended that he tends to want to separate people in the middle class from people who have moved beyond and succeeded? >> most presidents at this stage would be bragging about the accomplishments and telling people give them four more years because what they have done the last four years. he is not going to be able to do that this president and he has no excuses. he failed on every account and had the control of congress two of the first three years in washington, d.c. he has to do something else. what he has decided on is he is going to pit americans against each other in the hopes of getting to the magical 50 plus one percent that will help him win the election in certain states. he is trying to tell people the only way to help people in your job is to raise your boss' taxes injuries the reason you are doing worse is someone else is doing too well. the only way to climb the economic ladder is for someone else to pull down. that is not who we have been as a nation. that is what other countries do and it has never worked and that is why people come here. i think this president is taking us down a discouraging
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road and that is why as much as anything else this election in november is so critical. >> mike: the president talked about the need to raise taxes. he has never really settled on a figure. how much do we need to raise. what is the percentage. how does -- how high does it need to be in order to be fair. let's talk about that because you will be faced in the united states senate with questions about should we raise taxes. are the rich americans paying their fair share? if they are, great. if not, how much should they be paying. >> i always felt that is the wrong way to examine it it. two choices. either create new taxes oar work on creating new taxpayers. more people working and more people paying taxes. the people working making more money which means they will pay more on hopefully that will be a flat tax rate. that is what we should be aiming at. instead the president is saying let's raise taxes on people that create middle class jobs. why would we discourage people from investing in america's
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>> mike: well, she has generated quite a bit of controversy this week for a picture of her pointing her finger at the president while greeting the commander in chief as he stepped off of air force one in phoenix. joining me to set the record straight, arizona governor jan brewer. good to have you with me. thanks very much for coming. >> thank you, governor. great to be with you. >> mike: this week, i don't think this was what you expected to be broiled in a controversy over an informal chat with the president. who initiated the conversation that turned into a little bit of tension? >> you know, governor i was there to meet him at tarmac and was happy that he was coming and i tried to explain to him how successful arizona had been in regards to our economic recovery. and everything that we had done and then he said to me that he
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was very disappointed in my book and my depiction of him in scorpions for breakfast and so i was taken aback and from that point it was downhill. >> mike: i'm going to try to get him to say how disappointed he is in my book because it really has done great things for your book. it went to the top of amazon like overnight. >> well, it did. >> mike: i want to take a moment to look at a piece of tape. this is from the president's interview with diane sawyer on abc. >> there is a picture up there of you with governor jan brewer. what was going on there? she said you were thin skinned, she is all over the air waves right now. >> what i discovered is that i think it is always a good publicity for a republican if they are in an argument with me but this was really not a big deal. >> were you tense? >> you know, die andre die i'my
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accused of not being tense enough. too relaxed. >> mike: he seemed calm then. he isdown playing this and saying it wasn't that big a deal. let's assume it wasn't that big a deal in terms of the exchange on the tarmac. however, the big deal is there has been real tension not so much in a conversation but this administration and its relationship to your state arizona specifically regarding an immigration bill that you signed. let's talk about that. why i has that tension been something that has created some controversy? >> well, you know, governor, i think that he understands that arizona is the gateway of all of the illegal immigration which comes with it not only illegal immigration but the drug cartel, the violence, the drop houses, the crime level, the expense to arizona to the tune of $1.3 billion every yer in educate and incarcerate and
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provide healthcare to those people that are not here legally. and we cannot continue to put up with it nor should we have to put it up with it. we want our borders secured and it is the federal government's responsibility. and he doesn't want to talk about that, governor. all he wants to talk about is comprehensive immigration reform, amnesty, if you will, and we in arizona and i think in america we want our borders secured. >> mike: i know that i have a copy of the letter that you actually handed to him. a handwritten note that you gave to the president and you invite him to come down and even offered to buy him lunch. do he take you up on the offer? >> no, he did not take me he up on the offer but i'm still hoping. i went with a happy heart, governor, when i met him at the tarmac. i wanted to talk about good things, jobs and the economy and trying to get our country turned backside up and he wasn't interested in any of that. he was only interesting in my
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book and the comments that were made. but i will tell you i was there to greet him and welcoming him to arizona and i would never disrespect the office of the president. he turned the corner on me. >> mike: we have a saying in the south, governor brewer, that when you throw a rock over a fence the hit dog hollers and what that means is if you say something and the person reacts it probably hit the spot. may be that what was in your book truly hit the spot. let me conclude with one important question. big primary coming up in your state the end of february. tell me what you anticipate happening and n. that primary? does one candidate seem to have an advantage at this point from your perspective? >> we are all kind of waiting to have the candidates here to decide who we are going to throw our support behind but there is a lot of excitement and we know that the obama administration is thinking they can take arizona and turn it blue but that is not going to happen.
