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Blacks and so forth. we dont have to segregate. we dont have problems. even when weve had some incidents where whites have had problems with blacks and blacks have problems with whites, we can usually work it out and get it talked out so it doesnt escalate into something where we end up having to take a whole cell house and turn it into all whites and then all blacks. we just dont have that problem. >> theres another form of integration at indiana state that goes beyond race. in the residential ...

I know your work around louisville and you went to school there. talk to me about what happened around the segregation and integration story. >> i want to be clear that i think racial integration is an important goal given howdy vided our country is politically and economically. poor are getting poorer, rich are getting richer. its important to figure out ways to make diversity happen. its the function of public schools, the bring people together and create a nation. but, the way it was carried ...

We are lousy at it, and until we are better at it, we will be constantly calling on the military instrument of power, and it is not appropriate. >> is this threat even true when the primary threats were other nation states or mostly true of being lousy at it, because it is no longer nation states or rather stateless actors within them. >> i agree that the proliferation and fragmentation of threats to us make the application of national power much more difficult, but it puts a greater premium on ...

This is why after seeing them in two hot wars perform these duties in combat, theyve recommended that some of those opportunities be owned up to women. jon: and what do you know about how the men who are currently serve anything the military in some of those front line combat positions, what do they say about all this, do you know? >> well, you know, i dont know. i imagine that its going to be met with some resistance just as, um, the pentagon is going to go through a very difficult period now. ...

They seem to be saying if they can reach an accommodation, the women dont get in unless they pass the physical standards that the men do, no exception the women have to be just as strong, just as fast. >> sure. >> megyn: then are you okay with it? >> so, now how these things usually work in integration happens. if it doesnt happen fast enough what do you do? start to lower the bar or impose quotas, one or two women per company, per battalion or lower the standards a little bit on this particular...

Most of these people who showed up for the inauguration were just regular folks that made the trip from how ever far away to come stand on the national mall to see history. one of the people who made the trek from virginia, the state capitol in virginia was henry marsh, a state democratic senator from virginia. in his official biography, senator marsh talks about walking miles to a one-room school in coastal virginia when he was growing up, and the yellow school bus filled with white school chil...

Jackie robinson winning a batting title. theres an old word that was used a lot in american life, integration. we talked all the time during our horrible legacy of segregation about the need for integration. today represents the integration of our political tradition. barack obama is now in the american grain, as they say. he is part of our political tradition, and this will be our tradition for the future. so hes just not -- hes not just the face of the president, chris. he is the face of the f...

Fighting terrorism makes him the perfect man to leave the cia. to critics he may be the man who knows too much. todays "deep dive" we look at brennans past and what it means to claim the top job. if he gets it, a final step in a 25-year career with the cia. former director in george tenants chief of staff who named deputy executive director in 2001. in 2003, the first and only head of the terrorist threat integration center and was, of course, the interim director of the national counterterroris...

Siberian work camps, they said, oh, its all volunteer labor. he wrote a book later in his life saying i was wrong. he actually ended up endorsing nixon and eisenhower, right? why should wallace be this kind of visionary figure if he was wrong about the soviet nation of the state, and thats such a defining issue not just for the world but all? >> the china experts on the trip. the russian experts got it wrong. the military people got it wrong also because they set it up to show him the village wh...

Going to be there, if they are going to get there in time. im very much connected to that. i really, really am. i have a great degree of sympathy and belief that i did not live in new york, i might have a gun in my house, i dont know if im supposed to say that, but when people talk about that, im totally there with you. but when you get to the point where you say, there should be no regulation for anything, any sort of -- and you start rolling back regulation and start getting to the point where...