because of affirmative action, it did not help to turn black america upside down, why do we fight redit. it created black success of all kinds that would not have happened without it. i think it was a great thing but i think it was a reparation. nobody said it would be perfect. if it was perfect we would have to ask why. >> you said a reparation. you didn't say reparations. >> if i understand you, it was part of a program of a national mood in the 60s and 70s such that it isn't true that white america or the powers that be never acknowledged the horrored that we went through . it is really, really complicated. i think that we have a lot to think about. >> we have not had you on in a long time and we miss you. thank you. >> now this is compounding more. dan abrhams will weigh in on the big lie and new conspiracy and president obama has an interesting take on aliens. >> i would hope that the knowledge were aliens out there that would solidify the sense of what we have in common is a little more important. it would be cool to ride a horse on the moon. (vo) jamaica. (woman) best decision

so this is not justice for black america, and unless you forget about black women. so to get to the answer of your question, i apologize, because i am very distressed at his statement, and i wanteded to highlight that the court did not find him innocent, but vacated the conviction. it is a technicality, and the jury still heard from he was guilty and by rendering her without her consent by giving her an intoxicant by giving her a herbal treatment. and so black women not only want dignity and respect, but we want respect as well. beverly johnson and several women were also assaulted by bill cosby, and i am disturbed by that statement. >> wendy, some people suggest that this is speaking to two sets of systems, one for people of means, and one for people who don't. if bill cosby did not have the means to pay for legal means, would he have gotten this result? >> no. we have had regardless of the color wins you a much better result compared to people of any means of color who wind up behind bars disregard that ridiculous comment from bill cosby invoking that this is good

there's still a conversation we'd have to have about black america in general.nd as far as the eyebrows raised, i think we just need to realize that words aren't always applied to what they could apply to. affirmative action was reparations. people didn't use that word, but that's precisely what it was. the community reinvestment act of 1977 that forced banks to invest in inner cities, nobody makes a movie about that, but that was reparations. sometimes it worked. sometimes it didn't. welfare was reformed to be easier to get in the late '60s, another untold story. it was reparations. >> but, john, also with that, john, you had -- when you talk -- there was also the urban removal act, which destroyed a lot of black communities. there was also within affirmative action, there was a glass ceiling. you may be hired, but you may not be promoted. there may not be equal pay. that certainly doesn't make up for the people who -- who farmed lands for free while the slave master got all the wealth and you got nothing and no education and no right to vote. even affirmative

this equality in the struggle of being black in america.— black in america. is the longest sentence _ black in america. this is the longest sentence a - black in america. this is the longest sentence a police i black in america. this is the - longest sentence a police officer has received in the state of minnesota.— has received in the state of minnesota. .,~ ., , ., minnesota. speaking outside of the courthouse following _ minnesota. speaking outside of the courthouse following the _ minnesota. speaking outside of the i courthouse following the sentencing, the family said they do feel some measure of accountability. they hope this is a turning point in america because they feel that the activism surrounding this case could mean a real trains moving forward and total those gathering here to keep fighting for justice let's speak now tojohn lesch a criminal defence lawyer and former state representative in the minnesota house of representatives. criminal defence lawyer at lesch law, former state representative in the minnesota house of representatives, where he

- black community and within wider communities in america? in the black communities in america? ommunities in america? in the black community i am _ communities in america? in the black community i am seeing _ communities in america? in the black community i am seeing two _ communities in america? in the black community i am seeing two things, i community i am seeing two things, i've seen greater hope. before it was you know there's nothing we can do, we've been doing this over and overfor so long and do, we've been doing this over and over for so long and when do we finally see a movement towards justice? so now we are seeing that. and we see that other people are seeing what we've been saying all along. i also see a sense of empowerment. the sense of empowerment. the sense of empowerment came not only with this trial but we also had an election and black people... trial but we also had an election and black people. . ._ trial but we also had an election and black people... sonia, we must to back and black people... sonia, we must go back to — and black people... sonia, we must

