♪ >>> good evening, i'm van jones. welcome to "the van jones show." night's installment makes me so happy. for once i am not the only jones on the air. we got the comedy genius, "saturday night live" superstar leslie jones with us tonight. i'm so excited. oh, so amazing. it is hard to keep up with the joneses. hard to keep up with the joneses. also, i get back in my van -- yes, we call this segment "van in a van." that's what we do. i'm headed to georgia. this time it is a state, georgia could elect the first black female governor ever in american history. proud for that. that would be amazing. i got to tell you, when i got down there and i talked to the voters, i got a big shock. two people on different sides of the thing politically, both started crying in the van. never happened before. you won't believe why. you got to watch that. first, let's talk. this weekend actually marks the one-year anniversary of that horrific nazi-led terror attack that happened down in charlottesville, virginia. the whole protest was billed sort of like a simple protest a

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van jones, political commentator and host "the van jones" and the co-founder of cut 50, a national bipartisanjustice initiative is with me. i was so glad to see this happen yesterday. i'm so glad you're here to talk about it. is this going to be the white house that's able to achieve meaningful criminal justice reform? >> it's conceivablconceivable. i think when trump picked jeff sessions to lead the attorney general's office, he's not been a supporter of reform. that's a very scary and very bad signal. what that obscured is the republican party has been moving in a healthy direction on criminal justice policy for about ten years. 2010, that tea party wave, a lot of republican governors got ahold of states with really bad budgets. th they had to medicatioake a deci. rick perry said we're going to get smarter. they closed prisons in texas and brought crime down. you have a bunch of people in the republican party, newt gingrich, why are we spending this much money making people worse and we could spend less money making people better. >> we invited beginni ed newt g the show to talk with you. h

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you heard van jones earlier. she was a queen.o be nice to the little people, but her support for people -- i don't mean to call you a little person. but in the context of aretha franklin, her support for checking in, giving you encouragement, that tells you about the woman -- obviously incredibly talented woman. that tells me more about the human being than the musician. remarkable to hear about the grace there. thank you so much for sharing, don. can't say enough thanks to you on this day. >> thank you, john. >> as we go to break, we'll continue our coverage of this story. you've heard it throughout the hour. aretha franklin, a show stopper. here's shonda rhimes on twitter, noting today how she stopped inner if pavarotti. her performance nothing short of stunning. ♪ ♪ ♪ in my heart my secret lies ♪ your digestive system has billions of bacteria but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself with align probiotic. and try new align gummies with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. does your business

anguished reaction on the night of donald trump's election by the renowned political commentator van jones. >> this was a white lash. this was a white lash against a changing country. it was a white lash against a black president, in part. and that's the part where the pain comes. >> dramatic words, indeed. a year before he was killed, martin luther king junior worried that the vast majority of white americans are racist, either consciously or unconsciously. my two guests tonight are well placed to discuss all of this. william juwondo who workedn the obama white house on the initiative called my brother's keeper, designed to help young black men climb up the ladder of life. and he is now running for local office in his home state maryland. and also brie newsome. she removed the confederate flag from the grounds of the south carolina state house. she's a civil rights activist and she's with us from memphis where she's been attending the commemoration for dr. king. welcome both of you to the program on this 50th anniversary, which is actually a sad day. can i ask you, brie, what it means to

van jones in the the meantime meets leslie jones from "snl." hear what she says about the silencing of comedians how shelves about being nominated for a second emmy. van jones also talks to voters about the gubernatorial race and sits down and hits the road in a van. don't miss the van jones system here on cnn. is is a story aboutl and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you ♪ i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? virtual tours? zip-file? really big files? in seconds, not minutes... just like that. like everything... the answer is simple. i'll do what i've always done... dream mo

joining me van jones, host of telephone van jones hoe and the reverend michael faulkner. van, i wonder what you mean of the president, what he means when he says the players are unable to define what they're protesting? >> well, it's hard not to see that in the worst possible light, that he's not just saying he disagrees with them, he thinks they're too dumb to express themselves. i think they've been expressing themselves quite elegantly. on the field and off the field. don't also forget, a lot of these young players now are not just doing the protest on the field, they're getting involved in their community. they're speak out. they're registering voters. there is a lot of stuff going on. i think it's sad the president hasn't acknowledged that. this is really unfortunate because you just saw the president say i want to engage. i'm willing to take on the issue. in fact, he is making some positive steps substantively on criminal justice at the policy level, but the politics for him always come back to insulting black people. so you have a tale of two president sis where he

