agent orange for the u.s. government during the vietnam war claims they're not responsible for the effects of the product on veterans or the many many innocent being to me is in korean stating that the government set the specifications for making agent orange and determined when and where and how it was made agent orange would only be produced for and used by the us government however the recent verdict in the us courts found finding monsanto legally responsible for the cancer causing of facts of its pesticide roundup were and were ordered to pay two hundred eighty one million dollars to one of their victims which has led the nation of vietnam's foreign minister to repeat a longstanding demand that monsanto and eight other companies that made agent orange. compensate should compensate vietnamese victims so is it time that companies like monsanto are held responsible for the damage their products have caused or will they be able to hide behind the us government leaving victims without any justice yes by all mea

and the planes dropped agent orange in the surrounding area. this section covers about five and a half to tears. there's a really unpleasant smell here during thunderstorms and also when it's sunny. the local authorities suspect there's an agent orange storage dumped here. but the officials have no documents to prove that it's been confirmed that the aircraft that sprayed the chemicals were decontaminated here but it's not clear whether any of the chemicals got into the soil a few years ago the local mayor put up barbed wire and other barriers to keep cattle from drinking water from pools that had formed in bomb craters. after the war people started moving back into the area later there was an increase in the number of miscarriages. it wasn't until two thousand and two that local residents first heard reports about the dangers of dioxin they used to drink water that came directly from a nearby river. this is how know a capital of vietnam experts at a research institute here have been studying the effects of the war on the environment. the late

>> i doid not tell agent orange to make that statement.d that. >> you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> why should there be any deliberation between you choose between peaceful protesters and hate groups? >> how do you propose to make this investigation? >> well, i've established contact and created some familiarity with a klansman over the phone. >> reporter: "blackkklansman" is the hollywood take on ron stallworth's take about his time as a polkkk. >> how in the world did you come up with the idea to infiltrate the klan? >> i was talking to ken o'dell, the local klan organizer, on the phone and told him that my sister had recently dated a so-called n word. i hate that term. but had recently dated one. and every time he put his filthy black hands on her pure white body it made me cringe. and i wanted to do something to stop that abuse of the white race. his response to me was you're just the kind of man we're looking for, when can we meet? >> only in america. >> yeah. that's when i thought okay, what have i gott

. >> it wasn't just napalm, it was also agent orange that dow made.he protest at the university of wisconsin in october of 1967 was the first student protest that turned into a violent confrontation on a campus. and it was against dow chemical company recruiting on the campus at a time when some students were vehemently opposed to the war. there is an interesting connection that you can only make in retrospect, which is that as much as these students were protesting the war for a combination of idealism and self-interest, that they didn't want to fight in the war, they were also opposing two chemicals which had a profound negative effect on the soldiers and all the people of vietnam. napalm was destroying villages and it was also working as a weapon in that war, but agent orange is the one that had the most long-term debilitating effect on the people of vietnam and on the soldiers, many of whom i've dealt with over the years who fought in 1967 and are dying of bladder cancer in their '60s and often because of the effects of agent orange. >> jim webb,

issues like agent orange, i have worked on those since 1978. trying to find the nexus between -- bioxin.by oxen to gettaken a long time that to a place where we can resolve it for veterans who were affected. there was a man who created modern singapore he was one of the most brilliant minds in the one of the most brilliant minds of the last 100 years and east asia. he repeatedly used to say the united states effort in vietnam actually created a win for the region because it slowed down the sorts of revolutionary movements. it allowed these other countries to invigorate new governmental systems and economic systems. i think when we put into the formula of the attempt we made to preserve in incipient democracy that there were strong positive long-term results out of that. >> also more than one million vietnamese depths and 58,000 american deaths. host: was the u.s. winning the war -- the vietnam war in 1958? 1968?reciate -- in 38% said yes, 32% said no. .avid marinus and jim webb we will go to michael joining us from alexandria, virginia. a vietn

