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Mayor today? >> this was great training. when you look at what theyre -- >> because training doesnt -- can training change the things were talking about here, which is the snap judgments, preconceived bias, a set of cultural assumptions about people youre dealing with? do you think that can be trained out of people? >> i think your question is a great question. i cant modify your heart, but i can modify your behavior. and if you cant modify your behavior, i must remove you from the agency. what ...

Were following some new developments out of the u.s. skour supreme court today. the first has to do with this high-speed chase that ended with a police shooting and killing both the driver and the passenger of the car they were chasing. the family of the driver wanted to sue the police over the death. with us now is our senior white house correspondent joe johns whos heard the argument. what did the court say about the use of deadly force in this speed chase? >> this was a case that is essential...

How about lebron james the most decorated player in the nba. >> a black guy with tattoos is a different than a white guy in a hoodie. >> thats very different. those stereotypes have empirical consequence. police departments, people who have guns. they watch committees and neighborhoods, make snap judgments based upon the perception of what this black kid is like lir to do. those people who say and i had a debate stayed with my very good friend steven a smith. hes like black people should dress r...

Michael chertoff ultimately got it. he did not have a tremendous wealth of experience. why was he the right man for the job and compare him to jeh johnson? >> i think there are a lot of similarities between secretary chertoff and jeh johnson. chertoff was the right man for the job because hes incredibly smart. dhs has a lot of very difficult issues, a lot of first impression issues, and he could look at those and decide them very quickly. >> you really need to be able to make snap judgments? >> ...

Would be riding on. so instead, you have all of this sand. this is the cleanup thats going on right now here in boulder. but its some of the outlying areas that have absolutely been devastated. again, as you mentioned, 19,000 homes damaged, alex, or destroyed. we understand its about 1500 of those homes have been destroyed. its going to be years before things return to normal here throughout parts of colorado. >> a dramatic and catastrophic amount of rain oncoming during what is boulders driest ...

And create win-win deals and look inside congress where you have a democratic senate and a republican house to see if they can agree enough to give the president something to sign. you have three entities here in effect that need to try and find a way to work things out, and the question is can they. it didnt work so well the past couple of years, but often times in politics, past isnt prologue. before we make any snap judgments, im telling you how things appear. weve seen things change when loo...

journal" was urging. this is what the weekly standard, bill crystal, the strong voice of conservatism, both were saying this week, this is the guy. >> plus, lolo jones lashes out at the press after failing to win an olympic medal. >> the fact that they just tore me apart, it was just heart breaking. >> is the sports press building up female athletes just to tear them down? im how wa im howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." the tsami of speculation known as the veepstakes was s...

unarmed teenager by a neighborhood watch volunte touca raw nerve across the nation. >> i know i cant bring my baby back, but im sure going to make changes so that this does not happen to another family. >> reporter: the absolute facts lie with two people, and one of them is dead. >> in the case of trayvon martin, its not unique. a child incident killed by a ving launty. >> was it racially motivated? the answer is, absolutely not. >> what we worry about is seeking the truth. >> reporter...

Discretionary choice of whether or not zimmerman is to be believed, but most critically zimmerman making a discretionary choice of whether this unarmed 17-year-old kid poses a danger to him. what do you know? what do you suspect you know from your own work about what was going on with zimmerman at this moment? >> well, i would say a couple of things. one is that part of what we are seeing is a very tragic large telling of what happens in snap moment moments of snap judgments when there are so ma...

Wants me to come out declare for her, yes or no. well, i dont make snap judgments before hearing the evidence, before hearing the testimony. >> lets think about an average democrat in pennsylvania who knows you voted for thomas, voted for alito, voted for roberts, voted for scalia, but youre still up in the air on whether to vote for kagan. what did those four gentlemen have that youre wondering what kagan has? >> in each of those cases i attended the confirmation hearings. i asked a lot of prob...