but, van jones, do the democrats have the better case in these midterms? >> well, i mean, first of all it does matter that we are right now watching a race where the republican is running on flat ground, and the republican is running uphill in the rain with short legs, and they are neck and neck. we should not be within one point of anybody in a district that red. something is happening out there. we've forced republicans to spend 5 million bucks in the middle of the summer. this he had to fire donald trump, all his weaponry, and we're still neck and neck at this time of night. something is happening out there, and i think it has to do with the message on both sides. donald trump is causing himself problems. he's stepping on his economic message with all this nonsense that he does. and you've got somebody who is out there running for the democrats saying, i'm going to protect the 700,000 people who got that medicaid expansion. i'm going to stick up for social security. and you've got a republican who says, nah, actually 700,000 people with medicaid expansi

van jones joins me by phone. van, i assume you heard tom foreman, you heard our conversation. >> yes, i did. >> good evening to you. pointing out that he's got some stuff to do ahead of him. he won in the places in florida that were predom understandly african-american. >> listen, you can -- anybody who spends anytime at all countying and underestimating andrew gill i um is going to ret it. he is representative of something that i think is happening all across the country. you see it happening in georgia are stacy abrams. you see it happening in maryland. you see it happening in itself with paula jordan. there is a new generation and it's not about the color of their skin. they have a new attitude. the reason he came out of nowhere. this guy came literally out of nowhere. he was in 300th place out of like four. it's because not the color of his skin but because of the size of his ideas. he was the only candidate willing h talk about big solutions to big problems. donald trump was willing to break the mold and say

. ♪ >>> good evening, i'm van jones. welcome to "the van jones show." not the only jones on the air. we got the comedy genius, "saturday night live" superstar leslie jones with us tonight. i'm so excited. oh, so amazing. it is hard to keep up with the joneses. hard to keep up with the joneses. also, i get back in my van -- yes, we call this segment "van in a van." that's what we do. i'm

van jones joining me by phone. i assume you heard our conversation there. good evening to you.ointing out that he has some stuff to do ahead of him. he won in the places in florida that were predominantly african-american. >> listen, anybody who has spent anytime doubting and under estimating andrew gillum will spend a lot of time regretting it. this guy is more than just a black candidate. he is representative of something that i think is happening all across the country. you see it happening in georgia and maryland. you see it happening in idaho with paula jordan. there is a new generation that is not about the color of their skin. they have a new attitude. the reason he came out of nowhere, he was in 300th place out of like four. it's because not because of the color of skin but because of ideas. he was the only candidate willing to talk about big solutions of big problems. donald trump was willing to say stuff nobody has said before. andrew gillum talked about working class ordinary issues, education, health care. he was willing to put out big ideas. it's no longer left ver

they look at the economics of those who voted and they see it is actually racial anxiety, what van jones said on election night, sort of a white-lash. >> i don't think there is any doubt that race is at the heart of this chapter of american history because race has been at the heart of every chapter of american history. it is our original sin. our constitution was created to deny the full implications of what the declaration of independence said we were supposed to be about at every point race has been a difficult, difficult faultline in american life. i come were the american south. 50 years ago, we had apartheid in our politics here. american women only voted for 98 years, shifting from race to gender. and marriage quality on the question of gay rights is not quite three years old. so the story of the country, again, without sentimentalizing it, has been moving from -- has been progressive. basically, i think president trump is president trump because of economic anxiety. and that is all rolled up with these racial fears, a fear that a certain way of life is under assault from immigran

was talking about, that it's a bit of a white lash, this election of donald trump, which is what van jonestical commentator said on cnn the night of the election. but they're seeing it wasn't actually about a fear of losing jobs or being unemployed or economic, you know -- it was mostly white christian america didn't want things to change. >> it's true. throughout american history, the politics of resentment has always played a big role. and i certainly understood there is a child in dallas, the idea that the eastern establishment as we called it, sneered at us, looked down at us and was fighting our values. so we reacted against it. and there is still a feature of politics all over the country. and who feels that resentment? who feels marginalized? well, it's the people who are in favor of -- who oppose abortion, the people who are evangelical christians. the white people like men who have lost their jobs. it's a broad swath of america and they feel despised. and trump gives voice to their complaints and that's why they've turned to him. >> so president trump has also been very active on

van jones and michael smercon h smerconish, it is good to have both of you. 11 players that decided to take a knee or sit on a bench or raise a fist. and there was a lot of attention about what would happen because we know there was a move from the nfl to come to a change. here we are. the president remarkably sigh l -- silent so far, but i don't think it will be that long. the players are insisting they have a right to protest. that should be the end of the conversation. so on the symbols, but on the substance, believe it or not, president prump is doing stuff. he had a meeting with governors about criminal justice reform, and president trump having a substantive conversation about criminal justice reform. however, he tends to go on twitter and do biz cigar stuff. the question for the president will be do you want to stick with your policy agenda that might make the players better or your political agenda of making the conflict worse. >> what do you think the president will do in the next several hours here. there is an irony here which is that what the players were calling for on the