>> agent orange? i did see that.'s take a look at the framework under which this war was being fought. it was the most complicated war that the united states has ever had to fight. a negativeecessarily thing to say but maybe a given thegiven circumstances and the power of the antiwar movement was an acceptable goal. just like north korea versus south korea. just like east germany versus west germany. that was the way that a lot of people looked at what we were trying to do. can you preserve a portion of the country? and develop a democracy? and at something different come out of it? thing that should be remembered is there were of the extreme left, there were people who had revolutionary goals in this country that did not connect with vietnam at first. the great example, the students for a democratic society. in 1962. formed that the race would be the issue with which they could galvanize america into revolutionary change. the war came along and affected everyone potentially. it folded into these other issues that th

this is like, in your face. >> this guy, agent orange, he's not trying to fake the funk.t and let's all recognize who this guy is. let's register to vote. rev, if people don't want to vote after these last 18 months, then they need to stop smoking k-2. midterms, he cannot be re-elected. >> no, you are right. you are right. they have to vote, though. they have to vote. >> vote, they have to register. >> you have to register and know it's the state houses and the congressional. it's not parties who is right and only right in gender. i have to ask you a personal question. >> yes, sir. >> we have gone through this journey together for a few decades now. you worked with denzel. >> right. >> you had a cab deal with denzel. >> yes. >> i was too young to know. >> now, you working with denzel's son. how does it feel to go through the second generation now of washington? i'm amazed. this guy can act. people have to see this. he can act. >> i always kid john david, i knew you before you were born and his first role was in "malcolm x." he said, my name is malcolm x at the end of the

he called him agent orange. he won't use his name.hey went after that joe wilson from screaming "you lie" during the state of the union. they crucified joe wilson. agent orange? an athlete went on television and called him, he's not my president? you would have a follow-up. what about unemployment? what about the fact that democratic led cities are coming with crime and gang violence. what about the fact that his numbers among black people have gone up? they would hit him with these things if the shoe was on the other foot. you don't speak like that. i know you wouldn't speak like that. >> i understand. for eight years, i heard that. there was a big "not my president" kind of movement. >> laura: never would i never say that. i would never say that. someone as prominent as spike lee who was such a talented filmmaker. his wife was in my class at uva law school. >> i think what it reflects, it's not good for the democratic party. the democratic party, one angle is to get your people so angry to try to get them to show up. >> laura: what

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so there's been quite a bit for action online from agent orange and d.d. d.d.t. to genetically modified crops monsanto has long been associated controversial a controversial other chemicals for years so plenty of people online a welcoming the trial outcome and some are even calling it a victory for all of those fighting the huge conglomerates that have power money and political persuasion as well but best selling author the same target tweeted this isn't about life or say it's about the manipulation of science by corporations and he added that bullying scientists does not pay but eugene who's a surgeon is among others who are using science to cast doubt on the sixty's not huge fine he says of monsanto bots billie's the dates and evidence linking round up and cancer off far from concrete and another person who also saw a sort of. these the same thing is david he's also a surgeon and he went further on to describe the judgment as ridiculous and here if you want to know why scientists and physicians have such contempt for the legal system when it adjudicates science

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in the 07s, i thought it was a great opportunity for to comment on the world we live today with agent orangelaughter) >> i don't say his name. >> trevor: let me ask you this. >> got up to busta rhyme, that is what i got, busta. >> trevor: let me ask you this. why do you think a story about the 1970s and the klan and a black man on the police force comments on what is happening today in america. >> because i like to say, i say one of the mistakes people make, i feel, is they are saying this is just an american phenomenon. the rise of the right, this is happening globally. and with this guy in the white house, he's made it okay for these, the premise, to come out in the open, they are coming out on the rocks and he legitimizes it. i would even call it a dog whistle, is he on a bull horn. >> trevor: i won't spoil the ending. >> go ahead. >> trevor: not the ending because i want people to enjoy it, there is a magical ending, it a beautiful film but what happens post the movie part is we get thrurs into modern day, from the 1970s to 2017. we go to a choor lots. >> we go to a what happened a year

