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Speech. stand by, dana bash. joining me here in new york, another person to this panel, princeton university political historian julian zellezer. i got that right. okay. so is this -- a lot of people have been comparing this back to, you know, when george w. bush made his case for the war in iraq. saying this is very similar to, you know, theyre both very similar. do you agree? i mean, is this an historic moment in the same sense for president barack obama as it was for george w. bush then? >> i...

Likely to target? >> absolutely. i think there is an important moment now where the attorney general can look at the states and in your introduction you noted there were several states in the wake of the shelby county decision, talking about swiftly moving to implement procedures whether in the early voting context, the photo i.d. context, whether it be in other contexts. theres an opportunity now to look at the entire country in those places where voter suppression tactics are prolive nating. v...

Body t sice. i will continue to fight for trayvon to the day i die. >> david, the biography of barack obama, "barack obama the story," the author joins us now from wisconsin. david, why is it issue for difficult for the president despite his personal connection and how he spoke from the heart on friday? why over the years has this been a challenge for him? >> its interesting that hes basically spent all of his had adult life thinking about race and the many contexts of it and dynamics of it. he ...

Since you made your filing this week have said that you made a mistake. in fact, standard & poors since your filing, has dropped detroits bond rating to its lowest level. and it says that youre going to have a great difficulty, even if you restructure, even if you go through all this pain in getting investors ever to trust the city if they go out and try to borrow money again. >> mm-hmm. chris, ive heard that in many other contexts. and certainly ive been doing this now for the better part of th...

Other contexts. ive been doing this for the better part of three decades. chrysler now has the ram truck of the year. every restructuring ive been in, doom shares say this is going to ruin insert enterprise here. certainly the credit markets have responded. theyll make rational decisions because theyre financial institutions. after this kerfuffle, well be back in business. >> chris: how long will it take? >> the foul of 2014. >> chris: thats a little more than a year? >> we now have a judge. the...

Our civil rights and civil liberties. theres a way to conduct that surveillance and narrow the provisions of both fisa, the foreign intelligence surveillance act, and even the patriot act so as to preserve those liberties without the sweeping collection of broad and perhaps unlimited kind of vacuum-like sweeping of data that has been described and disclosed most recently. and so i think my colleague mark udall has it right that there is a balance to be struck. a lot of us have been calling for t...

Manufacturers and other contexts we dont have the ability to take some of these issues to a civil suit. i know we want to get to some politics before we go, right, toure? >> yeah, chuck. governor christie said hes going to appoint new jersey attorney general jeff chiesa to hold the senate seat vacated by senator lautenberg. what do you think about that pick? >> christie did not want to appoint a caretaker. attorney general, hes not going to be a candidate. hes just serving out until a new senato...

Heritage is making here. can republicans make arguments against racism in republican contexts? >> i dont think they can. i mean, a few talk a good game, but presupposes that there is a republican establishment that somehow is going to be that policing mechanism, that they are going to be people that stand up, but they are really afraid of the base, and i think right now were seeing chaos really within the republican party, different groups and heritage is just one of them, vying for power and ev...

Heritage is making here. can republicans make arguments against racism in republican contexts? >> i dont think they can. i mean, a few talk a good game, but presupposes that there is a republican establishment that somehow is going to be that policing mechanism, that they are going to be people that stand up, but they are really afraid of the base, and i think right now were seeing chaos really within the republican party, different groups and heritage is just one of them, vying for power and ev...

Their community they can call on to trust. and the first step of that is acknowledging that this violence is happening. and i want to make one point about all of the talk about the ariel castro as just sort of a normal guy. i dont think that that is a mistake. i think one of the things we always do when stories like this happen, we sort of say, oh, this person is pathological. and this is an individual problem. this is not an individual problem. every story has the same set of structures, the sa...