♪ (DRUMROLL PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MARCHING BAND MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
You put this together, this short film for us,
and I appreciate it. It's premiering tonight
on this program, and it's titled
3 Brothers: Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd.
For those who need just a reminder,
Radio Raheem is this fictional character
in Spike Lee's iconic... This is 1989, 31 years ago.
His iconic film, Do the Right Thing.
And I have to warn the audience, this video is disturbing
and you have to watch it.
It contains some raw language, all right?
But I think it's important not to sanitize this. Here it is.
ERIC GARNER: I'm minding my business, officer.
I'm minding my business. Please just leave me alone.
I told you the last time, please just leave me alone.
-(SIREN WAILING) -Don't touch me, don't touch me.
-ONLOOKER 1: Hold on, hold on. -Hey, listen, do not touch me.
ONLOOKER 2: A girl came over us and gave us a bad bag of shit.
(OFFICERS CLAMOR)
-(CROWD CLAMORING) -(GRUNTS)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(CROWD CLAMORING)
-What you doing? -(CROWD CLAMORING)
(OFFICERS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
Get the fuck off me.
ERIC: I can't breathe.
-(GRUNTS, CHOKES) -(CROWD CLAMORING)
I can't breathe. I can't...
I can't breathe.
-(CHOKING) -Just take him down, man.
My neck hurts. Everything hurt.
-(GROANS) -(GRUNTS)
-Mama! Mama! -OFFICER 1: Get up and get in the car, all right?
-Back up and get on those steps. -ONLOOKER 1: Okay.
-ONLOOKER 2: Get off of him now. -ONLOOKER 3: Get off of him! What is wrong with y'all?
ONLOOKER 2: What the fuck? He got maced.
-(GRUNTS) -Get his arm, get his arm.
ONLOOKER 4: All he did was break up a fight.
(ERIC GARNER GROANS)
ONLOOKER 5: You're fucking stopping
-his breathing right there, bro. -I can't breathe.
Back off, back it off.
ONLOOKER 6: Bro, he's not even fucking moving.
Get off of his fucking neck, bro.
-(GROANS) -(SCREAMS)
ONLOOKER 1: No bro, look at him.
He's not responsive right now, bro.
Sir? It's EMS.
Come on, we're here to help, all right?
(CROWD CLAMORING)
ONLOOKER 1: Get back on the street.
ONLOOKER 2: Don't touch him.
ONLOOKER 3: You could at least lifted him up off the ground, bro,
he wouldn't even have tripped, bro.
(CROWD INDISTINCT CHATTER)
ONLOOKER 1: Yeah, 987, you just killed that nigga, bro.
ONLOOKER 2: Y'all just really just killed that man.
ONLOOKER 1: You just really killed that man, bro.
Well, Don, here's the thing.
Ray Raheem, a fictional character,
is based upon Michael Stewart.
In 1983, he was doing graffiti
in a New York City subway station,
and he was killed by the New York City transit cops.
That's where I got the idea for Ray Raheem.
That was back in 1983.
Do the Right Thing came out in 1989.
I'm David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker magazine.
New Yorkers thought of Trump as a...
a fucking joke and a...
and half a crook, right?
But the idea that he'd be a serious politician was absurd.
Absurd. And then after eight years of Obama,
or seven years into Obama,
he starts touting birtherism.
And catches fire,
and people believe it.
(SCOFFS)
It wasn't some marginal part of his appeal,
it was central to his appeal.
His entry into politics was to say,
"Barack Obama is us against them.
He's not a real American."
That was racist at the core.
He's saying to white America, "He's not one of us.
You can't have him as the president of us."
I'm Anthony Scaramucci,
the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital
and the former White House communications director.
The birtherism thing is another flash warning sign.
We can revise history now.
I was with him in 2011
at the White House Correspondents
Association Dinner. And he--
-SPIKE LEE: When Obama roasted him? -Destroyed him.
No one is happier, no one is prouder,
to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald.
(CROWD CHUCKLING)
And that's because he can finally get back
to focusing on the issues that matter.
Like, did we fake the moon landing?
(CROWD CHUCKLES)
BARACK OBAMA: What really happened in Roswell?
(CROWD CHUCKLES)
OBAMA: And where are Biggie and Tupac?
(CROWD CHEERS, CHUCKLES)
I'm at CNBC. Trump's at NBC.
So I'm sitting at a table right next to Trump.
If you open up a can of Spam, okay?
Trump without the makeup, that's what he looks like, right?
And so when he's got the makeup on
and you're getting reddened Spam,
it is a very bad look, okay?
And I'm looking over at the guy and I'm sayin',
"Okay, this guy is super pissed."
I'm thinking what you're thinking.
"He's running in 2012,
and he's gonna try to see if he can beat Obama."
Good political instincts, okay?
He didn't want to run against an incumbent president.
He was never into politics
other than he took the shot at the Central Park five.
He had taken out ads to execute five Black and brown boys
in the Central Park rape case.
Thirteen years later,
they found out the boys were right.
Trump said they still shouldn't get a settlement,
wouldn't back down.
This is Busta Rhymes, and I am from the People's Republic,
in particularly East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.
SPIKE: I be using this one word for the president,
-two words. -(LAUGHS)
SPIKE: And every time I say it, I say, "I'm not making it up."
My brother Busta Rhymes coined this term.
-Tell us the origin. -Agent Orange, man.
SPIKE: Tell-- How'd it happen?
So in 2017, I was blessed with the incredible opportunity
to be a part of Tribe Called Quest's last album,
We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service.
Big up to my brothers from Tribe.
We got the opportunity to perform with Anderson .Paak
at the Grammys 2017.
We were in the rehearsals and Q-Tip says, "All right, Bus,
because you ain't got a verse on these joints that we doin',
I want to position you so that you got a highlight moment.
So why don't you come up with, like, a speech to intro
what we gonna do when we go out there?"
We get to the actual Grammys now...
And you know, it's like them final couple of seconds
right before you get on stage and shit,
and you looking at that audience,
and you seeing all of them people.
-SPIKE: Lookin' at you. -Or they waiting to look at you
when you getting ready to come out,
and they clear that stage for y'all to come out,
and then you hear the intro, and then when you go out there
and you start talking your shit,
and you know that there's a lot of politically...
powerful people in that audience, too.
And a lot of them was pro that guy.
It's something about when you in that moment,
and you on the stage and you got that microphone
that you just feel like this superpower,
and you know you got the ability to use your voice
in this very incredible way.
-(SPIKE CHUCKLING) -And in that moment, bro,
whatever concerns and fear or...
second guessing that I might've had in that moment,
that shit just disintegrated.
Like, it was almost like I felt some shit protecting me.
-SPIKE: You did. -Yeah. Fuck It.
We goin', and we ain't looking back.
Agent Orange, I'm talking to you.
I just want to thank
-President Agent Orange... -What up, Cheeto?
...for perpetuating all of the evil
that you've been perpetuating throughout the United States.
I want to thank President Agent Orange
for his unsuccessful attempt
-at the Muslim ban. -♪ (LOUD MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
-When we come together... -And I'm ownin' this moment.
The way I saw this shit goin' viral after that,
and it just stuck with him.
And it's funny to me because it really wasn't no pre-thought
that went into it other than,
"Every time you see this motherfucker,
he really looks orange, bro."
He look orange.
Like, why you wanna look orange?
NARRATOR: One hundred percent pure
frozen concentrated orange juice.
Why you didn't want to just look like a cool tan color
of your regular complexion?
What's this orange shit about, though?
Like, that was intriguing to me.
SPIKE: I know, but here's the thing,
the genius, though, my brother,
Agent Orange, because you know what that shit did in Vietnam?
-That was the genius. -Yeah, thank you, king!
-♪ (CNN THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -REPORTER: CNN breaking news.
We wanna welcome our viewers here in the United States
and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer
in the Situation Room with breaking news
on the huge and horrific toll from the coronavirus.
The number of deaths here in the United States
has just crossed 100,000.
I wake up at 7:00 in the morning to banging at my door.
So, I had seen this same officer
knocking on doors on my floor previously,
and I let my group members know.
And finally he knocked on my door,
and he told me that he had a warrant for my arrest.
And the group encouraged me to get on Instagram Live
to film this, and that this was something that was important.
I lived alone,
-and it needed to be filmed. -(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
I went back to the door and asked him
to slide the warrant, and where was it?
And the officer
admitted that there-- there wasn't a warrant.
And once I informed the group of that,
and people heard that I'm live, it began to grow.
People began to share the video. People rallied
-outside of my apartment. -(CHANTING) Where's the warrant?
-More officers came in riot gear. There were drones. -CROWD: Where's the warrant?
At one point, I heard dogs scratching at my door.
-(SCRATCHING ON DOOR) -(OFFICER SPEAKING OVER RADIO)
-There's dogs. -(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
DERRICK INGRAM: There was a battering ram.
There's a huge dent in my apartment door right now.
And it was just-- It was very traumatic.
All of this for allegedly screaming at an officer.
-(CROWD CHANTING) -DERRICK: I feel blessed that we had a platform
and that many people were able to support me and watch
-because I truly believe... -(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
...if I would've opened that door,
that something bad could've definitely happened to me.
And if I wasn't on live and had the warrior support,
that it could have ended in my death.
And that's something that I still think about,
um, because there's been activists that have gone missing
and that are still missing and we don't know what happened.
Because why you gonna sit there and try to arrest somebody
that's organized a protest that's doing something
-for positive things? -ONLOOKER 1: Yeah, yeah!
You understand? That right there is bullshit.
That is bullshit right there, man.
ONLOOKER 2: All of this...
Like, when we were communicating with him over our group chat,
me and some of us thought, you know, "This is--
-Oh, hell yeah. -"These are the stories you hear."
-SPIKE: Yeah. -When-- when--
they break in and kill someone.
-What they did to-- -I woke up and thought he was dead.
-I'm not gonna lie. -What they did to Breonna Taylor.
REPORTER: Breonna Taylor's family
is suing three Louisville police officers
after the 26-year-old woman
was shot and killed in her apartment.
