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National media comes and without that a lot of times the world does not pay attention but then it becomes hard -- i wonder if you agree. hard to create a broad coalition of national sympathy for your position when youre being violent in that way toward property and the police so you get the attention but then you lose peoples sympathy, so youre taking one step forward perhaps and three steps back. >> the great strategic conundrum. it gets you a heck of a lot attention, if you can deconflict it a...

It becomes hard -- i wonder if you agree. it becomes hard to create a broad coalition of national sympathy for your position when you are being violent in that way toward property in your community, toward the police. so you get the attention but then you lose peoples sympathy, so youre taking one step forward perhaps and three steps back. >> the great strategic conundrum. the violence builds nothing. it gets you a heck of a lot attention, if you can deconflict it and see its not the same thing ...

Worse. i know that is hard to believe sometimes, but places like the super-max, where you are locked up in a cell 23 hours a day, if that is where he was put and mcveigh, and mcnichols, the shoe bomber and sean knows about it fbi, we filled up that bombers row, and it is awful and worse than death in my opinion. but she will try to save his life even to put him there. >> jim, i believe you on that front. but just to remind people there is no death penalty in the state of massachusetts. the reaso...

Florida, a little known part of the civil rights movement. i think people know about birmingham, selma, montgomery -- >> they dont talk about florida. >> not very much. it was a ruthless place with a very intense klan presence. and king considered it the most lawless community that he had ever worked in. and he was in jail there the 11th, the 12th and 13th with the commencement scheduled for the 14th. >> he made it, though. got out of jail, flew immediately up to springfield. the speech he deliv...

In the, the table factory. >> table factory? [ laughter ] oh, its this the right idea? or the right idea? >> i get what theyre saying. theyre saying some word. that make a lot of sense. theyre not using -- theyre using real people. real people who cant act at all. >> yeah. >> didnt memorize the script. looking offcamera at the cue card with no emotion. doesnt help make the cause very well. >> interesting, paul. what are your thoughts? >> i think it is brilliant. when i think of innovative. forwa...

Part. he was, you know, bright, intelligent, inquisitive. you know, forward thinking. he was a real -- very positive. in everything he did, he was so positive and just infect shouse laugh. great guy. >> theres no way to get to the bottom of this, you were two upstanding citizens as described by friends and relatives and pilot and co-pilot and malaysian authorities say somebody counter manded and reprogrammed that flight path. >> reporter: thats right, andrea, the mystery deepens every day here r...

Not just gun safety, not just common sense gun safety, but internet safety. protecting our children online. for protecting our privacy in our cell phones, in our medical records. hes been on the cutting edge, forward thinking, thinking about problems really before weve thought about them. >> what do you make of this focus up here? i know, were up here for a reason because this state, this commonwealth, surprised the country when they elected scott brown a while back. what happens, is it the bad ...

Internet safety. protecting our children online. for protecting our privacy in our cell phones, in our medical records. hes been on the cutting edge, forward thinking, thinking about problems really before weve thought about them. >> what do you make of this focus up here? i know, were up here for a reason because this state, this commonwealth, surprised the country when they elected scott brown a while back. what happens, is it the bad candidate, democratic side, whos not that strong of a candi...

The strongest gun safety laws on the books of any state in the country. and we have the lowest gun deaths in the country. and there is reason for it. even though we have porous borders. and here we have a candidate who says that its okay, that its fun to have high capacity magazines, a weapon that can fire 100 rounds in two minutes. i think thats out of step with the people of massachusetts. ed markey has been on the cutting edge. he has been a positive voice for safety, not just gun safety, not...

School and so i had to really kind of compose myself and gather myself because i didnt want him to know. that night, i let myself feel. i talked to the doctor, he talked to me about all these different options, and that was my darkest hour. that was my moment of oh, my gosh, what is worst case scenario here and it took me to a really, really bad place. since then, i will say that a couple of really great things happened. one is right here at cnn, you know, theres a woman here who works for the m...