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Empathy is putting yourself in their shoes. because of her own journey she was always willing and able to put herself in the shoes of the other and to revel in the humanity of whoever you might have been. >> she was really funny, too. >> very funny. i say all the time not a phony bone in her body but a lot of funny bones. >> tavtavis, thank you so much for this book. >> willie and i were talking about your martin luther king book. i dont think ive read a book in a very long time that has changed...

He is. israel demanding a vote on the floor. how important is that? >> well, look its clear. hes now one of a dozen democratic senators who have signed on with bob corker on the republican side in favor of the legislation that says that the senate must be able to review and have authority over whether this deal gets approved or not. and schumer is obviously because hes the incoming minority leader is the biggest voice in some ways now in the democratic party. so i have always thought as a matter...

Could have a chilling affect. >> i do have concerns that survivors may not come forward. >> reporter: still, others hope people will see this as one case of bad journalism. >> i think other victims who have stories that they can tell carefully and in a way that reporters can confirm should be assured that the profession will hopefully learn the lesson here and to do well by them. >> all right. thanks so much to gabe. willie i thought it was fascinating yesterday. "rolling stone" apologized to ev...

Well for the kids and theyre better than public school counter parts and then spend time talking to teachers criticizing the tactics of the charter schools. heres one side of the story and heres another. to my mind theres only one side of the story, how are the kids doing? schools should be made about the kids how well they achieve and prepares them for life not about how comfortable are the teachers. >> willie your mom has been involved for a very long time. the numbers are extraordinary. we al...

Still a fight ahead because netanyahu came up publicly on sunday and said were going to be lobbying were going to lobby the united states congress against this deal. im not trying to kill the deal. im trying to kill a bad deal. he thinks there should be a deal but under his terms that deal should include iran not having any nuclear program whatsoever. >> as willie said last hour that kills the deal. >> well, well see. gene you write in the "washington post" history in the making in the iran fram...

Well. the numbers here are extraordinary. >> if you are a parent and you read that your automatic intuition is i want my kid to go there. what the "times" should be writing about is how to get every charter school to imitate what this school is doing. take willies point, you can do that in all schools. >> the next story i would like "the new york times" to write about is lets talk about how eksz trard extraordinarily well they do and talk about the lottery and the parents banging on the doors bu...

>> thats a given. >> here is the thing. i dont take willie for granted. >> to you take me for granted? because i will walk out on this relationship! >> youre a potted plant! >> thanks. >> no, actually. its that willie is a given. see, now if i were to say that willie is here, then it would be like willie is a guest or a guest host. hes not. hes a full host of this show and, therefore, he doesnt get named. its just that -- and, apparently, he starts another show soon. >> yes. >> well talk about t...