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>> well, thats -- >> not even indicted. >> hes not even indicted. >> right. >> glenn beck isnt alone. in fact, theres been a huge array of conservative thinkers and writers and media personalities who are more or less saying the same thing that i think most people say when they see that video, which is something horrible happened here and there should at least be a criminal indictment. but the big difference seems to be between liberals and conservatives and frankly between a lot of black folks ...

Its all on tape. i dont see how a person can look at that tape and not say that man did not deserve to die at the hand of those police officers. >> what faith said, no one would believe it without the tape. people would believe it. people who live in communities where this kind of thing has happened and has happened for decades, but no one outside of those communities. and tonight on fox news, there are commentators saying yes, there should have been an indictment. and the only reason they are g...

And here, you have a tape, and its all on tape. i dont see how a person can look at that tape and not say that man did not deserve to die at the hand of those police officers. >> what faith said, no one would believe it without the tape. people would believe it. people who live in communities where this kind of thing has happened and has happened for decades, but no one outside of those communities. and tonight on fox news, there are commentators saying yes, there should have been an indictment....

>> all of this begs the question under the first african-american president. are race relations in america any better? i dont know if youve seen this chris rock interview. this is phenomenal. let me quote part of this. chris rock, comedian chris rock, the new york magazine piece. this is what he says. quoting part of it. heres the thing, when we talk about race relations in america or racial progress, its all nonsense. there are no race relations. why people were crazy. now, theyre not as crazy....

Commentators like tom ricks and others have said, this is not a job to be loved by the generals. its to remind the general whos boss and thats why i wrote that ash was going to have to fire a four-star general somewhere along in there to show them that he really is in control of that building. >> well definitely be watching. thank you very much, steve clemons. really appreciate it. more fallout now for bill cosby, the comedian resigned from the board of directors at temple university giving up...

Now. >> once the bush administration made the case and made the decision to go to war, you didnt hear a lot of people except from the very fringe fringe elements of the left, you have lieutenant colonel ralph peters coming on and calling his commander in chief timid on national television? you didnt get that under eisenhower. you didnt get that under ronald reagan. you didnt get that when republicans were supporting president truman back in the 1950s. this is a crisis, i think, of unity. >> but ...

People dying in that small country. a lot of people are looking at france and in germany, they have been trying to voice some kind of assertiveness but they are very dependent in energy terms. the big shift -- shift taking place in britain. in britain, david cameron said that the city of london which is gets a lot of russian money is in some ways -- >> billionaires running around. >> some called it a casino for the russian billionaires. >> the city of london might have to live without russian mo...

Media are saying, gee, its so terrible that they are in the conditions in which theyre now, once they get here. well, its a total abuse of human rights on the way here. >> a lot of people as you know say the press has been very similar at the timic to barack obama. you ran against him six years ago. has that been as true in the second term where there have been all these scandals and controversies? >> i think the press in some ways would have been harder on george w. bush when you look around th...

Forever. does any one out there think thats a good number? murder of the middle class. >> or with it murder of jobs, i go along with it. >> murder of good middle class jobs. there are no more middle class lifestyles in america. >> the cliche of the middle class that you commentators throw out. i hate it. average disposable household income increased across all groups since 1979. 40 percent>> obama big government of all kind. regulation kills jobs. >> have you looked at the average american male ...

Your colleagues. >> respected commentators who are columnists particularly say things that absolutely are contradicted by the facts like, oh, well, we wanted to leave a force behind in iraq but the iraqis wouldnt take it. thats just wrong. >> when you ran for president in 2000, i spent a lot of hours on the bus with you. you spent hours and hours and hours talking to reporters and were a media darling. when you flan 2008 you had a more contentious relationship and didnt offer that access. what c...