Journalist Ed Gordon will sit down with famed comedian and talk show host Steve Harvey and outspoken U.S. Congresswman Maxine Waters when the premiere an all-new installment of its primetime newsmagazine show, “Ed Gordon,” airs tonight at 10 p.m.
Harvey discusses with Gordon the public backlash he faced regarding jokes about Flint, Mich., his infamous leaked office email and his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
“The attack was so vicious from Black people,” Harvey said. “Black people doing this to me? And I’m telling you the real funky part…people I thought I was ‘so-called’ cool with it … sitting on the radio show talking about me, people who have come to me in private and I helped, just jumped on what was trending…that hurt me personally.”
Harvey went on to say (half) jokingly “I knew I was in trouble when Bill O’Reilly defended me.”
Longtime Congresswoman Waters (D-Calif.) discusses her outspoken perspective on the Trump administration and other American issues. Among other questions, Gordon asks the Congresswoman if she thinks President Donald Trumpis a racist.
Waters said, “Yes I do, now more than ever. I didn’t think deeply about it until I learned about his connection with [Steve] Bannon and with other White Nationalists. Everything from pardoning [Sheriff Joe] Arpaio, to having all these White Nationalists in the Cabinet around him. Yeah, I do believe he’s a racist.”
Waters added, “When I see injustice, it moves me. When I move, I try to do the best that I can to speak truth to power.”
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