. >> all right, let me ask you this, van jones a short time ago spoke lhighly of you. n't under estimate and don't count you out because if you do, you are out of your mind. >> everyone is analyzing this. and, you know van said to me just now, he texted me and said obama is black and won florida twice, you need to remind people of that. what do you say to that? >> i think he's completely right. we had 20 years of losses and five consecutive democratic nominees for governor who have all come up short and again, no offense to any of them. i work for all of them and wanted to see all of them win. running with republican in the state of florida is not a strategy for winning. the strategy for winning is speaking to our voters and giving our voters something to go out and vote for and not against. we got to move more black voters and progressive voters to the polls and i have to tell you, don, it has been my experience that whether we are in red parts or purple parts of the states, folks are frustrated and 44% of the people of the florida says they can't make ends meet. our a

kennedy: conspiracy theorist, van jones, has been band by apple, facebook and. twitter says he hasn't violated our rules. we'll enforce if he does and continue to promote a healthy environment insuring tweets aren't artificially amplified. his mobile app has surged from 33rd third. i claims his financial support has never been strong. but the debate continues to rage over whether he should have a platform. >> we have the former aide to chuck schumer, chris hahn. and michael malice. alex jones makes people mad. the silicon valley ne exurks s has decided to gang up on him. >> people asking for his banning haven't listened to his show. they can't handle that someone is listening to alternative sources of information. i want to point out, it doesn't mean there isn't anything that they say that isn't of value. if they had stlair drutters fox news and talk radio wouldn't exist. when rush limbaugh started, every day you would hear dana loesch referred to as a terrorist and fox news has blood on its hands. and every news agency from the evangelical right would be band.

joining us is van joebs, host of the van jones show and the reverend michael faulkner, also a former new york jet. van, i'm wondering what you make of the president when he says the players are unable to define what they're protesting. >> well, it's hard not to see that in the worst possible light. they've expressed themselves quite eloquently on the field and off the field. a lot of these young players are not just doing protests on the field, they're getting involved in their community, speaking out, registering voters, a lot of stuff going on. it's sad the president hasn't acknowledged that. this is unfortunate because you saw the president say i want to engage, i'm willing to take on the issue. he is making positive steps substantively on criminal justice at the policy level but the politics for him always come back to insulting black people so you have a tale of two presidencies where he's met with governors about criminal justice and then the same day goes back to the knob sense nonsense. >> is this just about riling up his base? >> i don't know why he wants to do this. i tell y

. >> and hanny van jones picks it up live in london for our viewers around the world. . . . >>> presidentg to washington to a new flip flop on his legal team. how rudy giuliani contradicted himself on a key question from the special counsel. >>> a low-life. >> omarosa on the outs with president trump. she will play the bombshellreco room. >>> and the leaders of north and south korea announcing a summit in pyongyang.

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jared kushner is pushing it, people like van jones at cnn has outside work and he's been working on this. there is bipartisan support in the senate and the president is willing to sign something. but the question will be, do the democrats want a solution or a problem that they can run against? >> tucker: that such a good point and if the white house is clever, i think they will point that out. dana perino, great analysis and great to see you as always. from london to sweden, europe is in chaos. widespread violence overnight. there is a reason it is happening, government policy, or the government, our government, willing to be honest about why it's happening? that's next. enjoying a slice of pizza. now it's as easy as pie. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? well, esurance makes finding the right coverage easy. in fact, drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved an average of $412. that's auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. esurance. an allstate

jared kushner is pushing it, people like van jones at cnn has outside work and he's been working on this. there is bipartisan support in the senate and the president is willing to sign something. but the question will be, do the democrats want a solution or a problem that they can run against? >> tucker: that such a good point and if the white house is clever, i think they will point that out.r: dana perino, great analysis and great to see you as always. from london to sweden, europe is in chaos. widespread violence overnight. there is a reason it is happening, government policy, or the government, our government, willing to be honest about why it's happening? that's next. this is not a bed. it's a revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed, from $999, intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts. so you wake up ready to train for that marathon. and now, save up to $500 on select sleep number 360 smart beds. ends wednesday. you wouldn't accept from any one else. why accept it from an allergy pill? flonase relieves sneezing, itchy, watery eyes and a runny nose