Now officials say this incident back in March
was tied to a drug investigation
where police were searching for someone else.
Grand jury's decision today to charge no one directly
for the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT
killed by police in March.
The one officer who was charged for wanton endangerment
has already posted bond and been released from jail.
With that knowledge
and feeling like that was going to happen,
you know, something we do say on the streets
is, "We protect us." You know, "They don't protect us."
-They don't protect us. -SPIKE: We protect us.
-Yeah. -We protect us.
Everybody showed up for me. And that was one
of the most heartwarming things to see how many people showed up
to protect me and to make sure that everything was done
by protocol, policy and procedure,
-because my rights had been violated. -Mm-hmm.
My name's Eric Jenkins-Sahlin. I live in Brooklyn.
Hey, I'm Brandon Hines. I live in Brooklyn.
I'm from High Point, North Carolina.
I'm working at home, and then I hear
-somebody say, "Trump 2020..." -OFFICER: (OVER LOUDSPEAKER)
...um, on like a loudspeaker, and I--
-SPIKE: What neighborhood you live in? -BRANDON HINES: Flatbush.
-ERIC JENKINS-SAHLIN: Flatbush. -SPIKE: Flatbush, all right.
-ERIC: Prospect Park South. -BRANDON: Prospect Park South.
-ERIC: You know... -(SPIKE LAUGHS)
-BRANDON: But Flatbush. -ERIC: Yeah.
It's like, anytime I walk to my window,
I don't know what I'm gonna see.
I walked over, started filming.
OFFICER: (OVER LOUDSPEAKER)
We heard "Trump 2020" initially, and then we heard a man
arguing with the police officers.
So my first inclination was to run to the window
and make sure whoever that brother was
on the corner was okay. And then you hear
the guy call, you know, call the police officer names.
PEDESTRIAN:
They then walk off. And then the cops was like...
OFFICER:
And so that's exactly what we did.
-Um... -SPIKE: What'd the cop say?
OFFICER:
"Have some fun."
And so, you know, I'm just doing what the cop said.
It's like, you told us to put it on Facebook,
put it on YouTube, I put it on Twitter, too.
And next thing you know, there's like celebrities seeing it.
And then like when you wake up in the morning,
it's just complete chaos.
You have news people on your block,
phone calls and text message from Trump supporters,
-DMs from Trump supporters. -SPIKE: What do the DMs say?
-I mean, if you-- -(BOTH LAUGH)
I mean, let's just say they're voicing support for Trump
and they don't like Black people,
let's just go with that. You know what I mean?
SPIKE: Who was the other person?
PEDESTRIAN:
OFFICER: (OVER LOUDSPEAKER)
PEDESTRIAN:
He gave the footage to a Twitter reporter
and told her, "I want to remain anonymous."
My name's Talia Jane, and I'm an independent journalist.
My source reached out to me and said,
"This event just occurred.
It is in clear violation
of the NYPD police code of conduct."
SPIKE: What's that code of conduct say?
TALIA JANE: It says that you have to be apolitical
when in uniform and on duty.
SPIKE: Did you ever hear from NYPD?
No. I heard, um, from the--
it was the complaints department.
They have reached out to me to file
a complaint against them.
I saw the response by O'Shea, the commissioner.
De Blasio was like, "We're going to have this investigation open
and ready to go by Sunday." And they did.
And it turns out that when de Blasio watches footage
of police misconduct, things are actually handled.
But he hasn't apparently seen anything
about police brutalizing protestors.
SPIKE: Now, what happened to that police officer?
He was suspended without pay. But someone set up
a GoFundMe for him to help pay for lost wages.
SPIKE: They get any money?
TALIA: Yeah, they did. They got a couple thousand dollars.
I have 36 years on this job,
twenty-one as the president of this fine organization.
I cannot remember when we've ever endorsed
for the office of president of the United States until now.
In the New York City PBA, Mr. President,
you earn the endorsement,
and you've earned this endorsement.
-I'm proud to give it. -(CHEERING)
What Pat Lynch did created tremendous pain and confusion.
It was for his own politics.
It was for his own narrow, greedy reasons.
I heard people say to me all over the city,
"The police department endorsed Trump."
Well, that's not true. That's just not fair.
That's just not true. First of all, police department,
extremely diverse group of people with diverse views.
I assure you, there were many, many members of NYPD
who did not endorse Donald Trump,
but a police union did.
And that created pain and confusion in this city.
'Cause a lot of people took that
-as representing-- -SPIKE: So did you call him up?
All right, we'll leave it at that. (LAUGHS)
The look said everything. (LAUGHING)
That's the most frightening thing of it all.
They're here to protect and serve,
but they're out here killing Black people,
but then you have a president who backs that energy,
who dog whistles calls for law and order.
I will also tell you that
we stopped the looting and we stopped the violence.
We didn't bring in the National Guard
like in other parts of the country,
which I think would have been extremely dangerous here.
There weren't rubber bullets. There wasn't tear gas,
which we saw in a lot of places. So whatever our foibles,
whatever our mistakes, there was still something
about how New York City approached it
that was better than a lot of other places.
But the-- where do we go from here?
First of all, police force just has to look like
the communities they serve.
Precinct commander in Brownsville right now,
grew up in Brownsville in public housing.
That is the model. That is the ideal.
Weed out the small number of cops who don't belong.
And it is a small number.
Some just were not meant for the work
or they harbor resentments, anger,
racism that doesn't belong.
And give people a voice. I mean, one of the things
we decided is that from now on
the community will have a role
in choosing the precinct commander.
And that was one of the most powerful reforms
that came out of the protests.
And I've heard from people all over,
neighborhoods all over the city, that really mattered to them,
that they will have a voice again.
And that NYPD is going to hear that.
That, to me, is the kind of thing
we have to do to move forward.
SPIKE: This term, "defund the police."
I just wish they had used a different word.
-We do-- -SPIKE: Because if-- because
these motherfuckers have turned "defund police"
to meaning "we don't need police."
-Right. -Yeah.
I think we can all agree that for a functioning society,
you need policing. There has to be policing.
"Defund the police" is the catchphrase
that people can latch on to.
The problem is that the phrase "defund the police"
has been weaponized against progressives
and others to suggest that
we support lawlessness.
So, right now the war is for semantics.
It is for language.
And the question becomes,
how can you use language to influence culture?
SPIKE: Mm. Say it again, say it again.
How can you use language to influence culture?
There's a vast swath of America...
-DERRICK: Mm-hmm. -...that is terrified right now.
They have no idea what's going on.
They have Fox News telling them this.
They have the kid that works at the grocery store
telling them this.
-What do they do? -Mm-hmm.
We have to find consistency in the language
and honestly find language that isn't--
-Divisive. -Divisive.
My name is Congresswoman Cori Bush,
and I represent Missouri's 1st district.
-Words do matter. -SPIKE: Mm-hmm.
But people have been talking about "reallocating funds"
as it relates to our police department,
"diversifying" and all of that for years.
How far have we gotten?
When we said "defund the police,"
the world woke up.
And now it's a mainstream conversation
and we're getting places
that we weren't able to get before.
So yes, words matter.
But if it tech-- 'Cause the thing is,
when they-- when the words started happening,
"we need to reallocate funds,"
it didn't happen the way it needed to then.
And so when people come against us saying,
"Oh, well you all are messing it up
because of the way you're saying it,"
the way you said it didn't provide results
because we got death after death
after death, after that.
And so now when we change the words
and we make people talk about it,
then they want to say
"The problem is with how we're talking about it."
That's not the problem.
The problem is you should have fixed the problem
before we got here for me to put my mouth on it.
-SPIKE: There you go. (CHUCKLES) -(LAUGHS)
SPIKE: You explained to me. I understand that.
-You broke it down. (CHUCKLES) -(LAUGHS)
I love my people. Gotta get it to them.
SPIKE: I know you do.
We spend upwards of 400 million dollars a year
for police in schools.
We have 5,000 police officers in schools.
That's larger than the Boston Police Department.
That's larger than all the police officers in Las Vegas.
So our divestment in NYPD means that we care more
about making sure that our children
have a high quality public school education.
And that we also are redefining what safety is,
'cause at the end of the day, for those kids...
My daughter went to a school with metal detectors.
For those kids, they don't feel safer.
Many of their first interactions with police are in schools.
Why are we investing in things like that
instead of investing in our children?
The United States has now registered
200,000, two hundred thousand, coronavirus deaths.
I'm Jim Clyburn.
I represent South Carolina's 6th congressional district.
I made comments.
I just looked at the headline a day or two ago
in the Charleston Post and Courier,
when they quoted me as having said
that I was comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
Now, it was not exactly right.
I compared him to Mussolini.
-SPIKE: (CHUCKLES) Il Duce, huh? -JAMES CLYBURN: Yes.
You caught some heat from that, huh?
-Lord, did I. -(SPIKE CHUCKLES)
Yeah. A lot of people give me a hard time about that.
I never backed away from it.
Jon Stewart.
N95 plus surgical mask, can't do better than that.
Give me Il Duce, who's got like a little bit of a asthma.
(WHEEZING)
It's comic, but there's some connection
to the absurd and the diabolical.
And it's the connection that I utterly missed.
Hello, Hynkie!
(TALKING IN GERMAN, LAUGHS)
How you feel?
I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it.
This was a blessing in disguise.
I caught it. I heard about this drug.
I said, "Let me take it." It was my suggestion.
I said, "Let me take it."
And it was incredible the way it worked, incredible.
I'm Maggie Haberman. I'm a White House correspondent
for the New York Times.
He was really-- he was also really sick.
I mean, he was much sicker than they were saying.
My name is Natasha Alford,
and I'm vice president of digital content
and a senior correspondent at TheGrio dot com.
They put the combo in, you know, whatever safe was holding
their best experimental drug and then gave it to him.
And he bragged as if that was available to everyone.
And it again, created this deadly impression
that COVID-19 was not really as bad as it was.
So, when we made the film Contagion,
I wanted to show it to Tony Fauci,
so this goes back to 2011.
And Tony said, "I loved it. It was great."
