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Leader for now, harry reid, threatened a christmas session if congress doesnt do its job. congressman peter welch is a democrat who sits on the house oversight committee. congressman, would you like to see the government actually shut down so that the republicans could show americans they arent actually ready to govern? >> you know, thats crazy. >> thank you. good answer. >> but, you know, i think clearly the republican leadership wants to avoid a shutdown. the question is whether they can. ther...

Legislation as poe opposed to t party ideological legislation. and the question is, not whether thats what speaker boehner wants to do, i think it is, its whether hell be able to execute given the new crowd thats coming in. >> you mentioned the new crowd and the largest majority since the 1920s. mathematically the republicans are likely to hold this majority for a while, even if they do lose some more seats. do you think theres any glimmer of hope here that given that kind of null republican mus...

And the question about whether the commission is appropriate response depends on what kind of problem youre trying to solve. if you think have you an unjustified shooting or you think you have manslaughter, no one in any community, anywhere in america, regardless of race, would look at manslaughter or murder and say, i want a commission. they want justice. they want action. professor, i want to bring you in on the discussion of race relations which is important but seems to me to be secondary to...

Without much control by the public. i mean, privacy is a very quickly diminishing object of life. and i think the corporations and even the government have made it even more difficult. >> gavin, i wanted to get your thoughts on the supreme court case that ari was just mentioning, a man who posted threats against his wife on facebook, also threats against an fbi agent and a kindergarten class. essentially the question here is what constitutes a true threat when it happens online. it-s it the inte...

Disruptive work? >> i think its a fair question. and the fear that many journalists feel having witnessed whats happened to julien assange, that if you do open your mouth and say very critical things or have government documents they dont approve of, then suddenly terrible things happen to you and you end up being effectively imprisoned in a little room in an embassy because of threats of extradition and all the rest of it that we know about his case. but it is a very chilling effect on a lot of...

Rice because of the way he did it and that he knew earlier when he failed to act? >> yeah, i think its even greater than a criticism. its a rebuke. its a repudiation. roger goodell has obviously made conduct his priority but shes -- reading the case, it almost -- the decision by judge jones, it almost is asking, why didnt you guys take this very seriously in that video came out? what were you doing? you had this hearing and, unfortunately, spent a lot of the appeal figuring out what happened in ...

It is we lapse into the language of race relationses, or to the point krystal raised, the commissions, when the first subtantive question here is, are the police getting it right? >> i think thats the problem. in too many instances, the police are not getting it right. at least in terms of how many americans view this. and so theres not only a problem with the appearance of an incorrect approach, but the reality of an incorrect approach. i think thats the real problem. thats what we need to addr...

About implementation of their suggestions. >> clay, what this has done has brought to the surface the deep divide that exists in many places around the country. the question is, how many of us in this nation move on and how do the people directly involved move on with their lives? darren wilson sat down with george stephanopoulos last week and george asked him moving forward, what do you fear most? heres what he said. >> are you still scared? >> of course. whats your biggest worry? >> someone hu...

Just about the absence of violence, but its about the presence of justice. there are a number of things we can do to increase racial justice in this country. as you mentioned, theres already meetings going on about putting body cameras on all police officers. i think that would be an excellent idea because it would help to increase the accuracy of what we know about incidence of use of force that occur. question also have a national data collection. and i think third, most significantly, we can ...