cnn political commentators van jones, scott jennings and amanda carpenter. thor of "gas lighting: why we love it when trump lies to us." good evening. so, van, you first. when she speaks about, when she says america we know and love, let's be clear, that america has not existed h historically or even today for a lot of people. >> well, i mean, not for a lot of people. listen, i was appalled by her kpents and i'm more appalled by her attempt to try to walk them back today as if we didn't hear what she said. if she wanted to do what they usually do, what they usually do is they say we don't like undocumented immigrants or illegal immigrants because it's not safe for the country, it's about the rule of law. she did not say that. i was shocked because she dropped all the pretense last night. and she said this is about demographic changes. i'm sorry, that means race and ethnicity. look it up. so for the first time in a while, she came with no kind of pretense and she said her problem with the changes is race. then it blew up in her face and now she goes, oh, never

for all, environmental justice organization, founded by the activists in cnn congressmen stater van jonese launched a mom's mobilize campaign to fight the trump's administration budget and dismantlement of environmental protections. william, correspondent and author, he won the 2005 book and latest books carbon ideologies, the people that drive the global energy system. please welcome them to climate one. [applause] >> william, you write a lot in your first book about nuclear power so take us to fukushima, you went over to dead zones, what is it like to go into a site of a nuclear disaster? >> well, at the very beginning of it just looked vaguely eerie, you would say potted plants that have just begun to wilt, maybe somebody's umbrella that had fallen down an as years went by, the vines grew up, the radioactive wild boor started breaking and the windows broke and got crepeyier and nastier. >> and were you concerned about, you know, radioactive exposure going in there, you had devices to measure the exposure, should michelle be concerned about sitting next to you? >> oh, i don't have a glo

ask our colleague van jones about what he's doing on prison reform and other things that actually mattertting people of color jobs. >> how he talks doesn't matter? what he calls them doesn't matter? >> it does matter. look, i think he should be more sensitive to that. in this case today, this constant beating the dead horse of omarosa here, i think that, you know, we should be -- if you want to focus on things that matter, i think we should focus and talk about -- and i know symone would probably like to talk about this. keith ellison, the deputy director of the dnc, serious allegations of domestic abuse, and the dnc remains silent. talk about people of color and women of color. here's an allegation leveled by a woman, very credible allegation, and the dnc remains quiet, silenced. al franken, who was a sitting senator, resigned his seat for far less. and keith ellison tonight is running for the chief law enforcement officer of the state of minnesota with no -- >> one of the reasons franken had to resign is because people like you were chasing him out of office saying how terrible he was

let's take it up with our great debaters, van jones and mike shields. mike shields, why worry?ell the poor evangelicals that the left is going to come kill them, violence, violence he's quoted as saying twice if they lose. why? >>> first of all now you're adding the word "kill." >> yes. >> i think we should be careful. >> should he be careful or should just i be careful? >> probably both. >> same standard for me and the president? >> i would hope that the media would have a standard of being careful with those types of words when you start -- >> but he's not, and that's okay. so you start off with criticizing me, not him. why? >> i haven't even finished answering the question. >> i know but the way you started i didn't like so i'm checking you. i'm exaggerating for a point. is he doing the same? >> look, i think the rest of what he talked about is really important to know. if the left wins, they're going to try and impeach the president. they're going to investigate him, have subpoenas and republican-based voters need to know that and come out and vote. >> violence he said twie

here is a sweet deal, van jones, a self-avowed marxist, actually was given $20 million for social justicerown, 30 years for formal contact or tony done g who works with one heart project, young people trying to get him out. >> i'm trying to follow your thoughts. you are feeling -- tell me if i don't have this right but your belief is players are shortchanging themselves and their communities because they are protesting the national anthem when they should be looking for better opportunities for family members, economic opportunities, prison reform you just mentioned, so they are being put into a box and encouraged to do something you think is detrimental to them and their communities instead of being on board with economic opportunities. >> there is more to this than people respecting the flag. this is done on purpose, people who know better. i talk about the association of owners, these guys are putting things in place and showing americans something they are not coming through with. they are using and discarding young players, doing the same to the black community. trish: this is not go

