A recap of the days news. Hello. This is Ron Stallworth calling. Who am i speaking with . David duke. Grand wizard of the ku klux klan, that david duke . Last time i checked. What can i do for you . Well, since you hate plans, i hate to allow you to go down and anyone else who Doesnt Have Pure White Arianne blood. Talking about pure white american. God bless america. Lets talk about it. I dont want to give way to the ending. This is true. Yes. People are sitting in the theater like, ah, i cant believe this necessarily happened. Im like, yes, this is nearly happening and still happening today so i hope this film to
which wakeup, not all of them, going back to school days came out in 88. Theres a lot of time but not for american. I dont know when it will be and also like that that whats happened the last 18 months, a few registered the vote. Midterm election. I dmoent whats going to make you want to vote. This is evidence what happens when you dont show up. I know theres others. I know theres shenanigans going on. When you listen to the rhetoric of the politicians and the people and i remember listen, i remember one of my friends, i went to pick him up at his restaurant, i was going
out and some of the instances that happened. He goes, just somebody who works for us. He didnt realize that word gets thrown around. That i was there but this was 1987, 86. It jolted me. People waking up for me. I think this movie, im sure youre hoping its going to be the same weight for some people. You put your stuff out there and you hope that people connect to it. In my case, ive had several films where people dont get it when you come out but you know they get it coming down the line. Better late than never. Do you think that do you think we can come back from this . Looks like. Yeah, we will. Do you think hes a raszist . Yes. Mexicans are racists. Ensliek cloe paid yeah if you do the research, the whole thing with the brothers in central park, we took out a full page ad, 1 million reward. And then this attack on african thing but her brother plays seabiscuits. Its Big Trying To Pit Lebron against jordan. That didnt work. That was divide and conquer stuff. And youre in the middle of that. He was trying to insult lebron but he started with me. Lebron doesnt do that. I thought, maybe i shouldnt respond. After i went to bed, i slept on it and i said, yeah, i should respond. This is important. Its important that people see. This is not about republican versus democrat, this is about right versus decency. Love versus hate. Thats what it is. Do you remember the movie called bamboozle. Thats one to see when it came out. I love that movie. And i always tell people, dont fall from the okeydoke. Explain what the okeydoke is . The okeydoke is it keeps your eye where it should be. Distraction. In football its misdirection. Fake. Teams high stepping towards the end zone. Any time this guy in the white house gets in trouble, theres some tweet that goes out and everybody Vam Scrambling around. Youve got to ignore that. Weve got to be smarter because, again, another sports, hes running the same play all the time. Any sport, hes running the same play all the time, you stay on top of it. Youve at least got to know its coming. Hes not even trying to be slick about it. Did you ever think im sure youll agree that this country hasnt dealt with racism in a substantive way. Its difficult to talk about, right . Well, whats easy . We dont talk about it. Were still going to be talking about cnn will have me 50 years on racism. What about people who say, you have to get over it . You guys just have to move on . Youre race baiting. Why do you keep holding on . You cant move on until you answer what was the United States built on . What is the foundation of the United States . To me as a fact United States is built upon genocide of native people and slavery. Thats a fact. We dont start from there, then why you talking. What do you say when people call you a race hater . That is the oldest trick. They did that with everybody down the line. Dr. King was a communist. Everythings pretty much done. 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You dont know what the alt right, what the plans are, what all the intentions are so you just have to kind of flow with it. We have a Large Population of people who refuse to let that kind of, you know, hate into our community and just sit at home. So its always, you know, the fear associated with that kind of clash which is what happened, you know, last year, on the 11th and 12th so theres a lot of fear. Can you talk to me about the Prevention Efforts there, whats being done so theres not a repeat . Well, our teams have been working together. The charlottesville police, state level, university of virginia. I can say, i mean, i guess i need to go back a little bit and talk about how i ended up here. I announced last march on a campaign, unmasking the illusion, and im going back a little bit to tell you that im left out of the room on a lot of stuff because i come from an Activist Perspective so its really hard for them theyre still trying to figure out how to blend me in. So theres a lot of information that i that i dont have. Youre the mayor. How do you get left out . You mean Law Enforcement, they dont want you in the room . Thats virginia. Our Government Structure is yes, if they make anything a security issue, and if someone is perceived to be a threat to that security, which i definitely am perceived that way, then, you know, its an issue. But what the hells going on . Youre youre the mayor. Youre the mayor. Listen, im being honest here. Listen. Thats one of the things why
