Special visit from Morgan Freeman who sits down with soul daddy. cheers and applause really good show. Lets get right to it. Man, there is big news in the world of wrongfully acquitted unhinged menacing. A lot of people still interested in the antics of floridas bad boy, George Zimmerman. Larry the antics . Of floridas bad boy . The guy murdered an unarmed child. Hes not the fonz. laughter ayyyy. I should be in prison. Whoa, whoa. This is out of florida. George zimmerman has been shot. Zimmerman was injured in the face. Larry okay, okay. cheers . Larry hold on hold on. I know it sounds like George Zimmerman got shot in the face, but before anyone gets too excited guys guy,s, guys. cheers and applause confetti cannon. Hold your horses. Guys stop it, guys he didnt get shot in the face. George zimmerman was allegedly weaving a gun in traffic and it was at that point that the other man fired. Larry he was waving a gun in traffic. Or as George Zimmerman calls it, mondays. Am i reet . laught
Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central cheers and applause larry thank you very much. Welcome to the show. Im larry wilmore. Larry Larry Larry Larry Larry Larry Larry ramp it up. Thank you very much. Thank you. Man, we have an incredible show for you tonight, tvs Ali Wentworth is here. Fun fact we were both flag girls on in living color. Fun fact. Author dan savage and a very special visit from Morgan Freeman who sits down with soul daddy. cheers and applause really good show. Lets get right to it. Man, there is big news in the world of wrongfully acquitted unhinged menacing. A lot of people still interested in the antics of floridas bad boy, George Zimmerman. Larry the antics . Of floridas bad boy . The guy murdered an unarmed child. Hes not the fonz. laughter ayyyy. I should be in prison. Whoa, whoa. This is out of florida. George zimmerman has been shot. Zimmerman was injured in the face. Larry okay, okay. cheers . Larry hold on hold on. I know it sounds like George Zimmerman got sh
Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning tax writer at New York Times and now at the college of law. We have the president and ceo of the center of American Progress who served in the obama and Clinton Administrations, policy director of Hillary Clintons campaign. Laura flanders, founder of grittv. Com. The editor of salon. Com and the woman who hired me two years ago. Thanks, as always for that. Of course. Anyway, on friday afternoon, House Speaker john boehner attempted to paint a picture of white house negotiations and how to avoid going over the fiscal curve. I have been saying fiscal slope. Now on the show, ill go with curve. This isnt a Progress Report because theres no progress to report. Four days ago, we offered a serious proposal based on testimony from president clintons former chief of staff. Theres been no counter offer from the white house. Instead, reports i understand kate the president adopted a deliberate strategy to slow walk the economy to the edge of the fiscal cliff. The extr
We begin with 30 years of tough on policies and laws starting to unrival. Sea change movement for criminal justice and race. Today speaking to the american bar association, attorney general eric holder announced in lowlevel nonviolent drug cases federal prosecutors will be instructed to leave out the amount of an illegal substance in their criminal complaint in order to avoid triggering federal mandatory minimums. A move that could be the start of a truly Seismic Shift in federal drug policy. In new york, a landmark decision on the stop and frisk practice of the nypd. This morning the Federal District judge found nypd stop and Frisk Program violates the Constitutional Rights of people of color in new york. Writing that the nypd carries out more stops where there are more black and hispanic resident s when other relevant variables are held. The racial composition of a precinct or stop rate predicts above and beyond the crime rate. The city, through the nypd, has a policy of incorrect ra
Antigay raws in russia is justifiably growing. How much is at stake coming. We begin with 30 years of tough on policies and laws starting to unrival. Sea change movement for criminal justice and race. Today speaking to the american bar association, attorney general eric holder announced in lowlevel nonviolent drug cases federal prosecutors will be instructed to leave out the amount of an illegal substance in their criminal complaint in order to avoid triggering federal mandatory minimums. A move that could be the start of a truly Seismic Shift in federal drug policy. In new york, a landmark decision on the stop and frisk practice of the nypd. This morning the Federal District judge found nypd stop and Frisk Program violates the Constitutional Rights of people of color in new york. Writing that the nypd carries out more stops where there are more black and hispanic resident s when other relevant variables are held. The census track predicts the stop rate above and beyond the crime rate.