reality is that is just not the case. >> reaction. >> i can tell you the black elite are benefiting from everything taking place in america, the affirmative-action program and everything is about them and their agenda and their agenda don't advance the interests of black americans, many of the elites are marxists, they seem to be trying to take down the country and if they do they will suffer along with every other american and i believe black americans and other ethnicities out there we need to lock arms and take a stand against critical race theory. it is racist, it is an american, violates our civil rights laws and the equal protection clause. it is not acceptable and we need to hold the biden administration accountable. they are destroying our nation from within. laura: time for a quick comment. victor, really quickly, i don't see this working for biden. not just saying that. i don't think this works. when you look at florida, texas, minority vote is thriving for republicans, they are freaking out because we have -- our policies work. >> if you listen to senator scott you can see why they don't work but president bide

"black women, black love - america's war on african american marriage" in a forthcoming book, and original religious identity in trinidad. it also in the power of black sacred. next we have reverend doctor, she's a professor at boston university school of theology. she completed her phd in studies and is preparing to publish her first book entitled strangers family. and is about household. we are delighted to have her here and joining with us and we also have maryland, a lifelong resident of washington dc. a graduate of howard university where she graduated with honors. she's had a very lustrous career in washington dc ranging from a teacher to now she is real estate. she's also involved with jack and jill and welcome maryland. in us but not least, we have my friend, an associate professor of religious studies. african-american religion and gender ratio aldi studies in a book passion and pious, religious media and black women sexuality was published by 2018 ♪ think year award for the religious communication of association. [inaudible]. so welcome panelists and audience. i would like to beg

they don't want to talk about the issues or talk about how to make white, black america better. c, congressional black caucus, they don't want to invite him in and i think he should start his own caucus and invite new people who believe in liberty and want to rescue the community from the devastation that they have had. meanwhile, they are sitting in the middle of the rotunda and when nancy pelosi, but not challenging her on the policies that are coming out of congress that are harmful to black americans. >> kennedy: for congressional black caucus is strong enough to have a number that has a different point of view. and this is the first time a lot of people are seeing this new congressman. is he in an at fault, greg? >> greg: absolutely. breanna thought she could eat him alive like a plate of cicadas. >> kennedy: thank you for bringing that up. >> greg: by the way, she looks like she is suffering from indigestion or gas. >> kennedy: what? >> greg: just like this -- >> kennedy: no comment. >> greg: cnn is becoming more racist every day. they believe that you can only be a certain

not just for black america but all america. >> you have questioned the election, the veracity of thection. the 2020 election was verifiably secure but this questioning of the election, which many republicans have done, is the basis, really, for all of the bills that we have seen across so many states that if passed will effectively reduce voting access of black americans. do you think that that is something that might be inkong ruincongruent with the mission of the cbc? >> whatever has gone on with the 2020 election has nothing to do with this at all. number two, if you look at the bills passed in florida, georgia, actually black americans and all americans, whether you live in those states, have more access to the ballot, not less. those are the facts because i've read both bills, and number three, again, i'll say it like i said before. i'm 42 years old. i grew up in prook lynn, new york. i come from a single parent household. i know what it is to grow up coming out of the inner city in today's america because i've done it. those perspectives are helpful. whether the c.bc wants to t

i mean, for how many years have white liberals said that they are going to help black america, and youblack poverty rates, black unemployment rate twice what white unemployment rate is. of the black education gap has gotten bigger. less black family is in tact. is any of that working? what we are doing? i'm actually thinking now and the government says that they want to help blacks they are actually hurting blacks, because where are the trillions that we have already spent go, joe? just the race hustlers that run the federal programs that don't work? because they did not go to the people that needed the help, so if somebody is saying i'm going to help you, i'm going to say, i'm going to help myself and operate my schools in my businesses and my family and keep more of my money and i bet black americans would thrive if white liberals stop trying to help them. >> greg: if they let the education flourish that would be a big start. >> jesse: and they want to call black americans -- when they are labeled victims it means they need help from white liberals and help means votes coming to get

