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It's real, and it's justified, and it's really happening. >> when you look at the genesis of late night, carson wasn't expected to make statements about whatever horrible event, but that has become the role of the late night host in today's society. >> it's time to get uncomfortable and look at all these things people were too big a wuss to look at. >> as a white man, i can't speak of the deep rooted and justified fear african-americans have when encountered by police, so here is late night writer amber ruffin. >> so once when i was a teenager, i was brand-new to driving, and there is an old w...

Favoritism. >> well, absolutely. but president trump like any corrupt president or any corrupt leader we've seen around the world, he's trying to pacify law enforcement officials and to subdue them to prevent them from pursuing him any further, pursuing his wrongdoing any further. it's something that always happens with corrupt leaders. so you see that's what his effort is here to suggest that christopher wray is currently the fbi director, which he is but sort of suggesting he may not be there for much longer. and look, i think what we have to worry about here is i hope director wray will be ...

Advocate for a moment. not all whistleblower claims rise to the level that they should become known by the public. there are many instances, and i'm not speaking about government, but in corporate america where someone might make a claim, the authorities above might he review you it and say okay, we'll take it. this does not need to go to the next level because we don't actually know what the claim is. >> that is a great point. but having served in the intelligence community, every single year i had to sign a certification form saying if i witnessed any intelligence abuse, it wasn't just an op...

The chairman had a hearing. let's do a subpoena. we'll stand tough. let's just do the timeline real quick. we get through with it and as i had warned this committee, a preemptive subpoena was not a good idea. it chills all the witnesses coming before this committee and will have a detrimental effect to the acting attorney. i'm the minority, who cares? we do it. the acting attorney general office responded. 5:00 the chairman sent a letter saying we know will examine it on a case-by-case basis. the attorney general said we have to be assured you won't issue a subpoena yesterday or today. back an...

More integrity? >> i i believe in aggressive investigation of every white house and president. if it chills the process, that would concern me. if it makes people be more careful, take an extra day, get an extra source without running and gunning and getting stories that have to be retracted or walked back or wrong, that might not be a bad thing. right now this under scores that we're, at least some organizations are a little too quick to go with stories that are not fully tied down. >> eric: that's important. you remember what they always said about journalism. if your mother tells you she lo...