believed that entertainers should first entertain and keep their politics separate from their art. but i cannot remember any artist on the left who was treated with the same vitriol and hatred as kanye west has been subjected to since he announced his support for the president. when katy perry or miley cyrus were headlining hillary clinton, i don t remember anyone at msnbc or cnn criticizing them for lacking policy experiences. when hillary clinton sat down with and mary jay obliged. [singing] it ain t no secret, no secret my friend, you can get killed for living in your american skin laura: is like an old coffee commercial from the 70s
clooney or jay and bay. whoever it was, they did celebrity send-off for the president. that something like the grammy awards. let me interject really quickly. here s what i m saying. i want gianna to have his chance but allow me to respond. if you look back from eisenhowe eisenhower, ronald reagan, two presidents kennedy and president bush, they had black advisors and latino advisors. his omarosa another celebrity? his expert in terms of dealing with race and civil rights issues? for you it s now the numbers inside. no, it s about people that have established relationships to the black community. laura: we got to get her in. when they saw what he did for
no duties. no guard duty. no kitchen police. this is what we filled out. they ask you about your criminal background. they ask you if you drank and ask you about your parents and they ask you about your brother and your sisters. silly questions like did you like your mother better than you did your father. i took the test and got chosen and you got a couple of days off at home and reported to edgewood for two months. when you got chosen, were you excited? yes, i was glad to go. it was like a plum assignment. you would get all of the weekends off and the idea was they would test new army field jackets, clothing. weapons. things of that nature but no mention of any drugs or chemicals. in the beginning that s what we were told we would be doing, testing equipment, not testing drugs. reporter: but edgewood arsenal was testing drugs. beginning in 1955. this is edgewood arsenal. the united states army s chemical commodity center. this was the cold war and the united
we have to watch these things very, very carefully. temperatures around the area have been soaring, up to near 100 degrees. that is going to be coming down as these showers continue to move on through. as you were seeing, this is the worst of the storm here headed out towards annapolis and the western side of the chesapeake bay so be on the lookout for that. we have had reports of trees down out towards shenandoah county and blue ridge. trees down. we could also have power outages across the area. not looking for widespread power outages, but nonetheless each one of these storms have to be taken very, very seriously. if you have any pictures send them in. back in to you, vj. thanks a lot, chuck. our temperatures really coming down. now 81 in gaithersburg, maryland. still 96 to 100 d.c. but a lot of areas dropping into the mid-80s by later this evening. our storm chances stick around until 9:00 p.m. we ll have more coming up. chuck mentioned those trees down. we re already g
the military they committed to serve. the pentagon s battle to do something about it. revealing investigations, fascinating characters, stories with impact. this is cnn presents with tonight s host, drew griffin. tonight, a special look at some of the men and women who have served our country. opening investigations into the unbelievable injustices done to them. we begin with the startling story how u.s. soldierings were used as human guinea pigs. during the cold war the military embarked on a top secret program to test chemical and biologic weapons. the researchers used animals. believe it north, they also used humans, volunteers from the army who had no idea what they were signing up for. nearly half a century later, some of these human guinea pigs are emerging from the shadows with disturbing stories what the military did to them then and how they re being treated now. dr. sanjay gupta investigates. i enlisted. joined at 18 years of age. it was the height of the vi