Says, "One problem." He said,
"Your vaccine timeline is completely unrealistic."
And I said,
and this is-- I'm quoting myself. I said,
"It better not be unrealistic,
'cause that's the time frame in which we need it."
So Warp Speed was anticipated in the film Contagion.
We knew it was a question of when, not if.
My name is Aisha Langford. I'm an assistant professor
of population health at NYU Langone Health.
I signed up to join Pfizer's phase one clinical trial
for the COVID-19 vaccine.
-SPIKE: What is that? -Well, phase one trials
are the first in-human trials.
And usually there are less than a hundred people
that participate in them across the country.
Initially, I did not know whether I got the active vaccine
-or the placebo. -SPIKE: Ooh.
And it turns out that I did get the active vaccine.
I guess I'm about five months ahead of the world.
My name is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
and I represent New York's 14th congressional district
covering the Bronx and Queens.
I really believe that my political consciousness
happened when I was working in a restaurant.
SPIKE: Where?
In Union Square at the Coffee Shop.
SPIKE: The Coffee Shop! I'm older than you,
but back in the day that was the spot.
-(CHUCKLES) -Yeah! (LAUGHS)
SPIKE: No longer there, now.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Classic. And I know,
it's so sad, too.
You punch in at 4:30, and you say at the beginning,
"Okay, we're here to make some money."
And you work it like crazy. It's a hustle.
And you ride that train home at 3:00 in the morning,
and I always say it was like Cinderella.
Once the clock strikes midnight,
the six train turns into a pumpkin.
It is like that.
(TRAIN BRAKES SQUEAL)
SPIKE: How long have you been receiving death threats?
I mean, they started since before I even
got sworn into Congress, after I won my primary.
Because that's when Fox News immediately made us
public enemy number one.
I'm a young woman of color from New York City. (CHUCKLES)
Last night, a 28-year-old socialist from New York
defeated the long-time Democratic incumbent
in a congressional primary race. As President Trump said tonight,
he got his ass kicked.
And many are hailing Cortez
as a rising star on the political landscape.
But in reality, her views,
her policy positions, are actually downright scary.
What it is, is that they were using all of that
as a guise for more and more and more incitement
and just normalizing outright lies about people
to get other folks to fear you.
To get them to pull a trigger first,
to get them to break a window first,
thinking that that act of aggression
is actually an act of self-defense.
Like, that's the trick that they pull.
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.
They're not sending you. They're not sending you.
They're sending people that have lots of problems
and they're bringing those problems with us.
They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime,
they're rapists.
And some I assume are good people.
-(CHILDREN CRYING) -CHILD: (SOBBING) Mami!
(CHILDREN SCREAMING IN SPANISH)
(CHILDREN CRYING)
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(CHILDREN CRYING)
Cruelty is the point.
This was an intentional decision
to try and deter people
who were fleeing persecution in Central America
and the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala,
Honduras, and El Salvador
from seeking asylum in the United States of America,
to the point that the decision was made
that we will separate you from your children
and you perhaps will never see them again.
A cruel, dehumanizing policy
that has left a generation of children scarred
to keep immigrants from crossing the border.
And a policy that this administration
repeatedly denied was policy.
Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's
Immigrants' Rights Project.
But we're talking about 5,500 kids
who the United States government deliberately subjected
to child abuse.
Deliberately subjected to child abuse.
Our government at the highest level.
At one point, the government said,
we need two years to give the ACLU the list of names.
Not to find the families, just to give the list of names.
And the judge said, "Two years"?
Some of these kids are only three years old now.
The government said, "Candidly, Your Honor,
we didn't actually keep track.
We now need to go through thousands of hard files
to try and figure out
which parent goes with which child."
We had all these kids suffering right here in New York City,
and it wasn't till much later that we found out
that we're sitting with all these kids.
In the last two months, this family separation policy
has affected thousands of children.
Two hundred and thirty-nine of them are right here right now.
And this is just one of the centers in New York City.
The folks here told us that since the program began,
over 350 children have been here.
All because of the family separation policy
of the Trump administration.
What is happening here? How is it possible
that none of us knew there were 239 kids right here
in our own city?
How is the federal government holding back that information
from the people of this city?
Joaquin Castro, congressman for district 20,
San Antonio, Texas.
That was government-sponsored kidnapping.
And it was born out of a bigotry by Donald Trump
and some of the people closest to him
like Stephen Miller.
You've got to be without a conscience
to be okay with that.
Once you start taking children from their pa--
from their parents, you are--
you are committing yourself to a path that is, um...
It's really hard to see coming back from.
And the reports of how some of these children
have suffered long-term psychological damage.
When you're four or five years old,
the only reason the world is not completely scary to you
is because you think your parents can protect you.
But then when you're being ripped away
and you see your parents can't stop it,
from then on in your life, you're gonna feel vulnerable.
You're going to think something bad's gonna happen to you.
Think as an adult
about the worst one minute in your life,
where you were the most stressed and traumatized.
Think if that one minute lasted six months,
every minute of the day for six months,
and then think if you were a child
and didn't have the ability to process anxiety and trauma.
That's what it was like
when a kid was separated for six months,
that anxiety going through their head.
Who's gonna pay for the wall?
CROWD:
Hundred percent. By the way, 100 percent.
Mexico will not pay for the fucking wall.
REPORTER: The president tonight, apparently uncorking
another astonishing statement,
complaining to lawmakers in the Oval Office
about protections for immigrants.
"Why do we want these people from," quote,
"all these shithole countries here?"
REPORTER: Why do you keep calling this
the Chinese virus?
There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias
against Chinese Americans in this country.
-Why do you keep using this? A lot of people say it's racist. -'Cause it comes from China.
It's not racist at all. No, not at all.
It comes from China.
For Asian businesses, for Chinatowns,
they were the first to get hit with a slowdown
in January of 2020 'cause people were like,
"If I avoid Asian people, I'll avoid corona."
Not only are you combating the coronavirus,
but also combating misinformation about it.
Fact or fiction, can you get the coronavirus
by eating Chinese food?
That is absolutely false.
We actually worked with Mastercard research
and pulled some data and showed that in certain Asian enclaves,
the spending dropped between 82 and 95 percent
between 82 and 95 percent in our neighborhoods.
So a lot of institutions that we all know and enjoy,
they're closing. They're done.
And then in March, we had President Trump,
his rhetoric, really scaring people.
I would like to begin by announcing
some important developments in our war
against the Chinese virus.
COVID? I said, "You mean the China plague?"
-The China virus. -China virus.
-China virus. -Kung-Flu.
That lectern, that podium? It's powerful.
It's strong. It was scary.
I felt like he was painting a target on my back.
The president of our country is scratching out notes
at the White House press conference
that says "coronavirus," to say "Chinese virus."
That emboldens and gives permission to racists
to be able to say, "Oh, even the president
is saying this, so therefore, for me to be racist
and go out and harm Asian American people
and discriminate."
I think that is very real,
and that is exactly what has happened.
REPORTER 1: The security video shows part
of the disturbing confrontation,
a man throwing a box at an Asian woman,
then shoving her into a row of newspaper boxes.
REPORTER 2: Forty-seven-year-old Patrick Mateo
is charged with assault
and intent to cause physical injury and harassment.
And as I began hearing about the rise in racial attacks
against Asian Americans, he didn't have to call me.
I called him and said that we want to take a stand
with the Asian American community against hate.
Let's welcome for a few words, state senator John Liu.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)
-We're all in this together. -AUDIENCE MEMBER: We are.
An attack against any of us is an attack against all of us.
-(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS) -Thank you. No justice...
-AUDIENCE: No peace! -...no peace!
(PASSENGERS SHOUTING)
(NO AUDIO)
My name is Amanda Nguyen,
and I am a civil rights activist.
There have been bodies now that have been piling up
because of the racism against the Asian community.
We've seen our elderly attacked.
We've seen them lit on fire, slashed across their face,
pushed to their death.
And now, a massacre with six Asian women dead.
There is no doubt
that...
these crimes have happened because people are emboldened
thanks to the racist rhetoric
that has been spewed out by our leaders.
The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy.
-And right now-- -SPIKE: Repeat that again?
The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy.
And right now, we are asking people to speak us
into the consciousness of this country.
What I want people to understand
is that we are not your model minority,
and we are not going to be silent anymore.
And to stay silent in the face of this hate
is a very fundamental betrayal
of what it means to be an American.
It is disheartening that so many people are okay
with things the president has said.
I would like to promise and pledge
to all of my voters and supporters,
and to all of the people of the United States...
(SCATTERED CHEERS)
...that I will totally accept the results of this great
and historic presidential election,
-if I win. -(CROWD CHEERS)
Former Republican senator Bob Corker,
conservative of Tennessee, who said, "It's a cult."
His words. "The cult of Trump."
The challenge that my Republican colleagues confront
is that he has a captive hold
on the Republican base.
MR. BERNSTEIN: With a million majority
already against him,
and the church count is still to be heard from,
I'm afraid we've got no choice.
This one?
That one.
-MODERATOR: You go first. -I'm urging my supporters
to go into the polls and watch very carefully
because that's what has to happen.
I am urging them to do it.
CROWD: (CHANTING) We are watching you!
(CHANTING) Count our votes!
(CHANTING) Stop the count!
(CHANTING) Count the legal votes!
(CHANTING) Stop the steal!
The Biden crime family's stealing this election!
The media's covering up!
We want our freedom for the world!
Give us our freedom, Joe Biden!
Joe Biden is covering up this election. He's stealing it!
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
JOE GLORIA: Where were we? What was the last question?
The reason you need an absurd figure
is it takes someone without shame
to be able to lead a shameful movement.
I'd like to provide the American people
with an update on our efforts to protect the integrity
of our very important 2020 election.
If you count the legal votes, I easily win.
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
On November 5th, 2020, shit was still up in the air.
Shit was shaky as Jell-O,
and it came down to two states,
Pennsylvania
and Georgia.
I'm on Instagram.
So, I remember this song.
Elton John, my guy, love him, beautiful brother,
had performed on Soul Train. (CHUCKLES)
So... da-da-da-da. Found the clip!
