middle of the president's address. so we'll talk about that also, a new low for diddy, a new concerns for what cassie ventura went through after the video of him assaulting her. will there be any legal accountability? we'll discuss that in this new cdc shut study shows that there's an increase in people drowning especially people of color. the first black woman to make the us olympic swim team now has a mission to teach kids of color to swim marissa correia mcclendon is going to join us coming up in the next hour event just to have a good show. thank you very much. let's get started right now well first of all, black voter turnout influences presidential elections and well, atlanta influences everything president biden seems to recognize that. and this week, we saw a surge in outreach targeted ad buys interviews with black radio stations, a speech at the national museum of african-american history and culture immediate with leaders of the divine nine historically black sororities and fraternities. and today he'll meet with black voters here in atlanta, but he's biggest moment will happen tomorrow at the historically black morehouse college. president biden will deliver the commencement address to more than 400 graduating morehouse men and we've been speaking with some of them and they recognize a presidential visit is an honor but this speech will be his first speech on a college campus since hamas attacked israel on october 7. and israel began its bombardment of gaza as some students wanted the visit to be canceled and some plan to protest if our guest star at commencement is the reason why we have to be so uptight that we would disavow our pledge to you know? >> making the world a better place and not allow people to protest and voice their opinions, then i think that's all the more reason that he shouldn't have been there in the first place in case any of the older gender creations watching this are confused as to why we are here right now. we are tired of the messages well, marking know what represent the feelings of some of the graduating class of 2024. >> but of course not all seniors feel the same way i think those that are posed to him are a little bit more vocal most of my peers in my class is one of peaceful graduation i had of the speech, white house official steven benjamin met with students calvin bell was one of them. >> if you watch the show, you remember that he was on with me and back when we spoke with him when the visit was announced, he who is opposed to it. well, now we sent us this uptick had thinker. >> we are t minus two days from more houses commencement, and i'm truly excited as festivities have already started this weekend, i think that it's important that we feel seen that de and that's what we tried to convey and we hoped that that is addressed, that we've well, we've learned that the president's team has also been in touch with prominent morehouse alumni for help crafting the speech sources involved in the preps tells cnn the speech will highlight triumph over adversity and the lasting impact of peaceful protest now the president of morehouse college tells me that he stands by his decision to invite the president. >> i spoke with dr. david thomas on the campus of morehouse and he was candid about how he will handle any protests during president biden's speech. watch what we won't allow is disruptive behavior that prevents the ceremony or services from proceeding in a manner that those in attendance can partake and enjoy. >> so for example, prolonged shouting down of the president as he is speaking. i have also made a decision that we will also not ask police to take individuals out of commencement in zip ties if faced with the choice i will cease the ceremonies on the spot. if we were to reach that position, we will allow silent, non-disruptive protests i had students ask me about it. what if we turned our backs on the president are turned out chairs? and i said to them i'll be embarrassed, but that's not your problem. you want to walk across the stage in a piece of garment that identifies your moral connection to either side of this conflict. you can do that signs. >> we will look at that sign. >> and if that sign is seen as being hate speech, you cannot bring it in what's the line for you on hate speech, anything that calls for violence against another group or individual genocide. >> the jews, ethnic cleansing for the palestinians in gaza river to the sea river to the sea. >> i don't think that river to the sea would qualify as hate speech as opposed to a political view. >> your decision of not having the graduates taken off campus in zip ties and the image of having black men in cap and gown leaving this campus in police custody. the importance of drawing the line there for you. >> it's a great framework of victor and i have to say, in all honesty i didn't think about it through the lens of what would it look like having black men taken off this campus? i looked at it through the lens of who is more household? college. >> the reason for us to take people out in zip ties would be that we thought that we were exalted above the humanity of those people who are expressing their opinion and don't feel like they can find another avenue. i would rather be the first president to have a fail commencement than to say you are less important than the ceremonies of this institution why not rescind the invitation considering the protests from some on-campus, some students and faculty, i think we need some place in this country that can hold the tensions that threatened to divide us. >> we look around some