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. >> we're hurting, our profession is hurting. >> this is not just a black issue. >> our system is totally rigged. >> i'm gretchen carlson, this is the real story. good morning and welcome to "sunday today." i'm willie geist. i hope you're enjoying your summer weekend. we got a lot to talk about after a difficult week in this country. we'll do that in just a moment and we'll spend an hour with misty copeland with her beiing named the first african american female dancer. the face of american ballet talks about the joy and wait of being historic. >> i'm a ballerina and that's
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why i'm given the opportunities that i'm given. you know, i'm a part of giving people hope that you don't have to fit into this mold of who society has cut out for you to be in order to succeed. >> then, vacationing with a purpose. morgan radford looks into the rapidly growing industry of volunteerism. >> i call it bragging rights and more than i sat on a beach and got a tan and got drunk for a week. now i'm actually making a difference. >> plus, a week where violence and death played out in realtime on video for the country to see again and again. harry smith has a look at how someone with a smart phone and a facebook account can change the way we see the world. and we have another strong crew assembled around the table. black lives protest will be held in cities across the country. police fired smoke bombs at demonstrators blocking
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interstate 94 in st. paul. deray mckesson was arrested in baton rouge. shots were tired in an antonio, texas. no officers were injured. a suspect was questioned. an anonymous threat but the dallas police force on high alert saturday. a suspicious person was spotted at a parking garage but a search of the garage turned up nothing. a shocking death broadcast live on television, 29-year-old bullfighter was gored saturday in southeastern spain. he's the first matador to die in many years. poll lizzer prize winner whose work inspired the film "the killing fields" has died. the killing fields tells the
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gripping story of 1975. sydney died of a heart attack on saturday. he was 8 two years old. lynn manuel miranda who created and starred the broadway hit "hamilton" took his final bow last night. secretary of state john kerry, spike lee among others managed to find their way in. leslie o leslie odom junior made their final appearances in the show, as well. in an end of an era tweet. miranda posted a photograph of the pony tail he's wore throughout the run cut off. lynn manuel miranda will be here tomorrow to perform the song love make the world go around. it's a tribute to the victims of the orlando nightclub shooting. let's step to the table to join the group with a lot to talk about. wesley morris for "the new york times" where he writes about culture, movies, art, politics,
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race or whatever is on his mind. good to have you here this morning. elyce jordan and nbc news political analyst and was an advisor to condoleezza rice and kristen welker and she had breaking news of her own, she got engaged. [ laughter ] >> kristen. good week for you. >> very great week on that, that's for sure. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> we got a lot to talk about. i want to begin what sparked this and why we're here talking about this. alton sterling shot to death early tuesday morning in baton rouge, louisiana. 37-year-old father of five. then on wednesday philand philando castile shot in st. paul, minnesota. 32-year-old cafeteria worker and on thursday night, officers
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helping protect protesters of those shootings in dallas killed. dallas area rapid transit authority officer brent thompson married a fellow officer and patrick zamarripa, michael krol, lorne ahrens and jesus retana. stopping and listening we still live in a divided segregated world. put all these pieces together of the week. what did you see as you watched first the videos of the police shootings and deaths and then the deaths of police officers. >> i'm still processing this. i mean, it doesn't make -- i mean, it makes sense in that i understand the actual details of what seemed to happen according to what we know, but the more
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this happens, the more confusing it gets because this was centuries of us trying to live together and not being able to. it's hard because policing has its own requirements, having -- being a good citizen is a whole other thing and when they run up against each other, the tension that comes out of that is bad and dangerous and i think that one of the things that for me is really interesting that i think is -- it might be beginning to happen despite the atmosphere around what happens this week being extremely toxic is people thinking about how to talk about this, and it can't just be black people speaking up on behalf of themselves. it has to be white people
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talking to each other about empathy and about understanding what day to day life is for not just black people but gays and lesbians, immigrants, people who are under constant threat just atmospher atmospherically, psychically. ch hillary clinton asking for empathy for black people among white people, that was new. felt new to me anyway because that's been the thing i noticed about this is that in this time, trump is sort of -- or the conversation about whiteness and rallying white people and seeming to exploit or being accused of exploiting this sense of white disenfranchisement, if
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such a thing is possible. and so you have this atmosphere now that just seems really charged and i think what has to happen is somebody has to both unite -- i mean, somebody who is capable of doing leadership, maybe -- not necessarily nationally but connecting all this stuff and getting us to talk about it and then it will be interesting to see how this incident is the -- these two incidents and then the incident, tragedy on -- in dallas sort of gets people to come together and talk about this in a way that is productive. >> president obama was in the unique, somewhat strange position of being overseas when this took place. he was in a nato summit and had to step to a podium three different times to address something that happen in this country and you mentioned a leader stepping forward to take
