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Those polled ploo eed believe tm remains a major problem. 15% said they had been treated unfairly because of their race. >> i didn't know anybody black that hasn't had the experience of being followed around in a store. it's happened to me. had the experience of going into oo restaurant and have waitest pa -- waiters pass you by. a white friend joins and a waiter snaps to it and comes to your table. this is something that happen ts in our dailies lives. we shouldn't have to live with it. we have to get past it. beyond the policy ideas where people are being demonized because they are a certain...

These two men. >> i think there are four levels of issues here and i'm frankly glad in some ways that we are able to have this conversation. the first level is just what dr. johnson did so well in his piece which is about white fear, the police as an extension of that, as an enforcement of that. that is an american problem, not a starbucks problem. >> right. >> the second level is also -- and i think we haven't talked about this enough, what does the white person who doesn't have a stake in denying racism sees this and thinks it's unfair, whether it's the bystanders in the store on the ceo of ...

That she didn't expect them to get arrested. starbucks has -- this is their policy officially, this is the statement we got from starbucks about people being in their stores about purchasing anything. it says with 28,000 stores globally different regions circumstances and cultural norms necessitate different guidelines for stores. all of our philadelphia area company-owned stores have signage which states that bathrooms and the lobby areas are for paying customers only. that wasn't true in florida. i'm just telling you right now. so this is indication, jason, that this was not just a philadelp...

And did it interfere at all with the official investigation of nixon? >> it didn't. i loved hearing the audio of that because it did bring back a lot of memories. but it didn't interfere. we worked very successfully, both with congress and weren't involved in any way in the civil suit. civil suits present some problems now for the trump administration and for cohen because it can lead to discovery depositions, the things they're trying very much to avoid by dropping in the case of cohen, he's dropped at least one lawsuit. but the stormy daniels case isn't going away, and that could lead to dis...

Leadership of the city of new york with the mayor? >> with the mayor, you know, there was several mayors. he had a problem with mayor koch over subsidies the trump tower was trying to get. they were warring. but in general, it was about raising money for the campaigns and, you know, schmoozing and that kind of thing. >> he even allegedly lobbied the city to make sure that he didn't have to add sprinklers above the 50th floor of trump tower. did he have a sense he could muscle city officials around orsome mo or -- >> he had so much influence, don't forget, his father had a lot of influence, and...