of the most venerable institutions as of higher education have canceled commencements canceled valedictorian speakers because of their having spoken out and exercise their rights of free beach. so we need some place in this country that can hold the tensions that can say yep, i we don't agree with what's happening in gaza. but that's not going to lead us to cancel someone whose body of work is much bigger than this moment in time that we're in and that can respectfully listened the views on all sides. now, that said i don't think it would be in the president's interests to come here and give a campaign stump speech what do you think would be in his interest best and i think what would be in his interest would be to answer three questions one why did i choose more house to come give this speech to connect to the soul of this place. what it represents in the world too for him to give his vision of the direction that we need to move domestic policy over the course of the next four years so that it creates a more inclusive economy and a more inclusive barman for opportunity. >> and third he needs to speak to the issues of israel hamas and gaza. >> my own view is that we need to be working toward a permanent ceasefire. we need to organize an international coalition of countries both in the middle east and the west two essentially run gaza until we can establish a new government. there have the israelis retreat militarily and we need to be working toward a two-state solution. now, that may not be the president's position but i think the president would do himself well if he made clear right. what his vision is that he's working toward even though he might not be able to do it all in one fell swoop my thanks to president thomas for taking some time to speak with me and to more house for hosting that conversation. cnn political commentator jamal simmons is here with me now he is a more house alumnus, jim, good to see you. first year. i understand that the white house, i'll reporting is at the white house is consulted several morehouse alumni to support the writing of the speech to help craft it birmingham mare randall would fin former homeland security secretary jay johnson, montgomery mayor steven reid were you aedicula junior, also at princeton university. were you consulted on this speech? did you help out? >> i wasn't i wasn't consulted on this peach. i went down to morehouse about a couple of days before steve benjamin went down the school, asked me the alumni association asked me to lead a conversation was about 70 students among nine members of the board. it's kind of a family top. it's off the record so i can't tell you exactly what happened inside, but i will tell you i was i was it's amazed at the thoughtfulness of the students. their concern for both the people in gaza and for antisemitism. so i think we should not get those things can play a complete it and there were some people who are civil rights leaders who are older generation. we're civil rights leaders, wants to talk to them about how they focused on politics when it was their turn. so i the community kate it, some of what i learned. i'm back to the white house, but i was not involved in the speech and it's important context. now, after those conversations, what are you expecting tomorrow yeah i think i don't know what the present is going to write because they didn't tell me exactly how the president was going to go forward, but i'll tell you what. >> i did learn from their and i had a follow-up conversation with some students. i'm after i was down there last weeks, i think the thinking of the board and the alumni and the president is the more engagement we have young people about this, give them a chance to say what they have to say. i give them a chance to speak to people who they may feel are distant and maybe a little bit removed from their day-to-day lives. tell tell their story about what they believe. >> what i detected something very particular. these children, young man, these guys don't know joe biden it's right. we think joe biden has been an office for 40 years and every 50 years and everybody knows joe biden. >> they've been attention for two, four, maybe five years. >> they don't really know joe biden. the things that they would talk about biden were things that you may have heard the 2020 election about the crime bill or his other work but they don't know about his wife and daughter dying and a car crash literally, they don't know about what happened around his son, beau biden dieting. they don't understand the work he did with even thinking about talking about the appointments that he's made historically you didn't know even poor. write that he was the least, he was the porous united states senator him, he got chosen to be vice president. people thought he was rich and that he was just another rich old white guy, frankly, who was trying to leave the country in a way that they didn't necessarily agree with. it was helpful. i think to have a conversation with them. are they understood some of the contours? i'd advise the president, to talk about who he is first, and then talk about what he wants to do for the country. >> it's interesting is that we heard from president thomas there is that he's willing to if if necessary, shut down the commencement, if the president is shouted down, i don't expect that to happen tomorrow. >> i don't expect morehouse men are going to stand up and shout down the president nor will their families come to watch their moment. this is the graduates moment. but if there is silent protest and some of the men stand and turn