harvey weinstein has an oscar. you ll get bad actors, and i don t just mean an actor, but someone who has done something egregious and you have to have a plan. they had no real plan for anything like this. i don t blame them. i ve heard someone say, oh, security should have come out and grabbed them. that s crazy. they would have thought it was a comedy bit. so that can t be part of their plan. but i do think there has to be something in place for, you have to stay within the rules of this organization, or these are the consequences. goongetsd to see you, bill. thank you. we ll see. we ll learn today. before we go, everyone, i quick reminder, join me every morning on my new cnn plus show, 5 things at 7:00 a.m. eastern. sign up at cnnplus.com. we ll get back to our coverage of russia s war on ukraine. that coverage continues on inside politics after this break. s degree in less than a year for under $11k.
approaching the stage will be arrested on the spot because this is dangerous. and we got to present these jokes. and you got to leave your problems at the door. this is all about laughter. so chris rock, personally, he s always going to remember this. this is a stain on him. so that s why i want him to sue will smith. i love will smith, but not today. it is just it is not a good moment. but the good thing about it is we got to turn all this into laughter no matter what. laughter is the greatest production i ve ever seen of the oscars, hour and a half, i never went to the bathroom and then came will and spoiled ever s moment. that is what everyone is going to remember from it. he did apologize to chris rock. not right away, though. he didn t on camera there. i know you re waving your hand. you think it wasn t enough, obviously? apologies don t mean anything. apologies are made by the press for the press. people that do apologies, they don t even write the speech. come on. you go,
i just wanted to say welcome. you must remember that news brief very well. i do. it was one of the worst i ve seen. i remember your career, i said, who wrote this thing? they said, berman. i said, no. one thing i learned about bob iger, he woke up incredibly early, he s retired now. i said what time did you wake up? he said 4:15. i found this out and i found he was the head of abc at that time and i was working with sam donaldson and diane sawyer on a show called primetime, that if you e-mailed him at 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning, you get directly through because none of his assistants were there and you could send an email directly to him and he would answer you back. so you should have done that, john. if you had just emailed, you know, things could could have been very different in your career. i think we also can t let you go we can t let you go without noting you re an accomplished celebrity jeopardy contestant, right? well compared to, but, look, john
life as i wrote a joke last night, i had dinner and i reached for my water and chris flinched. i said, what s wrong with you? it doesn t matter, it is going to be it was an amazing moment and for slapping him and the public, millions, millions of people watched. this is going to hurt. and i think he should sue him. and press charges and go visit him in jail and say thank you. so, i mean, you think look, we know he has a history, right, of of this potentially being triggering for him. and can you tell me why you think this is something, when you say he would live with it forever, can you expand on that? yes. being a comedian, chris is one of us, we have a small fraternity. for someone to approach the stage you have crossed the line when you made your first step toward the stage and you re not invited on stage. that might give precedence for people to come up on open stage with us. so now we got to make an announcement every show, anyone
it hurt me. it hurt my community. it hurt a lot of people. best show, questlove, hurt his own moment there. receiving his first oscar. i feel sorry for him, but it is what it is. and the show must go on. always playing it straight, straight shooting. telling us exactly how you feel. george wallace, we appreciate it. thank you for being with us. this is dr. george wallace, that s the way i see it and that s the way it ought to be. this is cnn. it is great to see you this morning. thank you. always, thank you so much. love you much. love you much. all right, so we do have some brand-new video just in to cnn of this heavy shelling in the city of kharkiv. the governor there says the city was hit 47 times here, just in the last 24 hours. plus, actors mila kunis and ashton kutcher sitting down with cnn plus host chris wallace. what zelenskyy told them directly about how the american people can help.