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we are going to fight hard and long. i'm anxious to hear the candidates here and i'm sure that the people are arizona are waiting. >> mike: governor, thank you you very much for joining us. i'm sure the president had scorpions for breakfast even this morning. name of your book. appreciate you coming today. >> thank you, governor. >> mike: candidate's personal finances have become a hot topic during the republican primaries but should a candidate's bank account even matter in a campaign? we will debate on the report card, when we come back. you've felt like this before, right? 2:30 in the afternoon, a lot to do, and you've hit the wall. but you got to get stuff done. so take 5-hour energy. just open it up, knock it back, and roll up your sleeves. 5-hour energy is faster and easier than coffee. man, does it work. you'll get that alert, energized feeling you need to get stuff done. a lot of stuff.
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>> live from america's news headquarters, florida's highway patrol still uncertain when they will be able to reopen a large stretch of interstate 75. the highway south of gainsville a brush fire caused a massive
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pileup. it 10 people dead sent 18 others to the hospital. a mess in oakland, california a day after occupied protestors clashed with police. this new video shows the damage at oakland city hall. officials say about 50 protestors broke in and smashed glass, spray painted graffiti and burned flags. more than 400 people arrested, three officers and a protester hurt in the scuffle. occupiers claim the arrests were unlawful. they say police did not give them a chance to disperse. >> i am claudia cohen in los angeles. now back to "huckabee." >> mike: many have attributed newt gingrich's recent success in south carolina to his performances in the debates and his ability to turn the tables on the moderators. during thursday's debate in jacksonville the former speaker was at it again.
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>> are you satisfied right now with the level of transparency as far as his personal finances? this is a nonsense question. look, i know that the four of us agree for the -- how about if the four of us agree that we talk to issues about americans. >> you made an issue about this this week when you said that he lives in a world of swiss bank and cayman island bank accounts. i didn't say that. you did. >> i'm perfectly happy to say that on an interview on a tv show. this is a national debate. >> if you make a serious accusation against governor romney like that you need to explain that. >> mike: how did wolf blitzer handle being attacked by gingrich in the debate? time for the report card. handing out grades today, man mancow muller and kimberly guilfoyle who is cohost of the five right here on fox news channel.
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all right, guys. first of all, let's take a look at your grade. we'll start with you, mancow. what grade do you give. >> do i write it now. >> mike: yeah. >> for who? who am i judging. >> mike: how did wolf blitzer handle it. >> keep it from them. >> as soon as you write it hold it up. >> an f. >> i'm sick of watching this guy and john king is the worst and that chuck todd with his lips planted on obama's backside. these are puppets. these are puppets of the media and of the left. they are mouthpieces for obama and look, i think wolf did an okay job. newt is not -- >> mike: you you gave him an f? >> i gave him an f, though. >> mike: what kind of grade do you give wolf blitzer. >> john king, i love john and wolf learned a lot from him. i gift wolf an a because he did
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his job. woo it all you want. try to do a better job than wolf blitzer on the debate. he had to rehearse that, too. he knew what was coming from newt gingrich and he did his job. he said that they have to answer questions and then he went after mitt mit mitt romnee him look foolish. you say i approve of this message and did it all. did a good job. >> mike: kimberly, what do you think? >> i gave my little wolfy a b for blitz creed because he was back and forth with newt on this. i thought he did a great job. i preferred the way he handled his debate with him to john king. i thought he was fair. a right to ask the questions he did and perhaps maybe newt struggled a little bit in terms of getting answers out in terms of what he has seen. >> mike: i thought he was fair. i have done the show many times as a candidate in the past and i always thought he has been fair. the question that he he raised i thought was legitimate. it was not something said about newt.
