so thanks, sean penn. appreciate it. >> thank you.ust want to say, we really do need the support. in every one of these locations we expand to, we are hiring locally, people within that community doing it, and you've got this incredible generation of hope when you go out there and you watch what these young men and women are doing every day, you know, and on these hot tarmacs for eight-hour shifts, doing covid-19 tests with their partners, the people that are tested, because that is the partnership of the citizenry in this one. >> jimmy: sean penn, everybody. we'll be back our health care hero of the week. day trips are better than daydreams. alexa, lock the front door. alexa: locking. experience the joy of a bigger world, in a highly-connected lexus hybrid. visit your local lexus dealer, in person or online, for exceptional offers, at the golden opportunity sales event. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. right now, there are over a million walmart associates doing their best to keep our nation going. because despite everything

>> it was as gay rights activist harv milk that sean penn earned his second academy award. penn has been a death-row inmate... >> thank you for loving me. r. ...and a wartime comman >> what difference you think you can make, one single man ine all this m? >> penn's desire to make a difference led him to new orleans after katrina and haiti after the earthquake. >> a lot of people are ffering. >> the relief work he's doin these ys began right in his own backyard. >> the reality is that we should be testing,d retesting testing. >> what does actor-activist sean penn say now? >> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... corpate funding is provided corporate funding is provided by... >> sean penn, welcome to "firing line." >> thanks very much. h good to e. >> you are a two-time academy award-winning actor, a director and author. and you have been in in humanitarian relief work now for more than a decade. we saw you making rescues yourself in new orleans during hurricane katrina. and you spent months in haiti after that devastating earthquake in 2010. anity

and on friday night we welcome the great sean penn.orld was more prepared for these uncertain times than my guest tonight his whole life to this point has been a pandemic bootcamp. you can watch him safely on the new season of 'america's got talent' tuesday nights on nbc-please welcome mr purell, howie mandel. hi, howie. how are you doing? >> hi, jimmy. ten weeks, ten weeks. when do the salons open up? when can you go to a barber, ten weeks? >> jimmy: your hair is really unkept. it's getting out of control. >> oh, my god, it is. look at my roots. i don't know if you can see. it's been crazy. you're lucky, you got a show every day. i got to look for things to do each and every day. >> jimmy: what are you doing? >> everybody was doing banana bread, and then tie-dyeing. my wife and i, we don't know how though tie-dye, but we made these. we made these. i don't know if you can see this. >> jimmy: you made that? >> so we made about 200 of them. and a portion of the proceeds go to us. so i'm really, sighted about what i've been doing. >> jimm

we will be right back here next week with lisa kudrow, howie mandel, dakota johnson, and sean penn. guest tonight is a very funny man who's given us laughter and joy. and now, a guide to success, his new motivational audiobook "the decision" it's available now on audible. please welcome kevin hart. hi, kevin. >> what's going on with you, man? >> jimmy: you know, kevin, you got a serious microphone, serious headphones going on, paintings of comedians behind you. who's behind you there? what do we have? richard pryor. >> richard pryor. bernie mac, chris rock. red fox. eddie murphy,chapelle. martin, seinfeld, carlin, wanda sikes is on one of them. i got a lot of them. >> jimmy: do you ever have comics come over and they're not on the wall? and they are insulted? >> i was talking to ellen, and i lied. i said she's on the other wall that you can't see. that's the only time. >> jimmy: she's on our underpants, that seems like enough, doesn't it? over the weekend, you did something fun with your family. you guys camped in the back yard did this take place? >> yeah, yeah, man. right now you

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shannon: not everyone is by mister, skeptics says sean penn tweeting this, she made a career out of claiming to be persecuted. it is how she got hired by the new york times in the first place. i don't believe a single thing she says. despite writing a long detailed letter there will be those who think it is sour grapes and she couldn't take the heat. >> i think her position on issues have been known for a long time. the fact she waited this long to come out and make these points tells you she's no shrinking violet, she's been fighting for this but can't take it anymore. the idea this is all just fantasy doesn't fit where you see other writers and other publications documenting people in other institutions, increasingly can't get away with saying things that the mob doesn't approve of. that is antithetical to everything america stands for. shannon: a strange moment in history but there is great upheaval in some people like to capitalize on that but hopefully this will be toward solutions and not further division. always great to have you. thank you so much. the board of education says kids be