their back on. the president will it have been worth it? will the president get out of this moment, obviously coming to an hbcu in a swing state. so important. well, this has been the right decision to come to morehouse there will be silent protests. victor, i'm not sure exactly how they will they will shape up. i know there are classes of morehouse men who are choosing not to have the renew neon's this year are choosing not to give money this year is a project that will happen it's important for the president to do it because he's got to engage this community if he wants to be reelected, there's just not a path to the white house for a democratic president that doesn't run through african americans when the 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combs wearing only a towel, assaulting his then-girlfriend, cassie ventura, in a hallway at los angeles hotel in march 2016, a lawsuit filed by ventura in november last year and settled the next day, referenced actions that seem to match those seen in this video. there is no audio according to the complaint, comes became extremely intoxicated and punched ms ventura in the face, giving her a black eye, which according to the lawsuit, prompted ventura to try and leave the hotel room. the surveillance video obtained by cnn begins as she enters the hallway. the complaint says, as she exited, mr. combs awoke and began screaming at ms ventura. he followed her into the hallway of the hotel while yelling at her. >> the complaint goes on to say he grabbed her and then took glass vases in the hallway and threw them at her in the surveillance video comes can be seen grabbing ventura and throwing her to the ground as ventura lies on the ground, combs, then kicks her twice and attempts to drag her on the floor back to the hotel room. >> ventura is seen picking up a hotel phone. comb seems to walk back to the hotel room, then returns and appears to shove her in a corner. moments later, he can then be seen throwing an object in her direction, according to ventura's now settled lawsuit, the pair began dating several years after they met in 2005. they parted ways in 2019 combs attorney said the decision to settle was in no way an admission of wrongdoing. ventura declined to comment on the video, but her attorney told cnn the gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of mr. combs words cannot express the courage and fortitude that ms ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light. the video hasn't been seen publicly before and comes on the heels of a series of civil lawsuits alleging combs involvement in sex trafficking and sexual abuse allegations that combs has repeatedly denied authorities searched combs homes in los angeles and miami and march, as part of an ongoing federal investigation carried out by a team and that specializes in human trafficking crimes. in a december 2023 statement, combs responded to the claims in some of the lawsuits saying sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday. let me be absolutely clear. i did not do any of the awful things being alleged clearly, very disturbing footage and violent actions that we are seeing coming from diddy who up until this point has denied many of these allegations from all these lawsuits that he is facing aside from this lawsuit from casie, what she settled back in november 2023, he is facing five separate lawsuits and he has been fighting back through his lawyers. in fact, just last week, we reported on emotion that he filed to dismiss a lawsuit from a jane doe. that claims she was 17 years old, a minor at the time of her allegations in just a few days before that, he filed a motion to dismiss a portion of an entirely different claim. it'll be interesting to see now how this may impact all that diddy is facing but we have yet to hear directly from him elizabeth wagmeister. thank you so much a lot to talk about here. plenty of questions. could there be criminal charges? how does it impact the other lawsuits? and why are we seeing this eight years later? answers from an expert? okay? >> let's try this again. what do you see my first step is ship in houston second championship. >> charles not winning a championship. getty, let's try and stay positive or positive. he didn't win a ring oh, my god engineered to minimize noise? and built for adventure which can also be your own quiet kanban in the woods the fully electric qe i'm trying an electric vehicle that recharges. >> you how we get there matters the all new temper p-adic adapt mattress was designed to help me aches and pains. >> a thing of the past because only temper material eases your pressure points in a way, no other mattress can 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then we'll get to some of the entertainment elevates as well. thank you first for coming. thank you for having me. >> there were questions. initially when this lawsuit was filed by kasey, why was it? settled so quickly within a day? this is the answer to that. this is absolutely the answer to that. that was the fastest settlement in history. and i think this was predicated on the fact because he knew this was true and he knew that the allegations were true. but what i think is that he did not think that she had the guts and the gumption to file excuse me, such a lawsuit such that because it was so graphics, so explicit that and so horrific that who thought that she would have actually had filed that and i think he hedged to bet against himself and he lost 2016 is when this happened. eight years later, we're seeing the video how does something like that? not go