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it was something that newt himself injected into the campaign. that is what made it fair. >> of course, and wolfs into the wild eat newts. a little known fact. if they raise these things on the campaign trail in the commercial they should have to answer them in the debate. we would rather not have to do that and rather not see the commercials but if they do this they have to focus. >> mike: has mitt romney succeeded in defending his 15% tax rate that has been out there? go ahead and put your grades down. and you are littering, mancow, you and a -- the epa is going to be coming after you for this terrible thing you have done. on this one, pete, i will start with you. how has mitt romney been doing in -- >> i give mitt an i for incomplete. depends on the con at this time are looking at.cy we a lot of republican conservatives say i'm all right with it. a lot of independents learning now wow, this guy makes $56,000 a day and what does he do?
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where is he working? he is paying 15% capital gains. it is on investments. i think for independents that matter that verdict is still out. >> mike: kimberly? >> i gave him an a. i have been tough on romney. i wanted him to show substance and have backbone. i don't like people who are apologists for trying to go after the american dream to support free market capitalism. >> , let him make money. we want everybody to succeed in america. >> mike: all right, mancow, what kind of grade do you give mitt romney? >> the rose amongst the thorn is here. so nice. i gave him an f. this guy makes $57,000 a day. i'm with the comny live here for a second. standing on hay bails and eating corn dogs one of us. george w. bush always chopping wood and clearing bush and obama at saddle back. abortion what is abortion. this is the guy i'm from
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chicago. fought for late term abortion and at saddleback he doesn't know anything and mitt romney trying to be the man of the people all the time. the guy with the tassles on his shoes and wears the disney tie on friday and say he is one of the guys. let's go bowling. he wants people to like him and he is not one of the guys because we can't put our money in swiss bank accounts and the cayman islands. most of us work hard every day for a living. these people in the audience work shifts and make wages. they weren't making their money off of capital gaines. mitt romney won conservative republicans who make over $200,000 and pay 15%. does anybody here pay 15% on their salary. >> mike: youour time is up. at least mancow you are consistent. >> he only knows how to draw an f i think. >> mike: bought anthose who fod contributed to the efforts of world war ii the greatest
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>> mike: before 1940, african americans were knot allowed to fly for the u.s. military but a group of black pilots known as the tuskegee airmen battled through segregation and were assigned to escort bombers in europe. the story is the inspiration for the brand new movie in theaters called red tails. >> what we do and how well we do it, does it matter? >> and you all have what? you would sign up. get shiny boots a uniform and that would be the end of 100
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years of bigotry. you are colored men in the white man's army. a miracle you are flying fighters in italy and not mopping la treens in milwaukee. any of you feel otherwise and want to wash yourselves out, negro, please do so. i will have you on the next smoking back home to make room for the men who want to stand and fight. get your head up, son. you are fighter pilots. >> mike: please welcome one of the stars of the film "red tails" oscar winning actor cuba gooding, jr. >> hello, governor. >> mike: thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> mike: how was it to play in a movie about a subject you had already done. in 1995 the hbo special tuskegee airmen, a great movie
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but the "red tails" movie is something george lucas worked on 23 years. >> the key is george lucas. the first time we did it was an hbo special. this was done by maestro that is george lucas. i knew that the kids would feel like they were playing in the planes and it would be an event picture. >> mike: i thought james earl jones. i read aequat that he made about the film. he said that "red tails" is like star wars for black kids. >> right on, james, right on. >> mike: what he meant was it puts a person in the cockpit and makes them feel like that they are part of the remarkable story. >> absolutely, absolutely. >> mike: of the tuskegee airmen. >> that is exactly right. we shot in the czech republic in an abandoned russian air
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base. the whole for like two mile space all you saw was like vintage 1943 military air base. it is what we recreated and they put these kids through training, eight days of hard intense training and sleeping in the snow and then finally put them in the planes and when you have a professional pilot take you up as an actor he has to show you his skills. a lot of throwing up in them planes. >> mike: are you admitting there was a little bit of upchucking going on? in there was as lot of upchucking. >> mike: most people don't want to admit that. you realize you have no future in politics if you are that honest. >> i got sick a couple of times. >> mike: you played a lot of roles in which you played real people. my favorite film that i think you have done up until now was men of honor the phenomenal story of karl brasheers.
