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Underdog, for people of color, especially the lbgd community. abc was not going to air our episode. she went with me to tom arnold and said if you dont air it, ill go to hbo and put this episode on. >> calling black women, stan, apes, would she ever use that kind of language on set? >> i never heard anything like that. thats why its shocking for so many people and even people that are in the writers room or were supposed to be today but no longer have jobs. >> do you think abc was playing with f...

Rice, who is also african-american. so they knew what they were getting into. that said, they stopped it immediately and, you know, weve heard people talking now, well, a lot of people lost their jobs. could they bring back the show without r? >> send her on or off to rehab? >> right. and call it the connors and have john goodman, the fabulous star. >> is that a possibility? >> i spoke to several people and i said what are the odds? and the answer i got was zero. look, in television, anything ca...

An apology from about abc, probably all of his grievances about fake news reports in effect that he did not like. >> please equating roseannes racism to what has been said about him. >> correct. roseanne retweeted the presidents tweet. so she was happy to have his support. i think even more important is what he didnt say. he did not condemn what she had said. >> right, right. what about this whole ambien defense? the makers of ambien throwing a little shade. what are they saying? >> ambien does ...

Went on the air and said that. ambien does cause side effects. the most common one is i think people get hungry from it and sometimes they get up in the middle of the night and eat. and theres been coverage of different things that happen. but racism, this is, again, not something caused by that. >> what about your interview with her before? so many people are saying when this all broke yesterday, good on abc for doing the right thing on saying no to all the money that they would have gotten, th...

But, gee, he never called me to apologize for the horrible statements made and said about me on abc. maybe i just didnt get the call? as for roseanne, she is now blaming the insomnia drug ambien for her racist tweets, which ultimately cost her and her staff of her abc show their jobs. so lets start with our cnn special correspondent, who i realize at some point in your past youve interviewed roseanne herself. but just beginning with the presidents tweet, where he makes it about himself. >> i thi...

Barriers. its another indication the president projecting on to us, he wants to call us fake news but he is spreading fake news. this is what happens all the time covering the president. hell call us fake news and then spread fake news of his own. >> just go back to that. ♪ dont know much about history ♪ >> she may be cancelled but shes anything but quiet. roseanne with brand new comments about her racist tweets and a brand new defense. stand by. with a level of protection in down markets. s...

Wrote in a second. do you agree that abc made the right decision? >> i think theres some opportunity to possibly go back to the show. theres a knee-jerk reaction sometimes to just push everybody away and under the rug. but to me then well be back here in 15 years being shocked that theres still racism. i think its important to have the dialogue. what was so great about the show is that we were able to talk about so many issues on that show, including like the episode that i wrote, which is a les...

Took her phone away or any family members helped her out. its very upsetting by so many people. >> tell me about your t-shirt with the number 13 and how this relates to roseanne. >> usually on tv shows you have a staff of writers maybe 10, 11. she brought in a lot of her standup comic friends, her and tom arnold and we had 21 writers on our show. the very first day of filming they had all all line up and they printed t-shirts with numbers because they were so known for firing people is that they...