- did you go too far on some of t this? - nono, that senense has s always beeeen there. - oh.. - ththe first titime, he was mayayor rudy. now he s k king giuliaiani. - gigiuliani wasas just stararto wear on ththe public o of new y. - the cityty was readydy to m move on, was ready to turn the page from the giuliani years. [sofoft acousticic music] [dreamy pipiano music]c] - manhnhattan is l like no place e else in thehe worl. in newew york, whahat you see- first of a all, you sesee a naturaral wondr of buiuildings. you knknow, it s like e the pyramimids. the e buildings s dwarf yo. the buildidings remindnd you of how uninimportant y you ar, bebecause you u re so tinyn. in this s big, increredible cit, whwhen you seeee it, it makeses you wantt to c come and sesee it. it m makes you c curious abob. it makes i it somethining bibigger than n life. i hahave strong g feelings about nenew york, evererything thahat mamakes up newew york. wewe re the crcrossroad
why dodon t you celebrate e some of ouours? what abobout tupac s s birthd? - and whwhen you havave so lilittle, it m means everyryt. alall of thosese shows, they all m matter so m much. - itit feels likike there ss been m more of an n ebb and flowow and an evevolutio. - it i is so imporortant for s to h have true a authenticit. - why wewe always ththe only b black peoplple here? - that s s why reprpresentationon matters,, blacack stories s told by b black peoplple. - - i m tryingng to tetell you somomething. - [m[man] we setet the papace for sitit comedy. - you hearar that, elilizabet? i m comiming to joinin ya, hon? - frfrom sanforord and son to thehe other blalack shows. - what i is this? - loloved the j jeffersons. - - monogrammemed shirt, brand nenew silk tieie. - - is that a a tie? i i thought yoyour tonguee was hangnging out. - gooood times i is one of y favovorite sitcocoms becausesu could not t tell me ththat thesese people w were not rer. - dy-n-no-mite! - - unc
this holiday season. thank you for joining me this season. i m jim acosta. i will see you tomorrow starting at 2:00 p.m. eastern. merry christmas almomost.. santnta is watchching. haveve a good ninight. [draramatic musisic] - - over the n next ten dada, wewe get to sesee the machinines that arare croo, the ballllots ththat are fraraudulent. anand if we rere wrong, we will l be made fofools of. but ifif we re rigight, a a lot of thehem will go o to. [cheerers and applplause] so letet s have trtrial by com. [c[crowd clamomoring] - whwhen giulianani appeared alongsgside donaldld trump on jananuary 6th,, what c came to my y mind was ththe riot at t city hal. [c[crowd yelliling] - - [whistlingng] - - they marchched arouound city hahall park in a peaeaceful and d orderly fashion, but ththen, minutetes later, thousandnds of copss stormed ththrough the e barrics and raran on top o of cars as they chcharged the e stais of city hahall. [crowd c cheering anand yelli] - peopople
ththe kind of f moment mosost pt women drdream of. yet t this is the ststark rerea thatat most pregegnant blackck live with.h. > yeaeah, i m m f feeling pr. i wawas scscared. i had i i wasas crying.g. angel is in laboror with her sixtxth child.d. what were e you afraraid of?f? c coming in a and not comomi. a ashleigh is h having her rd chchild in onene month. > y you know,w, mom h has th wonderfuful moment a and wasn t making it t out alive e out of hospitital. > e elaine gaveve birth n ne years s ago. we re preparing f for the wot at the b best time i in our liv. t three women, three pregnancies, one journey to understand exactly what scares them about hospitals. and why some black women like me are now redefining the oldest act in human history, childbirth. a few years ago, i was pregnant with my first daughter. i knew the black maternal mortality statistics, and i didn t want to take any chances. so i decided to skip the doctor and the hospital and with the
i am anderson cooper. while the u.s. is the most expensive country when it comes to tkgiving birth, it s also th safest. the statistics are more dire when it comes to giving birth for black women. the question is why do black women face more risks when they go to the hospital to give birth? that s the question that cnn anchor and new mom, abby phillip, has been asking since the birth of her daughter two years ago. abby made unconventional choices when it came to her own childbirth experience, and since then she has been surprised to meet so many other women that made the same choices that she did. over the next hour she takes us to hospitals and birthing centers around the country to show us why more and more black women are turning away from traditional health care and finding other options when it comes to giving birth. hi. hi, baby. reporter: this is the sound of new life being brought into the world. the e kind o of momement mosostt women drdream of.. yet t this is