and joining me now is george takei, actor, author, and activist. me one earlier. let's talk about this. so, my good friend, brandon wolf, who survived the pulse shooting was there. he tweeted about being in the east room for this pulse nightclub designation. talking about the 49 of his friends who will never be forgotten. what does that mean? what -- what do you think that the significance of -- of creating that memorial will be? >> it is profound, because it capsulizes all of the struggle and the fight against homophobia and all that we've had to go through, to get to the point where we are, now. and to memorialize those places is an important -- to make it a landmark -- is an important act. and another, important, landmark event was the clip that you showed in the white house. i mean, pete buttigieg, the first eminently credible candidate for the presidency of the united states. and now, on the president's cabinet as the secretary of transportation. and to have joe biden, himself, there in the white house. we are making great progress. and it is,

i remember george takei who now has his opening broadway show, "allegiance", here members looking out the window of where his classroom was an looking at desolate land. there was baseball, finally. baseball teams. people finally have some music, so they either had instruments sent in, and they had some dance dance. there even boy scouts and girl scouts. they had their churches. slowly but surely, they made the best of a terrible, horrible situation. susan: we have another video to show you, just to get a sense of this. this is a very rare piece of video. a home movie made by another an internee. he was also in the topaz camp. he snuck a camera in then recorded scenes of what life was like there. he later on made a documentary film about it. let's watch. >> this is a shot of the evacuees doing volunteer work of repairing the pipes, which broke. they had poor materials, so things would break. then we had a volunteer road crew repair the pipes. here we have the dust storm. this was taken on a long sunday afternoon, and everyone had to keep their windows closed, shut tight. it was very ho

actor george takei talks to our hari sreenivasan