justification i found it to be outrageous because last time i checked i was born black, i have grown black, made it in america, graduated college as a black man, raised license as a black man, came into halls of congress as a black man so i don't know what donald trump or joe biden or anyone else has to do with that. like i said earlier they asked me if i wanted to join. i am a legislative black caucus when i was in florida's legislature, i have been through this before. it was more congenial in florida but i'm in washington now so we'll see how it goes are here. laura: ever run into norton or any of the other members of the cdc and chitchat about this in the halls? do you talk to each other? >> that is the funny thing. i talk to a lot of the members whether on the floor and the speaker's lobby, in passing and it comes up, would you join the cdc? i was in the legislative black caucus in the florida legislature. for me it is about making sure conservative ideals are being discussed in the room and at the table. i know a lot of members of the cbc will not agree with me and i will not agree with them but it is a

greenwood represented of what was possible for black people in america. no one cared about us for almost 100 years we in our history have that we must recognize us for the black america and white americans for some justice. thank you. >> do you want to say anything else? >> no. that is it. [applause] >> mother fletcher if we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it thank you for helping us to learn and understand and to do better. are you the older of the two siblings? yes. >> so he's used to having a tough fact to follow. [laughter] the next witness known as uncle red. a world war ii veteran having served in the united states army in the theater of operations as a member of the all-black unit and survivor of the tolls of race massacre. you are on. >> ranking member and members of the subcommittee. i am 100 years old and i am a survivor of the tulsa race massacre. because of the massacre my family was driven out of our homes and were left with nothing and left homeless in her own county. my childhood was hard. what little we had would be stolen

who is stood with his family— of black america who is stood with his family from day one.n the cameras weren't there and stayed _ when the cameras weren't there and stayed with— when the cameras weren't there and stayed with the family and other families — stayed with the family and other families. let us bring, before we bring _ families. let us bring, before we bring members of the family attorney ben crom _ bring members of the family attorney ben crom. . ~ bring members of the family attorney ben crom. . ,, i. ~ ben crom. thank you, reverend al sharton ben crom. thank you, reverend al sharpton for _ ben crom. thank you, reverend al sharpton for leading _ ben crom. thank you, reverend al sharpton for leading this _ ben crom. thank you, reverend al sharpton for leading this family - ben crom. thank you, reverend al| sharpton for leading this family and this country in prayer as we continue to struggle to make the words of liberty and justice real in america. i stand words of liberty and justice real in america. istand here words of liberty and justice real in america. i

america. unfortunately, too many people, the majority population, think slavery only impacted blacks. if you listen to james baldwin, james baldwin explains clearly that white america was tortured by their participation in slavery and they, themselves, needed healing from this evil encounter in terms of interacting with other human beings. so baldwin is the person. i think we should be listening to right now. not for black america's healing through reparations or recognition of juneteenth but the larger group needs healing around this too. that is the last frontier. reparation and the white population in general coming to a place where race no longer matters in institutionally, structurally, legally, and other ways in our society. >> professor taylor, let me bring in congresswoman lee here. is this viable? you are there in washington, d.c. for the bay area. is it viable to talk about reparations in our lifetime? >> we must talk about reparations. repairing the damage. 401 years ago the first enslaved africans were brought to these shores. we went through 250 years of being enslaved. th

his spokesman called his release "justice for black america." seriously? i don't know about that. but even though it was devastating to listen to, the accusations against cosby, some going as far back as the 1960s, were impossible to dismiss, more and more women came forward throughout the years with 60, 60 accusing of allegations ranging from groping to sexual assault to rape. "dateline" spoke with some of the women. >> how many of you believe you were drugged by bill cosby. how many of you believe bill cosby raped you? >> i was drugged and raped. >> i was sexually assaulted and drugged by him. >> he flipped me over and raped me. i know that i was drugged. >> and very quickly the room started spinning. >> and i was just holding my head because i didn't know what was happening and that was what was so terrifying. >> cosby's attorneys claim these things never happened. andrea constant was the only accuser that made it to trial with cosby convicted of three counts of indecent assault. she said today's majority decision regarding bill cosby is not only disappointing but of concern in