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a step in explaining what is happening and trying to unite. here is president obama's attempt to this week. >> i firmly believe that america is not as divided as some have suggested. you know, the legacy of slavery and jim crow and discrimination didn't suddenly vanish with the passage of the civil rights act or the voting rights act or the election of barack obama, that things have gotten better, substantially better but that we've still got a lot more work to do. >> that was an important message because a lot of people said this is 1968 in america riots in the streets and some of the press we saw coverage of newspapers saying civil war and things like that and the president in that moment was trying to turn down the testimony. >> i think that's right and part of why he's cutting his trip short in spain. he wants to come back and continue to try to calm all of
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the concerns, the heated rhetoric right now. look, this is a very personal issue for this president. we saw this in the wake of trayvon martin and ferguson and he created a police task force aimed at really trying to bridge the divide between communities cidiacono. deputies and there ar siddy yeah cone know. progress. i mean, police deputies across cidiacono.y have d their training, thousands of police officers now wear body cameras but if you look at the statis c statisti statistics, actually more people are getting killed in police-involved shootings and before police officers are getting killed. this is clearly still an issue that is so complicated and so hard to get at. hillary clinton to your point has made this issue central to her campaign in the primary. i'm told she's going to be talking about it a lot this week. it's a challenge for donald trump. what will we hear from him? will he layout policy prescriptions for example? >> you know, it's interesting,
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you have african americans as westly said feel under siege by the police and police believe they have targets on their back because of rhetoric out there in politics. you've worked on these issues. what do we do from a policy point of view to stop this? >> i blame politicians for having gotten to this point with our big government incarceration system. the united states has more men and women behind bars than any other nation in the world. we spend billions of dollars incarcerating our own people and the clinton era crime reforms were terrible, mandatory minimums and the laws on crack cocaine and putting people behind bars for drug-related offenses, non-violent destroyed families within this country and i think that we really -- it is the most pressing issue to undo the modern day jim crow laws. >> from a policy point of view. that's different from a traffic stop where somebody is pulled
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over for a taillight. how do we change policing in those moments? >> i mean, i don't actually know from a training standpoint how you do that but i think prolonged and frequent exposure to people who aren't like you is part of it and not to perceive -- i mean, this is sort of, what we're talking about in a lot of ways is pathology. it's like a pathological -- i mean, what we talk about when we talk about unconscience bias is a misperception of the person around you or the idea if you're pulling someone over and that person happens to be black, he could be more dangerous than another motorists that you would be pulling over. i don't know what the actual solution to this is except having -- being around people who aren't like you. i think -- i mean, for police officers this is particularly
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tricky and this is i don't know what the solution is from an actual police training standpoint and that's what these task forces are tasked to do. to get at this problem. i know -- i mean -- >> yeah, it speaks to the issue of community policing. charles ramsey the head of the police task force also police commissioner in philadelphia really made that a focus in philadelphia. it did change things. it did improve crime statistics there but it takes time -- >> in dallas. dallas is just a model of a nation for what they have done to demilitarize their police force and it's a problem across the board in so many cities an influx of money with hope land security like ferguson with hum fees. we are policing with tools that are weapons of war. >> you mentioned chief brown the country got to know in dallas
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was out front and has been out front on the use of tasers than lethal force and community policing, things we ask police forces to do continue to do that and still left with this situation. obviously, a lot to talk about. we want to mention serena williams. you watched the match. >> in the modern era -- >> some good news. >> don't we need to talk about serena as one of the three, four, five greatest athletes male or female of all time? >> yes, that's beginning to happen but took this for it to begin. i mean, she's 30 -- she's going to be 35 soon. based on the way she played yesterday when everything is working for her, her serve was -- i mean, angele is a great returner but if she can't get her racket on the ball.
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there is no point there is no rally. serena is going to win. >> that's defining age. it used to be if you turn 25 you're done. she's about to be 35. >> she's going to win two or three more, four more, five more. >> what i love about yesterday is she then went on to play a double match with her sister. so incredible. >> absolutely -- >> she was ready to go. guys, stay with me for the highs and lows including the kevin durant career choice that turns the team with the best record into a real-life fantasy basketball squad and why his decision got some hot and bothered. life as an on going ralph lauren commercial. taylor swift and squad put on a patriotic 4th for the cameras. we'll be back good morning, i'm meteorologist, erika martin. your weather stories includes few clouds if any for today. lots of sunshine in the
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$1.7 billion and hitting it's plan mark to within one second. >> incredible. >> those are the real cool guys and gals of nasa. >> i love this story. it's such a fantastic piece of news in an otherwise dismal news week. >> you saw how much better taylor swift's 4th of july was better than yours. she summed the squad to her rhode island home where there was model splashing captured by the paparazzi and tom supporting the i love t tank and the couple's shot that had blake lively at center sitting on the lap of ryan reynolds. it read the gaze as a cry for help or a budding romance.
