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South Kore and the U.S. Respond to North Korea's Provocations; At least Nine U.S. Mass Shootings Since Friday Night; Uvalde and Buffalo Shooting Survivors to Appear on Capitol Hill; Gun Violence and Mental Health; January 6th Committee to Hold Public Hearings in Primetime; Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt Creates HitRecord for Artists Online; Her Majesty's Supporters Celebrate Historic Milestone. Aired 8-9p ET

Aired June 05, 2022 - 20:00   ET

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PAMELA BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: New tonight on CNN, missile launches off the Korean Peninsula, this time by American and South Korean forces. Eight missiles in total, a direct response to the same number of missiles launched by North Korea this weekend.

We want to be clear on this. The missiles were launched into the sea. But let's get more from CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.

Barbara, this is a clear message to North Korea from the other side of the DMZ. Is this what the new South Korean president means when he promised to get tougher on Pyongyang?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, good evening, Pamela. You know, the U.S. has participated with South Korea in these kinds of responses, if you will, previously when North Korea has launched missiles. What you just said about the U.S. and South Korean missiles going into the sea is really an important point because it just shows that it was a response. There was no consent of a military action here.

It was a response to the North Koreans launching eight ballistic missiles earlier in the weekend. That was one of the big concerns right now is that North Korea is continuing at a very fast pace of test launches in its ballistic missile program, and even when they're short range, even when they fail, the concern the U.S. has, of course, is that North Korea is still learning with every single launch.

This will be a very interesting week in that part of the world. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin takes off for Asia, in Singapore. He is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart. China is one voice that North Korea does listen to sometimes. Clearly China's actions against Taiwan will also be big on the agenda out there, but with North Korea pursuing this missile program you can certainly expect it to be a topic of conversation.

BROWN: All right. Barbara, thanks for that.

And let go now to CNN's Paula Hancocks. Paula, what are South Korean military officials saying?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Pamela, at this point they are making it clear that this is a show of force after we saw those eight short range ballistic missiles fired by North Korea Sunday morning local time. Now this is not that unusual for the U.S. and South Korea to have this kind of joint response they have said in the past that they know exactly where these launches come from. They would be able to target them if they wanted to, and back on May 25th, the last time North Korea fired missiles, there was also this, as they call it, show of force from the U.S. and South Korea.

Now I'll read you part of the statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff here in South Korea, they used the official name for South Korea, ROK, Republic of Korea. "The firing of ROK-U.S. combined surface-to-surface missiles demonstrated that even if North Korea provokes with missiles from multiple locations ROK-U.S. has the ability and readiness to immediately strike with precision in regards to the origin of the provocation and the command and support forces while maintaining a constant monitoring posture."

Now this was what was interesting about these particular missiles from North Korea, Pamela. We heard from Japan's Defense Ministry that they believe it was unprecedented. The sheer number of missiles from four different locations all fired within about 40 minutes of each other, so that was really something that concerned Japan. It concerned South Korea as well, and so this kind of show of force is really just to show Pyongyang that they are able to strike back if they wanted to.

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Now, of course, whether this makes any difference to Kim Jong-un, it's probably unlikely. He is very much it appears in a testing mode at this point with no interest it appears to have any kind of negotiation or engagement with either Washington or Seoul. We've heard just last year, January of last year, Kim Jong-un gave his wish list of his weapons capabilities. He gave a very open wish list of exactly what he wanted to perfect when it came to his missile campaign and it came to his weapons capabilities, and experts say he's effectively working through it going down the list and making sure that that he can secure these weapons capabilities.

Some of the recent launches from North Korea have been perceived to be failures, but even those are learned from. Pyongyang will understand more about the technology from those failures as well, so even though they don't publicly admit to those, it shows that they are getting better. It shows that they are potentially testing new weapons and new capabilities, and it is pushing them forward -- Pamela.

BROWN: All right, Paula Hancocks, Barbara Starr, thank you so much.