and when many black soldiers came back from war one, you have a whole series of massacres. you had massive because you know, the stop the slave revolt. this is america can history. it's not just black history . it's american history, and you had white in 1920 was to help black people. and you had certain white. it's a premise that wanted to do more damage than they did and we cannot cover it. we also, and this is what's important about the president going. he has now say it as the american president. this was a massacre. because he use that language. you now must use the language of reparation. so you can't say it's a massacre. and then just say where we're going to maybe rebuild a road or, or rebuild or some monuments. no, no, no. if it was a massacre, that means you have to deal with the loss that happened in and the potential laws. what was the potential gain for this community? what would have happened? what happens when children get cut off from education? what happens when you under management? this is oil, lance, did somebody steal the all as well? what would have happened if those banks have franchise go 40? is it franchise? so we're probabl

donald trump has made black america and the world see what happened in black america. cut me a break. bottom line. donald trump, in -- in reading this extraordinary work -- donald trump had to ask his black secret service agent who was on the detail, what do you think about this? and the secret-service agent said, you know, this is disrespectful for you to do this and he wanted to change the day. but going back to the original issue that you brought up about him telling everyone. well, this is a time of celebration that many in this country have known about. it's mostly a regional issue. but many across the nation, particularly blacks, a lot of us knew about. but, yes, he did bring more people into an earshot of juneteenth. but he really didn't explain it, as he tries to rewrite history. but at the end of the day, donald trump did make more people aware of it but he did not -- >> april -- >> -- by any means, make people totally understand, oh, juneteenth is something. no, it was there before. >> but i would say most people made donald trump aware of juneteenth. and thr

america. instead he den grates our country. instead he says blackicans, -- it's a divergence between who can achieve and who can't achieve. that's not true about america and it's disappointing that he doesn't see his role as inspirer-in-chief instead of denigrator-in-chief. jesse: if somebody insulted me like that, i wouldn't vote for them. so you have to be nice to me if you want my vote. tell me the truth, but don't make me look like an idiot. horace, i have got to run. >> that's called treating people like they are adults. this president doesn't want to do that. jesse: joe biden says the klan is a bigger threat than russia, drug cartels and isis. we'll analyze that. when i meet people who have the perception that because i am blind i am not able. it really makes me want to show them how capable i am. just about anything you put in front of me. i will be able to do. peolple shouldn't have reservations about hiring someone who was visually impaird because, we come into these positions with many skills. like critically listening, which is very impor

black america or any segment of america is struggling under this president because our economy is notnot working by this administration and that does not help people grow and thrive. adding to the fact that this administration blocked young kids from going to school and frankly those kids who happen to be blocked, more of a proportion of our country tends to be young black kids. how does that help them, not being in the classroom. this is what is going on right now and these are the things i would seek to change. maria: that is terrible. what are you planning on discussing with president trump? you have a meeting with him today? >> yes, so members of the republican study committee of which i'm a part are going to be in new jersey. when i leave you i'm heading to a plane and going up there. we're going to be talking about a number of things, budget proposals, immigration proposals, obviously the border will be a hot topic of conversation especially with president trump and those are the things we're going to be discussing, really about the ideas that our party should be pushing going f

well, justice in america will be black man and black women and people of color were not have the fair bit care about the police. just because the color of the scan that will be real jester. so we think most of all the millions of americans. yeah. who ways their voice. you always there are your voices. and because you raise your voices, that is why we get that get to conviction. and that is why we got the logan centers in the state of minnesota history. so behalf of the family, we want to say thank you mary of america. who all says, until we get jeff stuff for just fine until we get accountability for a judge floor. none of us can bree weekend break, just a little easier today and we thank you for that. 6 thank you all, and i will say this week out, accountability on the civil side of things to the leadership of the theory leaders in minnesota. we now have gotten some accountability and the criminal level, but we need accountability on the policy level. so we say to the united states senate pass the judge, justice police and mediately made it leads me to leave at this time, i gave you

