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People first and foremost by their race. if we think thats unfair. your race is one thing, you cannot control, you were born with it. thats why its wrong to judge people on the basis of it, it used to be the very definition of racism before liberals changed the rules to exempt themselves from it. the show is based in washington, d.c., the most democratic city in america so we know and like a lot of people who call themselves liberal. many of them are decent human beings and motivated by noble im...

People first and foremost by their race. if we think thats unfair. your race is one thing, you cannot control, you were born with it. thats why its wrong to judge people on the basis of it, it used to be the very definition of racism before liberals changed the rules to exempt themselves from it. the show is based in washington, d.c., the most democratic city in america so we know and like a lot of people who call themselves liberal. many of them are decent human beings and motivated by noble im...

>> why does twitter allow all the russian boots to in and completely shape a debate online? why does facebook, is facebook coming forward with the information that you need to make sure that doesnt happen again? is twitter cooperating? google? are they cooperating? is everybody cooperating? in a way they need to to make sure that foreign countries, foreign adversaries dont try to impact our elections. >> they are cooperating, but theres a lot more information we need. we dont have a full picture...

Excellent run of progressive success the. lets lo at some of their ideas. same thing here in new york. we go there and say, hey, can you fund the campaign? but we dont say how is it that youre able to pass laws that really enhance human life. and we need to adopt their organizing tools. so, thats the real key that we would determine. >> how do you get people under 40 to care about politics and how could you do that? >> well, they desperately do already, right? i have two young people. i almost c...

Trump having a feud with his party. he doesnt have surrogates to amplify his message. the only person he has is mike pence. you say do surrogates matter. in a lot of ways they dont. in some ways they do. they have big named surrogates to get people out to the polls. >> weve been hearing in the primaries, remember jeff sessions one of his most loyal surrogates didnt endorse trump until a month before the primaries were over. all the people he mocked and shunned they are now shunning him. >> its n...

Myself as justice league members and those involved in the movement is we do have a direct connection to history. our founder is harry bellefonte. so we are informed of what the civil rights movement did. some of us are trained in the methodology of dr. king. and so were taking the protest rights. they came out in large numbers. those are the lessons were taking from the previous movements but using different organizing tools that allows us to organize. for us the way in which the members of the...

Whoever we are making promises. we are seeing people who make the conversations long before detroit. >> you think it might be brought up in the future? >> for sure. >> meg, your headline is more spiritual, share with us. >> well, is there a hash tag to heaven? we have had the vatican this week saying they were going to offer indulgences to people who followed the pope through social media during his visit to rio. and i just was wondering if that brings a whole new level of power to facebook and ...

i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. thats not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that were more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? >> you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, theres a lot of reasons. and w...

The way they perhaps wouldnt have been able to 10, 15 years ago? >> well, it certainly has dramatically changed the way that people can communicate with one another, rally one another, to common objectives. its been interesting to see how the social media tools like twitter and facebook have been used differently in different con texts. in egypt, tunisia, they were powerful organizing tools for those who were championing change and democracy. in libya, seems that the opposition has coalesced wit...

>> what do you think where we have young, educated people using twitter and social networking means to spread the message from these countries in the way they perhaps wouldnt have been able to 10, 15 years ago? >> well, it certainly has dramatically changed the way that people can communicate with one another, rally one another, to common objectives. its been interesting to see how the social media tools like twitter and facebook have been used differently in different con texts. in egypt, tunis...