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and the tuskegee air men, so much the story. is it harder tore play a role when the story is true? >> well, the word isn't harder. you have to be more focused. you have to find truth in the reality of the character you are playing who it in both instances they were on the set. karl was on the set and the surviving airmen who were in their 90s. >> they were there. >> it is like gooding sit up straight. it was a little bit of that stuff but you makes you stay focused on the truth because that is what we do as actors try to find the truth of the moment. >> mike: did you look at those guys with emotion. >> every day. >> mike: and what they did and what they put up with. growing up in the deep south i saw first hand what people put up with. i look back and i marvel that there was the courage and the determination and the per severance that people who went through a racism that i don't think most people can even
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comprehend and stood their ground and persevered and as a result today we are not a perfect world by any stretch but a better world. >> that's right. >> mike: i don't know. your career wouldn't be this successful without the people like that. >> absolutely. they say we would rather die in the skies over berlin fighting nor our country than come back and face the racism that is still evident. it is true. you see the things that they did. essentially kicked off the civil rights movement with the protests at the time. they weren't allowed a lot of the advantages afforded the officers. airmen were by definition officers and they couldn't go into the officer's club. an interesting thing where they had german prisoners of war flew to -- they flew them over because of overpa overpopulatin the south and had them on this base where this were tuskegee airmen and the prisoners of war, german prisoners of war had ps opened the la pells and
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could go anywhere in the base. they cosimo in th could do go e officer's club and everything. they protested and some of them got dishonorably discharged and there was a court trial and there was a documentary george lucas pu put together called double victory and you see one of the airmen go 50 some odd years and finally gets recognized. because he was dishonorably discharged he couldn't vote. when they rein stated him he got the vindication that he had done the right thing back in the days. >> mike: when you looked at the film after it was completed and saw the screening of it was there one part of the film or maybe an impact of the film that you stood as an artist and said i'm he proud i was part of that. what was it about this film that just gave you a sense of accomplishment? >> when i first read the script in 1995 for the tuskegee for hbo i was 24, 25.
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finished with my education and knew nothing about the tuskegee airmen and i was frustrated and angry and i think now after seeing "red tails" and these two films and everything they encompass and explain the magnificence that are the tuskegee airmen my sons will know and won't have the same scenario happen to them. i think it is the education of who these american heros were is what makes me proud to be part of it. >> mike: every american whether black or white ought to look back with a great sense of gratitude to the tuskegee airmen and all those who put up with so much to make our country a better country. good story. i hope every american will see it and i hope they will see it with a sense of understanding of what a great country we have but also how far we have come from -- >> how far we have come, that's right. >> mike: you have done a great job in telling that story. what an honor to have you here. >> thank you, governor. >> mike: thank you very much.
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cuba gooding,, jr. thank you very much. coming up he is a rising country music star. a powerful new song. craig campbell with his new hit is next. >> craig campbell is here?
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>> mike: he is one of country music's hottest young stars reaching the billboard top 20 country charts with his debut single "family man ." we will close out the show with his latest song. i hope you will get it or download it or go buy it. until then from the huckabee show in new york, good night,
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god bless, and here is craig campbell. ♪ ♪ a bill collector? he ain't here ♪ aah, hell i guess you got me, well, mister let me make this perfectly clear ♪ ♪ when i get it you'll get it ♪ times are tough get in line ♪ when i get it, you'll get it ♪ ♪ and that's all you're getting today ♪ ♪ nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,
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nah ♪ ♪ my ex-wife's at the door knocking, lord that woman won't leave me alone ♪ ♪ same questions where's my money ♪ ♪ well honey you can't get blood from a stone ♪ ♪ when i get can you'll get it ♪ ♪ times are tough, get in line and wait ♪ ♪ when i get it you'll get it and that's all you're getting today ♪ ♪
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♪ i tried to collect on a $50 bet ♪ ♪ my buddy just looked at me and shook his head ♪ and you you know what he said ♪ ♪ when i get it you'll get it ♪ better back it on up and get off of my case ♪ ♪ when i get it, you'll get it and that's all you're getting today ♪ he. ♪ when i get it you'll get it ♪ times are tough get in line and wait ♪ ♪ when i get it you'll get it ♪ and that's all you're getting today ♪ ♪ nah, nah, nah, nah ♪
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