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>> do you believe in the romance. >> too over -- >> no, this is promotional. i don't -- for tom hiddleston. >> i'm upset i didn't get an invitation. >> we didn't make the cut this year. the next high to the win total of the defending western conference champion after kevin durant signed with them this week. k.d. leaving oklahoma city to create an unfair borderline system. he joins reigning back to back steph curry and as it did when lebron left cleveland, the chorus of people that know what's best for professional athletes reprimanded durant for chasing big money and easy championship rings. none of us would ever do that, would we? free will. >> it's his life. if he wants a ring, let him get a ring. >> thank you very much. >> this can only be good for the nba. the next low goes to donald trump's tolerance for the common
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mosquito. speaking at a rally, the presumptive republican nominee for president made clear where a trump administration would stand. >> the democrats, oh, there was a mosquito. i don't want mosquitos around me. i don't like mosquitos. i don't like those mosquitos, i never did. >> you're coming around. >> he really should not campaign in the deep south. it's going to be rough. >> i love how he says i never did. the boston taxi driver that returned a suspiciously large amount of cash left in his cab. he dropped a man off and realized the passenger left a bag. when he opened the bag hoping to find id to return it, he found stacks of cash, lots of them. $187,000, he brought the money to a police station where it was returned to the owner who gave busy a reward of $100 and he
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gave him another ride to the hotel. you got to give him a stack. >> to be clear, this was a homeless guy's inter tense. >> it's true. >> this happened to him before. there was another -- >> that is the good samaritan. >> the final low goes to the crime rate in the town of st. ann on this anthony. eric estrada was sworn in. he'll focus on protecting kids from online predators, a mission he's taken on several times. the police chief expects estrada to stay on the force for two to three years. here is hoping larry wilcox will join the force, too, so ponch and john can ride again. ♪ ♪ >> i have a ♪ i don't want to lie down. i refuse to lie down. why suffer? stand up to chronic migraine... with botox®.
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good sunday morning. i'm katy zachry. it is almost 8:30. a beautiful summer day outside. let's get your forecast from erika martin. a great one, right? >> gorgeous, katy. i would say ideal. dew points down. sunshine finally. however, i am tracking a gusty afternoon in the forecast. it looks like wind gusts could range from 20 to 25 miles per hour, however, i would say a gorgeous day all around. monday, sunny and dry. we're watching a warm up, because it looks like tuesday, we're trending towards another heat wave. hour by hour, just a few clouds, mainly breaking. programs a couple of sprinkles just west of philadelphia, but really, not a big deal at all. katy, back to you. all right, erika, thank you. protester whose are angry about police shootings across the country plan to march through the streets of philadelphia for a fifth straight day.
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sky 410 was over demonstrators last night, and they targeted the 24th and 25th police districts. supporters of police also showed up. officials come mended officers for showing restraint. another big story, if you ride septa's regional rails, you'll have an updated schedule that comes out at noon today. septa is trying to ease commuter congestion after they took one-third of the rail fleet last week. that's all for now. back to the "the today show."
