[Kosik:] Spike Lee has always been political and this election season is no different. Don Lemon continues his interview with Lee, asking him if the president has lived up to his promises and what lies ahead in November.
[Lee:] I'm thinking about my grandma. My grandma lived to be a hundred years old. Her mother was born a slave and I'm five generations removed from slavery and what Barack said tonight is true. This is the only place in the world where this could happen. America.
[Lemon:] Do you think it was too high, the expectations?
[Lee:] He was a savior, black Jesus. And I don't care who it was. I mean, expectations were, I think, way too high. What somebody can deliver knowing how politics works and knowing you have the deal with the Congress, in my opinion, a Congress that's solidified saying whatever you do, we're blocking that. We're blocking. We're blocking. And every breath we take, we're going to do what we can that you don't get a second term. Bottom line, if it hurts America in the process, tough business.
[Lemon:] Do you think he's lived up to the promises?
[Lee:] Look. The man is not perfect. Who is perfect? But my wife Ty and I had a fund-raiser at our house in Manhattan. We raised over a billion dollars for him. He has my full support. And I'm going to do what I can to help that he gets a second term in office.
[Lemon:] You just my question was does he deserve a second term and you answered it. Do you want to talk at all on the other side? What do you think of the competition?
[Lee:] I don't want to I don't think I have to do that. Number one, it's you have to be I mean, it's very obvious. You got this and you got that. It's plain as day and Americans are going to have to make a choice. We go this way, or we go that way. There's going to be no in between.
[Kosik:] He has won all kinds of awards and known all around the world. So, what is next for Spike Lee? Don couldn't let him go without asking.
[Lemon:] As a cultural critic and as a filmmaker, what is next? What is next for Spike Lee? Where do you think Spike Lee should go where you just going to do you have plan?
[Lee:] Right now, this is as busy as I've been in a long time. "Red Hook Summer" is coming out in Atlanta and the rest of the country August 24th. I had play in Broadway. My first play in Broadway and I directed Mike Tyson in "undisputed truth."
[Lemon:] How did you get involved with Mike Tyson?
[Lee:] Well, he did in Las Vegas. I know Michael for 25 years. And Mike was doing, you know, with Broadway, he said fine. Every show he gets a standing ovation. I've also just finished a documentary the 25th anniversary, a documentary on the making of Michael Jackson's "Bad" album. August 21th would be the anniversary and the world premier is going to be at the Venice Film Festival.
[Kosik:] That was Don Lemon with filmmaker Spike Lee. Ahead tonight, a homeless man shot dozens of times by police. The whole thing caught on tape. Did officers overreact some we are about to show it to you and let you decide.
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