this is what we have been fighting for and this is justice and justice for black america. this is the justice mr. cosby has been fighting for. they saw the light. he waved his fifth amendment right and settled out of court. he was given a deal and had immunity. he should never have been channelled. i want to thank my attorneys, and so there is that statement, and i think what's going to get a lot of attention is his statement that this is justice for black america. >> and we've heard already some reaction with a lot of people taking offense to that statement. anne thompson and stephanie gosk, anne bremmer, thanks for starting us off this hour. joining me now on the phone is a former special prosecutor in the cosby case and msnbc legal analyst. it's good to have you with us. first of all, how much of a blow is this, not just to the alleged victims of bill cosby but to the broader movement to hold sexual abusers accountable? this case, as i mentioned earlier, was certainly a watershed moment in the me, too movement. >> yeah. it's a huge blow, amman. it's a huge blow, i can't

america. instead he den grates our country. instead he says black -- it's a divergence between who can achieve and who can't achieve. that's not true about america and it's disappointing that he doesn't see his role as inspirer-in-chief instead of denigrator-in-chief. jesse: if somebody insulted me like that, i wouldn't vote for them. so you have to be nice to me if you want my vote. tell me the truth, but don't make me look like an idiot. horace, i have got to run. >> that's called treating people like they are adults. this president doesn't want to do that. jesse: joe biden says the klan is a bigger threat than russia, drug cartels and isis. we'll analyze that. (vo) nobody dreams in conventional thinking. it didn't get us to the moon. it doesn't ring the bell on wall street. or disrupt the status quo. t-mobile for business uses unconventional thinking to help you realize new possibilities. like our new work from anywhere solutions, so your teams can collaborate almost anywhere. plus customer experience that finds solutions in the moment. ...and fi

in particular around the appraisal, the black folks in america often find their homes appraised at loweralues than homes -- then similar homes owned by white people. similar discrepancy for car insurance in neighborhoods that are mostly black compared to neighborhoods mostly white. details are still to come on this. we do not know how publicly or how tangibly biden's actions will ramp up on this, but he is passing this as a way to tackle the black wealth gap in america, and mentioning that black homeownership has fallen of late instead of risen. joe: he made a point of identifying the difficult mess for him in the senate. saying it is 50/50, there are two democrats who vote mostly with republicans. what are things he could do on the ledge just -- legislative side? >> that is a really interesting case of break pumping -- brake -pumping. i think he is looking more towards the realm of executive action on things like housing and insurance. normally, he does not like to put a lot of weight on the notion of a gridlocked congress, but we heard him making that statement because it is simply the

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had that created these conditions and only reparations will really transform the condition of black america, working class people, that our policing, all of these issues are bundled up together. this study even acknowledges the george floyd connection to the impetus as a study. >> can i jump in? you are talking about blacks but also what about south americans or asians that are also in the same boat that aren't getting a peefs the pie here, the reparations won't apply to them. >> no, it wouldn't. you would have to have different policies for different groups. we have indian -- policies like indian gaming for native americans. no one begrudges that as a form of reparations that they benefit from in the form of indian gaming and many people who aren't indians benefit from it and continue to support it. in other words, one size does not fit all. for the african-american group there is a specific claim that does not apply to others but the other groups whether muslims or jews or sikhs, etcetera, they have a right to make any particular claims that pertain to their particular experiences. here i

we have to remember real justice in america would be black men and black women and people of color would not have to fear being killed by police just because of the color of their skin. that would be real justice. so we thank most of all the millions of americans who raised their voice, you all raised your voices and because you raise your voices, that is why we got the guilty conviction and that is why we got the longest sentence in the state of minnesota history. on behalf of the floyd family, we want to say thank you to the millions of americans, until we get justice for george floyd, until we get accountability for george floyd, none of us are free. we can brief -- breathe just a little easier today and we thank you for that. thank you all and i will say this. accountability on the civil side, thanks to the leadership of the city leaders in minnesota , we now have gotten some accountability in the criminal level. we need accountability on the policy level. we take it to the united states senate, past the george floyd justice in policing act immediately. immediately. immediately. [app

