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Check it out. >> some of the people who joined him have been influenced by his work over the years. how do you see his influence? >> he was the pioneer. of the trail blazer. he had a direct impact on chris rock. would there be tracy morgan and chappelle? probably. but were they made easier because he broke through. he was the most famous black comic in the 1990s. and movies and tv. it opened the door for many other comedians of color. >> what was your favorite sketch? >> mr. robinson and i love gum by. years ago he did one about white flight. now he comes back 30 years. the sketch went with th...

Was exposing comedically what is white privilege. not a term we talked about then, knotted even used in the sketch but now you would get it in a second. even in mr. robinson's neighborhood, he talked about white flight using comedy. maybe tonight, maybe tom hanks, a friend of the show, comes back at mister rogers and mr. robinson in the neighborhood. i have no insight but i hope they take on race tonight. we need it more than ever and the sketches about race hold up the test of time since the '80s to today. >> i know you've been talking to your sources over at snl, and rightfully so. eddie mur...

Healthcare. healthcare's a really important issue. but, chuck, democrats been getting the hats handed to them on the issue of healthcare for several years. trump has set a context now w where, you know, you had the reporter on from kentucky talking about kent and boone counties flipping. you have turnout over there sort of 50 miles an hour more voters coming out of there and dem performance improving by almost 10 percentage points. there's something bigger and larger going on especially with suburban, white women that is not about a single issue. >> desoto county. this was the county. we used ...

Selves and say let's do better. >> i don't want to cut you off. i just want to get this because this is the former first lady. watch. >> but unbeknownst to us, we grew up in the period, as i write, called white flight. that as families like ours, upstanding families like ours, you know, who were doing everything we were supposed to do and better, as we moved in, white folks moved out because they were afraid of what our families represented. and i always stop there when i talk about this out in the world because, you know, i want to remind white folks that y'all were running from us. >> so she...

Country today, you see resistance in suburban communities to any project that they think might organize their neighborhood, and that is just -- >> laura: where is that? thee ' 50z '60s, with white flight. 60 minutes did a great job some years ago, the new migration is from major northeastern cities. i'm from connecticut, so hartford, that's where i grew up. the flight out of new england, terrible management of these cities. chicago, people going down south, going to south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, georgia -- they are going to places they think are run better. that's the rare and nar...