kamau bell, the season finale airs this sunday, 10:00 p.m., only on cnn. don't miss it.much. >> smart guy, funny guy. good show. >>> new technology, a great story inspired by "star wars," okay? now helping our wounded veterans. the luke bionic arm is not your average prosthetic, and it is really here and going to be put into effect. you're going to get its demonstration live it is our "good stuff "and for good reason. whoooo. finding the best hotel price is now a safe bet. because tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites - so you save up to 30% on the hotel you want. lock it in. tripadvisor. she pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. but once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. i use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. you are free to go. tide and downy together. >>> all right. what a great, "good stuff "we have for you. department of federal affair as rolling out a new technology to aid our wounded warriors bp it's a bionic arm named after luke skywalker and can do thing as normal prosthetic just can't. joi

kamau bell fook a trip to appalachia and he joins me now.re you doing by the way. >> doing good. staying busy. sorry i didn't shave. >> the covee. >> i'm working hard. working hard. >> coal country has been in the news the whole presidential campaign. and it still is. you went to kentucky, right. >> yes. >> for your show. and this sunday it aires by the way. look at a clip and then kamau and i will talk about it. >> this is coal country and coal is one of the three things people thing about in appalachia and along with abject poverty and the moef deliverance. the movie i was tricked. >> what stereotype do people have about this area of the country. >> we're not educated we don't have teeth. we don't have teeth. >> people think you're not educated don't have teeth. >> yeah guardian but deliverance stereo type. you will find that. let's be clear it does exist. >> i ain't going to lie. >> my favorite line from that movie. he sure got a pretty mouth. well that's -- i mean they were talking about deliverance. everybody uses it. it's amazing, thou

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kamau bell, appreciate it.or me. thanks so much for hanging out with me today. the news continues with boris sanchez right now. >>> you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm boris sanchez in for ana cabrera. we thank you so much for joining us. >>> he called him a liar and a leaker. and now maybe his harshest attack yet, president trump is blasting his former fbi director, james comey, as cowardly. he tweeted this out earlier today writing, "i believe that james comey leaks will be far more prev leapt than aalent tha thought possible. totally illegal? very cowardly." that's in reference to comey's memos. congress is still waiting to get copies of those memos and they are also waiting to hear from embattled attorney general jef s sessions. he is expected to testify on

kamau bell visited one of the poorest cities in coal country on this week's "united shades of america what is it now? >> social club. >> a community building. >> a community center. >> the blacks didn't have nothing. they was talking about tearing the building down. it had been closed a few years and so we asked for the school. >> is it still a place where people hang out? >> this is the only place. >> this is the only place that black people come together. >> within a 50-mile radius, if we're having something they come. >> for 50 miles this is the black headquarters. >> yes. >> wow! >> i want to ask you about this, it says lynch, klan threatened and never showed up and there's a picture of you smiling. >> they didn't know it was that many blacks living in this area. once they figured out, they called that off. people was up on their houses and had shotguns and -- that's one thing about we watch out for each other, black, white, everybody, community work together. it's just a good place to live, i think. >> we are joined flou berkeley, california, thanks for being with us. there you w

kamau bell. as a comedian i've made a living finding parts of america that i don't understand. now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and belief that add color to this crazy country. this is the "united shades of america." ♪ >> america never ceases to surprise me in the many different ways it chooses to define who is and who isn't a citizen. the indigenous people of this land were given citizenship, but they don't have the right to buy land on the reservations that they were, a hem, invited to live on. and my people silt sen ship was doled out over the course of years from not at all to before you vote, can you please read this? to, you can be president, but just show us your birth certificate. and nowhere in this country is that strange citizenship two-step clearer than in puerto rico, which is a commonwealth. or a territory. or, okay, it's not a state. see, that's the problem. i don't even really know what puerto rico is or how it got to be whatever it is. and do puerto ricans even want it to be what it is? hone

kamau bell.a comedian i found a living making humor in parts of america i don't understand and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is "the united shades of america." whether america as a whole wants to talk about it or not, america has always had heros who are muslims. muhammad ali, kareem abdul-jabbar, and malcolm x are examples of the best of us. they've been held up as quintessential americans. how quintessential? muhammad ali was an olympic hero twice. kareem abdul-jr was in the movie, "airplane." a true american hero. when i was a kid, i kind of wished i was a muslim. specifically the nation of islam. they looked cool, talked cool, and they were at the front lines of the civil rights movement. you may remember in the '90s a muslim man named louis actually got a million black men to march peacefully in washington, d.c. >> a sea of peace. >> and there's only a couple other