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there are the people who then died from ptsd-related psychological issues, suicides, agent orange, that ultimately led to their deaths. there's also the americans who protested the war, the kids at kent state or at jackson state or a lot of others whose names we don't know that are not recognized in that memorial, or at least explicitly. we are doing a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the pentagon march on october 21. what we are going to do after a day of chat, chat, chat, is walk to the vietnam memorial to honor, respect, to mourn, but to point out that if the memorial included 3 million cambodians who died, the wings of it would stretch for miles. it's not to say the american memorial should do that anymore than a vietnamese does it for american soldiers, but i don't think it diminishes what you accomplished and the value of the memorial to point out how much is not memorialized. >> made some good points and i'm going to let it stand right there, you are next. >> bob hathaway here at the center. congratulations on yet another extraordinary book, and a very rich, entertaining

agent orange. >> do you consider him your president? fox news headlines 24/7. kanye west the president this tweeting about him, he is unusual in that he spoke up for trump, he spoke up for the president and he was clubbed and battered and he stuck with it. >> we can give him credit for at least being brave. i do think some conservatives have jumped on the kanye bandwagon a little bit too prematurely.l he made some very good points about freedom of thought when he declared his support for the president. it's clear in that interviewew that he likes the shock value, he likes to be a contrarian and he doesn't like when people tell him what to do. jimmy kimmel asked him a simple question about what president trump has done for the african-american community and kanye west was completely unprepared to answer. he could have pulled from a number of things, jobs, -- it doesn't feel like he's done a deep dive into conservative values. he did make some good points about at least not being bullied by people. >> and i don't think anyone seriously ex

veterans who have been sick with agent orange and knock on the attention they need.e cover all of it. that does not mean we should not cover immigrants and what is happening to immigrants. this policy of separating children from their parents is on the government. this is not the immigrants fall. -- fault. immigrants come here seeking an opportunity to make their case for saying. it was the government of the u.s. that decided to take the children away from them without any finding that these parents are unfit in any way to raise their children. what i call this mess that has been made, the government has to own it. it is not just me saying that. there is a federal judge in san diego who has ordered the government to try to fix this because he has found that this is a mess. it needs to be fixed. brian lamb: where did the zero tolerance policy start? ginger thompson: it started with the trump administration. jeff sessions announced it officially in march of this year. it started with the trump administration. brian lamb: back to this topic. had a question, why wasn't t

i call him agent orange. agent orange. it was august 12 in illinois, 2017, isaw agent orange.er. sparked by far right activists, protesters clashing with people who didn't like what they were saying. and president trump's reaction to that, his words after that, where he refused to condemn one side, he said there were good people and bad people on both sides, how did that make you feel? you've used that clip in the film. that statement, history is going to write that as a significant part of his legacy and american history, where a sitting president has the chance to denounce hate, to denounce the klan, denounced the alt—right, denounce neo—nazis, and he refused to do it. spike lee, it's been an absolutejoy talking to you. thank you so much. thank you. it was a joy talking to him. he's one of those filmmakers who is a lwa ys one of those filmmakers who is always drawn to things that have social importance. he tells the story very well but with humour as well. i would certainly recommend watching it. now, if you've ever been to cornwall, you may well have visited the eden projec

eminem's lyrics are agent orange sent a person to meet me in person and if i'm linked to terrorists.comes to ink and lyricists. >>> it is good to know there is a severe weather threat in the middle ea midwest and it cools down in the northeast. here is meteorologist derek van dam. >> good morning, kaylee and dave. you will feel a difference as you step outside today compared to early irrelevant-- earlier i workweek. temperatures have come down thanks to the cold front that passed to the east. with the cold front comes a chance of light shower or two through the day today and into the weekend as well. we have the chance of severe storms across the northern plains. look at where the storm prediction center has highlighted the areas from southern minnesota to western wisconsin and parts of iowa. damaging winds and large hail a possibility. look out minneapolis to des moines and omaha. the rainfall totals for the thunderstorms that fire up later today could produce 1 to 2 inches of rain locally. now we do have a warming trend as we head into the early parts of next week. labor day foreca