and we have been following the testing, we know the efforts also, your resident, sean penn, what he didp-up testing sites, working with the state. i introduced him to my brother in new york since it's such a good model. we're watching the state, we wish you well going forward, you always have a platform to let us know your position. thank you for being on the show. >> thank you, chris. >>> you have to poke at these things. why? because everything is going up so dramatically, you have to look at it, what has to be done better, what has to be done differently. one of the things i worry about as a covid survivor, i know i'm not supposed to say this, we don't have proof of what i'm going to say right now, i don't know that you can't get this again. i don't know that the antibodies -- too many people are losing the antibodies. i think all the time that i'm going to get sick again. in fact i know every day i haven't recovered yet. so i think this is a spooky thing that we don't understand and one of my next guests tested positive twice. she's not even 30. she's also gotten negative test resul

sean penn. i don't know. >> stephen: he is going to make a scathing documentary about himself.e about the failures of the michael moore administration. let me ask you about where you are now. you look like you're shooting at cnn and but you're at home, right? >> i'm not at cnn. i'm in a spare room in my house. the cnn engineers set this up early on. my dad's a doctor, my mom's a nurse, so i took this very seriously early on. you know, i just didn't think it was necessary for me to be going in every day if they could make it look reasonable professional from the spare room we have. so i come here -- >> stephen: no, looks like you're in the studio. >> yeah. i mean, they have lights here and an underlight, and it's pretty good. sometimes my kids are production assistants, sometimes my wife. sometimes the dogs burst into the room, but it's okay. and, look -- >> stephen: me, too. twice on tonight's show, my dog came in. >> is that right? yeah, but that's charming when you do it. for me, people is, like, why is there a dog barking in this piece about shanghai? >> stephen: that's awes

you said it well, sean penn without the russian dossier, they couldn't obtain a warning.y tried to get a fisa warrant against carter page and it was rejected. they find the dossier and all of a sudden they get a warrant. horwitz said without the dossier there's no warrant. so from january 24th to ten or 27th the fbi interviews the russian sub source who put the dossier together. they created a 40 page memo showing it was a bunch of garbage, not reliable at all. here's the question. how could it be they continue to use the dossier in april and june of 2017 knowing that in january, the dossier was completely discredited by the person who put it together? here is the question for me. did the intel analyst who wrote the memo tell anybody of the chain, all by the way our case just fell apart? i find it almost impossible to believe that senior people at the fbi were not told in januarl apart against carter page. >> sean: if that's the case, now i don't know. you are the attorney, lindsey, but that confirms completely even strzok new but they did it anyway. what happens to ameri

we'll have sean penn, jane curtin, from "succession," matthew macfadyen, and seth rogen new "closer looksing we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> seth: i want to thank my guests sean hayes and dan levy i want to thank fred armisen and the 8g band. stay tuned for lilly singh stay safe. wash your hands. wear a mask. we love you. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause >> lilly: tonight on "a little late with lilly singh" i've got rainn wilson >> wait. [ cheers and applause wait, you've got me? you've got me? i'm not allowed to leave here. >> lilly: no, what are you talking about? [ laughter ] >> what you just said. you said you've got me help [ laughter ] i've been kidnapped by lilly singh. she holding me hostage [ laughter ] >> lilly: no, i'm not. what are you - >> she's got me. [ laughter ] she's got me >> lilly: rainn -- that's not what i meant i meant you're a guest on the show >> let me out of here. let me out here. [ laughter ] get away ouch >> lilly: there's -- there's a door literally right there >> there's no way out. help help, i'm trapped in this talk show [ laughter ]

. >> sean: here with reaction, fox news contributor ari fleischer, senior advisor to the trump-pennsampaign, mercedes schlatter. ari, let's start with you. a lot of things changed. we have seen the tipping point on both sides. the president all in on covid. he has national guard troops. he's got ppe. he's got advisors in nine states. all over the hot spots. and then we've got joe biden embracing the well, defund movement if you will come up bolshevik bernie's economic plan, aoc's new greendale agenda. bozo or rourke guns confiscation plan and pelosi and schumer which are both lunatics. i think the race is changed as he's gone far left and the president is out there focused on issues. >> you left out the part where joe said a nurse when he was ill blew into his nostrils to make a move. >> sean: i played it a lot last week. i will get it racked up. go ahead. >> the golden oldies only go back a week when you're dealing with joe biden. the fundamental over the race remains the same. it is still a referendum on president trump. the president has not yet shifted this and turned it into a c