confessed and dna evidence linked him to the crime. new york city settled with the five men for $41 million. but none of that was enough to convince trump, who just last week told cnn, quote, they admitted they were guilty, the police doing the original investigation say th were guilty. the fact that the case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. this week, yusef responded, writing in an op-ed, quote, when i heard trump s latest proclamation, it was the worst feeling in the world. i couldn t breathe. i m overwhelmed with fear that an overzealous trump supporter might take matters into his or her own hands. and i m joined how by yu sef salam. you spent 12 years in prison for a crime you did not commit. that your four friends were coerced into confessing to. talk about what it would mean to you if donald trump, having written that op-ed, calling for your murder, essentially, for
we live in today. we re supposed to be progressing forward. we re supposed to be moving forward. but donald trump is continuing to pull us back into the darkness. yeah. well, yusef salam, thank you for being here. i think people should watch that video, as well as the central park documentary. i m so sorry for what you went through. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. i appreciate it. thank you very much. and on a bit of an up note now, we have talked about a lot of dark subjects today. but yesterday i had the opportunity to be in louisville, kentucky, to be with the lovely ladies of the louisville chapter of the links incorporated. carolyn tandy and her fellow links were so gracious to me. and they even gave me an interesting proclamation that makes me a colonel. look at that. a colonel like colonel sanders. he was indeducted and so have i been. there are a lot of people that have gotten that nor,