Happened with the lovings. Have you seen the documentary about the lovings . It just follows them almost like a series like a modern series and their story is amazing. This is about civil rights, equality. Human rights. It doesnt always come easy and fast as the president would like to say. We have always struggled. This is always been an experiment. What we have been trying to do here is always hard. The founder knew it would be hard. They were here running for their lives. Different issues. Same idea of letting minority be able to live out on its own terms. And were still fighting for it. But it is not easy. I dont think anybody can really imagine how hard it is. Yeah. The weird thing is that people say i look at interviews and things that happened. I was talking to your wife today. We have had a long conversation. Things from the 60s during the Civil Rights Movement the artists who were out front of the marlen brand o. And sammy davis jr. She said the same conversations these very smart very bright gentlemen were having the same conversations that we have now. Or could have been 2020. We have come a long way. Im not sure in some corners if we have changed enough hearts. And im not sure you can actually do that. If you can change hearts. I dont know. I know you can change legislation. I dont know if you can legislate someones heart. I think what you have to do is appeal to the collective. What we both seen in our lives is that even if people dont get it, when enough people are like them and want to be like, who seem to be getting it, they go along. Theres something adaptive about that. This country has been through that several times. It will be interesting to see who the next generation of great voices are. On this. I want chuck d on tonight for perspective. Beautiful job bringing in voices about the next. Who will be . A tony bennett . Whos going to be do you remember when we met . This was a rally during the iraq war. We met at a park i think on the west side. Yeah, yeah. Ruby d. And os si davis were holding thats where we met. You were working for nbc. Davis. The real deal. You love them as an artist and what they mean to you. And it gives them attachment to give a different message. We have known each other a long time. You look exactly the same. My soon to be motherinlaw. Im a little heavier. My motherinlaw says she believes im in an interracial relationship. This will change when people show people they can love ooemp and be different. You have always been right. If you are a black person talk to your white person. If you dont have one find one. Youre right, though. Everything goes away. The best gift i was given in my life was convince dental. My parents put me in Catholic School that was just a melting pot. I grew up in a way where this stuff was foreign. Even within the ethnic. We played together and in church together. In school together. I didnt have the experience of being separate. We were lucky that way. Now i know why youre so mean. And me too. Those nuns let us have it. Not me. I was a great student. They dont take any i got it ruler on the hand and butt. Everywhere. Still need it. Have a great weekend. Love you. I hope i see you. Love you. Have a great night. This is cnn tonight. Thanks for joining us. Can you hear it . Can you hear americans all across the country . They are peacefully protesting. Nanding justice. Can you hear it . Crying i cant breathe. It has been happening for weeks. We can all hear it. Not this president. He just wont hear it. He wont hear the protestors. He wont hear his own four star generals. Denouncing his threat to use act i military to put down protests. He wont hear his republican allies. Who want to take the names of confederate generals off military bases. He wont hear the nfl. Admitting they were wrong not to listen to protesting players. He wont hear nascar banning Confederate Flags. He wont hear his own advisers. White house aids, members of congress. Corporate ceos. Trying to convince him to stop dividing us. Stop stoking division. Like he did as a candidate. And still doing today. The president is convinced dividing america is a winning strategy. He is wrong. Hes out of step with the country on race and policing and how america moves forward. Look at this. 63 of americans disapprove of how this president is handling race relations. He just wont hear them. You can hear him, right . You can hear him comparing himself to president lincoln. Lincoln who freed thousands and thousands of enslaved black people . I think i have done more for the black people than any other president and lets take a pass on lincoln. Because he did good although its always questionable. In other words we are free, mr. President. He did well. You understand what ill mean. Ill take pass on honest abe. Questionable . Lincolns legacy is questionable . Thats pathetic. Really. Pathetic and unworthy of office. I dont know whether this president is questioning the legacy of lincoln or whether he cant admit anybody was a better president. Then theres what the president says about police using choke holds. Atactic that has become a symbol of brutality. Cities and communities across the country including philadelphia, phoenix, l. A. , sacramento. Look on the map. San diego, miami, broward county, chicago, washington d. C. , minneapolis, new york