Well, record gas prices, inflation and the ever-present pandemic, big issues in the U.S. that impact everyone and as we know gun violence continues unabated. It is a problem that is uniquely American.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BROWN (voice-over): As one community buries 19 children after the horrific massacre in Uvalde, Texas, in the last few hours and days, more killings. The numbers are staggering. At least eight mass shootings since Friday and according to the Gun Violence Archive, more than 240 mass shootings this year.

Sunday morning in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

MAYOR TIM KELLY, CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE: I'm tired of standing in front of you talking about guns and bodies.

BROWN: Three people killed and at least 17 others injured near a downtown nightclub. Police say some victims hit by bullets and others by fleeing cars.

KELLY: There are families whose lives have been shattered forever because once again we had people deciding to resolve their issues with violence.

BROWN: Another overnight shooting at a bar. This one out west. Two people dead and two more injured in Mesa, Arizona. Saturday night at least three people were killed and 11 others injured after a shooting in Philadelphia. Police say several active shooters fired into a crowd.

COMMISSIONER DANIELLE OUTLAW, PHILADELPHIA POLICE: We're absolutely devastated. Devastated by this incident. And we mourn the lives lost and the dozens and dozens of lives affected by this tragedy.

BROWN: A drive-by shooting at a graduation party in South Carolina left one woman dead and seven people injured, including a child. Police said they recovered roughly 60 shell casings from the scene so far. And there's more. A strip mall shooting early Saturday morning left one person dead. Phoenix police said the victim is a 14-year-old girl.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A group of people that just started running like every different direction and I, myself, was like hiding behind cars because the shots kept getting closer and closer.

BROWN: And in small-town Wisconsin, a former judge targeted at his home and fatally shot. Authorities say the suspect had a hit list of high-level government officials. All of this as the nation waits for Washington to do something about this uniquely American epidemic.

JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: For God's sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? How many more innocent American lives must be taken before we say enough? Enough.

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BROWN: And since we filed that report, yet another mass shooting making nine mass shootings over the weekend. Police in Bibb County, Georgia, said one person was killed and three wounded at an abandoned house in Georgia. And just a few minutes ago parts of Philadelphia's South Street

District went under a curfew after that mass shooting there. And a young survivor from Uvalde and the parent of a child who was killed in the school massacre will be on Capitol Hill this week. They'll appear at a House meeting on gun violence. As they prepare to tell their tragic stories, officials in Uvalde are still avoiding questions.

CNN's Nick Valencia is there.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Pamela, it's been nearly two weeks since the shooting at Robb Elementary School and there are still so many unanswered questions, and at this point it doesn't seem like we're going to get answers any time soon. The local district attorney hung up on me when I called her earlier to ask about the investigation.

I also spoke earlier to a former city councilman who says that yes, there were mistakes made that day and while he doesn't have direct knowledge of the investigation he thinks that the state police here, the Texas DPS, is responsible for a lot of what went wrong that day. This is part of what he had to say to me in his conversation.

"Ask yourself. DPS responded fairly quickly, too. You have a local police force with four or five people. Don't you think that there's a hierarchy of command that happens when more experienced people show up? Arredondo made mistakes that day but he's not the only one."

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On Monday DHS Secretary Mayorkas will pay a visit to Uvalde and it's on Wednesday where victims not just of Uvalde but also of the Buffalo shooting will visit Washington, D.C. where they're set to appear before a House committee to underscore the human loss and the tragedy of the gun epidemic that the country is currently going through -- Pamela.

BROWN: And we will keep pressing for answers there in Uvalde. Nick, thank you.

Up next, I ask a psychiatry professor why it's dangerous to link mass shootings and mental health.

Also tonight, go inside the Watergate scandal like never before. John Dean, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward all live with us tonight. These legends talking about our latest CNN Original Series.

And award-winning actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt on making creativity a global movement.

You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, ACTOR, FOUNDER, HITRECORD: It's like we went through a warped zone and now, you know, this mission that we've had to help people find their creative selves we can do it with, you know, at scale.