i have been exposed to agent orange. i have prostate cancer. but they don't care, nobody cares. >> the story of jeff there. let's hear the story of alvin, then we'll get back to our guest. peoria, arizona. >> caller: yes. first of all i want to thank ken burns. he's doing a fantastic job, not just in vietnam but i followed him with the civil war, black baseball, et cetera, et cetera. but if had my experience as a 21-year-old in 1964, i enlisted in the u.s. army, basically believing that i would be sent to vietnam. fate intervened and i was sent to korea instead of vietnam. every other class was sent to vietnam and then the class in between was sent someplace else and i served in the 7th infantry division in korea. but i did follow vietnam very closely and i was young, naive and wanted to serve my country. and that's why i enlisted. but at any rate, i made e-5 fairly quickly because i was in great shape, exercised, the whole nine yards, so when i got out, i went to college in 1967. and at that time, i was really following vietnam and i was in my

he refers to him as agent orange.ed to make sure that donald trump does not serve a second term as president. a lot of people are going to find the movie to be controversial and a lot of people won't like it. this is based on a true story and told through the eyes of spike lee and, you know, he has a history of making films that touch on powerly on race relations like malcolm x and this is another example of just that. >> "blacks klansman" friday. spike lee, you have the interview, chloe. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. >>> and that will do it for me here in new york city. i'm brooke baldwin. let's go to washington and jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >> thanks, brooke. >>> rick gates stealing from paul manafort as paul manafort allegedly stealing from taxpayers. president trump hires the best people. cool. "the lead" starts right now. describing a sleazy scheme. socking away cash overseas from those friendly to the russian regime as two of the top campaign aides clash in court. >>> and a

well, i don't call him that, i call him agent orange. agent orange. he wasn't always...e saying. and president trump's reaction to that, his words after that, where he refused to condemn one side, he said there were good people and bad people on both sides, how did that make you feel? because you've used that clip in the film. that statement, historians are going to write that as a significant part of his legacy and american history, where a sitting president has the chance to denounce hate, to denounce the klan, denounced the alt—right, denounce neo—nazis, and he refused to do it. spike lee, it's been an absolute joy talking to you. thank you so much. thank you. it's been a busy time at london zoo, where more than 19,000 animals have had their vital statistics recorded at the annual weigh—in. the keepers had to come up with some rather inventive ways to take the measurements of some of the creatures. it looks like a lot of fun, but there's a serious purpose. the information will be shared with other facilities to help endangered species. in a moment it's time for the on

agent orange.n, busta. >> do you consider him your president? >> no. might be putin. >> so what -- what -- >> you look kind of shook, anderson. >> no -- i find the movie -- i was shaken by the film. >> thank you very much. when i thought of it as a period piece, oh, it's a look back. it's so -- there's such relevant things -- >> that's what people responded to, it's not just a history lesson, even though it takes place in the '70s, it's also the world we live in, the >> spike lee, it's always good to talk to you. appreciate it. >>> i want to check in with chris and see what he's working on for "cuomo prime time" at the top of the hour. >> listening to you is what i'm doing, talking to spike. i think you do the right thing when you confront the conversations, anderson. they're not easy to have. obviously they're not even easy for us to have sometimes. but we have to talk about what is real in this country because we're seeing what happens when you don't. it winds up getting harnessed and weaponized

