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are affable about, kind of in favor of something. is there any information that could come to you that would make you change your mind on a subject that might be rather a hot topic? do you want to have the same knowledge base tomorrow as you have today? and that was the question that i asked myself. do i know everything that i have to know about this project? and clearly the answer was no, because there were such divided loyalties and such difference of opinions from expert, i might ad...

So what are they going to say about jason riley, a respected columnist for the washington journal. >> theres a pattern of hiring people like melissa harris-perry, eric dyson, and reverend sharpton to raise things. they say racially inflammatory things, they bring race into discussions where it doesnt belong, and their take is ba basically all of black peoples problems are caused by white people, and if you disagree with that, youre a racist. >> hard pressed to come up with something for that. >>...

0 but in the middle of it, when youre pursuing a war at the same time and one that is very controversial with the american people, and has been very difficult on our military, i think its just a disservice, to be frank with you. >> eric, in both of those sound bites, you dont have former administration officials disputing the accounts in the book, what actually happened. theyre just expressing disappointment. did that surprise you at all? >> im not sure. i dont think gates is going to lie about ...

0 thing that, what brit said was, why didnt you say something about it? where is the courage to stand up and say this is wrong? he didability have the guts to do it then. >> i dont think its about bravery or guts. i think it was about respect. one of the things he says is he was so surprised as he was sitting there in the oval office and obama -- or it might have been, i dont know if it was the oval os, but in a white house meeting, that both obama and hillary clinton are talking about very open...

0 we are dedicated to a wide diversity of families, it is one of our core programs. and i remember reminded when we are doing so, it must have been of the utmost respect. >> what did you make of that? >> i felt tears welling up in our eyes. not to condone what she did. but it was, as mitt romney said, a very heartfelt apology. and it was one that you could tell she knew in her heart of hearts that she had crossed a line, that she could never take back. >> i dont think its possible to watch that ...

Things and offend people. >> as we all do from time to time. >> but i think the folks over at msnbc often spend a lot of time dealing the moral authority card and being morally superior about people right of center. when you make a mistake like this which is frankly the kind of thing they accuse the right of all the time, you should hang up the moral authority card for just a few weeks. >> another example, during the whole duck dynasty thing, eric dyson said phil robertson are part of a majority...

0 right? i think part of it is social media. people get rewarded on social media, twitter, largely duped for saying things really controversial. the problem with saying something thats controversial is that youre only a couple of tweets away from it being perceived as being retweeted about or something thats so offensive you risk losing your jobs. >> what do you think about this culture or problem? is it a cultural problem? >> i have a hard time saying its a cultural problem because i know a lot...

0 the end of the year will be the wedding between karen romney and northwest. can you imagine mitt romney and kanye west as in-laws? >> joining us now, lauren ashburn. fox news contributor and editor at large at hot air and kelly goff. why did that segment with melissa harris-perry and her team strike such a nerve? >> i think many people thought it was offensive, i heard the words zealot. people who thought here is an african-american woman. and this is also a woman who was raised or born into a...

0 congress in 1956. mandela was arrested with 155 other political activists and was changed with high treason. the treason trial lasted 4 1/2 years. the charges against him were ultimately dropped. mandela used a false identity to evade the government and traveled to europe and other countries in africa to built support for the anc and study guerilla warfare. when he returned to south africa in 1962, mandela was arrested and sentenced to years in prison. during his sentence, the government charm...

Underestimate the difficulty finding the common ground. theres not as much common ground here as there used to be. >> indeed. why find common ground when one party can spend all of its time railing against the presidents health care law. with that the president will defend his signature achievement in a speech at 2:30 eastern. joining me georgetown university professor eric dyson, salons editor-at-large joan walsh, "washington post" columnist jonathan capehart, former democratic congressman haro...