. >> let's discuss now, kamau bell host of united shades of america, mark o'mara and ben ferguson. tlemen. kamau, where do we start? i mean, i think it's interesting and maybe more powerful coming from someone like lebron james who has seen almost every word of success as an athlete, as someone who's famous and betty. but coming from him, he still feels like the "n" word somewhat. what's your reaction? >> i really give him a lot of credit. he could have swept this under the rug considering he's one of the biggest moments of his career right now, but he came out and said something about it. he's done a lot of that. it shows he's been famous since he was 17 years owed and yet still in that moment, is he just another nigger. he has no -- he can't get away from that. >> i should say people still think of him as the "n" word. he doesn't think of himself as that. but you know, ben, i'm interested to hear what you have to say about that because you know, he has so many fans all over the world. and for him to feel that way, do you think that most people understand that or there are people w

kamau bell. as a comedian i made a living finding humor in parts of america i don't understand. and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is the "united shades of america." ♪ >> people seem to think that i'm totally biased against guns. now, some of that is my fault. i live in a peace and love capital of the united states, the san francisco bay area. i talk about hugs 75% more than the average person. and there's also this. woopsy. okay, 100% of this is my fault. and even though hugs can actually be an effective self-defense technique, i'm not 100% against guns. it's just that some people are so into guns, like in a weird way, that i feel compelled to push back with stats like, in america there are more guns than there are people. up to 600,000 guns are stolen every year. i'm sure it's like cute puppies, though. let's not forget incidents like a raminder a, sandy hook, charleston, san bernardino, orlando, and i could go on. seriously, i could go on. >> what do

kamau bell. as a comedian i've made a living finding humor in parts of the america i don't understand. now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is "the united shades of america." after the first season of "united shades of america" i got a few suggestions from viewers about where they should go this season. by suggestions i mean people tweeting things like, you go to places like kamen, new jersey, san quentin and talk to black people but i bet you wouldn't get to appalachia and talk to white people. today i'm responding, oh, yeah, i'm going to appalachia. is it appalachia? maybe we should start right there. w what do i call this area of the country? >> appalachia? >> where i'm from we say april lay cha, am i wrong? >> you sato mate toe addition. >> if i say appalachia, i'll look like i'm from here? for those like me who got a strong d-plus in geography, it belongs to a 13-state re

don't miss united shades of america with kamau bell sundays at 10:00. >>> and the president admittinghave tapes of his meetings with james comey. so why did he start this whole thing in the first place? whoooo. finding the best hotel price is now a safe bet. because tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites - so you save up to 30% on the hotel you want. lock it in. tripadvisor. >>> trump's tale of the tapes. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. is anybody out there surprised to hear president trump doesn't actually have tapes of his chats with james comey? anybody? anybody? mueller? don't think so. but was this a much bigger mistake than the president realizes. >>> plus the man they're calling a human

. >> w.kamau bell, we look forward to the program tonight right here on cnn. thanks for joining us, kamaun the newsroom. but first, if you're looking to create the future of technology, apple's senior vice president says you have to learn to code. >> reporter: how do you guys in apple try to get people interested at an early age? >> the growth of the apple developer economy is, i think, a potential driving force for the whole economy. in america and other countries around the world. one of the things we're working on is an education program. we call it everyone can code. it's a little play off of anyone can cook. anyone can cook, not everyone will be a chef. nibble can learn to code, not everybody will be the world's greatest app developer. we all grew up where you have to learn a foreign language. increasingly, it's important that people learn to code, because as kids growing up, maybe they have a propensity to be a great developer, with you by the time you get older, you might not be willing to start. even if you don't become a developer, chances are, you're going to want to be able to