even van jones and other people have responded and say wow, i really like the plan.if the president can get this through, it's going to be halder to take that away. just to be totally clear. i watched kanye west not be able to answer question to jimmy kimmel does president trump care about black people. he just froze and didn't say anything. i assume the answer would be yes or else they wouldn't be supporting him. it went to commercial. it was a bizarre interview. >> brian, i have got to tell you, i'm asked. how does the republican party or conservatives reach out to hispanics or reach out to minorities? and i say this is very, very complicated, folks. take your note pad out. i say talk to them. that's what this president is doing. is he talking directly to the folks. bringing the prosperity message that the republican party has been so timid and shy at bringing into these communities and it's working. ainsley: what do you make, chris, of what's happening in philadelphia. you have the mayor celebrating the fact it's a sanctuary city but then you also have these illeg

brian: you have a lot of people line van jones when the white house called me up i have been very criticalout prison reform than i do politics. what else it going to take. >> if it's about the american people, if it's about addressing issues that are critical in terms of improving their quality of life, then we have to put political differences aside and say we are willing to make an effort to listen and understand. brian: why don't we? >> because we get caught up with the views and values that we hold dear. that makes it very difficult for tours reach across the aisle and say i'm interested in gaining a deeper understanding. brian: i hear this. we don't want to legitimize the president. >> exactly. brian: he won. >> in this case i have to say i respect the effort that he made to bring these leaders together. and you know where i stand. i don't agree with the majority of policies that the administration has. brian: you liberal democrat. >> exactly. brian: meanwhile, yesterday, we sat down with candace woodowens and charlie kirk and talked to them about being ambushed by antifa. this sadly

is larger and not probably in our purview but then there is a small business association from jones to van hess that they migt not have a merchant group and you have a dead zone from van ess to fill more and it might be fillmore to park studio. they may be more involved and russian, there's chinese, cantonese, and then after the west there's a smarter business corridor to the end of the project so i see some of the merchant associations you have presented to you s there more? is there a more concerted effort to approach all these individual merchant associations? >> we did do the loading survey and went door-to-door to each business f there are other to reach out i would do so. our typical notifications go out in five languages, english, spanish, chinese, vietnamese and russian. >> just for a recommendation, because i've been part of several projects, so it's a lot easier for me, the cultural lens is latino and spanish. you encompass multi-cultural, multi-merchants capacity so i would definitely recommend not necessarily like a couple of my commissioners said not going to the person at the

tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- leslie jones, emily ratajkowski, musical guest greta van fleet,nd featuring the legendary roots crew. >> questlove: 9-0-3. northeast texas! >> steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! ♪ ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you very much, everybody. thank you, thank you. welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, to "the tonight show." you're here. [ cheers and applause ] you made it, thank you. well, some news out of washington, as part of the russia investigation, robert mueller is now reviewing president trump's tweets to see if he obstructed justice. so, the next time you complain about your job, think of the guy who has to read 40,000 trump tweets. [ laughter and applause ] speaking of the president, trump travelled to iowa today. he's under so much pressure about russia and the michael cohen tapes, he said, "i got to get out of the country. take me to iowa. [ laughter and applause ] i got to get out. i don't want to see anybody." actually, i saw that trump held an event this week where he talked about making trade deals with other countries,

van and has not been caught. >> he is defending his move to suspend alex jones's account for a week.viewers to ready their battle rifles against the media. in addition defending it, he di sooner. marianne favro has more. >> when rad rea their battle against the we believe help a call to insightment to violence. those are the things we need to make sure we are taking action on. >> dorsey said the san francisco company put jones on a twitter time out. many are criticizing it, calling it censorship. others say he should be banned out right. an engineer is vowing to delete his twitter app in protest. >> i feel any suspension whether it's permanent or temporary makes someone think about their actions and behaviors. >> dorsey defended the time out saying they can't build a service that is subjective to personal beliefs. even a temporary suspension can be affected. >> it has the potential to impact and change behavior. whether it works opinion this case to change some of the behaviors and the don't know. this is consistent with how we enforce. >> other social networks have gone further. fac

companies, maybe the only, that hasn't purged alex jones in the last week, that doesn't mean that freedom of speech is safe on the platform. peter vanartment employee and author. he says he was banned from twitteran for life for having a political debate on their platform. he joins us tonight to explain what exactly happened. peter, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: as honestly as you can't, tell us why you were banned from twitter. >> it was a discussing discussn between journalists about whether they had culpability of bringing america to war. this following the president statement saying that the media with the enemy of the people. i said that was a state department official in iraq and i said i often lied to journalists on behalf of the government, and i misled them, part of my job, and i blew the whistle on myself and on the state department and came clean on this. many of thee journalists overreacted or reacted, i should say, to that and claimed that they were not responsible for flushing out these. lies, in fact, it was my fault for not being truthful to them. i replied that it was their respons