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BROWN: Well, one of the first questions after a mass shooting is, does the suspect have a history of mental illness? But that question could be doing more harm than good.

Dr. Jonathan Metzl joins me now. He is the director of the Department of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University.

Hi, Professor. Thanks so much for coming on to have this important conversation. As you well know better than most, right, after a shooting so many people are quick to blame mental health. How valid is that?

DR. JONATHAN M. METZL, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, HEALTH AND SOCIETY, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: Well, let me just first say that I understand why we turn to the mental illness narrative after this. It just makes emotional sense that we might think, you know, we live in this civilized world and nobody who plays by the rules of our society would do something like this and so we turn to this mental illness story to kind of make sense for us of how, you know, just of the carnage which is unimaginable.

And the other part of is that many people who commit these shootings, particularly the high-profile ones do have psychological histories. But I really think it's important to stop the line right there because even if that's the case there is nothing causal about mental illness that causes somebody to commit a mass shooting, so there's no mental illness like depression or schizophrenia or anxiety whose symptoms are harming someone else let alone shooting someone else.

They literally is no diagnosis. And so if you look at -- I studied mass shootings and if you line up the kind of 100 most important factors that lead to a mass shooting, you would go through so many factors before that, you know, access to firearms, past history of violence, substance abuse, guns in the network, aggrieved nature. All of these factors, so in a way what we do when we say, you know, it's mental illness is we really cherry pick this out of one of many factors.

And I think it's important to know, of course, it's important to think about this as an issue, but really the idea that we can -- you know, psychiatrists like me can pick in advance who's going to commit a shooting is just factually wrong given what mental illness is and also the tools of our trade which are diagnosis.

BROWN: So then what would you say to those who say -- and you kind of hit on this, but I want to go a little bit deeper into it about, you know, look at Uvalde, look at Buffalo. These gunmen are clearly deranged. I mean, if they have gotten the mental health treatment that they needed perhaps they wouldn't have gone on this shooting rampage killing innocent people.

METZL: I wish that was the case. I wish there was some kind of predictive test that we could do. I think the two important factors to think about there, and I think it should be all hands-on deck, like anything we can do as a society and certainly mental health is an important part of that. I think the two important points are, number one, for every one person who meets the profile of kind of angry, aggrieved, often young man, there'll be millions of people who meet that same profile who don't go on to commit mass shootings.

And so part of the story here is that there's nothing predictive about a mental illness diagnosis that lets a psychiatrist like me pick out the one person from the millions of other people. And so in a way it's not really effective. And the other I think important point is we have over 45,000 gun deaths a year in this country. Mass shootings are horrific. They're terrorizing. They obviously get a lot of news.

But most gun death is homicides, suicide, partner violence, accidental shootings, and even the mass shootings you were talking about on the show before I came on were very different kinds of mass shootings in terms of how they're (INAUDIBLE). So what we do is we select these very few shootings. Maybe 300, 400 deaths a year. Every life lost is a tragedy, but what we're not doing is saying what would stop the everydayness of gun violence? What would stop everyday death?

And really those answers aren't about having a psychiatrist predict. It's much more about what kinds of prevention strategies can we put in place that look at patterns of gun death and how to subvert them.

BROWN: So, and, again, you hit on this, too, but I want to -- I find it really interesting when you look at just the facts, the data, the research. A lot of these mass shooters tend to be young men, barely into adulthood. Biologically speaking, what makes them more prone to this kind of violence and, again, not trying to paint all young men with a broad brush, but when you do look at, for example, the most recent big ones, Uvalde and Buffalo, 18-year-old man. What do you make of that?

METZL: Yes. I mean, well, I think that there's a bigger story about age and firearms that we need to think about as a society. Now I totally agree with you, we don't want to overly surveil everyone 21-18 with, you know.

BROWN: Right.

METZL: But I would say that there's a lot of research coming out now that looks at how -- I mean, there are some studies now that show that 40 percent of gun death in this country and shootings happen -- you know, the shooters are between 25 and 17 usually.