♪ 'Cause I live and breathe This Philadelphia freedom ♪
♪ From the day that I was born I've waved the flag ♪
♪ Philadelphia freedom Took me knee high to a man ♪
And then on Instagram, have people are saying,
"Spike, what about Georgia?
What about Ray Charles?"
I said, "Oh, shit." (LAUGHS)
Then...
found it.
-♪ My Georgia ♪ -(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
♪ Oh, Georgia ♪
♪ The whole day through ♪
And lo and behold,
thank you, Jesus,
Philadelphia, Atlanta came through
and that put us over the top.
♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
After four long, tense days,
we've reached a historic moment in this election.
CBS News is now projecting...
Fox News decision desk can now project...
NBC News now projecting...
-BBC projects... -CNN projects...
(TALKING IN SPANISH)
...Joe Biden.
ALL: Biden.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. is elected the 46th president
of the United States.
♪ ("ONCE IN A LIFETIME" BY DAVID BYRNE PLAYING) ♪
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CORKS POP)
(CHEERING)
♪ Time isn't holding us ♪
♪ Time isn't after us ♪
♪ Time isn't holding us ♪
♪ Time isn't after us ♪
♪ Time isn't holding us ♪
♪ Time isn't after us ♪
♪ Here comes the twister now Here it comes... ♪
I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide,
but unify.
We have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.
They are not our enemies. They're Americans.
(FIREWORKS CRACKLING)
♪ Once in a lifetime ♪
♪ Let the days go by ♪
♪ Once in a lifetime ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)
Whoo!
Thank you.
I think when you look back,
a lot of us were in the hamster wheel,
just doing the best that we could.
COVID stopped the hamster wheel.
And a lot of people fell out and looked around
and didn't like what we saw in America.
Didn't like the racism.
Didn't like the authoritarianism.
Didn't like the lies.
Didn't like the conspiracy theories.
Didn't like what we were seeing. And didn't like ourselves,
if I'm not doing enough.
And that's why you saw so many people,
led by Black women, take on this election
in a way you've never seen.
That's why you saw so many young people voting
in numbers you've never seen.
People want something different, but 2020 I think put a spotlight
on the worst and the best in this country,
and New York City was the epicenter of the whole thing.
Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Big part of the votes that put us over
in Pennsylvania were from Philadelphia.
Who's in Philadelphia? Black folks!
As a large block of votes
came in for the state of Georgia,
they came from Fulton county.
Who's in Fulton county? It's Black folks.
So, you put two and two together, it's not five.
This whole thing was about suppression
of the Black and brown vote.
That's why Agent Orange and Giuliani
and all them motherfuckers were going around
getting their cases thrown out of,
what, sixty-something courts? Laughed out of court!
All four of the lawsuits that the Trump administration
has filed in our state have been thrown out.
We don't see a widespread voter fraud.
I've really seen this more as press releases
masquerading as legal claims.
REPORTER: That's attorney general Bill Barr
walking into the White House today,
not long after telling the AP
the justice department has not seen fraud
on a scale that could have changed
the outcome of the presidential race.
You have the rights to go through the courts.
What you don't have the ability to do,
and you need to step up and say this,
is stop inspiring people
to commit potential acts of violence.
This thing was about the suppression
of the Black and brown vote, which shows us
that it was Black and brown votes
that got Papa Joe and Sister Kamala
over the hump into the White House.
My name is Dr. Ala Stanford. I am a pediatric surgeon
and founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium.
Yo, Philly, y'all showed up!
You showed up, you showed out,
and that's what happens when we say enough is enough,
and no more.
I remember when I endorsed Joe Biden.
I caught as much flack for that as I caught
for calling Donald Trump, Mussolini.
But when I talk with my daughters,
whose mother had just passed away--
-My wife and I... -SPIKE: God bless.
-...stayed married for almost 58 years. -SPIKE: God bless.
She called elections time and time again,
and she told me before she passed away,
she says, "If we wanna win, we'd better get Joe Biden
-as our nominee." -SPIKE: She called it.
She called it. Yeah, she called it.
Hi, I'm Senator Chuck Schumer.
First senator from Brooklyn in 180 years.
Spent my whole life in Brooklyn.
And now I'm the first majority leader,
not only from Brooklyn, but from New York.
January 5th was election day in Georgia,
and we knew if the two Democrats won,
we'd take back the majority, and I would achieve my dream
of becoming majority leader.
My name's Jon Ossoff. I'm a United States senator
from the great state of Georgia.
It says a lot that...
at this moment of bitter division,
and given all that Trump represented,
that the state of Georgia...
cradle of the civil rights movement,
the heart of the old Confederacy...
has sent a Black preacher who holds Dr. King's pulpit
at Ebenezer Baptist church
and the young Jewish son of an immigrant
to represent our state in the Senate.
I'm gonna be majority leader. They both won. And by the way,
Warnock, I recruited him.
SPIKE: And what college did he go to?
Morehouse College.
-SPIKE: The house! -The house.
Republicans in Georgia are trying to make it harder
to vote after President Biden flipped the state
and Democrats won both Senate seats.
We're supposed to be expanding the right to vote,
to make it easier for more people to vote,
not restricting the right to vote.
It's a travesty. It's tragic.
We need to learn from this experience,
or it will repeat.
This moment in time,
you've got Bolsonaro,
Putin,
-Erdogan. -SPIKE: Gangsters, all of them.
IAN LIPKIN: They're all gangsters,
and they all support one another.
Looks like Boris Johnson
is finally beginning to see the light.
This is this world we live in. So the question is,
why are human beings so susceptible
to these megalomaniacs at present?
That's really the question.
Trumpism, right wing, anti-majoritarian,
anti-human populism,
or the perversion of populism,
that's not gone. That's gotta be faced,
and a president of United States can't be the only one to do it.
Artists have to do it. Journalists have to do it.
Citizens have to do it.
But we're the majority, baby! We're Americans, okay?
And we're gonna answer the call,
and we're gonna take back our country!
Vote red or America is dead.
-(CROWD CLAMORING) -Trump 2020.
Join or die. Live free or die.
Never forget. God bless America.
One thing that I realized in the Trump era
is just expect the unexpected.
Donald Trump was such an existential threat
to our democracy, to decency, to the economy,
to a comprehensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic,
because he's genetically incapable of doing anything,
it appears, other than caring about himself.
Donald Trump's corrupt behavior makes Richard Nixon
look like a choirboy.
Hi, George Pataki, governor of New York
from 1995 to 2007.
SPIKE: What happened to America's mayor?
-(CHUCKLES) -SPIKE: (LAUGHS) What happened?
Stuff-- black stuff rolling down his face,
and then just got sued for one point something billion.
What happened to him? Are you laughing?
(CHUCKLES) It's...
(EXHALES)
It's sad.
(CHUCKLES)
This is who he always was.
America's mayor was this interlude
where he had two weeks of a good performance after 9/11,
and he did, when-- you know-- up until the moment
that he tried extending his term,
-which was undemocratic. -(SPIKE CHUCKLES)
Like, this is who he's always been.
He has always had this in him, and when he was mayor,
he cared enough about policy.
He was obviously hugely controversial
on a number of issues, including race.
There were policy issues that he was interested in
that outweighed some of these instincts of his,
but now it's just all that instinct,
and he and Trump bring this out in each other.
Like, why does Trump rely on him?
Because he's the only one who will go out
and do what Trump wants.
♪ (INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
You know, you're really beautiful.
Oh, you dirty boy, you! Ooh! Oh!
Donald, I thought you were a gentleman. [scoffs]
When you see Giuliani melting down
as like a cracked-out clown,
when you see somebody who used to be a global icon
for American pride,
representing America's greatest shame,
standing in front of the wrong building at the wrong time...
(LAUGHING) ...where he was standing in front of the Four Seasons
and it was like it was next to like a porn shop or whatever,
you know, this is a symbol of the sign of the decline
if not of America, certainly of American conservatism.
All the networks!
-TUTAR SAGDIYEV: Should we slip your jacket? -RUDY GIULIANI: Okay.
♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
I understand lawyers are entitled
to take on popular clients and do their best
to represent them, but you try to do it
in a dignified and professional way,
and it was just sad to see that, uh, not happening
after the elections this time.
REPORTER 1: The former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani
has had his license to practice law suspended
by a New York court.
It comes after a disciplinary panel found that Giuliani
made false comments about the 2020 election.
REPORTER 2: Giuliani's eagerness to spread unsubstantiated claims
that Donald Trump was the real winner
of the November election, threatens the public interest.
We just crossed a horrific milestone
with more than 300,000 deaths.
We've crossed that line. It's now 300,267.
The US, with four percent or so of the world's population,
has roughly, at least according to official numbers,
20 percent of the world's coronavirus deaths.
My name is Sandra Lindsay,
and I am the director of nursing for critical care
at Long Island Jewish Medical Center,
Northwell Health, located in Queens, New York.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(CROWD APPLAUDS, CHEERS)
SANDRA LINDSAY: So I show up in the morning,
and I didn't expect all the attention that I saw.
I arrived not knowing that I would be the first person
in New York state, never mind the first person
in the United States, to get the vaccine.
SPIKE: Did you have any friends out there saying,
"Girl, why did you do that?" (CHUCKLES)
Um, actually, one of my friends text me the other day
and she said, "I just have to let you know
that my household, we were-- We had our minds made up.
We were adamant that we would not be taking this vaccine.
But every time I turn on the TV and see your eyes..."
She said, "I was so inspired. We all went and got vaccinated."
We Black and brown people have been getting vaccinated
our entire life.
You couldn't get-- you couldn't in school
if you didn't get vaccinated.
Some New York City kids are not getting into school
this September, because that's the law.
The law says, if your kids don't have their shots
for dangerous diseases like mumps, measles, and polio,
they aren't getting into school.
The law also says they must go to school.
No shots, no school. It's the law!
Black and brown people, we tend to be really active
on social media. In fact, we shape culture.
We're the first to make anything hot. (CHUCKLES)
The downside of that is that social media is a place
where disinformation thrives.
