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Don lemon filling in tonight for campbell brown. lets head out to new york and get a sense of what is coming out at the top of the hour. hey, don. >> we are covering all the angles of the times square bomb plot. it was a lone wolf or a terror group? what is the international connection, if any? i went to times square today with a security expert to find out just what we are doing to keep this city safe. also tonight, the big political controversy of the day. does the tea party have a race prob...

Freedoms. of course its not but thats the way they think. >> shepard: you mention add race element. >> yeah, they have -- >> they have a race problem? >> well, a lot of these groups are not only christian right wing but a lot of them are racists. antiblack, antijews, antiother christians. its just the way they process information. >> shepard: antieverybody but me. >> anti everybody but themselves. >> good of you to be here. they have still one person on the run. >> lawmakers holding a key hearin...

Presidency seriously. what weve seen this past week is that mr. trump, president trump, doesnt really want to do the job. its more important to him this past week to try to win some arcane argument as if hes sitting in a bar at closing time rather than do the job of a president which is to bring us together, to remind us of our shared values, to calm difficult situations rather than stir them up and thats the job. im not positive when he ran a year ago that he really expected to win. hes not a m...

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Wanted to know the truth. were not telling the kids the truth because they dont want it of the they want the strife. that 96% number is an overwhelming indictment of whats happening here. >> youre in the pulpit. i think if were going to help kids in america, putting aside all racial issues its going to come from guys like you. >> i think so. the early american flag before we got the one we have now said appeal to heaven with the evergreen tree. these problems are not going to be solved by themse...

Evergreen tree representing covenant. these problems are not solved by themselves. we have to take some proactive stance. think of it this way, race generational poverty and im going to call it class are all intertwined. so we dont just have a race problem, its not just black or white. we have some people who feel angry and hopeless. i hope tonight we will deal with that. started an initiative called the reconcile church. it is bringing together high-profile leaders, t.j. jakes, james robinson a...

Evergreen tree representing covenant. these problems are not solved by themselves. we have to take some proactive stance. think of it this way, race generational poverty and im going to call it class are all intertwined. so we dont just have a race problem, its not just black or white. we have some people who feel angry and hopeless. i hope tonight we will deal with that. started an initiative called the reconcile church. it is bringing together high-profile leaders, t.j. jakes, james robinson a...

Comes one week after a department of justice released a blistering report that detailed racial bias in the ferguson police department. but since its release, chief jackson has refused to comment. >> do you think that the department has a race problem? do they have a problem? and are you going to fix it? what are you going to do about it? >> i need to really have time to analyze this report so i can comment on it. >> why do you need time to analyze the report. you should have known what was going...

Opposition, not all of it, but the strident opposition to the president is motivated by race. eventually she said, yes. there is prejudice about race and gender and sexual orientation. i thought she was a little bit too evasive. i think its possible -- >> i think the president -- let me get back. i think the president himself doesnt like to make that charge. my experience is political. you accuse a person of having a race problem, you agitate that person. >> absolutely, chris. >> its part of our...

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