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About this young man? jussie smollett, obviously, you know, i mean, as we have pointed out chicago police have laid out a pretty persuasive case. obviously the process has to play out from here and he will have his moment in court and that will play out. but, you know, when you look at the reason that he did this and you look at this idea that john mcwarder wrote about in the atlantic of victim hood sheik that to be successful, to have a role on a very successful tv show empire is not enough, yo...

Bankruptcy. >> lets call a spade a spade. your problem with the credit card companies is userry rates from your position, its not about the bankruptcy bill. >> but if youre not going to fix that problem you cant take away the last shred of protection. >> i got it. okay. youre very good, professor. >> reporter: senator warren recalled years later. >> senator biden was on one side of that fight and i was on the other and you better believe i didnt hold back. >> reporter: biden has said hes ready t...

>> you have a different take on it. but everybody is. to watch all this play out so publicly, like this morality play. tiffany, we have to reserve judgment on whether we convict him right now in the media. however, in order to file a false claim, if it turns out that he is guilty of this, i do think its worth a little bit of exploration as to what possesses somebody and why would somebody who is so successful do this? and i thought it was very interesting what columbia professor john mcwarder tw...

Spotlight, his time as chair of the senate judiciary committee when he championed the 1994 crime bill. >> permanent prisoners in their neighborhood. theyre prisoners in their house. this is straight flat truth. violence in america is epidemic. >> reporter: decades later, bidens expressed remorse after the measure led to an era of mass incarceration. >> i havent always been right. i know we havent always gotten things right. but ive always tried. >> reporter: but the former vice president still p...

On point, theyre trying to rationalize stop and frisk and racial profiling. what better way to rationalize stop and frisk in new york or stand your ground laws all over the country than to make folks that if you dont do that, those awful, horrible, animalistic black people are going to get you. a, its unconstitutional, b, it wasnt working. 90% of the time there was no arrest or citation. less than 2% of the searches resulted in a weapon, less than 5% drugs. so it had nothing to do with stopping ...

For that she should be commended and thanked." that sounds about right to me. joining me now is john mcwarder, professor of linguistics at columbia university. im so glad youre here. as i was watching this, i was thinking the whole time of what john was making of this. youre a linguist. you and i have had conversations about the linguistic bounty that is america and what we are watching in the courtroom over the last two days are two people from very different cultures, from very different lingu...

Some of these are safe red states. we expect all those votes to go to whoever the republican nominee is, but the difference of who would get elected to the u.s. house of representatives, to those gubernatorial houses, to those state houses, that can be enormously fundamentally swayed by these laws. as weve seen, whos in that congress, it makes a huge difference no matter who is in the white house. >> melissa, i think your point about the impact of these things is going to weigh very heavily in t...

We expect all those votes to go to whoever the republican nominee is, but the difference of who would get elected to the u.s. house of representatives, to those gubernatorial houses, to those state houses, that can be enormously fundamentally swayed by these laws. as weve seen, whos in that congress, it makes a huge difference no matter who is in the white house. >> melissa, i think your point about the impact of these things is going to weigh very heavily in the justice departments evaluation o...

We expect all those votes to go to whoever the republican nominee is, but the difference of who would get elected to the u.s. house of representatives, to those gubernatorial houses, to those state houses, that can be enormously fundamentally swayed by these laws. as weve seen, whos in that congress, it makes a huge difference no matter who is in the white house. >> melissa, i think your point about the impact of these things is going to weigh very heavily in the justice departments evaluation o...