public before. now allegedly, he paid $50,000 for the video from the internet. >> intercontinental hotel. >> but how that stay private? they paid the money and one of the things that has been said is diddy has had a history of paying people off. they said that he has all of la the police, the a lot of the detectives, a lot of the da's on his side because he is such a powerful but was such a powerful individual. and he is allegedly pay people off like this before. so you see something like this happen. you know, it's embarrassing, you know, this could be the interview. so here's 50,000 take it in, let's just make this goal the way up my criminal charges here potentially know the statute, not for this particular thing because the statute of limitations sadly, has run but there will this will be used in other allegations and other lawsuits that have been filed against him as part of the settlement. and let's get to those other lawsuits as part of the settlement. would there have typically been some clause that says that cassie could not testify against him, could not bring any claims against him related to anything of their personal interaction. >> once you do a settlement is generally a full and final settlement. it also has a confidentiality clause in an and not generally non disparagement clause when you cannot say anything, what she has not that's why her lawyer has spoken. however, if you are a subpoenaed in a lawsuit, they're one of the other lawsuits the lawsuit from the fed's or any of the other lawsuits? absolutely. that's why she hasn't said anything yet because she does have a settlement agreement with an enforceable confidentiality clause in there you know what's interesting is that the intercontinental took that $50,000, they shared it and there was no that we know, of call to police report of it. >> again, we're seeing eight years later. i'm surprised that they would have risked the brand image damage that they took a payment to sell this video. >> i am with you 100% and this is the this is such a mind-boggling issue why did they do this? what happened? why are you risking your brand for this, for $50,000 from a rap mogul. >> why do it if that's true, i mean, that's, that's alleged exactly what apparently. >> i mean, we don't know if it's true but it's alleged and all of it seems to add up. yeah. right. because this alleged this came out. i'm sure because this was subpoenaed and when you are subpoenaed, the tapes, it was alleged in the lawsuit that this had happened at the intercontinental and that he had paid the $50,000 you work in entertainment law. so let's talk about that. a tertiary issue, admittedly, considering what we've seen, i was getting texas that video was airing and they were saying, oh, it's a radford did that's over. i mean, a lot of his relationships related to revolt media and ciroc and all that have already been severed but who plays his music? who books him anymore? that's it for i think he's a persona non grata like r. kelly at this point. it's unfortunate, but things that are done in the light to dark will eventually come to light. 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to directly serve raymond pierces, the president and ceo of the southern education foundation. and he's on the advisory board of brown's promise, re mi good to see you this morning. let's start here by just a reality check. i've over the last seven years how persistent these racial lines, although not legally have have kept schools segregated across this country. what do we need to know? >> well, they haven't been persistent vector now on the head and i think the historical context is very informative here. people should understand it. half the nation's public education system and the majority of education systems that were put together for african-americans were built after the civil war in a large part as part of the freedmen's bureau. if you know that that history and allow large part of philanthropy participated in that. >> but during the reconstruction period when black folks were elected to office and major numbers enlarged numbers in louisiana, the carolinas and georgia the one thing they wanted are people want it was education the taxpayer paid education and so was black folks during reconstruction with poor whites and some northerners and move from the north down to the south, who are building the legislation for public education. and this issue as to whether or not the public education or mass education, as they call it back then, i would be segregated or not was a big issued back then? this is 18661867 many states like arkansas, mississippi were silent on the issue. many states that okay. it will be open to everyone. but when reconstruction ended in, you know, that history, their the federal truce of quote out segregation, just settle back in to our public system of education and we've been battling it ever since. so that is the infrastructure has never been a time since the formation of public education, even in the north idea the forces for segregation have not existed. what's interesting is that as we talk about segregation often we speak specifically about racial segregation, but brown's pump promise also highlights income segregation. and how does that impact the way that students are taught, the way that schools are funded? i mean, right now, how we zone schools, you go to your neighborhood schools and potentially your, your classmates are at the same socioeconomic level, but talk about income segregation, which i don't think we, we focus on it income segregation is critical to this because victor