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Even though that demographic is only 17 percent of the population and so beyond just the mass shootings, younger people happen to be shooting a lot in a way, and I guess I think about that which is on the one hand, again, you don't want to make people who are just coming into adulthood suspect and say we're going to watch out for you, but we regulate age all the time in our society, what age can you drink, what age can you drive? If you get insurance you might be at a higher risk depending on your age because you're more likely to get into a car wreck or drive fast or get in a fight.

So we think about age in relation to risk all the time and I really do believe that this 18 to 21-year-old demographic in these mass shootings, but also in shootings more broadly really should make us think, do we really want people in that age group being able to get and carry guns without any kind of restriction? That's certainly -- I live in Tennessee, a Tennessee legislature just lowered the age to 18 at which anybody can buy an AR-15 without any training and walk around and carry it.

And so I do think really we should be doing what President Biden said which is thinking really hard about what kind of restrictions we want to put on guns but particularly people who are in this age group because they are at a higher risk, not only of shooting people but also of getting shot.

BROWN: All right. Dr. Jonathan Metzl, really interesting conversation. I think we should all listen to what you laid out there in terms of what the research and the data shows. Thank you so much.

METZL: Thanks so much.

BROWN: Well, the first primetime hearing on the January 6th insurrection is just days away. Three men who know a lot about White House accountability are coming up next, John Dean, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. We'll be right back.

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BROWN: The congressional investigation into the January 6th Capitol riot enters a new phase this week. The House committee hopes to grab the public's attention by televising the hearing in primetime. The seven Democrats and two Republicans say the American public can learn a whole lot more about Donald Trump's desperate efforts to stay in power last year after he lost re-election.

Earlier tonight I spoke with Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler of New York. He is chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

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REP. JERRY NADLER (D-NY): I think the world is watching. I think the world is watching because the world saw the attack on the Capitol on January 6th and they saw the mob screaming hang Mike Pence. They saw the erection of gallows outside the Capitol. They saw the -- the mob storm the Capitol. They saw Capitol police injured. I think that the world is very interested in what's happening to American democracy. That makes a very, very convincing case that the president of the United States conspired against American democracy, conspired to steal an election, conspired to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after he lost that election. And I can think of nothing more damaging to American democracy. It even is worse than Watergate.

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BROWN: Nadler says he believes that some Americans will watch Thursday's hearings and be convinced that the threat to democracy was very real and he says those who need their eyes open probably won't be watching.

So let talk more about the January 6th hearings ahead with three men who have a very unique insight. Joining us former Nixon White House counsel and CNN contributor John Dean, and the two reporters who broke the Watergate story for "The Washington Post" Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Carl and Bob are also we should note the co-authors of "All the President's Men" which is releasing a new 50th anniversary edition tomorrow.

Great to see you, gentlemen. Only wish we could have Ben Bradley join us as well, the legend. So let's talk about this. The Watergate anniversary, the new edition of your book and the new CNN special on Watergate that begins right after the show in just a few minutes. We're going to talk about that, but first, John, got to get to the news we're just talking about with Nadler.

As former White House counsel what details will you looking for during the public hearings? What do you want to know about the potential connections the January 6th attack and the Trump administration?

JOHN DEAN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I think I'm looking for how much of their information they can summarize and get in front of the public and keep the public's attention. I think the fact they're doing it in primetime is unique. The Watergate hearings did not take place in primetime live. There were some rebroadcasts in newscasts and PBS, but this is a unique experience. Americans can experience simultaneously and learn what did really happen, why it happened, what this committee knows about it, and what needs to be done about it, so I -- I'm looking for all those things as well as very interested in the process.

BROWN: So let's talk about that a little bit, Carl. How hard will it be for Americans to take all this in, right, to understand all this data that the committee wants to present and process it? Will the biggest challenge be to make everything easy to understand? What do you think?

CARL BERNSTEIN, CO-AUTHOR, "ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN": It will be a challenge and indeed you're right. There is a tremendous amount of information, damning information that shows that President Donald Trump attempted to stage a coup to keep Joe Biden from becoming president of the United States.

