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>> let me give you -- >> give you stats. in the year 2000. all right, when president bush was elected, first term. black unemployment was below 8%. it went up a little bit and down again in 2007. to 8%. under president obama that has risen from when the president took office, it was about 10%. it has riz o risen to 14%. there has been with everybody else, may have been a flow in black unemployment. let me ask you this: i believe that the primary problem in the african-american community is out o...

Why? >> well, i think first of all, african-americans have immense pride in president obama as a president. they see it as a major accomplishment in this country. and embracing an african-american leader. and they are positive and hopeful, probably, more than anything else, that his leadership will make their lives better. >> all right, but it didnt turn out that way. he had four years to improve. the black unemployment rate. and its not improving. so are you saying that african-american communi...

>> let me give you -- >> give you stats. in the year 2000. all right, when president bush was elected, first term. black unemployment was below 8%. it went up a little bit and down again in 2007. to 8%. under president obama that has risen from when the president took office, it was about 10%. it has riz o risen to 14%. there has been with everybody else, may have been a flow in black unemployment. let me ask you this: i believe that the primary problem in the african-american community is out o...

Why? >> well, i think first of all, african-americans have immense pride in president obama as a president. they see it as a major accomplishment in this country. and embracing an african-american leader. and they are positive and hopeful, probably, more than anything else, that his leadership will make their lives better. >> all right, but it didnt turn out that way. he had four years to improve. the black unemployment rate. and its not improving. so are you saying that african-american communi...

>> let me give you -- >> give you stats. in the year 2000. all right, when president bush was elected, first term. black unemployment was below 8%. it went up a little bit and down again in 2007. to 8%. under president obama that has risen from when the president took office, it was about 10%. it has riz o risen to 14%. there has been with everybody else, may have been a flow in black unemployment. let me ask you this: i believe that the primary problem in the african-american community is out o...

Of the border is enforce, its ridiculous. it takes a couple people. not a thousand. one or two. >> just one. timmy mcveigh. a lot of people in the united states committed criminal acts. >> laura: je to deal with them as well. >> thats right. so we should have a more secure system and the right, the correctness. build the bridges not the walls. >> laura: that is a cliche. lets go in to this. no cliches on the show. building bridges instead of walls. im talking facts here. go ahead. >> this mans n...

Why? >> well, i think first of all, african-americans have immense pride in president obama as a president. they see it as a major accomplishment in this country. and embracing an african-american leader. and they are positive and hopeful, probably, more than anything else, that his leadership will make their lives better. >> all right, but it didnt turn out that way. he had four years to improve. the black unemployment rate. and its not improving. so are you saying that african-american communi...

>> woodward was granted broad unfettered access to the white house in first term. hard to dispute he is under attack in the second. >> former advisor and 2008 campaign manager david plouffe hammered woodward as has-been in a tweet last night. watching woodward in the last two days is imagining my idol schmidt pitching again. perfection gained once is rarely repeated. plenty of reporters have received angry call and e-mail from the staff and it began long before he was elect and never stopped. wh...

Thats kind of a brought set of things, including memorandums and orders. orders send to strike the ayre of republicans in this particular congress because it sounds like the president is overreaching, but, karen, my question to you is, you know, theres this kind of pomp and circumstance about bipart sfwlanship on the night of the state of the union, you know, cats sit with dogs and dogs sit with cats and everybody pretends to get along for a second. i am worried that this thing is going to be ug...

>> well, i really have no idea. why they would allow ran paul to do this. just displaying the disunity in the party whereby and the fact that it cant get its act together at the moment. its interesting, though. rubio, the sort of savior of the party, it is possible to sit down and speak with him for an hour, an hour and a half, and think this is really impressive. this guy really has something to say. then you look at your notes afterwards, and its not -- theres not quite as much as you thought ...