went to shows and would go backstage and see her. 2008, she called me up and says i want you to come out on the road with me and put my singers together for me, you know, the way you do luther s thing, that new york thing that you all have. i said who is this because i was on the phone at my mother s house and i was surprised. but back to natural woman, at the kennedy center, it was just so amazing because to see her get props for being the woman that can bring the fire. you know what i m saying? whether you are someone who subscribes to gospel or whether you re religious or not, aretha has a way that she has an anointedness to the way that she sings. and she brings her audience in touch with the divine. so if you don t believe, you go and you hear her and you believe, do you know what i m saying? she speaks from an experience based on someone who has 60 years of a huge career, as a businesswoman, as an amazing singer, amazing musician.
could have thrown switches and disrupted power flows. just a few months ago, the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee was warning, sounding the alarm, that the u.s. is still not prepared to guard against future russian cyber attacks on the upcoming elections. this issue is urgent. if we start to fix these problems tomorrow we still might not be in time to save the system. but again, if one subscribes to the brand new presidential ethos you won t pay attention or worry or fret but, quote, remember what you re seeing and reading is not what s happening, unquote. for the rest of you who want to understand what you re seeing and reading and who understand this is actually all happening, thanks for watching. cnn s kaitlan come linls at the white house for us. when president trump says russia is pushing for democrats to win, do we have any idea if there s anything behind that claim? reporter: well, jake, that s the question. we ve asked the white house if the presid
didn t do more. but, rather, democrats want him to engage in a more symmetric way with donald trump who of course is much more personal, much more aggressive when it comes to critiquing barack obama than barack obama, even though he s issuing a stern warning here and has at various other points in his post presidency. it s far less pointed and less aggressive than what president trump does. part of that, if he talked to people around him, is because he valued and subscribes to this unwritten rule of former presidents not criticizing the current holder of the office. part of that is because it s just never been, even when he was on the campaign trail, his preferred method of communication and interaction to really aggressively counter punch. it s just not his milieu is what we just saw from him, speaking in grand and lofty terms about the american ideal and having a little bit of a distaste for the cut and thrust of daily political campaigning.
ones who are going to carry a lot of people through. jamila: it makes me glad to be human. it makes me recognize that as a humanist, i m not a person who prays or subscribes to religion or whatnot, and if that s helpful, great. but it s the work of human hands. it s the work of people saying i m going to put myself at risk to save another human life because human life is the greatest good we have, and it s always to be protected. it doesn t matter if you are, straight, black, white, wet, dry, whatever. it s about putting humanity first, and that s the greatest thing that any human can do. lisa: president trump sounding off on his pardoning of sheriff joe arpaio. we will be back in a minutes. for your heart.