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Absolutely false and incorrect. to be clear, i am recanting any such statements and there is no truth to any statement of mine that al-jazeera plans to air. >> we are joined live from bristol, connecticut. jamelle, i appreciate you being with us. we talk about this, manning denial after denial here, saying anything sent from that institute to his wife is her business, has nothing to do with him. just a short time ago on msnbc, one of al-jazeeras investigative reporters had this to say. >> lets b...

And i talked to a lot of republicans who just are kind of resigned to this notion -- is that if you look at donald trumps support, it is the highest right now, and hes been there for months, but its in a field of 11 people, that it might be the case that youre going to have to get one alternative to donald trump, many, many others are going to have to drop out to see a real challenge to him, because right now all the others are splitting the vote. >> is there a republican, jamelle, who can fight...

Please, no out bursts, contestants demand, absolute concentration. and i will ask you, are you ready to play? >> no. >> doesnt matter. well put the clock on the board anyway. 100 seconds. ill get the 100-point questions here. hands on buzzer, please. we begin the 100-point round with this. if rand paul tries to run simultaneously for president, re-election in 2016, she will stop him. the kentucky second of state said this week -- >> jamelle. >> jamelle takes the lead. ive spoken on a lot of coll...

The fundamental issue is not even necessarily michael brown. it is that this keeps happening to black men. its that whole issue of driving while black. as long as black people continue to feel you cannot walk down the street without coming under suspicion, this anger is going to continue. >> that was "new york times" reporter helene cooper on "meet the press yesterday." moments later that divide was on full display. >> if you look at the most credible evidence, the lessons are really basic. dont...

The deep south has long had a history of this strategic voting on both sides. >> all right. jamelle, writer for slate. you called this one right. thank you very much. >> thank you. we now have a reid alert. two major decisions have come down from the supreme court. one has to do with tv and on the internet. the other deals with cell phone searches by police. nbcs pete williams joining me now live from the supreme court. pete, could you explain these two decisions today? >> sure. on aerial, it ...

To be precleared. case in point for why this state needs to be covered by the voting rights act and why congress needs to act on the amendment. section 4 being gutted does not bode black mississippi voters well at all. >> jamelle, you were writing about cochranes attempt to reach out to african-american voter. you wrote, and im quoting you, if there was a time to support cochran, now is it. if i were voting in mississippi, i would swallow my partisanship and cast a ballot for cochrane. eñ given...

Like abe lincoln. go ahead. >> i was going to say, jamelle, its worth noting that you noted this, levied the first income tax on the country, something conservatives hate. i though theres a lot of back and forth online and in print about race this week, and going back and forth about conservatives and their relation to it. jonathan, who has a massive piece in "new york" magazine, hotly debated, he writes, effectively racial conservatism used to be similar things, now they are effectively the sam...

Fell from it were out of military necessity. they did this not because he was a bleeding heart but he realized to beat the south you had to destroy their property and destroying their property meant freeing slaves. >> its like the republican party knows it has a problem with women and minorities and every single time you bring up the question of skin color, they go back hundreds of years to lincoln and theyre like, wait, whats that you say we have a problem with black people? what about abe linc...

And hes got an attorney general who is helping him. >> jamelle, the countrys first american african-american president is exacerbating racial tensions presumably because hes talking about lbjs civil rights legacy. >> i dont know what thats supposed to mean, right? like talking about race is exacerbating racial tensions? in which case we cant talk about anything, we cant talk about income equality, means talking about the racial wealth gap. if obama were to talk about the racial wealth gap, hes e...

Large positive economic times for the country. on the other hand, he embarrassed the nation, he breached his responsibility, i think, as an adult and as a leader in his relationship, and i think thats very unfortunate, but i dont think thats hillary clintons to explain. >> so, you know, jamelle, you heard the beginning of the answer, mitt romney said this is what the race should be about, about hillarys record, then the back end, we heard him sort of echo some of what weve been hearing from rand...