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watch that full interview online later. it used to be when a little girl closed her eyes and imagined a ballet dancer she would see a tall, white, thin women doing a plete. she became the first female dancer in the american ballet theater. the young girl that grew up shy and quiet in a busy los angeles house full of brothers and sisters made herself heard around the world and changed the face of ballet. ♪ ♪ >> it's been a year now. congratulations on your anniversary. >> thank you. >> has the reality of it lived up to your dream? >> yes. it's been an incredible first spring season as a principiple dancer. i was aware i was black but the
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lack of african americans in top companies and like wow. is it going to happen for me? it hasn't happened for 75 years. why would it happen for me? at the same time it gave me more of a fire that was like i am carrying so many people with me and i can do this. >> watching misty copeland sore across the stage, you would think she had been dancing since she was in diapers but while of the world's elite dancers start training well before kindergarten, misty didn't discover ballet until the age of 13 and did it in a setting a long way from her current home at new york's famed lincoln center. she got her start at the boy's and girl's club of san padro, california. >> i was always interested in movement and there was always music around my house so i naturally would move to it and i decided i would audition for the dance team and the teacher kind of pushed me into take thing ballet class and it was the first thing i felt this
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connection with and the fact that i didn't have to use my voice and speak gave me comfort and strength in a way that i had never seen before. >> when did you know ballet would be your professional life? >> it probably was when i entered this competition when i was 15 years old. and then i won the competition and it was the first time but then i was offered a full scholarship at san francisco ballet so i decided to go there for the summer and the first time it was a shock. i was the only black girl in my class. i don't remember any other black people there besides my roommate. that's when it really became on my radar at that point. >> did it make it more difficult for you? did you feel like an outsider in the world or able to block it out? >> i never felt like i was an outsider at all. it was the first time i felt like i was part of something
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inclusive. i never connected with anything my entire childhood. finding -- i felt like these were my sisters and brothers i was surrounded by and we spoke the same language. >> what's the next step? >> i turned down abc's offer the first time around. >> really? >> yes. >> that's bold. >> at the end of the summer it was another big shock. they offered me a contract with the studio company and i spoke to my mother and she was like i really think you need to come home and finish high school. so i turned them down again. >> you did? >> yes. >> you turned them down twice. >> yeah, i came back the following summer and they offered me the contract again and i moved here. >> in 2007, misty became the american ballet theater's second african american female soloist and the first in two decades. from there, misty's rise began. she toured as a dancer with prince. she graced magazine covers and she wrote two new york times
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best-selling books. >> you know, when i was promoted to soloist, it was just a dream come true and then i think it was six or seven years that i thought as a soloist in the company and had a moment again where maybe this is itoloist is >> which is enough at abc. >> it's incredible but i felt like i can't stop here. you watch ballets and i say this often, you're not looking at the first girl in the line on the side. you're looking at the ballerina in the center and i think that's everyone's dream and why they train so hard and yeah, i don't think that ever left me. >> in 2015, she became that ballerina at the center when american ballet theater promoted her to principle dancer. misty was named one of "time magazine"'s most influential 100 people in the world and the subject of a documentary and
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appeared on broadway and signed a list of endorsements, including with under armor that went outside the world of sports to work with misty creating a famous commercial that's been viewed more than 10 million times. she even has her own barbie doll. do you enjoy the celebrity aspect of it? >> i don't -- i just don't think of myself as a celebrity. >> you are. go ahead. [ laughter ] >> it was really wild. i don't think anyone in the company or in the dance world. we were all kind of shocked. i'm a ballerina and that's why i'm given the opportunities that i'm given. you know, i'm a part of giving people hope that you don't have to fit into this mold of what, you know, society has cut out for you to be in order to succeed. >> having broken the ballet mold herself, misty is hoping to help others like her with a line of dance wear french for equal. >> it kind of came up when i was going through this time where i
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had gained a lot of weight and went through puberty really late in life and my breasts had grown and i was like i'm going to create dance wear that people that aren't thin can wear and a plus line and it's coming to fruition. >> one thing you've done is help ballet breakthrough to a new audience of people that may not have access to ballet or thought it was for them in someway. maybe some elite. >> it's incredible to see the audience change over the past four years, like a completely different audience. i have like the cleaning lady in the opera house come up to me and say i saw the line outside and it's amazing to see these different faces, you know, and different colors and it's like that's what this is about. >> what's it like to have a 13-year-old girl come up to you and say i'm into ballet because of you? as a young 13-year-old girl yourself thought the same. >> i mean, i get it. i was once that girl and herrera
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was that for me and to be able to share these things with the people that inspire you like it means so much more than they probably realize to us. >> misty says she learned how to move as a kid by feeling the music that was playing in her house. her favorites were aretha franklin, mariah carey and more. to hear misty hear how she hopes to change body image from weight to skin color, check out the web extras at today.com/sunday and the next time we get together two weeks from now, we'll spend time on the water with the savvy surfer that became a billionaire by dreaming up the go procamera. coming up next, exotic vacations without the beach chairs and this is how you apply
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as you pack up the family and head out on vacation, how would you and your kids feel about arriving at the sunny destination and getting right to work? morg morgan looks into it. >> reporter: bathing in the sunlight, dancing on the deck and cocktails by the pool. that's when you think of when you think of a caribbean cruise vacation. not this. these vacationers are digging a little deeper. they are part of a growing trend called voluntourism. >> more than sitting on a beach and getting a dan and got drunk for a week, now you're making a difference. >> reporter: 1.6 million people make the difference each year and caught the attention of big names in the hospitality industry including carnival. sandals resorts and the ritz carlton. >> i got it. >> reporter: where in florida that means helping save sea
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turtles. >> hold your handout. >> reporter: guests help out by painting stakes to mark the nests. >> we got to hold them and play with them and saw them walk out to the ocean. >> reporter: sandals resort is jumping out offering guests the chance to volunteer at local schools. since 2009 more than 17,000 volunteers have taken part in the reading road trip. >> when they see somebody coming, taking time from vacation and a person that would probably never have interacted with them before, chances of them seeing a tourist are one in ten so a chance to come in their environment in their close room and spend time with them is awesome. >> reporter: attracting couples like tim and miranda taylor. >> i like working with children and things like that so he surprised me and booked this for us for our honeymoon. >> seeing miranda actually interact with the kids and see the qualities in her is something you don't see in our
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generation. >> reporter: even crew giant carnival is designing a specialty crew liner forllennia think globally first and how do i make a difference but also people that have traveled a lot and say you know what? next time i travel i want to do something different and make a different. >> reporter: for $499, passengers can choose to do service activities in the dominican republic. on board they spend two days taking classes and learning about the home country before they arrive. once they dock, three days volunteering in some of the country's most challenged neighborhoods. travelers can teach english at local schools. or in people's homes. >> i speak it. [speaking foreign language]. >> what is your name. >> my name is morgan. thank you for asking. nice to meet you, randy.