And one person starts a conspiracy theory,
and it spreads like wildfire.
Information sometimes is like the telephone game.
This gets passed along, and then afterwards,
by the time this person hears it,
it's a little bit of a different version.
By the time the tenth person rehears it,
what are we talking about?
I think there is power in seeing Black experts,
Black doctors, who are front and center and saying,
"This vaccine is safe, and here's why."
We know that it was a Black woman who played
an integral role in getting us to the point
where we had a vaccine.
I am Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett,
and I am a research fellow and scientific lead
at the National Institutes of Health
at the Vaccine Research Center.
I am a COVID-19 vaccine developer
and inventor of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
SPIKE: Can you repeat what you said,
introduction about Moderna,
because I want people to hear this.
-Yeah. I-- -SPIKE: Claim it!
(CHUCKLES)
I am an inventor and a developer on the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
-SPIKE: You? -You know, me and...
-several other people. (LAUGHS) -SPIKE: You-- you-- you-- sister right here?
Me and several other people. It's a team effort.
SPIKE: All right, but still, I'm gonna come with a new term,
Black scientific magic.
(CHUCKLES) I-- Look-- I love it.
-I love it. -You can take it. That's a gift.
-I love it. -SPIKE: Make some t-shirts.
-Go ahead, do it. -I love it.
Being an inspiration is an honor.
You know, I get a lot of parents saying
that, like, you know,
"My daughter wants to be just like you."
Everything about this moment is making me feel humbled
because you just do things because you love them,
and they serve for your purpose on Earth.
And then, when it turns out that they really end up
helping so many people, or inspiring people,
you have to just step back and say, "Okay."
SPIKE: But, you know, that's God's work.
That's God's work. Everything. All of it.
I think there's a social responsibility
to come forward and to say
that vaccines are safe. (CHUCKLES)
By me gathering these experts here,
it was my hope that something was said that would inspire you
to do what's best for you and your family.
Again, I'm not advocating for you to do it,
but I really would hope that you would consider
everything that was said here today.
-Did you let the alcohol dry? -Totally.
TYLER PERRY: Okay.
-You gonna give me the shot? -DOCTOR: Done.
-TYLER: You're finished? -DOCTOR: Yeah.
I didn't feel it, there you go. I got the vaccine. Here we go.
SPIKE: Shout out to Tyler.
My experience with the vaccine has been fantastic.
I mean, I was, you know, again, first online
trying to get it done as soon as possible.
Got my two shots. I mean, the biggest downside
was a little bit of soreness in my arm.
My name is Kaedrea Jackson.
I'm an emergency medicine physician
at Mount Sinai Morningside located in Harlem, New York.
Now there's a vaccine, but we're the ones
that do not want the vaccine.
They've seen what has happened in history.
Tuskegee has left an imprint.
-We're never gonna forget that. -SPIKE: Nor should we.
There's this fear that this is a poison.
I've heard it's a poison,
it's a tracking system, it's so many different things.
-They give you free shots... -AUDIENCE MEMBER: That's right.
...of toxic waste.
-AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes, sir! My God. -Free!
They don't trust it. And especially, let's be honest,
with the last administration, I understand their fears.
SPIKE: What was the response you got
when you took the vaccine?
Such a mixed response,
or I actually shouldn't say mixed.
It was...
(CHUCKLES) ...two ends of a spectrum.
I received so much support from... my medical community
in regards to recognizing that this was important.
I have to say from my Black and brown community,
and even close friends, family, they were scared, and I get it.
Some people were like, "Never.
I'll see what happens to you in a few months."
SPIKE: So you the Black and brown guinea pig.
Oh, I've heard that term also.
With Pfizer and Moderna, 40,000 people took that vaccine
before it got to you.
It was already studied.
And so the whole, "I don't wanna be your guinea pig,"
40,000 people already got you, already beat you to that.
already beat you to that.
Somebody already took one for the team for you.
I remember one person I read on social media
says that I am a skin folk but I'm not kin folk.
I was like, "Wow." It's like, "We're going there?"
I know I was dealing with all the--
all the different aspects of discrimination
as much as you are, but because I chose
to go ahead and take this vaccine
to, one, help others and let others know
that this is something, as a medical professional--
I'm a doctor. I've seen it. I've seen the death.
But I'm also part of your community,
and it's more important for me
to ensure that my community is safe.
"Rolling up her sleeve.
'Have faith in science,' she tells city's skeptics."
I was happy that my smile looked right.
(LAUGHS)
(CHEERS)
DONALD TRUMP: The only people brave enough to vote out
this corrupt establishment is you, the American people.
-(CHEERING) -I'm doing this
for the people and for the movement.
♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
And we will take back this country for you,
and we will make America great again.
I was in Martha's Vineyard...
when Charlottesville happened. We were in pre-production...
and we saw the murder of...
Heather Heyer.
Right then and there, I knew...
what would be the end of my film BlacKkKlansman.
This guy
did not want to renounce
neo-Nazis...
fascists...
the Klan.
This is a guy who denied any relationship
any relationship with David Duke.
The whole world saw this.
It was clear as a nose on your face.
He didn't wanna denounce those white supremacists
because they make up a large part of his...
base.
♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
CROWD: (CHANTING) Blood and soil!
Blood and soil! Blood and soil!
Blood and soil!
Blood and soil! Blood and soil!
Jews will not replace us! Jews will not replace us!
Jews will not replace us!
Whoo!
PROTESTORS: White lives matter! White lives matter!
White lives matter!
Black lives matter! Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
You had a group on one side that was bad,
and you had a group on the other side
that was also very violent.
PROTESTORS: (CHANTING) Nazis go home!
TRUMP: Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me.
Not all of those people were white supremacists.
You also had people that were very fine people.
Because I believe that today in Charlottesville,
-this is a first step... -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
...toward making a realization
of something that Trump alluded to
earlier in the campaign, which is, this is the first step
-toward taking America back. -(CROWD CHEERING)
-PROTESTOR 1: Whose streets? -PROTESTORS: Our streets!
(SCREAMING)
PROTESTOR 2: Holy shit! Holy shit!
(CLAMORING)
(SHOUTING)
I had to jump out of the way.
I almost got hit by the car my fucking self.
(SCREAMS)
There are people, bodies lying on the ground right now.
Oh, my God! We got hit by a car.
And there was a woman laying there, hardly breathing,
and they're rolling her over, and she died.
This is my town. We did not want them motherfuckers here.
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
I am Steven Jaffe.
I am a New York City historian and writer.
January 6th, 2021. Look who provoked it.
A guy from Jamaica Estates named Donald Trump,
and a guy from East Flatbush,
the old East Flatbush, named Rudolph Giuliani.
So you have this way in which New York ends up,
in a certain way, being everything.
You know, it's-- Not only is it the thing
that people want to attack, the people who were--
who are fomenting the attack are New Yorkers themselves.
We're gathered together in the heart
of our nation's capital for one very, very
basic and simple reason. To save our democracy.
We will never give up. We will never concede.
It doesn't happen. You don't concede
-when there's theft involved. -(CROWD CHEERING)
Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.
We're gonna walk down, and I'll be there with you.
-We're gonna walk down... -(CHEERING)
We're gonna walk down any one you want,
but I think right here,
and we're gonna walk down to the Capitol.
CROWD: (CHANTING)
-So... -(CROWD CHEERING)
Let's have trial by combat.
♪ ("THE WAY IT IS" BY BRUCE HORNSBY AND THE RANGE PLAYING) ♪
(CROWD CLAMORING)
(YELLING)
(CROWD CLAMORING)
(CROWD YELLING)
(GUNSHOTS)
♪ (BRUCE HORNSBY SINGING) ♪
(INDISTINCT CLAMORING)
-(EXPLOSION) -(SHOUTING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
ONLOOKER: Hey! Stop!
(CROWD CHANTING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-OFFICER: ...off the ground? -GIRL: Yes, I want to get off!
(CROWD CLAMORING)
-(SIRENS WAIL) -(SCREAMING)
-Whose house? -Our house!
-(CROWD CLAMORING) -PROTESTOR: (SCREAMS) Fuck you!
(CHANTING) USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
-(EUGENE GOODMAN SHOUTING) -(CROWD CLAMORING)
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
No one can tell me
that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter
protesting yesterday,
there wouldn't have been-- they wouldn't have been treated
very, very differently.
Blue lives matter...
but not today.
Blue lives matter, unless they get in our way.
And then they're just another hurdle
to trample
in pursuit of liberty, freedom.
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
-(CROWD YELLING) -Help!
DANIEL HODGES:
(CHUCKLES)
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: January 6th, 2021
is one of those very rare days
in American history that will live in infamy.
It's like December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor.
March 7th, 1965, Bloody Sunday in Selma.
September 11th, 2001, right here in New York.
And of course, January 6th, a day that will live in infamy.
-A violent attack on the US Capitol. -(CROWD CLAMOR)
Incited and encouraged by the twice-impeached president
of the United States of America.
When we fight, we fight like hell.
And if you don't fight like hell,
you're not gonna have a country anymore.
My name is Nia-Malika Henderson
and I'm a senior political reporter at CNN.
What we saw in Michigan with this plot,
that of course was disrupted by the authorities,
this plot to kidnap the governor,
that was in many ways a dry run and certainly a signal
as to a lot of the sentiments
that were simmering in this country.
Ultimately, law enforcement
basically let the folks be in the Capitol--
-SPIKE: With guns! -Yeah, they were armed,
and really there was no force that was used in Michigan either
and the people ultimately left.
But I thought, "If these folks see that they can get away
with that in the state capitols,
then why wouldn't they try that at the US Capitol?"
And that ended up being what happened.
You can't start this story the morning of the 6th,
because what a lot of people aren't telling the story of
was the fact that this was in a context,
that this was bubbling up and that we knew
that something was going to happen on the 6th.
A lot of these insurrectionists,
they didn't just show up on Wednesday,
they showed up on Monday.
And I look around and I see the only protection
around these-- around the Capitol
is just these, like, waist-high aluminum fences,
it's like the ones that they use over here in New York
for the parades. And I was like...