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And what happened on January 6th, we have clear evidence. The committee has great evidence. We know it from reporting. I know it, Bob Woodward knows it, shows that the president engaged with his lawyers, with his aides to -- and enter into a conspiracy that would prevent the election of the president of the United States at 1:00 p.m. on January 6th.

We saw Mike Pence, the vice president, running through the Capitol. The object was to keep Mike Pence from convening the body that would elect the president under the law that calls for that to happen at 1:00 p.m. And through the day the president of the United States did nothing to tell people to go home because he knew if those demonstrators, those who had broken into the Capitol were able to prevent this meeting, this election of the president, we would have no president elected and then we would be in real chaos.

BROWN: So, Bob, there will be a lot of Americans who just simply won't care about what the January 6th Committee finds. How damaging is that to democracy?

BOB WOODWARD, CO-AUTHOR, "ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN": Well, I think people actually are going to care a lot. The key is that video. Look at the assault on the Capitol. 1,000 people. As we all know it's almost impossible to get two or three people to do the same thing at the same time. This was 1,000 people, and if there's a tradition in American politics it is that we don't settle the political future of the country with violence, and the violence is so apparent, so ugly, so truly shocking, and I agree with Carl on this very strongly.

If you look at the evidence that has been assembled already and I think this committee will have more credible and the credibility turns on this idea of people who are participants, people who are witnesses, people who can say I was there, this happened. We know it happened. We know Trump is still touting this idea that the election was stolen from him. I -- I've talked to lots of Trump supporters who continue to be Trump supporters, and they do not buy the idea that the election was stolen.

It was not stolen and so we're going to go through a period Carl and I have discussed this, with John Dean, 1973, what, 49 years ago. John Dean held the country -- I mean, you could -- he was saying that the Watergate hearings weren't primetime, but in Washington you could -- the little televisions were on in the newsroom, in offices everywhere. You'd get in a cab and the cab driver was listening to the hearings.

You go into any office in Washington or around the country and people were listening to these hearings because they are saying what was it that Nixon did, and Nixon turned out to be a criminal president, and what Trump has done is astonishingly similar, the echoes of Nixon and Trump to each other are absolutely take my breath away occasionally.

BROWN: All right. So let's talk a little bit more about that. You're right. It is coming -- this 50th anniversary is coming at such a critical time in this country.

John Dean, as we just heard Bob point out, you were really at the heart of the scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, and in this special series you tell the story like you never have before. Here's a preview.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BERNSTEIN: A year before the Watergate break-in, there's a discussion with Nixon, Haldeman and Kissinger, and they are talking about fire bombing and breaking into the Brookings Institution to get some papers that are in Brookings that would make Lyndon Johnson look bad in his conduct of the war in Vietnam and Nixon look good.

DEAN: Jack Caulfield came into my office wide-eyed, and he said Colson wants me to fire bomb the Brookings Institute. I said come again?

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TIM NAFTALI, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: The president wanted classified documents, and he told the plumbers do it. Chuck Colson says what you're going to do is start a little fire, the fire alarm will go off and the plumbers were going to rent a fire truck and answer the fire while Liddy and others would go up, go to the safe, break it and pull out all the classified material.

DEAN: I said this is insane. This is declaring war on a think tank because they have papers the president thinks he wants.

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BROWN: So, John, you say in the series that Watergate was not just about the break-in or even the cover-up but something more. What was it about?

DEAN: What I tried to do, and particularly when I testified, was to place Watergate in its larger context. How could it happen, why did it happen? To understand that you had to understand the modus operandi of Richard Nixon. What was he doing? One of the things he'd earlier tried to do was break into the Brookings Institute and get papers. Had given orders and pounded on his desk. There are I think three or more tapes that show him insisting that they break into the Brookings, so I tried to take that context and explain it which would give people some reality about why something as sinister as Watergate could happen. That was my goal in my testimony.