they dont let me in the room. We love that youre being honest. Because im going to share it. So what i do know is that our you know, the teams, they feel like that they are working together. That they are more prepared than they were last year. Which, you know, i was out on the streets last year with, you know, with the citizens and so they i need to see them in action before i before i believe. Let me ask you something, spike, and mayor, i want you to respond to this. The New York Times called this movie an Alarm Clock Ringing in the midst of a historical nightmare. Do americans need to wake up . Ive been saying that the last two words of my film, school daze, came out in 88, is wake up. The first two words of do the right thing, 89, was wake up. I think four people say wake up
in black klansmen. I will continue to ring that bell because seems like were asleep and unconscious and not living the moment, just fairytale land. Mayor, does america need to wake up . Are we in the midst of a historical nightmare . Well, i think we have to be intentional about what i want for a lot of people, america works, right, and for those individuals even here in charlottesville, they have their privilege. White supremacy is working for them so they really dont want a challenge. Over the last year, theres been a lot of calls to return to normal, and when you challenge people when youre talking about normal, they have very comfortable lives. There are people who are concerned about this weekend, whether or not theyll be able to walk their dogs and go to the Grocery Store and the spa as scheduled. So thats what were dealing with. I dont necessarily, you know, know whether theyre asleep or
not or if the system thats been created is working for them. So thats the challenge. To get more people in the room who even if theyve been able to benefit from that privilege, they dont necessarily want it to continue. And theyre willing to fight for equity and justice, which a lot of people want to pretend that its unknown to them, but they i think they are aware. Its hard for me to believe. I worked, you know, in the settings, and you see just the challenge becomes whether i want to let go of what i know to be true, whether i want to, you know, acknowledge that maybe ive been told some lies. Which thats the fight over the statues. Its not just the statues. Can we talk about that . Its the symbolism of it. What is the status of this robert e. Lee memorial . The statue . The statue im trying to find the word. Yeah. Whats the plan when is it coming down . Im not saying it to put you on the spot. I want to know. No. Thats it. We, virginia is a Dillon Rule State which means a lot of our laws, we have to get approved and changed through the general assembly, so thats one Thing Holding us back. I think even more importantly than that, we have a judge, judge moore, in our Circuit Court who is hearing the case and has been, you know, the deciding factor, whos working more intently to uphold and keep the statue than working to bend that arc of justice toward removal of the statue. Listen, i am happy to have both of you on. You keep up the good fight, mayor. Thank you. We wish you safety and peace as blessings for this weekend in charlottesville. And spike lee, thank you. Thank you. This movie, i hope everyone goes to see this movie, the movie is called blackkklansman. If you have any time, even if you dont, go see it. Thank you. Thank you. Well be right back. With the midterms rapidly approaching, President Trumps lawyer says he wants the special counsels investigation to wrap up by september. I think if it isnt over by september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the Justice Department rules that you shouldnt be conducting one of these investigations in the 60day period. So, i want to bring in now cnn legal analyst Renato Mariotti and glenn kirschner, also a former federal prosecutor. Gentlemen, good evening. Its good to have you on right now. Heres what i want to know. Renato, Rudy Giuliani seems to think the doj guidelines are applicable in this situation. What exactly are these Justice Department guidelines . Well, the guideline that he is hes talking about, he just conjured out of thin air or out of somewhere else. But the guideline that he may be thinking of is there is a guideline about not taking
certain actions before an election, a guideline discussed at length in relation to the actions of james comey before the last president ial election. But theres no guideline, Justice Department guideline that says you have to shut down your investigation if an election happens to be coming soon. Regardless of who you are investigating. Imagine how silly that would be if a crime was discovered and the investigation was began, lets say, six months before an election, the Justice Department would have to complete the investigation in a few months or shut it down. I mean, that doesnt make any sense. So theres no such guideline and its really highly misleading to the public. What do you think, glenn . Is this deliberately confusing rules and guidelines by giuliani . Yeah, i think, don, i agree with renato, there is no guideline, theres no Policy Written or otherwise. Theres a custom and the custom is we as im a former federal