the most insulting statement he made to everyone in black america because as the other guests just said we are free thinkers. the republican party allows free thinking. in the final point, jim acosta, the lawsuit that black lives matter regarding lafayette square, that case will the left-wing media owes donald trump an apology from clearing out lafayette square. >> as i look at this, why do you think they don't cover it because it's joe biden. how does joe biden partner with the former klansman that filibustered the civil rights act to stop the integration of schools not wanting public schools in joe's words -- and how does he get away with that? why does he get the pass? >> that's the same thing. the media coalition with the left. they can't demonize you, they can't lie on you, they will ignore you. at the same thing applies to what we see happening. egregious actions that we see on those on the left. they ignore actions and don't cover those actions and any little thing that someone on our side may do. they highlight it, they blow it up and they lie about it and they create a stir abo

last time i was -- i've made it in america as a black man.ollege as a black man, i raise my son is a black man. i came into the house of congress as a black man. so i don't know what donald trump or joe biden or frankly anybody else has to do with the cdc and myself, but like i said earlier, they asked me if i wanted to join -- i was a member of the legislative black caucus when i was in florida's legislature for four years, so i've been through this before. it was much more congenial in florida but i'm in washington now so we will see how it goes from here. >> laura: you ever run into like eleanor holmes norton or any of the other members of the cbc and chitchat about this in the halls? do you ever talk to each other? >> that's the funny thing. i've talked to a lot of the members whether we are on the floor or in the speakers lobby and in passing and they say hey would you join the cbc and i said yeah, i was in the legislative black caucus when i was in the florida legislature. for me, it's about making sure that conservative ideals are actu

it limited the ladders of opportunity for blacks in america when it comes to finance, to home ownershipf we are not teaching our children that narrative and that thread, we are not teaching them to think critically. the schools don't need to teach them what to do with that information. if republicans are suggesting we cannot expose our children to information and they turn around and lawn after culture war with white america suggesting this is a black america priority, no, this is a reflection that all should learn and decide critically what to do with that information this is shameful behavior by ted cruz and other republicans. i don't believe ted cruz's haircut is that good, by the way. >> well said, david jolly. i don't know, someone, maybe his wife likes his haircut, i don't know. always a pleasure. you are the best. thank you so much. >>> and with apologies to williams shakespeare, how this might turn into the summer of discontent, some new reporting on the manhattan district attorney's case next. t attorney's case next business, but all my employees need something different. oh, w

that is the current status of what is happening to black americas in the united states. june 18th can help to continue to educate us to change some of these outcomes. yeah, i absolutely. we will rashawn who we should not mistake the holiday of june 18th, or a material resources that deserve to be intervened deserve to be given to and repair in order to repair the harm that has been done to certain community. what i'll say about it is, i think of it as a sort of both and there's a boat and in this right, it is absolutely true that june 18th, in and of itself, is not enough. i would not go as far to say, and i don't think which i'm saying is that it doesn't matter because it doesn't that it does matter that there is now holiday that in its own way, celebrate the end of one of the worst thing that this country i've ever done, and it matters because black activists and specifically black activists in texas have been fighting for recognition of june 18th and have been fighting for june to become a federal holiday for decades and decades and decades. and so if i were to sit he

michael, those american there's black america. i've gotta tell you something.wrong. so while the rapper sat in prison serving his 2 to 4 year sentence for a probation violation investigator looking into his original conviction was about to make a discovery that could change everything. >> household was the case against 19-year-old mcneill? a key witness comes under scrutiny. coming up. >> the only witness against me was the police officer who arrested him. i distinctly remember him saying we arrested this kid. we beat this kid. we ripped a roll of braids out of this kid. when dateline continues. when dateline continues. the trial lasted a day. the trial lasted a day in some ways, mcneill was lucky. unlike many in the probation system, he had money and powerful people working to bring him, including billionaire, michael reuben. >> look, there has been a huge group focus on this every single day. people are talking dozens of times a day. fighting for him. we all felt so personally appalled by what had happened. >> luke kim as a investigator who joined a team at r

