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Documentary. thank you. coming up next, were talking about rachel dolezal. she says she can identify can caitlyn jenner. but my next guest is upset with that. were going to explore that. plus trump on the stump. a ten-year-old kid introduced the donald to iowa voters. she he joins us live to tell us why shes such a fan. and the teen attacked by a shark losing his arm is now speaking out about what happened. all of this as experts are ripping officials who say they will kill sharks who get ...

Shortly after the rape and murder of 22-year-old dawn bruce, john alderman was assigned to prosecute the case. >> when you get a crime like this that really violates a person, you get a sense of indignation thats impossible to escape. a sense of indignation at someone being used and abused like that. >> investigators began focusing their attention on the few bits of physical evidence they had. forensic experts discovered that the fatal injury was a single stab wound in the heart. in the forensic...

Despite more than 1,000 leads, still no sign of richard matt and david sweat. >> joyce mitchell warned her husband lyle mitchell that he was in danger. >> sees her husband for the first time since her arrest. >> he said that he is standing by her. are you an african-american woman? >> i identify as black. >> its not the rachel we used to know. >> its a lie! i dont believe this term of transracial. i am officially running for president of the united states! the american dream is dead. the g...

Race is a physical construct and the way we come into race, we come into that consciousness is something that is purely societalsociety societal societal, nothing to do with our being. you have brown eyes i have brown skin. its really no different than that. so race is really enviewed upon us by society. there were no black people around her in montana as she was growing up. she said for instance that she grew up in a teepee that they hunted with bows and arrows. none of that turned out really t...

For human rights and will do everything in my power whether it means stepping up or stepping down. this is not about me convict. this is a continuum. dolezal was expected to explain herself today at a meeting which the naacp postponed. stephanie lee elam joins me now. what else did we hear from her today. >> reporter: its lengthiest note weve seen from dolezal since this scandal broke. it is a lengthy letter where she talks about what she has accomplished. she also says she should not be detrakt...

Curious is that she has been out there as a black moral voice, saying dont see this movie because its white people playing people that should be played by african actors or african american actors. dont listen to this rapper because its somebody appropriating our culture. i find that very odd. but what bothers you the most about this story? >> well ill start with what doesnt bother me. what doesnt bother me is that she was in a leadership position with the naacp or that she teaches africana stud...

Who were being paid absurdly low wages who came from the same kmuchbt as the inmates. and they were manipulated. i mean, that does happen. thats not an insult to the whole profession. i dont mean that at all. but it happens. and i dont think i would describe joyce mitchell from what i have seen as a professional anything. >> i dont want to get off topic. i appreciate all your perspectives. anthony, gangi great to have you on. matt loegan jeff toobin. coming up just ahead, more breaking news. new...

Performance. >> let me bring in contributor and opinion writer for the washington post jonathan. good to see you. >> you, too, jose. >> as you know so many people are talking about the story. we have a bing pulse question. now that you, jonathan have had a chance to hear from rachel dolezal, what are your thoughts on what she had to say? >> well i mean i have a sort of mixture of fascination and frustration because she sort of danced all around matts questions. but in terms of the specific quest...

You can identify with something, support it feel that it is your own. but when you start saying i am that that implies that you carry with you the sensitivity and experience not only of your immediate self but also generational of what it means to be something and to have suffered and felt for generations something that you cant say you do if you just take the color of your skin. >> or change the hairstyle. it minimizes the experience jose. this is why youre seeing a lot of outrage from black wo...

Do you think theres an issue? does it bother you she is pretending to be something she is not? >> its her integrity. its not that she was pretending she was someone she wasnt. her trying to say she was -- how she is now her entire life and she can relate to people that are different ethnicity. i think that was what she did wrong because growing up she grew up white, in a middle class and she was trying to say she had to deal with racism her entire life. >> she said she was abused. she said she w...