they are researching things like chemical weapons, agent orange and napalm being dropped on north vietnamese villages, being developed on university campuses. so in 1968, 1969, 1970, in 1971, on many campuses including this one, they are increasing protest, and sometimes acts of violence against universities, properties, and violence in which students are caught up in. and increasingly militant stance of these very privileged young people, these parents whose children they say you had it so good. we worked hard to make sure you go to this school, and what are you doing, growing your hair long and occupying the president's office. this face might have been the face of young america that is the face of young america we remember. when we think about the 60s, we think about the counterculture, we think about hippies, we think about the left, the antiwar left, we think about people growing their hair long, dropping acid and dropping out, right? let's not forget that this was not everybody, and that the 1960s is a time when the modern left, the liberal left comes together and you have strong lefti

just to take one example, something like agent orange or you have a 12 year war in vietnam and the casualtiesre framed by the public perception, but the impact comes the ongoing casualties and publilic health effects lastst for d decades and generatis.s. so i thihink there''s someththig analogous s going on with clclie chanan that we have the postponementntf the consequences. so what we're looking at in effect is a kind of intergenerational fix of the conditions of life itself. nermeen: what do you mean in the second part of the title of your book, what is the environmentalism of the poor and how does it relate to slow violence? i think there are still a widespread public perception ist even if environmentalism an urgent cause, it is a ite one.ly elu what i was trying to do in the course of the book is to bring to the surface some of the genealogies of environmental activism by the poor whoho are e people who a are most impacted y failures,t of the andal failures, to mitigate for store climate change affects. deep are long and traditions of activism among those who have contributed the least,

i refer to him as only agent orange. >> that was spike's joke. trump administration has his best opening in the last 20 years! another trump administration, there are more women of color on major magazines, whether they be "vogue," "elle," america, get on board, and start defending americans. donald trump is one of those guys that it is an american patriot. america, as they used to say on "saturday night live" for donald trump, has been very, very good to him, so he is not a guy that is trying to desecrate anything in america. the majority of the country, even though he lost by 3 million votes, the majority of the country is for trump. they are for the flag. i, myself, will always stand up for the flag, and i will always stand up for donald trump. donald trump is a guy that i would love to have dinner with, but on the other side, i would love to have dinner with maxine waters, too. i am not leaving anyone out. this is what it seems that we are so fractured, so concrete against america. we have the best country in the world. get on board! >> laura

and so david duke, agent orange, you know who he is. the alt-right, the kkk, and the klan. >> seth: i want to ask about this, too, because obviously, you know this is by design an incredibly heavy story that you are telling. there's also real moments of lightness in this. >> right. >> there is moments of humor. >> uh-huh. >> seth: it is, at times, a very bright film where you feel hopeful. is that something you're balancing in the making of it? >> no. we knew that going in that you have to have a balance, and so there's a whole history of films, great films. "dr. strangelove." you know, peter sellers. >> seth: sure. >> so you can -- it's hard to do, but you can deal -- have humor in very serious subject matter. >> seth: well, i think you balanced it very well. >> thank you. >> seth: it's a really terrific film, and it's just an honor to have you here. thank you so much, spike. >> glad to be here. >> seth: really appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] spike lee, everybody. "blackkklansman" is in theaters now. we'll be right back with senator elizabeth warren. [ cheers and ap

they are researching things like chemical weapons, agent orange and napalm being dropped on vietnam villages. on many campuses, including this one, they are increasing protests, and sometimes acts of violence against universities, properties, and violence in which students are caught up in. and, and increasingly militant stance of the very privileged and people, these people whose parents say you have it so good, you grew up in a town of peace and prosperity, we worked hard to make sure you go to this light -- my school, and you go and occupy the president's office. this phase might have been the face of young america that we remember. when we think about the 60s we think about hippies, the counterculture, the antiwar left, people going their hair longer, and dropping out. let's not forget this was not everybody, and that the 1960s is the time yes, or the modern left, liberal left come together, and you have strong leftist movements, both within and outside verbal politics, but it is also the moment when the modern right is coming together, because there are also young people on college camp