prosecutor. But prosecutors are not supposed to do anything that could impact an election. So in practice, what that means is, you know, do not make any big announcements or do anything dramatic that might sway an election one way or another. But theres no 60day guideline. What i can tell you is bob mueller will be operating on his own guideline, not any sort of Strongman Guidelines that Rudy Giuliani sets up just to knock down. So renato, giuliani told cnn today that this investigation could end up being a rallying cry for the president s base during the midterms. What do you make of this apparent newfound strategy . Well, i will say they have tried to turn this investigation into a positive by casting it as the deep state out to get the president. And theyve been doing that for months now. You know, the, donald trump is talking about the fbi is this organization that is hellbent to
take him down. He tweeted about that again today. Its amazing when you step back and think of it. We have a president under criminal investigation. His former Campaign Chair is in the middle of a trial likely going to be convicted. And yet this is being spun by the president and his team as, you know, an attack against him. He has a new enemy to take on now that president obama is retired. Hes got somebody to attack. That is his own Justice Department and fbi. Really astounding and hurts america. Perhaps it will help them rally their base in the election. Glenn, when it comes to the issue of trump sitting down with mueller, some legal minds are debating, something you and i discussed, the issue of a subpoena for an interview wont be an issue here. The president could have shifted from subject to target in this investigation. Does this protracted investigation and talk of a timeline change your assessment of that in any way . Yeah, i think, don, the more
time that passes without bob mueller opting to subpoena the president , the more likely it becomes that hes declining to do so because the president ripened into a target. He also hasnt subpoenaed roger stone or donald junior, jared kushner. All of these men may very well have become targets of the investigation. So we dont know that for certain, but because we have a policy at the department of justice against subpoenaing a target, because a subpoena is a court order, commanding somebody to come before the grand jury and testify truthfully. Well, a target of an investigation by definition is somebody that the prosecutors, one, have substantial evidence against, and two, intend to indict. Thats why we dont give them a subpoena and command them to
testify because they would be incriminating themselves. I really do think the more time passes, the more likely it is that the president and others are targets of the investigation. Fascinating. Renato, i want to switch gears now and talk about Paul Manaforts trial. Its a remarkable, the situation in the courtroom, the judge apologizing to jurors for his scolding of the prosecutions handling of an expert witness. I mean, it seems unusual to me, but how unusual is it to have a judge apologize to a jury . You know, it happens from time to time. I will say, look, im not going to defend the actions and words of this judge. Hes obviously made some errors. Hes done things that are improper. However, i will tell viewers at home that as somebody whos tried a lot of whitecollar cases, myself, there are judges who make mistakes on a pretty regular basis. There are judges with strong opinions like this judge. And there are many judges who try to get the prosecution to move along. I had those judges, myself. What i will say is that, you know, a lot of the focus on the judges words and actions is
misplaced. You know, really theres a lot of evidence in this trial. The prosecution has a big lead. The defense is in a lot of trouble. The judge knows this and frankly a lot of times when hes bending over backwards to help the defense hes trying to help the record on appeal because he knows theres almost certainly going to be a conviction here of Paul Manafort and he knows theres going be an appeal later on. So i think on balance, this judge has actually been good for the prosecution because hes kept tight control over the courtroom. The defense usually likes a judge who lets there be free rein to make it a circus. Glenn, i want to ask you, this is cnns legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin with strong words for judge ellis behavior. Take a look. Judge ellis is a bully and a disgrace. His behavior in the courtroom is appalling. There are many ways that judges can keep a disciplined courtroom that can move cases along quickly without berating and embarrassing the lawyers,
especially when the judge was wrong. Glenn, what do you think . Do you agree with toobins criticism. I dont know if i would use words quite that harsh. I would say judge ellis seems to have a pretty severe case of blackrobeitis believing he knows better than anybody in the courtroom how each job should be done when he needs it be a referee, keep his thumb off the scales and try to set a civil tone because for me, civility is one of the most important qualities in a judge and were not seeing a lot of civility from judge ellis. Thank you, gentlemen, i appreciate it. We we come back, the president s inlaws becoming citizens today. Why a Policy Option the president has been railing about helped them get their citizenship. When i received the diagnoses,
getting rid of family migration, or as President Trump derisively calls it, Chain Migration, has been one of his Top Priorities since taking office. We want to get rid of Chain Migration. We will get rid of Chain Migration and the visa lot