city, denver, houston, and austin. All banning choke holds. And the president said he thinks generally speaking choke holds should be banned but he says this. I think the concept of choke holds sounds so innocent and perfect. You realize if its a one on one. Two on one thats a different story. Depending on the toughness and strength. Were talking about toughness and strength. It really doesnt sound so innocent and perfect to someone who cant breathe. To someone who is having the life choked out of them. Thats why cities across the country are banning theetz. This president says about gassing peaceful protestors. So he could have a law and order tough guy photo op. In front of the the church. I think it was a beautiful picture. I think christians think it was beautiful. Why are you hearing from general milly and secretary of defense and not do you think its significant . No. I dont think so. Nope. He doesnt think its significant that the chairman of the joint chiefs apologized for appearing in fatigues with the president after the peaceful protestors were gassed. He doesnt think its significant his own secretary of defense didnt support his threat to use active duty troops to put the end to protests. And then theres what the president says about his campaign rally. June 19. June teenth. The very day we commemorate the end of slavery in the country. Hes having that rally in tul ta. Where 1921, hundreds of black americans were massacred by a white mob in a part of town known as black wall street. Campaign rally on june teenth in a city where hundreds of black americans were massacred. The president says this. Its going to be really a celebration. And an interesting date. It wasnt done for that reason. Its an interesting date. Its a celebration. Interesting date. Guess its not that meaningful to the president after all. Its a meaningful day to him. Its a day he want tos share the progress made we look forward to what needs to be done. Especially the police reform. Ill tell you what is interesting, its interesting that this president chooses that particular date for his own campaign rally. And interesting that he is accepting the republican nomination in jacksonville, florida. On august 27. Another bloody day in the country history. Whats going on here . What is going on here . Coincidences . Come on, people. Let me tell you about august 27. On that day in 1960, in jacksonville, a mob of several hundred white men attacked protestors who were holding sit ins at segregated lunch counters. Life magazine published this photograph. The Florida Historical society says some in the white mob were allegedly members of the kkk. Violence spread as the mob armed with baseball bats and axes attacked all the black people in sight. That day came to be known as ax handle saturday. And this president is accepting the president ial nomination in jacksonville. On the 60th anniversary of accideax handle saturday. Restarting Campaign Rallies on june teenth in tulsa. You have to wonder, is it all this willful blindness . At the least the president is completely out of step with america. Even the nfl which is announcing a june teenth league holiday. I remind you of what the president said about players peacefully protest lg racial injustice. I would love to see the owner when somebody disrespects the flag. Get that son of a bitch off the field. Hes fired. This has been a man stoking Racial Division for years. Decades. Polarizing the country. Because he thinks it will help him at the polls. Dont forget this is man who promoted the racist birther lie that president obama was not born in this country. This is the president who said this about deadly white supremacist violence in charlottesville. People that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group compu excuse me. I saw the same pictures. He danced around the question of whether he dise vow david duke the formers leader of the kkk. Called african nations sending immigrants to this country shithole countries. America is crying out for justice tonight. Did you hear it . Because this president refuses to hear it. In the face of all that the president says he thinks he is the one to unite us. Do his actions speak louder than his words . Caitlyn collins weighs in next. It only takes a second for an everyday item to become dangerous. 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President trump is all in with his strategy of stoking culture wars, Racial Division, even advisers are urging him to change course. Why is he refusing to adapt . I think based on what we have heard is that the president is always thought his instincts are better than advice he gets from advisers. Whats different about this time is were hearing from some of the advisers worried that the calculus changed. The nation is moving on and the president himself has been the out liar through this. They have noticed nascar is banning the Confederate Flag. Nfl is apologizing for how it treated players for protesting police brutality. The president himself is still focussed on the culture wars he does think played a role in getting him in office in 2016 and will help him in 2020. The concern among adviser is that were five months from the election. Worried he will hemorrhage the black support he gained over the last few months and worried hes ail ye alien ating suburban women