"Something's not right."
Because you so much as say "Black Lives Matter"
on Capitol Hill,
and there's like eight barricades that go up.
And we had gotten a warning, and the plan from Capitol Police
for that next morning, Wednesday,
all members to get there by 9:00 a.m.
Now that's not normal. The electoral college vote
isn't supposed to happen until noon.
So I decide, I'ma get my second COVID vaccine...
(CHUCKLES) ...because I was due for it
'cause I had gotten my first shot in December.
You're supposed to take them three weeks apart.
-That's it. -To understand the attack.
It's important to kind of understand
the layout of the Capitol.
That big dome that people see is right here.
This is where people kind of rushed.
And then there's three congressional office buildings
next to that.
I'm in this building called Cannon,
there's this middle building called Longworth,
and there's this far building called Rayburn.
So, you have to get the shot
at the doctor's office in Rayburn.
My name is Mondaire Jones, and I'm the congressman
from New York's 17th district
covering Westchester and Rockland counties.
The night before January 6th,
I received a phone call from Speaker Pelosi
and she asked me to join her
and other members of the Democratic House Leadership Team
on the house floor on January 6th.
I'm fortunate to be a member
of the Democratic House Leadership Team,
the youngest member.
I'm Congresswoman Ilhan Omar,
and I represent Minnesota's 5th congressional district.
I realized that a huge mob had gathered around the Capitol
-and there was... -(CROWD SHOUTING)
...no visible police presence,
there was no visible National Guard presence.
So I was on the House floor
at the time,
participating in a debate with respect to
the certification of the election of Joe Biden,
and we go in alphabetical order.
And so we were debating Arizona because that was the first state
that the House Republicans, along with Ted Cruz,
rose to object to.
And then the next thing you know,
the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who was at the rostrum,
was immediately taken down
from the rostrum by her security detail.
I had told my entire staff with one exception to stay home
just out of an abundance of caution.
SPIKE: So you knew somethin' might jump off, right?
'Cause we knew something may jump off.
So the only person who was with me
was Wayne Williams, South Shore graduate from Brooklyn,
-I knew he'd be okay. -(SPIKE CHUCKLES)
-Everybody else stayed home. -Boom! Boom! Boom!
On every door in my office.
It was like someone was trying to knock the door down.
I get up and I immediately run over to G,
that's my LD, that's what we call him.
I run over to G and he just looks back at me,
he's about six feet tall, and he just goes,
"Hide. Run and hide."
So I see Jim Clyburn get pulled from the floor.
Now you know something's going on.
Then the Sergeant at Arms interrupts the debate and says,
"The Capitol has been breached.
The protestors are making their way to us."
And that we should look under our seats for gas masks
in the event that tear gas needed to be used.
And that we should prepare to lie down on the ground
in the event of gunfire.
Now, I've seen a lot growing up in Brooklyn in the '80s and '90s
in the middle of the crack cocaine epidemic.
Never have I been asked to secure a gas mask.
At that point, I knew
something different was happening.
Police officer with a bulletproof vest,
submachine gun across his waist, grabs me firmly by the collar.
I'll never forget that feeling.
"Senator, we're in danger. Come with me."
We go out the door of the Senate,
I make a right turn. And there are photos of this,
'cause they showed it in the trial.
I-- you know, I didn't even remember it.
Go through this door walking briskly.
Ten seconds later, we're running out.
I was within 20 feet of these bastards,
20 feet, of these insurrectionist, racist,
horrible human beings who had invaded the Capitol.
I keep hearing these huge banging booms on our door.
And I get into the bathroom when I hear
that whoever was trying to get into my office got in.
And then all of a sudden, I hear, "Where is she?
Where is she?"
I pretty much thought to myself, "This is it."
SPIKE: Thought you were dead?
I thought it was over.
This tall white guy in a black beanie
comes into my actual quarters, my actual office.
I then hear G's voice
and he says,
"Hey, boss." He goes, "Come out. Come out, it's okay."
And I come out
and it's a Capitol Police officer.
At no point said that they were Capitol Police.
At no point said anything, identify themselves, anything.
And so I come out, obviously quite rattled,
and he looks at me and I see anger,
like hostility. And--
But in that moment I'm doubting myself
'cause I'm like, "I just came
from this super high adrenaline situation.
Maybe I'm like projecting something?"
But I was talking to G after what had happened,
he was like, "No, it didn't feel right."
And like, he didn't know if he was gonna have to
to take on this officer,
and we're in the situation where we didn't know
if he was one of the ones that had turned.
Right behind me
was a second-term congressman named Colin Allred,
because he's also a part of the Democratic leadership.
But by profession, he was a civil rights attorney.
But prior to becoming a civil rights attorney,
Colin Allred played linebacker in the NFL
for the Tennessee Titans for five years.
(THUDS)
HAKEEM: He probably about 6'2, 240.
First of all, knowing that Colin was behind me
brought some comfort,
before he even said anything to me.
Because if you ever find yourself in the middle
of a violent insurrection, it's a good look
to have an NFL linebacker sitting behind you.
I walk over to my friend, Colin Allred.
I'm complaining about how ridiculous it is
that we are in this situation.
And he says, "Oh, is this your first coup?"
(LAUGHS)
HAKEEM: He says, "I don't know about you, Hakeem,
-but I'm not going out without a fight." -SPIKE: Mm!
Next thing you know, his jacket starts to come off.
So what am I gonna do? My jacket starts to come off,
and that was just instincts kicking in.
And then to Colin's s left, Sean Patrick Maloney,
who's also from New York, he's about 6'1, 6'2,
his jacket starts to come off.
So I'm like, "Whoa! It's about to be on."
-But what else are we gonna do? -We gotta do battle, right?
Because at this point you hear them banging on the doors.
The capitol security,
and it's only about four or five who are in the chamber,
are massing by the door
immediately next to where we're seated.
One of the members from Arizona
is Ruben Gallego, also had his jacket off.
Now, I knew then
that I was appropriately attired for the moment
because Gallego's a former Marine,
and he was heroic, along with Colin,
because Gallego was the only one who really knew
-how to operate a gas mask. -MONDAIRE JONES: I'm waiting
for him to instruct us on actually
how to put the masks on
'cause I've never put on a gas mask.
I mean, most people haven't, right?
So there was a lot of confusion connected to how to dislodge it.
And in fact, when I dislodged it,
initially, I broke it.
I did not think I would make it out of that chamber alive.
SPIKE: Say that again?
I did not think I would make it out of that chamber alive.
So I, um, sent a text message to my children's father
and said, "If I don't make it out today,
please, you know, tell the children, um,
that I love them."
And I think that was the first time
it sinked in that the day might not end well.
-Uh, and so-- -SPIKE: So you actually thought
-you might not make it? -Yeah.
I mean, I knew, as someone who has experienced
political violence, that things could drastically escalate.
SPIKE: Did you ever think your life was in danger?
(INHALES) I was such in a whirl,
but yes I did.
I was like-- It was too much to think your life's in danger.
Just, you know, "You'd better get out of here,
somethings the matter."
As we didn't know what was getting ready to happen
and we're all kind of standing up looking by the door,
Sergeant in Arms says, "We're gonna evacuate now,
immediately."
It was orderly, nobody ran.
And then we were evacuated out of the Capitol
into a secure location within the complex.
And I just remember the Capitol Hill officers
saying, "Go! Go! Go!"
My name is Stacey Plaskett, and I'm the congresswoman
for the people of the Virgin Islands
of the United States.
The Cannon House office building was evacuated
because there had been a breach there of individuals.
I'm Congressman Ritchie Torres, I represent New York 15
in the Boogie Down Bronx.
I was in the Cannon Building in my office
waiting to vote on the House floor
when all of a sudden, the Capitol Police stormed inside,
telling my staff and me to immediately evacuate.
And since I'm new to the Capitol complex,
I found myself wandering through the maze
of office buildings connected to the Capitol.
Eventually the Capitol Police found me
and brought me to a secure location.
SPIKE: Oh, hold on. Hold on. You were by yourself?
I was separated from my team.
SPIKE: How did you get separated?
It was a scene of panic and pandemonium.
It was reminiscent of 9/11.
About 200 of us were-- were, uh, were posted up with colleagues
from across the political spectrum.
And I'm, you know, and I'm there with Stacey Plaskett
and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware.
And at some point, I'm like, "I'm more afraid
of getting COVID-19 from my Republican colleagues
-who were refusing to wear their masks." -SPIKE: Mm!
Than I am about, you know, dying at the hands
of one of these domestic terrorists."
And of course, a number of my Democratic colleagues
did get COVID.
Bonnie Watson Coleman is in her mid-seventies
and has survived cancer.
At the time. I also didn't know how serious it was.
You know, I didn't know that there were pipe bombs
that were found around the Capitol,
that some people were armed, that they brought gas.
That some of them were part of militias,
they were organized.
(SHOUTING)
And what is so scary is that there is
total lack of information, and so what we're seeing
is just like what we're able to see on TV,
what we're able to catch, you know, on our phones
and Donald Trump was president,
and the National Guard hadn't shown up.
Washington DC, the district that I'm the mayor of,
we do not have a Guard that we control.
The DC National Guard would better be called
the "President's Guard"
because the President of the United States
commands the DC National Guard.
I know how hard those Capitol Police officers
fought for hours,
-hours, hand to hand combat... -(CROWD YELLING)
STACEY PLASKETT: ...but they were not prepared
for what was coming.
And that was a fault higher up than them.
There were 85 Metropolitan Police Department officers
-who were injured and-- -SPIKE: How many?
Eighty-five.
There were many more capitol-- United States Capitol Police
who were injured.
A United States Capitol Police officer
and an MPD officer were lost to suicide
in the days following the events.
(CROWD CHANTING)
-(ALARM BEEPING) -(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
There was lots of warning signs,
but I was not in charge of the Senate then, McConnell was,
so I didn't get those warning signs,
and I don't know what the heck he did with them.