black owned business is. and that includes contributing to quality of life in america. i'm asking people to make a commitment to do businesses with black-owned businesses. and the book actually gives you a way to do so. that includes keyword searches as well as organizations that you can contact to do that. very quickly i do business with a black female law firm, accounting firm, i do business with a black bank, a black cater, like owned businesses, and the section is devoted to the beauty of black restaurant and their importance to the black community. so that is one of the other recommendations that i gave in the book, and i try to make it easy for the reader's to do that as well by arming them with information on how to find the black owned businesses and their communities. >> that is great, and it's part of giving your resources, so you make it nicely broken now. i know that you want to close out on making your case for reparations and a way for the black community to catch up. could you go ahead and went on that before we move to the queue and answer questions? >>

peace. >> the young black man today in america finds himself in the best of times and the worst of timeseing applied. if i saw none of the things that i saw, if i didn't see cats doing the dap, if i didn't see this linkage of communication from black to black, then i'd be worried about it, because i'd say those cats will never fit into the society when they go back out. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ want a horse ♪ ♪ i want me a sheep ♪ ♪ i'm gonna get me one good night's sleep ♪ ♪ living in a home in the heart of the country ♪ ♪ heart of the country where the home grow ♪ ♪ heart of the country smell that grass in the meadow ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> i saw some linkage between white to black. i saw it out in the fire basin, man. i really did. the relationship of black to white in the military in terms of advancement, in terms of what you can do if you really want to do it, is maybe 40% better than in the civilian life. i mean that. the problem is that nobody wants to be in the military, no matter how groovy it is. i don't care how long they let you cut your hair, how big a do you

but with the black lives matter movement, the calls tell other stories have gotten louder as the calls for america to reckon with it's barry history. think that black lives matter and all of that conversation now around social justice and historic reckoning is really productive. one. i think it's very, very educational. why were there not more stories about african americans put in the forefront? why were token representations ok, this is something that i think is a reckoning that has to happen. and it's a good moment to begin at telling the african american story changes the heroic image of america seen in most war. moving to black soldiers who fought fascism abroad, came home to a very different country than their white counterparts. the car test when boys want to think no problem. so we just looking for so was it a wife? let us go back to something. turning around back to my nigger who are service my damn business schools, a hitler's boost stepped as you feed over there. you want me to eat? i love a trough in the backyard, like, i'm some damping me to shoot you the gone down american. me rememb

so just like the united states is an extremely diverse community, even black america is extremely diverse. we wanted to, we brought together 90 writers to write that 400-year story. it was an incredible sort of project to really work with so many incredible writers. >> it is going to be a summer parent/kid project for me and my son. so i thank you for giving us something to work on together to help understand what we want to be about and what we don't want to be about. always a pleasure. >> thank you, chris. >> be well. >>> vladimir putin. the opposite, right? we're trying to come together to understand our history. then you got a guy trying dto destroy us every way he can. it is going to be interesting to see what happens post summit because there is no trump to play to his advantage anymore. the russian meddler is propping up president biden, though, post summit. it is a clever play. have you heard what he said? and what is really behind it? i'll talk to you about it and bring in a key player in the senate foreign relations committee for a look at inside what needs to happen next and th

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america. in an interview talking about the balancing act as the first black president. >> a lot of times one ofuld measure it would be is it more important for me to tell a basic, historical truth let's say about racism in america right now, or is it more important to get a bill passed that provides a lot of people with health care that didn't have it before? a lot of supporters would get frustrated if i wasn't being as forthright about certain things as i might otherwise be. and then there are institutional constraints every president has to follow and it was on a case-by-case basis where you try to make decisions. >> let's discuss with our senior political analyst kristin powers and april ryan, white house correspondent and washington bureau chief of the grillo. good evening to you. thanks for joining. april, i'll begin with you. the former president in this new interview talked about the tradeoffs he had to make did you go his presidency, whether it was more important to get real on race in america or get policy done on things like health care and so on. is the calculation the same or differ

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