income determines funding for public education. most public education locally as funded by property taxes and if you're income is larger and you live in community you're paying more taxes. and so more taxes are going to your neighborhood schools whereas the people across the track, we have lower-income, their personal property taxes can only afford so much in terms of the resources for public education, which is why the browns promise project at the southern education foundation is is a wonderful way of reanalyzing not just district leinz, but how these public schools are being funded. and the income inequalities that cause disparities yeah and i've read the call to action that came out because of the 70th anniversary of brown v. >> board. and there's a line that stood out to me that said diversity is not the same as integration. just because you have a longer list of different nationalities and races and religions that are school. it doesn't mean there's full integration. so what do people at home who care about this? what can they do to get their school? >> toward integration and not just diversity i'd also say desegregation is not the same as integration. and of course, integration is not the same as diversity. but i think on the local front, parents and concerned citizens who pay taxes and who live in communities that have schools children who are being educated in those schools should be engaged in the governance of this goes to their school boards and be mindful of the funding formulas how look at the disparities, the disparities are there. you can look across one school district to another and c1 has immensely more funding for more teachers, more resources, more science equipment. and that puts other students that have severe disadvantage so i ask you a question, people need to get involved and not involved in terms just divisiveness in terms of what we see so much over it now. >> but how do we create a more equitable school system? >> some polls and surveys done by the browns promise project, which is one by two very strong attorneys shows that most americans actually very favorable to integrate a school systems, but just being favorable, as we know, that's not enough. you gotta get in and active, ready peers there with the board of brown's promise. i thank you so much for the insight and the context cnn's race inequality team put together a deep dive on the legacy of brown v. board. check it out now and cnn.com so the cdc says that drowning deaths are on the rise, especially 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communities we're still trying to do as much as we can really, really need to bring the conversation about water safety to our communities. >> and that's essentially what i'm doing right eye in 2004 when i made the olympic team, i was the first black female to make the us olympic 17. and ever since then has been my mission to continue to bring that conversation to the community. i don't think black people really talk about how much we need to know how to swim and learn how to swim when you hear those statistics, it's it's, it's unfortunately very, very alarming, so we really have to do something about that. i get the opportunity to work with usa programs like usa swimming and sigma gamma rose already incorporated. we have our partnerships so 1922 where we are actually addressing that issue we're going into our communities teaching are not just our children, how to swim, but also just families in general. you think about the summer heading. we're heading into the summer and everybody's like, okay, what what can we do as high outside, let's jump in the pool. but first and foremost, we've got to make sure they're safe in and around the water. >> yeah, of course. there's cultural context here. is that for solar along, during the period of segregation that the public pools were segregated. the beaches, many were segregated. and then upon desegregation, a lot of the pools, public pools that were available in black communities were underfunded or defunded. a lot of public schools in for the communities don't have swim teams, don't have pools and then we went through the pandemic where with so many industries that weren't a lot of lifeguards or coaches available. so we saw some numbers increase i wonder though for teaching communities of color to swim are there such things as culturally conscious swim classes or is it like a driving course like this is the way you drive. this is what all the things are in the car. let's go now, you know, i always say swimming, it's not a one shoe fits. all right. it's like with a lot of different situations really have to take the time to understand why somebody is here, hold the water, and why they haven't started swimming and kind of talk through that situation so i always tell people take some lessons and learn how to swim at your own pace. so if you have a coach that's really pushing you and you're just really, really uncomfortable. take a step back, go find somebody else that can actually really take the time to walk you through what it means to learn how to swim because the hardest part is especially as an adult, you're almost fearful hello, water already it's even harder to learn how to swim. so you really have to have that patients really have to take a moment to celebrate even the little lins i would say, i've had some clinics where i've had women come in with me and they're just like i'm never going to get in the water. i had 80 years old. i don't want to do this i literally sit on the pool with them and have 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