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Addressing one of the core responsibilities. you know, i go back to -- im a big proponent of the tenth amendment that the states need to be making a lot of decisions about transportation or education or of decisions and you, the federal government has a few constitutional duties and this administration is failing. >> what about looking at this through political prism? those that think for the political party to expand and thrive, there has got to be hispanic outreach, part of it has to be the is...

They -- the shiite are wondering if were dependable. the iraqi government wonders if were dependable. you. >> know what -- >> they know the answer about this president to now, the question is, are the american people going to demand better? are we going to be willing to support the president, taking the necessary steps of putting american special operators on the ground to make certain that any air strikes are done correctly in. >> all they needed was intel and training and a show of force -- >>...

President even on health care. her push for health care failed in the early 1990s. 16 years later, president obama successfully signed his own bill into law, but then -- >> thats on me. i mean, we fumbled the rollout on this health care law. >> health care.gov flopped initially. >> hillary clinton even clinton topped the president when it comes to the environment. >> and that may be somewhat surprising, but i think what you really see those polls say clinton would do a good job, 55%, president o...

Happened with george zimmerman and o.j. how would this trial be handled today? >> im not sure that there would be a great deal of factual difference. there may well be, don, a difference in perception. a difference in the way that the media might play the case. but for some reason, we americans are always fascinated with the issues of race. and concerning what jeff said, i think in order to understand the verdict from the prism of an african-american juror, you have to understand the dynamics th...

>> im not sure that there would be a great deal of factual difference. there may well be, don, a difference in perception. a difference in the way that the media might play the case. but for some reason, we americans are always fascinated with the issues of race. and concerning what jeff said, i think in order to understand the verdict from the prism of an african-american juror, you have to understand the dynamics that was going on then between the african-american community and the los angeles...

Being on the faculty with dr. angelou and knowing she is gone and leaving the legacy to inherit. >> the poem that was symbolic when she was picked to do that at president clintons inaugural. she said it was fitting that the president asked a black woman to read a poem about the times. it is probably fitting that a black woman try to speak to the alien nation and to the hope of healing the afflictions. i wonder there it almost sounds like if we think of the criticism of identity politics as ideol...

Affliction thats have befallen so many americans. i wonder, melissa, there it almost sounds like if we think of the criticism of identity politics as ideology through color alone there shes talking about color as a prism or an experience that allows many to relate to the marginalized, a theme in her work. >> well, right. we have to remember that whatever else she was, dr. angelou was an autobiography writer. she wrote in fact many volumes of her autobiography beginning most famously with "i know...

Will be others who will come under scrutiny as well. but i dont really see the pressure getting off of him any time soon. >> any time soon. >> something that youre watching on the hill right now is something that was passed yesterday. an additional $19 million for the fbi background check system. that was in response to the tragedy that happened had santa barbara. republican leadership there split on this. what does this tell us about future gun-related legislation that perhaps you will have som...

Atlanta. that no longer live in the state of louisiana post-katrina. thats problem number one for her. problem number two i think is going to be this issue of just how her victories before have been to do well in the new orleans suburbs. in particular thats where a democrats got to do pretty well and where they have a chance. but weve seen particularly in the south that the white suburbs have not been voting democrat as much as they had in the past. theyre looking at it through a national prism....

You and of course your research. theres george w. bush. is this sort of the book end for obama? >> i couldnt agree more. i think this is in some ways closure for president on two wars. in 2002, president bush, just eight months after 9/11, came to west point and announced what was eventually the pre-eminent strike strategy, which led ten months later to the iraq war. the class of 2002 was an invasion of iraq and they were in combat continuously ever since. i would think if president obama were t...