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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 president s tweet, where he makes it about himself. I think he felt left out. You know, weve been talking about roseanne for 24 hours now. Donald trump had to...

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 don't air it, i'll 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. that's why it's shocking for so many people and even people that are in the writer's room or were supposed to be today but no longer have jobs. >> do you think abc was playing with fire at all? because it's not like these conspiracy theories that she's been tweeting about happ...

Rice, who is also african-american. so they knew what they were getting into. that said, they stopped it immediately and, you know, we've 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 can change, maybe some time will go by and they rethink it, but right now i'm told it's not in the ca...

On set. >> so that was her m.o., firing people? >> and she, again, probably thought it was funny. but that was not funny. her joke about valerie is not funny and we cannot accept that and we have to discuss why she would even think in this world today that something like that would be humorous because it's not. >> well, stan, you know who else is famous for firing people, donald j. trump, the president of the united states. two months ago when the first episode came out and was so extraordinarily successful, he took credit for it. a lot of folks in this country actually give abc credit for tel...

And for what she said. and she's kind of been all over the map with it between yesterday and today and who knows in the next following days. i wish there was some creative way that she could step aside, give her profits to the naacp and let the actors, which there are so many talented people on the show could keep working and still tell the stories of middle america and people that are suffering and wanting to work day to day and having to look through the couch for loose change just to get by. >> last question 0 to 10, what are the chances she gives all of her money to the naacp, stan? >> i'm...