tavis: please welcome cedric and niecy nash. the two have teamed up on a program called "the soul man," and here is a scene from it. >> pastor, are you getting fresh with me? >> not fresh. freaky. i will get the whipped cream. [laughter] now, god, you are going to hear your name quite a bit. [laughter] we are not asking for help. we are just saying thank you. tavis: what kind of preacher man? >> you know. right, yes, yes. take a look. tavis: first of all, congratulations to both of you. >> thank you. >> i was telling me earlier that it this show does not work, it will not be for lack of promotion. this thing is everywhere. >> yes, they have already got the lunch boxes out. it is like bill hall "$6 million man" days. tavis: how does it feel so far? >> we are having a good time. speaking of promotion, they put a likeness of ourselves up on sunset. i did not see it. when i went to go see it, i was trying to take a picture of it, and then the hollywood tourist van pulls up, and they were like, "hey." i was out there trying to get th

back over to you. >>> this morning's coffee with is with cedric the entertainer. the satellite interview is furnished by tv land. >>> welcome back to the eyewitness news morning edition cedric the entertainer. what's going on? how are you? >> guys, what's up? how are you doing? >> great. i have to tell you something. i'm pretty jacked up on the soul man. it screams of the life of al green with humor. >> yeah. >> is that where you got the idea for this? >> very loosely based on that al green's life, of course, mc hammer kind of did the same thing, mace, the rapper. it was off a joke i used to do, what if r kelly became a minister with all those sexual songs. i was like, man, what if somebody just had a lot of really super sexual songs and now he's a minister you'd be like really that guy. i don't know. >> you got me with that one. >> yeah . >> what got the super star to find religion and move to st. louis and get into a church? >> you know, it was just one of those things where i was transitioning in life, had it all, living at the top of the game in vegas, touring

. >> cedric the entertainer. >> jimmy: cedric the entertainer is back. >> yes. >> jimmy: i mean, this is all good. it's going to be killer, super fun. >> this the best movie of the summer, jimmy. >> jimmy: it is. >> there is not a better movie than this movie, jimmy. i don't care, if christian bale walks in here right now, i'll spit in his face. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: ladies and gentlemen, christian bale. >> yeah. i don't care. that's how good my movie is. >> jimmy: that's how good it is, yeah. >> my movie is that hot. >> jimmy: i know. >>eah. >> jimmy: it's already like going viral on the web. like, you did this song, "afro circus." >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: and kids are freaking out over this. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: you know what i'm talking about? yeah. it's all over the web. people are going nuts for it. but it's like -- it's just -- i think you guys are just gelling now. so now it just flows and it's just like, you feel like, oh, yeah. i'm comfortable. >> we're like a hot band -- we're the roots. >> jimmy: yeah. >> we're tight. >> jimmy: you're tight. >> we're tight.

an is in congressman from this area, cedric richmond is here. and one of the best mayors in the country, we're glad he came down from his hometown of philadelphia, mayor michael nutter is in the house. and all of you are here. and i am grateful for it. and we love the young people who are in the house. mitch, don't you -- i wasn't referring to you, man. i was talking to those folks over there. mitch is all waving, thank you. for nearly a century, the national urban league has been inspiring people of every race and every religion, and every walk of life, to reach for the dream that lies at the heart of our founder. the promise that no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter how modest your beginnings, no matter what the circumstances of your birth, if you try. of course, this dream has never come easy. that's why the urban league was formed. in the aftermath of the civil war, with the south in the grips of jim crow, the waves of men and women who traveled north to homes, opportunity was not guar

>> many cedric is a lot more than 60. when it comes to china -- many say that it is more than 60. some people argue that china was 40 million. the soviet union, 26 million is the generally accepted figure. of those, 9 million military, 17 million civilians. it was one of the first wars in history where the civilian casualties completely outstripped the military casualties. >> how did you start this story? when did world war ii starred in your opinion? >> it is an interesting debate. everybody has their own views of the second world war shaped by their experiences and memories. the united states -- the war began in december 1941. for the russians, it began in june, 1941 with the german invasion of the soviet union. most europeans think of september 1939 and the german invasion of poland as the part. for the chinese, it started in 1937 with the japanese, the sino-japanese war. there are many different versions. the important thing to understand about the second world war was that it was not just a conglomeration of conflict. there were the state-of-state, the great powers fight each

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host: cedric asks -- please speak to black and employment rising to 14.4%. guest: it is a dire issue. one of the biggest complaints about this administration has been the lack of targeted policies which address black unemployment, which is typically twice that of the general population. i think that criticism is fair. 14% black unemployment is depression-era statistics. when the administration has tried to do is have policies toward low-income people which would have an impact on african american communities, which tend to be more likely to be lower income. for example, the recovery act in 2009 included a subsidized job program for low-income adults, a summer jobs program for low-income young people, and these programs were utilized by all lot of african-americans. there were also jobs-training program targeting young people. they were race-neutral, but they tried to be targeted looking at needs. i think these programs are helpful, but i do not think they are as proportionate to the need. it is like a program here and a program there as opposed to a robust j

. >> one of your past statements on june 11, the cedric was absurd when senator mccain said the white house leaked this information for political gain. david axelrod said nobody was involved. he was on ms nbc yesterday and said that the president did not leak anything. he followed up by saying that the president did not authorize any leaks. that leaves open the door that there were unauthorized leaks by white house people. have you moved the goal post? >> no. your conflating a lot of things. all the statements are true. i stand by what i said and what mr. axelrod and the president said. there are ongoing investigations, and i would not comment on the specifics. >> can you say that nobody in the white house was involved? >> involved in which particular case? the president takes this very seriously. it is an insult and preposterous to suggest that this white house would leaked classified information for political gain. that did not happen and would not happen under this president. a lot of this began as a focus on the operation that successfully removed osama bin laden from the battlefi

zillions of people go to cedric. it is the most popular attraction. it is the most photographed. bartholdi get some idea. he says, i can get money by selling souvenirs. all of the kids that we see if we go out to the statue of liberty and go into the gift shop -- bartholdi, the sculptor, even before he built the thing, he was figuring out how to make money from souvenirs. that is how this fund-raising got off the ground. once philadelphia displayed the arm and torched successfully, philadelphia decided -- new york decided, ok, we cannot let this second-rate town beat us on this. so the torch and the arm went up in madison square in 1877. then, a year later, there was the world's fair in paris, for which bartholdi built the head of the statue of liberty. he was a very shrewd promoter. well he was building the statue, he had the process photographed, which he could then show to join us, -- journalists, who got interested, because this was the beginning of the era of the illustrated newspaper. all of a sudden, you could do a lithograph. all of a sudden you could do a lithograph. peo

i am concerned that, while i do not cedric today, they could very quickly get to that. they and others. that does concern me. >> i am an old auditing person. the automatic digital network. it controlled the internet before. i have seen in recent times, going to a lot of cyber security fence recently, there does not seem to be an urgency to this legislation. a lot of people are talking about it. but nothing is being done. in the meantime, putin is president of russia again and he is not sitting by and letting cyber attacks go by. china has guidance. when are we going to get serious about it? will we have to have a cyber summit where we get them together and say, look, pass this bill? >> well, there are so many things i could say. i will try not to get in trouble. i think that this time of year, it is politically difficult to move things through congress. my experience in working with both sides, republicans and democrats, both see this as a key issue. the key problem that i see is how do we help articulate what is in that legislation? i am getting a lot of calls from bot