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>> reporter: for the more hard core volunteers like 78-year-old joann, they can build cement floors. this is so hands on and you're so, you know, directly in touch with the people that it's really quite remarkable. >> reporter: my hat and my gloves are off to you. >> i can't take my gloves off. >> reporter: some saw it's as much about learning as teaching. do you feel like you're making a difference? >> definitely. the conditions are really bad and the dirt floors, there is diseases and mud when it's raining and yeah, it's really makes a difference. >> reporter: critics say that's the problem, it helps the volunteers more than the locals. >> one of the challenges is people want the cultural experience of direct contact with individuals and it's hard to imagine that being really effective on a short-term basis. it's hard enough to be effective on a long-term basis when you're
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in the country, even if you know the language, even if you've studied the culture. >> reporter: but the locals we spoke to like the women that run this small recycled paper factory say it's changed their lives. [speaking foreign language]. >> reporter: carnival says they made a real i'm pampact, in suc part due to local partnerships. >> for myself, well really want this to happen. we want it to work if it works and it is right now it can be replicated somewhere else in the world and that's the goal. >> reporter: a goal to change travel and the way each of us see the world. >> morgan radford reporting. next, violence caught on smart phones and streamed live
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the police shootings and deaths of two african american men were captured in graphic video. in one case the aftermath was streamed on facebook with an officer's gun still on the victim. harry smith on the impact of video in the way we now see the world. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: whatever we thought was normal has long been disposed of. rare are the weeks and the days now when our sensibilities are not shaken to the core. one horrific scene follows another. the dust from which doesn't even
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settle. our simpympathies, empathy, emotions are being stretched. it's painful. sorrow. we're seeing real life and real death in realtime stuns, horrifying scenes captured on cell phones and streamed live or uploaded within minutes. we were eyewitnesss to the death of philando castile this week. his girlfriend diamond reynolds describing it all. >> he was just getting his license and registration, sir. >> reporter: there were several angles of alton sterling's death. it almost reminded us of an episode of "cops" and in dallas several phones focused and made it almost scinema. there are more cell phones than people in america now and truly, we have entered a new era in media when it seems like there isn't anything we can't see. the gate keepers are gone,
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everyone is a reporter and the rest of us can't turn away. there is a truth to these images that is undeniable but what about judgment, what about circumstances? or does that still even matter? of course it does. the question we in the news business must ask ourselves is what is sensational and what tells the story? sometimes an image can be both but will you still believe it if you can't see it? >> and harry smith joins me live. harry, i was struck this week as so many people were by diamond reynolds, philando castile who lifted her phone and began streaming live. she became a journalist. >> reporting her life of such tragic consequences and the thing that to me is we carry
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these things around all the time, right? we record so many things that are basically inknockous that only maybe our friends care about and here it is, now that we have these, now that these are open and constant that we can see things we've never seen before and some people have the presence of mind to say, maybe even my life is in danger at this moment and the only thing that's going to keep me alive is this phone. >> you said the gate keepers are gone. the filter is off. is that a good thing? >> so marshall, the medium is the message. this is the medium now that's on all the time. we live in a world of which what are the rules? where are the laws? where are the restrictions? we're almost in a censorless place. >> we in the press ourselves are working through that, as well. harry smith, thank you. >> pleasure. rosco brown is credited with
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