BROWN: All right. So, Bob, your reporting in "The Post" along with Carl's reporting uncovered the scandal and more importantly and convinced lawmakers and the public that action needed to be taken. Do you think the media could play the same kind of role in a political scandal today? Because I've heard a lot of people say, you know, the days of Woodward and Bernstein are over. That's just -- we're in a different landscape. What do you think?

WOODWARD: Well, I think the media is playing a very significant role in this, and if you look at the coverage and like all coverage of a scandal of things that are secretive and hidden, it takes a lot of time to do this.

Can I do something here, Pamela, because Carl and I, in trying to narrate the similarities between Nixon and Trump, there is a Nixon tape? As you know, his Oval Office and other meetings were secretly recorded. In the end this led to his downfall, but there is a tape just after Nixon is re-elected which I found remarkable, and he's so happy that he beat George McGovern. He won 49 states and he says the following to his aides in the Oval Office.

Remember, we're going to be around and outlive our enemies and also never forget the press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Write that all on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. That is Nixon talking. That ever heard about the press being the enemy in the Trump administration? There is a parallel between these two presidents that is stunning.

BROWN: Yes.

BERNSTEIN: Let me add something to that about the press being the enemy. Bob and I did a story about -- excuse me, about 10 weeks after the break-in saying that John Mitchell, Nixon's campaign manager and former attorney general of the United States, had controlled the secret fund that paid for the bugging at Watergate and other undercover activities against the Democrats.

And I had a phone number for Mitchell and I called him that night, got him on the phone, and read the story to him and he said to me, Jesus Christ, all that crap, if you put that in the paper I'm going to have Katherine Graham, the publisher of "The Washington Post," she's going to get her tit caught in a big fat ringer. Jesus, he said. And then he said, and when this campaign is over we're going to do a story on YouTube, boys, and he hung up the phone.

It was not an idle kind of threat. They went after -- Nixon, John Mitchell and others, they went after "The Washington Post," tried to take away the television licenses of the paper, which were the lifeblood, economic lifeblood of the paper, and their object was to make the conduct of the press the issue in Watergate rather than the conduct of the president and his men. Just as Donald Trump has done through his presidency and even afterwards.

BROWN: Yes. And underpinning that, of course, is they don't like the information that the press puts out there about them because it can be damning and that's the bottom line. That is why they try to make it all about the press being the enemy.

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So fascinating conversation. I'm really looking forward to watching this. John Dean, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, thank you.

Don't forget Carl's latest book, "Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom" is available now.

And the all-new CNN Original Series, "WATERGATE: BLUEPRINT FOR A SCANDAL" premiers at the top of the hour only on CNN.

We'll be right back.

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BROWN: For over a decade, award-winning actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has brought people together from all over the world through his online content creation platform "HitRecord." It became even more essential during the pandemic when so many were forced to work from home, and now they have joined forces with MasterClass.

CNN's Chloe Melas spoke to him about it.

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GORDON-LEVITT: HitRecord started as just this Web site that I made with my brother a long time ago, and it grew over the years to become this online community just full of people who love making art together.

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And we're always trying to kind of open up the creative process and help people come out of their shells, people who might not necessarily consider themselves artists but are curious to give it a try. Yes, so it means that we're getting to apply all this expertise that we've amassed over the years through online creativity and community building, and go work at MasterClass and continue that mission and do it kind of -- it's like we went through a warped zone and now, you know, this mission that we've had to help people find their creative selves, we can do it with, you know, at scale and it's just so exciting to working with MasterClass.

JARED GELLER, CO-FOUNDER, HITRECORD: There are all sorts of projects that people can work on, say, you know, you are interested in music or writing or animation, and -- but you don't necessarily, you know, have the experience or knowledge to do it all on your own. You can go and find projects and work and collaborate with other people together, and you know, and perhaps you can add lyrics to a song that's already being written by other people or add illustrations to an animated short film that people are creating together.

