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Dorian Hairston’s poems in “Pretend the Ball is Named Jim Crow” should be required reading for everyone, especially those who strive to outlaw the concepts of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

Hes out of here. about your party? >> announcer: this is cnn and that he is now saying, will breaking news. hurd is saying i want to help >> welcome to "the lead." change the republican party to im jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in the politics lead. make it look more like america. a major embarrassment and defeat how is he going to do that? for president trump. that is my big question. what do you do with this party forced to give up his choice for that is becoming more and more the n...

Tonight we have assembled the human twister equivalent of a magic eight ball, only for legal questions. we promise we will not shake them. former u.s. attorneys, thank you again. were just talking in the lightning round about the prospect of the president trying to end muellers investigation by firing the special counsel. aside from the prospects of how exactly the president would have to go about that and who hed have to fire and psych sigo mattic massacre and all that stuff, if robert mueller ...

President trump can pardon michael flynn, he couldnt pardon him from state crimes that he might be exposed to. they could use that for leverage, as well, potentially. >> that brings me to another question i have been wondering about with flynns deal. we got a great question from a viewer named jim who wrote and said why would a defendant agree to a plea deal that flynn did? it doesnt really protect him from much. and i think what jim is getting at there is what is in the plea deal, whats in the ...

Conference room with these prosecutors? does he testify to the grand jury at any point? >> he could. the first thing that happens is a proffer and the proffer can be used for certain things not others. it cant be introduced by the government in a case as an admission or confession by michael flynn. this is what he testified to, ladies and gentlemen and therefore you should convict him of x. it can be used for other things if he testifies inconsistently, they can cross kp-examine him. if im bob m...

>> and cynicism in minneapolis. >> if hillary dont mind it shouldnt be anybody elses business. >> tune into the original series "the 90s". >> finally, president trump says he has a friend named jim who loves paris. who is he? heres jeanne moos. >> president trump got the royal treatment. whether he was wringing the hand of the first lady of france or complimenting her physique. >> youre in good shape. >> or getting chummy with her husband, the president -- somebody was missing. jim. >> a friend ...

Taking a selfie knocks over one piece of art, which topples another and so on and so on. by the time it was all over, three sculptures were permanently damaged. ouch. coming up, the curious case of a guy president trump mentions all the time. his friend jim. who is this jim? does he even exist? jeanne moos is on the case. >> a friend of mine, hes a very, very substantial guy. he loves the city of lights. he used to tell me for years, paris, paris. jim, how is paris doing? i dont go there anymo...

A french reporter brought him up at the joint press conference. >> youve mentioned a friend, jim. we told you that paris is no longer paris. >> thats a beauty. you know what? its going to be just fine. because you have a great president. >> reporter: if jim were imaginary, it wouldnt be the first time that an invisible character entered the political fray. would it? >> what do you mean shut up? >> reporter: clint eastwood wowed the republican convention. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i ...

Jim, who loved visiting paris until he didnt. >> i have a friend, he used to like france, used to. and he was going to france, and i said, how is your trip going? he goes, im not going to france, because france is no longer france. if you look at whats happening in france, its no longer france. friends of mine that used to love to go to paris that longer go anymore. i have a friend every year he goes to paris. i havent seen him in a while. for years, he was telling me, paris, paris. i see him li...

Here. thats absolutely absurd. this is not something that people do. its not something that people in politics do. it is not something that people in business do unless they are unethical or unless they like to break the law. so it is not -- you say, well, he is this person who worked in business and didnt work in politic sos we cant expect him to know that russia is a hostile government that is actually not a friend of the united states and that actually should not be involved in american elect...