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A new opinion piece compares bill clinton and barack obama asking which president has the better for the african-american community. its been more than 13 years since writer tony morrison famously called bill clinton the countrys first black president. former governor douglas wilder now writes "by birth and life experience, clinton cannot lay claim to the title of first black president as morrison knighted him. obama need to work harder to make it less obvious. deserves it more than the 44th pre...

Years ago all about newt gingrich and tell me what go os nn the room, and how do you decide what to use and what is the conversation like. >> sure. well, first of all, you tend to lose the eyesight because you are poring over all of the documents as you can see from my glasses. but you look for the hidden nuggets in the files and you look through all of the reports, and there is going to be one or two sections to look for. >> and something that people have not heard before. >> actually, absolute...

Recently with what you call the lack of leadership from the president. have you told him this personally, and if you have or if you havent, what do you want him to do? what can he do when hes dealing with a congress that is opposed to him on everything? >> well, basically from leadership, i was a governor and i knew that i had a legislative body that you had to work with. you had to really work with everybody and bring them together understanding where were going in this country. why dont we hav...

political university for the republican white house hopefuls. most of the candidates have iowa on their schedule today with their eyes on the all important caucuses less than three weeks away. that includes newt gingrich, whos iowa campaign director resigned amid reports he called romneys mormon faith a cult. but do voters share that view? and could that be part of the reason why mitt romney isnt xweting even more support? joe johns is joining us with more. hes been taking a closer loo...

trump. hes always outspoken, and his old possible presidential ambitions. he still has some. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." lets get to breaking news. a chilling sense of da ja view. reports of shots fired, campus lock down, virginia tech university earlier this afternoon. it brings to mind the 2007 rampage by a student that left 33 people dead. todays incident was a shooting during the traffic stop by campus police. two people are are dead. brian todd is monitoring ...

lockdown. this is because there were shots fired on campus. we dont know by whom but we do know by the website the suspect is described as a white male wearing gray sweat pants, a gray hat with a neon brim and some type of maroon hoodie and also carrying a pack back. apparently the suspect is on foot. we dont know how many shots were fired. but as you know, virginia tech certainly on high alert in the years following the 2007 incident. there were no classes -- there are no classes toda...

Convention which nominated john kerry, who lost to george w. bush. now more than seven years later with the republican party locked in its own alternately hilarious and intense race for a presidential candidate to run against him, today i think for the first time now-president obama spoke in a way that brought back that 2004 speech, that united states of america speech that made the democratic political world sit up and take his measure, when he was still just a state senator from illinois. to g...

If you will at the sentencing. if theres no contrition, if he uses words like im sorry i was in this position, sorry to put people here without really admitting anything, that will not go over very well. >> reporter: on the other hand, a law professor from due paul university here in chicago says he cant spend the last three years banging the innocent man drum and get in front. judge to say he is sorry. the judge has been around for a long time. he probably wont buy that, martha. martha: how man...

Admitting some wrongdoing. on his part. that would be deserving. maintaining admission of complete innocence is detrimental. >>reporter: and a nun was here, with the sisters of catholic charities has been praying for the former illinois governor and he told her to keep doing and it she thinks he has been humiliated enough or that is punishment enough and he should only get probation. >>shepard: how much time he could get where there are no products for his hair? >>reporter: there is a template f...

>> its a filter, the filter the media, theres mean, template. theres narrative. it three or four buzz words we use here. >> jon: as we head for the iowa caucuses whats the media mean for the caucuses? >> oh, we have to wait and see about that. i still just totally focus on romney and the fact that most republicans say that they have not yet made up their minds, so, this could go in any one of a number one-- >> the media like news max did a story how anybody could beat obama basically and it was ...