DAVID ROGIER, CEO AND FOUNDER, MASTERCLASS: I now want to go outside in the world. I can now take a class with Steph Curry and learn how to shoot a three-pointer. Right? If I want to learn how to garden, I can take a class with Ron Finley, and learn how to plant things on my balcony and everything in the best classes that we've loved in school they always were fun and so I think why I was so thrilled to work with Joe and Jared is because I think they embody that.

GORDON-LEVITT: The best way to learn something is in my experience is just to jump in and do it and start trying. I don't learn that well from a textbook. You know, I learn best by like getting my hands dirty, and this is what we always encourage on HitRecord. This was our take on learning with class projects, and it's been really exciting to talk to David about doing that at MasterClass.

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BROWN: Last fall HitRecord launched its own subscription learning service class projects and now all of the educational content will be made available for free on the HitRecord Web site.

And this just into CNN, a founding member of the rock group Bon Jovi is dead. Alec John Such was the band's first bass player when they formed in 1983. He played and toured for more than a decade. Playing on the hit songs "Living on a Prayer" and "Wanted Dead or Alive." A short time ago the band tweeted, quote, "Alec was always wild and full of life. We will miss him dearly." No cause of death has been released. Alec John Such was 70 years old.

And you're in the CNN NEWSROOM. Up next Prince Louis steals the show at the Queen's jubilee with a spectacular tantrum that every parent can relate to. We'll be right back.

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BROWN: It's the final day of the Platinum Jubilee, a celebration marking the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. The Queen has not been able to attend every event due to some health concerns, but she appeared on the balcony as you see here at Buckingham Palace earlier today to watch the festivities. And then she later thanked the British people in a statement, saying, quote, "When it comes to how to mark 70 years as your queen there is no guide book to follow. It really is a first. But I have been humbled and deeply touched that so many people have taken to the streets to celebrate my Platinum Jubilee."

And celebrate they did.

For days London's streets have been alive with throngs of the Queen's supporters all leading up to today's finale.

CNN's Anna Stewart is there.

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ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Great British street party is a long-standing tradition for marking royal events. Coronations, royal weddings and jubilees. Thousands took place across the U.K. Sunday in spite of the typically British weather. This one on a very aptly named street.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's called Elizabeth Street and Queen Elizabeth has got to be done really.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So we've come all this way to be at the street parties closest to Buckingham Palace.

STEWART: It's a party catering for all ages, for military veterans to some much younger residents.

(On-camera): How do you describe Mr. Punch for an international audience?

(Voice-over): This mischievous puppet speaks mostly gibberish but luckily has a translator.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He said he likes jubilees because he gets lots of work.

STEWART: This street has some notable shops, including hatter to the royals Philip Tracy, and they are all part of the celebrations.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm actually in the salon across the road so it's part of my neighborhood. In Elizabeth Street we've always had (INAUDIBLE) atmosphere. So I think it's come across really well.

STEWART: Above all, street parties are about uniting communities. It's a moment to break bread or in this case scones, cucumber sandwiches, meringues and of course some bubbles.

(On-camera): Cheers. Happy Platinum Jubilee.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Happy Jubilee.

STEWART (voice-over): Anna Stewart, CNN, from Elizabeth Street in London.

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BROWN: And quite the contrast there, Prince Louis expressed exactly how he felt at the Platinum Jubilee pageant this morning.

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He threw a tantrum in the stands. I'm sure you've seen this by now. It's my favorite story of the day. And he looked thoroughly unimpressed by the pageant and (INAUDIBLE) his great grandmother, putting his hands over his mom's mouth before crossing his arms to express his displeasure. I can so relate to how Kate feels, but although I couldn't imagine doing that on the world stage with everyone watching.

Prince Louis' expressions last week went viral when he threw his hands over his ears during a flyover and quickly became an internet meme. We've all been there, Louis.

Well, thank you so much for joining me this evening. I'm Pamela Brown. I'll see you again next weekend. The all-new CNN Original Series "WATERGATE: BLUEPRINT FOR A SCANDAL" is next.

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