voters they have been trying to capture. She put is exactly right. The president is the out liar. A really good way of saying it. Sticking with what worked for him no 2016. The entire country around him is changing. He sees everything through a political lens. What do you think the calculation is here . I think theres a couple things happening. This is a president who has saw his rise to power as someone that was driven through political base. And overwhelmingly white and conservative base. That is where they have held their administration. Where they have governed for in the interest and thats who he looks to for support and advice. Sometimes over the advice of the unity minded advisers. I think the some of this is not political. This is who he is. Who he has been throughout his life. And some point youre asking someone who has been set in the ways to make a completely different stance than who he has been previously. Lets not go before he ran for president and there was the central park five. The stoking the birtherism. A president and kind of public figure who capitalized on these issues of every turn. At this point to ask him to be Something Different because of the Election Year is a tall order for his advisers and the country. Even if it doesnt make political sense. Even in addition to rebooting his rallies on june teenth in tulsa. The president will give his con vens speech on august 27 in jacksonville. Six decades after racist violence there. Listen, it just seems incredibly i dont know. If not deliberately tone deaf. Thats the question. The president said today he didnt know it was going to be the anniversary of the june teenth next friday. After aids had been saying he was going because knelt that date was really meaningful to him. They try to explain things around the president and of course with know he you arenund them. You saw in the interview today he was trying to explain away when he tweeted when the hooting starts the shooting starts. And confronted him over that saying that is not where you think that came from. Its a 1960s racist police chief and the president tried to argue and say it has two meanings. And argued he has done more for the black community. Saying maybe besides lincoln. They pushed back on that. He writes his own narrative. Confronted with what is actually happening head on. And is resisting to it. Aids are pushing on despite the criticism over that. It will be a celebration when hes there friday. And the question is the president rhetoric hasnt matched the moment were seeing play throughout the country so far. The idea it will change before next friday even to his own advisers doesnt seem to compute. Think about all this coincidence or whatever it is. He has to be aware of how africanamericans feel about this. Especially considering his history with racism. And not even history. His present with racism. What is going on here . Is it just flat out i dont care and understand if he wants to gain voters in the africanamerican community, this aint it. The white house is tried to make the attempts to reach out to black voters. They have seen it as a constituent si they can make inroads for in november. They like to believe these are good faith attempts. And doing so with a best interest of the community in mind. And that is some place they can take people away from joe biden. It is hard to think of these as good faith efforts when repeat td instances of the kind of the backlash. If the president wanted to make in roads that the first level the baseline is to do things that seem like a uniting figure. That show a pivot or change from his most instance of the past. That is not something he has shown a consistent willingness to do. Individual moments there are calling for an investigation into george floyd death. Or a set speech. He says the right thing or does the right thing quote on quote. In his personal moments when its off the cuff, we see the tweets. That always rolls back what we have seen previously. And it makes it hard to believe the president and the administration are taking that type of out reach seriously when they are not doing the kind of baseline levels of respect to black voters and black communities that almost anyone democrat or republican would say you need to do to be able to reach out to folks. Thank you. Enjoy your weekend. Get some rest. Coronavirus is rising in texas. The city of houston turning stadium into a Field Hospital. Are they ready . Ill speak to the mayor of houston. Hes here. Thats next. S hes here. Thats next. Y hes here. Thats next. L hes here. Thats next. V hes here. Thats next. E hes here. Thats next. St hes here. Thats next. E hes here. Thats next. R hes here. 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Were hoping we can stop a surge from occurring. The numbers are increasing. We ample capacity within the Hospital System right now. We want to keep it that way. In the city of houston for example we have been reporting anywhere between 150 to 200 cases on a daily basis. And if i go back to the end of april, we had flattened the curve and we were in a good position. And didnt have nearly as many deaths as back then. Since things started to reopen, the number of positive cases have been ticking up. We want to try to contain that. And were messaging people u. Put on your mask and engage in so