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Relations in this kcountry? i mean, the aftermath conversation of ferguson thats going on right now you believe is connected to jobs? >> absolutely, ed. look, clearly police brutality, the harassment of young blacks is a terribly serious problem. but you cant ignore the facts that african-american youth unemployment today is over 30%. the projections are that a black male born today he has a one in three chance of ending up in the criminal justice system. this is totally unacceptable. and what w...

To earn his way back to general population, but his history of violence continues to haunt him. >> i continue an emotional response to disrespect. >> i was warned when i came into this job regarding offender leonard mcquay. leonards very smart, very, very clever. he can talk a great talk. >> though caseworker beverly has raised questions about his worthiness, her goal to give segregation inmates a chance to prove themselves. so she recently made a controversial decision. after mcquays successful...

Thats one way you have to go because the lawmakers are in the pockets of the unions. these are state laws that have been put in place. the courts are saying, these kids are getting a second class education because its impossible to fire bad teachers. its that simple. so what this really exposes for me is just how much the system puts the adults ahead of the kids. these tenure laws, these laws cannot be justified on educational grounds. there is no educational basis for firing teachers on seniori...

Hyperinflation and you should put all of your money in gold. i think where hes been a little bit weak is as you said, he caved to the republicans on extending the bush tax cuts and hes not really taken his case to the country about why we needed a jobs program, why we needmore infrastructure spending. i think hes allowed the republicans to set the agenda on too many of these issues. he never talks very much about his successes such as bringing down the deficit by two-third says. i doubt very man...

Man who has defined d.c. politics more than four decades and he has a new book out to tell his story and his new memoir "mayor for life" he describes his childhood in the south that led him to the civil rights struggle of the 60s. working with the naacp in college, then becoming the first national chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee and then leading a boycott of d.c. buses in 1986. a year later he co-founded a jobs program for unemployed black men that helped form his power...

Finally vote. he called the situation, "a little bit of an inconvenience but still believe the law is necessary." now i get it. this is how republicans will solve voter i.d., theyll just assign a staffer to everybody. that way if you dont have the right photo i.d., your staffer will take care of it for you. maybe this could double as the gops jobs program, too. folks, lets get real. these voter i.d. laws are on the way out all over the country. republicans like hutchison may forget their i.d.s, ...

"the reid report." ill see you back here tomorrow. visit us online. "the cycle" is up next. hey, "cyclists." >> hey, joy. >> whats going on today? >> not much. great commentary there. unbelievable that they wanted to put the women out front. thank you so much for highlighting that. >> thank you. >> and were going to be taking a look at this ongoing crisis in ukraine. are they heading to a civil war? things are getting really, really heated there. we also have the president and the vice preside...

How are they being impacted by obama care? is there enough certainty for them to be able to project their costs and now start hiring? >> well, i think theres a lot of regulations in obama care that are problematic to small businesses and businesses generally. but i dont think its just obama care. if you want to do a jobs program in my mind, as i said, reduce regulation, im a big fan of the stossel rule, named after john stossel, the fox news host. for every regulation you add, eliminate two, thr...

Program. no one is really pushing that anymore. the republicans tried with the ryan bill. but that got nowhere with getting the democrats in the senate and president to get onboard. until you do those things, im not sure any of these small bills that theyre pushing are going to have such a dramatic effect. even if each one of them is better than the alternative. >> america imports 6 million barrels a day of oil. opening up offshore drilling could eliminate foreign purchases. is that an idea repu...

Obstructionist role theyre playing, and to rally the american people around an agenda that speaks to the crisis facing working families in our country. we have to raise the minimum wage. we have to extend long-term unemployment. we need a jobs program. we protect social security, medicare, medicaid. we think long and hard about expanding this tpp trade agreement. we have an agenda. lets get it out there. >> senator, when is it time to tell these unemployed americans the 1.6 million people who ha...