I didn't leave the Capitol Building that night
until 3:30 AM the next morning
because we went back to the floor,
as we were committed to do, to make it clear
that we were not gonna let the insurrectionists
and the seditionists and the domestic terrorists
intimidate Congress from certifying the election
of Joe Biden
and completing our constitutional responsibilities.
Because you'll never take back our country with weakness.
You have to show strength and you have to be strong.
First of all, it was an inside job
because Donald Trump incited it.
So the president of the United States
incited this riot.
And then as these investigations go on,
we're starting to learn about the increased involvement
with members of Congress.
You had members of Congress on the side tweeting out
where the Speaker's location was,
while people were actively storming the Capitol.
Truth and facts are overwhelming that our president,
the president of the United States,
incited a mob to storm the Capitol
to attempt to stop the certification
of a presidential election.
It was important that we laid out the story
so that several generations from now,
people would understand what an attempt
on ending this democratic experience that was.
How one man galvanized the hate, the ignorance,
the frustration of people,
and massed all of that to himself,
for his own purposes,
to attempt to overthrow our government.
I will die for my country! And my family and my friends!
-RALLIER: And they ain't gonna win! -There ain't nothing else!
-RALLIER: They ain't gonna win! -You don't want none of this!
RALLIER: The liberals ain't gonna win!
(CROWD CLAMORING)
(SHOUTING)
We are the storm!
Nothing can stop what is coming. Nothing!
REPORTER: A New York City Department of Sanitation
employee has been charged with taking part in the riot
at the Capitol earlier this month.
According to a federal court filing,
43-year-old Dominic Madden
traveled to Washington on the day of the incident
while on sick leave from work.
The FBI says Madden was seen on video
wearing a QAnon sweatshirt entering and leaving
the Capitol building on January 6th.
He's been suspended by the Department of Sanitation.
Madden is expected to appear virtually
in federal court today in Brooklyn.
SPIKE: What's up with your boyfriend, Ted Cruz?
(BOTH LAUGH)
-What's up with your Ted? -He should be expelled too.
We knew
that the violence that was being planned for the 6th
was predicated on the lie about our elections.
The lie that we knew,
that Republican secretaries of state
had said were a lie,
that all of these states had said were a lie.
And Ted Cruz knowingly walked in that day and delivered the lie.
But I would urge to both sides, perhaps...
a bit less certitude
and a bit more recognition
that we are gathered at a time when democracy is in crisis.
SPIKE: Do you feel secure now, sir?
I feel that we're in a lot better place now.
You know, of course, you've got thousands
of National Guard troops around, more Capitol Police around.
You've got razor wire fencing.
It doesn't feel like the Capitol that I know.
It doesn't feel like the American Capitol.
You feel like you're entering almost into a military barracks.
Tonight, a 25-year-old suspect
and a Capitol Police officer are dead.
Another officer is injured and the city of Washington
is reeling after the second attack here
in just three months.
Investigators are still on the scene after this man,
Noah Green, turned his blue sedan into a weapon.
Ramming into the two officers who were guarding
a security entrance about a hundred yards
from the base of the Capitol.
As we come on the air, President Biden has ordered
flags lowered to half staff
in memory of slain officer Billy Evans.
I remember early on,
Agent Orange then,
campaigning to be president of the United States.
He made a statement.
The people, my people, are so smart.
And you know what else they say about my people?
The polls, they say I have the most loyal people.
Did you ever see that?
Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue
and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters.
-Okay? It's like incredible. -(CROWD LAUGHS)
What the fuck?
What sane person...
would boast about being able to shoot somebody
and still get votes?
And you know what?
That motherfucker was right.
He was right.
I was dead wrong on that.
No pun intended, no pun intended. I was wrong.
And that lets me know that he knew his base.
And no matter what he did...
they will follow him.
And jump starting ahead, many years later,
we saw the proof in the pudding.
January 6th.
In order to understand Donald Trump and his bigotry,
you have to be a New Yorker.
Donald Trump was a outer-borough guy,
come from Queens. His daddy had money,
but they were not the Park Avenue elitists.
They were not accepted by the elite New York.
They were the rejects.
"Yeah, you got money, but you ain't one of us."
So he always had that chip on his shoulder.
And that chip on his shoulder is what he could sell
people in Appalachia and blue-collar workers
in Pennsylvania, that, "I'm one of y'all."
He was not one of them. He was a gawdy bigot
that was playing on them.
But it was that resentment that he could show
for the, quote, "establishment" that never let him in.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -Come on, come on.
-Yeah, you talk to him. -(CLEARS THROAT)
Yes?
Uh, Mr. Grump, we wanna talk to you
about your plans for Sesame Street.
My plans? See for yourself.
-(BEEPS) -♪ (FANFARE PLAYS) ♪
Nobody has done more for the Black community
than Donald Trump, and if you look--
with the exception of Abraham Lincoln,
possible exception,
but the exception of Abraham Lincoln.
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Nobody has done what I've done.
-So exit. Stage left. -♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
What do you think about it, Honest Abe?
What do you think about that? Sounds crazy to me.
How do you turn around and tell me
that you are the best president for Blacks
than possibly Abe Lincoln?
So Roosevelt and Truman,
who desegregated the armed forces,
and Lyndon Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act
and the Voting Rights Act,
all of them were beneath you, who did nothing?
But he is not only not the best president since Abe Lincoln.
He's the worst president since George Washington.
I've known Kamala Harris for 25 years.
I was in San Francisco when she first ran for district attorney.
And people said, "Who is this child?
-(SPIKE CHUCKLES) -This little brown girl
running for office against Terence Hallinan?
Been the DA forever?
The big white district attorney that was feared by everybody?
-She knocked his ass out. -(SPIKE LAUGHS)
VAN JONES: Knocked his ass out.
I mean, it was crazy. Down goes Frazier.
HOWARD COSELL: Down goes Frazier!
Down goes Frazier!
The right wing started just beating her up,
beating her up, beating her up.
You know, she's tough, but I could tell
it was bothering her, all these attacks.
This was when she wasn't a national figure,
she was getting killed by the press in California.
They're spending millions of dollars trying to defame her.
And she was frustrated, and I looked at her and I said,
"Kamala, they have to do this to you.
They've gotta stop you in California.
If they don't stop you in California,
you are gonna be in the White House."
And she looked up, she said, "What?"
I said, "If they don't stop you here,
you will be in the White House." She goes,
"No, that's not what it's about."
-SPIKE: Can I say something? -Mm-hmm.
SPIKE: Is your nickname Negrodamus?
-Negrodamus! (CHUCKLES) -(SPIKE CHUCKLING)
We share the same nickname!
VAN: Exactly! Listen, I'm telling you,
-I be predicting stuff. -The day she was elected...
she called me.
She said, "You know, I just wanted to let you know
two things." I said, "What's that?"
She said, "One, you were out there,
you were the one saying we should have a Black woman
on the ticket vice president. And I appreciate that.
You took me to Sylvia's, and sat me
with all the cameras there where you had done Barack Obama."
She said, "But the real reason I called you
is because of that Black little woman from Brooklyn,
Shirley Chisholm, that you used to work for
when you were a teenager."
-(CROWD APPLAUDS) -She says,
"I finally breaked a chip in that ceiling
that Shirley tried to break through."
-I stand before you today... -(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
...as a candidate for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency of the United States of America.
(APPLAUSE)
AL: When you talked about Shirley Chisholm,
you talked she was not gonna let us down.
I said, "You're not only the first Black woman
to be vice president,
you're the first woman to be vice president.
And the first HBCU, 'cause now every graduate
of an HBCU in the world can stick out their chest
and say, "We produced this woman."
Ivy league women didn't make it to vice president,
-but a sister from Howard U-- -SPIKE: The Mecca.
AL: The Mecca of Black education academia,
is sitting up next to the president of United States.
Nobody could tell our young women what they can't be.
What she achieved in the broader society.
Also, don't forget what she achieved
in the Black community.
To have the whole Divine Nine lined up behind a sister.
All nine Greek letter associations
in the Black community, who are usually beefing
and arguing with each other... (CHUCKLES)
...all line up behind one sister.
To have all the different rivalries
in the different HBCUs, Black colleges or whatever be--
-SPIKE: Morehouse! -VAN: Exactly.
Morehouse versus Howard versus this versus that.
-(CHANTING) -(CHEERING)
All that was put to one side.
And you have alumni of historically Black colleges
and universities line up behind one sister.
The unity that she brought to the Black community
is unprecedented.
Vice President Kamala Harris just represents a new era.
Not only is she a woman of a multicultural background,
she has a modern blended family.
She's also in an interracial relationship.
I mean, there's just so many ways
that Americans can look at her and say,
"Well, that's me and someone like me
has never been at that high a level before."
Black girl magic is back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Michelle Obama got it started.
Vice President Harris is keepin' it going.
Our sister's going to be the next president.
She can be very clearly the next president,
and should be, she's qualified. And--
SPIKE: We'll give Joe four years, then he needs to...
Well-- And I give Joe a lot of credit...
SPIKE: Yeah, yeah.
...for selecting her. It took a lot.
I met with him several times and kept saying, "We need to--
You said you'd put a Black woman on the Supreme Court,
and a woman vice president need to be Black,"
and to his credit he said,
"I'm not gonna patronize you Reverend Al.
I said a woman, I'm gonna let the team decide."
He had put together a committee for that.
And he never patronized, but he finally chose
on the merits. And I'm sure people told him,
"You can't win with a Black woman on the ticket."
So it took courage. He did it.
And I think she's set up to go the one step further.
The United States right now on the verge of 400,000
coronavirus deaths, as the number of cases
explodes over the past-- over the past 24 hours.
Let us shine the lights
in the darkness,
along the sacred pool of reflection,
remember all who we lost.
Tonight we have new video from one of the facilities
coping with the influx of young migrants
along the US-Mexican border.
The access provided by the Biden administration today, Pamela,
was a pool access to a facility run by HHS,
which is different.
It is different than the processing facilities
that you see behind me.
This is step one, here along the border.
This is where the bottleneck is.
And this is where the Biden administration
still has not given us access.
