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>> its hard to think of any of it outside the context of the tenure of katrina but i kind of want to say we all watch katrina happen live on air. we know that the broadcast of human suffering especially of black bodies does not inherently or necessarily bring with it justice, but the two of you have done an interesting thing here by talking about this kind of institutional position, and then also bringing us back to a kind of internal ethical, moral question. you do work at "the new yorker" and ...

Next attorney general. what is the legacy that you want to leave? >> the legacy that i want to leave is one of inclusion, of one of advancing my main goals of protecting the most vulnerable members of our society and making sure that everyone has a voice and understands that the department of justices main goal is the protection of the american people and i want to make that real for people. i want to make that real for the individual, so that the next attorney general inherits a department that...

Building confidence within me, if they needed me id do it again. >> so i love the way that you portray cube in those moments. it feels very familiar to me, the ice cube i remember from the music that i know and also the portrayal of dre who is different now, the person who is dre now and been in the game such a long time. >> right. >> how do you enter into and find that dre at that moment? >> thats a great question. i was lucky enough to just have him on set every single day. i remember the firs...

After watts which is also this month people asking the question what has changed and what remained remarkably consistent is the ways in which we treat poor people in the country. until we can address the root cases of the poverty, we look at ferguson wrong ly as an exemptional circumstance where the police department was depending on the money raising from poor communities. some were unfairly singled out. if the problem were merely isolated to them we would not be in bad shape but the very same ...

Sometimes get into a routine and we dont pay as much attention to because we dont expect cowards to try to ambush us. >> >> id like to pick up on a reer to ral question officer bratton said yesterday. he said, can you point out to me one mayor that has not been battling with police unions in the last 50 years. name one. i just would like to get a sense of in your experience, is he right? >> i think in a lot of cases that there are certain issues dealing with labor and management that police and ...

States that can stiffen the spine of the iraqi forces. >> bobby, this gets back to the central question, what are we in this war for? if it is a civil war between suni and shia. it looks like its become that. maybe it shouldnt be, but this isis group has ginned it up this way now. if theyre going to effect the sunni territory, itting begins to look like a divided geography. why are we taking one half and killing people on the other side because weve somehow politically cut a deal with maliki, wh...

W which side? if youre in the united states, it seems right now, the decision is try to figure out whos going to win. >> thats the practical question. the moral question is, which side do you come down on? you have a party, the muslim brotherhood, thats essentially a theocratic fascist party thats obviously behind a lot of this anti-christian violence on the one hand. you have an authoritarian military dictatorship on the other hand that has obviously perpetrated some massacres. if youre the ave...