The idea that I'm gonna say,
which I would never do,
"If an unaccompanied child ends up at the border,
we're just gonna let them starve to death
and stay in the other side..."
No previous administrations did that either, except Trump.
I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it.
(INHALES) That's why I've asked
the vice president of the United States yesterday
to be the lead person on dealing with
focusing on the fundamental reasons
why people leave Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador,
in the first place.
(IN SPANISH)
(SOBS)
REPORTER: ABC News has learned there are now over 19,000
migrant children in federal custody,
and the Donna facility recently so crowded
that children were forced to take turns
sleeping on the floor.
The state budget is past due. It had to be in by April first,
but today, that 212-billion-dollar budget is in.
I'm happy and excited and almost, it's unbelievable
to report, that in this last budget,
we got New York State to fully fund--
to phase in 1.4 billion dollars over the next three years.
But an additional 12 billion dollars
from the federal government
is... (IMITATES EXPLOSION) ...mind blowing.
Without this pandemic that...
highlighted for the world to see
all the inequities that Black, brown, and poor children
have been experiencing,
not just in New York State, across the country.
And also, I might add,
the scandal that Governor Cuomo was in.
I don't think if I-- if one of those things was out of tilt,
I honestly don't think we would have brought these dollars home.
And so the next phase of this--
That was the first leg of this marathon.
We in the second one. Really important one.
SPIKE: And what's the second one?
The second one is accountability on how these dollars get spent.
If we are not part of the conversation
around these dollars, history tells us, for decades,
that people will use this money however they see fit.
And I can't stop saying it's gonna be transformational.
And if we do it right, it can be revolutionary.
(SHOUTING)
JOE GUTIERREZ:
GUTIERREZ:
DANIEL CROCKER: Just get out of the car. Get out.
GUTIERREZ:
CARON NAZARIO:
GUTIERREZ:
CARON:
OFFICER 1:
OFFICER 2:
OFFICER 1:
OFFICER 2:
OFFICER 1:
OFFICER 2:
(ENGINE REVVING)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
KIMBERLY POTTER:
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CROWD MUTTERING)
State of Minnesota, county of Hennepin,
district court, 4th judicial district.
State of Minnesota, plaintiff,
versus Derek Michael Chauvin, defendant.
Verdict, count one.
We, the jury in the above-entitled matter
as to count one, unintentional second-degree murder
while committing a felony, find the defendant guilty.
(CHEERS)
JUDGE PETER CAHILL: Third degree murder
perpetrating an eminently dangerous act,
find the defendant guilty.
(SOBBING)
JUDGE CAHILL: Second degree manslaughter,
culpable negligence, creating an unreasonable risk,
find the defendant guilty.
(SOBS)
And we are determined that we're going to fight
until we make federal law.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
-must be law. -(APPLAUSE)
(MUMBLING)
We still got some more work to do, though.
We've got some more work to do, though, right?
It's just a start, it's just a start.
A measure of justice isn't the same as equal justice.
This verdict brings us a step closer.
And the fact is we still have work to do.
We still must reform the system.
(CROWD SHOUTING, CHEERING)
So we can't leave this moment
or look away thinking our work is done.
We have to look at it-- we have to look as we did
for those nine minutes and 29 seconds,
we have to listen.
"I can't breathe. I can't breathe."
Those are George Floyd's last words.
We can't let those words die with him.
We have to keep hearing those words.
We must not turn away. We can't turn away.
We have a chance to begin to change
the trajectory in this country.
(CHANTING) George Floyd! George Floyd!
George Floyd! George Floyd!
-That's right, Daddy changed the world. -Daddy changed the world!
He did what?
-Daddy changed the world. -Daddy changed the world.
What I'm a little concerned about right now,
in terms of, um... (CLEARS THROAT) ...the movement,
uh, this, you know, this kind of new 21st century movement,
extension of the civil rights.
-Where are-- Where's our spiritual guidance? -SPIKE: Mm.
Where is that type of clarity and moral power
that will infect the minds of the young,
the youth and everyone so that we can really
advance this thing in a way that's gonna be
truly progressive. That's what concerns me.
It concerns me about our nation generally
in terms of our spiritual health.
Uh, and I think we've-- you know, there are a couple
different pandemics that we suffer from.
I think there is a virus of selfishness,
of, uh, a virus of obsession with materialism.
I think there's a virus with impatience.
Um, and a certain cynicism that is getting in the way
of the type of progress that we say we want.
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President Joe Biden leading the nation in marking
a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic,
holding a candlelight ceremony at the White House
as the US death toll hits 500,000 dead Americans.
The initial difference, I thought,
between 9/11 and COVID
was that COVID was sort of like 9/11 in slow motion,
with deaths slowly accumulating.
Nine-eleven was an awful, horrific day that really
tilted the world on its axis, changed everything.
We lost nearly 3000 people that day.
Here we were in a COVID crisis
with the deaths slowly accumulating,
but something else was happening.
Because after 9/11, we were driven together.
All of our petty differences in this city,
they vanished in the blink of an eye--
SPIKE: We're all New Yorkers, right?
We were all New Yorkers.
People were comforting each other in the streets,
hugging total strangers.
We became one city united and we started building back.
We really put our minds
and built back bigger and better.
What COVID did was drive us apart,
stay six feet away from everybody.
Put a mask on, don't socialize, go home, leave your job,
stay in your house.
And everything that makes New York City
the vital, exciting place it is, is on hold.
There is a concern of what will we lose?
How will our communities look different after COVID-19,
and who is coming in and profiting during this time
as Black and brown families leave
to the point where, you know, they can't come back
and if they do come back, they won't have
the same communities that they once had before.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
SPIKE:
STAFF MEMBER:
(ALL LAUGHING)
SPIKE:
the fifth day of Black history month, everybody.
-STAFF MEMBER: That's right. -(APPLAUDS)
STAFF MEMBER: Lock it up.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
-Is Brooklyn in the house? -(CROWD CHEERING)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
NURSE: I'm gonna squeeze your arm, so what you're gonna feel,
you can open your eyes, so you're not gonna feel it...
SPIKE: We're dying from this virus
two to three times more
than other populations here in the United States of America.
And I believe in science.
♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
This is sad breaking news to bring you.
The US now has crossed 600,000 coronavirus deaths,
that grim milestone coming more than one year
after the first known COVID death in this country.
That was back on February 6th, 2020.
SPIKE: What hospital were you born in?
-(CHUCKLES) Brooklyn Hospital-- -(CHEERS, APPLAUDS)
It's right down the block.
ANTHONY FAUCI: The old stomping grounds.
A little bit more than a year ago,
when people would ask me, "What's your worst nightmare
as an infectious disease person?"
I have been on the record for literally decades
saying, you know, "A brand-new infection
that jumps from an animal reservoir to a human,
a virus that's respiratory spread
through the respiratory route,
that has two fundamental characteristics,
that it spreads extremely efficiently from human to human,
and that it has the capability
of severe morbidity and mortality."
And for-- There it was. You know, you wake up one day
and all of a sudden, your worst nightmare is reality.
And that's really what's happened over the last year.
But the one point that I think even transcends that
is the state of the country in general,
the degree of divisiveness that we have in the country.
You know, the virus is the common enemy,
not the people in the country.
And yet what has happened is that many things
that should have been pure public health issues
that took on a political connotation.
You know, wearing a mask or not wearing a mask.
That's made it more difficult to contain this outbreak.
All right. Well from one Brooklynite to another,
thank you and, uh, keep up the good fight.
-Thank you. -You too.
Nice speaking with you. Take care.
-SPIKE: Bye-bye. -Bye-bye.
Hi. I'm Michael Jordan. I was born in Brooklyn.
♪ The Ol' Dirty Bastard Brooklyn ♪
SPIKE: From the people's Republic of...
Brooklyn.
-Where else? Brooklyn? -Brooklyn dude now.
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -Yes, Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
Brook-lyn.
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -In Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
-In Brooklyn. -In Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -I was born in Brooklyn.
-In Brooklyn. -Brooklyn!
-Brooklyn. -In Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
No place better than Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, mi gente! Brooklyn!
I'm a hundred percent Brooklyn Boricua.
-Brooklyn. -Yes, in Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
Bed-Stuy do or die.
-The fuck happened to Brooklyn? -Brooklyn!
-Brooklyn. -Brooklyn.
People's Republic of Brooklyn, Bushwick in the house.
Brooklyn. That's how we roll.
♪ Brooklyn Zoo! Brooklyn Zoo! ♪
♪ Shame on you When you step through to ♪
♪ The Ol' Dirty Bastard Brooklyn Zoo ♪
♪ Shame on you, When you step through to ♪
♪ The Ol' Dirty Bastard Brooklyn Zoo ♪
♪ Shame on you When you step through to ♪
♪ The Ol' Dirty Bastard ♪
When you hear "Brooklyn Is In The House,"
it don't matter how big or how small it is,
Brooklyn was the loudest.
SPIKE: Where's Brooklyn at, huh?
Where's Brooklyn at?
SPIKE: Let me ask you a question. When you say,
"where's Brooklyn at" around the world,
-do you get a response? -It don't matter what country.
You probably could go to another motherfucking planet.
And some aliens would be saying...
(BABBLES)
-(SPIKE LAUGHS) -In whatever their alien language is.
If you were saying, "Where Brooklyn at?"
They gon' respond in their language.
♪ Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? ♪
-SPIKE: Martians? -Brooklyn-- Martians--
-Martians from Brooklyn. -SPIKE: Close encounter aliens?
BUSTA RHYMES: Close encounter aliens
would respond if you say, "Where Brooklyn at?"
It don't matter where the venue is,
what country it was,
what geographic landscape it was,
or is, Brooklyn is the present.
I don't even understand how this happens.
Spreading love is the Brooklyn way.
♪ ("YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT" BY RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN PLAYING) ♪
♪ (SINGING) ♪
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES)
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
♪ ("ON THE WATERFRONT" BY LEONARD BERNSTEIN PLAYING) ♪
(CLAMORING)
♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
Don't resist! Don't resist!
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
♪ (MARCHING BAND MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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